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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for May 26th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- FBI Director #KashPatel ’s store serves infostealer malware

- Hackers hand global disinfo plans of Russia’s Social Design Agency to journalists

- Former member of Dutch Intelligence and Security service advocates for breaking with #Palantir

- #Maori researchers develop a sovereign LLM after hyperscaler models ingested painstakingly-constructed Māori language repositories without consent

- #Kickstarter apologizes and reverses anti-sex policy

- #GoogleSearch readies itself for the glue factory

- Serial numbers on rice bags lead police to cult killers

- California’s operating system age check law is already broken

...and much more.

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