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It’s Time for Maine to Ditch Platner — But Not the Politics That Won Over Voters

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| The Intercept Verified
Eoin Higgins is the author of “Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voice on the Left.” The day Graham Platner became Maine’s Democratic Senate nominee, he spoke behind a podium bearing his indignant campaign slogan: “They don’t know Maine.” But when sexual assault allegations against the candidate broke this week, supporters and political allies in the state were left wondering instead if they ever really knew Platner — and uncertain about what’s next for the movement...
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Game over

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| Substack
Welcome to The Flashpoint. It’s all over but the crying for Maine Democrat Graham Platner, whose upstart primary campaign for US Senate made him a national figure. On Monday, Politico reported allegations of sexual assault from a former partner of Platner’s that are damning and credible. You can read the story here. In the article, Platner’s team sounds a defiant note; after it was published, he released a video sounding a more cautious note and all but acknowledging the campaign is over.
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Graham Platner Inspired Another Left-Wing Veteran to Take On an Establishment Dem

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| Reader Supported News
Alex Scheel is running an anti-war campaign to unseat incumbent Rep. Marilyn Strickland. He’s also a longtime member of the DSA in Washington state. When Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner sealed the deal on his resounding primary victory in June, the oysterman turned political lightning rod sounded a note of defiance — one that resonated with another would-be candidate on the other side of the country.
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Graham Platner Has Already Inspired Another Left-Wing Veteran to Take On an Establishment Dem

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| The Intercept Verified
Eoin Higgins is the author of “Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voice on the Left.” When Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner sealed the deal on his resounding primary victory in June, the oysterman turned political lightning rod sounded a note of defiance — one that resonated with another would-be candidate across the country.
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Moving on: the C-suite in June

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Moving on from Meta, and more—this was June in the C-suite. After a career at Meta spanning over a dozen years, CISO Guy Rosen is moving on. In a June 2 LinkedIn post, Rosen said that he was leaving to spend time with his family, with some indications of his next career move. Rosen joined Meta in 2013 following the company’s acquisition of his analytics startup Onavo.
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Shadow AI still a problem—but the solution isn’t punishment

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
What AI lurks in the heart of the tech stack? The shadow knows—shadow AI. A new report from AIOps platform PagerDuty shows that 66% of office professionals are misusing tools at work, adding to an existing problem that’s plaguing enterprises across industries. Company policies don’t seem to be dissuading the practice. PagerDuty found that 72% of professionals believe they understand how to use AI better than their organization’s IT teams.
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Election systems security presents challenges and opportunities

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
During the 2000 presidential election, Florida’s “hanging chads” kept a nation in suspense. Twenty-six years later, paper-based challenges seem quaint compared to the tech threats confronting current-day campaigns. The 2026 midterm elections will present more complex challenges, thanks largely to AI giving attackers an edge—and forcing defenders for political campaigns and federal, state, and local governments to catch up.
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‘Complete hogwash’: Ed Zitron on AI promises from Silicon Valley

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Ed Zitron has made a name for himself in recent years as an outspoken critic of the tech industry’s push on AI—specifically LLMs. The CEO of EZ Primary Research, Zitron writes the “Where’s Your Ed At” newsletter and hosts the Better Offline podcast. In part 1, he discussed AI bubbles, government subsidies, and other topics; in this part, he talks about how Silicon Valley is approaching this moment, and why he’s skeptical of the potential of the technology to continue to drive the sector.
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Ed Zitron on AI bubbles, government subsidies, and more

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Is AI a bubble? Is the government going to bail out Silicon Valley? What’s a reasonable expectation for AI ROI? IT pros know many people with many different answers to these questions—and more. One of the more prominent voices warning that AI is a bubble ready to collapse is Ed Zitron, CEO of EZ Primary Research. Zitron also writes the newsletter “Where’s Your Ed At” and hosts the Better Offline podcast.
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AI enterprise deployment has governance, security concerns

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
They’ve given you a number, and taken away your name—but as the Johnny Rivers song goes, agents need to beware when taking chances. That’s also true in the tech space, where enterprises are increasingly adopting agentic AI despite the risks involved. Peter Mullen, chief marketing officer at Kore.ai, told IT Brew that his company’s recent Agent Productivity Index found AI deployment is leading to missed connections and a rise in rework and IT challenges.
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AI integration leads to tech friction—a continuing challenge for IT pros

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
There’s an old saying, “a gem cannot be polished without friction,” and many in the IT sector hope that the same applies to AI. What IT pros know as tech friction—the increase in toil and noise that comes from added complexity of the tech stack—is increasing with AI deployment. AI is adding a new layer of difficulty, and it’s one that’s hard to fully understand. Get it done.
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AI hiring intent doubles in six months, showing strength of industry subsector

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
New employment data for the tech sector shows the impact of AI on hiring. Numbers from tech certification provider CompTIA, working off data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, show that AI hiring intent—job listings for specialized AI roles or that require a specific AI skill—has doubled since November 2025. It’s a sign both of the continued strength of tech sector employment and the importance of AI to the industry.
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Apple opens the door to third-party AI model vendors in latest update

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
There’s been a new development in how Apple manages its products—and it’s an AI disruption. Apple debuted new AI capabilities at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference. The company has always had a “consumer-oriented” approach to its products, said Matt Vlasach, Jamf SVP of enterprise product and solutions engineering, who spoke to IT Brew from the conference on June 9. Now, they’re expanding their software offerings with an open approach to AI, focused on developer tool suite Xcode.
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Data management and AI implementation are two sides of the same coin

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Like all professional relationships, the interplay between enterprise AI and data requires care and caution—but a new survey suggests the two don’t always work well together. The research, from Nasuni, a data platform that focuses on unstructured data and cloud storage, shows how mishandling the relationship can lead to security breaches, gaps in data quality, and misuse of AI technology.
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Block the breach: a ransomware game

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By Caroline Nihill Verified, Eoin Higgins Verified, Nick Kolakowski
| IT Brew Verified
IT BREW ransomware attack simulator v1.4 Every decision counts. Every choice has consequences. Navigate four critical nodes of this cyber crisis and see if you have what it takes to survive a modern ransomware attack. 08:42 AM in the security operations center (SOC). The hum of server fans. The smell of ozone. And soon, the taste of panic. You are the new CISO of a major software company. You haven’t even finished your first coffee when the SOC’s silence is shattered.
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AI is changing coding—and adding friction

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
As enterprises continue to implement AI solutions for coding, the growing pains are leading to an increase in AI tech friction. A new study from agentic platform Harness breaks down concerns over AI deployment, including how employee use of vibe coding is leading to extra work. Majorities of developers said reviewing AI-generated code for accuracy (53%) and fixing small bugs (52%) are top sources of tech friction.
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CBS News chaos is what happens when billionaires control the media

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| Substack
Hello and welcome to Ekō News. CBS News mainstay 60 Minutes is on the chopping block. Since the network was taken over by Bari Weiss, on orders from new owner David Ellison, the newsroom has undergone a number of changes—but this week’s blow up might be the biggest. To get a breakdown—a detailed one, as you’ll see—of the state of play at CBS News, we turned to Zeteo’s Justin Baragona, who’s been following the story since the beginning. What’s the mood at CBS right now? In a word: shellshocked.
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World Cup threats present challenges for IT pros

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
For soccer players, the goal is the score; for threat actors, the score is the goal. That’s the concern as the US, Canada, and Mexico prepare to host the World Cup in June and July. With three different countries and a threat surface exacerbated by international conflict, cyberattackers are looking to take advantage.
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Anthropic’s Glasswing spreads its wings

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
A major expansion of Anthropic’s Glasswing project is planning for a future where cybersecurity is managed largely by AI. Anthropic made the announcement on June 2 in a blog post detailing the success of the pilot program, in which 50 partners were invited to test the cyberattacking abilities of Claude Mythos Preview, an LLM with the reported ability to quickly discover vulnerabilities.
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By design: the C-suite in May

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
New roles, new responsibilities: It’s your tech C-suite moves for May. Tech giant Microsoft created the role of chief design officer and filled the position May 14. Jon Friedman, a longtime Microsoft employee, will take on the role; he described it as one that will “reduce fragmentation, increase alignment, and make innovation at scale real across the company” in a post on LinkedIn announcing his appointment. Friedman has been working his way through the Microsoft ranks since 2004.
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State-run healthcare exchanges selling data is latest expansion of threat surface

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
State-run healthcare exchanges might be sharing your personal data with advertising companies and large tech firms—and potentially boosting the potential for cyberattacks. A May 4 Bloomberg investigation found that almost all 20 state-run health exchanges in the US use ad trackers, raising privacy and ethical concerns. When users of those exchanges interact with information or enrollment web pages, trackers may be sending their data to Meta and other companies.
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"Vote blue no matter who" has conservative Democrats saying boo hoo

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| Substack
Score-settling seems more important than keeping the party together and taking the Senate. Welcome to The Flashpoint. As Graham Platner locks up the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maine, centrist Democrats in the rest of the country are looking on in horror. Platner represents a populist, left-leaning, young generation of Democrat. He’s been incredibly successful at reaching voters in Maine and has incumbent Republican Susan Collins panicking. Conservative Democrats aren’t on board. Rep.
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Graham Platner Is Forcing Centrist Dems to Reckon With “Vote Blue No Matter Who”

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| The Intercept Verified
Eoin Higgins is the author of “Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voice on the Left.” One of the most enduring points of contention between the Democratic Party’s left and right wings is “vote blue no matter who,” a demand almost exclusively made of progressives to shelve principle over party when it comes to elections.
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Research on AI jailbreakers reveals where they go to sell their wares

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Getting past guardrails on a road? Bad. Getting past guardrails for AI models? Lucrative for AI jailbreakers—provided they know where to sell whatever data they steal. Open Measures, a threat intelligence resource focused on attacker search across platforms, recently published research on the increased sophistication of AI-infused cybercrime—and where AI jailbreakers and other attackers are congregating.
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AI is a skills challenge—one that can be addressed

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Skills, in the words of the late Gang Starr rapper Guru, are “top rank, point blank,” and “vital”—for IT workers, that especially applies to AI. But there’s a noticeable gap between workers’ current level of AI skills and what’s needed by organizations. At the MIT CIO Symposium this May, IT Brew asked Jonathan Kleiman, Stack AI SVP of enterprise AI, about the skills gap and how to address the problem. In Kleiman’s view, the issue is adaptability.
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Making AI work requires careful budgets

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
For many companies, AI is more essential every day—but integrating the technology into an organization’s stack requires a level of budgetary ninjitsu that’s not always straightforward for IT teams. Demands on AI can come from anywhere: leadership, staff, users, and company boards. What they all have in common is a desire to see more of the technology within the organization’s day-to-day, integrated as smoothly as possible. IT teams and IT leaders tasked with this integration are in a sticky spot.
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Progressives Are Listening to the Wrong People on A.I. Original

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| The New York Times Verified
You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading. Progressives Are Listening to the Wrong People on A.I. May 26, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET Credit...Photo illustration by Kristie Bailey/The New York Times; source photographs by Bazilfoto, Vasyl Helevachuk/Getty Images Mr. Higgins is a journalist based in New England and a reporter for Morning Brew.
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AI and tech sovereignty at Web Summit: video

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
When it comes to managing AI at the tech governance level, it’s important to define terms—and to have an international perspective. That’s what panelists at Web Summit Vancouver told IT Brew’s Senior Reporter Eoin Higgins on May 14.
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New partnership between 1Password and OpenAI provides access tools, privacy

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
A new partnership could change how AI agents develop code by instituting guardrails on their behavior. 1Password is working with OpenAI to provide an access layer for the latter company’s Codex coding platform. By connecting Codex to 1Password’s existing environments, the partnership is solving a credential problem that has spiraled out of control, 1Password CTO Nancy Wang told IT Brew.
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Yes, I'm suing Matt Taibbi

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| Substack
I'm seeking attorney's fees from the conservative pundit over his spurious defamation suit—and I'm doing it to protect free speech. Welcome to the Flashpoint. Lawsuits are expensive. Want to help defray the cost? Upgrade to a paid subscription today and help me continue the fight. Today myself and Hachette, my publisher for OWNED, filed an anti-SLAPP request with SDNY to obtain attorney’s fees from Matt Taibbi.
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Under the UX hood: Metalab’s Sara Vienna talks design

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
IT pros are often head-down and focused, relying on apps like Slack to facilitate communication and workflows. But who makes sure those apps’ UX remains crisp and easy for users to manage? Sara Vienna, chief design officer at Metalab, is one of those people. Her work with Metalab has spanned the tech gamut, from Slack (where the company’s design work helped the app become the dominant workflow facilitator it is today) to YouTube, Uber, Midjourney, and Windsurf, to name a few.
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I went to Web Summit Vancouver

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| Substack
Welcome to The Flashpoint. Last week I attended Web Summit Vancouver, a tech and politics themed conference. During the event I spoke at two panels and moderated another—and was one of the speakers at a nighttime event that unraveled. The latter event, of which there is sadly no full video, was a conversation about tech bros and whether they are the bad guys. I was one of the panelists, alongside Whistleblower Aid CEO Libby Liu, labor leader Chris Smalls, and online provocateur Michael Tracey.
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Managing metadata is essential in LLM world

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Working the meta is an essential part of social gaming—and managing metadata, the data about data, is just as important when you’re dealing with LLMs. While metadata management has existed for decades, its importance has exploded alongside the increasing importance of AI in the tech stack. The need for data context that accurately reflects the under-the-hood mechanics of information is essential right now, Paul Stokes, CEO and co-founder of Prevalent AI, told IT Brew.
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Managing metadata is essential in LLM world

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| Flipboard
2 hours ago Apple TV is about to kick off its best summer lineup ever, but the streamer is already on a roll with recent premieres. Here are three recent new series in Apple TV’s hot streak, and upcoming shows that seem poised to keep it going. Apple TV’s brand new shows this year have earned significant acclaim …
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AI pricing models are evolving—and it might cost companies more

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
The nature of AI is sometimes you have to put a stop to unnecessary behavior—and cash (or lack thereof) can help make that happen. GitHub is turning to metered pricing. The company, a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018, explained the move in a blog post on April 27; its Copilot product will adopt a token usage model starting June 1. It’s a move that should have been expected, said Harness Field CTO Adam Arellano.
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Data, priorities among concerns for AI integration, research finds

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Everyone’s crazy about AI, but what does that mean in practice? A new survey by Transcend, shared exclusively with IT Brew, finds that, for all the hype, one-third of enterprise AI initiatives are either delayed, scaled back, or abandoned. It’s a real problem for organizations, Transcend’s CIO and CISO in residence Aimee Cardwell told IT Brew. “Companies are investing in the structure and the walls and the roof and the architecture, but they’re ignoring the foundation,” Cardwell said.
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Codio CEO Doug Hughes believes edtech is the future

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding brings long life and health, as Jeru the Damaja once said—and when integrated into edtech, it could potentially mean a long career. That’s what Doug Hughes, CEO of edtech company Codio, has found in his three-decade professional life. After a stint in the Army, Hughes became the first person in his family to go to college, at the University of West Georgia for computer science—initially for cybersecurity.
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You said you’re concerned about Mythos—we talked to the experts

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
We asked, you answered. In a recent IT Brew poll, we asked if you were concerned about the potential of LLMs like Claude Mythos Preview to enable cyberattackers to exploit vulnerabilities, and 66% of you said “yes.” There’s a good reason for potential threats such as these models to be top-of-mind for IT pros, said Heath Mullins, chief evangelist at ExtraHop. New models can quickly analyze and interpret massive amounts of data, enabling attackers to infiltrate systems more easily.
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Matt Taibbi filed a Trumpian, free speech-chilling lawsuit against me. A judge just threw it out

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| MSN Verified
Eoin Higgins Matt Taibbi, the left-leaning journalist known for his acerbic writing and contrarian who has become a right-wing pundit cosplaying as a free speech warrior, had his defamation lawsuit against me thrown out of court on Tuesday. But winning was never his goal. When Taibbi filed the complaint last November against me and Hachette, the publisher of my book, “ Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left ,” it was a serious cause for concern.
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Matt Taibbi filed a Trumpian, free speech-chilling lawsuit against me. A judge just threw it out

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| Yahoo Entertainment Verified
Matt Taibbi, the left-leaning journalist known for his acerbic writing and contrarian who has become a right-wing pundit cosplaying as a free speech warrior, had his defamation lawsuit against me thrown out of court on Tuesday. But winning was never his goal. When Taibbi filed the complaint last November against me and Hachette, the publisher of my book, “Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left,” it was a serious cause for concern.
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Agentic AI integration remains a difficult—and costly—problem for IT teams

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Agentic AI is the way of the future—at least, that’s what tech companies are constantly telling us. However, many of the employees tasked with deploying it within organizations aren’t sure they’re ready to meet the moment. A new report from Harvard Business Review, sponsored by telemetry provider Cribl, is the latest evidence of this disconnect.
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Case dismissed

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| Substack
Welcome to The Flashpoint Please buy my book. I’m going to make this lawsuit disappear. That’s a wrap. Matt Taibbi’s defamation case against me and my publisher Hachette for the cover and content of my book, Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left, was dismissed today, May 5.
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Changes hit fast food IT as part of April C-suite shuffle

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Would you like AI with that? A fast food giant took on a new CIO and a food distributor moved on from a CTO, leading the C-suite revolving door for April. Mustafa Husain is the new McDonald’s CIO McDonald’s announced Mustafa Husain’s hiring as the company’s new CIO April 21. Husain will work on AI solutions, helping to make the technology part of how the fast food restaurant company operates.
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After Maine data center moratorium veto, one project expected to move forward

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
A first-in-the-nation data center law in Maine, vetoed by Gov. Janet Mills on April 24, wasn’t saved by the state legislature, marking the end—for now—of a major regulatory push to institute a moratorium on large data center projects. Mills vetoed the legislation, which would have applied to projects 20 megawatts and over, due to her concerns over a lack of carve-out for a planned $550 million project in the town of Jay.
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Melissa Bischoping took the scenic route to a career in tech

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Sometimes you end up taking the scenic route to get to the right destination. That’s what Melissa Bischoping found in her journey from single mother to head of threat research and intelligence at AI platformer Tanium. The key, as she sees it, is ensuring that you don’t miss the chance once it comes. “If you are ready and if you’re willing, and if you say yes to those opportunities when they come across, you’re going to be able to make something of them,” Bischoping told IT Brew.
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Graham Platner Handed Centrist Dems a Bruising Defeat in Maine

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| Flipboard
6 hours ago PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A judge has ruled an 18-year-old man charged with murder in the killing of a paddleboarder in Maine is competent to stand trial. The death of Sunshine “Sunny” Stewart, 48, of St. George, last year shocked the community around Crawford Pond in rural Union, Maine. Authorities …
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Graham Platner Handed Centrist Dems a Bruising Defeat in Maine

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| The Intercept Verified
Eoin Higgins is the author of “Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voice on the Left.” The Democratic Party’s centrist wing is doing a 180 on Maine senatorial hopeful Graham Platner after Gov. Janet Mills dropped out of the race — a major setback for their side in an ongoing intraparty war for the future of the party. The June primary was shaping up to be another proxy fight for the ongoing power struggle between the party’s progressive and centrist wings. Sen.
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Reducing tech friction takes diversity of tactics: roundtable

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
For an industry built on efficiency, the tech sector is bedeviled by small inconsistencies that add friction to workflows and projects. Tech friction can snowball into larger issues in the workplace, including employee dissatisfaction and lower productivity, as IT Brew has previously reported. Fortunately, IT pros can develop strategies to manage that friction. Look inward. Auditing your workflow is important to understand how your IT teams manage tools, Versa Networks CEO Kelly Ahuja said.
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AI rework is a nagging problem, even as technology booms

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Often pitched as an efficiency boon, AI has endured some harsh press lately as those promises run up against the hard realities of what the workforce is experiencing. IT pros are finding the challenges of AI can, at times, outweigh the benefits—and even slow down workflows: Research from the Harvard Business Review in February revealed that, for all the promises of AI efficiency, actual deployment of the technology has led to an increase in task time.
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Synthetic identities are the next step for security in an agentic age

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By Eoin Higgins Verified
| IT Brew Verified
Skynet may have sent the Terminator back in time, but the all-powerful AI probably didn’t have to deal with something far more difficult: the headache of managing identity access for a hybridized workforce. Today’s CIOs and sysadmins aren’t so lucky. They must navigate human and synthetic employee identities while ensuring inappropriate permissions aren’t granted to either.
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