In case you're interested in #Doppelgänger and are following disinfo, here's a piece about a hacktivist who managed to siphon out hundreds of gigabytes of internal data (zipped!) Article at Der Spiegel, Gift Link www.spiegel.de/politik/hack...

Einem Hacktivisten ist es gelungen, Hunderte Gigabyte interner Daten der berüchtigten #Doppelgänger-Kampagne einzusehen. Über Jahre hinweg schaute er ihnen über die Schulter, während sie ihre Propaganda vorbereiteten. www.zdfheute.de/politik/russ...

jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

NEW: "Is there a lot of press around the house given recent news? Trying to decide whether to wear a baseball hat." Those are the words of world-renowned hacker Vincenzo Iozzo. Here's what he discussed with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in emails spanning from 2014 to 2018. san.com/cc/did-a-ren...

"The perverse logic of concentration camps —sometimes justified as necessary or a path to security— has resurfaced in today’s policy proposals and political rhetoric." ash.harvard.edu/events/conce...

Easily one of your favorite reporters favorite reporter. Hard to overstate how much I learned from Joe‘s reporting.

Laying off @joemenn.bsky.social is the newsroom management equivalent of stapling your dick to the wall. Truly insane move, and one of many.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.

That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.

For this week's newsletter: a lightweight tool to search through the Epstein-files. Since I had a hard time learning python (couldn't figure out what to use it for), it's geared towards people who are in a similar position. It's a copy-and-pasteable walkthrough buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...

China’s senior-most general is accused of leaking information about the country’s nuclear-weapons program to the U.S. and accepting bribes for official acts. 🔗: on.wsj.com/49E5k6k

For this week's newsletter: a lightweight tool to search through the Epstein-files. Since I had a hard time learning python (couldn't figure out what to use it for), it's geared towards people who are in a similar position. It's a copy-and-pasteable walkthrough buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...

"Device in restricted region: Locale == 'US' || 'IL'" Real ransomware operators inadvertently telling you where they're from, only for Predator spyware www.jamf.com/blog/predato...

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Here is our synced video of three angles. We do have the 4th angle as well. We are continuing to analyze all the footage as it becomes available.

"A cottage industry of lawyers, lobbyists and consultants with close ties to Trump has sprung up to help people and companies seek leniency, often by arguing they had been victims of political persecution by the Biden administration." www.propublica.org/article/bitc...

Darker skin colour, changing facial expression from composed to crying, straight from the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Die Firma eines US-Milliardärs und Trump-Buddys hat nach @papertrailmedia.de & @spiegel.de-Informationen Teile von Deutschlands Treibstofflogistik übernommen, inklusive Zugang zu Nato-Flughäfen und Pipelines. Das Wirtschaftsministerium erlaubt den Deal unter Auflagen. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

"Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls..."

In this weeks newsletter, @jls.bsky.social describes how to process 100,000 photos without looking at them. No graphic material is included, but the theme may be unsettling. I‘m always amazed by Jan, and if you read this, you’ll know why buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...

This is the guy arrested in Armenia in June 2024 that called Russian officials and requested a "green corridor" home eumostwanted.eu#/nefedov-ole...

About a year ago we published a story on Black Basta and the alleged leader of the gang, called Oleg N. He managed to escape after being presented to a judge Today, LEA agencies announced having searched two homes of Black Basta operators in Ukraine. For Oleg, there's a "Wanted" poster

WSJ scoop: "President Trump criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a White House event last week, calling them weak and complaining they weren't moving fast enough to prosecute his favored targets." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

WSJ opinion page yesterday: The U.S. attorney subpoena to Jerome Powell was beyond dumb. "Trump would do himself and the country a big favor by firing those responsible for this fiasco." "Those responsible." Hmmm, now let's see what the WSJ newsroom is reporting today 👇🏼

preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6

NEW: Completely unredacted Flock audit logs have been released to the public by numerous police departments and in some cases include details on millions of Flock license plate searches made by thousands of police departments from around the country.

Musk publicly endorsing KKK ideology.

"A lot of the rental cars around here have been used by ICE,” one of the volunteers told us, before using a walkie talkie to tell other volunteers to stand down and stop monitoring our car." www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

„In a hyper-capitalist culture optimised for skimming and distraction, the ability to sit still with a novel is both subversive and truly gratifying“ www.ft.com/content/da33...

„Ross moving in front of the vehicle … which … agents say they are trained not to do“ „If agents box in a target, the vehicles should be bumper to bumper, with no room for the suspect to drive away. „But in 3 of the 4 shootings, agents left room for the vehicle to flee“ www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"They sold their principles for power, and now they don’t even control their own companies. Welcome to gangster tech regulation!" www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Nach unserer #WorldofPain-Recherche meldete sich ein Arzt mit einem Anliegen: Schaut euch diesen Fall an, denn die Behörden tun es scheinbar nicht. Das haben wir gemacht - und weitere Problemfälle gefunden, um die sich Ärztekammern & Approbationsbehörden wenig scheren. www.spiegel.de/panorama/feh...

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

ENISA ist die eine EU-Behörde, die kürzlich vor KI gewarnt hat. Doch ausgerechnet in ihrem Jahresbericht verlässt sie ENISA selbst auf Künstliche Intelligenz – und die denkt sich einfach Quellen aus. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

So I'm hearing about this often in various institutional settings, where people (who are often not the authors) are using AI for the really annoying endgame editorial stuff like footnotes or copy-edits, and it is messing things up.

So, Enisa, the cybersecurity agency of the EU, releases a yearly Threat Landscape. In the 2025 edition, they've used AI. And the AI introcuded loads of errors. Five percent of all the links end up 404 www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

„The IWF's Ngaire Alexander told the BBC tools like Grok now risked "bringing sexual AI imagery of children into the mainstream".“

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

"DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied." www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

Pretty interesting. Moxie Marlinspike, the guy who brought you Signal, has a new privacy focused LLM, Confer. confer.to/blog/2026/01...

NEW: We obtained 100 gigabytes of data from unlisted websites associated with Canary Mission, revealing their internal workings, employees, and an internal website called BlackNest where the group celebrated its “impacts”— arrests and deportations. www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...

In Germany, there's this interesting ruling where an expert wanted to have 2.374,50 EUR for an expert opinion. Turns out, the opinion was written with assistance of AI, so the court ruled he gets 0 (zero) EUR for the opinion instead www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/bshe/documen...

company that creates deepfake CSAM raises $20 billion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/t...

came for the headline, stayed for the people in position of power depicted as clowns www.ft.com/content/ad94...

I don’t think anything has enraged me quite like the Grok csam and abuse of women and people being largely silent about that. I’m sick to my stomach. People in power just letting this happen. The world people want their kids to grow up in: one where creeps can use AI to sexually abuse them.

JUST IN: DOJ says it has finished reviewing *less than 1%* of the Epstein Files for potential release. Only 12,285 documents have been released while more than 2 million remain under review. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...