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Army officer with Indo-Pacific experience emerges as potential Cyber Command, NSA pick Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, the No. 2 at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, has emerged as a potential pick to lead U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, multiple people familiar with the search told...

A senior U.S. military officer with no digital warfare experience has emerged as a top contender to lead U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, Recorded Future News has learned.

✍️ @martinmatishak.bsky.social with the scoop

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live threat Library of Congress employees were informed to take caution when emailing the office of the congressional scorekeeper.

Politico is reporting that the breach at the Congressional Budget Office is "ongoing."

“Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.

As always, if you have feedback, comments, ideas, spot errors etc., feel free to reach out to @jls.bsky.social (or me)

If you're interested in #OSINT, this one might be for you. A short item in this week's newsletter on using Virustotal to find (clues to) leaked data.

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Rebels Post Videos of Mass Killings in Darfur as the World Watches After the fall of El Fasher to the R.S.F., observers fear for the next target in the war.

“We are talking tens upon tens of thousands of potential dead in five days.”

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.

OpenAI's Sora 2 is flooding social media with videos of women being strangled. Yet another example of generative AI companies failing to prevent users from creating media that violates their own policies against violent content.

www.404media.co/openais-sora...

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.

That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

readwrite What readwrite is about This is a newsletter about journalism and coding. If you subscribe, here’s what you can expect: Tutorials on finding information – pictures, profiles, malware – what’s generall...

There could not be a newsletter more perfectly aimed at journalism/data/cyber nerds like me: buttondown.com/readwrite (thank you @hatr.bsky.social, @jls.bsky.social)

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Edition 1 - the first one is the hardest Hi, This is the first of hopefully many emails we’ll deliver to your inbox. Thanks for signing up! For this week’s edition, Jan took a brief look at OpenAI’s...

The first edition of the newsletter is out in case you're interested:

Jan took a brief look at OpenAI’s Atlas browser from a researcher's perspective.

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Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arres...

For one of my final stories with @wired.com, I teamed up with @peggylowe.bsky.social at KCUR to dig through a Kansas City, KS police hack

Inside were some of the most disturbing misconduct files I’ve ever read—and a secret list of cops the department said couldnt be trusted

Here are a few of them:

Trump administration tells Congress war law doesn’t apply to cartel strikes A top Trump administration lawyer told Congress that the War Powers Resolution, which would require the end of hostilities within 60 days, doesn’t apply to cartel strikes.

Scoop: Trump’s OLC head tells lawmakers the War Powers Act doesn’t apply to cartel strikes, and the administration does not need to cease strikes by Monday.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Grokipedia dedicates an entire section of its entry on the AfD defending the far-right party from accusations of being far-right grokipedia.com/page/Alterna...

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show

Just more blockbuster reporting from @972mag.com, @theguardian.com and Local Call www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

„that people “reportedly associated with a nation-state actor” gained access to the company’s IT network, with initial access dating to early December 2024.“

www.reuters.com/business/med...

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.

The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

screenshot of Grokipedia's entry for "George Floyd," which begins: George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an American man with a lengthy criminal record including convictions for armed robbery, drug possession, and theft in Texas from 1997 to 2007.[1][2] On May 25, 2020, Floyd was arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a store clerk reported that he had used a counterfeit $20 bill to purchase cigarettes.

that certainly is one way to start an encylopedia entry for george floyd

please do

means a lot tbqh!

To be clear: This is not going to be a weekly news-roundup. For that, there are excellent resources out there, such as "~this week in security~" by @zackwhittaker.com or the newsletters @campuscodi.risky.biz and @tom.risky.biz publish.

Our thing is just about basic research, ideas etc.

Basically, we do write often little helper scripts to grab information, clean data or do just plain old elaborated googling to e.g. source leaks. It's too long for this place, too niche for articles, but might be relevant to a certain niche. So, a newsletter it is. Just a side project, obvs.

readwrite What readwrite is about This is a newsletter about journalism and coding. If you subscribe, here’s what you can expect: Tutorials on finding information – pictures, profiles, malware – what’s generall...

to keep it short: @jls.bsky.social and I are starting a newsletter about #journalism and coding. If you're interested in either #OSINT or reporting (or both!), this one might be for you.

More details here buttondown.com/readwrite

Hundreds of People With ‘Top Secret’ Clearance Exposed by House Democrats’ Website A database containing information on people who applied for jobs with Democrats in the US House of Representatives was left accessible on the open web.

New with @lhn.bsky.social:

Thousands of people who applied for jobs with the Democrats in the US House of Representatives have had their data exposed online—including hundreds with "top secret" clearance

Officials say they have launched an investigation into the data exposure

Neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” Web Server Reveals the Structure and Culture of a Far-Right Network The exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine, contains a trove of data for understanding the transnational demographics and scope of its user base, and the activity of prominent ...

"The original torrent file containing the Iron March database also contained the full web server for the website that hosted Iron March’s electronic magazine (e-zine), "NOOSE.

"Significant contributions … from identified members of the Atomwaffen Division"

decoherence.media/neo-nazi-rop...

Re-read this story in light of the completely insane Trenchant-Russia-connection.

How ICE Spies On WhatsApp ICE’s HSI division gets contacts from the WhatsApp account of a fake ID dealer and has little trouble identifying them, according to warrant.

"Identifying individuals with that metadata alone appears to be simple enough for the ICE unit."

www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...