Alex Torchia

Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government.

After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.

The aftermath of a Russian strike on Kyiv.

A whole entrance of a residential building is gone.

As of now, we don't have information about injured and killed.

When Russians say they want peace, remember this image.

yep! unpaywalled:

DRM for broadcast TV is bad in principle, but I’d urge folks to focus on the much longer list of public-interest problems that precede DRM in the filing that this press release is about, including transition management, cost externalities, emergency and accessibility features, simulcasting, etc.

Your key takeaway from the brilliant Ukraine attack with small drones into Russia shouldn’t be “wow, small drones make it so easy to score huge hits,” it should be “wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part”.

YouTube video by Doctor Who DUGGA DOO | FULL SONG from The Interstellar Song Contest | Doctor Who

Oh, Murray Gold you absolute lunatic.

DUGGA DOO | FULL SONG from The Interstellar Song Contest | Doctor Who

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdzT...

License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows Flock, which has license plate readers (LPRs) all around the country, wants police to be able to “jump from LPR to person,” according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media.

Flock’s invasive new tool “will certainly help to bring expanded surveillance powers to police departments of all sizes that never needed this much information on any random person who happens to drive by,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton warned @404media.co.

Oof

Two top cyber officials resign from CISA Bob Lord and Lauren Zabierek both posted on LinkedIn Monday morning that they were resigning from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Two top cyber officials resign from CISA
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A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane I stumbled across a Reddit bot posting emotional rants about how bots are ruining Reddit; just to sell AI-generated books through affiliate links. A perfectly dystopian grift for the dead internet.

"An AI-powered bot pretending to be a human, lamenting AI-powered bots who pretend to be human, to gain human trust, so that it can covertly market AI-illustrated books."

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My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Now is a great time to read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle if you aren’t sure of why this would be a *terrible* decision

Apple security updates are out, including two iPhone zero-days

support.apple.com/en-us/100100

here comes the slow brothers

Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes. More details here, but this is... really bad. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

BREAKING.

From a reliable source. MITRE support for the CVE program is due to expire tomorrow. The attached letter was sent out to CVE Board Members.

My analysis of information operations executed against Europe (in context of the EU report on foreign information manipulation and interference). The information space has become a global battlefield. techletters.substack.com/p/techletter...

“From the male perspective, nobody expects it to happen, and as a society, we don’t even know how to talk about it. … We think the straight, white guy from Ohio can’t be the victim, and that’s the furthest thing from the truth, because it can happen to anyone at any time.”

kitten on laptop says: love my puter all my brand accounts are inside it

Open/Closed: To receive testimony on United States Cyber Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2026 and the Future Years Defense Program | United States Senate Committ... United States Senate Committee on Armed Services

to be expected/something to watch: Lt. Gen. Hartman is now testifying before the Senate Armed Service Committee on Wednesday about Cyber Command (previously was going to be Gen. Haugh)

www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-...

Oracle says its cloud was in fact compromised Reliability, honesty, accuracy. And then there's this lot Oracle has briefed some customers about a successful intrusion into its public cloud, as well as the theft of their data, after previously denying it had been compromised.…

Oracle says its cloud was in fact compromised

Fake twitter accounts moving markets is definitely a sign of a healthy economy.

There’s no reason you ever skip security, unless you want to immediately lose all contracts and set fire to your reputation forever.

Very interesting on the math observations, but I’m not loving the “I’ll do it one way and say I did it another” behavior

Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.