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The Long Ukrainian Winter How You Can Help

Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help
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Microsoft held an AMA session and updated its guide to help sysadmins safely replace Secure Boot certificates that are set to expire this June.

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Claude Opus 4.6 Finds 500+ High-Severity Flaws Across Major Open-Source Libraries Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 identified 500+ unknown high-severity flaws in open-source projects, advancing AI-driven vulnerability detection.

Hacker news reports that Claude Opus 4.6 Finds 500+ High-Severity Flaws Across Major Open-Source Libraries #cybersecurity #exploits #opensource

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Interactive Input Form UI in Python

100 Python Projects — From Beginner to Expert pythonclcoding.gumroad.com/l/100PythonP...

What Must Be Done? The Battle Against Fascism Podcast Episode · It Could Happen Here · 02/05/2026 · 39m

Last month the Japanese American National Museum asked me to deliver a keynote speech on what is necessary to combat authoritarianism and preserve democracy. You can listen to it and the Q&A that followed here:

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SpaceX Delays Mars Plans To Focus on Moon Elon Musk’s rocket company had aimed to reach the red planet in 2026

BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK TO FOCUS ON MARSHMALLOW FARM INSTEAD OF GUMDROP CITY

www.wsj.com/science/spac...

i have been saying for years that all Olympic athletes should have acid injected into their penises

-Denmark recruits hackers for offensive cyber operations
-Coinbase has another insider breach
-CISA tells agencies to remove old edge devices
-Microsoft has a new security chief
-Russian hackers targeted Olympics, again

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Security firm runZero has launched KEV Collider, a tool that enhances the CISA KEV catalog with additional metadata

www.runzero.com/kev-collider/

Also, a new report on CISA KEV: www.runzero.com/resources/ke...

so much clothing is marketed as "conversation starters" but as an introvert, i want "conversation enders." no more talking. let me go home.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents Microsoft has made OneDrive agents generally available, allowing users to query multiple documents simultaneously through Copilot instead of just one at a time.…

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

Still doing the same boring tasks every day?

These 8 Python Libraries That Automate Repetitive Tasks Effortlessly

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Microsoft finally sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connections Today is the day Azure Storage stops supporting versions 1.0 and 1.1 of Transport Layer Security (TLS). TLS 1.2 is the new minimum.…

Microsoft finally sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home

The Scam Ad Machine Nearly one in three Meta ads found to point to a scam, phishing or malware

Dear f***ing lord!

Nearly one every three Meta ads showed in the EU and UK over 23 days pointed to online scams

This should be the easiest layup for govt agencies in the history of enforcements

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New survey reveals how security researchers and journalists experience legal and criminal threats Over 100 security researchers and journalists answered our survey and told us how they experienced threats for doing their work. Here are some of the top takeaways.

ICYMI: Yesterday we published the results of a survey of 100+ security researchers and journalists asking about the legal and criminal threats they face for doing their jobs.

A very interesting takeaway: While legal & criminal threats are common, most of our respondents *did not* give in to them.

Between June and December 2025, a “likely Chinese state-sponsored group” compromised the infrastructure used by Notepad++ and served malicious updates to selectively targeted users. notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacke...

"How We Got Here: The Rise, Backlash and Future Of Counter-Disinformation" with Eliot Higgins and Dr Claire Wardle | Podcast Episode on RSS.com In our first Stage Talk of 2026, we were joined by Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins and Cornell University's Dr. Claire Wardle sharing their expertise on the formation of fact checking and verificatio...

Bellingcat founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and Cornell University’s @cward1e.bsky.social unpack how disinformation evolved, why trust in institutions is collapsing, and what tools we all need to stay sharp in a world of misinformation. Listen back to last week's Stage Talk: rss.com/podcasts/bel...

Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?

Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
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Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site 'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'

'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

True expertise is knowing when to say “fuck if I know”

Since last year, we’ve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and it’s getting harder to keep track of what’s happening, let alone remember what’s already happened.

So here’s a quick thread to help.

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign AI vision systems can be very literal readers Indirect prompt injection occurs when a bot takes input data and interprets it as a command. We've seen this problem numerous times when AI bots were fed prompts via web pages or PDFs they read. Now, academics have shown that self-driving cars and autonomous drones will follow illicit instructions that have been written onto road signs.…

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane