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Looks like we've not been told the whole truth by Taylor Farms and the Trump FDA. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
Less than 2.5% of Taylor Farms' recalled lettuce went to Taco Bells
FDA report reveals where Taylor Farms sent its lettuce—and it raises questions.
arstechnica.com
The sad story of the destruction of public interest technology at the federal level by DOGE, and NYC's efforts to reinvent it: pluralistic.net/2026/08/08/f...
Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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California's DROP system has started processing deletion requests this week. I just checked my status and my data has already been deleted at 12 data brokers, and hundreds more are pending. Sign up! privacy.ca.gov/drop/
Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP)
Protect your personal information. Data brokers collect, share, and sell your personal information. You can stop that from happening.
privacy.ca.gov
NEW: A series of issues in Apple’s web browser engine — the tech underlying all browsers on iOS — means that Apple’s iCloud Private Relay tool, which is supposed to hide a user’s IP address, in many cases doesn’t actually work. In fact, its exposing users' real IP addresses.
Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses
Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.
404media.co
One bit of paperwork filed to California’s privacy agency lets you tell hundreds of data brokers to delete and stop selling your information. Here’s what to know about DROP. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP Tool
Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request.
eff.org
Maybe better to not connect your "smart TV" to the Internet ... "researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user’s TV." krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-t...
LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less...
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NEW: Cops around the country have used Flock cameras at least hundreds of times to search for specific people, not cars, using searches such as “person on skateboard,” and “person wearing orange vest and construction hat,” according to data reviewed by 404 Media.
How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Me...
404media.co
Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.
How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.
404media.co
If you use Windows, better update soon before all these vulns get reverse engineered by the bad guys ... krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/micr...
Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant ...
krebsonsecurity.com
Thought you can use the Internet anonymously? Think again. If you're using Windows, Microsoft can link your online activities to your device using telemetry and a persistent device identifier. A VPN doesn't help since the OS itself is reporting your activities. www.pcmag.com/news/a-hacke...
A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID
The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, raising privacy red flags about Windows' surveillance capabilities.
pcmag.com
1. Since December, CNN and CNBC have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of a financial relationship between the networks and Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently. w/@atrupar.com
How Kalshi infects the news
After inking financial deals with CNBC and CNN, Kalshi's prediction markets have become ubiquitous on cable news.
popular.info
In light of this decision, the federal government should rethink if it can continue to buy Americans' location data without a warrant. I'll keep pushing for black-letter law that would stop the sale of your data to anyone, including the government.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last mo.BREAKING: In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that "geofence warrants," which allow law enforcement to collect sweeping smartphone location data over a broad area, constitute an "unreasonable search" and violate the Fourth Amendment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NEW: Companies are deliberately making their AI tools speak like cavemen in an attempt to stop burning through AI tokens and curb their massive expenditure on AI, 404 Media has found. “Caveman save you token, save you money.”
Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs
A senior OpenAI employee has contributed code to the project, simply called 'caveman.'
404media.co
This is an interesting read about what various DOGE alumni are up to these days ... thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
thedreydossier.substack.com
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: The Push for Online Safety Risks Mass Surveillance Interview by Mishal Hussain The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.
Signal's Meredith Whittaker: The Push for Online Safety Risks Mass Surveillance
The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.
bloomberg.com
It seems the Trump regime can now dictate who gets to use which AI model. What could go wrong. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
anthropic.com
We reported earlier this year on Meta's plans to roll out a facial recognition feature in its smart glasses and the company said it was "still thinking through options." Now Wired discovers that the code to do it is already in Meta's AI app: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
wired.com
"On May 31, word began to spread on several Telegram instant message channels that Meta’s AI bot would happily add an email address to an existing account as part of the bot’s standard password reset flow." krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hack...
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions be...
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I talked to @bcherny.bsky.social about the end of software engineering as we know it — and why AI may be responsible for more job creation than destruction www.platformer.news/boris-cherny...
Did anyone check for insider trades involving quantum computing companies?
Oh my. "[...] a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems." krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa...
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github
Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovC...
krebsonsecurity.com
Super helpful post on how to turn off ad sharing and personalized ads in free ChatGPT plans, complete with instructions on clearing ad history and a ton of other privacy settings to tweak. I didn't even know about some of these. onlinesafety.substack.com/p/turn-off-c...
Turn Off ChatGPT’s New Ad Tracking
OpenAI just opted free ChatGPT users into ad tracking by default. Here's how to protect your privacy and turn it off, which everyone should do.
onlinesafety.substack.com
"[...] we had the opportunity to apply an early version of Claude Mythos Preview to Firefox. This week’s release of Firefox 150 includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified during this initial evaluation." blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/a...
The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog
Since February, the Firefox team has been working around the clock using frontier AI models to find and fix latent security vulnerabilities in the browser.
blog.mozilla.org
Meta employees now subjected to total surveillance in order to train AI to replace them. Brave new world. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad i...
reuters.com
"[The administration's characterization of Direct File] has it completely backwards. It is a calculation that only makes sense if you do not value the time and money of citizens, but regard the government doing anything to help the public as a burden."
What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity
We CAN have nice things - if we want them
donmoynihan.substack.com
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
wired.com
Disable ad tracking on your phones, people! Be careful which apps you grant location access. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/jsra...
John Scott-Railton@jsrailton.bsky.social · 4mo agoBREAKING: You checked the weather this morning. And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep. Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones. No warrant required. Our @citizenlab.ca investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1 citizenlab.ca/research/ana...
You may want to disable content previews in the Signal notification settings ... www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...
FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.
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