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Everyone is prototyping (sometimes, instead of doing their actual jobs). But the amount of insights has not increased.
A prototype is a research tool. These prototypes just getting shopped around as demos to stakeholders. When they are used for research, it is only as a tool of confirmation bias.
And if the prototype didn't change any decisions, then it doesn't matter how fast you made it. It was waste.

Designers will never have influence without understanding how organizations learn
We confuse prototypes with demos, and validation with confirmation bias. As a result, we cannot lead — instead, we are led.

I just updated the introduction of the Open Contributions Descriptor (OCD):
https://ossbase.org/initiatives/open-contributions-descriptor/
OCD is an open, machine-readable JSON format that lets organizations publish a single, structured description …

Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic limited the release of its latest model Mythos to select companies and organizations (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/anthropic-apple-microsoft-europe-left-in-the-…

European regulators sidelined on Anthropic superhacking model
New AI tech could pose major cybersecurity risks but many European regulators have limited oversight.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4158117/anthropics-mythos-signals-a-structural-cybersecurity-shift.
“In the near term, security organizations will likely be overwhelmed by the need to apply patches and respond to AI-discovere…

Leonora Camner, Liz Barry will speak on 'Breaking Governance Capture: How Sortition Can Transform Organizations' as part of our Open Government track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 5524 nodes and 94219 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The Raiders' Greatest First-Round Picks in the NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-greatest-first-round-picks-draft

Following federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.

Connecticut Jewish leaders and synagogues have signed on to a national letter denouncing new prohibitions on recipients of a federal security grant,
which would ban nonprofits — including faith-based organizations — from conducting equity or “DEI” programming, staging some boycotts or helping undocumented immigrants.
The new language would also require such institutions to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
The letter was signed by Temple Beth El in Stamford, the Men…

CT Jewish leaders denounce new rules for federal security grants
Recipients of the nonprofit security grant will be prohibited from DEI programming, staging some boycotts or helping undocumented immigrants.

I donated again to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
https://www.splcenter.org/
We still have so much racism and injustice in the USA. Organizations like Southern Poverty Law Center fights to strengthening democracy and voting rights in the USA and that is critical to the future of our country.

SPLC | Apathy Is Not An Option
The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to creating a world where Black and Brown communities are represented and respected by our democracy.

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Gathered Intel On 1,000 Journalists, Politicians, Religious Organizations On Flimsy Grounds (Ryan Lovelace/Racket News)
https://www.racket.news/p/exclusive-fbi-gathered-intel-on-1000
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p110#a260212p110

The AP Fund for Journalism doubles the size of its local news program to 100 members, who can now share some of their content via the AP's distribution network (Nicole Meir/The Associated Press)
https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-rele

AP Fund for Journalism expands landmark local news program to 100 newsrooms | The Associated Press
AP Fund for Journalism (APFJ) today announced 50 additional news organizations are joining its landmark local news program, growing the total number of

RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116182697654854055
The terrorist organizations we back and build in order to defeat the terrorist organizations we backed and built, exist not to defeat any enemy, but for the war to be continuous, for the expansion to be jus…

Sources: Qualified Health, which helps health care organizations assess and orchestrate AI tools, is raising a ~$100M Series A from NEA, SignalFire, and others (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/03/12/qualified-health-s…

Scoop: AI evaluation startup Qualified Health raising roughly $100M Series A
The funding would come as a gold rush in health care AI ushers in demand for better ways to implement and evaluate the tools.

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

If the UN or NATO are not the right organizations to manage the global disorder we are now experiencing, we need to build an international organization that is.
I have a suggestion.

"Scaling ORCID Adoption: Technical and Organizational Approaches Within a Research Organization"
#ORCID iD use…

In the small town of Williamsport, Maryland, about an hour and a half from Baltimore,
the Department of Homeland Security purchased a massive shipping warehouse for $102 million
with plans to turn it into an ICE detention center.
But local efforts to expose, delay, and shut down the Trump administration’s plans for this makeshift concentration camp are growing.
A broad coalition of local officials, faith leaders, and civil rights organizations have filed an amicus c…

Trump is turning warehouses into ICE detention camps. Can Maryland stop him?
“Everything about this has been done in a very lawless, secretive way” Sonia Kumar of ACLU Maryland tells us.

End Religious Exceptions in BC Healthcare
Every year, over a billion dollars of your tax dollars goes to healthcare facilities run by religious organizations. These hospitals are allowed to refuse legal, essential medical services including medical assistance in dying, abortion and contraceptives based on their management's religious dogma.
Sign the petition

Google says that Polymarket bets showing up in Google News was an error, and the prediction market's bets on real world events were not supposed to appear there (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/910691/google-news-polymarket-bets-error

Google says Polymarket bets showing up in News was an ‘error’
Google News was displaying links to Polymarket bets on world events alongside legitimate news organizations, but says it was an “error.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill allowing Florida to label groups as domestic terror organizations
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5819449-desantis-law-targets-student-groups/

Israeli startup Onyx Security, which helps secure and manage AI agents' operational risks, raised a $35M Series A led by Conviction, after a $5M seed in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjmra11x911g

Cyber startup Onyx Security raises $35 million to control AI agents in organizations | CTech
The Israeli startup develops a platform to secure and manage AI systems as they become integral to business operations.

A spate of big developments emerged yesterday regarding Anthropic, its status as a "supply chain threat," and what that means for organizations that have deployed the company's tech as well as what it means for the company.
Don't miss today's Metacurity for a précis on these critical developments and other top infosec news you should know, including
--FBI warns of phishing campaigns impersonating city and county officials,
--TX governor warns health ag…

Pentagon-Anthropic standoff escalates, putting contracts and AI deployments at risk
FBI warns of phishing campaigns impersonating city and county officials, TX governor warns health agencies and universities of Chinese-manufactured devices, A big bank in S. Africa was hit by a ransomware attack, Hackers are selling Windows exploit for $220k, much more

“Connections to bike rides, cycling groups, advocacy organizations, and more in the Milwaukee area.”
#mke

British organizations urged to be alert to threat of Iranian cyberattacks https://therecord.media/iran-britain-cyber-threats-warning

RE: https://sfba.social/@MLNow/116032085703329563
wtaf?

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 1429 nodes and 32876 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The Price is Right: Responsible Uses of Personal Data in Pricing
https://fpf.org/blog/the-price-is-right-responsible-uses-of-personal-data-in-pricing/
@…

I still see a case for organizations staying on twitter.
Twitters still has the people and I have not loved the information vacuum that has happened as the most moral account leave the platform.
I also wish more of those accounts would use the tools of their enemy to defeat them. Just as youtubers remind their audience to follow them on patreon or twitch (where the money is) accounts on twitter that feel the need to stay need to tell their followers to also follow them else ware…

RE: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116024693963808207
We need to check them and their organizations' leaders against the Epstein files.

Google says that Polymarket bets showing up in Google News was an error, and the prediction market's bets on real world events were not supposed to appear there (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/910691/google-news-polymarket-bets-error

Google says Polymarket bets showing up in News was an ‘error’
Google News was displaying links to Polymarket bets on world events alongside legitimate news organizations, but says it was an “error.”

If anyone has questions about this role, I'm happy to answer them! I've really enjoyed supporting the digital humanities as ADHO Exec Board Secretary
From: @…
https://

The Mercer family appears in #EpsteinFiles client lists. The patriarch, Robert Mercer, is known for contributions to computer science and algorithmic trading at Renaissance Tech. His family bankrolled Citizens United, Steve Bannon, Milo, Cambridge Analytica, Trump’s first campaign, and countless other arch-conservative organizations.

@… I am perturbed Fiona! 🙁 - Compare these two reports about the meeting between Canada's Carney and India's Modi. The BBC makes it 100% about nuclear, whereas the Canadian Press outlines all the sustainable energy technologies in the agreement and only once mentions uranium.

Green energy orgs applaud Canada-India agreements on renewables
OTTAWA — Some of Canada’s renewable energy organizations are applauding commitments Ottawa signed with India this week to advance development of solar, wind and hydrogen power. Prime Minister Mark Carney spent four days in Mumbai and New Delhi, a trip which concluded with a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and signing a series of […]

In the mid-20th century,
Mary Cardwell Dawson
broke barriers for Black musicians and performers
as a vocal proponent of musical education
and the founder of the National Negro Opera Company(NNOC),
one of the first professional organizations of its kind in the United States.
Dawson’s multi-decade career eventually led her to the White House,
where first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was so impressed by her efforts that she wrote a personal check in support o…

"S.F. public health department has to cut $17 million. No one is happy."
Really, "no one"? This is billionaire erasure. Billionaires are thrilled! They love that Mayor Lurie opposes the billionaire tax and the overpaid CEO tax, and is making cuts instead.
https://

S.F. public health dept. has to cut $17 million. No one is happy.
Community organizations facing cuts are fighting back .

I just published The Open Contributions Descriptor format as an IETF Internet-Draft.
#opensource #opendata #openstandard

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 320 nodes and 2369 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

This is why you can’t trust Europeans with their regulations, they are just as corrupt as the Americans. And I love regulation, but the politicians that end up calling the shots are as stupid, tainted and corrupt as our trumpian overlords.
We truly are ruled by crooks.
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/eu-us-sanc…

Europe Is Sanctioning Critics of Israel and Militarism
Sanctions were once sold as a gentler foreign policy tool for exerting pressure on dictatorships and terrorist organizations. Yet measures like banning individuals from having bank accounts or traveling are increasingly used to chill free speech in Europe.

Analysis: news organizations' open-source activity has fallen from a peak of 2,092 new public GitHub repositories in 2016 to 396 in 2025, an ~80% decline (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalism-lost-its-culture-of-sharin…

Journalism lost its culture of sharing. Here’s how we rebuild it
The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed.

EPA moves to designate microplastics and pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water
But, as #MAHA folks noted: "Maha leaders, farmers and organizations told Zeldin in a letter on Tuesday to tackle the health impacts of pesticides, plastics and Pfas chemicals."
Still, 2 out of 4 is a start (I hope)

EPA moves to designate microplastics and pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water
But, as #MAHA folks noted: "Maha leaders, farmers and organizations told Zeldin in a letter on Tuesday to tackle the health impacts of pesticides, plastics and Pfas chemicals."
Still, 2 out of 4 is a start (I hope)

I’ve never understood why so many organizations truly believe that they need Microsoft Office and that it’s a good idea to spend millions on licenses. I very much agree with the post, replacing it with a clone doesn’t solve the fundamental issues with “office” software.
https://ia.net/topics/trapped-in-ms-of

I’ve never understood why so many organizations truly believe that they need Microsoft Office and that it’s a good idea to spend millions on licenses. I very much agree with the post, replacing it with a clone doesn’t solve the fundamental issues with “office” software.
https://ia.net/topics/trapped-in-ms-of

I’ve never understood why so many organizations truly believe that they need Microsoft Office and that it’s a good idea to spend millions on licenses. I very much agree with the post, replacing it with a clone doesn’t solve the fundamental issues with “office” software.
https://ia.net/topics/trapped-in-ms-of

I reworked it, and now it's way prettier! 💎👇🏻
My always up-to-date sheet with almost 1300 official accounts by media organizations that you can follow from #Mastodon and everywhere else in the #Fediverse.
➡️

The Senate confirms Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd to lead the NSA and US Cyber Command, filling a vacancy created when Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired in April 2025 (Martin Matishak/The Record)
https://therecord.media/rudd-confirmed-nsa-cyber-command-chief

Rudd confirmed to head NSA, Cyber Command after near year-long vacancy
Rudd, who was confirmed 71-29 to serve as the “dual-hat” leader of the organizations, takes the reins as the U.S. faces mounting aggression in cyberspace from foreign adversaries at the same time the Trump administration has sought to shrink the size of the federal government.

The Justice Department on Thursday released additional Jeffrey #Epstein files
involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against Donald Trump that the department said had been "mistakenly" withheld during an earlier review.
The department said last week that it was working to determine if any records were improperly withheld
after several news organizations reported tha…

Justice Department releases Epstein files with unverified Trump claim
The Justice Department has released additional Jeffrey Epstein files involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump that the department said had been mistakenly withheld during an earlier review. The department said last week that it was reviewing to determine if any records were improperly withheld after several news organizations reported that the massive tranche of records that had been made public didn’t include files documenting a series of interviews…

Coalition of Human Rights Organizations Issues a Statewide Travel Alert for Florida Ahead of FIFA World Cup
A coalition of civil rights, community leaders, and human rights leaders is coming together to issue a travel alert today to warn international travellers, tourists, and visitors of the potential dangers that exist in the United States, particularly in Florida, to their rights, liberty, and physical security.

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

We're at the week's half-way mark and the infosec news machine is operating on overdrive.
Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments you should know, including
--Ex-Trenchant exec gets 7 years for selling hacking tools to Russian zero-day broker,
--Rubio orders diplomats to fight against data sovereignty,
--UNC2814 breached 53 organizations,
--Anthropic PBC’s chatbot carried out attacks against Mexican government,
--DHS…

Ex-Trenchant exec gets 7+ years for selling hacking tools to Russian zero-day broker
Rubio orders diplomats to fight against data sovereignty, UNC2814 breached 53 organizations, Anthropic PBC’s chatbot attacked the Mexican government, DHS sued for scanning protestors' faces, Wynn Resorts almost certainly paid ransom, Discord postpones age verification policy, much more

Abandoned by the Department of Education, Advocacy Organizations Demand Action on Student Sexual Violence - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2026/04/01/trump-department-of-education-colleges-universities-sexual-assault-title-ix/

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 5524 nodes and 94219 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Legally, it takes 3 people to start a legal church, for anyone interested in exploring this a bit further:
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/churches-religious-organizations/definition-of-church

Seeking a shortcut to becoming exceptional is the best guarantee of remaining mid forever.
“The organizations believe that through a combination of online learning and AI tutoring, average performers can become exceptional in a compressed amount of time.”
https://www.…

MasterClass Is Working With OpenAI to Build a Business School for the AI Era
The new program, which also involves the University of Chicago, is called MasterClass Executive. Mark Cuban is among the instructors.

Anthropic says it will make a preview of its Mythos model available to more than 40 organizations, as part of a new Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/07/anthropic-mythos-ai-model-preview-security/

Anthropic debuts preview of powerful new AI model Mythos in new cybersecurity initiative | TechCrunch
The new model will be used by a small number of high-profile companies to engage in defensive cybersecurity work.

The Trump administration’s decision to brand Anthropic as a “supply chain risk” could force CISOs into a position few have faced before: preparing to identify, isolate, and potentially remove a specific AI technology from across their organizations without a clear understanding of where it resides or how deeply it is embedded.
Check out my latest CSO piece that examines how organizations need to get ready for identifying where in their systems AI resides.
Many thanks to Tom Pace …

Anthropic ban heralds new era of supply chain risk — with no clear playbook
Pentagon guidance on how to remove Anthropic shows what enforcement could look like, but most organizations lack the visibility and consensus needed to respond to what the Trump administration describes as a new category of supply chain risk.

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

If anyone is interested in continuing to explore this thread, a legal church takes 3 people to start (in the US):
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/churches-religious-organizations/definition-of-church
(no one can stop you from starting an illegal one.)

Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/project-glasswing-anthropic-ai-open-source-software-vulnera…

Tech giants launch AI-powered ‘Project Glasswing’ to identify critical software vulnerabilities
Anthropic unveils Project Glasswing with major tech partners, using an unreleased model to find and fix long-hidden software vulnerabilities.

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Twenty-one states funneled nearly a half-billion dollars, or $491 million, of taxpayer money
to anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy center" organizations between fiscal years 2022 and 2025.
That figure does not include millions some states diverted from federal programs like "Temporary Assistance for Needy Families",
and it does not include multimillion-dollar tax credit programs launched after federal protections for abortion rights were overturned. 

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Q&A with journalist Danny Funt about his new book on sports betting, news organizations making sports betting deals, parallels with prediction markets, and more (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/sports-b

Sports betting reshaped newsrooms, and it’s “a little gross.” Now, here come the prediction markets
"Sports media is kind of getting bribed," as one former ESPN reporter told journalist Danny Funt.

Heroku says it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model", as it focuses on "helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI" (Nitin T Bhat/Heroku)
https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

An Update on Heroku
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Her…

“The most immediate danger is the proliferation of high-quality, automated attack infrastructure. A novice actor can now purchase a ‘Lateral Movement Skill’ developed by OpenClaw's contributors and instantly gain the sophisticated capabilities of a well-funded group. “
This is the best articulation I’ve seen about what OpenClaw is and the mind-blowing dangers it poses., as well as best defense strategies. I’m not sure most organizations are prepared. We are all in for a very wild r…

The Rise of OpenClaw
The growing threat of automated attack infrastructure

President Trump signs an EO aimed at fighting cybercrime, directing officials to identify robust tools to combat transnational criminal organizations (Catherine Lucey/Bloomberg)

U.S. forces have launched military operations with Ecuador against
“designated terrorist organizations”
inside the South American country,
Southern Command said Tuesday.
The military released no details on the operations
but suggested in a statement that it was an extension of strikes carried out by the Trump administration
against suspected drug trafficking organizations in the region
In January 2024 gangs stormed a TV station,
taking staff ho…

What's interesting is that this exact set of technologies leads to decision paralysis in centralized organizations:
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/cognitive-fratricide-how-the-transparent-battlefield-creates-decision-paralysis/
The problem here is a structural one, a function of hierarchy, where the direction of the flow of power determines what technology can do and how it can e used.
In a distributed network, this information is used by a central system to distribute data back to people so they can make the most informed decision. In a centralized network, this information is used to increase the power of central control node. It's a question of who is helping whom, who is autonomous and who is support.

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 3862 nodes and 87324 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

100 clergy members arrested at Minneapolis airport amid protests over ICE immigration surge – live
Labor unions and progressive organizations have called on workers across the state to stay home in an ‘economic blackout
We’re getting an update that 100 clergy members were arrested while protesting federal immigration enforcement outside Minneapolis-St Paul international airport today.
They were arrested by members of the airport staff and local law enforcement, according t…

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 5793 nodes and 45266 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The White House has unleashed a pressure campaign against news organizations as it bristles at Iran war coverage, while Trump muses about "Charges for TREASON" (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/business/media/tr…

With Threats and Claims of ‘Treason,’ Trump Pressures Media on the War
A president who calls journalists the “enemy of the people” has accused news organizations of undermining a military effort that many Americans oppose.

This Reuters piece on how uprooting Anthropic from the Pentagon's networks will be neither quick nor painless jives with my piece today that looks at how CISOs face a steep curve to identify, isolate, and potentially remove a specific AI technology from across their organizations without a clear understanding of where it resides or how deeply it is embedded.

Anthropic ban heralds new era of supply chain risk — with no clear playbook
Pentagon guidance on how to remove Anthropic shows what enforcement could look like, but most organizations lack the visibility and consensus needed to respond to what the Trump administration describes as a new category of supply chain risk.

Cylake, co-founded by Palo Alto Networks' Nir Zuk to develop an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that doesn't rely on the public cloud, raised a $45M seed (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r1ev1gvkbg

Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk unveils new cybersecurity startup Cylake with $45 million in Seed funding
Zuk founded the company with Wilson Xu, a longtime Palo Alto Networks engineering leader, and Ehud (Udi) Shamir, co-founder of SentinelOne. The startup is developing an AI-driven security platform designed for organizations that cannot rely on public cloud infrastructure.

Palo Alto Networks: an Asian cyber-espionage group broke into systems belonging to 70 critical infrastructure organizations and governments in 37 countries (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2…

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 320 nodes and 2369 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Reporters from mainstream news organizations including NYT, WaPo, AP, and Vanity Fair were shut out of the premiere screening of Melania in Washington, DC (Anna Tingley/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/melania-documentary-premiere-am…

Melania Documentary Premiere Banned Press
After a red carpet attended by Donald and Melania Trump, mainstream media were banned from attending a screening of Amazon MGM's Melania documentary.

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

The Trump administration has unleashed a multifaceted pressure campaign against news organizations
It increasingly bristles at media coverage of the Middle East military operation that many Americans oppose.
Official Pentagon briefings now include attacks on outlets like CNN -- with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth nit-picking headlines.
Trump is turning to Truth Social to accuse “Highly Unpatriotic ‘News’ Organizations” of airing “LIES” about the war and musing about
👉 …

With Threats and Claims of ‘Treason,’ Trump Pressures Media on the War
A president who calls journalists the “enemy of the people” has accused news organizations of undermining a military effort that many Americans oppose.

Don't miss my latest CSO feature that examines how boards don't need more cyber metrics; they need risk signals so they can better understand the exposure, trajectory, and consequences of the threats their organizations face.
Thanks to Richard Bejtlich, Mike Hamilton, Wendy Nather, George Tsantes, and Bernard Brantley for their insights.

Boards don’t need cyber metrics — they need risk signals
Security teams have learned to measure activity. The harder task is turning those measurements into signals directors can use to govern risk.

A lawyer for ICE provided
false information to federal prosecutors
to justify seizing thousands of people seeking asylum and lawful immigration status in the U.S.
at immigration courts, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
The extraordinary revelation was included in filings by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton’s office
in a lawsuit brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union and various civil rights groups and community organizations,
which challenges …

Israel-based Guidde, which is developing a platform to accelerate the adoption of AI in organizations, raised a $50M Series B round led by PSG Equity (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hk4kpt2owl

The hacking group, tracked as UNC2814 and "Gallium,” has a nearly decade-long history of penetrating government organizations and telecommunications companies, the company said in findings shared exclusively with Reuters.
https://www.

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

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ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 320 nodes and 2369 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Starting in less than ONE HOUR, our final webinar of this series:
"Report-Back from COP30, Reflections on Change-Making and Next Steps."
Register now to hear about COP30, the Peoples' Summit and the Indigenous Village.
We will also reflect on corporate capture of climate action.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Report Back from COP30, Reflections on Change-Making and Next Steps. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
In November 2025, Seed the Commons participated in the People’s Summit Towards COP30. We presented a talk as part of the Just Transition axis, and the last day of the summit we marched with tens of thousands of other activists from around the world to demand real solutions to our climate crisis. Alongside organizations such as SEUI 1021 and the SF Labor Council, Seed the Commons co-organized a solidarity climate march on the same day in San Francisco. We merged it with a People Over Billionai…

Google disrupts Chinese-linked group UNC2814, which breached 53 organizations across 42 countries and utilized Google Sheets to manage targeting and data theft (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/b…

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

The Trump administration is seeking to join a lawsuit against
UCLA’s medical school,
alleging its admissions process uses a “systemically racist approach.”
The lawsuit was originally brought by the organizations "Do No Harm", "Students for Fair Admissions" and a white applicant who claims she was rejected from the school because of her race.

UCLA medical school accused of systemically racist admissions approach
The Trump administration on Wednesday sought to join a federal lawsuit alleging that UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine illegally considers race in admissions.

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says the company plans to cut 1,700 jobs, or 4% of its workforce, mainly in its Tech and IT organizations; ASML jumps 5% pre-market (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 5524 nodes and 94219 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/facebook_organizations#L2
Ridiculogram:

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 320 nodes and 2369 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Legal AI company Harvey raised $200M led by GIC and Sequoia at an $11B valuation, up from $8B in December 2025, and reports 100K users at 1,300 organizations (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/legal-ai-startup-harvey…

Legal AI startup Harvey valued at $11 billion in funding round, as VCs spread bets beyond model companies
Harvey will use its fresh capital to expand its AI agents and grow its embedded legal engineering teams.

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…