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- A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.
- The Ford government made the unprecedented decision to pause all transparency requests for more than a week. Here's what happened behind the scenes.
- 16K likes, 1.9K comments. "LG Isn't the Only TV Company Spying on You"
- A meeting with a Cabinet Minister — federal or provincial — runs on two sets of rules at once. The formal ones are written down: the Lobbying Act, the Lobbyists' Code of Conduct, disclosure requirements. The informal ones aren't written anywhere, but breaking them is often what actually costs an organization its access and credibility. This guide covers both, with emphasis on the unwritten conventions that experienced advocates learn only by watching someone else get it wrong.
- A friend of mine in Ottawa — and one of the best political journalists I know — once wrote down the rules of everything political in the capital. People call them “Wells Rules,” by Paul Wells. I'll never reach his level, but here and over the next few weeks I want to pass along what I've picked up about how the political world actually works. This is the first guide in that series. It covers two things that go hand in hand: contacting and lobbying elected officials, and organizing a grassroots campaign — both explained through the actual rules and […]
- Most people who walk into a Minister's office, an MP's constituency office, or a meeting with a Deputy Minister have prepared carefully for what they want to say. Very few have thought about what the people across the table are actually thinking. That gap explains most of the meetings that go nowhere — not a weak case, not a bad cause, but a presentation aimed at an audience that doesn't exist.
- Political staff — often called exempt staff, especially in Ottawa — hold an odd position. They're public servants, technically, but they work for a Minister or MP personally, not just the Crown. Chiefs of staff, policy advisors, issues managers, press secretaries: these people sit beside enormous formal power without holding any of it themselves, in offices with almost no job security and even fewer written rules.
- CDS shares its experience in the Government of Canada’s Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure pilot: what it involved, what surprised us, and what we learned.
- AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.
- Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying.
- What can we learn from a BGP hijacking that poisoned production software? Plenty.
- OpenAI said that the integration provides read-only access to health records for clinicians.
- Network effect" can run in reverse.
- Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers must be removed from state highways within 30 days.
- OpenAI supports California SB 1119, advancing strong, age-appropriate AI safeguards for teens while preserving opportunities to learn, create, and explore.
- Our information flows aren’t just threatened by slop or foreign actors. They're being reshaped by invisible decisions from AI companies.
- Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats
- AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. We need to start planning now so it makes the world a fairer place.
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