Venezuela may seem like a tactical loss for Russia, but in fact it's a strategic win for Putin's vision of the world. new essay, link below pic.twitter.com/j3N6PQAG1c

— Seva (@SevaUT) January 3, 2026

US disclosed that Cyber Command conducted cyber operations to suppress Venezuelan defenses during th strike on Caracas. Non-kinetic cyber effects from US Cyber Command were deployed before kinetic strikes began, playing a major role in neutralizing air defense systems. No details

— Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik) January 3, 2026

I'm enjoying @DanielMiessler 's views on what's changing in 2026 for Cybersecurity. I disagree slightly on a few points.

(1) Asset management will get worse, not better, as we will see an explosion of "throw away assets" -- code, VMs, agents, etc. that are hard to count and…

— Heather Adkins - Ꜻ - Spes consilium non est (@argvee) January 3, 2026

I'm excited to finally share Chronomaly, a kernel exploit for Android and Linux kernels 5.10.x using CVE-2025-38352.

As a reminder, please patch your Android devices if you haven't already!

I recommend getting some 🍿 before reading this post 👀

All links in the thread below: pic.twitter.com/ny7KVoMmRi

— Faith 🇧🇩🇦🇺 (@farazsth98) January 3, 2026

Trump: “Lights of Caracas were off thanks to a certain expertise we have”

— Costin Raiu (@craiu) January 3, 2026

Maps networks and estimates distanceshttps://t.co/AkhwrA084U pic.twitter.com/8ksQCJrHnf

— Tom Dörr (@tom_doerr) January 3, 2026

complementary inflight water and sleep mask, noise cancelling headphones, ample leg room.

Still better than United pic.twitter.com/nCOAgG58bf

— Maya Luna (@envisionedluna) January 3, 2026

Day 399: We spotted the Maduro attack before it happened.

My brother @spacexbt, built a tool that tracks potential insider activity on Polymarket. Last night, the tracker flagged five separate alerts hours before the event happened.
Based on that signal, he was able to buy at… https://t.co/TmCmu1sUVb pic.twitter.com/MfQkPyFMkQ

— Didi (@DidiTrading) January 3, 2026

These guys are having the most awkward work trip ever. https://t.co/bHnpRPg5Mc

— The Fat Electrician (@Fat_Electrician) January 3, 2026

Phone companies: We've tested our hinge mechanism for 200,000 folds, so that should cover 5 years of use

Users: https://t.co/jRzjFWB2Hk

— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) January 3, 2026

In my day, critics denounced U.S. wars of choice as imperialist schemes to seize foreign oil - while the president insisted they were really attempts to spread democracy

Now, critics denounce such wars as attempts to spread democracy - while the president insists they are really… https://t.co/YVE4hYIy3l

— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) January 3, 2026

https://t.co/8y0uyjeImU pic.twitter.com/nYKiXaqkAn

— Decker Eveleth (@dex_eve) January 3, 2026

Turn PDF files into clean, LLM-ready data!

Dolphin is an open source document parsing framework that converts PDFs into structured formats like Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, and JSON.

It works in 2 stages:

Stage 1: Comprehensive page-level layout analysis that identifies and orders… pic.twitter.com/8k3TAdVtxI

— Sumanth (@Sumanth_077) January 3, 2026

Here's proof that Claude Code can write an entire empirical polisci paper.

To validate my claim that AI agents are coming for polisci "like a freight train", today I had Claude Code fully replicate and extend an old paper of mine estimating the effect of universal vote-by-mail… https://t.co/CtkgA5oRvF pic.twitter.com/vqmGkKtfp3

— Andy Hall (@ahall_research) January 4, 2026

A few notes for later:

--This was probably an easiest case since it only involved extending a simple analysis with public data.

--Claude wasn't able to update some of our turnout/mode estimates that relied on proprietary voter file data (in principle Claude could request and…

— Andy Hall (@ahall_research) January 4, 2026

I'd be surprised if there was a single major military operation in the last 20 years in which CYBERCOM wasn't involved in some way. https://t.co/vNsJT3lhnS

— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) January 3, 2026