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Catalin CimpanuThe number of Minnesota towns that reported hacks of their water systems is up to four -Braham: dysruptionhub.com/braham-minne... -Maple Plain: dysruptionhub.com/maple-plain-... -Plymouth: dysruptionhub.com/plymouth-min... -St. Paul: dysruptionhub.com/south-st-pau...
In case you happened to forget about one of the most disturbing harassment campaigns ever led by a giant tech company against its critics - a big update on the civil suit filed by the Massachusetts couple who were harassed by eBay www.wired.com/story/ebay-h...
Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment CampaignFor months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.www.wired.com
CubePilot, an Australian firm that designs flight controllers for drones (UAVs), announced a severe operational disruption caused by a DNS hijacking attack.
CubePilot drone software dev hit by DNS hijacking to intercept trafficCubePilot, an Australian firm that designs flight controllers for drones (UAVs), announced a severe operational disruption caused by a DNS hijacking attack.www.bleepingcomputer.com
Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.www.dropsitenews.com
"In one case, the government included documentation claiming a detainee had been convicted of marijuana possession in 2009. That detainee, the judge noted, citing what she called the government’s persistent 'sloppiness,' would have been 4 years old."
ProPublicaNEW: ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of Justice Department lawyers. We found judges nominated by both parties who are frustrated that they can no longer take the government at its word.
OKAY BLUESKY I NEED YOUR HELP! Hundreds of artists have signed @fightforthefuture.org's pledge to boycott venues that use AI surveillance like facial recognition. We want to get to 500 before a press conf in 2 weeks. Quote this and tag artists that might sign? Reskeet? do the thing!
Ban Facial Recognition at Live EventsArtists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows.banfacialrecognition.com
CVE-2026-63077: JetBrains TeamCity RCE
CVE-2026-63077: JetBrains TeamCity RCEExecutive Summary Modern software development depends on CI/CD platforms to automate code building, testing, and deployment. These platforms hold privileged credentials, source code, signing certif…thecyberthrone.in
Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Mac | Discussion
GitHub - gavamedia/deltafin: Run Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter Mixture-of-Experts LLM, on a single Apple Silicon Mac. Streams MXFP4 experts on demand over HTTP into a local disk cache — fused NEON kernels, Metal/MPS compute, exact reproducible decoding, and an OpenAI-compatible API server for local chat and coding agents.Run Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter Mixture-of-Experts LLM, on a single Apple Silicon Mac. Streams MXFP4 experts on demand over HTTP into a local disk cache — fused NEON kernels, Metal/MPS compute, exact...github.com
Court Shuts Down Federal Officers Who Wanted To Run A Stingray Device For A Month Straight For a long time, cell site simulators, a.k.a. "Stingrays" made headlines on... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/28/court-shuts-down-federal-officers-who-wanted-to-run-a-stingray-device-for-a-month-straight/
Court Shuts Down Federal Officers Who Wanted To Run A Stingray Device For A Month StraightFor a long time, cell site simulators, a.k.a. "Stingrays" made headlines on nearly a daily basis. Then they just kind of fell off the map. L3Harris -- the manufacturer of cell site simulators that commanded enough market share to see its flagship product become the victim of genericide -- saw the writing on the wall...www.techdirt.com
If regulators needed proof AI guardrails aren’t helping anyone except attackers increase their lead on defenders, look to the Hugging Face writeup as well as attempts to summarize it. It makes the case for open weight models & will eventually erase US AI dominance huggingface.co/blog/agent-i...
