By me @forbes.com: As Google updates Gmail following the subpoena attacks, what 3 billion email users need to know. #infosec www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...

How to keep your data safe when you travel

4) Well over half of Americans expect the economy to deteriorate over the next year, again the highest figure ever recorded.

The combination of cruel + brain dead manosphere content and dogshit AI images for the stupidest people alive and this unbearable incel wave and people stanning Tesla and Elon and Kanye destroying his career to be a has been Nazi idiot. Just a stunningly stupid and exhausting time to be alive

Not loving living through recurring waves of recession and fascism over the past two and a half decades

ICE illegally arrested 22 people in the Midwest since Trump took office, a new lawsuit alleges. buff.ly/hZGgg0J

Apple has revealed a Passwords app vulnerability that lasted for months

Not great!

Is your internet being throttled? Here's how to find out (and stop it)

In case you are wondering, these are the 22nd and 23rd stalkerware companies since 2017 to either get hacked or inadvertently expose data online due to flaws, bugs, and mistakes. We are keeping track in this post: techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/h...

Tribune editorial board stays bootlicking

Gambling firms are secretly sharing your data with Facebook www.malwarebytes.com/blog/uncateg...

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

So many days of the week that don’t contain a new Severance episode. And for what? Who does this help?

The IRS is preparing to give a team member working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive taxpayer data. IRS data is tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details, and employment information.

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

Neo-Nazis are 'activity flourishing on Instagram,' and neo-Nazi fight clubs have 'been sharing articles a Substack newsletter launched in late January 2025.'

NEW: We caught another government spyware vendor, which made fake Android apps masquerading as WhatsApp and cellphone providers' apps. The spyware, called Spyrtacus, was made by SIO, which sells to Italian government and says that it partners with "Police and Intelligence Agencies."

NEW — Morgan Elise Johnson, co-founder and publisher of The TRiiBE, will be honored next month by the Chicago Defender during Women’s History Month 🥳 thetriibe.com/2025/02/trii...

The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”

Morning hacker peeps! By me @forbes.com: This Safer Internet Day, would you let AI change your passwords for you? Google wants a word... #infosec www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...

Any candidate talking about "healing the divide" or "bringing people together" from this point forward needs to get laughed out of the room. Let's win the war first and we'll sort that shit out later.

End-to-end encryption by default means “if you show up with a warrant or a subpoena (to Signal), they have almost nothing about you that they can hand over,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @cnn.com.

“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself. “Are you going to take a stand?” With the world watching, New Orleans-based artist Nantambu, 41, reached into his clothes and unfurled a joint Palestinian and Sudanese flag. 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇵🇸🇸🇩

This is the moment where you should realize that the Constitution is being collapsed by Musk and Trump. The ABA doesn’t do stuff like this, it’s fundamentally conservative in nature. It’s releasing this statement because if things much further, “law” and “courts” will be useless.

As an IRS agent, Tigran Gambaryan was perhaps the most effective crypto investigator in history. Then last year he was charged in Nigeria with money laundering and thrown in prison. Throughout, he was texting with me from a secret phone. This is his full, untold story. www.wired.com/story/untold...

Kier Eagan is like if Alvar Hanso was important to the plot

Everyone else: it’s the Super Bowl! Me: Oh my god we got an update on the Machina box set!

Everyone else: it’s the Super Bowl! Me: Oh my god we got an update on the Machina box set!

Israeli spyware firm #Paragon set up shop in the EU. People targeted with Paragon spyware include journalists and NGO staff (all critical to the Italian government, which unsurprisingly denies any involvement. Read more www.euractiv.com/section/tech... by @vaspanagiotopoulos.com 1/

“The message states that the orders extend to participation in international commissions and even emails “with foreign national colleagues.””

Charlie Baker can go fuck himself

Again, how is this just happening?

For my latest, I talked with @ctulocal1.bsky.social president Stacy Davis Gates and artist and educator Silvia Gonzalez about how Chicago teachers are creating Sanctuary Teams to protect undocumented students and other marginalized youth from Trump's aggression. (Includes organizing resources.)

NEW: Elon Musk’s dismantling of USAID and State’s funding freeze are severely disrupting efforts to help human trafficking victims escape forced labor camps. by @mattburgess1.bsky.social & @lhn.bsky.social @ WIRED:

I don’t understand why no one is stopping this

NEW: A half dozen Trump loyalists in and around the admin have told WIRED there’s a fissure emerging between Musk and Trump camps, following Musk’s DOGE takeover. By @jakelahut.writes.news:

NEW: NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk's DOGE task force access to all of the agency's Google sites by the end of business Wednesday. Nothing in the engineer's background suggests any special expertise relevant to his new role.

News on Trump-Musk scandal at Treasury from Ron Wyden: The admin now claims Musk takeover merely expands previous "audit" under Biden. But Wyden tells me former Treasury officials have informed him this is highly implausible. "A cover-up," Wyden says. Lots more here newrepublic.com/article/1911...

NEW: Elon Musk’s government takeover is causing rifts in Donald Trump’s inner circle. “He’s getting too big for his britches,” says one Trump world source. Read the full scoop here:

“Performing for a white man with a history of racism while the Black community is under attack goes against the attempts by Kendrick Lamar and others to reclaim the music and stand against bigotry,” culture critic Seve Chambers pens. Read the full piece: thetriibe.com/2025/02/crit...

NEW — If 2024 was the year of expelling culture vultures from hip hop, Snoop Dogg, Nelly and more didn't get the message. What stance will hip hop take during a second Trump presidency hell-bent on rolling back the rights of Americans and promoting white supremacy? thetriibe.com/2025/02/crit...

In the space of a couple of weeks, Elon Musk has taken control of multiple government agencies, as a cadre of young and inexperienced engineers with ties to Musk have been given access to some of the most highly sensitive federal systems through DOGE.

A WIRED review of message boards, encrypted channels, social media platforms, online search trends, and public statements from influencers and lawmakers suggests that Musk and the actions of DOGE have come to dominate discussions among far-right and extremist communities.

New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...

#Israeli spyware maker #Paragon Solutions confirmed to #TechCrunch that it sells its products to the U.S. government and other unspecified allied countries. #spyware #CyberAlerts techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/s...

Trump's war on DEI programs is a re-brand of a bigger fight over race and the Constitution that's been raging since the Civil War & is likely to meet with a warm reception at the Supreme Court that ended affirmative action in college admissions. New reporting here👇 www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...