Iran plunged into internet blackout as protests over economy spread nationwide | Iran | The Guardian
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Iran plunged into internet blackout as protests over economy spread nationwide
Security forces reported to have killed at least 45 people since protests began 12 days ago, as protesters gather in Tehran
Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software | TechCrunch
TechCrunch
Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software | TechCrunch
Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the running of his now-defunct M...
Things like this is what make CCC different from other conferences 👏 Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference
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Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos ...
Judge rules that NSO cannot continue to install spyware via WhatsApp pending appeal | The Record from Recorded Future News
Judge rules that NSO cannot continue to install spyware via WhatsApp pending appeal
NSO Group had sought to stay the order pending a decision on its appeal in the case, which centers on allegations that it targeted 1,400 WhatsApp u...
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files) 🤯
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive...
How Internet Censorship Impacts the Women’s Rights Movement in Iran: Insights from OONI Data and Activist Interviews | OONI
How Internet Censorship Impacts the Women’s Rights Movement in Iran: Insights from OONI Data and Activist Interviews
This study documents how internet censorship impacts the women’s rights movement in Iran based on insights from OONI data and activist interviews.
Two more ICC judges sanctioned by the US, a direct attack against international law: Sanctioning ICC Judges Directly Engaged in the Illegitimate Targeting of Israel https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/12/sanctioning-icc-judges-directly-engaged-in-the-illegitimate-targeting-of-israel/
RSF uncovers new spyware from Belarus
Exclusive: RSF uncovers new spyware from Belarus
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)’s Digital Security Lab (DSL), working with the Eastern European organisation RESIDENT.NGO, has uncovered a previo...
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy
Data Workers' Inquiry
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the ...
TIL that Kenyan workers have been used so much to train AI systems, that standard writing by Kenyan people is often flagged as AI generated while it is not (which means that they can get discriminated for jobs / exams etc)
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.