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My heart goes out to the elderly couple at LAX getting hassled by TSA for not having Real ID

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How am I supposed to choose

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In light of the news this week that Cellebrite has acquired Corellium, here's an in-depth piece I previously wrote about Cellebrite, which looks at how the Israeli firm became the go-to hackers for the FBI and other federal agencies who want to get physical access into locked phones they seize

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Even putting aside the news cycle, today was a major day for me (they’re not mine, sadly)

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In retrospect maybe the Democrats should have put this in some ads after gawker published it in 2015

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Would be interesting to hear Musk try to reconcile these two sentiments

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I’ve been meaning to have @sambiddle.com on the show for ages! We dig into how the tech industry is pivoting to try to get way more lucrative military contracts and openly embracing the goal of US supremacy in the process.

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"According to LinkedIn, the bulk of Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club."

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“According to LinkedIn, the bulk of Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club.”

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When I was advising the U.S. government on partner force LOAC compliance for the purposes of arms transfers, intel sharing, etc, this sort of thing would have been a major red flag.

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Quite a situation where you have a single company providing vital tech services to both facilitate a country's atrocities and the investigation of those atrocities www.politico.eu/article/micr...

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I wrote about OpenAI's pivot to jingoism, and how dedicating itself to "national security" is at odds with its founding mission to benefit "all of humanity." theintercept.com/2025/06/03/o...

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Gonna do a Substack live with @sambiddle.com at 3pm!! We're going to talk about two of the most disturbing photos ever taken, plus more stuff about apple, musk, and sam's new piece on openai's newfound nationalism theintercept.com/2025/06/03/o...

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I wrote about OpenAI's pivot to jingoism, and how dedicating itself to "national security" is at odds with its founding mission to benefit "all of humanity." theintercept.com/2025/06/03/o...

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“A large language model is just a stepping stone to agentic warfare" www.defenseone.com/technology/2...

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I like how he keeps using cars as pillows

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the journalism “research” nonprofit industrial complex is a joke

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Expect Trump’s Military Parade to Cost More Than the Army Says The Army says Trump’s June 14 military parade will cost up to $45 million. This is likely an underestimate due to unaccounted expenses. theintercept.com/2025/05/29/t...

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Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist: “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

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Also if you're interested, I wrote a book about this: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706321...

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"MX Missile," slide 29 of 29 [gallery]

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Am I crazy or does it look like there are still a bunch of nuclear fireballs over the United States in the most recent Golden Dome promo drawing

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Some grim Memorial Day reading: a recent ruling in the 9/11 military commission reveals descriptions of one of the CIA’s most sadistic black sites — like, well,

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NEW: More than a decade ago, Kaspersky discovered a mysterious "elite" hacking group it called Careto (aka “The Mask”), which then vanished and only resurfaced last year. We can now reveal that the researchers who investigated it were confident that the Spanish government was behind it.

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BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

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Notable statements from a former Israeli Prime Minister.

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A nice thing about visiting Austin is getting to see one of the airport bathrooms that made Nancy Mace so mad, and the sign above it that she cropped out of the photo.

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Hundreds of former Afghan commandos & their families were refused relocation by a UK Special Forces officer with possible links to a war crimes enquiry where they could’ve been witnesses. At least five were later murdered by the Taliban. The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.

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Just found my new favorite startup

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