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CNN has an important story: The New York Times has reported something previously reported by MSNBC.

There is a lot of demand for digital privacy and security advice out there right now and lots of people are giving advice and writing guides. I beg them to do a few things: 1. Be explicit about the threat model your advice is meant for.

I'm not fully convinced it was a DM. But if that were the case, Truth Social DMs would be among the least secure communications methods possible. Unencrypted, site with a tiny staff, little known security steps taken.

Three people familiar with the federal probe into Charlie Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

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My kid is the absolute cutest and sweetest in the world, so it's a shame, but if we're not at the level where we share pictures either in person or on Signal with disappearing messages on, you're not seeing anything until 2043 at the earliest.

FOIAball also takes a look this week at head coaches' calendars. Most keep busy schedules, but not all. On the left, a compendium of coaches' typical days. On the right, Dabo Swinney. Read the full newsletter here: foiaball.beehiiv.com/p/underpaid-...

Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.

I haven't had the WH ask me this question but it is not uncommon for corporate spokespeople to ask me who I'm talking to. I of course never tell them more about my story than they need to know to respond to my inquiry, and what's described below is a clear step further.

Spoke w/Tom Wheeler, Carr's predecessor, about the pressure on media orgs to bow to Trump. What he's doing is legal, if unprecedented. If somebody stood up and forced a potentially unfair FCC ruling, they could challenge in court. But they don't, and his "incredible coercive power" goes unchecked.

At 30 Rock just walked by a dude wearing a Punk in Drublic tshirt

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

New from me: Filings from a Virginia lawsuit offer a rare insight into how often Flock automatic license plate readers track people going about their daily lives: Multiple times a day, and hundreds over a period of a few months this year.

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I really agree with this and hope that in a few years, once the news media industry is fully and completely disrupted, we can reinvent cohesive newsrooms with editors.

As someone familiar with how savagely hackers can bypass seemingly every smart lock, I personally will not be purchasing for my home a lock that has four ways in.

I'm not weighing in on how valid it is, but I think it's notable the degree to which Anthropic tries to present itself as the more restrained, moral, principled, safety-conscious alternative to ChatGPT.

NEW FROM ME: I wrote about the many, many Tesla drivers who complain that their FSD software fails them at rail crossings. There are dozens of complaints online from drivers, including many videos. Here's our investigation: www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

I can say that anecdotally, for my parents — both seniors in West Virginia — the covid shot was significantly harder to get this year. They considered driving to Ohio where it's easier, but eventually were able to find a pharmacy that gave it to them.

NEWS NBC News LOSES its effort to unseal the identities of two people Epstein wired six-figure transfers of money to after the Herald's exposé. The government and two lawyers for victims opposed the effort. Quick thread storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

OpenAI and Sam Altman said today, notably ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee on AI safety, that their solution to ChatGPT's teen safety problem is to have AI guess if a person is underage and default them to the teen version. No word on kids 12 and younger, who are simply not supposed to use it.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

I've said this take before, but All the President's Men is the most accurate journalism movie in large part because there are long stretches where no good source will talk to them and it's not clear they're going to get the story even if they stay really dogged at it and it's really boring to watch

The attorney general this morning posted that she's looking to crack down on a range of types of posts from the left, including calls to violence but also doxing conservative families. x.com/AGPamBondi/s...

"'The goal was to disrupt online voting, particularly in occupied Ukrainian regions,' the source said. Digital services were paralyzed for a period, leaving many Russians unable to vote electronically in mayoral and gubernatorial races, the source claimed."

Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else reut.rs/3JYLkkp

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Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

The current governor of WV has made religious freedom his battle cry in the fight to allow for exemptions to school-age vaccines. The previous governor & current U.S. senator praises vaccines & the need to protect children. Both sparred Thursday. www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-n...

The FBI releasing photos and videos of their suspect for killing Kirk, but no name, would indicate to me that facial recognition still isn't proving terribly helpful. Similar to when Luigi Mangione was at large.

Fyi this is what I looked like as of a couple hours ago.

Here's the Guantanamo Bay McDonalds.

Not the biggest news of today, but notable I think the degree to which the federal government insists that Twitter/X — whose reconstruction into a far-right echo chamber is a pet project to president Trump's ally and biggest donor, even if they've fallen out — is the best way to get official news.

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NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

FBI: We have no suspect and no known motive POTUS: It was the "radical left" www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

Can somebody in the federal government JUST ONCE accidentally and embarrassingly cc me a scoop? It's starting to feel personal.

At the risk of being controversial on Bluesky: It is false to claim that three LLMs saying Trump didn't really write the creepy letter to Epstein constitutes solid forensic analysis to that effect.

I told @joshua.stealingheather.com, developer of @iceblock.app, that he was running a vulnerable version of Apache on his server. He ignored my vulnerability report and blocked me, and his service is still vulnerable today micahflee.com/iceblock-han...

The general practice of not strictly fact-checking op-eds is one of the biggest institutional media failures of my lifetime. It will never not blow my mind that we have factual news articles published alongside people thinking out loud without being vetted for accuracy.

I want to take this moment of Anthropic news to point out that its CEO, Dario Amodei, is indistinguishable from Philip in the Americans. Except the former wears glasses and the latter doesn't (except in costume).

Without question this is the most insane thing ever posted to a major federal agency social media account. x.com/TheJusticeDe...

guys, please don't share O'Keefe vids like this. There is zero evidence this person has any direct info about how the FBI is handling the Epstein Files; All he says is he *believes* that the Feds will redact any mention of Republicans That's what O'Keefe does: peddle misleading (at best) bullshit!

I had not realized the reason there are two Krassensteins is because they had previously split from One Big Krassenstein.

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...