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Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

Coming soon to a major metro near you. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Why Waymo is hiring lobbyists in Minnesota A change in law would be needed to launch its driverless robotaxis here.

Questions remain about how well Waymo's self-driving cars will handle ice and snow in colder climates. It's testing the technology in upstate New York and northern Michigan, and plans to expand to Washington, D.C., next year. www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

Trump’s tariffs, that the American people pay for, have destroyed US soybean farmers. So Trump now wants the American people to bail those soybean farmers out. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

GREAT!!!! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Turns out my phone has been just…not accepting calls?
No filtering turned on
No call screening apps
It’s not giving me the voicemails people leave
Not showing missed calls

Soooo I guess good thing I’m JOB HUNTING WTF

Reason For Hope Amid the Wreckage If you woke up this morning with the vague sense that you were missing a goodly portion of your brain cells, it’s likely that you watched Pam Bondi’s performance yesterday before a Senate committee.

Rick Wilson compares her stuttering evasions, insults, and faux bursts of performative outrage to a fake orgasm — “loud, theatrical, sweaty, and meant to trick just one man into keeping her around by flattering his ego.” substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long?
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Do Democrats Have a Crowded Primary Problem? Republicans finally learned their lesson. Democrats may be repeating it — or will these messy public fights help sort things out by 2028?

Democrats are now where Republicans were a decade ago — caught between their ideals and their instincts. The establishment wants electability; the grassroots wants authenticity. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Cocaine in Private Jets and Sex Toys: What the FBI Found on its Secretly Backdoored Chat App New leaked documents show how the FBI convinced a judge to let its partners collect a mass of encrypted messages from thousands of phones around the world.

New from 404 Media: cocaine in private jets. Drug traffickers entering sailing races to move drugs. And mountains of meth hidden in sex toys. These are some of the things the FBI saw on its secretly backdoored encrypted chat app according to newly leaked documents
www.404media.co/cocaine-in-p...

JP Morgan CEO says bank’s AI investment has already paid off The company invests about $2 billion a year in AI, but has reduced headcount and improved efficiency to save at least the same amount, Dimon said.

Hmm ... The company invests about $2 billion a year in AI, but has reduced headcount and improved efficiency to save at least the same amount, Dimon told Bloomberg. www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

Poole police issue warning over fake AI homeless man prank Poole Police said they attended a call from a "concerned parent" last week, which turned out to be a prank.

Police have issued a warning over a social media prank involving an "AI homeless man" entering people's homes after receiving a call from a concerned parent. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scammers are using AI to lure shoppers to fake businesses Foreign firms use AI-generated images and false back stories to pose as family-run UK businesses.

Unscrupulous foreign firms are using AI-generated images and false back stories to pose as family-run UK businesses to lure in shoppers. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Optus: Telecoms company sent emails to wrong addresses during deadly outage The outage in Australia has been linked to four deaths as people could not reach emergency services.

One of Australia's biggest telecommunication companies sent emails about a deadly outage to the wrong email address at the Department of Communcations where they remained unread for over a day, parliament has heard. www.bbc.com/news/article...

How ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment Ultrasound has long been used for helping doctors see inside the body, but focused high frequency sound waves are offering new ways of targeting cancer.

If Zhen Xu hadn't annoyed her lab mates, she might never have discovered a groundbreaking treatment for liver cancer. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Severe Figma MCP Vulnerability Lets Hackers Execute Code Remotely — Patch Now Figma MCP flaw CVE-2025-53967 lets attackers execute arbitrary code; patch released in version 0.6.3. (

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-53967 (CVSS score: 7.5), is a command injection bug stemming from the unsanitized use of user input, opening the door to a scenario where an attacker can send arbitrary system commands. thehackernews.com/2025/10/seve...

Floating electrons on a sea of helium Yes, it’s another potential qubit. But it’s also some very cool physics.

Recently, one of those companies published a paper that describes the physics of their qubit system, which involves lone electrons floating on top of liquid helium. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Episode One: Dirty Business The Atlanta narcotics unit’s deadly raid on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston.

In the ensuing months, we’d learn that the Atlanta police department’s narcotics unit routinely conducted mistaken raids on terrified people. theintercept.com/2025/10/08/c...

Your Windows 11 taskbar just got a major, long-requested feature - what's new Microsoft's latest Windows 11 update finally addresses a big frustration for users with multiple monitors.

A Windows update launched in late September will let you tap into the notification center on any monitor, not just your primary one. www.zdnet.com/article/your...

Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 40 Deals Announced in September 2025 Forty cybersecurity merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in September 2025, more than in August.

In case you had your head down through September. www.securityweek.com/cybersecurit...

Medusa Ransomware Exploits Fortra GoAnywhere Bug Researchers say exploitation of CVE-2025-10035 requires a private key, and it's unclear how Storm-1175 threat actors pulled this off.

Researchers say exploitation of CVE-2025-10035 requires a private key, and it's unclear how Storm-1175 threat actors pulled this off. www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...

Claude will be integrated into select IBM software products “to deliver measurable productivity gains, while building security, governance, and cost controls directly into the lifecycle of software development,” the company said. www.eweek.com/news/ibm-ant...

Leaked Charlie Kirk Messages Spark Rift Inside Turning Point USA Sam Stein and Will Sommer take on Candace Owens leaking Charlie Kirk’s texts, the “New Charlie Kirk” Brilyn Hollyhand’s failed debut, and MAGA turning on Trump’s own lawyer.

Insights into the MAGA infighting. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Exploitation of Oracle EBS Zero-Day Started 2 Months Before Patching The Oracle EBS zero-day CVE-2025-61882 has been exploited since at least August 9 and hundreds of instances may still be vulnerable.

While CrowdStrike’s investigation is ongoing, the information it has collected to date indicates that the zero-day was first exploited on August 9. www.securityweek.com/exploitation...

Qualcomm just bought Arduino, the open-source hardware and software maker Qualcomm said the acquisition will expand its portfolio of edge technologies and products, and better help everyone from students and educators to entrepreneurs and professionals more easily...

Qualcomm said the acquisition will expand its portfolio of edge technologies and products, and better help everyone from students and educators to entrepreneurs and professionals more easily bring their ideas to life. www.techspot.com/news/109771-...

Salesforce refuses to pay ransom over widespread data theft attacks Salesforce has confirmed that it will not negotiate with or pay a ransom to the threat actors behind a massive wave of data theft attacks that impacted the company's customers this year.

As first reported by Bloomberg, Salesforce emailed customers on Tuesday to say they would not be paying a ransom and warned that "credible threat intelligence" indicates the threat actors were planning to leak the stolen data. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

If you work in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry or you want to, mastering AI is no longer optional. It has become essential to getting a job, keeping one, and advancing your career. www.eweek.com/news/g7-coun...

Ask And You Shall Receive – Penetration Testing Edition A few QSAs that are recovering penetration testers were discussing the current state of penetration testing. We all complained about these automated penetration testing solutions that are becoming …

The PCI SSC weighs in on automated pen testing. pciguru.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/a...

My AI girlfriend takes such long showers, environmentalists are complaining about her water usage. 🤷‍♀️

Axios Future of Cybersecurity - Threat spotlight: Extorting executives for ransom

Oracle says it's now investigating the hacks — suggesting some of the stolen data may be legitimate. www.axios.com/newsletters/...