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The weaponization of US technology companies means we should treat our dependence on them as a national security threat ↘️

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www.wired.com/story/krause...

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“I believe that his abrupt firing puts the security of veterans services at risk” a source with knowledge of VA systems said. “Eliminating the person responsible for the security of veteran info on VA.gov erodes the quality of the service for the veteran. It’s reckless” www.wired.com/story/doge-u...

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New @lhn.bsky.social story: DOGE’s cuts included the guy responsible for keeping veterans’ data safe online “I believe that his abrupt firing puts the security of veterans services at risk,” one person says

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Justice Dept. to Drop Discrimination Case Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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I spoke with trans and genderqueer developers about working in games in the US amid an anti-trans administration and harassment from online communities. Many feel left behind by the companies they work for. “Can’t piss off the bigots, because they spend money.” www.wired.com/story/game-d...

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Breaking: Apple pulls end-to-end encrypted storage option from UK after secret order for a back door. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Layoffs at the US Dept of Agriculture have thrown projects into chaos, including important IRA-linked work, and many projects designed to benefit farmers www.wired.com/story/usda-l...

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NEW: Microsoft hosted around 150 explicit non-consensual images of startup founder Breeze Liu on its Azure servers. It took Microsoft eight months to remove the images, despite pleas piling up. The company just didn't respond to one NGO working with Liu Story with @peard33.bsky.social

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Breeze Liu has been a prominent advocate for victims. But even she struggled to scrub nonconsensual intimate images and videos of herself from the web.

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A particularly grim pair of details is that one org couldn’t help because she might have been under 18 in the images, so they couldn’t legally view them, while another couldn’t help because she couldn’t prove she was under 18, and that her case therefore fell within their mandate.

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Our new investigation in @wired.com shows the danger of Google's huge RTB security problem We easily obtained Google RTB segment data about US national security personnel from a databroker -- despite posing as a foreign company that fetes Russian troops our fake website www.wired.com/story/google...

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NEW: A @wired.com investigation into Google’s ad ecosystem found that users of its DV360 platform can—despite Google's rules against it—target ads based on highly sensitive traits like medical issues or financial hardship. @dell.bsky.social & @dmehro.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/google...

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NEW: One woman's story about how it took 8 months for Microsoft to remove nude images of her that were shared without her consent and proliferated across the internet: @peard33.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/deepfa...

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NEW: Microsoft hosted around 150 explicit non-consensual images of startup founder Breeze Liu on its Azure servers. It took Microsoft eight months to remove the images, despite pleas piling up. The company just didn't respond to one NGO working with Liu Story with @peard33.bsky.social

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Condé staff work overtime to break news about Elon Musk’s government takeover at WIRED, develop new recipes at @bonappetit.bsky.social + cover the Grammys for Vanity Fair. We go beyond for our jobs, but Condé Nast is making us commute 4x/week just to check a box—& can’t even provide enough workspace

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Russia-linked hackers have been phishing Ukrainian military with Signal QR codes that look like group invites but instead add a linked device that eavesdrops on messages. Update Signal now to get its fix for a tactic that’s likely to spread beyond Ukraine. www.wired.com/story/russia...

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Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's new company is Thinking Machines Lab. She wants to make cutting-edge models more accessible and has assembled an all-star team--many from her former employer. www.wired.com/story/mira-m...

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Donald Trump pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Tate brothers https://www.ft.com/content/3f951e0b-a9cb-489a-be89-fdf9f996ed27

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SCOOP: Top DHS officials received a memo on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency By @zhirji.bsky.social w/asst from me 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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56 minutes for the half marathon is wild

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Thread. The damage these fuckwits are doing around the world is incalculable.

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See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

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When Elon Musk said DOGE would be "maximally transparent," I think he forgot to add "when it comes to promoting X." www.wired.com/story/doge-w...

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Even if this restarts the payments (which is doubtful), some of the damage done will be irreversible. And with the funding flowing again, will any organisation be able to plan around funding that can be cut off at one man's whim?

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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.

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Today in the Love & Sex Special Edition: @lhn.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social delve deep into the damage caused by romance scams—and how isolation and AI could make the problem worse. www.wired.com/story/loneli...

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NEW: The General Services Administration, staffed at its upper levels by Elon Musk associates, plans to sell 500-plus buildings—some of which house government agencies and the offices of US senators.

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As of 3/3, @CondeNast is enforcing a 4-day Return To Office policy to enhance “productivity." This plan will have the opposite effect. We have detail-oriented jobs that operate on tight deadlines. Condé sold office space during the pandemic, so most of us don’t have our own desks.

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NEW: Former Palantir and Elon Musk Associates Are Taking Over Key Government IT Roles www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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The ecosystem is a mess. Adversaries don’t need it via an app they make—They can just buy the data: Florida-based data broker says it obtained sensitive data on US military members in Germany from a Lithuanian firm, revealing the global nature of online ad surveillance. www.wired.com/story/rtb-lo...

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"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

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Services supporting victims of online child exploitation and trafficking around the world have faced USAID and State Department cuts—and children are suffering as a result, sources tell WIRED.

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NEW: People working on child protection—including anti trafficking and stopping online sexual exploitation—tell me that US funding cuts are putting victims at risk, and prosecutions of seriously criminals are likely to be upended

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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SCOOP: In leaked audio, Trudeau says Trump admin. are "prolific users of the tools of misinformation and disinformation for political purposes." Trudeau also says protecting democracy doesn’t seem to be a top priority for the new U.S. admin. By @muradhem.bsky.social. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

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NEW: People who work to counter human trafficking & child exploitation tell @wired.com that USAID cuts/State Dept funding pause have impacted their ability to protect children and pursue cases against abusers/traffickers. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/doge-u...

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NEW: People working on child protection—including anti trafficking and stopping online sexual exploitation—tell me that US funding cuts are putting victims at risk, and prosecutions of seriously criminals are likely to be upended

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As an IRS agent, Tigran Gambaryan was perhaps the most effective crypto investigator in history. Then last year he was charged in Nigeria with money laundering and thrown in prison. Throughout, he was texting with me from a secret phone. This is his full, untold story. www.wired.com/story/untold...

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SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:

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If you’re a current/former US government employee or contractor in the cybersecurity space and want to chat securely, my Signal is couts.01

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SCOOP: FBI director nominee Kash Patel disclosed he received up to $5M in shares of a mysterious entity in the Cayman Islands called Elite Depot. Elite Depot is a parent organization of fast-fashion giant Shein, according to corporate records I reviewed www.wired.com/story/kash-p...

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New from me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social: An internal analysis at Treasury found that DOGE was “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” @wired.com www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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New: A 2nd DOGE staffer has amplified extremists online, including Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate www.reuters.com/world/us/sta...

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