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Stop-the-MAGAss-Reich Nov 28, 2023

Ken White Nov 20, 2023

I’ve been incredibly angry — furious, even for ME — about the most loathsome and contemptible defamation suit I’ve ever seen in my career, and now Mike Masnick at TechDirt has written about the despicable case and about my anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss it. Reading it just makes me angrier.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/20/if-you-kill-two-people-in-a-car-crash-you-shouldnt-then-sue-their-relatives-for-emailing-your-university-about-what-you-did/

If You Kill Two People In A Car Crash, You Shouldn’t Then Sue Their Relatives For Emailing Your University About What You Did

Holy shit. So, in 2021 there was a car accident in Atwater California that killed a married couple, Pam and Joe Juarez. According to police reports at the time, a 20-year-old Stanford student, King…

Techdirt

Stop-the-MAGAss-Reich May 14, 2023

Patrick C Miller

May 14, 2023

GitHub Extends Push Protection to Prevent Accidental Leaks of Keys and Other Secrets https://thehackernews.com/2023/05/github-extends-push-protection-to.html

GitHub Extends Push Protection to Prevent Accidental Leaks of Keys and Other Secrets

GitHub's push protection feature is now available to all public repositories, helping to prevent accidental key and secret leaks in code.

The Hacker News

Stop-the-MAGAss-Reich May 11, 2023

Jorge Caballero, MD May 11, 2023

One of the things that made Twitter so powerful was its ability to amplify calls for grassroots activism— it's time to see if Mastodon can deliver the goods, too: if you want to help send the message that fascists should not be given a national platform to spew their hateful rhetoric: open Apple News (or your Android equivalent) and block the *CNN Politics* channel

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Stop-the-MAGAss-Reich Apr 20, 2023

Dell Cameron 🐈‍⬛Mar 9, 2023

My latest at WIRED: Today the FBI admitted to buying cellphone location data that US companies claimed was gathered to personalize online ads -- data the bureau would've otherwise required a warrant to obtain

Dir. Wray says it was purchased for a classified pilot program "some time" ago

https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-purchase-location-data-wray-senate/

The FBI Just Admitted It Bought US Location Data

Rather than obtaining a warrant, the bureau purchased sensitive data—a controversial practice that privacy advocates say is deeply problematic.

WIRED

Stop-the-MAGAss-Reich Apr 18, 2023

Patrick C Miller

Apr 18, 2023

Update now: Google emits emergency fix for zero-day Chrome vulnerability https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/chrome_emergency_patch/

Update now: Google emits emergency fix for zero-day Chrome vulnerability

Also: Tech players spin up white hat protection, this week's critical bugs, and more

The Register

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Stop-the-MAGAss-Reich Apr 12, 2023

@UROCKlive1

"After intense lobbying by insurers"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/health/medicare-overbilling-insurance.html

Medicare Delays a Full Crackdown on Private Health Plans

After intense lobbying by insurers, U.S. health officials say changes to reduce overbilling in Medicare Advantage will be phased in over three years.

The New York Times

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Stop-the-MAGAss-Reich Apr 11, 2023

@emilymbender @timnitGebru @xriskology
We are doomed. Only constant with technological evolution is the increasing destructive potential of the individual. Now couple that with seeminly persistent proportion of stupid people, armed with AI, means inevitable doom or apocalypse.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/apr/09/improbable-research-human-stupidity

Improbable Research: the laws of human stupidity

Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals, it seems – this is one of the laws of human stupidity

The Guardian

Stop-the-MAGAss-Reich Apr 10, 2023

Patrick C Miller

Apr 10, 2023

Seized Genesis malware market's infostealers infected 1.5 million computers https://www.csoonline.com/article/3693009/seized-genesis-malware-markets-infostealers-infected-15-million-computers.html#tk.rss_all

Seized Genesis malware market's infostealers infected 1.5 million computers

Cybersecurity company Trellix assisted global law enforcement in analyzing infection strategies and payloads used by Genesis Market before its takedown, identifying DanaBot and other malware.

CSO Online

Stop-the-MAGAss-Reich Apr 2, 2023

Frankie ✅Apr 2, 2023

Forget Shadow Banning, Now Elon Is Shadow Boosting Accounts He Likes, While Trying To Drive Away Users Who Won’t Pay

#new #tech #technology #twitter #birdsite #elonmusk #musk

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/28/forget-shadow-banning-now-elon-is-shadow-boosting-accounts-he-likes-while-trying-to-drive-away-users-who-wont-pay/

Forget Shadow Banning, Now Elon Is Shadow Boosting Accounts He Likes, While Trying To Drive Away Users Who Won’t Pay

Elon Musk says he’s against a “lords and peasants” system on Twitter. And he thinks celebrities on the platform should be treated equal: And he’s really mad about shadowbanning: Even as he uses the…

Techdirt

Stop-the-MAGAss-Reich Mar 23, 2023

@jumbanho @Popehat Is suing in fed court in vogue now for SLAPP (because states have better anti-SLAPP)?

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-to-cover-legal-costs-of-whistleblower