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ExxonMobil Lobbyist Caught Hacking Climate Activists
The Department of Justice is investigating a lobbying firm representing ExxonMobil for hacking the phones of climate activists: The hacking was allegedly commissioned by a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm, according to a lawyer representing the…
These are great tips for everyone! It certainly takes some time and effort but it is definitely a good idea to secure your online communication and data.
Hahaha 😅 so true…
Up to 2.5 per second. Going to be an interesting weekend! bcounter.nat.vg
Over a dozen programs used by creators of nonconsensual explicit images have evaded detection on the developer platform, WIRED has found.
Fortinet has released a patch for a zero-day vulnerability in its firewall, which attackers have been exploiting since November.
Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
This is an excellent thread from @profaliceroberts.bsky.social about the mishandling of the COVID pandemic, by the Boris Johnson government, and I highly commend it.
However, this mistaken thinking, is also at the centre of the climate and ecological crisis, and it has the same causes.
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The man in charge of social media platforms used by billions should show some moral courage, writes @jemima.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/682c...
Interesting travel destinations to consider for 2025 💡🚝✈️
It is entirely logical to be furious at the fossil fuel industry, whose decades-long campaign of corrupting politicians, crafting fake science, sowing false doubt, and lying at an industrial scale has brought us to this moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...
Seems to be a good evolutionary idea - reciprocal altruism.
Digital decluttering takes time and effort- probably a good way to start the new year though.
US Treasury Department Sanctions Chinese Company Over Cyberattacks
From the Washington Post: The sanctions target Beijing Integrity Technology Group, which U.S. officials say employed workers responsible for the Flax Typhoon attacks which compromised devices including routers and internet-enabled…
Just going to reiterate -
We are on this bot problem. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them in the signup process, we shall fight them in the notifications
What makes @bsky.app different from all other social media platforms - great blogpost that explains why this matters.
A Reddit user is considering developing a tool for threat hunters to query security data using natural language. They seek input from the cybersecurity community about investigation durations and time-consuming aspects to assess the tool's potential usefulness.
Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said on Friday evening that she was resigning after the newspaper’s opinions section rejected a cartoon depicting The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Trump.
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A Windows kernel bug is being exploited in attacks to obtain SYSTEM privileges.
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A purple graphic with the European Commissionlogo and the text "DIGITAL SERVICES ACT" in large white letters. Below that, it reads "Formal proceedings opened against TikTok on election risks." There are seven yellow stars arranged in a circle around the text. Each star has a symbol inside it: a bell, a padlock, a document with a magnifying glass, a checkmark, a crossed-out face, a no symbol, and an ad symbol.
Today, we have opened formal proceedings against TikTok for a suspected breach of the Digital Services Act regarding its obligation to assess and mitigate systemic risks linked to election integrity, notably in the context of the recent Romanian presidential elections.
More: europa.eu/!w7DbvY
Great discussion and insights! It is true that being a generalist makes you more adaptive in the job market, however it requires good communication and people skills to be effective.
