Łukasz Bromirski
@lukasz.bromirski.net
networking & security geek / CCIE #15929 R&S/SP, CCDE #2012::17 / opinions are my own, not of my employer / 42
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against 23andMe, now Chrome Holding Co., over the company's failure to protect sensitive customer genetic and personal information.
California AG sues 23andMe over 2023 breach exposing health data
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against 23andMe, now Chrome Holding Co., over the company's failure to protect sensitive customer genetic and personal information.
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I think ChatGPT Images 2.0 deciding to add a "WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS" sign to the background of this image is the first time I've felt a glimpse of AGI simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/25/...
WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS
@scottjla on Twitter in reply to my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark: I feel like we need to stack these tests now I checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT …
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This article should've been published before the First Iran War, and republished every few weeks since. Trump is more responsible for the current state of Iran's nuclear program then any living non-Iranian. We're paying for his venality and incompetence.
Trump Seeks to Abolish Iran’s Atomic Stockpile, a Problem He Helped Create
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This is a real important case. When a crime occurs, can the police simply grab every mobile phone ID within 150 yards from Google and the phone companies? chatgpt.com/share/69ed21...
Orin Kerr@orinkerr.bsky.social · 3mo agoLinks to my Volokh posts on the Chatrie case—14 posts in all, from 2022 to the present. reason.com/volokh/2026/...
Weekendowa Lektura: odcinek 673 [2026-04-25]. Bierzcie i czytajcie zaufanatrzeciastrona.pl/post/weekend... Opisy nowych zmagań badaczy z cyberprzestępcami, szczegóły świeżo odkrytych luk, analizy nowych kampanii – każdy znajdzie coś dla siebie.
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From brutal occupation to brazen recruitment: Russia turns Bucha residents against their own
From brutal occupation to brazen recruitment: Russia turns Bucha residents against their own
Four years after the Ukrainian town experienced some of the war’s worst atrocities, a 21-year-old planted bombs outside his own apartment building On a recent evening in March, Bohdan Tymchenko, a quiet and unassuming man from Bucha, logged on to his computer to play the popular video game World of Tanks. Less than two weeks later, he planted two bombs outside his flat. What unfolded in the intervening days offers a stark glimpse into a growing pattern: Ukrainians drawn in online by Russian intelligence services, promised money or coerced into carrying out sabotage attacks against their own country. Continue reading...
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During the last 15 hours, Russia has violated a recently announced Easter ceasefire 2,299 times, Ukraine's General Staff said on April 12.
Russia violates Easter ceasefire 2,299 times; at least 4 killed, 35 injured in Ukraine over past day
Russia violated its self-declared Easter ceasefire 2,299 times over 15 hours, Ukraine said, as attacks across multiple oblasts killed four civilians and injured 35 others.
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Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys
Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys
Global bank's devs have some cleaning up to do after cloud creds found in website code Computer security boffins have conducted an analysis of 10 million websites and found almost 2,000 API credentials strewn across 10,000 webpages.…
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‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel
‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel
Ruling that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products marks possible watershed moment for big tech
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These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of March 28, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Datacenter batteries are selling out years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic
Datacenter batteries are selling out years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic
Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads Major memory makers have already sold all the kit they can make this year, creating shortages and price increases. Datacenter infrastructure buyers may soon face the same issues when trying to get their hands on backup batteries.…
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COMMENTARY: Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel in a war against Iran is a far bigger strategic error than George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. It is also one with far greater strategic consequences. 🔗 politico.eu/article/iraq...
In 2002, most ambitious Democrats supported a Middle Eastern war. In 2026, “the ghosts of the past and the polls of the present have conspired to push the Democratic Party in a staunchly anti-war direction,” Yair Rosenberg argues:
The Slow, Then Sudden, Death of the Hawkish Democrat
In 2002, most ambitious Democrats supported a Middle Eastern war. In 2026, most oppose it.
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One month into the current Middle East conflict, we are seeing leaders threaten the rules-based legal order. As the conflict has spread and intensified, so too has the dangerous rhetoric by leaders on all sides, including open threats to commit war crimes. Read more: https://bit.ly/4uXqEw3
“MAGA and its international wing understand that the Hungarian election, the most important in Europe this year, could mark a turning point in the war of ideas,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:
The First Post-Reality Political Campaign
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.
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Paweł Maziarz wraca w tym roku na scenę CONFidence Conference 🔥 A jeśli wraca Paweł… to pewnie wraca też Dark Seeker 👀 Jego prezentacje od zawsze miały swój unikalny klimat. Kto był, ten wie. A kto nie był… zdecydowanie powinien nadrobić. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJgD...
CONFidence 2025: Paweł Maziarz - Czy programowanie jest przydatne podczas red teamingu i pentestów?
YouTube video by PROIDEA Events
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Lockdown Mode is easy to turn on and off, and can protect your security in very specific situations. Here’s how it works and when to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
How to: Enable Lockdown Mode on iPhone
What Is Lockdown Mode? Lockdown Mode is an optional setting for iPhone, iPad, and Macs, designed to protect high risk people from specific types of digital threats. It’s available on any device that can run iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, and newer. Malware and spyware developers targeting Apple devices...
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Some of America's most powerful tech oligarchs seem pathologically unreflective—yet these are the people who most need to understand themselves, @chatterton.bsky.social argues:
The People Who Think Introspection Is Dumb
For some of America’s tech oligarchs, looking inward seems to be a waste of time better spent moving fast and breaking things.
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Major breach in Sweden, where a hacker claims to have stolen PII data and electronic signage documents from Sweden's e-government portal They leaked the portal's source code to prove the breach The IT contractor confirmed a breach too www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
It-leverantör hackad – myndigheter har informerats
En hackergrupp påstår sig ha kommit åt stora mängder känslig statlig information från bolaget CGI:s it-system. Företaget har bekräftat en läcka men menar att den skett i testmiljö. Skatteverket, som a...
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IEEE spectrum magazine has been a source of tech optimism for me where usually digital tech news makes me want to die. thanks IEEE ♥️
How One Company Finally Exposed North Korea's Massive Remote Workers Scam https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/03/15/1942232/how-one-company-finally-exposed-north-koreas-massive-remote-workers-scam?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
How One Company Finally Exposed North Korea's Massive Remote Workers Scam
NBC News investigates North Korea's "wide-ranging effort to place remote workers at U.S. companies in order to funnel money back to its coffers and, in some cases, steal sensitive information." And working with the FBI, one corporate security/investigations company decided to knowingly hire one of...
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From Flock's nationwide surveillance to ICE tools, we are being watched. Is there anyway to go back now? A 404 Media guide to surveillance in 2026: www.404media.co/flock-ice-su...
From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched
To better understand what exactly we’re looking at in this dystopian surveillance hellscape, 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox joined Reddit's r/technology for an Ask Me Anything session.
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I talked to FBI cyber boss Brett Leatherman about Winter SHIELD, his priorities for the bureau and concerns about FBI cyber work. cyberscoop.com/brett-leathe...
The FBI’s cyber chief is using Winter SHIELD to accelerate China prep, threat intelligence sharing
Brett Leatherman is running the bureau's most public cyber campaign yet, pushing basic security hygiene while quietly preparing industry for stepped-up Chinese threats.
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“Focus too much on matters of geopolitics, and you can lose sight of something arguably even more profound,” Jacob Stern writes. “Actual militaries are deploying actual lasers in actual combat”:
Wait—Laser Guns Are Real Now?
A staple of sci-fi and children’s entertainment is now being deployed by actual militaries in actual combat.
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The thing about the U.S. and Israel is that both of their leaders are trying to stay out of prison.
OpenAI said a Chinese law enforcement agency uploaded reports to ChatGPT that details a worldwide digital operation to track and silence regime critics at home and abroad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iAc... | cyberscoop.com/chinese-chat...
Chinese group’s ChatGPT use reveals worldwide harassment campaign against critics
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