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This is unsettling www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

"Just unfortunate people whom they decided were our agents" and then hanged, says former Mossad chief David Barnea, right after saying that Mossad was counting on Iran to arrest tens of thousands of innocent Iranians because the Mossad wanted to protect sources www.ynetnews.com/article/sjkr...

"I think that 5 years ago people would've understood this, but now people are being deluded by their LLMs telling them they have an exploit when they don't." eliastaylor.com/noexploit/

"zahlreiche Belege, dass Weidel offenbar nicht nur vor September 2017 von der Angelegenheit wusste, sondern sie anscheinend eng in die Abwicklung von Spendenzahlungen eingebunden war." www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

"In The Hague, the MIVD hacking team tried to reverse engineer the Russian penetration of Kushner’s iPhone." www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

"its work spans everything from building bespoke hacking tools to planning elaborate deception operations that trick adversaries into installing faulty components — likely designed by TSO — in key foreign weapons platforms." www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

"more than six hours before the coordinated release, Chainguard unilaterally broke the embargo and published built images" "As a result of the leak and pre-announcement … Calif, one of the security firms that had reported the issues, mistakenly published a video" thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10...

Der Spiegel has released an MCP server in case you want to find out more about your (german) relatives (maybe) Nazi past via Claude and/or ChatGPT www.spiegel.de/geschichte/n...

'One newly disclosed report described an F.B.I. interview with … a former C.I.A. deputy director, who said agency leaders wanted to destroy the tapes for “political” reasons and “did not recall any discussions that the destruction of the videotapes was illegal.”' www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

"Sometimes it seems like every antichrist-lecturing, panopticon-building, machine-god-bothering weirdo with $100 billion and a government contract made his debut in our pages." www.wired.com/story/how-el...

I wrote for The Guardian about why the specter of AI-powered worms is being taken more seriously than many competing doomsday scenarios—and why a former White House national cyber director thinks they might be useful. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Beginning around October 2, Fagerland said he found about two dozen instances of Cairn being used for malicious activity, which allowed him ​to quietly peer over the cybercriminals' shoulders as they set their AI tools loose on the world." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

"Still, the official said the president could be receptive to the idea, given his desire to fulfill a campaign promise to settle the war. Trump had said it would be finished on “day one” of his new term, but he is now approaching nearly two years in office." www.wsj.com/world/russia...

"We present technical evidence that the Israel-based company Discover-Tech, while purporting to be a legitimate advertising company, appears to be a front for large-scale ad espionage abuse, including the automatic delivery of mercenary spyware when ads are displayed " citizenlab.ca/research/how...

Super interesting blogpost by @neurovagrant.bsky.social "one domain now accounted for up to 500,000 observations per second on our network." "To me, this largely looked like a very voluminous emergency offsite backup." dti.domaintools.com/securitysnac...

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️

🫨 www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

„The ‘my AI did it, don’t blame me’ defence is legally weak. It’s already failed for chatbot suicide cases,” said Max Tegmark, an AI safety campaigner and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.“ www.ft.com/content/2c24...

„Not only has no ice officer been federally charged in these deaths, but the agency has made a habit of casting blame on the people it has appeared to victimize, turning impunity into another form of aggression.“ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"the quick side lesson here is that a person’s operational security does not extend to other people’s cameras." www.bullshithunting.com/p/a-free-osi...

New: FBI in internal memo says it believes ShinyHunters may have stolen private data on all employees. Fears of longterm consequences of breach magnify as hackers threaten to leak everything online by end of Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

„The mechanisms of surveillance are such that targeted killings are often audio-recorded and photographed. One interviewee says, “I’d hear the final moments of a person’s life,” and another recalls hearing family members screaming and crying after a child was killed www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

In English: irpimedia.irpi.eu/en-inside-th...

edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p... „The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,”“

Another one of these whoops, we, a billion dollar company, just have committed a criminal act, but it’s a good learning exercise for all of us Also, again Irregular bearing part of the responsibility www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/t...

"To prove we had in fact gained the access we believed without allowing ourselves to learn any sensitive information, we used the employee’s Codex to open a PR #1186742 in OpenAI’s internal monorepo" www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking...

Wrote a short newsletter on the Anthropic incident and how I learned about two neat tricks when investigating packages uploaded to the internet buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...

Reposting this in case it's FYI

"how readily ICBC’s London branch bypassed ordinary banking protocols to satisfy the demands of its Chinese parent,​ especially when a strategic client — one that had come to symbolize China’s technological advancement — needed a helping hand." www.icij.org/investigatio...

BREAKING @propublica.org: Trump Jr.’s wedding this May was heavily funded by a Russian oligarch close to Putin www.propublica.org/article/dona...

“The warning of AI and math, that was my original story,” he said. “And now the story is about: Is it ethical for the AI companies to scoop their customers?” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like

"The pair said they found more than 15,000 edits carried out by AI agents on a German-language wiki site, DseWiki, that is geared toward programmers and accepts communal edits along ‌the lines of ⁠Wikipedia." www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Ich weiß noch, wie viel Kritik @florianflade.bsky.social und ich bekommen haben als wir 2020 auf diese Form der Überwachung (damals durch das BKA) hingewiesen hatten. (Unnötige Panikmache etc.) netzpolitik.org/2026/messeng...

💥 News zum Anschlagsversuch am Flughafen Leipzig/Halle: Offenbar sollten mehrere Drohnen eingesetzt werden. Weitere #Drohne und Sprengstoff wurden im Kabelsketal gefunden. Recherche mit J. Diehl, @manuelbewarder.bsky.social R. Lehberger, J. Schmitt. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

"I think that the apathy shows in the software". Interesting video on using LLM-assisted coding from a person who wrote code for 19 years without AI, then switched to using it – and now says, he's done with it www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZU3...

"The presence of Nvidia modules and a lack of antennas on the drones led Ukrainian air defense commanders to surmise that the weapons were guided by an autonomous A.I. system, which was confirmed on further investigation." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...

"These traders typically opened an account ​and quickly placed a highly successful long-shot bet in niche markets where insiders may have an informational edge, before in many cases cashing out and disappearing." www.reuters.com/business/fin...

"I reported it for a second time to the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and this time, mentioning that military bases were involved, they actually cared a lot." lina.sh/blog/hijacki...