Chris Bing

Some personal news: Friday was my last day at ProPublica after joining last January. More on what’s next later. It was an incredible journey in that short time. ProPublica’s mission and its ability to attract top talent is what makes it special – the people who work here are really good.

New: Elon Musk, the world's richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing. https://buff.ly/4aO1jLq First byline at new job!

The way that some federal workers learned today they had been laid off was their badges wouldn't scan at different federal building entrances. Wild scenes and lots of confusion/anger

Some personal news: I am very excited to be joining ProPublica as an investigative reporter covering national security and technology starting in January.

Saddened to hear the news of the passing of Stewart Baker. Stewart was an important person in my career, providing contrarian view points, smart analysis and the occasional bombastic quote. Even when we disagreed, I learned a lot speaking to him on any number of natsec topics.

For once, very good news! So cool www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/s...

The thing about metro-ing an hour into Virginia is you get to see every form of weapons grade depression that exists

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... impressively reported and deeply embarrassing

sharing a theory I am researching below 1.) claims of cyber-related effect in Venezuela darkreading.com/cybersecurit... 2.) potential BGP anomaly event fits timeframe x.com/blackorbird/... 3.) leaked snowden doc suggests possible relevant tooling blog.fox-it.com/2015/04/20/d...

FBI Director Kash Patel earlier this year fired a group of FBI employees who had knelt during a confrontation with DC protestors during the George Floyd protests of 2020. Seems he unknowingly fired someone who was actively working the Charlie Kirk case (per new lawsuit)

An article that perhaps got lost in the shuffle - on record interviews with senior Dutch intelligence officials where they lament the firing of fmr NSA director Tim Haugh and reveal they are being more careful sharing intel with US partners volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/s...

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