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‘We’re not trying to remake the economy’: FTC’s Mufarrige charts new course on tech enforcement The FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection chief discussed the agency’s embrace of age verification and how industry should think about data privacy enforcement under his watch.

I interviewed FTC official Chris Mufarrige. Among other things, he said the agency is keeping an eye on Meta's facial recognition smart glasses. Check it out!

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LexisNexis says hackers accessed legacy data in contained breach The breach emerged this week when a threat actor claimed they stole 2 GB worth of information from the company that included millions of records.

LexisNexis says hackers accessed legacy data in contained breach

via @jgreig.bsky.social & @therecordmedia.bsky.social

WaPo print edition Sports section with all wire copy is pretty ridiculous (no disrespect to AP). 1990s “understaffed suburban daily” vibes.

Frame #15980 from 50s E20-21 the eggs and trixie

Ward 4 gettin' buckets

Insawption

Migos voice: "soup drops / drop top "

US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone.

Iron Dome? Nah we got the Chyron Dome

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Wyden blocks Rudd confirmation to lead Cyber Command, NSA Rudd “does not have the background that would allow him to immediately step into” the role of leading Cyber Command, Wyden wrote in a letter that was included in the Congressional Record on Wednesday.

Senator Ron Wyden moved to block the confirmation of Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd as the new head of both U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, citing his lack of cyber and intelligence experience therecord.media/wyden-blocks...

Authorities say fire on Ohio farm killed about 6,000 hogs A large fire at farm complex in Ohio used for hog production has killed about 6,000 of the animals, a fire official said.

About 6,000 not-feral hogs

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Dunkin’ Is Testing a 48-Ounce Drink Bucket. Here's Where to Find Them The buckets are only available in a few locations, prompting some people to beg Dunkin' to expand the offering.

they manifested the boombapuccino

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Updates on the sewage pipe break and spill: @dcwater.bsky.social says "significant progress" has been made to clear a 45-foot-long rock blockage in the sewage pipe. Once that is cleared, repairs on the pipe can begin; they're still looking at mid-March completion date.

B-52s voice: "rock blockage"

Lisa Hartman saying I hear you seagull!

Lisa Hartman saying I hear me!

one of my favorite Fantasy Island moments

this clearly was stolen from a Taylor Sheridan set

When I was a teenager I broke into a party clown's old rusty car because I was hungry and he'd left his lunch on the passenger seat. Poor guy was probably as hungry as I was.

David Cross voice: "tattoo flags on the inside of your eyeballs so at all times you see flags"

wordmaxxing is for the cool kids

Crypto platform Step Finance shutting down after $40 million theft The decentralized finance platform Step Finance said the theft of $40 million from its treasury in late January led the company to decide to wind down operations.

The decentralized finance platform Step Finance said the theft of $40 million from its treasury in late January led the company to decide to wind down operations.

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Ukraine says cyberattacks on energy grid now used to guide missile strikes Russian cyberattacks targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure are increasingly focused on collecting intelligence to guide missile strikes rather than immediately disrupting operations, Ukrainian cyb...

From @darynant.bsky.social: therecord.media/ukraine-cybe...

Screenshot of the NBC Olympics broadcast chiron showing POKÉMON INTERMISSION REPORT

ice hockey is a serious sport / everyone get ready for the

Screenshot of the NBC Olympics broadcast chiron showing POKÉMON INTERMISSION REPORT

ice hockey is a serious sport / everyone get ready for the

The production is so good, too. More albums should sound like them.

Front cover of Willie Colon’s “La Gran Fuga” album

Front cover of Willie Colon’s “Lo Mato …” album

Willie Colon had some of the tuffest album covers ever (and both albums are great). RIP

rereading Neuromancer after like 30 years, and it’s reminding me that the future once had way more cable and jack adapters

US agency sought transcript of Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime performance The Federal Communications Commission requested transcripts of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show performance from Comcast's NBC after a Republican lawmaker suggested it could violate federal indece...

US agency sought transcript of Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime performance - www.reuters.com/business/med...

The “density” strategy with summer sausage and hard salami seems sound

Pick two to defend you, the rest are coming to get you

“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”

@pcgamer.com #DRAM
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Citizen Lab: Kenyan authorities used Cellebrite to break into phone of dissident Traces of commercial surveillance technology manufactured by the Israeli spyware maker Cellebrite were found on a prominent Kenyan dissident’s phone, the latest in a series of abuses of the technology...

Kenyan authorities used Cellebrite to extract data from activist's phone after detaining him and seizing his device, @citizenlab.ca says

@jsrailton.bsky.social

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