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PolitiFact launches Well Informed to provide credible health information on social media and to news partners, with plans to launch a paid B2B newsletter (Jennifer Orsi/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/news-r…

Poynter’s PolitiFact launches service providing reliable, engaging health information to consumers and news organizations - Poynter
"Well Informed” offers social videos and stories backed by research to help people sort out personal health claims.

"Organizations can set up alerts for “concerning behavior,” like exfiltrating datasets, and search the session logs of individual users. They also allow organizations to see which users have viewed specific sets of information."
https://www.wired.com/story/palant…

Palantir Held Another ‘Hack Week.’ This Time, the Focus Was ICE
The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE.

News organizations sue to unseal filings in DOJ's Fulton County election investigation (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/news-organizations-sue-unseal-filings-doj-fulton-county-election-probe-rcna345700
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p19#a260519p19

Amazon says its business sales unit, Amazon Business, reached $60B in annualized gross sales in Q2, up ~71% from 2023, and serves 11M organizations worldwide (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

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

“[Atlantic Editor-in-Chief] Jeffrey Goldberg has repeatedly taken it upon himself to speak for the Jewish people … with at least the passive approval of an elite network, Goldberg has spent years passing harsh, biblical judgment on both Jews and gentiles who dare to weigh in on issues related to Israel, from authors to organizations to U.S. presidents.”
How Jeffrey Goldberg weaponized Jewish trauma to pave the way for war with Iran – Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/05/how-jeffrey-goldberg-weaponized-jewish-trauma-to-pave-the-way-for-war-with-iran/

Socket: TeamPCP, the gang claiming GitHub's repositories breach, also executed 20 "waves" of supply chain attacks recently, compromising 500 pieces of software (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/teampcp-software-supply-chain-attack-spree-github/…

A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio
and top White House adviser Stephen Miller
are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations.
The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit
“on the resurgence of political terrorism,”
where Miller described the LEFT as
“enemies of civilization”
and described efforts to
“disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.”
Rubio …

“Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute”: Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and top White House adviser Stephen Miller are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations. The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit “on the resurgence of political terrorism,” where Miller described the left as “enemies of civilization” and described efforts to “disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.” Rubio announced the U.S. would soon designate more l…

Again, this is focused on community organizations that work directly with emergency management (police, fire, etc). But the ideas still work well (if not the execution) for all sorts of other types of orgs:
https://cdn.kingcounty.gov/-/media/king-county/depts/dph/documents/safety-injury-prevention/emergency-preparedness/cre/cbo-tabletop-exercise-guide.pdf?rev=e9695770e3e2444ab635e2af14254dfc&hash=55894CC9A38E70249D494DF367FD6310

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

Cardinals raise $2 million for special needs organizations in Arizona https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-raise-2-million-for-special-needs-organizations-in-arizona

The #Shelby County #Tennessee DA has released #Memphis Police body cam video surrounding the violent use of force and deployment of chemical spray by MPD at No Kings 3. (Use the Dropbox link.) Thank you

DA’s Office Releases Video Related to Police Response at No Kings Rally — Shelby County District Attorney
The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office has released video related to the police response at the March 28 No Kings Rally, following requests from several local organizations.

GitHub says it's investigating "unauthorized access" to its internal repositories, and there's no proof of customer data outside its repositories being impacted (@github)
https://x.com/github/status/2056884788179726685

GitHub (@github) on X
We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely

The US state department is actively undermining Europe with these funds,
The State Department has put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions"
https://www.

The right wing think tank "Manhattan Institute", is in the midst of a yearlong campaign to pass state-level legislation
reclassifying minor crimes like vandalism, blocking a roadway, or trespassing during a protest as felonies that would carry 18-month prison sentences as punishment.
The push to criminalize forms of nonviolent disobedience as a form of terrorism comes amid a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on leftist organizations, causes, and social m…

The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.

Oh, here's one of our docs for anyone in PNW. It's incomplete (also, from 2018):
Running list of disaster risks in the Pacific Northwest:
EARTHQUAKE (Three main faults - Cascadia, Seattle, )
PANDEMIC FLU (Global risk)
Especially high in Seattle compared to many other large US cities due to the high number of international flights and international organizations based in the Seattle.
STORMS
HEAT WAVES
Seattle lacks a familiarity with extreme heat. Less than half of people have air conditioning. Growing wealth inequity, homelessness, and addiction increases the risks posed by high temperatures.
VOLCANIC ERUPTION
Mount. Rainier.
WILDFIRES & WILDFIRE SMOKE
“Harvard University researchers, in collaboration with colleagues at Yale University, have created a watch list of hundreds of counties in the western United States at the highest risk of exposure to dangerous levels of pollution from wildfires in the coming decades. Among them, heavily populated counties such as San Francisco County, Calif., King County, Wash., Alameda County, Calif., and Contra Costa County, Calif., are projected to face the highest level of risk of wildfire smoke exposure in the coming decades.” [source]

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 165 nodes and 726 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The Web I grew up with and that grew up with me was already slowly fading. The Web of many people and organizations having their own small website. Capitalism and convenience lead to a concentration onto a small number of platforms and apps, but mostly these platforms let the rest be. People and small organizations and groups could still have their little website.
#web

“Building a new oil pipeline to the west coast of Canada is consistent with the teachings of Jesus, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told a gathering of Christian leaders and organizations from across the province last week.”
Ah! Okay then. I thought there was some environmental issues but if Jesus say it's fine, who am I to complain?

Summer is in full swing, and the Georgia Museum of Art has been busy with a beloved community program. Art Adventures is a free, immersive art education experience for local youth organizations. Sessions are held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in June and July and combine gallery tours, sensory experiences, games and hands-on activities to create a captivating learning experience that engages a variety of age groups.
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#GitHub disabled 73 #Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations — the entire #Azure Functions org, the whole

The Blight Reaches Microsoft: 73 Repos Disabled in 105 Seconds
GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations — the entire Azure Functions org, the whole Durable Task family, and a row of AI sample apps — in a 105-second sweep on June 5. The recompromised durabletask package sits at the center, and the fingerprints point at the open-sourced Miasma worm.

Since falling in love with soccer during Euro 2000, I've never been so physically close to the World Cup (the first match in Toronto is later today). But I've never felt so distant from the competition. Few organizations are as good at finding new ways to disgust as FIFA and the US regime's actions - not just those focused on the World Cup, but those are bad enough - fill me with rage. In the past, I've plugged my nose and enjoyed the matches (I'm not proud). I can't …

Organizations everywhere are asking how AI drives real outcomes.
NHS England is answering by scaling Microsoft Copilot across 500K clinicians and staff—after early pilots showed measurable time savings on admin work.
https://www.th…

NHS prescribes half a million Copilot licenses for its paperwork headache
After a trial claimed chatbot saved staff 43 minutes a day, NHS England has decided it's time to supersize the experiment

TMTG plans to launch Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from top Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/16/truth-social-license-data-wall-street

Exclusive: Truth Social to license its data to Wall Street
Interim CEO Kevin McGurn says firms have been scraping Truth Social data and repackaging it for institutional clients.

Representatives from leading AI security standardization initiatives have formed MOSAIC (Multi-Organization Secure AI Coordination), the first collective collaboration of its kind among AI security standard organizations.
https://www.

Global AI Security Standard Organizations Gather Under MOSAIC to Reduce Fragmentation
At an invitation-only forum in Arlington, OWASP, SANS Institute, NIST, CSA, CIS, CoSAI, and BIML formed MOSAIC: Multi-Organization Secure AI Coordination,...

"The World in an Archive: Preserving the Websites of Geographers, Cartographers, and Map Enthusiasts" @ LoC
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/06/the-world-in-an-archive/

The short URL, expanded:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/organizations/the-freebsd-project
@…

London-based Risk Ledger, which helps organizations manage supply chain cyber risks, raised a £24M Series B led by Axiom Equity, taking total funding to £33.8M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/risk-ledger-raises-32-million-in-series-b-…

Iraqi National Arrested and Charged with Providing Material Support to Iranian-Backed Terrorist Organizations and Directing Attacks Targeting U.S. Citizens and Interests (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/iraqi-national-arrested-and-charged-providing-material-support-iranian-backed-terrorist
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p91#a260515p91

We also need bird organizations to come out against bug zappers. Because when billions of insects are electrocuted there's less food available. And you could use an illustration of begging chicks in a nest near a glowing bug zapper surrounded by moths (make the parent birds emaciated and worried). That graphic would go viral. #birds #insects #birding

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285
This is awesome news - and I hope more governments and organizations will take similar steps!

10. Every organization cutting engineering headcount on the basis of AI output gains should read this report.
AI crossed a threshold. It is now the primary author of code.
This did not happen as a deliberate decision by most organizations. It happened as AI tool adoption scaled, acceptance rates climbed, and agent-mode tools began applying changes directly rather than waiting for a developer to approve each suggestion.
In the organizations we studied, 80% of teams now exce…

The AI Engineering Report 2026: The AI Acceleration Whiplash - Ten Takeaways
What two years of telemetry data from 22,000 developers reveals about AI's real impact on developer productivity, code quality, and business risk in 2026.

The lies told by racists& bigots to justify their abhorrent acts rarely get called out this clearly - and yet too many are unaware. Why?
And too few news organizations are willing to call out these murderous acts, and the lies, for what they are. And thus enable the #CrimesAgainstHumanity to continue.
The

The lies told by racists& bigots to justify their abhorrent acts rarely get called out this clearly - and yet too many are unaware. Why?
And too few news organizations are willing to call out these murderous acts, and the lies, for what they are. And thus enable the #CrimesAgainstHumanity to continue.
The

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 165 nodes and 726 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

I'm very relieved to finally announce structlog 26.1.0!
Given how long this release took, it's pretty thicc with nice things all over the board! Apologies for the long release cycle; it's been a victim of the slopocalypse and me trying to navigate my way thru the new normal.
Extra big thanks to my sponsors for not abandoning me in these unironically trying times. Especially Kraken Tech, Privacy Solutions GmbH, and Klaviyo for being dedicated organizations! ❤️

Release 26.1.0 · hynek/structlog
Highlights Given how long this release took, it's pretty thicc with nice things all over the board! Apologies for the long release cycle; it's been a victim of the slopocalypse and me trying to nav...

Europe's climate action is getting a major push from an unexpected alliance. 55 companies and industry groups have united to fast-track carbon pricing for transport and heating fuels by 2028.
The goal? Drive investment and innovation while ensuring a fair transition for all Europeans through the Social Climate Fund.

European Industry & Civil Society Unite to Accelerate Climate Action - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. 55 companies and industry trade associations have written to the EU to express support for the ETS2 Leading European companies, including TRATON, Vattenfall, and Danfoss, alongside civil society and environmental organizations, have united to form the European ETS2 Action Alliance. ... [continued]

➡️ Milwaukee Bike Rides
#bookmarks

"Black cockatoo species caught in the crosshairs of global race for minerals"
#Cockatoo #Birds #Animals

Black cockatoo species caught in the crosshairs of global race for minerals
Environmental organizations in southwest Australia have criticized the Australian government’s decision to grant the U.S. bauxite mining company Alcoa a national interest exemption, usually provided in cases of emergency, defense or national security, thereby authorizing the company to continue its operations despite years of unauthorized clearing in the country’s Northern Jarrah Forest. The Northern Jarrah […]

I really like Google Search’s stated mission to “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” but I’m curious what organizations do y’all think are most ideally invested in that mission?
Wikipedia seems like an obvious one. Internet Archive seems like another. Any others?

Evangelical groups warn Trump’s deportations could leave 1.3M 'torn apart' from families
https://religionnews.com/2026/05/04/evangelical-organizations-warn-that-trumps-policies-will-leave-more-than-1-million-families-torn-apart/

Dit was ook al door Microsoft opgemerkt zag ik in een Tweakers artikel, maar het bewaartermijnen beleid van Anthropic betekent eigenlijk dat ze alles oneindig kunnen bewaren:
"After 30 days, the data is deleted automatically, except in the rare cases where it's part of a safety investigation or we're legally required to keep it. Eligible organizations also have the option to add customer-managed encryption keys and access transparency audit logs."

Data retention practices for Mythos-class models | Claude Help Center

TMTG plans to launch Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from top Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/16/truth-social-license-data-wall-street

Exclusive: Truth Social to license its data to Wall Street
Interim CEO Kevin McGurn says firms have been scraping Truth Social data and repackaging it for institutional clients.

As cities and states sue big oil for billions in damages
over allegations that it covered up the dangers of its products,
rightwing organizations are attempting to discredit the wave of litigation.
They claim the lawyers behind it are teaming up with an environmentally focused legal education non-profit to bias federal judges against oil companies.
But it is actually fossil fuel-backed organizations that are attempting to sway the judiciary in their favor,
one …

A group of prominent conservative organizations petitions the FCC to deny license renewal requests from the eight local TV stations owned and operated by ABC (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/06/abc-license-renewals-fcc

Conservative fight against license renewals for ABC stations heats up
Prominent organizations accuse network of political, racial and sexual bias and supporting Chinese communist party

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://

Maybe "donations" instead of "organizations"? If I ever make it on the space committee, I'll suggest a taxonomy of offices, from M-class on down.

OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog AI News)
https://www.testingcatalog.com/openai-announces-daybreak-initiative-ar…

OpenAI announces Daybreak initiative around Codex Security
OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities.

Dual Iranian-Iraqi National Indicted for Providing Material Support to Terrorist Organizations (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/dual-iranian-iraqi-national-indicted-providing-material-support-terrorist-organizations
http://www.memeorandum.com/260528/p128#a260528p128

I’m pleased to announce that my new book, The NIST 2.0 Cybersecurity Framework: Practical Risk Management Using Real-World Incidents, is now available for pre-order from Wiley (and wherever books are sold) at a 20% pre-release discount for a limited time.
Even better, organizations interested in workforce training, executive education, or enterprise-wide cyber awareness initiatives can also have the book custom-tailored for bulk programs and institutional deployments.
For more on…

Oracle warns customers of a critical PeopleSoft flaw after ShinyHunters claimed breaches of 100 organizations using PeopleSoft; Oracle has not issued a patch (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/orac

Oracle warns of security bug that hackers abused to breach 100+ companies | TechCrunch
The tech giant warned of a security flaw that a cybercrime gang said it's exploiting as part of a mass-hacking campaign. Google said it notified more than 100 organizations that had potentially vulnerable servers.

Standards Not Force
may be useful for residents who want to become more involved in local government, public oversight, peaceful protest, corporate accountability, or community organizing.
It may also support journalists, researchers, democracy advocates, neighborhood groups, students, nonprofit organizations, and volunteers seeking a structured approach to lawful civic engagement.
The organization presents an advocacy framework rather than a neutral government or academic…

Standards Not Force - Resistance Directory
Standards Not Force promotes lawful nonviolent civic action, public accountability, community safety, transparency, and grassroots organizing.

Six years after a US-China tit-for-tat cycle of journalist expulsions, the number of US journalists in China is dwindling, making it harder to cover the country (Eliot Chen/The Wire China)
https://www.thewirechina.com/2026/05/10/no-country-for-american-reporters/…

"Ecosia’s Purpose-Driven Climate Investment Reaches 250M Trees"
#Ecosia #Trees #Environment

Ecosia's Purpose-Driven Climate Investment Reaches 250M Trees | Happy Eco News
Search engine Ecosia has reached 250 million trees planted through a purpose-driven climate investment model, partnering with 125 organizations employing 200,000 tree planters across 35+ countries, planting 1,600 native species, including 144 endangered or vulnerable species.

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

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on July 1 his intent to designate certain Muslim and anti-fascist groups
—including U.S. groups
—as “terrorist organizations.”
Using authorities granted to him in a new Florida law, which took effect earlier that day,
DeSantis declared that he would seek designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
the Muslim Brotherhood, and “Antifa,” among others.
Within hours, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law …

The Dangers of Florida’s New “Terrorist” Designations
Analysis of First Amendment implications of Florida's HB 1471, part of a growing trend of state-level terrorism designation laws.

RE: #IDF

RE: #IDF

A group of prominent conservative organizations has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny license renewal requests from the eight local television stations owned and operated by ABC,
accusing the network of political, racial and sexual bias and supporting the Chinese communist party.
The petitions come after the commission, led by Trump appointee Brendan Carr, took the nearly unprecedented step of requiring the network, a frequent recipient of attacks fro…

Conservative fight against license renewals for ABC stations heats up
Prominent organizations accuse network of political, racial and sexual bias and supporting Chinese communist party

Under US law, a "church" is only really defined by the IRS (as far as I'm aware). This definition lists 14 attributes, of which a church is expected to have 9. They are as follows:
- Distinct legal existence
- Recognized creed and form of worship
- Definite and distinct ecclesiastical government
- Formal code of doctrine and discipline
- Distinct religious history
- Membership not associated with any other church or denomination
- Organization of ordained ministers
- Ordained ministers selected after completing prescribed courses of study
- Literature of its own
- Established places of worship
- Regular congregations
- Regular religious services
- Sunday schools for the religious instruction of the young
- Schools for the preparation of its members
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/churches-religious-organizations/definition-of-church
Let's talk about each one now, and a bit later we'll talk about examples of systems existing now and how they become essentially "out of band," "invisible," or otherwise "indecipherable" to the dominant system....

Medical school organizations sign on to RFK Jr.'s nutrition requirements (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5915249-medical-education-nutrition-requirements/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260608/p101#a260608p101

Some organizations are doing panicky things over Mythos.
NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/

NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on…

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://

You don’t need to read Project Censored’s latest State of the Free Press report to know that the state of the free press in America is not good (but, obviously, you should still read the report). 
And it’s not just President Trump, his administration, and the MAGA faithful repeatedly, publicly expressing their hatred and verbalizing threats towards journalists and media organizations that don’t tow the Supreme Leader’s line.
It’s not just Trump and his cabinet bullying and berat…

The war on our sight
"This is a class war happening on two fronts: A war in reality, and a war on reality and our capacity to perceive it. And it’s high time we all start seeing and responding to all of this in the terms of a war that we are not just reporting on but on the frontlines of."

Coram AI, which helps organizations use AI with their existing security equipment to find incidents, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total funding to $66M (Rya Jetha/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/coram-turn-security-cameras-into-…

Coram raised $35 million to turn security cameras into AI detectives
The security company works with existing cameras today, but Coram's CEO sees robot dogs and humanoids as part of the startup's future.

France's competition watchdog orders Meta to negotiate in good faith with news organizations over copyright payments, after two groups filed complaints in 2025 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Israeli startup Frame Security, which protects organizations from AI-powered social engineering attacks, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index and others (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1idmmtabx

Former Wiz and Team8 executives raise $50 million for cyber startup Frame
The Israeli firm aims to modernize security awareness training as AI makes cyberattacks more convincing and scalable. 

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

CISA announced a new initiative this morning called CI-Fortify to encourage organizations to be able to function disconnected from networks and still deliver essential services.
Check out my CISA piece on this project.
Many thanks to @…, James Winebrenner of Elisity and Bill Moore of Xona Systems for their insights.

CISA pushes critical infrastructure operators to prepare to work in isolation
The new CI-Fortify initiative urges critical infrastructure operators to prepare for cyberattacks by ensuring they can disconnect from networks and still deliver essential services — something experts say will hinge on investment and discipline.

OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with a $4B investment to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, and acquires AI consulting firm Tomoro (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-creates-new-un…

Filing: music industry organizations oppose a proposed 43% average increase to US Copyright registration fees, say the hike would lock out independent creators (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.

The US Copyright Office is hiking registration fees by 43%. Independent music orgs say many artists won’
With the fee hike, independent creators could lose access to the Copyright Claims Board, a more affordable way to pursue infringement cases, the coalition said.

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 continued canceled funding that we’re seeing from USDA
continues to be the cherry on top for many organizations and farmers that are already up against really hard times,”
said Anna Pesek, who farms poultry, pigs and flowers in eastern Iowa and serves on the board of Iowa Valley RC&D.
It’s a dynamic that could come into play in November’s midterm elections in Iowa,
a Republican-dominated state where Democrats believe they may have a shot at winning its open U…

‘A slap in the face’: small farmers say Trump is turning his back on them
The president wooed farmers in his campaign, but now the USDA is yanking funding, citing ‘DEI’ and wasteful spending

Don't miss my latest CSO piece, which looks at the various ways enterprise AI data can be poisoned to shift the nature of reality itself, all the while making everything look like systems are functioning normally.
Many thanks to Chris Cochran and Rob T. Lee of the SANS Institute, Gary McGraw of the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning, Darren Williams of BlackFog, Patrick Fussell of IBM X-Force and Adam Meyers of CrowdStrike for their insights.
Poisoned truth: The quiet s…

Poisoned truth: The quiet security threat inside enterprise AI
Enterprise AI systems can be corrupted through data poisoned by accident, adversaries, or bad hygiene. Most organizations have no idea how large that attack surface is — or whether they’re already exposed.

Thinking Machines says its mission is to build AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own, and that "extends human will and judgment" (Thinking Machines Lab)
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/the-future-worth-building-is-human/

The Future Worth Building Is Human
AI built for autonomy crowds people out, making us passive observers of what’s coming. We’re building toward a different future.

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

Anthropic donates $150M to launch Claude Corps, a fellowship program that will teach 1,000 fellows how to use Claude and place them with nonprofits in the US (Glenn Gamboa/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-ai-claude-co…

Claude Corps: Anthropic launches team to teach nonprofits to embrace AI
Anthropic will donate $150 million to launch a fellowship program called Claude Corps that plans to help nonprofits effectively use artificial intelligence by embedding 1,000 trained fellows in various organizations for a year. Anthropic President Daniela Amodei says the program will be evaluated after its first year to determine its future. The company, known for balancing profits with social impact, is also donating $200 million to support displaced workers. Anthropic, valued at $965 billion,…

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…

Thousands of people remain missing or unaccounted for following the Rapid Support Forces' capture of El Fasher, according to new findings published by the UN Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan.
Following the takeover in late October 2025,
the International Organization for Migration estimated that more than 127,000 people were displaced from the city and surrounding villages.
The mission noted that humanitarian organizations later described El Fasher as a "ghost town,&…

Thousands remain missing after El Fasher takeover in Sudan | News.az
The report states that before the city's fall, El Fasher had an estimated population of about 260,000 people, News.az reports, citing reports of the U...

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, a "safe" Mythos-class model it says can't be used for cyberattacks, to the public, and Claude Mythos 5 to trusted orgs (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-releases-claude-fable-5-mythos-5/

Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You
Anthropic is releasing Claude Mythos 5 to trusted organizations and Claude Fable 5 to the public, a version it says can’t be used for cyberattacks.

The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $
100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations
was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan sided with The Authors Guild, several other groups and several people who had their grants canceled and sued DOGE and the National…

Judge rules government illegally canceled more than $100 million in humanities grants
A federal judge in New York has ruled that the Trump administration's cancellation of over $100 million in humanities grants was unconstitutional. Judge Colleen McMahon on Thursday sided with The Authors Guild and others who sued DOGE and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She permanently barred the administration from terminating the grants. The judge also criticized DOGE's use of artificial intelligence to label and target projects as "diversity, equity and inclusion. Several groups t…

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…

France's competition watchdog orders Meta to negotiate in good faith with news organizations over copyright payments, after two groups filed complaints in 2025 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sulzberger says NYT has spent over $20M on legal fees over the past two and a half years on its AI lawsuits against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Perplexity (The New York Times Company)
https://www.nytco.com/press/a-i-journalism-and-the-uncertain-future-of-…

Europe is Done with American Big Tech.
-- Well, sort of.
Since the start of Donald Trump’s chaotic second administration, concerned governments and companies across the continent have accelerated plans to end their near-total reliance on technology from US firms.
https://www.w…

All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology
A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.

The amount of cyber-related news that extends over the weekend is getting ridiculous, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--Washington pushes AI into an export-control era as rivals rush to fill the gap,
--Anthropic regains limited Mythos 5 access for government-vetted US orgs,
--OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 under gov't preview,
--Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nears Mythos-level cybersec performance,
--3…

Washington pushes AI into an export-control era as rivals rush to fill the gap
Anthropic regains limited Mythos 5 access for government-vetted US organizations, OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 under gov't preview, Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nears Mythos-level cybersec performance, 360 Security says it has achieved Mythos-style vulnerability discovery, much more

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…

Keyfactor, which manages billions of machine identities for more than 2,500 client organizations, raised $1B led by Summit Partners (Mike Lennon/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/keyfactor-scores-1-billion-investment-for-ai-post-quan…

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

Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health clinics
regained access to Medicaid funding on Saturday
after a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act defunding the organizations expired.
The provision depriving Planned Parenthood was touted as a major victory for the anti-abortion movement when the bill was signed on July 4, 2025,
but, due to Senate rules, the defunding only lasted for one year,
and Congress failed to renew it before their summer recess.

Planned Parenthood Can Access Medicaid Funds Again as Congress Lets Ban Expire | Common Dreams
​Reproductive healthcare advocates vowed to keep up the fight as conservative activists pressure Congress to make the funding ban permanent.

Memo: Microsoft is laying off ~4,800 employees, or ~2.1% of its workforce; most layoffs are in Xbox, where ~8% are being cut, rising to 15% in this fiscal year (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees
Most of the job losses are in Microsoft’s Xbox and commercial sales organizations.

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://

I’m a Survivor Imprisoned in Texas.
I’m Only Allowed to Watch Fox News.
We are force-fed “news” made by a network that uplifts white Christian nationalism
and shields the predator-in-chief.
https://prismreports.org/2026/04/30/th

The controlled information ecosystem of American incarceration
In Texas state prisons, survivors are force-fed a steady diet of Fox News and content from white Christian nationalist organizations, shaping how they understand power and the violence they have experienced

Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 staff specializing in engineering, corporate training, and management to support businesses with AI deployments (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-anno…

Microsoft unveils $2.5B ‘Frontier Company’ to embed AI engineers inside customers
"Microsoft Frontier Company" is a $2.5 billion initiative that will embed engineers inside customer organizations to build and run their AI systems. The move follows similar efforts by Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic, and expands work Microsoft was already doing through its consulting arm and partners.

LeapXpert, which lets companies and sports franchises monitor staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp for compliance, raised $180M led by Riverwood Capital (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/20…

Exclusive: LeapXpert mints $180M round, adds sports compliance customers
The communication startup monitors compliance for sports and finance organizations.

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…

Sources: the White House opposes Anthropic's plan to expand access to Mythos to 70 additional companies and organizations because of concerns about security (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/white-house-opposes-ant…

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://

Anthropic says the US government is allowing Mythos 5 to be redeployed to critical infrastructure operators, and is working to restore general access to Fable 5 (@anthropicai)
https://x.com/anthropicai/status/2070665903440871779

Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) on X
Since June 12, we’ve been working closely with the US government to restore access to Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5. Today, the government notified us that Mythos 5, our strongest cybersecurity model, can be redeployed to a set of US organizations that operate and defend critical