Sometimes, prosecutors don't have enough evidence (yet?). But often enough, they do. www.timesofisrael.com/idf-struggle...

"I'm not snitch tagging CPSC." THE COMPANY IS SELLING A SUICIDE CORD They are not concerning themselves with your repeat business. They are not invested in your continued patronage. The customer is not always right to them. The customer is potentially dead. Tag us!

Sometimes I get very vexed when people whine about uses of the passive voice that aren’t uses of the passive voice. This is a use of the passive voice.

Hope these guys can make it through this ok.

I'm a big fan of the "but it requires physical access" argument to say vulnerabilities aren't as bad as they seem. But BitLocker is designed to protect against someone with physical access so that isn't really relevant here www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

This was expected, and a rumour around town for a while, so hardly surprising, but I suspect it will unleash yet more backlash at the institution. Its members and proponents must do a better job at protecting it. #ICC #Israel #Palestine #InternationalLaw www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...

The group that was planning a military coup in Romania last year to back a pro-Kremlin candidate was using ChatGPT to translate text from Romanian to Russian, and even got a meeting with Russian FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov www.libertatea.ro/stiri/proces...

UN Special Rapporteur study on digital #surveillance chilling effects. #Tibetan testimony: TAR as "giant prison… fully activated by digital surveillance" @tibcert.bsky.social: cellular network attacks on exile leaders. Cites TCHRD's 2024 #transnationalrepression report www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Considering the enshittifying effect these tech bros have on anything they touch, good luck to any guinea pig unit testing these tools in the (remote) future

For perverts who also want to help Meta accumulate training data for bombing people.

So maddening to see - the devastating impact of cuts on the independent and exile media of Burma/Myanmar, just when they are needed most. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/running...

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

Join us tmrw. to discuss how actors engaged in protection efforts are stepping up to the challenge of addressing digital risks in conflict and crisis. Register: www.accessnow.org/event/digita... @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social @witnessorg.bsky.social @cloudflare.social @oxfaminternational.bsky.social

"Approximately 90 million women across Kenya, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan are running businesses on an app originally designed to chat. While the platform exists, support does not" caribou.global/publications...

For one month (until 17 June), this chapter on Forever War and the Jus Ex Bello can be downloaded for free using the following link: academic.oup.com/book/62588/c...

We reiterate our demand: @microsoft.com must publish the findings of its review into Israel’s usage of Azure cloud services for the mass surveillance and targeting of Palestinians, and to take concrete steps to end any role in grave human rights violations. 🔽

Academia is in a toxic love triangle with the military and Big Tech, and their love language is money. I spoke with @davidthewid.bsky.social about this triangle - how academia may unwittingly advance AI warfare, how we got into this mess in the first place, and how we get out of it. Listen here 👇

“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

People like @petramolnar.com have done some vital work on states using #surveillance + violence to push back #migrants. Add to that corpus this new article by Özgün Topak focusing on the deployment of drones to achieve those goals. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Russia lures Yemenis with cash incentives to fight against Ukraine - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/russia-lures-yemen-soldiers-cash-incentives-fight-against-ukraine

Today, we mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia — a global moment of solidarity with LGBTQ+ communities, and resistance against hate, discrimination, and violence. #IDAHOBIT

I guess that Guardian article about "granting access to regime-approved users" that nobody believed because it was too outlandish is slowly turning out to be true

"How RightsCon Is an Unexpected Stress Test for the Multistakeholder Model of Internet Governance" - Sally Wentworth, CEO Internet Society www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/05...

WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda ‘emergency’ of international concern

As Italian, I feel this to the extreme

One of the most interesting things I read this week was a paper on how the mountains of state media published to the internet went into the sausage machine of generative AI training data and how it affects what comes out the other end. TLDR your AI chatbot may be quietly laundering state propaganda.

True. I wouldn't ignore though, that the only tangible added value proved by Palantir tech so far has been 1) PR disasters 2) carpet bombing of civilians

That face when you hitched your star to Donald Trump and American empire and it turns out not ever country wants to be a feudal state.

The indignity and horror of demolishing your home so Israel can build a theme park. “Also, if they do it, they will uproot the land and make a complete mess,” he said. For him it was like being given the choice between suicide or being murdered, he said.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

In our latest report on procurement of AI by humanitarians (see first reply for link), one case studies shows that when procuring AI-assisted code by external providers, the code is more likely to contain vulnerabilities if the name of the NGO contains any trigger set by autorities

Just in case anyone is wondering, yes, that cover was the real one. And the story inside is even worse, if you can believe it.

Iran's internet shutdown, the most severe national blackout ever recorded, is in day 77. Authorities are selling whitelisted access through SIM cards, creating a two-tier internet where the privileged browse freely while 90M citizens sit in the dark. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌

Not the main point here, but god that session title is heinous

I’ve dealt with several thousand cyber incidents over the past 5 years, and currently lead a global emerging threat team. Amount of those being GenAI incidents: zero. Amount being foundational causes: every single one.

EY appear to have removed the report in question from their website (while not providing a comment for my story)

Nice

Some cool people who have garnered an unfathomable amount of goodwill with the general public by making a good product that works and which people can use the way they like, without fucking with it; a case study which operates as a skeleton key for understanding what is wrong with everything else.

Hi. Not really sure how to promote this story...but it is about AI and the overwhelming feeling of it bleeding into everything with no concrete articulation for what a good version of that future looks like. It's about feeling like every 8th person is living on another planet. Hope you'll read it

Government leaders are making grand statements about European digital autonomy, but they happily give away our most sensitive data, with no legal protection whatsoever, to an anti-democratic administration that is hostile to Europe. My comments on the EU-US data deal in @computerweekly.bsky.social

Nobody is saying AI is useless. Scholars are saying that as a probabilistic text extruding machine GenAI must generate errors and will continue to reproduce gender/race/class bias so it shouldn't be used in applications where it amplifies existing patterns of (dis)advantage.

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

"Humanitarian agencies and their donors should require dual-use disclosure as a standard: if a company sells the same platform family for defense, intelligence or domestic security, that must be disclosed up front, not uncovered through investigative journalism." www.techpolicy.press/the-humanita...

New paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on #humanitarian #data #sovereignty💥 doi.org/10.1177/2053... My deep gratitude to @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social, @margchee.bsky.social, @emryss.bsky.social, Quito Tsui, Paul Currion, @sophiebt.bsky.social, and @massimomarelli.bsky.social for the inspiration ❤️

Your Gmail isn't free. You’re worth between $30 and $180,000, it just depends how valuable advertisers think you are. Read more, based on our analysis featured in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/28/price-of-free-gmail-how-much-your-google-account-is-worth/

@justinhendrix.bsky.social and @techpolicypress.bsky.social crew thanks for publishing this commentary building on the concept of "aidwashing" by @sixfouronea.net , but can i point you at our latest THICCC report focusing exactly on tech procurement by aid actors? www.accessnow.org/ai-infiltrat...