A large volume of United Nations Development Programme data related to staffers and other internal operations was stolen and posted to a ransomware website in late March, the agency announced this week. scoopmedia.co/4aNDq5N

We've been asking about the outstanding Change Healthcare data since early April. Well, it turns out that claims about ~4TB of data floating around could be true and, if so, may hold data on a 'substantial portion' of Americans, the company said yesterday:

Stolen Change Healthcare data could contain information on 'a substantial portion' of Americans, the company says. scoopmedia.co/3Ufmdvd via AJ Vicens || @ajvicens.bsky.social

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is in custody on espionage charges, makes a heart-shaped gesture behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants as he attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva

U.S. Rep. Summer Lee says she voted for Joe Biden today at her local precinct in Swissvale. “Whoever it is that they vote for, I encourage people to come out, make their voices heard. That’s a part of the process, especially in the primary.”

ICYMI: A PublicSource and 90.5 WESA investigation found local Republicans working to remove thousands of Allegheny County residents from the voter rolls. It won’t affect today’s voting, but some fear it could feed an “echo chamber” of election suspicion. buff.ly/3x0tIOJ

This is an old Ed Zitron observation, but it says something about Vice’s management that it had the 404 Media team on staff — the people putting out bangers every day — and didn’t know what to do with them

Re-upping cuz it posted late yesterday... cyberscoop.com/proposed-data-…

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Happy Monday! I am covering stories about federal agencies and tech–especially regarding modernization, AI applications, and tech-related legislation.

I'm focusing on the GSA, USDS, Nuclear Regulatory Committee, FTC, VA, EPA, and Department of Education. 🧵1/2

their press team cannot find ads that are trivial to find and are already viral on other social media platforms without being directly sent links to them

“Leaks of intelligence documents in 2023 from Russia indicated a specific interest in targeting operational aviation systems.

Further, Chinese threat actors are known to be targeting US critical infrastructure firms (including the aviation sector) given their military doctrine

Should we start a petition to make these the primary uniform?

Throwbacks are so good, but those old Broncos might be even better haha

Best Uniform in the league.

Another exceptionally important story from Jennifer Brookland: Michigan takes foster kids' federal benefit money and reimburses itself for their care.

The fact that this isn't new, and it happens in plenty of other states, makes this more alarming.

freep.com/story/news/loc… via Detroit Free Press

Instagram and Facebook are both decaying platforms that don't just enable criminal behavior but actively profit from it and either don't know or don't care how to stop it

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The magazine aisle at my local Safeway is a surprisingly bleak place where overweight men without body armor have to tote expensive suppressed SMGs and multiple flash-bangs while riding motocross bikes through a suburban hellscape just to survive

Thoughtful piece on a sticky subject. While foreign and domestic actors are clearly dedicating substantial resources to spreading political propaganda online, we still know very little about how people consume it and its ultimate impact.