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Jonathan Schofield
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@briankrebs Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
When you target security researchers with malware, getting caught and written up is honestly one of the less unpleasant possible outcomes: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/someone-targeted-security-researchers-using-a-fake-crypto-conference-as-a-lure/
@evacide I can't read the article (because it wants me to disable security protections in my browser), but fake conferences are a TERRIBLE cover for targeting academics. The amount of fake conference spam we routinely get is overwhelming. For an actual conference invite to have any chance of getting my attention, it would have to come from someone I know personally.
Jonathan Schofield
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And from WTAF dept, quite a bombshell from Pro Publica today:
"Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found."
"The arrangement, which was critical to Microsoft winning the federal government’s cloud computing business a decade ago, relies on U.S. citizens with security clearances to oversee the work and serve as a barrier against espionage and sabotage."
"But these workers, known as “digital escorts,” often lack the technical expertise to police foreign engineers with far more advanced skills, ProPublica found. Some are former military personnel with little coding experience who are paid barely more than minimum wage for the work."
Personalescrito
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Ed Miliband bringing it to the FO, nice to hear genocidal language from Israel called out instead of ignored.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-condemns-ben-gvirs-comments-killing-palestinians-abhorrent
@DoctorDeathray I've spent a lot of time exploring this space and I have suggestions, if you want them.
@ajroach42 yes please.
The hotel I’m staying in was built in China. Each room was shipped over, completely done and furnished, and then put together like giant Lego blocks. #Nunavut
@NunavutBirder
Meanwhile, next door, GNWT seems to think $850k is just a great deal for one br. Social housing units in Yellowknife.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117129740590565550
FINISH HIM*
*missing semicolon at end of statement
Personalescrito
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„Nicht hinnehmbar“: Bundeskanzler Merz verurteilt scharfe Aussagen von Israels Sicherheitsminister Itamar Ben-Gvir zu gezielten Tötungen von Palästinensern. 🇩🇪 Humanität & Völkerrecht stehen im Mittelpunkt – die EU berät bald über mögliche Schritte gegen „radikale Politiker“. ⚖️🕊️ #Merz #BenGvir #EU #Völkerrecht #Israel #Palästina #Sanktionen #Menschenrechte
#PFUI 🤢 🤮 👉️ BenGvir
Carlos Solís
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"Seek immediate medical attention if a battery is suspected to be swallowed or inserted inside any part of the body."
Interesting wording.
RE: https://front-end.social/@bramus/117124577120728021
Beyond “originally pitching this” which the article cites as my only involvement, I also put a fair bit of effort into driving this resolution at the recent Berlin F2F, together with @tabatkins .
I’m *delighted* we convinced the WG to do it. It will be a gamechanger for CSS utility classes! 🎉
Bloomberg Businessweek Daily: Matt Winkler
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2026-08-20/bloomberg-businessweek-daily-matt-winkler-podcast?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Bloomberg Television @bloomberg-television-bloomberg
Wow #signal @signalapp
first a forced desktop client update, then forced reconnect (delete local data, transfer from mobile) and then data loss (missing messages)!
Fortunately I use it only for 5 contacts with total ~20 messages, but this is a total disaster to me.
hypebot
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Wow.
Landlords really assassinating tenants over real estate. That's a level of dystopic housing shenanigans I did not expect but also seems really on brand for SF.
Christ.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/06/outer-sunset-bigone-killer-wrongful-death-lawsuit/
Tried out Fread since it supports Bluesky and thus hopefully Blacksky, but it has that bug I keep running into where backspacing over a space also removes the space before the word. I suspect it may be some interaction with the AOSP-based keyboard used by GrapheneOS.
"Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has visited a construction site where he said gallows will be built to execute Palestinian prisoners sentenced to death under a controversial law approved earlier this year.
In a video posted on Instagram on Wednesday, Ben-Gvir stood at the site and said: “Gallows will be erected here,” describing the facility as the fulfillment of a promise to establish an execution site for prisoners convicted of what Israel defines as terrorism."
#IsraelTerroristState #BenGvir #Palestinian #HumanRights
https://www.arabnews.pk/node/2655226/middle-east
I don’t know how to read bond market runes but this doesn’t sound good.
And this is *before* we get a massive Hormuz-induced oil price correction https://www.reuters.com/business/us-treasury-buyback-briefly-eases-bond-rout-debt-worries-persist-2026-08-20/
…I’ve lived through 7 recessions (I think). 2 of them big ones, in 2008 and 2020.
But this coming one feels huuuuuuuuge
Phoenix Police Investigate 2 Officers Accused of Violent Traffic Stop
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/us/phoenix-police-investigation-traffic-stop.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. @u-s-newyorktimes
