i wrote about smart baby monitors and how an increasing number of products in the nursery are trying to dispense advice to millennial and Gen Z parents: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/b...

Nanit and Other Baby-Tracking Start-Ups Eye Collecting Even More Data

Nanit and other start-ups want to track your children through the night — and soon, for much longer than that.

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Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section. (Published March)

She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.

A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.

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Dangit @lhn.bsky.social I had just written this down in my list of story ideas for when I go back to work.

The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier

Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?

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I’ve been writing about this industry for more than a decade. At every point the “interesting, contrarian” take has been “EVs are over” but it has *never been true*. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tesla's Chic Is No Match for BYD's China Profits: David Fickling

Cars are meant to be a volume business: The more you sell, the better your profit margin. So how come the world’s most richly valued automaker took four years to shift the number of cars that General ...

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Seeing people confused about Fauci taking the Fifth even though he was pre-emptively pardoned by Biden. Pardons only cover past conduct; they don't immunize future lawbreaking. Fauci's claim is Trump II DOJ would gin up a perjury investigation into him based on anything he says today.

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say

NEW: I delved into the mystery of Phineas Fisher, probably the most prolific and public hacker never to have gotten caught. This is what we know about the infamous hacktivist and their spectacular hacks against spyware makers FinFisher and Hacking Team. There will be even more in my upcoming book.

The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught | TechCrunch

An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?

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I'm not going to be as bad as Jason posting about the Orioles, but in a couple weeks I'll be back to work and Marshall will start playing football again and if you want my skeets about my reporting you'll have to sift through some Marshall ones and there's no way to filter them.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last wk.

I hate the go on contact play with infield in but also there is zero chance Gunnar would have made a good throw going to his left had Olson gone

"The government’s indictment, which contains a typo ('Untied States Code'), accuses Tunick of allegedly providing a passcode to border agents that caused the phone to 'delete the digital contents.'"

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2w ago

New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...

remembering the greatest interview of all time

This is a very significant/helpful tool for journalist-source opsec.

Jeff Moss@thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

Great new feature in the latest Signal app. If you enable disappearing messages the meta data of calls and missed calls gets deleted as well. I know this was a long standing goal for them, but the engineering behind it took time. #Privacy @signalapp

Trying and failing to think of other reporting that illustrates how blatantly surveillance can be something applied to most of us without recourse but that the elite can choose to opt out of.

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

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.@mattblaze.org told me ages ago that a fundamental reason we can't have online voting is, as anyone who understands software knows, you're never gonna predict all the bugs, so you simply cannot trust it in vital systems that don't patch easily. Wild we throw so much it into cars instead.

Andy Greenberg@agreenberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

A car alarm device, KARR, inside millions of cars has a security flaw that lets hackers unlock, track, even paralyze vehicles. There's a patch. The problem? Half of car owners who have the device installed didn't ask for it, and may not even know it's there. Thread👇 www.wired.com/story/a-devi...

I have finally secured a way to see the Odyssey before I go back to work but it's still more than a week away. Please no one spoil it by saying whether he goes on some kind of journey.

I was putting my two year old down a few minutes ago and he suddenly started hiccuping and I said "where'd those hiccups come from?" And he said "from the mouth."

The epic investigation in the New Yorker by Heidi Blake seems to have lit a fire under UK criminal justice bureaucrats, who'd messed up last time they had a chance to prosecute the Tates (including some pretty horrendous victim blaming Blake recounts). Journalism matters for justice.

Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

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This counts as Righteous Gemstones bonus content.

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨GLOVES OFF🚨 Tim and his ex duke it out on air. InfoWarriors, it's time to weigh in: who deserves that horse?

I think it's glaring that: The US keeps attacking Iranian infrastructure Iran would respond symmetrically but lacks the ability to directly bomb US infrastructure Iran has for years tried to cyberattack US infrastructure, but it's really hard It's possible AI is gonna make that much easier soon

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 3w ago

The United States attacked key infrastructure in southern Iran, and the Iranian military responded with attacks on U.S. allies in the Middle East. NBC News’ Keir Simmons reports from Doha, Qatar, where blasts were heard overnight, the government saying they came from missiles being intercepted.

DHS Sec. Mullin just said that intel agencies "withheld" info from Trump about Iran accessing voter data in 2020. That's categorically false. There's video to debunk it: Then-DNI Ratcliffe held a press conference in Oct 2020 discussing the exact activity Mullin referenced www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

WATCH: U.S. officials say Iran sent emails intimidating American voters

The voter-intimidation operation apparently used email addresses obtained from state voter registration lists, which include party affiliation and home addresses and can include email addresses and ph...

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This is one of the most incredible grifts I've ever seen. The president will give exclusive initial access, Bloomberg Terminal-style, to people who pay for his often market-moving posts, Reuters reports.

Truth Social to sell trading firms 'fastest' access to Trump's posts

Trump ​Media & Technology Group has unveiled a paid-for, licensed data feed that will give banks and trading firms "the fastest" access to posts from influential Truth ‌Social accounts, such as Presid...

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The vibes were good in NYC for a minute but now they're back to this.

Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm a little too focused on the wildfire smoke situation to get read in on the horrible diarrhea situation can someone just tell me if I can eat lettuce or what

I never again wanna hear how American football is like if soccer stopped every few seconds. This stops every few seconds! Every three passes someone falls down and we stop while someone mediates a petty conflict. It is exactly how my toddler's daycare works.

A key part of Lindsey Graham's legacy: when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

In my assessment, Graham started off as a pragmatic thinker (in a war you don’t torture captured enemies but you also don’t give them Miranda warnings/ lawyers before interrogating for intel) but hardened over the years into ideological dogma despite the lived experience that tribunals didn’t work.

They could have made this map any color.

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · 4w ago

Explosive diarrhea outbreak due to a parasite found on produce. Advice for now? Don’t buy produce…unless you can cook it. www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

LAPD becomes by far the biggest law enforcement office to quit Flock.

LAPD ending deal with company operating license plate-reading cameras

The LAPD is ending its agreement with Flock Safety, a company that operates surveillance cameras throughout the city.

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Earlier this year, DHS told states that the EAC, tiny as it was, would handle CISA's old job of coordinating cyber threat information for the midterms. Now they're gone.

Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms

The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.

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I think it's important to draw the distinction between Trump making this call (clearly happened) and FIFA making the decision only because of his pressure. I don't think reliable reporting on the latter has emerged so far and it may not at all.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last mo.

President Trump confirmed that he asked FIFA to review the red card received by U.S. soccer star Folarin Balogun, which was later suspended, allowing Balogun to play in tonight's match.

My colleagues are reporting, citing a source familiar, that FIFA's decision to overturn Balogun’s suspension came after Trump made a call to FIFA's president.

U.S. star Folarin Balogun eligible to play vs. Belgium after FIFA suspends red card ban

Balogun was given a controversial red card during the team’s 2-0 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina and was initially not allowed to play in the round of 16.

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