Author: Abhilash Gopinath
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One Hacker. Two AIs. Nine Government Agencies. Hundreds of Millions of Records.
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Between late December 2025 and mid-February 2026, a single threat actor breached nine Mexican government organisations at federal, state, and municipal levels. The attacker exfiltrated data from databases containing hundreds of millions of citizen records, compromised hundreds of internal servers, built a live query API into government systems, and operationalised…
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Project Glasswing — Anthropic’s AI Cybersecurity Initiative and What It Means for the World
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What it is: Project Glasswing is a cross-industry defensive cybersecurity initiative bringing together 12 founding partners: AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Palo Alto Networks, and Anthropic. Additionally, 40+ organisations maintaining critical software infrastructure were granted access. The project is named after the glasswing…
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Bennu — The 4.6 Billion Year Old Time Capsule We Reached Out and Touched
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“I personally consider the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu as the most precise activity in the history of human spaceflight — more complex than even the moon landing. Here is why.” — Abhilash Gopinath, Fanlumin Bennu is a diamond-shaped, boulder-covered asteroid about one-third of a mile wide, formed 4.6 billion years…
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Ghost Murmur — How the CIA Used Quantum Technology to Rescue a Downed Pilot from 40 Miles Away
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On April 3, 2026, a US F-15E fighter jet went down in southern Iran during the ongoing Iran War. The pilot — callsign “Dude 44 Bravo” — ejected successfully and concealed himself in a mountain crevice, hiding from Iranian search forces for nearly two days. What rescued him was not…
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Artemis 2 — Humanity’s First Crewed Lunar Mission in 54 Years, and the Unforgettable Story of Rise
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On April 10, 2026, four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after completing humanity’s first crewed mission to the moon in nearly 54 years. But buried inside NASA’s carefully choreographed mission was one of the most quietly moving stories of the entire space programme — the story of a…
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Stanford 2026 AI Index — AI is Sprinting and the Rest of Us Are Finding Our Shoes
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Overview Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI released its 2026 AI Index — the most authoritative annual snapshot of where AI actually stands. The headline: AI is advancing faster than society’s ability to understand, govern, or trust it. 1. The US and China Are Nearly Tied Anthropic currently leads Arena…