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Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicks off today.
Esquire Magazine just accurately called Donald Trump insane.
The media is finally reporting on Donald Trump’s cognitive decline and crazy tantrums.
Hillary is warning of an October surprise targeting Harris, and I think we should be ready. She said in an interview: “I don’t know what it’s going to be, but it will be something, and we’ll have to work very, very hard to make sure that it is exposed as the lie that it is.”
VICTORY MASSIVE WIN for reproductive rights!
“Today’s victory demonstrates that when the legal system faithfully applies constitutional protections for bodily autonomy, laws that restrict access to abortion and force people to continue pregnancies against their will cannot stand.” —Alice Wang, @ReproRights Staff Attorney
The court also found that a provision of the law which gave district attorneys broad access to the medical records of abortion care patients is a VIOLATION of Georgians’ constitutional right to privacy. Based on that finding, the court ruled that Georgia’s extreme six-week ban—which bans abortion care before most people even know they are pregnant—is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Systems used by courts and governments across the US riddled with vulnerabilities.
With hundreds of courts and agencies affected, chances are one near you is, too.
Public records systems that courts and governments rely on to manage voter registrations and legal filings have been riddled with vulnerabilities that made it possible for attackers to falsify registration databases and add, delete, or modify official documents.
Over the past year, software developer turned security researcher Jason Parker has found and reported dozens of critical vulnerabilities in no fewer than 19 commercial platforms used by hundreds of courts, government agencies, and police departments across the country. Most of the vulnerabilities were critical.
One flaw he uncovered in the voter registration cancellation portal for the state of Georgia, for instance, allowed anyone visiting it to cancel the registration of any voter in that state when the visitor knew the name, birthdate, and county of residence of the voter. In another case, document management systems used in local courthouses across the country contained multiple flaws that allowed unauthorized people to access sensitive filings such as psychiatric evaluations that were under seal. And in one case, unauthorized people could assign themselves privileges that are supposed to be available only to clerks of the court and, from there, create, delete, or modify filings.
Google and Facebook killed the news. 2.5 newspapers closed each week on average in 2023. And 500 journalists were laid off in January alone. It’s because the tech giants are siphoning billions of dollars in ad revenue. Now the DOJ is finally taking them on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgbm5oEE5bk
From FY 2020 (Bill Barr) through FY 2023 (Merrick Garland) the U.S. Marshals deputized who-the-fuck-ever and let them do whatever. And didn’t track it. Apparently the U.S. Marshals illegally deputized people who: were domestic abusers, had no law enforcement experience, couldn’t handle a gun…
FED News: US Fed prints $2.35b in repurchase agreements to bailout banks.
Ultra-Rich Families Set to Control $9.5 Trillion by 2030, Deloitte Says
US officials say 40 airlines may be using Boeing 737s with suspect rudder parts
AirFi to fit Atlantic Airways with LEO boxes for messaging, payments
Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship
Breakthrough bendable 32-bit microprocessor costs less than a buck to make. Barely any throughput loss, even when curved to the extreme
France wants to kick the can down the road for another 5 years, projecting its deficit could reach 6% with its debt-to-GDP at 110%.
Background: The EU suspended its fiscal rules in 2020, which require countries to limit their debt-to-GDP to 60% and fiscal deficits to 3% of GDP.
France Delays Plan to Meet 3% EU Deficit Limit Until 2029
• Barnier makes his first address to National Assembly Tuesday
• French bonds trimmed gains as Barnier addressed parliament
Sweeping bill to overhaul Supreme Court would add six justices
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/26/supreme-court-reform-15-justices-wyden/
California bans legacy admissions at all colleges
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a prohibition on the practice.
T-Mobile reaches $31.5 million settlement with FCC over past data breaches
Read the JD Vance Dossier
We’re publishing the supposed Iran-hacked document.
Download JD Vance Research Dossier
The nightmarish Kia cars remote hack
https://samcurry.net/hacking-kia
CEO of “health care terrorists” sues senators after contempt of Congress charges
Suing an entire Senate panel seen as a “Hail Mary play” unlikely to succeed.
Bitcoin’s September Performance is the Second-Best on Record for the Month
Carrefour Express now accepts Bitcoin payments!
https://tremplin.io/carrefour-express-now-accepts-bitcoin-payments/
Starbucks accepts bitcoin soon they will turn this on in every country to avoid 2.5% credit card transaction fees and inflation.
Using platforms like @wavlake and @fountain_app and Nostr, it’s easier than ever for artists to earn #bitcoin for streaming and sharing their music @ForbesCrypto, which features commentary from @ainsleymusic07, @manlikekweks and @JoeMartinMusic
https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankcorva/2024/10/01/musicians-can-now-earn-bitcoin-for-streaming-their-songs/
AI can destroy lives: A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/09/a-courts-reporter-wrote-about-a-few-trials-then-an-ai-decided-he-was-actually-the-culprit/
AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models
As AI-generated content fills the Internet, it’s corrupting the training data for models to come. What happens when AI eats itself?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-generated-data-can-poison-future-ai-models/
Data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against AI scraping. Here’s how
Called Nightshade, the tool messes with training data pixels to confuse image-generating AI models.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/data-poisoning-tool-lets-artists-fight-back-against-ai-scraping-heres-how/
HOW to Poison AI scraping your site
What Is Nightshade?
Why Does It Work, and Limitations
Nightshade changes images in small ways that are nearly invisible to the human eye but look dramatically different to AI platforms that ingest them. It does this by altering thousands of pixels, a drop in the bucket for standard images containing millions of pixels, but enough to trick the model into seeing “something that’s completely different.”
ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time:
But they were still preferred 35% of the time, and misinformation in them
was overlooked 39% of the time. -L
https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-answers-wrong-programming-openai-52-study-1851499417
AI worse than humans in every way at summarizing information, government trial finds
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/
Half of All Deaths from Hurricane Helene Occurred 485 Miles North of Where It Made Landfal
SCREEN CLEANER – Libera – Ave Verum by Albinoni (Adagio in G Minor)