• Pentagon, FBI personnel-data breaches raise questions

    Pentagon, FBI personnel-data breaches raise questions
    A Pentagon breach that exposed sensitive personnel information for months is raising questions yet again about federal agencies' ability to detect unauthorized access to their records.Information about roughly 3 million people was potentially exposed from October 2025 to July 16, 2026, by a breach of a file-sharing system at the Defense Manpower Data Center, which maintains personnel information used across the military and other government agencies.“Three million
  • US spy chief tapped as White House AI czar

    US spy chief tapped as White House AI czar
    The nation's top spy is now also the White House's AI czar.President Donald Trump named Jay Clayton, who was sworn in as director of national intelligence in July, to lead what Trump referred to in a Truth Social post as the “Super Intelligence Force” meant to coordinate the government’s engagement with various organizations, critical-infrastructure providers, and AI companies.Last month, Trump ordered federal agencies to start calling AI "super intelligence."Accordin

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