Mastodawn

New, by me: Telehealth giant Hims & Hers confirmed its customer service ticketing system was hacked. A spokesperson said it was a social engineering attack. The hacker stole mostly customer support tickets, including customer names and contact information, but also the contents of customer requests.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/02/telehealth-giant-hims-hers-says-its-customer-support-system-was-hacked/

Telehealth giant Hims & Hers says its customer support system was hacked | TechCrunch

The U.S. telehealth giant says hackers stole customer support ticket data over the course of several days in February.

TechCrunch

Charlie Savage 9h ago

New memo by Trump's 36-year-old OLC chief, Elliot Gaiser, says Congress's Constitutional power to make laws necessary and proper to regulate how the U.S. government works is actually just a power to "assist" the president--so laws are valid if they increase Trump's power but not if they restrict it.

Dave Wilburn

4h ago

Taggart 6h ago

Listen, they called the ship Integrity, not Availability; what do you want from a government contract?

https://www.404media.co/artemis-2-astronauts-microsoft-outlook-livestream/

Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work

In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software.

404 Media

Dave Wilburn

10h ago

Paris Marx 10h ago

“A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.”

Maven, the program Google was forced to pull out of and Palantir took over, was the system that identified the girls’ school as a target.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

#tech #google #palantir #iran #iranwar #politics

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

The Guardian

AG Bondi is out!

Ian Campbell 🏴14h ago

Okay, okay. I need to devote some time to catching up on genAI capabilities in a professional sense.

Security Researchers & SecOps - what's your favorite use case so far?

Also, what's a lesson you learned the hard way?

***Also - please save the snark. I'm tired, and this is a genuine, if hesitant, ask.

Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration Crackdown
https://www.wired.com/story/border-patrol-bortac-borstar-use-of-force-midway-blitz/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-WIRED

Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration Crackdown

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.

WIRED

Dave Wilburn

15h ago

IMPORTANT SPACE NEWS!

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/theres-a-bit-of-toilet-trouble-on-nasas-artemis-2-mission-to-the-moon

#space #artemis #poop

There was a bit of toilet trouble on NASA's Artemis 2 mission to the moon

It wasn't their No. 1 problem, but it was a problem for going number one.

Space

Dave Wilburn

18h ago

Steve Herman 1d ago

If President Trump intended his televised speech about Iran to bring down the price of oil and calm stock traders, it has had the opposite effect in Asia. https://asia.nikkei.com/business/markets/trump-speech-sends-oil-higher-asia-stocks-down