Putins mercenaries’ man the shadow fleet. Through fake job interviews and more than 2000 crew lists Danwatch and our international partners are now able to tell exactly when, why and where Russian mercenaries man tankers from the shadow fleet. Three articles out today. In Danish. Read here.

Lækkede dokumenter: Putins lejesoldater sejler i Danmark

Danwatch kan sammen med internationale mediepartnere for første gang afsløre, at russiske lejesoldater sejler rundt på skyggeflåden i det skjulte for at overvåg

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NEW @citizenlab.ca report We uncover two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns. The findings expose how surveillance vendors exploit the global telecom ecosystem to conduct covert location tracking operations that can persist undetected for years. citizenlab.ca/research/unc...

Bad Connection: Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors - The Citizen Lab

Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose h...

citizenlab.ca

New tracking scoop from NRK. Weaknesses in 4G let our journalists see the location of politicians and police officers. www.nrk.no/norge/sikker...

Sikkerhetshull avslørte Telia-kunders posisjon

Mobilkunder hos Telia har siden 2023 vært sporbare via mobilen, inkludert sentrale politikere på Stortinget.

nrk.no

💥🇭🇺🗳️ BREAKING: Péter Magyar says Viktor Orbán called to concede and congratulate him. Magyar will be Hungary’s next prime minister and, as it stands, is set to secure a 2/3 supermajority – enough to fully dismantle Orbán’s system. A 16-year chapter is over.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter

A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent

ft.com

This is an INCREDIBLE investigative story, told in the form of a graphic novel. Arrested by phone - a true story. A must read www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel

No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.

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Happy Longest Day Of The Year

Swedish people in front of charts Source: digitaltmuseum.org

Fjord heaven’s sake! onlyfjords.com

It’s only fjords!

By the makers of the Vivaldi browser. Only fjords, no nonsense. Log in to unblur and reclaim a better web.

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Journo friends: ‪@theguardian.com‬ has published the open source code behind their secure messaging feature for mobile apps.

The Guardian launches Secure Messaging, a world-first from a media organisation, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge

Secure Messaging is a new innovation for confidential story-sharing and source protection, underpinning the Guardian’s commitment to investigative journalism. The Guardian has published the open…

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The Pentagon Pizza Report never fails

Most reporting on AI examines worst-case systems deployed under the guise of efficiency. But what would a good faith effort at Ethical AI look like? For two years, we’ve been looking over the shoulder of a city trying to do things differently.

Crazy times. Trump and Musk are bickering on their own platforms. And it is actually fun to watch Norway play football. www.nrk.no/sport/norge-...

Norge-juvelen herjer med Italia: – Det villeste jeg har sett

Stjerneskuddet Antonio Nusa herjet med italienske stjerner – og sendte Norge et stort steg mot VM.

nrk.no

After yesterday's unhinged Trump-Musk feud on Twitter and Truth Social, it's easy to believe every new update you see. But there are fake posts doing the rounds, so be careful. Check the feeds yourself before sharing: Trump: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... Musk: x.com/elonmusk

solidarity to anyone else who published something this afternoon that will get swallowed by elon news

OpenAI is featuring a "Looksmaxxing GPT" that provides "PSL ratings" for photos. It will rate people as "subhuman", and advise men to get invasive procedures like jaw surgery to "increase their sexual market value" among women, who it describes as "hypergamous by nature".

Fomo hits hard.

Arena for Journalism in Europe@journalismarena.eu · last yr.

👋 We're happy to see you all again for Day 2 of #Dataharvest #EIJC25 - here is a sample of Dataharvest 2025, Day 1:

Great case studies here: How this year’s Pulitzer awardees used AI in their reporting (by @andrewdeck.bsky.social) www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/how-...

How this year’s Pulitzer awardees used AI in their reporting

For a second year, the Pulitzer Prizes required applicants to divulge AI usage — one winner and three finalists disclosed.

niemanlab.org

This National Post article is based entirely on a StatsCan report that cites "systemic discrimination and racism" as a "key contributing factor" in the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in court... publications.gc.ca/collections/... ... and it somehow goes with this as the headline:

We're ready for Microsoft Recall and the automatic screenshots it takes of everything on your desktop. Signal Desktop on Windows now includes support for a new "Screen security" feature designed to block screenshots of your Signal chats. signal.org/blog/signal-...

By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is a...

signal.org

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most

A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

bloomberg.com

"A REMARKABLE RECOVERY BY JOURNALISM!" JOURNALISM WINS THE 150TH PREAKNESS STAKES! #Preakness150

Gratulerer med dagen, #Norway! 🇳🇴 Cheers to freedom, unity, and all the traditions that make your national day so special! Norway holds a special place in my heart.

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In a groundbreaking investigation, we used facial recognition software to identify Ukrainian children given false Russian identities and listed for adoption. @alisonkilling.bsky.social @christopherjm.ft.com @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.ft.com @samlearner.bsky.social on.ft.com/433Mpgw

FT investigation finds Ukrainian children on Russian adoption sites

[FREE TO READ] Four missing Ukrainian children identified and located in Russia, including one given false identity

on.ft.com

Delighted to see this project shortlisted for the Sigma awards alongside a host of other incredible data journalism projects from around the world.

Christian Nicolai Bjørke@cbjoerke.bsky.social · last yr.

So happy that our project «Inequality for the law» is on the shortlist. 🏆 Lucky to have been collaborating with the talented people at @lighthousereports.com. @elenadebre.bsky.social @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social @jusbraun.bsky.social

Two days too late and perhaps only funny for those speaking Dutch. (H/T Gemma Janssen.)

So happy that our project «Inequality for the law» is on the shortlist. 🏆 Lucky to have been collaborating with the talented people at @lighthousereports.com. @elenadebre.bsky.social @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social @jusbraun.bsky.social

Global Investigative Journalism Network@gijn.org · last yr.

💫 NEW! GIJN, the new home of the Sigma Awards, is proud to announce the 2025 shortlist for the best data journalism projects and portfolios in the past year. 👏 50 data journalism projects from 24 countries made it to the final round of the competition. https://twp.ai/9PSjQG

I am running a contest. It is about bad pdfs. It can make you independently wealthy (for immeasurably small measures of independent wealth) badpdfs.com

Bad PDF Contest

I'm looking for the most frustrating, painful, real-world PDFs.

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Siden 2018 er han gået langt for at skjule sin identitet. Men nu kan TjekDet i samarbejde med @politiken.dk, @bellingcat.com og CBC afsløre navnet på manden bag MrDeepFake www.tjekdet.dk/indsigt/afsl...

Afsløring: Her er manden bag verdens største hjemmeside for deepfake-porno

Han har i flere år haft sin daglige gang på et hospital tæt ved den canadiske storby, Toronto. Som farmaceut hjælper han hospitalets patienter med behandling og sikrer, at den ordinerede medicin indta...

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