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Aaron Stephens @aaronst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
need more of this
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Aaron Stephens @aaronst.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
this was ~7 years ago but man oh man does it feel good to see justice come to people we spent countless hours investigating www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/a...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If AI is sentient, then so is Age of Empires 2. A Microsoft AI researcher built a basic neural network within the video game using digital goats to prove his point. Point is to show "sometimes the claims we make with regards to LLM capabilities are too strong." www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...
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If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’
“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
NSO Group is under a permanent injunction to stop targeting WhatsApp and its users with their spyware. Meta says they've continued to do so anyway: about.fb.com/news/2026/06...
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Fighting Spyware: An Update From WhatsApp
WhatsApp caught and disrupted spear phishing attempts linked to NSO, a spyware firm blacklisted by the US government.
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Sound Of Hockey @soundofhockey.com · 13/04/2026
“‘He was my best friend’- Ryan Winterton on the loss of his brother Jacob and support from the #SeaKraken” A heartbreaking but beautiful story of brotherly love, tragedy, and how a hockey team rallied to help. soundofhockey.com/2026/04/13/h...
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"He was my best friend” - Ryan Winterton on the loss of his brother Jacob and support from the Kraken - Sound Of Hockey
Ryan Winterton opened up about the tragic passing of his older brother, Jacob, and the amazing support provided by the Kraken.
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
BREAKING: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian elections after 16 years in power - with opposition Tisza party on course for landslide victory.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/04/2026
Artemis II was overshadowed by other bad things in the news but what it accomplished was frankly amazing. We are capable of incredible and unprecedented things. I’m in awe at how far we safely sent humans into space.
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Alison Lukan @alisonl.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I spoke about this on Jamie Dodd & Thomas Drance's show today (which they release as a podcast). To clarify, the audit is being performed by an outside entity. Botterill will oversee it which, as a former consultant, I can tell you is standard protocol for any gig like this.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/03/2026
CNN’s Rene Marsh first reported limited, “voluntary” use of air marshals for ICE flights last July. What I’m reporting: It has been way more widespread—at times diverting perhaps 40 percent of all air marshals—and mandatory. Plus, flight attendants on these flights describe big safety problems.
On one deportation flight, one of the flight attendants recalled a senior air marshal
making cruel jokes about a migrant's appearance while going through the woman's paperwork, to get laughs from guards and air marshals.The ICE-contracted guards were notoriously rude to flight attendants, starting fights and ignoring safety instructions, all of them said - something ProPublica has also reported on other airlines' ICE flights. The air marshals - who, as the Flight Officers) In Charge, were the guards' superiors - tended to let the guards do whatever they wanted, the flight attendants said, since the guards were more experienced with ICE flights.
One flight attendant also recalled an incident in which an air marshal inflated a portable air mattress to sleep on, and when a flight attendant told him he couldn't block the aisle, "he had a whole fit."Perhaps the most serious of the flight attendants' allegations involved
unaccompanied migrant children who were being deported. The ICE Air Operations Handbook says unaccompanied children must be "separated from unrelated adults at all times" and seated "near officers and under their close supervision." But one flight attendant said that on several flights with air marshals onboard, they witnessed unaccompanied children being assigned to
"temporary families" - unrelated migrant adults who would care for them during the flights. The other two flight attendants said they had not seen this, but that they were allowed to interact so little with the migrant passengers that it was possible this happened on their flights without them noticing
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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
the types of podcasts: a guide
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder [...] that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people, don’t know how or why people use their products, and very often have no idea what they’re doing www.404media.co/rip-metavers...
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RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted
Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?
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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
Scene of Mario jumping around to avoid all the spinning fire sticks in the original Super Mario Bros game
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
BREAKING: powerful iPhone hacking tools used by Chinese criminals originated from US defense giant L3 Harris. Their zero-click exploits went to Russian spies too. Unbelievable harm to our collective security. Scoop: @lorenzofb.bsky.social, here's why it matters 1/ techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/a...
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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society. And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.
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Aaron Stephens @aaronst.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
@malwaretech.com maybe 2-3 years ago you published an article discussing why different vendors have different names for threat actors. you used an animal analogy. it was really well done but i can’t find it - do you still have it? i was having this discussion recently and wanted to share
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Aaron Stephens @aaronst.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
really not what we meant by abolish ice
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 28/01/2026
The amount of money the US government spent on troops in DC in 2025 ($223m) would have been enough to give the city's ~5,100 homeless residents each $43,000. Instead, federal troops destroyed their meager encampments.
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visi stark @invisig0th.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I love that @ilhanmn.bsky.social is obviously ready to throw down and confront this bully rather than shrinking back in fear. In a crisis, real leaders confront danger. 💚
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Aaron Stephens @aaronst.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
idk who needs to hear this, but malware doesn’t target things please stop saying malware targets things
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Phil Stokes ⫍🐠⫎ @philofishal.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
More bad #Apple #malware from our "friends" from the #DPRK (again!). 🇰🇵 Similar to the one seen by Huntress, but uses some different Nim payloads and trickery to write persistence on reboot / kill. Heads up #macOS detection engineers! 👇 @syrion89.bsky.social www.sentinelone.com/labs/macos-n...
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macOS NimDoor | DPRK Threat Actors Target Web3 and Crypto Platforms with Nim-Based Malware
NimDoor reflects a leap in DPRK’s offensive toolkit, mixing compile-time trickery with native scripting to complicate and deter analysis.
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visi stark @invisig0th.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Washington foresaw this day coming... "They serve to organize faction; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small [...] minority"
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Aaron Stephens @aaronst.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
They won’t solve this because focusing on names is to miss the forest for the trees. Or perhaps miss the trees for the forest. The root of this problem is the underlying data & analysis, or lack thereof. Until we set standards for these things, forget about names.
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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Navy Cmdr. Emily Shilling, lead plaintiff in the case against Trump's trans military ban, responds to SCOTUS' decision allowing it to take effect: "We are not a policy debate. We are real people, doing real jobs, in defense of a nation we still believe in, even when it struggles to believe in us."
A screenshot of a statement from Navy Commander Emily Shilling in response to the Supreme Court allowing Trump's transgender military ban to take effect while a court case proceeds. It reads: 

Today’s decision by the Supreme Court to stay the injunction in Shilling v. United States is a heavy blow—not just to me, but to every transgender service member who has worn the uniform with honor and integrity.

We asked for clarity. We asked for stability. Instead, we received uncertainty. The protections granted by the District Court, which affirmed our right to serve openly and authentically, are now paused while this case continues its journey through the courts.

But let me be perfectly clear: this is not defeat. This is delay.

Transgender service members have served this nation with courage, skill, and selflessness for years.  We’ve flown combat missions, led sailors, commanded troops, and stood watch. We are not a theory. We are not a policy debate. We are real people, doing real jobs, in defense of a nation we still believe in, even when it struggles to believe in us.

I know this decision will cause fear and doubt in the ranks. To those feeling shaken, I say this: stand tall. You are not alone. You are part of a community that will fight for you, stand beside you, and never stop pushing forward.

This case isn’t over. The truth is still on our side. And history, like it always has, will find in favor of those who choose courage over cowardice, service over exclusion, and unity over fear.

We carry on and fight forward.
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visi stark @invisig0th.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
An absolutely stunning look inside @sentinelone.com 's use of #synapse to provide intelligence context to inter-disciplinary intelligence stakeholders in defense of their own org. Truly on the leading edge of the intel driven fusion, collaboration, and impact. 🤩 www.sentinelone.com/labs/top-tie...
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Top Tier Target | What It Takes to Defend a Cybersecurity Company from Today's Adversaries
This report highlights a rarely-discussed but crucially important attack surface: security vendors themselves.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
💥 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals, both by 98-2 percent. GS Board urged shareholders to vote to reject proposals. "We believe that diversity, including diversity of thought, experience and perspectives, is important to our commercial success."
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I work with cool people who do cool things: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
New from 404 Media: the government is to name the confidential source who first provided it with Anom, the encrypted phone company the FBI secretly backdoored. Impacted 100+ crime syndicates. First in discovery, then potentially at trial as key witness www.404media.co/government-t...
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Government to Name ‘Key Witness’ Who Provided FBI With Backdoored Encrypted Chat App Anom
A lawyer has pushed to learn the identity of the person who first created Anom, which the FBI used to read tens of millions of messages sent by organized criminals. The confidential human source may t...
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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 05/12/2024
NEW REPORT: In a joint investigation with The First Department, we uncovered spyware covertly implanted on the phone of a Russian programmer following his release from Russian custody. citizenlab.ca/2024/12/devi...
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Something to Remember Us By: Device Confiscated by Russian Authorities Returned with Monokle-Type Spyware Installed - The Citizen Lab
In a joint investigation with The First Department, The Citizen Lab uncovered spyware covertly implanted on the phone of a Russian programmer following his release from Russian custody. The Monokle-li...
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visi stark @invisig0th.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
DC has *many* monuments with quotes etched in stone, but this one felt particularly apropos.
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