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Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K members (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/leakbase-cybercrime-forum-seized/

Cybercrime: Behörden schalten das Datenleak-Forum LeakBase ab
Nach der Beschlagnahmung der LeakBase-Datenbank, einem der weltweit größten Cybercrime-Foren, identifizierten und verhafteten die Behörden mehrere Verdächtige.

Not good. The US federal government is hiring fewer and fewer people in cybersecurity roles in the face of budget slashing
Instead of the 75-plus agencies that typically showed up to the in-person fair, roughly 40 agencies were at February’s virtual event.
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CyberCorps grads consider private sector as fed hiring challenges persist
The challenges faced by CyberCorps scholars threaten to upend a program that has shuttled early-career cyber talent to federal agencies for nearly 25 years.

Perplexity asks a US judge to force Dow Jones and the New York Post to hand over the queries they made to "fish" for a basis to sue for copyright infringement (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/p

Perplexity claims News Corp tried to 'entrap' chatbot to make copyright case
Perplexity has accused News Corp's Dow Jones and the New York Post of carrying out a fishing exercise for their AI copyright claim.

NBC Sports set to host Super Bowl LX pregame coverage from Alcatraz Island https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7016788/2026/02/02/nbc-sports-set-to-host-super-bowl-lx-pregame-coverage-from-alcatraz-island/

My moment of clarity in the last few weeks was coming back to “Oh right, copyright is a hack, and one that is not serving us, particularly us on the margins”
The moral rights of authorship and the way we situate our legal process of ownership are, actually, kinda at odds. And it entirely misses the idea of a commons, both as community and as a cultural base to draw from.
I've long believed that we, collectively, should own our culture — to have modern myths be Copyright 1972 LucasFilm, the traditional songs we sing Copyright 1922, now owned by Warner/Chappell Music is one of the things I find repugnant about the situation we find ourselves in.
That said, reconciling that with the behavior of the AI companies, _particularly_ the American ones? It's hard. Google abuses its monopoly position; Microsoft has forced harmful and terrible tooling on people at every turn; OpenAI is run by someone who actively despises art and does not understand it; and Anthropic is run by a guy who is trying to make sure the apocalypse has a pleasant demeanor and doesn't offend any corporations on the way. All of the above have scraped the web with no active consent — and that's largely fine, that's what putting things in common _is_, that's the beauty of the open information world we have the remnants of — but also actively evading measures people put in place to stop it and with absolutely no willingness to engage with the process. Extracting from the commons _is_ the tragedy of the commons.
It does not mean that enlarging the commons with the resulting tools is bad. The doctrine of original sin is a Christian concept I do not subscribe to. The concept of 'fruit of the poisonous tree' is a legal tool to fix power relations not a moral stance. They're worth understanding, but they are not absolute moral stances that are self-evident.
These are not harmless tools, but so too putting hard regulation and corporate, legalistic scrutiny on everything has a vastly negative impact: it is a yoke on human creativity and community to the reins of capital.
And, so too, disruption has huge costs. We are, apparently, committed to doing things the worst possible way. One can just hope that we capture the good too, because the ride has started and it's rather late to get off.

Dienstag: Paramount mit großen Plänen, Copyright-Streit um KI-generierte Kunst
Konkurrenz für Platzhirsch Netflix US Supreme Court weist ab App spürt Smart Glasses auf Stromsubvention nötig für saubere Industrie Verwaltung am Limit

Team Cymru warns that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

CyberStrikeAI tool adopted by hackers for AI-powered attacks
Researchers warn that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls.

As experts warn about cyberattacks from Iran on the US, CISA is operating under a partial government shutdown and dealing with leadership changes (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/iran-cisa-cybersecurity-war-threat.html

The lead U.S. cyber agency is stretched thin as Iran hacking threat escalates
Last week, CISA's acting director was reassigned to a new division within DHS and the agency is operating under a partial shutdown.

Snapdragon Wear Elite: Neuer Smartwatch-Chip mit KI-Coprozessor und 5G RedCap
Qualcomms neuer Smartwatch-Chip verfügt über KI-Coprozessoren, unterstützt Satellitenfunk und ist sparsamer. Seine Bezeichnung könnte aber irritieren.