Iranian journalists in London “say they fear for their lives after a recent spate of threats and physical attacks,” and I’m willing to bet the regime is leveraging digital attacks against critics too. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Experience suggests that an increase of savagery in warfare is apt to follow new developments - technical or political - which unsettle the existing order. The advent of AI-driven and lethal autonomous weapons systems may be no exception.
Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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Another crypto mega hack
$292m stolen from Kelp DAO
The biggest of the year (so far 😂)
www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/04...
Dutch journalists have tracked frigate HNLMS Evertsen (F805) live during combat operations in east Mediterranean.
By sending a Bluetooth tracker to a sailor with the official military post they managed to get live positions for several days.
Dutch Navy has since adjusted protocols.
One to keep an eye on. "first improved variant of French/Italian SAMP/T ... is expected to be delivered to Kyiv in 2026, with up to seven [more] over two years. If Aster...production keeps up... could alleviate Kyiv’s reliance on US for long-range [AD]" www.iiss.org/online-analy...
A fascinating read by my colleagues on a police officer who was part of the detention system in Xinjian and now has fled the country and now is speaking out, because if one day, he was asked, what he did to fight the injustice, he can say: "I spoke the truth"
www.spiegel.de/ausland/chin...
There is simply too much ShadowPad. No, I will not elaborate.
Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.
![For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.”
Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.”
Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.”
“He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fhnih5ovyd5w5pch254ordo2/bafkreidy34if6qaoxglmgyuqzd45qrtblapduetgu6y3m4vwuto6etcmem)
For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”
Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”
A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)
This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):
men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.
After the $280 million theft from Drift, the Treasury Dept said it will start sharing cyber threat intel with the crypto industry
Crypto firms will receive the same actionable cyber information Treasury regularly shares with traditional U.S. financial institutions
therecord.media/treasury-dep...
“False certainty is dangerous; it rules out all possibilities but one and in essence surrenders to that imagined future.”
(Altman doesn’t remember this)
(Altman denies this.)
(Altman does not recall this.)
(Altman says that he was probably joking.)
(Altman says that he wasn’t aware of this until much later.)
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Particularly alarming that this includes Lebanon & Gaza. I had just shared imagery from March 18 showing the demolition of villages along the southern border of Lebanon by the IDF and now not even that imagery is available: bsky.app/profile/godi...
Mass demolitions haven't stopped in Gaza, either.
Chalker’s defectors contributed to what several former senior officials told me had been a dramatic leap forward in the U.S. government’s understanding of Iran’s nuclear ambitions in those years.
Absolutely crazy story that ties together many aspects related to cybersecurity, specifically about Iran‘s nuclear ambitions and how defectors have helped the U.S. keeping Iran away from the bomb, including through Stuxnet
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
There are roughly 2,000 ships stuck in the Persian Gulf with more than 20,000 seafarers on them, according to the International Maritime Organization. Most have been stuck on board more than a month, because fewer than 200 ships have managed to slip through the Strait of Hormuz. In normal times, 20% of the world’s oil flows through the narrow waterway to global markets, along with critical supplies of natural gas, fertilizer and other cargo shipments. It’s unclear when the vital shipping lane will get back to normal. Fresh vegetables and freshwater are running out on many ships, so the sailors are using social media and very-high-frequency marine radios to share survival tips and tactics. Some Chinese crew members have filmed themselves collecting condensate from air-conditioning units to shower and wash laundry. Others have taken to fishing over the side of their tankers, catching tuna, squid and largehead hairtail to cook.
WSJ has a piece on the merchant sailors stuck aboard ships inside Hormuz. There are 20,000 of them (many from less privileged nationalities), effectively held hostage and running out of food.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
A knock-on effect US commercial giants providing key services to American national security agencies—like Amazon’s cloud storage contract with CIA—is that US adversaries are more likely to consider them fair game.
They did not poison anyone's drinking water or keep any wastewater plants from working. But historically Iran has sometimes chosen thematically appropriate tit-for-tat retaliatory cybers, so I would assume this is a ripe target again.
As Trump threatens to bomb Iran's water (explicitly a war crime), I'm thinking back to two years ago when the US sanctioned some IRGC dudes for hacking Israeli ICS software used at a couple American water/wastewater facilities, as that was critical infrastructure and strictly off limits.
Suspected Chinese APT leverages a TrueConf zero-day
research.checkpoint.com/2026/operati...
UPDATE: Google accuses North Korean government hackers of being behind the supply chain attack against Axios.
“North Korean hackers have deep experience with supply chain attacks, which they’ve historically used to steal cryptocurrency,” said Google's John Hultquist.
All of southern Lebanon ordered evacuated south of the Zahrani river on March 12. The order for south of the Litani is explicitly open-ended, like the 2025 orders in Gaza that preceded the IDF's demolition on the ground of almost all buildings in the evacuated areas. Includes the city of Tyre.
Fascinating insight into how Russian espionage works and how they manage their recruits. Hint: It’s not pretty, actual a lot of the tactics are reminiscent of the the Russian ransomware groups work.
via @evahartog.bsky.social
Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...
Another Russian APT adopts DarkSword
E-crime data extortion groups when?
Proofpoint has directly observed a targeted email campaign that delivers DarkSword RCE, and we attribute the messages to Russian FSB threat actor TA446 with high confidence. 🧵
blocking all mentions of AI + cyber from appearing on my skyline until at least December, call that a Wintermute.
The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. At least two people were killed according to local reports. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
