April 17, 2026

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

CAUSE AND EFFECT, WHICH ORDER DO THEY GO IN?

We don’t just have the worst media; we have the worst of all possible media.

Posted at 11:59 am by Stephen Green

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: How Dangerous is Mythos? Why Did Anthropic Decide Not to Release the New Model?

Anthropic’s Mythos has been able to independently complete a whole set of attack processes. From discovering zero-day vulnerabilities, writing exploit code, to linking multiple steps to access core systems, tasks that originally required top hackers to collaborate for long periods have been compressed to hours or even minutes.

This is also why, at the moment the model was disclosed, Scott Bessent and Jerome Powell would convene Wall Street firms to ask them to conduct ‘self-checks.’ When the ability to discover vulnerabilities is released on a large scale, the financial system faces not sporadic attacks, but continuous scanning.

The deeper change lies in the supply structure. In the past, vulnerability discovery relied on the experience accumulation of a few security teams and hackers, which was slow and non-replicable. Now, this capability is beginning to be output in bulk by models, lowering the threshold for both attacks and defenses. A metaphor from an insider is very straightforward: giving the model to an ordinary hacker is akin to equipping them with special operations capabilities.

Developing…

Posted at 11:44 am by Stephen Green

THE SAME COULD BE SAID ABOUT THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF THE MED, SAVE ISRAEL — AND THERE’S A LESSON IN THAT:

Posted at 11:28 am by Stephen Green

JOURNALISMING: WaPo Mystified About Why No One Ever Noticed That Swalwell Was a Creeper. “One thing that modern ;journalists; do very well is blame other people for their propaganda-fueled derelictions of duty. The Jake Tappers of the world insisted that they were kept in the dark about Biden’s condition by his staff and the Democratic National Committee. Apparently, none of them owned televisions or had internet. Tapper even wrote a book about it. Bonus money for being awful at his job, then lying about it — not a bad gig if you are free from the burden of integrity.”

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 11:13 am by Stephen Green

CRUEL BUT FAIR:

Posted at 10:57 am by Stephen Green

CARE TO HELP US SPEED THINGS ALONG IN IRAN YET, FELLAS? Europe has ‘maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,’ energy agency head warns. “If we are not able to open the Strait of Hormuz … I can tell you soon we will hear the news that some of the flights from city A to city B might be canceled as a result of lack of jet fuel.”

What do you mean “we,” Kemosabe?

Related:

It’s been the Islamic Republic vs. the West for 47 years.

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green

OL’ BLUE EYES NEVER LEFT, AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED:

Posted at 10:26 am by Stephen Green

THIS SCAM LONG PREDATES GAVIN NEWSOM:

I’m not sure exactly when the political memoir industry turned into another lefty grift operation, but it’s hardly anything more than that now.

Seriously, does anyone read these things?

Posted at 9:55 am by Stephen Green

MAKE THEM PLAY BY THEIR OWN RULES:

We need to have a talk about flight and electricity, too.

Posted at 9:25 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Chuck Schumer Is Now Driving His Own Clown Car. “Eric Swalwell’s protracted exit from politics has preoccupied the Democrats of late, which has pushed Schumer and his troubles into the background. One of my longstanding beliefs about Schumer is that, despite having risen to the top of Dem leadership, he’s one of the dumbest people in the Senate — think East Coast Mazie Hirono.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green

WHAT’S HOBBLING HIGHER-ED REFORM? There is a real (though nascent) effort from within higher ed to try to save the sector and make it something we can be proud of again. Rick Hess lays out some of the issues tripping them up.

Posted at 9:09 am by Robert Shibley

PERHAPS THEY NEED TO BE TREATED AS AN “EXISTENTIAL THREAT” TO OUR DEMOCRACY:

Isn’t that the phrase we’ve heard since 2016?

Posted at 9:04 am by Glenn Reynolds

SO LONG, CITI BIKE:

When the bikes lack maintenance and eventually start disappearing, it will be just another case of “bad luck.”

Unexpectedly, of course.

Posted at 8:53 am by Stephen Green

CHANGE IS HAPPENING, ALL OVER THE WORLD:

Posted at 8:37 am by Glenn Reynolds