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YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America.

I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.

To hack Americans. 1/

Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

While AI companies are allowed to slurp everything they want, Quad9 warns that legal fees are drowning DNS resolvers, which are now being targeted by copyright owners to enforce blocks on piracy sites

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The flags of the European Union (blue circle with yellow stars) and Switzerland (red circle with a white cross) overlap slightly, superimposed over a scenic background of clear water reflecting a majestic, snow-dusted mountain range under a bright blue sky. Text below the flags reads "EU-Switzerland" and "HORIZON EUROPE."

🇪🇺🤝🇨🇭 Switzerland is officially in the European research game.

Today, it joins Horizon Europe and the Euratom Research and Training Programme.

Think CERN-level breakthroughs… but across health, energy, and digital tech.

Here’s why it matters ↓

link.europa.eu/G4Jfjw

Well, that was nuts (aka, amazing)! Thank you to all of our speakers, staff, sponsors, and guests who made the inaugural SOS a smashing success and deepened the vibe. We hope you had as much fun as… ... Well, that was nuts (aka, amazing)! Thank you to all of our speakers, staff, sponsors, and guests who made the inaugural SOS a smashing success and deepened the vibe. We hope you had as much fun as w...

Well, that was nuts!

Thank you to all of our speakers, staff, sponsors, and guests who made the inaugural 🆘 a smashing success and deepened the vibe. We hope you had as much fun as we did.

Au revoir?

See our LinkedIn post for our 8mm reel:
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We hear you! Registration opens next week, so keep an eye on our social media. The registration link, also known as the 'Ask for invite', will soon be available on pivotcon.org
#PIVOTcon26 #CTI #ThreatIntel #StayTuned

How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out…

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government.

We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...

The biggest choice on today's ballots in PA is whether to retain 3 Democratic supreme court justices. The push to remake the court has been driven by billionaire Jeff Yass.

In 2022, @propublica.org detailed how Yass had avoided paying $1B in taxes and funneled that money to right-wing causes:

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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Giornalista: Meno di un’ora prima del Suo incontro con il presidente Xi, ha pubblicato sui social media che aveva ordinato, cito, al “Dipartimento della Guerra” di iniziare a testare le nostre armi nucleari.

Trump: È vero.

Giornalista: Immediatamente.

Trump:

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Terrore in Inghilterra: su un treno diretto a Huntingdon, nel Cambridgeshire, più persone sono state accoltellate. Forze di sicurezza sul posto: due persone in arresto.

🚨🪖🇺🇸🇳🇬 Attenzione. Donald Trump:

“Se il governo nigeriano continuerà a permettere l’uccisione dei cristiani, gli Stati Uniti interromperanno immediatamente ogni aiuto e assistenza alla Nigeria, e potrebbero benissimo entrare in quel Parse ormai disonorato, “con le armi spianate”,

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.

www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

🚨🪖🇮🇱Buongiorno a tutti. Sono tornati i post social di sdegno per i bombardamenti israeliani su Gaza, gli editoriali dei tuttologi che spiegano che Israele è cattivo, che non vuole la pace, che l’obiettivo nei giorni pari è l’occupazione della Striscia, in quelli dispari il

Ukraine war briefing: Russian drones hunt civilians in crime against humanity, UN inquiry finds Ukraine strengthens Pokrovsk positions amid infiltration by estimated 200 Russian troops; Lukoil selling overseas assets after US sanctions. What we know on day 1,343

Avvertite Alessandro Barbero 👇

Russian drones hunt civilians in crime against humanity, UN inquiry finds

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Dumping Google’s enshittified search for Kagi Enough is enough: I’ve jettisoned Google in favor of a search engine that doesn’t treat me like a product.

Here's a good Ars article about the service.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

I've been a part of making web browsers since 1998. I've tested Comet from Perplexity․ai and Atlas from OpenAI, and I am thoroughly unimpressed. Don't waste your time.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Apple’s iOS forensics freeze, WhatsApp zero-click, China outs NSA - Security Conversations Three Buddy Problem – Episode 69: We dig into news that Apple's iOS 26 has quietly killed the shutdown.log forensic artifact used to spot signs […]

New episode ALERT! @craiu.bsky.social @jags.bsky.social

News on Apple's iOS 26 quietly killing shutdown.log forensic artifact, a million-dollar WhatsApp zero-click that never materialized, Chinese threat intel reports pointing fingers at the NSA...

securityconversations.com/episode/appl...

Proofpoint threat researchers have designed an open-source tool—named PDF Object Hashing—to track and detect the unique characteristics of PDFs used by threat actors... similar to a digital fingerprint. 🫆

We use this tool internally to help track multiple threat actors with high confidence.

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

Meta lays off 600 employees within AI unit The cuts come as Meta has been pouring billions of dollars into AI

Meta *literally just* fired 3600 people earlier this year so they could "focus on AI," and now they're firing *600* of their "AI" people? That does Not sound like a company that knows what the fuck it's doing.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/m...

🚨🪖🇷🇺Buon pomeriggio. Pochi minuti fa, i media statali russi hanno diffuso le immagini di Vladimir Putin nell’atto di supervisionare un’esercitazione delle forze nucleari strategiche russe. 

In mattinata il portavoce del Cremlino, Dmitry Peskov, aveva annunciato - senza fornire

From the fednews community on Reddit: I’m Andy Kroll, a ProPublica reporter. I just published a deep dive about how Trump’s “shadow president” Russ Vought is using his OMB chief role to dismantle... Explore this post and more from the fednews community

Elon Musk was the face of DOGE, but records show that Russ Vought, Trump’s budget chief, played a key role in guiding DOGE behind the scenes.

Tomorrow at 6 p.m. ET, head to Reddit to ask our reporter @andykroll.bsky.social about Vought’s influence over the Trump presidency:

Netherlands curtails intelligence-sharing with US over ‘human rights’ Dutch spy chiefs cite concerns about Trump administration’s ‘politicisation’ of services

Sheesh. The Netherlands has curtailed intelligence co-operation with the US over fears the Trump administration could use it to violate human rights or assist Russia.
www.ft.com/content/af80...

We’re excited to announce that The Vertex Project ( @vertexproject.bsky.social ) is a sponsor of State of Statecraft 2025. Their generous support helps make our event possible.

The Vertex Project creates technology for analytical teams to provide intelligence-driven insights to decision makers.

🚨🪖🇨🇴🇻🇪🇺🇸 Attenzione. Ho la netta impressione che il presidente colombiano, Gustavo Petro, si sia messo seriamente nei guai. Nel corso di un'intervista, il leader di Bogotá ha dichiarato:

"L'umanità ha una prima via d’uscita: cambiare Trump, in diversi modi - può essere per mano

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May just have to reshare on a weekly basis:
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