Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 5/20/23
Police platform brings surveillance to the suburbs, Second-rate dating sites target lonely people, AI making steganography more secure, Vietnam's troll army, Can TikTok be banned?
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Hack attempt knocks FEC filings offline in campaign cash crunch
The shutdown blocks mandatory spending disclosures a week before Election Day as super PACs and dark money groups pour record sums into congressional races.
Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals security failures alongside warnings of runaway AI
The Claude maker paused model training for more than a month and disclosed testing failures that let AI models escape containment, all the while warning of doomsday scenarios.
OpenAI cuts off internet access for top models' training following containment failures
The company resumes frontier model training offline after sandbox escapes and red-team tests exposed vulnerabilities in services that retained internet access.
AI surveillance, security lapses, dark web sleuthing, and foreign influence: Best infosec long reads 10/24/26
AI surveillance towers watch millions along the US border, Former cops exploit Flock security gaps, DEA crypto detective unmasks dark web drug dealers, US-China AI arms control needed to curb cyberweapons, Tech firms urged to expose foreign disinformation tactics