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  1. The GAO has been mandated to investigate whether the US military weaponized ticks as part of Cold War bioweapons programs. This follows my April 2026 investigation into the alpha-gal/Gates connection. The institutional acknowledgment is here.

    thomaster.substack.com/p/gao-t

    #GAO #BioWeapons #Ticks #LymeDisease #alphagal #PlumIsland #FortDetrick #BreakingNews #Investigation

  2. Bright and early this morning I popped onto @BBC5Live's Wake Up to Money programme to chat to @seanfarrington about Anthropic's new AI model Claude Fable 5, which launched last night 🎙️

    Is it safe to use, since it's technically a Mythos-class AI model, and there have been lots of cybersecurity concerns?

    Also, this is kind of a full-circle milestone moment for me, as over 3 years, from 2017 to 2020, I would be on early shifts with @bbcbusiness transcribing interviews with guests for the BBC Business Live Blog (until the blog was retired), and now I've appeared on the show. Thanks for having me on! Younger me would be proud⭐😊

    Listen from to find out more 🎧: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xgbc

    #AI #Claude #Anthropic #Mythos #Fable5 #LLMs #generativeAI #AIagents #cybersecurity #bioweapons #technews #technology #analysis

  3. Bright and early this morning I popped onto @BBC5Live's Wake Up to Money programme to chat to @seanfarrington about Anthropic's new AI model Claude Fable 5, which launched last night 🎙️

    Is it safe to use, since it's technically a Mythos-class AI model, and there have been lots of cybersecurity concerns?

    Also, this is kind of a full-circle milestone moment for me, as over 3 years, from 2017 to 2020, I would be on early shifts with @bbcbusiness transcribing interviews with guests for the BBC Business Live Blog (until the blog was retired), and now I've appeared on the show. Thanks for having me on! Younger me would be proud⭐😊

    Listen from to find out more 🎧: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xgbc

    #AI #Claude #Anthropic #Mythos #Fable5 #LLMs #generativeAI #AIagents #cybersecurity #bioweapons #technews #technology #analysis

  4. Einem Bericht der Washington Post zufolge haben die USA im Afghanistan-Krieg eigens gezüchtete Mohnsamen abgeworfen, um die Opiumernte zu drücken und der Finanzierung der Taliban zu schaden. Eine Bestätigung dafür gibt es nicht. Doch jetzt sagen Experten: Ein solches Vorgehen könnte man als Biowaffen-Einsatz einstufen. Mein Bericht für @Spektrumverlag (evtl. €) spektrum.de/news/kriegsfuehrun #bioweapons #afghanistan #usa

  5. Einem Bericht der Washington Post zufolge haben die USA im Afghanistan-Krieg eigens gezüchtete Mohnsamen abgeworfen, um die Opiumernte zu drücken und der Finanzierung der Taliban zu schaden. Eine Bestätigung dafür gibt es nicht. Doch jetzt sagen Experten: Ein solches Vorgehen könnte man als Biowaffen-Einsatz einstufen. Mein Bericht für @Spektrumverlag (evtl. €) spektrum.de/news/kriegsfuehrun #bioweapons #afghanistan #usa

  6. Viren, Tiere und Pflanzen für kriegerische Zwecke zu nutzen, ist seit 1975 durch eine Konvention verboten. Doch KI und Fortschritte in der Biotechnologie schaffen neue Risiken. Ein Präzedenzfall aus Afghanistan bekommt neue Brisanz. Mein Bericht für @Spektrumverlag
    #artificialintelligence #bioweapons (evtl. €)

    spektrum.de/news/kriegsfuehrun

  7. Viren, Tiere und Pflanzen für kriegerische Zwecke zu nutzen, ist seit 1975 durch eine Konvention verboten. Doch KI und Fortschritte in der Biotechnologie schaffen neue Risiken. Ein Präzedenzfall aus Afghanistan bekommt neue Brisanz. Mein Bericht für @Spektrumverlag
    #artificialintelligence #bioweapons (evtl. €)

    spektrum.de/news/kriegsfuehrun

  8. New York Times: A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons. This link goes to a gift article. “One evening last summer, Dr. David Relman went cold at his laptop as an A.I. chatbot told him how to plan a massacre. A microbiologist and biosecurity expert at Stanford University, Dr. Relman had been hired by an artificial intelligence company to pressure-test its product before it was […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/01/new-york-times-a-i-bots-told-scientists-how-to-make-biological-weapons/
  9. New York Times: A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons. This link goes to a gift article. “One evening last summer, Dr. David Relman went cold at his laptop as an A.I. chatbot told him how to plan a massacre. A microbiologist and biosecurity expert at Stanford University, Dr. Relman had been hired by an artificial intelligence company to pressure-test its product before it was […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/01/new-york-times-a-i-bots-told-scientists-how-to-make-biological-weapons/
  10. New research finds AI guardrails can be broken using poetry WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI models are incredibly fragile and the world is betting the literal farm on them.... The post New research fi...

    #Security #and #Privacy #Adversarial #Attacks #Artificial #Intelligence #Artificial #Intelligence #Jailbreaking #Bio-Weapons

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  11. 🤖 AI
    🔴 Anthropic CEO: DeepSeek Fails Bioweapons Safety Test

    🪧 DeepSeek’s AI was “the worst” in blocking bioweapons-related info, says Anthropic CEO Amodei.

    🪧 Cisco also found DeepSeek R1 had a 100% jailbreak rate, generating cybercrime content.

    🪧 While the U.S. bans it, AWS & Microsoft keep integrating DeepSeek’s model.

    #AI #DeepSeek #Anthropic #Cybersecurity #Bioweapons

  12. 🤖 AI
    🔴 Anthropic CEO: DeepSeek Fails Bioweapons Safety Test

    🪧 DeepSeek’s AI was “the worst” in blocking bioweapons-related info, says Anthropic CEO Amodei.

    🪧 Cisco also found DeepSeek R1 had a 100% jailbreak rate, generating cybercrime content.

    🪧 While the U.S. bans it, AWS & Microsoft keep integrating DeepSeek’s model.

    #AI #DeepSeek #Anthropic #Cybersecurity #Bioweapons

  13. As we prepare for upcoming protests, this new government will deploy a wide range of countermeasures including armored police, physical barriers of all kinds, an increased ability to prosecute, and the sound of Lara Trump singing.

    #Bioweapons #TheResistance

  14. As we prepare for upcoming protests, this new government will deploy a wide range of countermeasures including armored police, physical barriers of all kinds, an increased ability to prosecute, and the sound of Lara Trump singing.

    #Bioweapons #TheResistance

  15. I recommend reading this whole article. The relationship between, on the one hand, conspiracy theorists and these kinds of militia groups and, on the other hand, "the government," including when it's headed by Trump, is a little bit complicated. Still, this passage is a decent summary of the whole thing:

    Although national media attention has moved on from the hurricane, VOP [Veterans on Patrol] appears to have adopted the belief that it was a military attack on domestic targets into their belief systems, and this may have intensified their anti-government posture, with Donald Trump and Republicans being portrayed as complicit in the events.

    The day after Trump was re-elected, the main account posted that “the US Military is currently poisoning the skies of Western North Carolina after it has already destroyed this area with Weather Weapon Helene”.

    The account claimed that “American children are dying from fentanyl pouring across the border, bioweapons jabbed in their arms, and the poisons being absorbed that come straight from the US military”, with the referenced “bioweapon” being the Covid-19 vaccine.

    The account has repeatedly pointed to Trump’s role in producing the Covid-19 vaccine as a reason that he cannot be trusted.

    Members of the group have now melded their claims about the hurricane – and plans to strike equipment they believe to be used for controlling the weather – with long-held beliefs that “directed energy weapons” and “stratospheric aerosol injections” or chemtrails are being wielded by the government against the American people.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n

    #VOP #VeteransOnPatrol #militias #ConspiracyTheories #ChemTrails #WeatherWeapons #paranoia #fascism #AntiVax #Bioweapons #GPAHE #HeidiBeirich #MichaelMeyer #LewisArthur

  16. I recommend reading this whole article. The relationship between, on the one hand, conspiracy theorists and these kinds of militia groups and, on the other hand, "the government," including when it's headed by Trump, is a little bit complicated. Still, this passage is a decent summary of the whole thing:

    Although national media attention has moved on from the hurricane, VOP [Veterans on Patrol] appears to have adopted the belief that it was a military attack on domestic targets into their belief systems, and this may have intensified their anti-government posture, with Donald Trump and Republicans being portrayed as complicit in the events.

    The day after Trump was re-elected, the main account posted that “the US Military is currently poisoning the skies of Western North Carolina after it has already destroyed this area with Weather Weapon Helene”.

    The account claimed that “American children are dying from fentanyl pouring across the border, bioweapons jabbed in their arms, and the poisons being absorbed that come straight from the US military”, with the referenced “bioweapon” being the Covid-19 vaccine.

    The account has repeatedly pointed to Trump’s role in producing the Covid-19 vaccine as a reason that he cannot be trusted.

    Members of the group have now melded their claims about the hurricane – and plans to strike equipment they believe to be used for controlling the weather – with long-held beliefs that “directed energy weapons” and “stratospheric aerosol injections” or chemtrails are being wielded by the government against the American people.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n

    #VOP #VeteransOnPatrol #militias #ConspiracyTheories #ChemTrails #WeatherWeapons #paranoia #fascism #AntiVax #Bioweapons #GPAHE #HeidiBeirich #MichaelMeyer #LewisArthur

  17. In recent weeks, Russian officials have publicly confirmed that the scientists will use the labs to study deadly microbes such as the Ebola viruses, in an effort to strengthen the country's defenses against #bioterrorism as well as future pandemics. Under CDC guidelines, US research on Ebola is restricted to laboratories rated as "biological safety level 4" (BSL-4), equipped to handle the most lethal & incurable kinds of viruses & bacteria.

    #Russia #geopolitics #BiologicalWeapons #bioweapons

  18. In recent weeks, Russian officials have publicly confirmed that the scientists will use the labs to study deadly microbes such as the Ebola viruses, in an effort to strengthen the country's defenses against #bioterrorism as well as future pandemics. Under CDC guidelines, US research on Ebola is restricted to laboratories rated as "biological safety level 4" (BSL-4), equipped to handle the most lethal & incurable kinds of viruses & bacteria.

    #Russia #geopolitics #BiologicalWeapons #bioweapons

  19. There has been no sign such weapons have been used in the #Ukraine conflict, but the construction of new labs at #SergievPosad6 is being closely watched by #US #intelligence agencies & #bioweapons experts…

    The images showed multiple signatures that, when combined, indicate a high-containment biological facility: dozens of rooftop air handling units, layouts consistent w/partitioned labs, underground infrastructure, heightened #security features & what appears to be a power plant.

    #Russia

  20. There has been no sign such weapons have been used in the #Ukraine conflict, but the construction of new labs at #SergievPosad6 is being closely watched by #US #intelligence agencies & #bioweapons experts…

    The images showed multiple signatures that, when combined, indicate a high-containment biological facility: dozens of rooftop air handling units, layouts consistent w/partitioned labs, underground infrastructure, heightened #security features & what appears to be a power plant.

    #Russia

  21. Here’s what we’re reading today:

    After Russia’s 2022 invasion of #Ukraine, satellite images revealed unusual activity at a former Cold #War #bioweapons site near #Moscow.

    Satellite images showed renovations and new buildings, possibly high-containment bio-labs.

    #Russia denies this.

    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  22. Here’s what we’re reading today:

    After Russia’s 2022 invasion of #Ukraine, satellite images revealed unusual activity at a former Cold #War #bioweapons site near #Moscow.

    Satellite images showed renovations and new buildings, possibly high-containment bio-labs.

    #Russia denies this.

    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  23. V WaPo:
    Satellite images show major expansion at #Russian site Sergiev Posad-6 with secret #bioweapons past, experimenting with viruses that cause smallpox, Ebola and other hemorrhagic fevers

    wapo.st/4hhyzxw
    #GiftLink #NoPaywall

  24. V WaPo:
    Satellite images show major expansion at #Russian site Sergiev Posad-6 with secret #bioweapons past, experimenting with viruses that cause smallpox, Ebola and other hemorrhagic fevers

    wapo.st/4hhyzxw
    #GiftLink #NoPaywall

  25. “We also have a responsibility to prepare our citizens for the future. We’ll see more technological change…in the next 2–10yrs, than we have in the last 50,” #Biden said.

    #ArtificialIntelligence is going to change our ways of life, our ways of work, our ways of war.” He added that it “could make our lives better.”
    “But #AI also brings profound risks, from #DeepFakes to #disinformation to novel #pathogens to #bioweapons.”
    “Nothing is certain about how AI will evolve or how it will be deployed.”

  26. “We also have a responsibility to prepare our citizens for the future. We’ll see more technological change…in the next 2–10yrs, than we have in the last 50,” #Biden said.

    #ArtificialIntelligence is going to change our ways of life, our ways of work, our ways of war.” He added that it “could make our lives better.”
    “But #AI also brings profound risks, from #DeepFakes to #disinformation to novel #pathogens to #bioweapons.”
    “Nothing is certain about how AI will evolve or how it will be deployed.”

  27. The article should be free but if you hit a paywall it is archived here: archive.ph/h9Yq6

    A related, *paywalled* recent article: AI and biosecurity: The need for governance
    Governments should evaluate advanced models and if needed impose safety measures science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #biosafety #bioterrorism #bioweapons #SyntheticBiology

  28. I've been thinking the same thing...👇😮 The New Bioweapons: How Synthetic Biology Could Destabilize the World www.foreignaffairs.com/world/new-bi... Free 30 day link (?) shared by author on Twitter: t.co/duVpa9bvFv #Technology #Governance #Bioweapons #MAD

    The New Bioweapons

  29. Artificial intelligence could make it easier and cheaper to create highly lethal biological weapons, potentially costing under $100,000 to develop a pathogen capable of killing millions. japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20 #commentary #worldnews #ai #artificialintelligence #viruses #bioweapons #wmds #defense

  30. Artificial intelligence could make it easier and cheaper to create highly lethal biological weapons, potentially costing under $100,000 to develop a pathogen capable of killing millions. japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20 #commentary #worldnews #ai #artificialintelligence #viruses #bioweapons #wmds #defense

  31. The Darker #Bioweapons Future

    Over 20 years ago the CIA wrote this summary of discussions with National Academies members on future threats from #biosciences. And still today not much (threat-wise) has changed, though synthetic biology has been full steam ahead. The threats we imagine always take much longer to manifest than we expect, and more likely, never manifest at all. Such is the nature of "anticipatory" scientific & technical #intelligence.

    PDF link: cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0

  32. The Darker #Bioweapons Future

    Over 20 years ago the CIA wrote this summary of discussions with National Academies members on future threats from #biosciences. And still today not much (threat-wise) has changed, though synthetic biology has been full steam ahead. The threats we imagine always take much longer to manifest than we expect, and more likely, never manifest at all. Such is the nature of "anticipatory" scientific & technical #intelligence.

    PDF link: cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0

  33. ANALYSIS: Is #SouthKorea ready for a North Korean biowarfare attack?

    "If #NorthKorea ever does use #bioweapons...South Korea’s public #health system will serve as the first line of defense," write Shreyas Reddy & Joon Ha Park.

    nknews.org/pro/an-invisible-ar