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Information Security strategist, software developer, and sci-fi fan. Opinions are my own. PGP key ID: B4D44CF1 Pronouns: he/him

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During the Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War (3:26-cv-01996) scheduling hearing that ended just now:

DoJ: I think we have a conflict on that date
Judge Lin: The DoJ has a lot of lawyers, I'm sure it will work just fine.

#Law #Anthropic #DoJ

10.03.2026 22:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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03.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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And the others chomping at the bit for war because $$$$$

03.03.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 178 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

And I’m more embarrassed to be an American than I was yesterday, again.

03.03.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 331 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Another Big Loss for the Little Bully Today, the Trump administration delivered a loss in court to itself.

Why go after Big Law? Courts can’t act on their own, they need lawyers to bring them cases. During the first Trump administration, that happened regularly. The new administration wanted to put a stop to it. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

03.03.2026 02:08 πŸ‘ 514 πŸ” 159 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 9
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Meiselas: Trump is a parody in the most extreme sense of the boogeymen MAGA created to go after Dems. He’s quite literally all of it. He covers up the pedo ring. He starts wars everywhere. He uses government to tread on people.

He's the most extreme example of what they claimed they wanted to stop.

03.03.2026 02:22 πŸ‘ 3725 πŸ” 1008 πŸ’¬ 126 πŸ“Œ 21
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The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here His name is Donald J. Trump.

"Trump's attack on Iran is terrifying in part because it's so untethered from policy goals and logic. He offered a range of half-hearted explanations for his rush to war, but the conflicting excuses only underlined the obvious truth β€” he attacked Iran because he felt like it."

03.03.2026 03:39 πŸ‘ 2861 πŸ” 865 πŸ’¬ 183 πŸ“Œ 45
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es lunes

02.03.2026 08:32 πŸ‘ 1034 πŸ” 298 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 19
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Rep Jason Crow has seen war up close-and he says Americans are DONE with endless conflicts. Working-class people pay the price while DC elites talk tough. Congress must return now, hold a War Powers vote, and demand answers from Trump before this spirals into another forever war.

28.02.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

Hi,

The President has no authority to determine how states conduct their elections, not even if he manufactures a crisis involving Chinese interference. This will fail. Bigly.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

26.02.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 2763 πŸ” 829 πŸ’¬ 137 πŸ“Œ 17

Oh cool. The justice department is investigating itself. I’m sure this will be really thorough.

26.02.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 3512 πŸ” 917 πŸ’¬ 228 πŸ“Œ 50
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26.02.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 5529 πŸ” 2809 πŸ’¬ 185 πŸ“Œ 104
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When there are no laws meaningfully regulating military AI use, the Pentagon’s promise to use AI β€œlawfully” mean almost nothing. The authoritarian AI crisis has arrived www.platformer.news/anthropic-pe...

27.02.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 256 πŸ” 88 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 10

Here’s a thought for James Comer.

There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton.

It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein.

You know, just to see what she knows.

26.02.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 28542 πŸ” 8252 πŸ’¬ 899 πŸ“Œ 425
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Anthropic Takes a Stand The company is refusing to bow to the Pentagon’s demands.

Anthropic refused to bow to the Pentagon’s demands to remove certain restrictions on its AI. What happens next could amount to the most extreme regulation in the short history of the tech, @willgottsegen.com reports.

27.02.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 175 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 7
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The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

26.02.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 9580 πŸ” 3148 πŸ’¬ 524 πŸ“Œ 115
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Clinton: It then got at the end quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate. One of the most vile bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet.

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Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Vulnerability Enables Remote Code Execution A critical vulnerability in an enterprise AI platform has been patched, addressing a flaw that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2026-0542, this security flaw poses a significant risk to organizations using the ServiceNow AI Platform. The vulnerability resides within the platform’s sandbox environment. Under specific conditions, it can be exploited to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE). The vulnerability, CVE-2026-0542, is categorized as an RCE flaw. This means an attacker could execute malicious code on the affected system without prior authentication or credentials. The execution occurs within the ServiceNow Sandbox, a restricted environment designed to isolate untrusted code. Metric Details CVE ID CVE-2026-0542 Vulnerability Type Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affected Component AI Platform (web, API, automation modules) Impact System compromise, data theft, workflow manipulation Attack Vector Remote network access, typically over HTTPS Severity Critical – CVSS 9.8 However, a successful exploit could allow an attacker to bypass these restrictions and gain unauthorized access or control over the affected instance. While the exact technical details of the vulnerability remain undisclosed to prevent exploitation, the severity of an unauthenticated RCE flaw cannot be understated. Threat actors highly seek after such vulnerabilities because they offer a direct pathway to compromise a system without needing user interaction or stolen credentials. ServiceNow has taken proactive steps to address this critical vulnerability. According to their security advisory (KB2693566) , the company deployed a security update to affected hosted customer instances on January 6, 2026. Security updates have also been made available to self-hosted customers and partners. ServiceNow has stated that, at the time of the advisory’s release, they were unaware of any active exploitation of this vulnerability in the wild against customer instances. However, the potential impact underscores the need to apply the provided updates. The company recommends that customers promptly apply the provided updates or newer versions, if they haven’t already. Customers who participated in the January Patching Program should have already received the appropriate update. The following table outlines the vulnerability details and the available patches across different ServiceNow releases: Release Patch / Hotfix Release Date Zurich Patch 4 Hotfix 3b Feb 23, 2026 Zurich Patch 5 Jan 12, 2026 Yokohama Patch 10 Hotfix 1b Feb 18, 2026 Yokohama Patch 12 Feb 6, 2026 Xanadu Patch 11 Hotfix 1a Feb 2, 2026 Australia Pending Fix Expected Q2 2026 Organizations utilizing ServiceNow are strongly advised to review the advisory and apply the necessary patches immediately to secure their environments against potential exploitation of CVE-2026-0542. Follow us on Google News , LinkedIn , and X for daily cybersecurity updates. Contact us to feature your stories. The post Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Vulnerability Enables Remote Code Execution appeared first on Cyber Security News .

Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Vulnerability Enables Remote Code Execution

26.02.2026 13:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Fraudsters integrate ChatGPT into global scam campaigns - Help Net Security OpenAI report details malicious ChatGPT use in scams, influence operations, and coordinated online abuse campaigns.

Fraudsters integrate ChatGPT into global scam campaigns

πŸ“– Read more: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/26/o...

#cybersecurity #cybersecuritynews #ChatGPT #fraud #romancescams #socialmedia

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How Ukraine turned hobby drones into precision killing machines In just four years, off-the-shelf toys have evolved into the war's deadliest weapon

‼️ Kyiv and Moscow remain in an arms race to produce the next technological leap that will give their drones the edge over those of the enemy. Improved battery life, software capabilities, and carrying capacity can mean the difference between victory or defeat.
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d0573d7...

26.02.2026 12:33 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1
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Per WIRED - a White House staffer has been ID’ed as running a big Twitter account that called the Obama apes video a β€œmasterpiece” (and his wife works for Karoline Leavitt)

www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-...

26.02.2026 12:58 πŸ‘ 3529 πŸ” 1926 πŸ’¬ 274 πŸ“Œ 104

The Ayatollah dumbass is talking about died in 1989. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

26.02.2026 02:30 πŸ‘ 4280 πŸ” 1051 πŸ’¬ 410 πŸ“Œ 69
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We live in a magical time for #dataviz. This map is just a static html page served on GitHub pages 🀯

It uses the incredible {pmtiles} #rstats package by @kylewalker.bsky.social to quickly filter through ~21M rows of data hosted on Cloudflare

vehicletrends.github.io/hhi-map/

25.02.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 327 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 3
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LGBTQ+ Athletes Won 11 Medals at 2026 Milan Olympics More than one-third of LGBTQ+ athletes walked away with a medal.

we do love our Olympians!

25.02.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 7079 πŸ” 1200 πŸ’¬ 96 πŸ“Œ 55
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US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: β€˜I’m not for sale’ Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land

Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland.

Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M.

America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech.

This is what integrity looks like.

25.02.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 18513 πŸ” 5229 πŸ’¬ 447 πŸ“Œ 273
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Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

β€œStrikingly, the new American migrant is more likely than ever to bring children in tow, relocation companies and realtors say, laying down roots…

β€œYou don’t face the prospect of your 5-year-old going into a kindergarten and doing an active shooter drill”

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Patel Ousts F.B.I. Personnel Tied to Inquiry Into Trump’s Retained Classified Records

Patel promised Senators in confirmation hearings: β€œThere will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI.”
He lied. He just fired another 10 agents who served in Jack Smith's investigation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

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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...

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs.

Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

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To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of powerβ€”to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformityβ€”is terrifying and it will not stop here.

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