Below are photos of Alaa Abdel Fattah free and at home with his sister, Sanaa, and mother, Laila. It’s wonderful to see his beautiful smile again! (Photos via his sister, Mona, on X) #FreeAlaa

Alaa will be free!!!!

Well, fxck. @crimew.gay has been suspended over Charlie Kirk's death

France says Apple notified victims of new spyware attacks | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/france-says-apple-notified-victims-of-new-spyware-attacks/

When Assad’s security state collapsed, locked doors opened, spilling decades of secrets. Among them: 100s of stolen children, hidden in orphanages & used to blackmail parents. We’ve done the deepest dive yet into this cruel system. Here’s what we found 🧵 www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/09/09/how-ice-is-using-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-peoples-phones/

Spyware installed on Kenyan filmmaker's phones in police custody - Committee to Protect Journalists https://cpj.org/2025/09/spyware-installed-on-kenyan-filmmakers-phones-in-police-custody/

Blog - Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices - Apple Security Research https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/

Exclusive: ICE reactivated its $2 million contract with Israeli spyware firm Paragon, following its acquisition by U.S. capital https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-ice-has-reactivated-its

State-backed attackers and commercial surveillance vendors repeatedly use the same exploits https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/state-backed-attackers-and-commercial-surveillance-vendors-repeatedly-use-the-same-exploits/

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html

WhatsApp fixes 'zero-click' bug used to hack Apple users with spyware | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/whatsapp-fixes-zero-click-bug-used-to-hack-apple-users-with-spyware/

Google previews cyber ‘disruption unit’ as U.S. government, industry weigh going heavier on offense | CyberScoop https://cyberscoop.com/google-cybersecurity-disruption-unit-active-defense-hack-back/

1/ We just released a new report on TAG-144 (also known as Blind Eagle), where we identified five distinct activity clusters that have been active throughout 2024 and 2025, primarily targeting the Colombian government at multiple levels. Link to the report: www.recordedfuture.com/research/tag...

CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...

Android Developers Blog: A new layer of security for certified Android devices https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html

YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission

New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/new-zero-day-startup-offers-20-million-for-tools-that-can-hack-any-smartphone/

I might have lost funding but at least I can do what I want. :) And I want to teach people about AI ethics in 90 second increments! bit.ly/ai-ethics-sy...

1/ We've just released a new report uncovering new infrastructure tied to multiple activity clusters linked to the Israeli spyware vendor #Candiru across several countries. Full report: www.recordedfuture.com/research/tra...

I wrote a short blog post on how to identify timestamps on LinkedIn in digital investigations maynier.eu/blog/2025/08... #OSI #OSINT

Disrupted, Throttled, and Blocked: State Censorship, Control, and Increasing Isolation of Internet Users in Russia | HRW https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/30/disrupted-throttled-and-blocked/state-censorship-control-and-increasing-isolation

The Longest Silence: Internet Shutdowns During Bangladesh’s 2024 Uprising | OONI https://ooni.org/post/2025-bangladesh-report/

Shutdown season: the Q2 2025 Internet disruption summary https://blog.cloudflare.com/q2-2025-internet-disruption-summary/

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity - METR https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

For people like me who prefer good old RSS feeds than social networks or mailing lists, I am publishing the good articles I read on technology and digital surveillance on this small Shaarli instance that has an RSS feed shaarli.maynier.eu

Btselem—Israel's leading human rights group—has found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. www.btselem.org/publications...

À quelles formes de surveillance numérique les journalistes peuvent être confronté·es et quels sont les moyens de s'en prémunir ? Enquêter sur le paysage de la surveillance numérique par @tek.randhome.io gijn.org/fr/ressource...

Google took a month to shut down Catwatchful, a phone spyware operation hosted on its servers | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/google-took-a-month-to-shut-down-catwatchful-a-phone-spyware-operation-hosted-on-its-servers/

The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/the-age-checked-internet-has-arrived/

New, by me: Google has shut down the account of Catwatchful, a phone spyware operation hosted on Google's own servers. Google wouldn't say why it took a *month* after TechCrunch reached out for the company to suspend the operation, which was clearly in violation of its own customers' terms of use.

everyone is being very normal, as usual www.404media.co/women-dating...

À quel niveau de dégueulasserie il faut être tombé pour nier à toute force la réalité d'un enfant décharné. Il s'appelle Yazan, il a deux ans, il n'a pas été photographié au Yémen en 2016, comme le prétendent des gens à qui il ne reste pas une once de morale, mais bien à Gaza, le 23 juillet 2025.

Meta, Flo trial begins over period-tracking app's data sharing practices | The Record from Recorded Future News https://therecord.media/meta-flo-trial-period-tracking-data-sharing

Hi everyone, it is this time of the year again to start collecting #Telegram transparency data for Q2 2025. I have started to upload some data and updated the interface to include that te-k.github.io/telegram-tra...

Serial spyware founder Scott Zuckerman wants the FTC to unban him from the surveillance industry | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/serial-spyware-founder-scott-zuckerman-wants-the-ftc-to-unban-him-from-the-surveillance-industry/

Communiqué terrifiant de la Société Des Journalistes de l’AFP : "Nous avons perdu des journalistes dans des conflits, nous avons eu des blessés et des prisonniers dans nos rangs, mais aucun de nous n’a le souvenir d’avoir vu un collaborateur mourir de faim. " #Gaza

@darcdataresearch.bsky.social published a blog post about the advantages of owning the infrastructure that runs the services you provide. dataresearchcenter.org/blog/2025/07... In this day and age, infrastructure isn't just about bandwidth or uptime. It's about politics as well.

Excited to share this new piece on why @hrw.org is calling for gender apartheid to be recognized as a crime under international law. This comes after long & careful discussion w/many colleagues about if there is need for such a law and any potential downsides. www.justsecurity.org/116780/gende...

Inside the Media’s Traffic Apocalypse https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/inside-the-medias-traffic-apocalypse.html

Former Mexican president investigated over allegedly taking bribes from spyware industry https://therecord.media/former-mexican-president-investigated-spyware-bribes

DomainTools Investigations worked with OSINT analysts & journalists to help uncover the connections between websites involved in the harassment of Ukrainian personnel and their families, and the people and infrastructure involved. Technical writeup below! www.domaintools.com/resources/bl...

Interesting investigation technique here identified by @neurovagrant.bsky.social : some registrars are providing accessible whois data because they haven't applied the same privacy protection to the new RDAP protocol that is slowly replacing whois www.domaintools.com/resources/bl...

Appeals court revives Salvadoran journalists’ lawsuit against NSO Group https://therecord.media/appeals-court-revives-salvadoran-journalist-lawsuit-nso-group-spyware

Turkey has now blocked Grok content because of its right-wing extremist and anti-Erdogan rhetoric.

Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes https://futurism.com/companies-fixing-ai-replacement-mistakes

🛰️ New article co-authored by the Citizen Lab's @gabriellelim.bsky.social discusses the risks of privatized space technology. Published in @techpolicypress.bsky.social Read it here: www.techpolicy.press/a-match-made...

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Data breach reveals Catwatchful stalkerware is spying on thousands of phones | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/data-breach-reveals-catwatchful-stalkerware-spying-on-thousands-android-phones/

Russian Internet users are unable to access the open Internet https://blog.cloudflare.com/russian-internet-users-are-unable-to-access-the-open-internet/