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Follow up to Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack see the New York Times – Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System. “Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities. Investigators have uncovered …
The Independent: “Thousands of previously secret files on alleged police misconduct in California have now been made public through a searchable database. The Police Records Access Project database, painstakingly assembled over seven years by journalists, activists, and data scientists, went public on Monday with documents from more than 400 government agencies across the Golden State. …
Claire Berlinski – If data is the new oil, Elon Musk is the new Persian Gulf – “The list below is part of the second installment of The MechaHitler Reich. In a better world, it would be a sidebar to that newsletter—something you could glance at while you were reading it. But alas, this is not …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 9, 2025. Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …
Wired – no paywall: “Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it. Palantir is arguably one of the most notorious corporations in contemporary America. Cofounded by libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the software …
TechSpot: “OpenAI estimates that nearly 90,000 government employees at the federal, state, and local levels have started using its chatbot since 2024. A new deal sharply expands that access, offering the federal workforce new tools believed to have the potential to make government operations more efficient and responsive in areas ranging from budget analysis to …
Washington Post – no paywall or MSN: “Instagram has a new feature to share your precise real-time location with friends. There are many, many reasons you should think twice before enabling it. I’ll show you the settings you need to know. Starting this week in the U.S., Instagram rolled out a new map view, which …
Brennan Center for Justice: “In 2020, 2022, and 2024, our nation held federal elections. Despite the pandemic, threats of violence, denial of results, and extraordinary pressure, these were secure and accurate. Election officials worked together across party lines. The system held. This year, however, a new threat to free and fair elections has emerged: the …
Politico: “The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident. The hack, which has not been previously reported, is feared to have compromised the …
Hot to Geek: “Have you noticed how cluttered and obnoxious the web is at times? For example, cookie banners and blinding white themes are a constant barrage of annoyance and distraction. Thankfully, modern web extensions solve many of those problems, but there are a few essentials that I can’t live without. Science fiction has been …
The Brennan Center – “In 2020, 2022, and 2024, our nation held federal elections. Despite the pandemic, threats of violence, denial of results, and extraordinary pressure, these were secure and accurate. Election officials worked together across party lines. The system held. How trump is plotting to disrupt the next election. This year, however, a new …
Molly White: Curate your own newspaper with RSS. “What if you could take all your favorite newsletters, ditch the data collection, and curate your own newspaper?…increasingly, your reading is spying on you in a way a print newspaper never could, with websites tracking when you click a link or scroll down the page, and even …
