April 22, 2026

IS AI THE KILLER HACKING TOOL? The Washington Stand’s Bob MacGinnis looks at a recent IBM assessment and warns:

“This is no longer a warning about the future. It is the present reality in every home, business, and institution that depends on a computer or a phone. Cybersecurity has always been a contest between offense and defense, with defenders holding a workable edge: even when attackers found a gap, there was time to patch, reinforce, and adapt. That assumption is collapsing.

“AI-driven tools can now comb through digital environments, identify weaknesses, simulate attack strategies, and keep trying — automatically, continuously — until they find a way through. The defenders, meanwhile, are still largely operating systems built to catch threats they already recognize, not intelligent agents they have never encountered.”

More here.

Posted at 7:01 pm by Mark Tapscott

TWO AGENCIES, ONE BUILDING: From the Story You Don’t Hear Every Day Department, the General Services Administration (GSA) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are, respectively, the federal government’s “housekeeping” and “human resources” offices, with nearly 15,000 employees between them.

Presently, GSA and OPM occupy two separate buildings, but sometime this summer, the former’s workers will start showing up at the latter’s building and will continue doing so until major renovation of their building are completed sometime in 2028. When the renovation is complete, both agencies will then begin operating out of the GSA’s freshened facility.

Officials say, as I report today for The Washington Stand, that such a consolidation of two major agencies into one shared structure has never before happened. But there are plans afoot in the Trump administration for a parade of such happenings in the near future.

 

Posted at 6:27 pm by Mark Tapscott

WONDER? OR CONVINCED?

Posted at 5:44 pm by Stephen Green

SHOT:

Chaser:

You might think that someone from “a family of teachers” would know that. Or you might not.

Posted at 5:23 pm by Stephen Green

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

More:

While we’re busy investigating and forcing out congresscritters, she should be next.

Posted at 4:35 pm by Stephen Green

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Did George Clooney Help Fund KKK, Unite the Right? “How much of that Clooney cash allegedly went into the pockets of the worst of the worst, like the KKK? More importantly, will any news outlet press him for answers?”

Posted at 3:50 pm by Stephen Green

#JOURNALISM:

Posted at 3:43 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SCORE YET ANOTHER WIN FOR THOMAS SOWELL:

Posted at 3:33 pm by Stephen Green

EXACTLY:

Posted at 3:06 pm by Stephen Green

SLOW LEARNER/BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Mark Cuban is moving on from Kamala Harris.

When asked at POLITICO’s Health Care Summit Tuesday whether he wants to see the former vice president run for the nation’s top job again, Cuban quickly responded, “No.”

“Don’t remember, don’t care,” he said when asked to recall her health care message during her short-lived 2024 presidential campaign. “Those days are gone.”

Harris signaled earlier this month she’s seriously considering entering the 2028 Democratic field.

“Listen, I might, I might. I’m thinking about it,” Harris told the Rev. Al Sharpton at the National Action Network convention in New York.

Cuban, a Harris surrogate during the last campaign cycle, said he’s not trying to promote a specific candidate now.

“I’m trying to change how fucked up this health care industry is right now, and that’s all I care about,” he said.

Cuban said he’d be open to supporting a Republican who shared his reform goals and praised President Donald Trump and his health department’s efforts to lower drug prices and speed drug trials.

“They’re trying to make it easier for folks like us,” he said.

Us?

Posted at 2:48 pm by Stephen Green

THANKS, FELLAS:

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green