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Content Director at Packet Pushers; tech journalist; co-host of the Network Break, Heavy Networking, and Packet Protector podcasts; author of the supernatural novel "The Haunting of Edward Drake"

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DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

10.03.2026 18:27 👍 2376 🔁 1430 💬 35 📌 78

I want to see other CEOs eat their products. Google CEO eats a computer. Airbnb CEO eats a pillow

04.03.2026 19:44 👍 169 🔁 51 💬 10 📌 0

So many people claim to be staying on X to fight misinformation.

But X is right wing misinformation. It's baked in, it's in the bones of the site.

Staying on X to "fight" is like paying to go to a right wing politician's fundraiser so you can whisper fact checks to the person sitting beside you.

10.03.2026 17:32 👍 29 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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A dose of psilocybin helps smokers quit in new study The psychoactive substance in magic mushrooms appears to have a powerful effect on people trying to stop smoking.

The psychoactive substance in magic mushrooms appears to have a powerful effect on people trying to stop smoking. n.pr/4s2Lmcb

10.03.2026 15:15 👍 253 🔁 50 💬 24 📌 13

It's only agentic if it's from the Agent region of France, else it's just sparkling automation.

10.03.2026 10:47 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

The ICE warehouse in Western Maryland, up close. It’s hard to explain how enormous this place is until you’re standing right in front of it.

09.03.2026 20:52 👍 144 🔁 86 💬 6 📌 10
He Promised His Mother He’d Keep the Family Healthy. In Albany, Georgia, That’s Not Easy.
He Promised His Mother He’d Keep the Family Healthy. In Albany, Georgia, That’s Not Easy. YouTube video by ProPublica

WATCH: “Keep the family healthy.” Those were some of the last words Clifford Thomas’ mother said to him.

But in Albany, a town with a health care monopoly and no Medicaid expansion, staying healthy is a luxury that many are priced out of.

09.03.2026 15:34 👍 399 🔁 123 💬 10 📌 3
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403) YouTube video by AWS Events

Day 1/30: I'm started 30 Days of Serverless Best Practices which is 30 tips from my talk - practical, battle-tested, ready to use. Starting now with the intro. 🚀
🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA
#Serverless30Days #Serverles -

03.03.2026 22:16 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Or we could accelerate our transition to renewable energy, which would also take oil revenues out of the hands of dictators *and* ensure our planet remains habitable. It's a twofer!

09.03.2026 14:44 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

Financial documents compiled by ProPublica reveal a myriad of relationships among Trump and his team that could create conflicts of interest — including ties between appointees and industries their agencies frequently interact with.

Explore our database 👇

09.03.2026 03:00 👍 1141 🔁 541 💬 73 📌 49

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

07.03.2026 17:12 👍 4757 🔁 1918 💬 68 📌 30
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The Iran War Is Unfathomably Depraved Our media’s sanitized coverage obscures the human toll. Are we able to confront the full sickening evil of what the U.S. is doing?

This is a hard but necessary read.

"Our media’s sanitized coverage obscures the human toll. Are we able to confront the full sickening evil of what the U.S. is doing?"

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ira...

07.03.2026 12:56 👍 42 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 0

@wyden.senate.gov Could be an interesting line of questioning during his confirmation hearing

07.03.2026 02:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Department of Justice has sued 30 states and DC for access to their unreacted sensitive voter data. My law firm is fighting them in all 30 cases.

We are dedicating so many resources because these are the most important legal fights and the future of free and fair elections is at stake.

06.03.2026 23:41 👍 16083 🔁 4134 💬 384 📌 138
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

07.03.2026 02:01 👍 1025 🔁 611 💬 51 📌 57
Four soccer-style scarves with BSIDES BUFFALO woven into them.

Four soccer-style scarves with BSIDES BUFFALO woven into them.

GIVEAWAY CONTEST: For those who don't know, these are our Speakers' Scarves - we give these away as a thank you gift every year for the people who volunteer to present at the conference.

06.03.2026 13:55 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 2
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The ‘secretary of war’ and a tech CEO shouldn’t be the only ones debating ethical use of AI | Editorial

OPINION: "Congress should issue legally binding guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in war — including restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons." — The Inquirer Editorial Board

06.03.2026 14:28 👍 33 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1

The affected Trader Joe's items include:
• Chicken Fried Rice
• Vegetable Fried Rice
• Japanese Style Fried Rice
• Chicken Shu Mai (dumplings)

06.03.2026 01:45 👍 56 🔁 86 💬 0 📌 8
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 👍 10013 🔁 5280 💬 629 📌 640
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My statement on Secretary Noem's firing:

05.03.2026 19:49 👍 5048 🔁 1364 💬 298 📌 72

Question for people whose title is "security researcher": besides bug bounty submissions, how do you make money? What other options are there for monitizing security research? Honest question.

06.03.2026 00:57 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

05.03.2026 23:41 👍 12356 🔁 7454 💬 295 📌 340
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Poetry is a bird
perched lightly on the back
of all that is fickle
and dangerous in this world...

05.03.2026 17:25 👍 2814 🔁 420 💬 61 📌 25

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

05.03.2026 20:14 👍 7364 🔁 2034 💬 156 📌 88

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES to vote "No" on Mullin or any nominee for DHS secretary. More sand in those fucking gears.

05.03.2026 20:24 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

05.03.2026 12:27 👍 989 🔁 539 💬 20 📌 50
Garbage Day newsletter excerpt that reads: Meta Ray-Bans are a Cybertruck for your face- they are great for weird fucking losers that want to look down your shirt and plaster it all over Instagram

Garbage Day newsletter excerpt that reads: Meta Ray-Bans are a Cybertruck for your face- they are great for weird fucking losers that want to look down your shirt and plaster it all over Instagram

@garbageday.email hit the nail on the head with this one!

If the comparing Meta Ray-Bans to a Cybertruck doesn't send the message it needs to about how these mass surveillance tools are a terrible idea, then what will actually get through to you?

05.03.2026 16:19 👍 82 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 0

Amazing!

05.03.2026 15:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GitHub - buraglio/lldp2map: A go utility for creating a map based on LLDP data obtained via SNMP A go utility for creating a map based on LLDP data obtained via SNMP - buraglio/lldp2map

Last nights fun project was this topography mapper using LLDP and SNMP to walk networks and map them out. Generates a png, pdf, drawio diagram or a excalidraw doc. github.com/buraglio/lld...

05.03.2026 13:08 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Report finds police cameras cluster in Rochester Black neighborhoods A new Police Accountability Board report finds Rochester blue light cameras concentrate in Black, Hispanic neighborhoods, with no link to crime data.

“City residents living in predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods are three times more likely to be under the watchful eye of police surveillance cameras than those in mostly-white neighborhoods, according to the Rochester Police Accountability Board.”

05.03.2026 11:37 👍 100 🔁 39 💬 2 📌 4