Flock left livestreams and admin control panels for at least 60 of its AI-enabled Condor cameras around the US exposed to the open internet, where anyone could watch them, download video archive, change settings, and run diagnostics. This week on the pod: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrGV...

And there is doubly no situation in which I want it to know my location...

Everything in this bizarrely credulous story about a home security startup named “Sauron” is insane, down to their big idea to deter criminals being… flashing lights at them techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/f...

NEW: Apple, Google, and WhatsApp now regularly notify their users if they suspect they have been targeted or hacked with government spyware, such as that made by NSO Group or Paragon. We spoke to experts and wrote a guide on what to do, and where to go, if you receive one of those notifications.

This message hits hard.

“I am absolutely convinced that the US fully supports NATO. There is no doubt about that,” Rutte said. 🤦‍♂️🤡

I have updated my wiki. It's a lot easier to navigate and view especially on mobile. I've also added some new scans. wiki.nataliethenerd.com

This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

lol holy shit

Apple was very smart to send Ivan Krstić, who's been fighting spyware and exploit makers for years now, to Hexacon, a conference attended by a lot of spyware and exploit makers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du8B...

I’ve found it remarkably simple not to be in the same place as Jeffrey Epstein

Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

“The most persuasive models and prompting strategies tended to produce the least accurate information” www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨 We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide! 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...

is there a way to avoid the scourge of ai being forced on us? like is there a single consumer facing good that will actually stand up for its users, i’m just so sick of this

Do not download Hogwarts Legacy on the Epic Games Store. I do not care if it’s free. Slungus

Beta test!

Danish government proposes to ban streaming over VPNs due to risk of circumvention of content controls https://alecmuffett.com/article/135332 #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #denmark #surveillance #vpns

Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica! If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc

Ogni volta che penso a uno scrittore che usa l’AI per *scrivere al posto suo* mi viene un blackout al cervello e la voglia — fortissima — di mandare tutto sonoramente a fare in culo.

13 years ago today.

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son was pulled over by ICE and forced to prove he is an American. Two options: 1) ICE deliberately targeted him. 2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens. Hard to say which option is scarier.

People love reminding me that I'm not allowed to post about American politics cause I'm not American. Even ignoring the problems with that concept in general, my wife is American, their family all lives in America and one of my brothers lives in America. I'm allowed to care about their hell hole.

It's also worrying that in this operation they considered to target with information operations/propaganda the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva @icrc.org, by definition neutral and impartial humanitarian organisation and the custodian of laws of armed conflict.

When we filed FOIA requests for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Truth Social DMs, we expected to receive documents in response. But DHS said they couldn’t find any. We’re unconvinced, and we’re appealing the denial. Read more:

These are the options to verify my age on BlueSky. I will not be versioning manage via any of these methods, because firstly. I don’t want my facial data collected. Secondly I don’t use Stripe and thirdly, I won’t be giving my license ID to an American company. That’s ridiculous in this Trump era.

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

Whole of the American economy is now piracy.

NEW: Right-wing messaging app Freedom Chat had security flaws that allowed a researcher to guess all numbers registered on the platform, and one that exposed user PINs to other users. The researcher enumerated around 2,000 phone numbers. techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/s...

Is it just me, but isn’t our President a whopping piece of shit?

the US war escalation in the southern hemisphere is 100% about trying to destablize and control venezuela and cuba leadership. classic neo-con “spreading freedom” type agenda

The internet is essential to how people speak, learn, and participate in public life. When access depends on flawed technology or hard-to-obtain documents, we deepen existing inequalities and silence the people who most need these platforms. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

ALICE solves mystery of light-nuclei survival Observations of the formation of light-nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for #DarkMatter. Read more: home.cern/news/news/ex...

The GDPR set the global standard for privacy legislation. Now the European Commission wants to gut GDPR privacy protections with its "Digital Omnibus" proposal. Don't be fooled—this threatens everyone's privacy rights. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The first touch on XCode's AI Assistant and I get this. Oh Apple!

Every available method of age verification systematically excludes or harms marginalized people. The real question isn’t whether these systems discriminate, but how extensively. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Mozilla is using Google's proprietary LLM Gemini to overwrite Volunteer translations. That's not only a great way to destroy goodwill but also to poison your community. What are you doing @mozilla.org and why is it always some "AI" shit?

Russia is criticizing Europe on free speech. You just couldn’t invent a better joke.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

"target identifiers or selectors could include a known advertising ID, an email address, a geographical location or an IP address", i.e. "identifiers supported by the ad network or [DSP] used in the Aladdin system" Deploying spyware via digital advertising: securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...

The times I’ve been told ‘but adtech doesn’t cause harms - show me the evidence’

BREAKING: A CBP app that lets local cops use facial recognition to hunt immigrants on behalf of the federal government is gone from the Google Play Store, 404 Media has learned www.404media.co/dhss-immigra...

ohhh so fifa is like FASCIST fascist

getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads