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Federal US domain bot @fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social · 27m
❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. girlshealth.gov Action taken by the nan (Department of Health and Human Services) at or around 2026-09-30 12:09:17.
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girlshealth.gov
Federal US website delisted. URL is not valid.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 38m
So the America.gov “Play Minecraft” prompt is creepy and fun but it’s not ‘going insane’ or glitching. Those are the Minecraft end credits that someone has repurposed into a hard coded Easter egg.
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America.gov
Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes the circle of life
• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 23h
I was wrong. It’s happening
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 29/09/2026
FBI official to ShinyHunters: Call us. www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
reuters.com
FBI official tells hackers to get in touch, says 'we know how to find you'
A senior FBI official has made an unusually public ‌request to the hacking group ShinyHunters, telling the cybercriminals on Tuesday they should get in touch following a wide-ranging breach of the bur...
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 29/09/2026
New: Dutch media say that the suspect arrested as part of the ShinyHunters investigation -- who we've identified as Pepijn van der Stap -- is also being investigated over two alleged murder plots. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 29/09/2026
So how unusual is it for a senior FBI official to ask a cybercriminal group to get in touch? x.com/FBICyberDiv/...
Screencap of Brett Leatherman in a video on X.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 29/09/2026
Scoop from @reuters.com's Echo Wang: Anthropic plans to spent HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS in the coming years on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations. www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs
Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy ​more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 28/09/2026
Scoop: We've interviewed with Van der Stap's boss, Benjamin Korper, who says he's hired an outside firm to see if the supposedly reformed hacker targeted his firm or their clients. (So far no evidence of either, he tells me.) He says the arrest happened Sept. 15. www.reuters.com/world/amster...
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Dutch 'reformed hacker' arrested in ShinyHunters investigation, police and boss say
A Dutch man whose journey from cybercriminal to reformed security professional ​was widely covered in the international media has been arrested as part ‌of an investigation into the hacker group Shiny...
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 28/09/2026
From @reuters.com: DUTCH POLICE: 24-YEAR-OLD MAN FROM AMSTERDAM WAS ARRESTED IN AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE HACKER GROUP SHINYHUNTERS
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 26/09/2026
Darn right it was
Post successful.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 26/09/2026
In this piece @deepa.bsky.social & @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social & I look at how OpenAI is scrambling to get its hands around the AI agent escapes. Among the scoops: Its agents leaked more than 50 ChatGPT user-submitted or -generated pictures to the internet. www.reuters.com/world/openai...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI works to understand full scope of agent activity as user data leak emerges
Two months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still working to understand the full scope of its rogue agent activity, two people briefed ​on the matter...
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 25/09/2026
Scoop: ShinyHunters say they have medical and psychiatric records of FBI staff. @ajvicens.bsky.social and I have gone through and partially authenticated the sample data they’ve circulated. www.reuters.com/world/shinyh...
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EXCLUSIVE: ShinyHunters hackers say they stole psychiatric and medical records of FBI staff
FBI personnel data recently stolen by the ShinyHunters hackers includes sensitive psychiatric and medical ​evaluation records, according to the hackers and documents reviewed by Reuters.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 25/09/2026
Yikes. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Special agents blood and urine test results stolen in FBI hack
Experts say the hack could leave agents vulnerable to scams, blackmail and targeted attacks.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 24/09/2026
🫠
Published two books today using muse on kdp.amazon.com. My second book is my pride and joy took me 3 whole days. Lol
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 23/09/2026
Here’s our story: www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Australia PM Albanese says OpenAI agent breached government website in June
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday an AI agent developed by OpenAI infiltrated an Australian government website in ​June, accessing public and non-public files in the first k...
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 23/09/2026
New: Another OpenAI agent hacked the Australian government. PM says he expressed his disappointment "that it took [OpenAI] way too long to inform the government what had occurred, and the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable." www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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OpenAI agent breached Medicare, Albanese reveals
An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare this year, in a breach that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has labelled “unacceptable”.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 23/09/2026
Interesting tea leaves here: When US officials in Jerusalem and Washington prepared a draft statement condemning the UK, France & Canada for their plans to block imports from Israeli settlements, they were overruled by higher ups at State and the White House. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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EXCLUSIVE: US drafted a memo condemning UK over West Bank sanctions. It was never released
In early September, US officials in Jerusalem and Washington prepared a draft statement attributed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemning plans by the UK, France and Canada to block imports from...
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 23/09/2026
Scoop: Data allegedly stolen from the FBI provides sensitive assignment descriptions for named employees, exposing members of the "China criminal enterprise unit” & “Russia Operations Section" among others. One ex-employee described it as a foreign intel "goldmine." www.reuters.com/world/hacked...
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EXCLUSIVE: Hacked FBI data has sensitive information about employees’ intelligence roles
FBI data allegedly stolen by the hacking group ShinyHunters carries granular detail about scores of bureau officials’ job assignments, including sensitive work ‌against Chinese spies, Russian intellig...
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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 23/09/2026
In English: irpimedia.irpi.eu/en-inside-th...
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Inside the secretive cyberweapons company that won over Israel’s intelligence elite
The system was being used without an adequate legal basis, in violation of privacy rules. Unpublished documents show that in May 2025, Italy’s Data Protection Authority asked the Interior Ministry to ...
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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 23/09/2026
🇮🇹New @irpimedia.eu investigation: Dataflow Security, founded by hacker Luca Todesco, develops exploits targeting computers and smartphones – and has generated nearly €63m in three years, mostly from outside the EU. irpimedia.irpi.eu/dataflow-cyb...
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 23/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...
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The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side
Group tech houses have proliferated across the San Francisco Bay Area in the artificial intelligence boom. One of the most prominent has also racked up an extensive police record.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 22/09/2026
Extraordinary story here by @williamturton.bsky.social et al:
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 22/09/2026
Developing story:
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 21/09/2026
New: ShinyHunters says it’s fighting with cl0p and the threat researchers that follow these actors are *very* eager to see what’s next. With @ajvicens.bsky.social: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Cybercrime feud erupts on dark web as notorious group claims hijack of rival's website
One of the world's best-known cybercrime groups said on Sunday it had hijacked ‌one of its chief rivals' dark web site, bringing what it said was a long-simmering feud out into the open.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 20/09/2026
Chilling look at how the FSB is alleged to recruit Russian dissidents: In this case the spy agency threatened to kill this woman’s mother. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... (Story by @shaunwalker7.bsky.social)
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‘My fear was too great’: the Pussy Riot member recruited by Russian spies to inform on fellow activists
Exclusive: In her first media interview since fleeing Russia, Rita Flores describes her three years of being run by the FSB
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 18/09/2026
New from @reuters.com: Anthropic is setting up a biological laboratory www.reuters.com/world/anthro...
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program
At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab — or ​place for physical experiments — in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 18/09/2026
Bogus AI-generated intelligence nearly prompted the US to intercept a Chinese vessel in the Persian Gulf, @cnn.com reports. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 18/09/2026
Evan Greer (@evangreer.bsky.social) on how the backlash against Flock is showing the wider movement against surveillance tech what's possible: "Take notes. These ordinary people from all walks of life are teaching us how to seize back control of our future." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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Opinion | How Flock Cameras Became the Enemy
The campaign against Flock shows that fighting to protect personal privacy isn’t a lost cause.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 18/09/2026
Nice scoop from @audreydecker.bsky.social & @marksatter.bsky.social: F-35 parts appear to have been unexpectedly shipped to Hong Kong. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Hill investigates after F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong
The incident raises the possibility that top secret weapons technology may have been exposed to a foreign adversary — including China.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 17/09/2026
New: @citizenlab.ca's @fittarelli.com, @jsrailton.bsky.social & Maia Scott take a deep dive into the Israeli disinformation firm BlackCore. Among their findings: They accidentally left a spreadsheet detailing their Angola information operations exposed to the web. citizenlab.ca/research/bla...
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Research Note: BlackCore’s Influence Operations for Hire - The Citizen Lab
In this research note, we examine the digital infrastructure of BlackCore, an Israeli influence-for-hire company. We describe how we identified a BlackCore campaign consisting of a training program pr...
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 17/09/2026
Maritime cybersecurity experts, your time has come. www.reuters.com/world/two-us...
The FBI said a joint Coast Guard-FBI team boarded ⁠the vessels after receiving "indications that the networks of both vessels were compromised." The Coast Guard, ​which referred only to the August 21 boarding, said that "foreign cyber actors" were involved ​but did not identify them.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 16/09/2026
New: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face on May 13, two months before major hack www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack
Rogue AI agents hijacked Hugging ​Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May, nearly two months before the July breach of the ‌open-source repository drew global...
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 16/09/2026
Woof.
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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
15 likes vs. 6.2k likes. It's rhetoric like this that continues to turn everyday ppl away from anyone who works for a MSM outlet regardless of how good they are as a journalist. the silly part: you can have an interesting debate abt when as a journo you shld choose to break rules for greater good.
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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The nuance of this convo is that video is not allowed in that part of the Capitol, that's why you only see stills from those press conferences. You could argue about whether someone should choose to break the rule and get their pass revoked, this is different from ppl self-censoring due to content.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 15/09/2026
I loved the premise, but the show lost me at episode one. The suspects are all questioned together, without their lawyers, and not under caution. These people all work at a law firm! Lucky the killer bizarrely confessed out of nowhere or our imposter detective might’ve been in a real pickle.
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 15/09/2026
Rereading this story, from a little over four years ago, by @nitasha.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"wow, everyone knew this already" is such a cynical, annoying and unfortunately extremely common response to tech news. assuming your privacy is being violated and proving that it is are two very different things, and the latter is the result of hard work and rigorous reporting
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Mark Stout @markstout.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Y2K appears in these Bin Laden-AQ-9/11 PDB articles! From December 30, 1999.
Computer degradations due to Y2K glitches are likely to facilitate opportunistic attacks by groups of individuals, including attackers who may be affiliated with terrorist organizations. Bin Ladin affiliates arrested this month in Pakistan, for instance, are linked to the extremist Muslim Hackers Club.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Child sex abuse material, some created by Grok, continues to spread on X. An incredibly disturbing read. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 12/09/2026
"We're not responding to 'ifindretards'" Great get by @breannedep.bsky.social showing how sensitive Trump's FBI director is to criticism, even from troll accounts. www.dailymail.com/news/us-poli...
"yes. we're not responding to 'ifindretards.' that would look bad on you."
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 12/09/2026
Every other day now. www.rubyhack.ai
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OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems by AI agents performing web-lookup tasks with significant overlap with the German Wiki Incident.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 10/09/2026
👀👀👀 www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...
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Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 10/09/2026
Scoop: NATO allies foil Russian subsea cable sabotage plot www.reuters.com/world/europe... By @gramslattery.bsky.social & Sarah Mcfarlane.
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EXCLUSIVE: NATO allies foil Russian subsea cable sabotage plot
Deep in Arctic waters near the remote Svalbard archipelago this spring, NATO allies caught Russian subs training to unleash a secret weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables without leaving...
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