New: The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center lost its federal funding at midnight. Here's my story about what happened, why it matters, and how the group — a critical resource for state and local governments — is trying to move forward: https://t.co/HL05F4H7cU

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr previewed this proposal yesterday:

As part of this proposed order, the FCC will also rescind the specific regulatory language that would have required telecom companies to adopt and follow cyber risk management programs. The FCC says it will instead take a "targeted approach" to promoting best practices.

The FCC has published the text of the proposed order undoing its cyber requirements for telecoms, which will get a vote at next month's meeting: https://t.co/dbph4PH6Pf It says the reqs lacked legal standing and wouldn't be as effective as "an agile and collaborative approach."

"'I'm sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter,' Mercer said in his email. 'I would strongly suggest dropping this story.'"

How did I miss that The Diplomat's latest season became reality two weeks after it dropped?

Here's my January interview with outgoing FCC Chair @JRosenworcel about why she created the new cyber requirements for telecoms in her final days: https://t.co/dbdTQfYyxD I noted at the time that Carr might rescind the requirements.

The FCC will vote next month to eliminate cybersecurity requirements for telecommunications companies that the commission created under Democratic leadership in the waning days of the Biden administration, @BrendanCarrFCC announced today. https://t.co/iQZealJPmq

The Python Software Foundation is forfeiting a $1.5 million NSF grant because it came with Trump administration anti-DEI strings that would have affected PSF's entire portfolio. The grant would have helped fix flaws in major coding languages.

"Many parishioners are too scared to leave home to attend Mass, buy food or seek medical care, as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown targets their communities."

"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds."

I guess time will tell whether or not @arimelber's book is mis-shelved here.

ICYMI: We've got a new @hothtakes episode about the Mandalorian and Grogu teaser trailer and the ... curious decision to make this the first Star Wars movie in seven years.

"We have not reached this decision slightly," Gottumukkala told SED employees, "and I want to thank you for sharing your time and talents with CISA as we continue to realign our workforce and resources to meet evolving physical security and cyber security demands."

CISA held a town hall for SED employees this afternoon to discuss their division's mass layoffs. Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala spoke briefly but took no questions, per a transcript, and neither he nor other speakers addressed the consequences of decimating the division.

The "Welcome to Video" case cited in that screenshot refers to this child sex abuse website that used Binance for payments because it didn't follow customer disclosure rules. "Better to ask for forgiveness than permission," Zhao once said of violating those and other laws.

With Trump pardoning Changpeng Zhao and accusing the Biden administration of persecuting him because it hated cryptocurrency, here's a reminder of what the IRS's cybercrime investigators dug up on CZ and Binance. https://t.co/uFof9AAAMN

"[ICE] has placed new recruits into its training program before they have completed the agency’s vetting process ... [S]ome of the recruits failed drug testing, have disqualifying criminal backgrounds or don’t meet the physical or academic requirements..."

Nice story by @timstarks about how the government's marquee asset-visibility program can't see many of the assets that hackers target the most: https://t.co/gG7jymp7e8

Senior officials at CISA and DHS restricted travel because they don't want employees saying things at conferences that anger the White House and blow back on agency leadership, and they don't know what those fault lines might be, a person familiar with the matter told me.

One detail that didn't make it into this story: The admin's ban on most work travel particularly hurt CISA's now-RIF'd international team, which couldn't attend events like this week's Singapore International Cyber Week, where countries share best practices and form partnerships.