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Policy Pulse - Issue #25 | Week of July 18, 2026

Policy Pulse - Issue #25 | Week of July 18, 2026

CISA, NSA, and allied agencies from the UK, Netherlands, and Japan jointly tell vendors how to run a VDP, safe-harbor language included. Plus: AI-scale disclosure overwhelms maintainers, and the White House launches Gold Eagle.

Policy Pulse - Issue #24 | Week of July 11, 2026

Policy Pulse - Issue #24 | Week of July 11, 2026

GPT-5.6 Sol goes public as Washington lifts its access gate, and UK AISI finds universal cyber jailbreaks within hours, the same pattern that forced Anthropic's Fable 5 offline. Plus Illinois mandates frontier AI safety audits.

Policy Pulse - Issue #23 | Week of July 4, 2026

Policy Pulse - Issue #23 | Week of July 4, 2026

Washington lifts export controls on Anthropic's frontier cyber models two weeks after locking them down. Plus Akrites launches to absorb AI-scale disclosure and ENISA's CVE Root appoints a new CNA.

Policy Pulse - Issue #22 | Week of June 28, 2026

Policy Pulse - Issue #22 | Week of June 28, 2026

GPT-5.6 Sol joins Mythos 5 behind the federal access wall as the US government locks in its frontier AI gatekeeping regime. UK CMA reform's statutory defence covers only 300 of 69,600 researchers. DMCA Section 1201 petitions open through August 24.

Policy Pulse - Issue #20 | Week of June 20, 2026

Policy Pulse - Issue #20 | Week of June 20, 2026

Three days after Anthropic shipped Mythos 5 to vetted defenders, the US government used export control to recall it worldwide. CISA's BOD 26-04 also retires the fixed-deadline KEV model for a risk score.

Policy Pulse - Issue #19 | Week of June 13, 2026

Policy Pulse - Issue #19 | Week of June 13, 2026

Trump's Executive Order 14409 stands up a federal AI cybersecurity clearinghouse, but benchmarks machine-found vulnerabilities while saying nothing about how they reach defenders. Plus: CISA opens KEV nominations to researchers.

Above the Parapets: The Chilling Effect Finally Has Receipts

Above the Parapets: The Chilling Effect Finally Has Receipts

The first qualitative study of researchers' lived experiences of legal risk: Sunoo Park and Daniel R. Thomas (USENIX Security 2026) on how overbroad anti-hacking law chills good-faith security research — and why it names disclose.io as part of the fix.

Policy Pulse - Issue #18 | Week of June 6, 2026

Policy Pulse - Issue #18 | Week of June 6, 2026

Hackers on the Hill returns to DC on June 16, the first Capitol-side researcher-to-policymaker gathering of 2026. The White House signs the Mythos-era AI cybersecurity EO with a 30-day pre-release access window. A longer analysis lands later this week.

Mark Your Calendar: The disclose.io Upcoming Dates Page Is Live

Mark Your Calendar: The disclose.io Upcoming Dates Page Is Live

The disclose.io Upcoming Dates page is now live — a shared community calendar tracking policy deadlines, regulations, CFPs, and legislation across the US, EU, UK, and Australia. Plus: show up at Hackers on the Hill, June 16.

Policy Pulse - Issue #17 | Week of May 30, 2026

Policy Pulse - Issue #17 | Week of May 30, 2026

Microsoft's MSRC invokes the Digital Crimes Unit against the Nightmare Eclipse zero-day drops, and the disclosure community is not having it. UK National Security Bill confirms CMA reform that protects roughly 300 researchers.

Policy Pulse - Issue #16 | Week of May 23, 2026

Policy Pulse - Issue #16 | Week of May 23, 2026

Peter G. Neumann, who moderated the ACM RISKS Forum for 41 years and helped found the discipline of secure-systems research, died May 17 at 93. CISA opens a public KEV nomination form. Cloudflare publishes its Project Glasswing post-mortem.

Policy Pulse - Issue #15 | Week of May 16, 2026

Policy Pulse - Issue #15 | Week of May 16, 2026

OpenAI launches Daybreak with 20+ vendor partners, putting a second restricted-access defensive AI consortium next to Anthropic's Glasswing. AISI says autonomous AI cyber capability is now doubling every 4.7 months.