Joe Warminsky
@jwarminsky.bsky.social
News Editor at The Record: @therecordmedia.bsky.social [ Tired of bios ] [ Often thinking about music ] [ Etc. ]
‘I terminated this channel’: Inside the Fake Copyright Racket Silencing News Outlets www.occrp.org/en/news/i-te...
‘I terminated this channel’: Inside the Fake Copyright Racket Silencing News Outlets
Hired hands in an underground takedown market are charging up to $5,000 to scrub reporting from social media by filing fake copyright claims.
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@jgreig.bsky.social checks in on what might be happening at your local water authority
The Record@therecordmedia.bsky.social · 5h agoWater utilities in at least 12 states have reported cyberattacks on their operational technology, as the scope of a campaign allegedly linked to Iranian hackers continues to grow therecord.media/iran-cyberat...
One of my favorite things at museums is finding the pineal eye in the skulls of fossils. Once you start looking for them, they are everywhere.
Kelsey Jenkins, PhD@reptiliferous.bsky.social · 6h agoNew research out today! Some animals have three eyes?! This eye isn't for "seeing" per se, but it's connected to a part of the brain responsible for regulating body temperature. So if you see a lizard basking out in the sun to get warm, oftentimes this eye plays a central role. But there's more...
Binding Hook managing editor and #spyware expert @jamesshires.bsky.social shares his most important takeaways from a recent investigation from Forbidden Stories on Morocco’s use of #NSOGroup spyware: bindinghook.com/three-takeaw...
Three takeaways from the Morocco NSO Group spyware investigation
Binding Hook managing editor and spyware expert James Shires explores a recent investigation from Forbidden Stories
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 4,1951
the most secretly aspirational thing of the day is TV anchors interviewing the TV anchor who fell asleep on-air
“War isn't going to happen as an away game. If there is a conflict, it will be happening here.”
Britain’s next war won’t be an away game: Q&A with former head of Defence Intelligence
As Chief of Defence Intelligence, General Sir Jim Hockenhull decided to declassify and publish what London knew of Russia’s plans to invade Ukraine, down to a map of the routes its forces would take.
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Businesses across Russia are erasing their connections to Telegram founder Pavel Durov after Moscow charged him with aiding terrorist activity therecord.media/russian-busi...
Russian businesses erase Durov-linked products after 'terrorist' designation
The designation, announced last week, came a day after Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) charged Durov with aiding terrorist activity and said it would seek to place him on an international want...
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They should’ve saved “The Neptunes” for a nepo baby band
A Twitch stream of me scolding Lollapalooza attendees who are not listening to the music or are listening too much
Proof of listening, proof of life — I just reviewed 102 recordings for THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE. Read it for free / tell a friend open.substack.com/pub/thefutur...
Any number of quantum positions
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE’s quarterly review of significant recordings.
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Also known as Extremely Mixed Feelings Day
Internet Archive@archive.org · 4d ago🌐 Happy World Wide Web Day! Created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the World Wide Web transformed how we share knowledge online. In 2025, Sir Tim was honored as an Internet Archive Hero Award recipient for his lasting impact on the web. More 👇 blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c... #WorldWideWebDay
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
NEW: U.S. Cyber Command is looking to open an outpost in Silicon Valley as a way to build new relationships with the tech sector & bolster a major pillar of its internal modernization overhaul. therecord.media/cyber-comman...
Cyber Command plans Silicon Valley office to drive innovation
The outpost will have its own director, though no one has yet been named for the post, and support the command’s nascent Cyber Warfare Innovation Center (CIWC).
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Anthropic's defence of its models rests on what Claude “believed,” an anthropomorphisation that completely disregards the company’s own responsibilities. It’s also a deflection that I suspect will not hold up in court, if and when one of these incidents gets to that point.
NEWS: Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Florida) has a new bill to require the U.S. flag be displayed in all D.C. school classrooms and mandate the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the day, though students could opt out. "We should be teaching kids why America is worth loving," she says.
CISA says it will use World Cup security model to protect midterms & is reassigning staff to serve as election security advisors, a year after forcing out experts in the field. Election officials say fed support should've come far earlier in cycle: www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...
Trump admin tries to rebuild election security infrastructure it gutted as midterms near | CNN Politics
After dismantling the federal system designed to protect US elections, the Trump administration now says it has a plan to rebuild it — less than 100 days before Election Day and just weeks before ball...
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Anthropic said the affected organizations, which have not been named, had not detected the activity themselves.
Anthropic says its AI hacked real-world companies in three incidents
Claude maker Anthropic said its AI models escaped test environments and breached networks at three companies on the open internet.
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Finally got around to watching this video folks were sharing after Sonny Rollins died. this kind of shit is why we need public media vimeo.com/5124602
Sonny Rollins with Paul Jeffrey
Emission "Who is" de la BBC 2 Producer / Director : Dick Fontaine Produced by Allan King Associates Canada LTD. 1968
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New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...
LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.
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the behind-the-scenes Embiid footage is going to be something www.nytimes.com/athletic/747...
LeBron James, ESPN close to major deal for ‘Last Dance’-esque documentary: Sources
James recently signed a two-year, $8 million deal with the 76ers, looking to win his fifth championship in the NBA.
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Reminder that Dan Scavino's wife Erin took over the Art in Embassies program -- which was long a civil servant gig.
Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 7d agoDeputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized
This story ran 14 months after the pandemic hit NYC www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/u...
Bodies of Covid-19 victims are still stored in refrigerated trucks in NYC | CNN
The bodies of New York City coronavirus victims are still being stored in refrigerated trailers converted into makeshift morgues during the height of the pandemic one year ago, according to the medica...
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US weighing phone ban for some American troops in the Middle East, @reuters.com reports: www.reuters.com/business/med...
EXCLUSIVE: US military may require some troops in Mideast to surrender cell phones, sources say
The top U.S. commander for the Middle East has warned troops that cellphone videos shared online can help Iran target American bases, and sources told Reuters some deployed personnel could soon be or...
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OpenAI says its rogue AI agent didn’t just hack Hugging Face — it also used exposed credentials to access several additional third-party services therecord.media/openai-says-...
OpenAI says rogue agent behind Hugging Face hack broke into additional services
The four additional targeted organizations weren’t named. OpenAI said they were not affected as severely as Hugging Face.
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