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There has been a lot of upheaval at Fox News lately. Gretchen Carlson went nuclear on Ailes and the misogynistic rapey culture that Fox cultivated over decades, and nothing has been the same there since. That is a good thing. It may have…

WSJ has a 2000 word puff piece talking about how the international financial messaging system, SWIFT, is safe from hackers now because more banks are using two-factor authentication (!!) with the system that can transfer billions of dollars…

Facebook claims that less than .1% of Facebook election related activity consisted of malicious amplifiers of fake stories. That could be a self-serving narrowly drawn number. Or it could be a testament to the power of Facebook's network effect.

Several weeks ago, DOJ got good press when it rolled out the relatively uncontroversial first known use of a Rule 41 hacking warrant against Russian botnet operator Pyotr Levashov. But it has since become clear there are weird jurisdictional issues with the warrant. DOJ obtained the warrant in Alaska when they're prosecuting Levashov in Connecticut.

What if real productivity growth is actually even lower than reported?

There's a great deal of coverage on GRU's attempted (though reportedly unsuccessful) attack on Emmanuel Macron. Particularly given Trump's preference for Marine Le Pen in the French elections, we need to be a lot more mindful of NSA's ability to hack democratic candidates.

As the NYT lays out, Jim Comey deserves all the criticism he has gotten for affecting the election last year. But he's not the only one whose behavior stinks.