policy

The People Who Built America's Cyber Arsenal Say We're Losing. They're Probably Right.

John Z Black Mar 29, 2026

Policy, Law & Governance #nsa #rsac #cyber-deterrence #doge #national-security #policy #paul-nakasone #whistleblower

Four former NSA directors told RSAC that America has failed to deter adversaries in cyberspace, and a federal whistleblower's thumb drive allegation shows what that failure looks like from the inside.

Sanders and AOC Want to Freeze AI Datacenter Construction. Here's What That Actually Means.

John Z Black Mar 26, 2026

Policy, Law & Governance #ai #datacenters #energy #policy #sanders #aoc #environment #congress

The Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act would halt all new AI datacenter construction until Congress passes federal AI regulation. It won't pass. The energy numbers behind it are real.

DOGE Sent a Lawyer With No Nuclear Experience to Run NRC Meetings. He Dismissed Safety Concerns.

John Z Black Mar 23, 2026

Policy, Law & Governance #doge #nrc #nuclear-safety #governance #regulatory #policy

A 31-year-old DOGE-placed lawyer with zero nuclear background was chairing technical meetings at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and reportedly dismissing staff safety concerns -- at exactly the wrong moment.

Smuggled Silicon: The DOJ Case That Puts AI Export Controls in the Spotlight

John Z Black Mar 21, 2026

Policy, Law & Governance #ai #export-controls #china #doj #supply-chain #national-security #hardware #policy

Three men charged with smuggling US AI hardware to China represent the first major criminal test of export control law applied to high-performance compute. The era of treating AI export controls as background noise is over.

Federal Cyber Reality Check: Capacity, Coordination, and Confidence Are Out of Sync

John Z Black Mar 18, 2026

Policy, Law & Governance #cisa #dhs #critical-infrastructure #governance #policy #incident-response #federal-cyber

Staffing gaps, fuzzy lead-agency roles, and public messaging that doesn't always match operational uncertainty -- the layers of federal cyber aren't running in sync right now.

Europe's Biggest Tech Fines Are Getting Overturned in Court

John Z Black Mar 17, 2026

Policy, Law & Governance #gdpr #amazon #cloudflare #eu-regulation #privacy #piracy-shield #italy #policy

Amazon just got a $858 million GDPR fine thrown out. Cloudflare is fighting Italy's Piracy Shield. Big Tech's legal teams are now the real counterparty to European regulation.

CISA Is Running on Fumes While Threats Keep Piling Up

John Z Black Mar 16, 2026

Policy, Law & Governance #cisa #doge #policy #government #workforce #cybersecurity #institutional-risk

A third of CISA's workforce is gone. The agency is operating at 38% capacity during a shutdown. And a DOGE whistleblower alleges someone walked out with Social Security data. This isn't a policy debate. It's a capacity crisis.

The EU Just Made AI Nudification a Crime. Here's Why It Matters Beyond Europe.

John Z Black Mar 15, 2026

AI Security #eu-ai-act #ai-regulation #ncii #deepfake #policy #ai-ethics #prohibited-practices

The EU Council wants to ban AI nudification tools outright, not regulate them. Criminal-tier penalties, extraterritorial reach, and a standard that global platforms can't ignore.