Jake Bleiberg

Cybersecurity and hacking reporter for @business | [email protected] | Signal: JakeBleiberg.24 | Proud @AP alum

[Demetri @AsiaLens]

FT is hiring an Asia-focussed tech editor in Hong Kong. Details here ... https://t.co/RuXGn3M3EW #JournalismJobs

[Alanna Durkin Richer @aedurkinricher]

A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing $10K worth of cameras and other equipment from a photojournalist who had been injured while covering tense protests outside a Newark immigration jail for the @AP

Via @jangelooff

https://t.co/4dcKb21t3R

[Jake Bleiberg @JZBleiberg]

New from @business:

IBM and AT&T’s computer systems were repeatedly breached by foreign hackers, and the companies concealed those intrusions from the US government in violation of the law, says a lawsuit from a former IBM cybersecurity official.

https://t.co/VD10HbOGU6

[Astrid Galván @astridgalvan]

🚨 amazing job alert!
Dallas based? Come join us at Axios!
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[Bloomberg @business]

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the department has canceled most contracts that had been pending when he took over from Kristi Noem, a sign he’s putting his own mark on an agency that has faced months of turmoil https://t.co/sedt5WnFcV

[Jake Bleiberg @JZBleiberg]

Toyota agreed refund customers $48 million.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau let it off the hook.

It's among dozens of investigations, settlements and suits the agency dropped in the past 15 months, @NBuhayar, @coulterjones and Ted Mann report.
https://t.co/354GaHKwaC

[Kate O'Keeffe @Kate_OKeeffe]

Went on Bloomberg TV to discuss our investigation that found that at least 7 Chinese universities that support the country’s military are seeking access to Nvidia’s H200 chips, the most powerful AI processors ever allowed to be sold in China:
https://t.co/1uW5FIY3XK

[Jake Bleiberg @JZBleiberg]

Palo Alto Networks investors have rejected the cybersecurity firm's executive pay seven times since 2015, more often than any other company in the S&P 500, @business reports.

CEO Nikesh Arora and other top leaders get it anyway. https://t.co/HQg8KKfD9W

[Emily Glazer @EmilyGlazer]

Bill Gates was once ranked the world’s most admired man—but the revelations of his Jeffrey Epstein ties are eroding efforts to burnish his reputation.
Our deep dive into the fallout, packed with new details: https://t.co/kbTbjTFpg6

[Katrina Manson @KatrinaManson]

Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare is on The Economist’s list of “The best books of 2026 so far”

https://t.co/Ka4gwK7pBV

[Dustin Volz @dnvolz]

"Chinese officials told The Times they acted against @vwang3, a China correspondent for the paper since 2020, in response to the appearance by video of Taiwan’s president at a Times DealBook summit in New York in December; Wang played no role in the event" https://t.co/l6vxry2T2L

[Rachel Metz @rachelmetz]

new from me: anthropic is widely releasing "mythos-class models" in the coming weeks. the company had forecast this last week, but today tucked the timing into the very bottom of a blog post about claude opus 4.8.
https://t.co/Jrwbpc995C

[Robert Faturechi @RobertFaturechi]

New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr.

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved.

https://t.co/duvJ0cQ9bH

[Alanna Durkin Richer @aedurkinricher]

The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a longtime target of the DEA, sources tell @AP.

W/ @APjoshgoodman @JimMustian

https://t.co/d3BDZWRh0r

[Alicia A. Caldwell @aacaldwellLA]

One of the teenagers accused of carrying out a deadly shooting at a California mosque was flagged by the FBI as a potential threat last year, according to a person familiar with the matter https://t.co/czhEhrXZLd

[Jake Bleiberg @JZBleiberg]

Texas' suit comes follows a US law enforcement agency closing an investigation into similar claims soon after the investigating agent reached out to other officials with his preliminary conclusions.

@business broke that news here. https://t.co/CAnXEcWjpC

[Jake Bleiberg @JZBleiberg]

ICYMI: Texas has sued Meta alleging that WhatsApp is able to access user’s encrypted messages, @RyanAutullo reports.

A Meta spokesperson said, “WhatsApp cannot access people’s encrypted communications and any suggestion to the contrary is false." https://t.co/7qVlvWBlIS

[Alexandra S. Levine @Ali_Lev]

SCOOP in Bloomberg:

Meta has SETTLED the landmark lawsuit alleging that addiction to Instagram and other top social media platforms has upended learning across America.

w/ @livcarville and @madlinbmek in @business: https://t.co/YbLyKWZvMM

[Jennifer Forsyth @ForsythJenn]

Trump Approved an Nvidia Chip for Sale in China. Beijing Doesn’t Want It. https://t.co/UjKQEbzo8V

[Jake Bleiberg @JZBleiberg]

@jangelooff Congrats, Jake