Sharif Torpis🔹

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"The first rule of any game is to know that you're in one."
- Sandy Lerner, co-founder, Cisco Systems
HQChiba City
Black Bag (2025)

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm4WbapDzDQ

GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE | Official Trailer | February 13 - Only in Theaters

YouTube

Super Nintendo

The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play

By Keza MacDonald

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753986/super-nintendo-by-keza-macdonald/

Super Nintendo by Keza MacDonald: 9780593802687 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An exuberant, behind-the-scenes look at the designers and the company that brought us Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, and so much more “Keza MacDonald p...

PenguinRandomhouse.com

Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It.

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/

Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It.

One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.” Civil liberties experts say its use violates constitutional rights.

The Texas Observer

"Companies are offering law enforcement agencies the ability to track smartphone users through advertising data gathered on their devices. Le Monde attended confidential presentations of these new surveillance tools ... According to Le Monde's analysis, around 15 companies, at least, now propose such services"

...feat Penlink, RCS, Wave Guard, Rayzone, Cognyte:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/01/22/how-surveillance-companies-track-smartphone-users-through-advertising-data_6749674_13.html

How surveillance companies track smartphone users through advertising data

Companies are offering law enforcement agencies the ability to track smartphone users through advertising data gathered on their devices. Le Monde attended confidential presentations of these new surveillance tools to learn more.

Le Monde

They quit their day jobs to bet on current events. A look inside the prediction market mania

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/nx-s1-5672615/kalshi-polymarket-prediction-market-boom-traders-slang-glossary

Mr. Nobody Against Putin – Official U.S. Trailer

YouTube
Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw

The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

Forbes

“The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World” - Samanth Subramanian

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/power-hangs-by-a-literal-thread/

Power Hangs by a Literal Thread | Los Angeles Review of Books

Ian Kumekawa dives into Samanth Subramanian’s “The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World.”

Los Angeles Review of Books