You know what the first thought was that went through my mind this morning? “I bet,” I couldn’t help but think, “I’m going to get into a fight with the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld today.” And sure enough, that was how my workday capped off. Before that happened, I went to a cybersecurity conference and [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 591-10 July 08, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died July 5 in Yakuta, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked their unit using an improvised explosive device. The soldiers were assigned to the 4th [...]

Shorter Bob Gates: Jesus, no, I’m not telling people to stop talking to the media. I couldn’t accomplish that if I tried. And I’ve said for years that the media aren’t the enemy; you help me do my job. Let’s just exercise some common sense, yeah? More eloquent Bob Gates: Over the last two years, [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 589-10 July 08, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Andrew J. Creighton, 23, of Laurel, Del., died July 4 in Oruzgan province, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained on July 1 while conducting combat operations in Oruzgan [...]

What a perfectly screwed morning. Went to a cybersecurity conference thinking I’d get some good material out of it. But then my aircard decided it only wanted to intermittently cooperate; GoogleDocs didn’t want to help me take notes; outlet power was hard to come by. To everyone I skipped in line to ask a Cyber [...]

My friend Michelle Shephard of the Toronto Star is still banned from Guantanamo unreasonably. Yet she still beats the rest of the Guantanamo press corps by reporting that once again, Omar Khadr has fired his lawyers. According to her piece — and she wrote the book on Khadr — it’s a sign of his resignation [...]

Game Reviews – E3 2010 – The LoopSo I thought it was pretty baller that on my second day of work at Wired I get asked to go on MSNBC to talk about Petraeus’s confirmation hearings. Then, three hours later, my boss goes on Rachel’s show to talk about the exact same subject. And now [...]

How was my workout in the Danger Room today? Well. First, Noah and I uncovered an insidious problem lurking behind today’s friendly-fire bombing of Afghan soldiers in Ghazni: the U.S. doesn’t share with the Afghans the geolocation tech that helps our troops quickly identify each other as part of the same team. Then I tried [...]

Just got back from a press junket to see Salt, the Angelina Jolie spy thriller heading to theaters near you on July 23. I shall reveal only one spoiler. Among the film’s silver-screen miracles is to transport a block of Manhattan’s Morningside Heights, with its majestic and towering gothic (right?) residential apartment buildings, down onto [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 587-10 July 07, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died July 5 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their vehicle with an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to 1st Squadron, 71st [...]