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move slow and repair things

Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

New from Bellingcat - Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Reverse-engineered Coruna - a nation-state iOS exploit kit - from raw JavaScript. 28 modules + MUCH MORE!
www.nadsec.online/blog/coruna
www.nadsec.online/blog/coruna-...
(technical analysis more interesting, read coruna blog post first, technical analysis looks better on github, link on-site)

They Came to Spy on America. They Stayed to Coach Little League. In the wake of the Cold War, some Soviet bloc spies decided their fake American lives weren’t so bad.

NEW, from me: A secret chapter of Cold War history, told here for the first time. A deep cover Soviet Bloc spy living in America as the Berlin Wall fell. The shocking moves by a European intel chief. And the incredible CI chess games by FBI and CIA counterspies.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

"Just after starting on Cars 2, I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all weekly art department meetings because Lasseter 'has a hard time controlling himself' around young women... It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me."

I expect we'll see a lot of this coming from the US administration

Iran's Fars News Agency confirmed that the country's military intentionally targeted AWS data centers in the region to see if they played a role in supporting the US military's attacks.

Strikes hit AWS data centers in Bahrain and the UAE, and a Microsoft data center

t.me/farsna/41529...

Starting to see Nordic countries detaining and boarding more shadow fleet ships. There has been a hard to understand hesitancy to do this www.dn.se/direkt/2026-...

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’ New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick...

Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran.

Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system.

www.wired.com/story/from-u...

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

That Iranian Navy ship we torpedoed had no ammunition on board because that was a requirement to participate in the MILAN 2026 exercise (organized by the Indian Navy).

The US Navy knew this because IT ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE EXERCISE. What a national embarrassment.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

Fascinating on the critical minerals consumed in US weapons in the past week and the time it will take to replenish those. Gallium is a particular concern.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...

Israel says it knocked out Iran’s cyber warfare headquarters But it’s unclear if the strike has fully taken out Iran’s ability to launch cyberattacks as the Middle East war expands.

I absolutely beg people not to take the IDF’s word that it hit IRGC-CEC HQ as a datapoint that is detailed or reliable enough to support any assessments about a meaningful reduction in Iran’s cyber capacity.

Neither the IRGC nor the MOIS has their actual CNO operators centralized in tidy locations.

Earth Is Warming Faster Than Previously Estimated, New Study Shows Researchers found the first statistically significant evidence that global warming is accelerating.

"Planetary warming has significantly accelerated over the past 10 years, with temperatures rising at a higher rate since 2015 than in any previous decade on record, a new study showed." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NSO Group has been sanctioned by the US because of abuses connected to its Pegasus spyware

Of course it's furiously lobbying to get off of those lists, in order to open up the lucrative 🇺🇸 defence and intelligence contract opportunities

@vaspanagiotopoulos.com describes those efforts in detail 👇

No "stupid rules of engagement" -- like, you know, the Geneva Convention.

It's clear where the 🇺🇸 stands on international law.

Question for Canadians 🇨🇦: what's our position?

Reframing misinformation as informational-systemic risk in the age of societal volatility | HKS Misinformation Review When a bank run, a pandemic, or an election spirals out of control, the spark is often informational. In 2023, rumors online helped accelerate the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. During COVID-19, fal...

The danger of misinformation lies "...in its capacity to undermine...confidence in science, the legitimacy of elections, and shared historical narratives...[S]ystemic risk analysis...helps clarify why misinformation should be understood as a structural condition..." See following link 👇🏼

Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch What a great time to add facial recognition to everything!

“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”

Those 100 or so children that were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Iran. They all had names. They had parents, siblings and perhaps pets. They had best friends. They had dreams, frustrations and anxieties. They had moments of utter happiness. And each of them was someone else's everything.

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives An internal diplomatic cable said such efforts could interfere with AI-related services.

Scoop: Rubio has ordered US diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives worldwide

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The US tech giants use a lot of subsea cable connectivity - and these days, they're major cable owners (including sole owners).

What would happen if they, for whatever reason, decided to suspend connectivity to Europe?

www.politico.eu/article/us-t...

(Me @politico.eu. No paywall.)

Here’s What a Google Subpoena Response Looks Like, Courtesy of the Epstein Files The US Justice Department disclosures give fresh clues about how tech companies handle government inquiries about your data.

NEW: One aspect of the Epstein Files I find fascinating is that they're a rare window into the inner-workings of a federal investigation, including how tech companies respond to government requests for information. We looked at some Google-related ones: www.wired.com/story/heres-...

This is Contagious Interview and I’m not sure why Microsoft didn’t attribute in the blog. I have a couple guesses but that’s all they would be: guesses.

Russian firms have routed $8bn of trade through British island territories since invasion of Ukraine Anti-corruption group Transparency International have catalogued ‘sanctions circumvention’ channelled through ‘unaccountable jurisdictions’

Drilling kit for Russia's money-spinning oil industry, yachts linked to Medvedev and Yanukovych, an aircraft for Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov.

All part of $8bn trade flowing through the UK's island havens since 2022.

Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker accused of buying exploits stolen from U.S. defense contractor | TechCrunch The U.S. Treasury announced it was imposing sanctions against a Russian broker of zero-day exploits, its founder and two affiliates, citing a threat to U.S. national security. Another affiliated zero-...

NEW: The U.S. government is sanctioning Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero and its founder, alleging it acquired stolen hacking tools from U.S. defense contractor L3Harris Trenchant.

The U.S. said former Trenchant boss Peter Williams stole and sold these exploits to Operation Zero.

censys.com/blog/vshell/

North Korean Lazarus Group Now Working With Medusa Ransomware North Korean attackers continuing to mount extortion attacks against the U.S. healthcare sector despite indictment.

Moonstone Sleet using Medusa ransomware www.security.com/threat-intel...

Nice @maggiemiller.bsky.social writeup on how CISA is scaling back support to state and local governments during the DHS shutdown: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Cellebrite taking a page out of the NSO Group playbook.

Denialism is a bad look for a company that tries to frame itself as more ethical than notorious spyware companies.

And a good sign that there are deeper issues with the company.