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( Tired of bios ) News editor at The Record: @therecordmedia.bsky.social ( Often thinking about music ) ( Etc. )
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Shoutout to anybody who is going through cancer treatments and is wondering whether all the scientific support is going to crumble soon.

Watching the Errol Morris doc about Manson and just wishing that Jonathan Valania (Magnet, Phawker, etc) was still around to talk about it

One could be excused for reading a lot of cybersecurity articles and thinking that Cobalt Strike was made for bad stuff alone

The Office of the National Cyber Director will become a dominant force in the 2nd Trump admin thanks to the pending appt of NCD Sean Cairncross, experts say. The selection of 3 offensive cyber specialists to the NSC also lays the groundwork for a stronger ONCD therecord.media/trump-white-...

The Trump administration appears to be positioning the Office of the National Cyber Director to operate as the executive branch cybersecurity policy lead that Congress envisioned when establishing it in 2021, experts say. https://therecord.media/trump-white-house-office-national-cyber-director

Childhood illnesses tend to be quite more severe in adults. Every adult I have ever seen with measles or chickenpox or mumps was hospitalized or very ill. To die of measles in 2025 is a sad and deeply unfortunate choice. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What if Slack was called Slacks, and instead of Channels it had Legs

JUST IN: The head of the US African Development Foundation is suing Peter Marocco and DOGE — and he is describing in detail the standoff in which he blocked DOGE from entering the agency's offices. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover. Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment." WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.

Anyone who paid to see this game should file a civil suit with the NBA to get their money back www.si.com/nba/celtics-...

I think about this song at least once a month. More often the past few weeks. genius.com/Husker-du-ho...

“Theoretically speaking, in a situation where we want to test something that was made in China, they want to restrict our ability to obtain it. Usually, we find other ways of finding something when a manufacturer doesn’t want us to have it.” www.mcall.com/2025/03/06/l...

THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY

The organization also lost years of wildlife conservation research as a result of the January 2024 cyber incident. https://therecord.media/toronto-zoo-warns-decades-cyberattack

Trump administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation reut.rs/3F3B1cv

U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, who often wears a Ukrainian flag pin on his lapel, has gone silent on President Donald Trump’s decision to halt aid and intelligence sharing to the embattled country.

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"And so there is a fairly obvious trade: If there has been no winner for a while, ... you could buy every possible number combination — 25.8 million tickets, for $25.8 million — and guarantee yourself a jackpot." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

U.S. prosecutors accused a dozen Chinese nationals with hacking into the Treasury Department and other entities as part of a web extending from private companies into China's state security agencies. https://therecord.media/doj-charges-chinese-nationals-isoon-cyberattacks-treasury

​A French university is offering funding to American scientists concerned about potential censorship under the Trump administration. ​ 🔗 www.404media.co/french-unive...

In 2008, the US started tweeting air quality data from its embassy in Beijing, putting pressure on the Chinese gov to address dangerously high pollution levels. The program was expanded and is credited with saving many lives and billions of $. Now, it's been killed. www.wired.com/story/air-mo...

I'll be selling some records and giving away free stories about others on Saturday morning at the American Poetry Museum. Come hit the Farmer's Market and say hello. 716 Monroe St NE #25 Washington DC 20017. 10AM-2PM.

My gf and I have a running joke about New Hope, PA having an evil/cross-the-river twin called “No Hope” that sold only cigarettes.

New, by me: CIA Director John Ratcliffe has confirmed that the Trump administration paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine, following the heated exchange between the two countries’ leaders on Friday. Ratcliffe said the pause "will go away," but didn't specify when. techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/c...

Anne-Sophie Dhiver, the deputy head of the French government agency Viginum, spoke to Recorded Future News about why and how her agency was addressing the threat of disinformation. https://therecord.media/focus-on-musk-algorithms-not-words-france-disinfo-agency-interview

This is the chance for Kyrie to come back and finish his career as Uncle Drew. Lower expectations, maximum drip

Elon Musk's algorithms, not his words, are the focus of France's disinformation agency - as Anne-Sophie Dhiver told Recorded Future News in Paris a few weeks ago.

A Barcelona court has ordered that 3 former senior executives at NSO Group be indicted for their alleged role in a high-profile hacking scandal in which at least 63 Catalan civil society members were targeted with the company’s surveillance technology known as Pegasus therecord.media/catalan-cour...

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

As Donald Trump fixates on rare earth metals, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has decided his country’s geologists should start looking for them too. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

What it's like to live inside a punching bag wapo.st/41FwwO8

“The end of the war in Ukraine will improve the ability of Russia to engage in hostile activity elsewhere in Europe as it pursues its political objectives by means both fair and foul,” the Finnish intelligence agency Supo warned on Tuesday in its annual national security overview.

Like elsewhere in the Pacific, Palau has seen its share of cyber disruptions, the latest affecting its health ministry. @jgreig.bsky.social checks in, noting that "a U.S. Cyber Command 'defend forward' team is now on-site conducting forensics collection and analysis." therecord.media/palau-health...

BREAKING: Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, sues HHS, alleging that HHS's refusal to pay $36 million in open grant agreements has resulted in "over 100,000 eligible individuals and families losing access to critical services" and layoffs and furloughs across partner agencies.

The former head of the Social Security Administration says he expects the agency to miss on some payments over the next three months, interrupting some people's benefits, for the first time in Social Security's history of eight decades: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

Can confirm that @therecordmedia.bsky.social is a real journalism outlet.

New from 404 Media: buying this $250 ID from the tropical nation of Palau allows you to bypass U.S. crypto laws. The law blocks certain exchanges and limits trades. I bought the ID, verified it works for making accounts on crypto exchanges. Traders are doing this. www.404media.co/buying-a-250...

Oscar voters were not truly ready for a story about Doylestown

Hoping Queen Latifah sneaks in the UNITY chorus here

Sources: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the US Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions (Martin Matishak/The Record) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stores exceptionally sensitive corporate proprietary information. A leak could have major implications. https://therecord.media/doge-access-cfpb-data-market

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