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The logical thing for the US to do was deny any involvement in the attack on Iran, which makes it harder for Iran to build a case for retaliating against the US. It looks like that was the direction they were heading until president dipshit decided to personally taunt Iran on social media.

Holy shit. AP reports that the Trump admin. provided deportation officials with personal data and immigration status on millions of Medicaid enrollees. Data includes "addresses, names, social security numbers and claims data for enrollees" in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington DC.

US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict politi.co/3HHsTQ4, via @politico.com

I've never understood why the courts do this. District court rules the national guard deployment was likely illegal and issues a temporary restraining order. Appeals court then overrules it so they can hold a hearing on the issue in 4 days time. 1/3

It's amazing how upset some people get at me simply having replies limited to followers only. I've multiple people quote post me to express their anger that they specifically couldn't reply to my post. I feel like these are the same types of dudes who follow women home for not acknowledging them.

A bit of Friday news: Ahead of this weekend's protests, Waymo is pausing service in LA and making adjustments in SF, Austin, and Atlanta Less than a week ago, images of 5 Waymos torched in the LA protests became flashpoints in conversations about democracy + tech www.wired.com/story/ahead-...

Why does the network backbone of Telegram matter? Because as @pwnallthethings.bsky.social was pointing out in 2022 (www.pwnallthethings.com/i/86455222/t...), Telegram's in-house TLS replacement provides a cleartext permanent device ID! The network can follow users across WiFis, data plans, etc.

“We are currently clean on OPSEC,” Hegseth added. (“Why would Pete Hegseth say this into the Signal group?” Micah Lee, an independent security researcher, asks me, sounding genuinely puzzled. “I’ve put a lot of thought into this, and I think he was just trying to sound cool.”)

ICYMI, yesterday we released a report providing a first look at how we found traces of spyware on two journalists' iPhones, traces which we can attribute with high confidence to Paragon's Graphite spyware:

The raids on my former home started today. Nobody is doing anything, as predicted.

Unopposed, government surveillance powers work like like a ziptie. They only ratchet tighter. No policymaker has the incentive to loosen them. And most have security services constantly demanding more..

If I were designing the Airdrop user interface I would make sure that destination devices don’t randomly slide out from under your mouse and get replaced with other devices, ever. Just saying.

me: I'm running out of disk space. my hyperactive brain: what I'm hearing is we need to investigate using zfs snapshots, set up a custom rsync script to offload old files to a NAS, and then write a cron job to periodically clean up orphaned packages and old log files. me: that sounds reasonable

The Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Iran. As you can easily see, there are no visible signs of a cyberattack — at least on the surface

Never seen two candidates running for the same office cross-promoting each other before. New York has rank-choice voting so this actually makes sense if they want to push Cuomo down in the tally.

Alright, has any of you AT Proto nerds made a tool to use YubiKey PIV keys as DID PLC rotation keys? Also, is there a way to get notifications of rotation key changes, so I can use the 72hr window to rollback a takeover? (If PLC was a transparency log, that would be a Monitor! nudge nudge ^^)

I still get people commenting about how hard it is to get a Pi on some of my videos (even on a video where I said a mini PC is a better deal for a particular use case, ha!). But that has not been the case for a long time. Maybe one or two SKUs here or there, but:

US Regime Deploys Troops, Arrests Citizens, and Detains Opposition Amid Mass Pro-Democracy Protests zeteo.com/p/trump-amer...

Translation: farms and hotels can't function without undocumented workers and a bunch of red state donors are complaining to Trump.

Could we get an option to limit quote posts to followers/following just like with replies?

A cool write up from the @hackaday site, as well as a little history lesson to those too young to recongnize the dialer symbol in the #DEFCON logo hackaday.com/2025/06/13/a...

Funny how that works...

Where are the soldiers brought to DC for the vanity parade staying? The GSA office building. And they're being told to use portable bathrooms, though talking to two NCO's nearby, there aren't nearly enough bathrooms ("I had better facilities in Kandahar"). Anyway, Go Army!

One of the better stories exposing Telegram's ties to Russian intelligence. Users should be very, very wary.

I've been in Ohio for less than a day, and I am already full of pizza and annoyed with the weather and helping my kids prank my mom so that's lovely

"I'm counting on these separations of power. It's the co-equal branches of government.... He's eliminated one [branch], or they've [Congress] eliminated themselves.... [The Speaker] abdicated any oversight...over the President... So there's one branch remaining. And that's the judicial branch"

I’ll believe BlueSky is going to succeed as a mainstream platform when the alt-text badgering goes away.

I am wildly skipping around to different sections today, because every time I write something I realize I’m missing five background sections. Here’s one of those.

I thought there was a decision tree in the "should I arrest them if I'm being filmed" rubric that said something about the optics of arresting a guy with a walker for constitutionally protected activity.

Build a mini solder fume extractor! Keep the air clean with a carbon filter. Easily snap fits open for easy filter replacements. Compatible with GoPro style mounts for setting up on tripod or magic arm. Guide: learn.adafruit.com/simple-mini-... #adafruit #3dprinting youtu.be/smkWNuqDYwE

This Chatbot Tool Pays Users $50 a Month for Their Feedback on AI Models www.wired.com/story/yupp-c...

Are those hypersonic missiles? That thing was obscenely fast.

come hang out with us on @wired.com's Uncanny Valley pod while we talk about this truly dystopian timeline!!

the Baby Yoda parody is going to be incredible

"Gotta make my quota!"

Now it's like... double that? Maybe? Somewhere around there? Yal need to reconsider your life choices, I am rarely witty these days, alnd my brain just isn't doing the "clever".

No Waymos for you this weekend www.wired.com/story/ahead-...

Chatbots convince users that that they are the chosen ones and can fly off buildings. YIKES. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t... by @kashhill.bsky.social

How do you target with such a precision (a wall)? Infected smartphone reporting location?

The people claiming that the protests in LA are violent and are the same people who were okay with pardoning men who beat a cop to death with an American flag.

This is really good reporting. I can't imagine Iran's current leadership can ever again trust the US in negotiations.

#DEFCONMovieNight is going to read you a story, even though you have a suspicion it might be a kissing book. Join us at 8pm PDT Sat. the 14th for the'Princess Bride'. We'll be hiding out from the Dread Pirate Roberts in the movie-night-text channel of the #DEFCON Discord(discord.gg/defcon)

MindsEye has a Metascore - 43, making it the lowest rated game of 2025 and one of the lowest rated AAA's of all time.

Timely quote re the DoD from @nymagunion.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...

It's only "surge pricing" if it happens in the Serj region of Armenia, otherwise it's just price gouging.

The Democrats has clearly gotten their name right. The Republicans should change theirs.

Iran says nuclear talks with US 'meaningless' after Israel attack - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Not now, Friday the 13th.

By 1986, the U.S. began attempting computer network exploitation. That same year, the U.S. discovered the Soviets were paying hackers to target U.S. networks using similar methods. www.army.mil/article/2862...

Additional interesting reports that cyberattacks may have been using along kinetic strikes on Iran's Natanz compound (uranium enrichment facilities are said to be affected). Let's wait for more substantial information. In such circumstances, cyberoperations may leave no traces.

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

📌📌📌 www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Larger-than-normal proportions of young people may have contributed to historical conflicts, including the European Revolutions of 1848, the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s, and the American anti-war and civil rights protests (led by ‘baby boomers’) in the 1960s.

Additional interesting reports that cyberattacks may have been using along kinetic strikes on Iran's Natanz compound (uranium enrichment facilities are said to be affected). Let's wait for more substantial information.

Angry and afraid, Iranians brace for more Israeli attacks www.reuters.com/world/middle...

So we're entering a new phase of democracy...