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[Steam intensifies]

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Wow, @josephcox.bsky.social at @404media.co is quick on the draw. Something looked off about the PIN verification screen in this Reuters photo of Mike Waltz using Signal ("Verify your TM SGNL PIN"). Turns out this is a Signal clone, used for archival purposes. www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

I did not believe this pic was actually real, but it is in fact a real photo on the Reuters wire www.reutersconnect.com/item/us-nati...

submitted 10 hours ago • 42 comments

The Daily Dot—a site that helped define the internet era and was a launch pad for me and a ton of your favorite journalists like @marisakabas.bsky.social, @ericgeller.bsky.social, @asankin.bsky.social, @kevincollier.bsky.social, @williamturton.bsky.social, @kateconger.com & more—has been gutted. RIP

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

🆘 The White House terminated the entire staff of the State Dept.'s Historical Advisory Committee this evening. This threatens the integrity of the declassification of foreign policy records, the objectivity of our historical accounts, and undermines current and future policy makers.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

I would like for our elected representatives to be more… Looks directly into the camera. Careful about how we talk about these technologies. Think of generative AI as conjecture software. Some is low-stakes. Some scenarios (say, driving) quite high stakes and maybe shouldn't be left to conjecture.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

A Texas lawyer gave some informal advice to undocumented immigrants. He later had unidentified agents from ICE show up at his door. A tech oddity: His Wifi went down right before the officers' visit and came back soon after, meaning their visit wasn't recorded. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

Cooking something at work on identifying people on Signal. As always, I like to include illustrative screenshots.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE has access to 19 sensitive systems at the Department of Health and Human Services. In at least one instance, it appears that access was granted without the proper security training.

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

“Everyone predicted this would happen in a second Trump administration, yet politicians in a position to prevent it prioritized empty rhetoric over putting up a meaningful fight." Read our statement on the repeal of DOJ guidelines protecting journalists. freedom.press/issues/trump...

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

This is an extremely significant development, signaling Trump's intention to make heavy use of the criminal justice system in his war against professional journalists.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Four days after journalist Émérite Amisi Musada went missing in Bukavu, the capital of the DRC’s eastern South Kivu province, he was found naked on the edge of nearby Lake Kivu. Amisi told CPJ that he was taken, tortured, and interrogated about his work by unidentified men. cpj.org/2025/04/drc-...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

submitted 6 days ago • 633 comments

Hegseth should read our guide to locking down Signal. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

In this week's digital security digest newsletter I wrote about Signalgate. Use Signal, but not like that. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

If you don't like what Google does with Chrome, just wait until Chrome Sync pipes your browsing history to OpenAI instead. www.theverge.com/news/653882/...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

My colleague @davisa.bsky.social unpacks what VPNs and your Internet Service Provider can see about your activities when browsing the web. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Oh no! Anyway www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

submitted 11 days ago • 194 comments

Entire books could be written on lessons learned from Hegseth’s opsec. apnews.com/article/hegs...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

At @freedom.press we are hiring a summer intern to join our digital security training team! Please check it out and share widely: freedom.press/careers/job/...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

SCOOP: DOGE operatives have access to Department of Labor systems housing sensitive information about immigrants, including its National Farmworkers Jobs Program. By @leahfeiger.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

submitted 14 days ago • 1175 comments

The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens. 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

submitted 15 days ago • 41 comments

Looks like the evidence for this weird chemical abundance in an exoplanet atmosphere has gotten stronger with new JWST data: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s... Is it really a sign of life? That’s still not clear; lots of analysis left to do. But it’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out! 🧪 🔭

submitted 15 days ago • 43 comments

"Krebs said he understood why some have kept a low profile and tried not to further anger the president....'[But] I don’t think this lay-low-and-hope-this-blows-over approach is the right one.... I was sanctioned by the Russians and I’ve been effectively sanctioned by my own government as well'"

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Reporter: The president has said it would be an abuse of power for the president to direct prosecutors to investigate him. He directed the DOJ to scrutinize Chris Krebs.. How is that not an abuse of power? Leavitt: It’s the position of the president that it’s well within his authority to do it

submitted 16 days ago • 562 comments

Just saying… @signal.org supports 50 people in a group call. www.theverge.com/news/650123/...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

At @freedom.press we are hiring a summer intern to join our digital security training team! Please check it out and share widely: freedom.press/careers/job/...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I'm finding I need to occasionally revisit my @blockpartyapp.com to delete old tweets. Seems Twitter occasionally revive tweets I've deleted before, which seems bonkers.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US. They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US. www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...

submitted 20 days ago • 93 comments

Can't be emphasized enough that the image of the US deporting people for things they said is so much more damaging to its foreign policy interests than anything a student might have said on the quad

submitted 21 days ago • 16 comments

I'm carving out a new beat here @propublica.org - CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER TRUMP. It's a big and important beat and one I'm thrilled ProPublica has committed to. Here's my first of many stories to come. Advocates, lawyers, teachers and fed workers. Send me your tips! [email protected]

submitted 23 days ago • 34 comments

With so many devices at risk of getting more expensive due to tariffs, do you have particular devices you want to get ahold of?

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

If I buy the Switch 2 adjusted for tariffs, I don't know if I'll have enough money left over for a barrel to wear www.polygon.com/nintendo-swi...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

That’s a heck of a lot of paid actors.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Usability is a serious security problem. I'm quite glad these powerful features exist but there's lots of room for growth. We have other examples of successes here; HTTPS on most page loads or disk encryption on modern phones. These are major achievements that require almost no attention from users.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

America is solidly in our, “Scream ourselves to sleep, shit ourselves awake” era.

submitted 27 days ago • 485 comments

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

submitted 27 days ago • 428 comments

Learning the hard way, there are a lot of versions of “small government.”

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1. More here:

submitted 28 days ago • 62 comments

"When investigators in the field confronted a potentially life-threatening contamination that compromised drug sterility, Pohlhaus was the person they would call. He’s the one who helped them gather evidence that could halt dangerous manufacturing or shut down a pipeline of compromised products."

submitted 29 days ago • 27 comments