Vibe Coders: Here's some code I spent no time writing and no time reading! Open Source Maintainers: Ok, I'm going to spend the same amount of time on it as you did and chuck it in the bin. Vibe Coders: How rude of you to reject all my hard work!

“According to a recent survey by Heatmap Pro, 71% of Americans would oppose a data center project built near their homes, including 55% that would “strongly” oppose” gizmodo.com/americans-ar...

These images posted by the Claude Code team are so amusing to me not because the perfect architecture is just Claude talking to Claude talking to Claude but instead that you have layers of Claudes whose job is to fix the errors and hallucinations of the other Claudes.

The exploit: 1. Change your IP address to the target's geolocation and tell the support you've been hacked, asking them to send a reset to attacker email 2. No step 2. Meta's CISO immediately resigned. Gergely had inside contacts: the code was written by AI, reviewed by AI, while tokenmaxxing

Andy Boyd, the CEO of Red Lattice (the company that now owns spyware maker Paragon), went on the Risky Business podcast this week. The host Patrick Gray asked Boyd about the contract that the company signed with ICE. Here is the whole exchange. (starts at ~18:00) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOQE...

Non so nemmeno con che parole salutarti, @carolafrediani.bsky.social Addio, amica mia.

Stop relying on Logitech’s proprietary software to configure your mouse. Try this native open-source Logi Options+ alternative with support for local button remapping, DPI control, SmartShift over HID++, per-app profiles, no account and zero telemetry

Welp there’s no unseeing this

I don't like any part of this blog. Please read it.

The 'Google -> Goople -> propeller' pipeline

Banning children from the internet and social media, while their schools and education policy makers stay on Twitter, post on TikTok and Facebook… and act badly there too. I know senior edu people who think Facebook and chat gpt are reliable. Make that make sense.

"Inside Italy’s low-cost spyware economy", our latest advocacy piece with EDRi. An analysis of our latest research in Italy’s infection addiction. edri.org/our-work/ins...

AI appeals to the mediocre and the lazy, and those who defend it most vigorously continually debase themselves, treating its unexceptional, sloppy and unreliable outputs as gold and attacking non-believers to defend the mediocrity machine. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/

"We were promised human brains in robot bodies, we ended up with robot brains in human bodies."

I would have thought Google would at least have special cased "how many X in Y" queries because they so illustrate how an LLM doesn't do any sort of intelligent reasoning, just spews out something that sounds like everything else.

If we don't consider all ethical issues in the current AI models, we can still find useful usages, but writing blog posts or creating presentations for community-based events should be a pleasure, a fun, not a task we want to automate. If you want to automate your creativity, just skip it.

Here is a look at all the special security features that Apple, Google, and WhatsApp offer to protect you from spyware all in one place. We looked at what these features do, and how to turn them on. We highly recommend them for anyone who's worried about government spyware.

Unpopular opinion: writing technical blog posts with AI serves no purpose other than ego-boosting. In a world filled with AI agents, no human will ever actually read your content, and anyway, you are not providing anything more than what an AI could already provide them.

Gli americani non la pensano come Trump, dice Sanders

For the first time, hackers have used AI to discover & exploit a zero-day. Spyware companies that hack into devices for the purpose of surveillance & data extraction are primed to exploit this new opportunity, writes @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social’s Jen Roberts. www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/h...

"Why don't you just add a setting to do X? It's easy!" Ten years of settings later: github.com/golang/go/is...

A government of shallow, glib sociopaths striving to get an "Attaboy" from other shallow, glib sociopaths.

#PrivacyFirst #HumanRights tools like ours should be public goods. They’re not, which is why we must reclaim how #InternetFreedom is funded. This funding campaign is as participatory, decentralized, and resilient as our #FLOSS work, liberating us from single point-of-failure legacy funding models.⬇️

In partnership with Funding the Commons we are excited to launch a new crowdfunding initiative benefitting 10 internet freedom projects at internetfreedom.torproject.org. Thank you to our matchfunders @cakewallet.com, @octant.bsky.social, Logos & Zcash Community blog.torproject.org/fund-interne...

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

Someone sent me these pics from the Epsilon party at @offensivecon.bsky.social in Berlin. Nice trolling on Trenchant's zero-day thief Peter Williams and on us with the now classic "Sun, Seafood, and Spyware" tagline. Thanks for reading!

“As Americans rebel against A.I., the industry’s oligarchic leaders are responding by trying to buy even more political influence, pouring money into super PACs and lobbying” 🤡 The Generation That Grew Up With A.I. Hates It www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...

“OpenAI ha stretto uno speciale accordo con il governo di Malta per fornire a tutti i cittadini e residenti sull'arcipelago un anno di abbonamento gratuito a ChatGPT Plus” Ma perché ma cosa cazz www.wired.it/article/malt...

What if internet freedom funding wasn't driven by a few large donors, but by how many showed up? Will YOU show up? May 19. #FundInternetFreedom @securedrop.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy @guardianproject.bsky.social @openarchive.bsky.social @unredacted.org @osservatorionessuno.org

I’m Just a couple of minutes late today 🤩. It’s the letter J in the a-z of Science on Stamps, here’s my stamps, don’t forget to share yours too. Japan 🇯🇵 Jenner, Edward #stampcollecting

Google has rolled out a new feature for Android called "Intrusion Logging" that helps security researchers do forensic analysis to find spyware. It's pretty cool: techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/g...

NEW: Google is rolling out a new feature for Android called Intrusion Logging, designed specifically to help researchers investigate attacks done with spyware and forensic tools. Amnesty says this is “a fundamental shift in the amount and quality of forensic data available on Android devices.”

NEW: A @hrw.org report published today finds that despite a regulatory framework designed to prevent abuses, 🇪🇺EU is currently doing **too little** to prevent sales & transfers of #surveillance technology by its members to governments with a track record of serious human rights violations. 🧵

injected frida-gadget via slightly modified AndKittyInjector

anyway I guess this is proof that a full Play Integrity bypass is within "weekend project" territory. this approach does not exploit any bugs or rely on leaked key material, so it cannot be patched.

Indefensible for educators (or anybody) to continue to use OpenAI products.

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Will you join us? May 19 #FundInternetFreedom @bpfreespeech.bsky.social @securedrop.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy @guardianproject.bsky.social @openarchive.bsky.social @unredacted.org @ooni.org @osservatorionessuno.org

Following my @ftm.eu investigation into 🇪🇺EU financing for #spyware and @apache.be ’s revelations that the European Investment Fund (EIF) had funded Paragon Solutions, the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee yesterday held a debate on EU funding for commercial spyware vendors.

How do commercial phone unlocking tools like Cellebrite actually work? In this technical overview, we explore the attack surfaces exposed by modern mobile devices, how those tools exploit them, and what can be done to better defend our privacy rights. osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2026/05...

We build tools that protect journalists and human rights defenders from surveillance and censorship. But sustaining them requires new ways of funding them. We’ve been working on something new. May 19 #FundInternetFreedom @torproject.org @guardianproject.bsky.social

The latest iOS beta has support for end-to-end encryption between Apple and Android devices via RCS text messaging.

much respect to everyone looking for a way to permanently uninstall the 4GB LLM file Chrome is force-installing on users, but I have the one trick Google doesn't want you to know that will FOREVER get rid of that stuff: Step 1: stop using chrome oh my god and install Firefox Step 2: vibe

My thought on the moment is that he’s just a useful idiot being kept around, his information carefully curated, his health and cognitive decline managed by teams of professionals, in order to make obscene amounts of money for the world’s worst people, the human consequences be damned.

“Under pressure to deliver in the fight against serious cross-border crime, Europol built and operated a shadow data analysis platform containing large volumes of sensitive information, which operated without key legal and technical safeguards.” www.computerweekly.com/news/3666425...