NEW: Italian prosecutors confirm that the phone of journalist Francesco Cancellato was hacked with Paragon spyware at the same time as the phones of two immigration activists.
The Italian government admitted the hack on the activists, but said it wasn't behind Cancellato's hack. So who was?
Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”
GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn
Story here. If you know of any other .gov agencies that are dropping Anthropic products let me know here: raphae.li
www.reuters.com/business/us-...
Scoop: The State Department is swapping the model powering its in-house chatbot, StateChat, from Anthropic's Claude to OpenAI's GPT - the latest U.S. government department to kick Anthropic to the curb.
Story TK
Gotta say, did not have "Greece sends warships to defend island from Persian attacks" on my bingo card for this millennium, yet here we are.
Only one in four Americans approves of the US strikes that killed Iran's leader, while about half — including one in four Republicans — believe President Trump is too willing to use military force, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Sunday reut.rs/4aSiAoF
Wiles was among those whose email inbox Iran-linked hackers purportedly planned to ‘sell’ last year.
As far as I’m aware nothing came of the threat.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
ICYMI: We obtained the missing three FBI interviews with the woman who said Epstein and Trump abused her in the early 1980s. The FBI memos reveal unsubstantiated and at times outlandish claims. House Dems opened an investigation earlier this week into why the files were missing from the public files
If you're a Londoner, you should be subscribing to London Centric
Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country.
www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...
Thank you!
Scoop: Rubio has ordered US diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives worldwide
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Musk's AI chatbot Grok gains US market share
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Scoop: A report published last week outlined what Palo Alto researchers believed was a China-linked hacking campaign.
But after an intervention from execs, the report's language was changed to refer more vaguely to "a state-aligned group that operates out of Asia."
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
If you know of other threat research firms that have watered down their findings for fear of retaliation, drop me a line:
raphae.li
It's a mistake to infer a trend out of a single incident, but I wonder if the calculus is shifting. The "wow" factor of attribution faded once everyone started doing it, while the risks haven't changed.
To be clear, the allegation is around a prepublication change.
Asked to comment on the allegedly softened language, Palo Alto issued a statement to Reuters that said in part: “Attribution is irrelevant.” Palo Alto's vice president of global communications, Nicole Hockin, said in subsequent emails to Reuters that the statement was meant to communicate that the lack of attribution in Palo Alto's report was not correlated with "procurement regulations in China" and that any suggestion otherwise was "speculative and false." She said the choice of language in Palo Alto's report reflected "how to best inform and protect governments about this widespread campaign."
Palo Alto's response here:
Scoop: A report published last week outlined what Palo Alto researchers believed was a China-linked hacking campaign.
But after an intervention from execs, the report's language was changed to refer more vaguely to "a state-aligned group that operates out of Asia."
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
And see, specifically, Paul Weiss lawyers citing hacked material in court:
bsky.app/profile/raph...
Karp’s effort on behalf of Black was questionable, but he was not flying solo. According to a person familiar with the episode at the time, at least one Paul, Weiss partner joined Karp in the attempt to launch a criminal investigation by the Manhattan DA. In any case, the firm quickly moved on with business as usual after the news broke of Karp’s efforts. The truth is that there is a very high tolerance in the world of large law firms for these sorts of shenanigans — and for working with highly disreputable people if they generate enough business — and none of this will change anytime soon.
Yep.
See also: Lawyers benefiting from hackers' spy ops.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Ships from Virginia
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Uncle Sam licks Greenland. According to a machine translation, the text in Russian says: “Oh, Mother Denmark had every reason to rejoice. To have a friend like Uncle Sam! She, of course, welcomed him with truly Danish hospitality. And he did not hesitate when the table was set. He especially liked the ice cream served for dessert. He swallowed it completely, ‘otherwise,’ he explained, ‘the Russians might come and take it.’”
Reorganizing & I stumbled across this old Soviet cartoon.
The caption says Mother Denmark has Uncle Sam over for dinner; he particularly enjoys the Greenland-shaped ice cream, which he devours whole "otherwise the Russians might come and take it.'"
existential cookie message from the olympics website
"In July 2006, just as Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal sex charge became public, Trump called then-Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter to tell him that Epstein’s activities with teenaged girls were well known in both New York and Palm Beach."
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
"Let me put that in perspective: 2.2 million people looked at an AI-altered photo of a dead man, checked the tattoo analysis from a stranger on X, and hit the heart button. We have, as a civilization, optimized for this." #epstein #ai #fake www.digitaldigging.org/p/google-mak...
a lego diarama version of the hot dog suit scene from I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE, complete with tiny hot dog suited tim robinson and hot dog car, all the business people have scowling faces
photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭
incident response — like a cross between a firefighter and a detective, but for cyber
To the pen testers, red teamers, and IR folks out there: How often are you encountering vibe coding in your engagements?
I'm curious whether and how often you're seeing vibe coded software leaving the door open to your clients' networks. @ me or DM me if you have thoughts.
