Credit to Author: Caroline Haskins| Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:31:57 +0000
A federal contracting database lists an ICE payment for $61,218 with the payment code for “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” But it appears ICE simply entered the wrong code.
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Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000
Anthropic partnered with the US government to create a filter meant to block Claude from helping someone build a nuke. Experts are divided on whether its a necessary protection—or a protection at all.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: A secret FBI anti-ransomware task force gets exposed, the mystery of the CIA’s Kryptos sculpture is finally solved, North Koreans busted hiding malware in the Ethereum blockchain, and more.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:00:00 +0000
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: US government cybersecurity staffers get reassigned to do immigration work, a hack exposes sensitive age-verification data of Discord users, and more.
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Credit to Author: Reece Rogers, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:22:32 +0000
“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: China sentences scam bosses to death, Europe is ramping up its plans to build a “drone wall” to protect against Russian airspace violations, and more.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:21:05 +0000
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
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Credit to Author: Nicholas Slayton| Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:40:00 +0000
Harry Jackson went into Kathmandu as a tourist. He ended up being one of the main international sources of news on Nepal’s Gen Z protests.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:09:18 +0000
The agency says it found a network of some 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards—enough to knock out cell service in the NYC area. Experts say it mirrors facilities typically used for cybercrime.
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