Jan und ich haben ein bisschen über RegEx geredet und darüber, wie man seine eigenen Recherchen damit auf ein anderes Level heben kann www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmkp...

A development of profound importance. Very few thought the US Gov’t, for all its current unpredictability, would try to weaponise its AI against allies as well as foes. That it’s been done in a clunky & unsustainable way doesn’t matter long term - they’ve done it www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...

EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people? theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...

"If Fable had been acting on malicious instructions—a prompt injection attack hidden in code or an issue thread, or something I’d carelessly pasted into my terminal—it’s alarming to think quite how far it could go to exfiltrate data or cause other forms of mischief" simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/...

„The account of those familiar with the criminal probe appears to raise serious questions about secrecy guardrails and vetting at the CIA.“ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Wow! The #GazaSniper investigation, initiated by paper trail media and ARIJ, and conducted together with @theguardian.com, De Tijd, @spiegel.de and @zdfde.bsky.social has won a True Story Award. Deeply grateful to the entire team, especially our colleague in Gaza. www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Russia's intel agency FSB says they found a spyware attack against "high-ranking" government officials carried out by foreign intelligence agencies. web.archive.org/web/20260602...

Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Breaking - Tulsi Gabbard out www.cnn.com/2026/05/22/p...

„Even after multiple internal flags on the activity, the main account continued to operate over a period of at least 15 months and was open as of January“ www.wsj.com/world/middle...

SpaceX isn't the financial juggernaut many were expecting, according to its IPO prospectus filed yesterday. It shows just how much the IPO depends on expectations for future growth and investor servility to Musk — not the current underlying business.

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

Come on. Come on. This cannot be true. It just can’t. Can it????

Bad bad bad cyberscoop.com/github-inter...

A researcher who found a repository that leaked on GitHub said it was one of the worst he’s witnessed. via @timstarks.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/cisa-credent...

“I wish that every article describing a lawsuit would note that the sums demanded are purely for the benefit of headline writers and should always be read in a Dr. Evil voice.” Kash Patel’s Implausible Lawsuit Against The Atlantic www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

“Specifically, Terakeet created and posted positive online content about Ms. Ruemmler that was aimed at appearing above the mostly negative content about her association with Mr. Epstein.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

Exclusive: Fast16 malware has raised questions about what it was designed to do. Researchers at Symantec finally confirm it was subverting software used to simulate nuclear weapons explosions. Nuclear experts also tell me Iran was the likely target and explain how it impacted nuclear weapons tests

Hackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations; officials suspect Iran is responsible edition.cnn.com/2026/05/15/p...

🚨@sophiabaumann.bsky.social @rettermaria.bsky.social @hatr.bsky.social & Omer Benjakob haben sich "Dream Security" mal genauer angeschaut - die mysteriöse IT-Firma, die Sebastian Kurz ausgerechnet mit dem umstrittenen früheren NSO-Chef Shalev Hulio gegründet hat www.derstandard.de/story/300000...

Vor knapp vier Jahren gründeten Sebastian Kurz und Shalev Hulio, der frühere Chef der berüchtigten Spionagefirma NSO, ein neues Startup: Es heißt Dream. Mit Hilfe von Künstlicher Intelligenz sollen Hacker aus den Netzwerken herausgehalten werden. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

„when agents were subjected to relentless tasks and warned that errors could lead to punishments, including being “shut down and replaced,” they became more inclined to gripe about being undervalued“ www.wired.com/story/overwo...

"We also continue to find bugs with other means internally, and, similar to other projects, we’ve seen a significant uptick in external reports in the last few months." hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behi...

"Whatever you think about our machine learning overlord corporations, there's no doubt that they are sucking immense value from journalists and giving almost none of it back" aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/t...

"The report describes “high alert” in the Kremlin “since the beginning of March 2026” about “the risk of a plot or coup attempt against the Russian president.” www.occrp.org/en/news/secu...

"Marketing agencies are pitching influencers deals such as $5,000 per TikTok video to amplify Build American AI’s messaging about how China’s technological rise should be seen as a threat" www.wired.com/story/super-...

The many ways to collect data on people plus the willingness of an executive power to go against citizens exercising first amendment rights. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Having a transcript of your therapy session revealed in court is probably high on the list of nightmare scenarios. Sadly, it happened -- and you'll be shocked to know its because of AI. A new investigation from @proofnews.bsky.social. www.proofnews.org/womans-talks...

"It is one of the most operationally-mature pieces of code in the PostgreSQL ecosystem outside the core itself. It was maintained, primarily, by one person." thebuild.com/blog/2026/04...

The compromised accounts were then weaponized to target the victims' contact lists by posing as the owners of the account. We understand the trust that people put in Signal, and how devastating this kind of social engineering can be. 8/

One of my colleagues has recently received a warning by Google: Hackers were trying to infiltrate their inbox. Comes after an investigation into Beijing’s tactics to threaten, coerce and intimidate regime critics overseas. Here's the link to the German story www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Meta "is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models" www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

This is a very, very good episode for anyone interested in exploit development, especially with all things happening in the AI-space. And answers the question whether it makes sense to regularly reboot your iPhone (yes, it does)

For your weekend-reading, some thoughts on publishing stories about cybercriminals (and revealing their identities) buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...

"All of that suggests that Fast16 might have been used in the mid-2000s specifically to subvert Iran's attempt to gain nuclear weapons, perhaps even years before Stuxnet was deployed to achieve the same result through a more direct form of sabotage" www.wired.com/story/fast16...

For the newest edition of the newsletter I'm writing with @jls.bsky.social, here are my thoughts on cybercrime-related investigations, being as fair as possible and access journalism. I hope you enjoy this, sincerely open to feedback. buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...

„The contract … almost certainly rescued an otherwise ailing Palantir from corporate oblivion. It also may have rescued Maven, which ultimately overcame the bitter skepticism of the defense establishment. Manson’s story culminates with the war in Ukraine“ www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

"A search of the Goodreads page for the Ballard novel revealed a user named “Alex Norden” who completed the book on June 20, 2020, six days before the HowlingMutant post."

A fascinating read by my colleagues on a police officer who was part of the detention system in Xinjian and now has fled the country and now is speaking out, because if one day, he was asked, what he did to fight the injustice, he can say: "I spoke the truth" www.spiegel.de/ausland/chin...

"Reuters reviewed the underlying data and is publishing details of the hacks for the first time, including the identities of more than a dozen compromised European agencies ​and officials." www.reuters.com/world/russia...

"companies from all over the world are systematically harvesting every word I’ve ever published … Kevin in Montreal now can’t read my articles because my hosting provider decided the solution was to block Canada and half the rest of the world" matthiasott.com/articles/web...

(1/6) Josephina Kersten ist erst 30 Jahre alt, als Ärzte in ihrer linken Brust einen besonders aggressiven Tumor finden. Es folgen 435 Tage Therapie – 17 Mal bekommt sie ein Medikament, das als Hoffnungsträger gilt: Keytruda. The #CancerCalculus ➡️ www.zdfheute.de/politik/deut...

„Normalcy has not returned, but the frequency of drones and missiles has dropped enough to move the needle just past the fine line between the headache of liability and the headache of compliance“ www.ft.com/content/c902...

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

We didn't deserve this day.

(Altman doesn’t remember this) (Altman denies this.) (Altman does not recall this.) (Altman says that he was probably joking.) (Altman says that he wasn’t aware of this until much later.) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

If you speak German and are interested in finding out who is behind those obnoxious fake SMS, here’s a three part series that’s – visually sooo appealing – full of interesting details – very well-written www.ardmediathek.de/video/kings-...

Absolutely crazy story that ties together many aspects related to cybersecurity, specifically about Iran‘s nuclear ambitions and how defectors have helped the U.S. keeping Iran away from the bomb, including through Stuxnet www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"members of commissioners' cabinets and other senior bureaucrats had received messages asking them to enter their Signal PIN codes, which were identified as phishing attempts" www.politico.eu/article/top-...