BREAKING: We just won our antitrust trial against LiveNation and Ticketmaster.

Live Nation has raked in billions in profits from an illegal monopoly that coerces venues, restricts artists, and exploits fans.

This is a massive win in the fight for fairness for local venues, artists, and fans.

Cargo thieving hackers running sophisticated remote access campaigns, researchers find Losses from cargo theft in North America rose to $6.6 billion in 2025, driven largely by digital attacks, according to the fleet management company Geotab.

New @therecordmedia.bsky.social Thanks to @olevilladsen.bsky.social for chatting about Proofpoint's interesting new research into what happens after cybercriminals break into the systems of companies in the cargo industry therecord.media/cargo-thievi...

Telegram Is Still Hosting a Sanctioned $21 Billion Crypto Scammer Black Market The UK designated Xinbi Guarantee as an enabler of crypto scammers and human trafficking weeks ago. Telegram is still hosting it in plain sight.

Coming up on 3 weeks since Telegram-based black market Xinbi Guarantee, which has done $21 *billion* in transactions, was sanctioned by the UK gov for enabling crypto scamming and human trafficking. Yet Telegram, which could ban Xinbi at any time, is still hosting it. www.wired.com/story/telegr...

Cambodia extradites alleged cyber scam linchpin to China as crackdown intensifies Li Xiong was the head of Huione Group, whose branded entities at one time included an online banking arm, cryptocurrency exchange and online marketplace which has been referred to as an “Amazon for cr...

Big news on the cyber scam front: The former chairman of Huione Group, Li Xiong, was extradited to China and is accused of working alongside Prince Group's Chen Zhi, who is also facing trial for allegedly overseeing a multibillion-dollar scamming enterprise therecord.media/cambodia-ext...

U.S. foreign policy has been captured by dorks obsessed with the movie 300 and the only way to fix it is to put in power dorks obsessed with the movie Master and Commander.

Ubers, club dues and restaurants: How Boston city councilors spend campaign donations City councilors tend to spend most of their campaign funds on things donors expect: consultants, advertising, office costs. They also spend thousands of dollars getting around town, hobnobbing at dinn...

City councilors tend to spend most of their campaign funds on things donors expect: consultants, advertising, office costs. They also spend thousands of dollars getting around town, hobnobbing at dinners, and on donations to nonprofits in their districts. And there's the coffee — lots of coffee.

A picture of Venezuelan people celebrating with the quote “we want to give that joy to the people in Venezuela.” By manager Omar Lopez.

I love how the players and managers for basically every team in the WBC (except one) were like “we’re doing this for the people of our country” and the American team was like, “we are doing this only for the troops and beleaguered cops and ICE agents.”

Trump Officials Weigh New $1 Billion Deal to Stop Offshore Wind Farms

First the Trump administration ended support for clean energy

Then they tried to shut down existing wind farms

Now they're going to pay foreign firms $1 billion to not produce clean energy

Anything to prop up the Big Oil business model

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Exclusive: Why (and how) everyone is cold-calling the president Plus, what happened when Semafor’s Max Tani gave him a ring.

I went on a journey to get Trump's personal cell phone number. It took me about five minutes.

My piece on the media's new favorite Trump gimmick, and how the White House feels about the endless stream of "exclusive" 30 second phone interviews w/Trump www.semafor.com/article/03/1...

Vineyard Wind, country's first large-scale offshore wind project, finishes construction After years of starts and stops, construction on Vineyard Wind, the country's first large-scale offshore wind project, wrapped up this week.

Last night was a big night for offshore wind:

Vineyard Wind finished construction and Revolution Wind began sending power to the grid @wbur.org #energysky

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Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

Joseph Sater, co-owner of the Middle East Restaurant & Nightclub, has died Sater moved from his native Lebanon to the U.S. in 1974, around the same time his brother first bought what was then a neighborhood restaurant. The pair turned it into an oasis for musicians. "They cr...

Sater moved from his native Lebanon to the U.S. in 1974, around the same time his brother first bought what was then a neighborhood restaurant. The pair turned it into an oasis for musicians. "They created a real community there.”

Intellexa founder, three others sentenced to 8 years in prison over Greek spyware scandal A Greek court sentenced the founder of the Intellexa Consortium and three associates to prison for their role in a sprawling spyware scandal that has dominated Greek headlines since it came to light i...

Intellexa associates- incl founder - sentenced to 8 years in prison in Greece. (They remain free on appeal). Spyware combatant John Scott-Railton on impact to biz: "This is going to be a huge ball and chain that Intellexa’s executives are going to be dragging around."
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Phishing operation with links to Russia, Armenia compromised Western cargo companies, researchers find Over a five-month period a group dubbed Diesel Vortex stole more than 1,600 login credentials from accounts at logistics platforms, allowing thieves to intercept and divert freight shipments and commi...

Phishing operation with links to Russia, Armenia compromised Western cargo companies, researchers find therecord.media/phishing-ope...

US ‘committed’ to fighting transnational gangs behind Southeast Asian scam compounds: FBI Scott Schelble, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s International Operations Division, told reporters that he recently met with law enforcement officials in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to di...

The U.S. is working with law enforcement in Southeast Asia in an effort to lead crackdowns on cyber scam compounds that have spread in the region therecord.media/us-committed...

The BPL is proud to announce two research fellowships to support the use of Special Collections!

📜The Telling Boston's Stories Fellowship
🔍The Surfacing Overlooked Stories Fellowship

Applications are open and due on Monday, March 23, 2026.

Learn more and apply at tinyurl.com/SCFellowships

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-...

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Exclusive | Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Huge Regulatory Rollback The move would reverse a legal determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health.

You can repeal an endangerment finding.

You can’t repeal the endangerment.

Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.

As Bezos's Washington Post announces sweeping layoffs this morning ...

Exclusive: US used cyber weapons to disrupt Iranian air defenses during 2025 strikes The U.S. military digitally disrupted Iranian air missile defense systems during its operation last year against the country’s nuclear program, some of the most sophisticated action Cyber Command has ...

The U.S. military last year digitally disrupted Iranian air missile defense systems as part of a coordinated operation to destroy the country’s nuclear program, according to several U.S. officials, showing U.S. growing comfort using cyber weapons in warfare.

🔥 scoop from @martinmatishak.bsky.social

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.

Season 3 of The Pitt is gonna be wild

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Chinese money launderers moved more than $16 billion of illicit crypto in 2025, report finds In 2025, Chinese-language organizations laundered on average $44 million in illicit crypto each day, amounting to $16.1 billion.

$16 Billion seems like a lot?

I know people who research cryptocurrency claim that fraud makes us a small part of cryptocurrency transactions…but does it though?

via @jreddjourno.bsky.social & @therecordmedia.bsky.social

If Chuck Schumer was dealt a full house he’d bet a nickel

We joined community orgs and unions for a National Day of Action in Dorchester, standing in solidarity with Minneapolis and the communities rising up for justice.

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Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Judge ordered immediate freedom for immigrant whom #ICE had shackled to her hospital bed as she awaited emergency surgery
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#Boston #immigrants #lawsuits