In the least shocking non-revelation:

As much as I like to credit the EU with having less egregious privacy violations than the US or UK, but this piece by Access Now is as awesome as it is sobering: www.accessnow.org/eu-abandons-...

Enter generative AI in general and ChatGPT in particular. If your idea of learning is scrolling through content and perhaps shuffling it around a little before submitting it back online for your credential, it must seem like a kind of liquid-metal coursework Terminator. Why *wouldn’t* it appeal?

Started watching the AMC series, Pantheon, and unfortunately, the real life stupidity of the ai/tech industry is really breaking my suspension of disbelief, given how 'believable' the story seems to want to come across. Haven't read the short stories, so maybe those land better.

Germany has the most data centres in Europe — but the boom is pushing its energy grid to breaking point. In hotspots like Frankfurt, power is already maxed out. Read our new investigation with @algorithmwatch.org. www.techpolicy.press/germanys-dat...

Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost. Unreal hearing on this earlier: www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...

So much winning, we're not even going to know what to do with it. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-hi...

Great video demonstrating Flock's products' embarrassing attack surfaces and facepalm-inspiring practices. For all the talk of "adversaries" surveilling us, we sure have no problem putting these super vulnerable devices everywhere. What a joke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY

GenAI companies are always like “HACKERS from CHINA and RUSSIA are using our AI to do incredible HACKING because our AI is so advanced but don’t worry we stopped them and also we won’t be giving any more details at this time just know our product is DANGEROUS and SEXY, like James Bond”

A report by Anthropic about yet another "AI-powered" cyberattack (powered by their models, of course) is making the rounds. Looks like more fear-mongering. I have instead decided to share this blog post by Kevin Beaumont: doublepulsar.com/cyberslop-me...

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Will always be puzzled as to why Republicans hammered so hard on the Epstein stuff given that it was obvious that it would be a huge risk for their own guy Trump and Epstein were buddies throughout the height of his trafficking -- what did they think would happen? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Trying to decide whether to use my invisible tariff check from Trump or my invisible cost saving rebate check from DOGE to fill the tank of my car with a 500-year loan with invisible $2/gallon gas . . .

Went to turn an old Dell I acquired into a forensics pig. I had to get an aftermarket charger. Things I learned the hard way: Apparently Dells have a hardware level block that keeps you from using non-dell AC adaptors? Fuck anti consumer bullshit.

What the fuck is going on on the White House website right now? www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/

NEW: The Paragon spyware scandal in Italy widens again. A political consultant who works with left-wing politicians, who are part of the opposition party Partito Democratico, has now come out as the latest target. "It is time to ask a very simple question: Why? Why me?" Francesco Nicodemos said.

"please give the LLM guys more money so they buy more GPU compute"

Amazing news to wake up to from back home. Feels good to have a little hope.

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... "Three former employees of cybersecurity incident response companies DigitalMint and Sygnia have been indicted for allegedly hacking the networks of five U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks between May 2023 and November 2023."

www.twz.com/air/andurils... Anduril trials its fighter drone. One of the biggest "winners" in this new era of Silicon Valley defense contractors, it was founded by Palmer Luckey, and has connections to David Sacks, Peter Thiel, and Donald Trump Jr via 1789 Capital.

Three stories (two more below) over the past few days related to the US' telecom infrastructure remaining vulnerable to nationstate infiltration, now almost two years post Salt Typhoon's discovery. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-cyb...

Taking a break from writing and being otherwise a recluse to be a recluse on camera. Continuing Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. www.twitch.tv/its_bruno

I do think it’s deeply shameful and sad that the world continues to pay very little attention to the atrocities in Sudan as compared to conflicts and atrocities in other places. But pitting Gaza and Sudan against each other explicitly to take pot-shots at one’s political enemies is disgusting.

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-building-a-24-7-shadow-transportation-network-across-texas/ "According to the document, ICE envisions 254 transport hubs statewide—one for each Texas county—each staffed continuously by two armed contractor personnel."

https://www.404media.co/someone-snuck-into-a-cellebrite-microsoft-teams-call-and-leaked-phone-unlocking-details/ "The Support Matrix also shows Cellebrite’s capabilities against Pixel devices running GrapheneOS, with some differences between phones running that operating system and stock Android."

Today we published the last of three articles investigating the exposed web server for the neo-Nazi magazine Rope Culture. We’re identifying several far-right figures involved, including a Canadian Nazi podcaster-turned-Orthodox priest, a Danish metal musician, and a notorious American pedophile.

themoloch.com/infosec/cana... It's incredibly interesting to me that, despite an *actual* successful ICS breach by hacktivists, I can't find a single channel rushing to take credit.

www.techpolicy.press/eu-weighs-re... "[The EU] is weighing whether OpenAI’s ChatGPT should be classified as a “Very Large Online Search Engine” (VLOSE) under Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA)—a move that could set a precedent for the regulation of generative AI chatbots across the bloc.

https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts-advisories/al25-016-internet-accessible-industrial-control-systems-ics-abused-hacktivists I'm usually pretty skeptical of hacktivist claims of getting into ICS and SCADA systems, but I guess it actually happened this time in Canada.

https://www.theverge.com/report/808104/fcc-order-retroactive-ban-transmitter-national-security "…It could also give the Trump administration a new way to block Chinese consumer electronics that run on the open airwaves, starting with those from dronemaker DJI".

https://securityaffairs.com/183941/cyber-crime/ransomware-payments-hit-record-low-only-23-pay-in-q3-2025.html "Coveware observed that ransom payments in data exfiltration-only attacks dropped to a record low of 19% in Q3 2025, despite a surge in such incidents."

www.404media.co/con-edison-r... "The records and Con Edison’s stonewalling raise questions about how exactly law enforcement agencies are able to access the utility provider’s user data, whether that access is limited in any way, and whether ICE still has access..."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/impact_afghan_data_breach/ British MoD data leak being used to target Afghan interpreters. "Nearly 100 direct threats to respondents' own lives were reported." The leak went undetected for 2 years.

www.twitch.tv/videos/26037... Ended up having a fun little stream of Lovecraftian dungeon-crawler, Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. Much shit talking about Lovecraft and Ridley Scott within. Great game so far, though! Will very likely try to finish a playthrough on stream in the next week or two!

https://noyb.eu/en/criminal-complaint-against-facial-recognition-company-clearview-ai "[Clearview AI] is known for scraping billions of photos of Europeans and people around the world on the internet – and selling its facial recognition system to law enforcement and state actors."

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/eu-preliminarily-finds-meta-tiktok-breach-transparency-obligations-2025-10-24/ ICYMI: Meta and Tiktok found to be obstructing research and investigations, as well as spreading harmful/illegal content.

www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/c... "NewsGuard's study of 10 AI chatbots found that they repeated false narratives pushed by the Pravda network about 33 percent of the time."

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

newlinesinstitute.org/strategic-te... My first piece published over at New Lines: a breakdown of what Salt Typhoon is, what damage they did, and how the Trump administration is failing at the response. Turns out, ideology-driven staffing cuts are bad, actually.

“…OpenAI’s lawyers have pushed the Raine family to provide a list of people who attended Adam’s funeral, as well as material like eulogies and photos and videos captured at the service.”

Seems like an opportune moment to re-up our paper about AWS seeking infrastructural dominance in education through a range of operations that include platforming the edtech industry on its cloud services codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/h...

ICE isn’t just tapping into government databases — it’s also tapping into local police scanners, EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social said on an @nyu.edu panel. “ICE is buying millions of people’s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration.” nyunews.com/culture/ieq...

New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses. “Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].” www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

Tech company lifecycle: Year 1-3: Change the world Year 4-7: Monetize the world Year 8-10: Congressional hearing about what you did to the world

Phenomenal investigation into SS7 and the major security risk it poses. A company called FirstWAP marketed "Altamides", a tool to track people all over the world. Among the targets: politicians, CEOs (e.g. Anne Wojcicki), journalists, and many more www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...

Standup comic John O'Donnell does a better job explaining NSPM-7 than basically all of major media: