So I’m just gonna say it, Iran was mining Bitcoin in the mountains.

In a 2020 UK Government meeting, tech policy expert Heather Burns was allegedly called a "paedo" after raising concerns about the Online Safety Act, effective July 25, 2025. The law mandates age verification for websites, impacting over 60,000 global companies. Burns

Listen, if you think you can just waltz into Cybersecurity, I’ve got news for you…. …..you absolutely can, we’re really bad at identifying and hiring competent people

This is how disinformation spreads: In Scotland, a 12-year-old girl has been charged with possession of an axe and a kitchen knife after confronting a married Bulgarian couple on the street. The man, who filmed the incident, is a Bulgarian Christian living legally in Scotland

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hey, do you remember like last week when Discord announced server capacity was getting raised to 25 million people, and everyone went “why would you need 25 million people in a discord server?” and then Nepalese Zoomers took over their government via Discord?

Discord says a vendor breach exposed user data: names, emails, IP logs, billing info, and even some government IDs. The attacker wanted ransom, but the real story is this: once platforms collect official IDs, the risk is permanent. Governments keep pushing online ID mandates.

This is too perfect an encapsulation of the upcoming era of AI surveillance. Tech giants and governments are gonna auto-search through everything you've ever posted to construct your profile, and also the model is occasionally gonna hallucinate and ruin your life for no reason.

2/ Apple is introducing Target Flags which speeds the process of getting exploits found & submitters rewarded. This faster tempo is also a strike against the mercenary spyware ecosystem. And the expanded categories also hit more widely against commercial surveillance vendors.

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Record numbers of people are being radicalised into nothing in particular.

This is sinister as fuck.

A “news outlet”, created by an online casino, has a verified seal and uses BBC’s name to spread a completely made up story that will certainly lead many to support bombing a country far away. Polymarket and Kalshi are so evil, holy shit.

Exclusive: Obtained Starlink terminal debug data from Iran during the ongoing internet shutdown. The telemetry shows direct evidence of GPS spoofing: the dish detected 18 GPS satellites with valid signal lock, but activated its anti-spoofing countermeasures (inhibitGps: true).

Big Brother Watch exists to protect us all from people like Shabana Mahmood. This is a jaw dropping interview on her “ultimate vision”🥴 Big Brother Watch telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/1…

In a way, these courses are actually the perfect introduction to gen AI: scams, rehashed content from the past, & stuff that doesn’t even work.

This report contains 287 browser extensions tracking 37 million+ users. These were identified using methodology of sandboxing extensions, automatically browsing to URLs, and measuring a data ratio transferred. Real companies, fake services, well established, it's a mixed bag.

Yeah, so pretty much, like, there is this really sketchy company in Israel named "Paragon". Paragon sells a "product" called GRAPHITE. Let me explain the background and why this is very silly. GRAPHITE spyware which allows "customers" to remotely access peoples cell phones and

“The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts

The United Kingdom is escalating its censorship and mass surveillance. When Mullvad tried to criticise this with the TV ad “And Then?”, it was banned on British television.