Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 13hUsing Google Translate to try to talk with Dutch authorities about the ShinyHunters hack and this is truly the most ridiculous fake language. "Mijn excuses," "de hackersgroep ShinyHunters," can these people can hear themselves?? 492
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A spokesperson for ShinyHunters, the prolific cyber extortionists who hacked the FBI's job portal last week, tells me they now won't release any more data from that hack. They also sent this somewhat confusing statement that indicates they maybe think they've bitten off more than they can chew. 199920
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Five Eyes is OVER! Special Relationship is FINISHED!politico.comWhite House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models from UK testers until US reviewU.K. leaders are calling for a shared set of global principles, even as the White House seeks first access to new models for testing. 0144
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026.@williamturton.bsky.social, best known as my former intern, got Susan Collins to say "shame on Pro Publica." 2141
Reposted by Kevin Collier William Turton @williamturton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In 2024 the former CEO of a defense contractor made a stunning confession to two FBI agents. He alleged that was the ringleader of a massive pay-to-play operation, bribing senators with campaign contributions in exchange for govt contracts. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...propublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini... 22774337
Reposted by Kevin Collier Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 21/09/2026All the best, Lorenzo!!! ✊Massively looking forward to the book!!! 011
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Serious props to the reporters on this story (they are not active on Bluesky so I'm not tagging them). We are all genuinely lucky that news illustrating what can go wrong when militaries rely on hallucination-prone LLMs got published before something worse happened.cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 3267
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hey Kevin Roose is really glad you're starting to get out of your bubble when it comes to AI 4120
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026AI CEOs are in awe that their models can, given few constraints, hack autonomously. They're also wracked with a vague fear that their products will soon hack the entire internet. I reported on how it's very curious that they seem utterly disinterested in working with cybersecurity experts on this.nbcnews.comCybersecurity experts say AI giants are shutting them out of safety plansCybersecurity experts told NBC News they were concerned that fundamental issues of cybersecurity weren’t being addressed. 1120676
Reposted by Kevin Collier Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 16/09/2026Remember when people said “I used to think Elon Musk was smart until he started talking about something I had subject matter expertise in”? 55511
Reposted by Kevin Collier kate conger @kateconger.com · 11/09/2026Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...nytimes.comElon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It PersistsReviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk. 122067928
Reposted by Kevin Collier Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 10/09/2026thinking about extreme credulity about AI causing the imminent extinction of humanity vs skepticism on climate change a month after 35k+ people died in European heat waves in the hottest summer in recorded history 47024
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A very pedantic take, but I can't conceive of any logically possible scenario where AI in the next decade kills us all. Even collapsing civilization as we know it by inventing a pandemic and crashing the financial system and food and medicine supply chain, sure. Mass death. But that's different. 6264
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'm looking forward to this doc, but this kind of conspiracy framing is still bad when criticizing a prominent person on the right. We know Musk spent the most any human being has ever spent getting Trump elected; don't insinuate without evidence he changed votes with satellites or whatever. 4262
Reposted by Kevin Collier The Onion @theonion.com · 09/09/2026Nation’s Smart Toilets Begin Counting Down theonion.com/nations-smart-toilets-… 352031239
Reposted by Kevin Collier Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is the best piece I have ever read on the impacts of infinite scroll social media on our cognitive function and particularly that of our kids. Whew it is grim. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Why Gen Z Loves Brain Rot (Gift Article)Maybe consuming meaningless content is the only way to be free online. 17030
Reposted by Kevin Collier Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 12/10/2025 2451531762
Reposted by Kevin Collier Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/09/2026Ah good to see -there is finally an AI slop moderation label; meaning you can block and mute it out of your feed 1018552
Reposted by Kevin Collier David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Tesla has told first responders that they might need to “push” the new Cybercab out of the way in an emergency 1071200400
Reposted by Kevin Collier David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 04/09/2026You probably know that Penn State is exempt from public records law, so we can't ID who funded the JoePa Experience Room. What you probably don't know is the person who successfully lobbied to keep the school exempt was secretly working for the CIA at the time. www.foiaball.com/p/penn-state...foiaball.comHelp me ID Penn State's anonymous JoePa mausoleum donorBecause the state won't do it for us. 512332
Reposted by Kevin Collier Jane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Ukrainians are increasingly using drones to take their enemies prisoner. Here's our look inside one mission to capture Russian soldiers without the Ukrainian infantry having to fire a single shot: www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...nbcnews.comIn Ukraine, Russian soldiers are increasingly surrendering to machinesMore than 100 Russian soldiers surrendered to drones over the winter, a former Ukrainian official said. NBC News talked to one unit that captured four men without firing a shot. 07124
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A weekend read about how politics is responding to anti-Flock sentiment. In one Tennessee House race, everybody's against them. The Republican introduced a basic bill. The Dem has a much more comprehensive plan. And the independent admitted to police that he shot four cameras with a shotgun.nbcnews.comA shotgun, a wrestler and a House race: Tennessee’s revolt against Flock camerasOne candidate has a bill to strip funding. Another was accused of shooting cameras. 36117
Reposted by Kevin Collier Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026One of my regular themes is how short US history actually is, just three or four human lifetimes long. Case in point: King Harald V attended FDR’s 1945 inauguration. 420837
Reposted by Kevin Collier Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 27/08/2026"The surprise visit by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency to Moscow this week was to deliver a warning to Russia not to attack NATO countries, according to people briefed on the visit," reports WSJ. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comExclusive | CIA Chief’s Surprise Moscow Trip Was to Warn Russia Not to Attack NATOThe warning comes after new U.S. intelligence assessments indicated the Russian president could launch a limited assault. 93212
Reposted by Kevin Collier Martin Matishak @martinmatishak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026NEW: The NSA will resemble a college for a while on Friday, as it hosts a first-of-its-kind reunion for alumni of its most secretive hacking unit, TAO. The will welcome back to campus potentially hundreds of former members of the elite group. therecord.media/nsa-to-host-...therecord.mediaExclusive: NSA to host a hacker reunion in bid to rebuild secretive unitThe National Security Agency will welcome back to campus potentially hundreds of former members of the elite group known as Tailored Access Operations (TAO) to celebrate the division’s recent rebrandi... 165
Reposted by Kevin Collier David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 26/08/2026Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...foiaball.comThe oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrageXX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail. 8848891766
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Early in my career a reporter friend told me he makes a point to email people when they write something he really enjoys. It's such an easy way to be decent. 0292
Reposted by Kevin Collier Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 25/08/2026SCOOP: Republican House candidate Ralph Alvarado is pivoting his message, editing his website to remove Trump mentions and delete a photo of them together. From “America First Fighter” to “Independent Leadership.” Trump won KY06 by 15 pts. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... BEFORE/AFTER 1932887763
Reposted by Kevin Collier Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 25/08/2026FT scoop: Trump admin last week requested Kyiv not strike Moscow, St Petersburg and nothern regions of Russia with its long range weapons on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday when the US would send a plane carrying a top official to the Russian capital, according to people familiar with the request. 14224103
Reposted by Kevin Collier David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 25/08/2026NEW from me: I interviewed Tesla drivers who say they sometimes sleep intentionally behind the wheel. 2317750
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I've covered surveillance for a long time, and I've never seen an outcry like that around Flock cameras. I've got a few ideas what makes this different but am curious why people think Flock in particular has gotten so many so riled up. 216012
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Somebody scraped The Knot, that big searchable online wedding registry, and made a website of the results. To me that's fundamentally unnerving and why I don't use that kind of site. But through this I learned that some people pretend to get married with the names Poop, Ass, Pee, etc.walzr.comWho Wed WhoI scraped 6.4 million couples' names from The Knot, a popular American wedding registry. Type any first or last name and see who people with that name actually married. 270
Reposted by Kevin Collier Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I talked to @kevincollier.bsky.social and NBC about the anger over surveillance how politicians have allowed this massive surveillance network to be built---and how the time is now to organize and cancel those contracts.nbcnews.comFlock camera vandals say privacy reforms aren’t enough: ‘The changes are bull----’The surveillance company announced shorter data retention and new oversight after a wave of attacks on its cameras. 03117
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I'm confident saying Paul Nakasone is the most beloved and respected (and least disgraced) former NSA/Cyber Command director in modern history. And....man is he milking that. 291
Reposted by Kevin Collier Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 19/08/2026There's a whole cottage industry now of professional posters who take journalism and repost it with no credit, no link. What's considered normal now is wild. Polymarket is a multibillion dollar company and their whole social media strategy is to never ever credit journalists who work they use 23511
Reposted by Kevin Collier Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026At long last, we have perfected the perpetual cycle of suffering and ignorance from Buddhism's famous precept 'Strive to Break the Perpetual Cycle of Suffering and Ignorance' 124081
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This is a really good story and a really good photo. 0142
Reposted by Kevin Collier Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...blog.cryptographyengineering.comEverything is about to “go dark”I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini… 810244
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"There are 16 entries on the list where the reason for the flag was simply marked 'POTUS.' Those items include magazine and newspaper articles, message pads, phone message books and one unidentified record."bloomberg.comNew FBI Epstein Emails Show Sarah Ferguson Contacted Kash PatelInternal documents shed new light on the government’s review of the Epstein files and reveal efforts by the former Duchess of York to connect a British socialite with the FBI director. 02115
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 13/08/2026With all the many caveats that there are lot unforeseen bad directions this could go, I...don't think this is the worst idea? If CrowdStrike gets limited authority to hack the Comm of Scattered Spider and there becomes a little less cybercrime in the world, surely that's a good thing. 520
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It always felt like a hallucination that CNN elevated that dope as much as they did. Glad he's showing his true colors. 0192
Reposted by Kevin Collier Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I have glimpsed a dark vision of the future of blogging 😱 www.wired.com/story/ai-new...wired.comOh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big NewsLast week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning. 22716
Reposted by Kevin Collier Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It's interesting to see how many columnists get to develop careers where they just say things in major media outlets, and how many journalists I know have to be prepared to defend everything they write with reporting, interviews with experts, stats, research, government data, and other sources. 1265494
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I think we've all seen this story by now. My q: is this pic of an entire pound of raw ground chuck placed directly into a nonstick pan? 460
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It really is wild that in the US, you aren't allowed to text-spam and we have systems in place to stop it. Unless you're in politics! Then you get a trusted number to legally bypass filters for every candidate and celebrity you can think of, and Americans have to unsubscribe from each individually. 4233
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 11/08/2026They're letting anybody have PR reps these days. 3161
Reposted by Kevin Collier onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Well this is terrifying. Good for him for fighting back…again. 192522960
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Hello! I am back from parental leave and back to reporting on technology and security concerns for NBC News. If you've got access to information about privacy/surveillance, cybersecurity, election security, AI getting ornery, scams, kids' data etc please let me know! Signal is kevincollier.01. 34112
