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• Post #4503171

  Ars Technica: Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, isn’t filling empty Democratic seat https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/trump-to-give-republicans-a-3-1-fcc-majority-isnt-filling-empty-democratic-seat/ @arstechnica@mastodon.social

• Post #4423958

  A bit late for "honorable." The Register: News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs' https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/06/news-corp-labels-some-ai-companies-crass-kleptomaniacs/5283848 @theregister@geeknews.chat @ssharwood@theblower.au #copyright

• Post #4423677

  This sounds familiar. "PlayStation is forcing its players into purchasing video games exclusively from its online marketplace, the PlayStation Store, players who filed lawsuits said. Sony benefits from that, according to the lawsuits, because it’s able to take a 30-percent cut of its sales, with little fear of other retailers undercutting their prices." Kotaku: PlayStation Is Being Sued In Five Different Countries Over Anti-Competitive Concerns And The End Of Discs Isn’t Helping http...

• Post #4422912

  Oh, for Pete's sake. Build your own monetized, crappy bot internet and leave the human web ALONE. "Our data shows that a lot of traffic from well-behaved bots is re-fetching pages that have not changed. Billions of requests. An enormous amount of machine effort, attached to no outcome at all. That's the signature of a web built for humans being visited by something else." Cloudflare: Building an open Agentic Internet: readable, discoverable, callable, and payable https://blog...

• Post #4422841

  New. "Dropping Elephant is an espionage-focused APT first observed in December 2015. It targets government, defense, energy, research, aviation, financial, technology, pharmaceutical, NGO, and think tank organizations across Asia, Europe, Türkiye, and the United States." Picus: Dropping Elephant (Patchwork): Espionage APT Tactics and Tools https://www.picussecurity.com/resource/blog/dropping-elephant-patchwork-espionage-apt-tactics-and-tools #infosec #threatresearch #espionage #Windo...

• Post #4422816

  The report was published three days ago, if you missed it. INTERPOL report finds AI linked to more than half of cybercrime in Africa https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2026/INTERPOL-report-finds-AI-linked-to-more-than-half-of-cybercrime-in-Africa #infosec #cybercrime

• Post #4422697

  New. Huntress: Wallet-depleting macOS malware wants your crypto https://www.huntress.com/blog/mac-crypto-draining-malware @huntress@infosec.exchange #infosec #threatresearch #macOS #Apple #scam #malware

• Post #4422481

  Seconds, please. There are three of them, currently: Max Miller of Ohio, Cory Mills of Florida and Chuck Edwards of North Carolina. Newsweek: How House Republican Scandals Could Tip the Scales in Midterms https://www.newsweek.com/how-house-republican-scandals-could-tip-the-scales-in-midterms-12289547 @Newsweekdotcom@flipboard.com

• Post #4380008

  Interesting. And the part about "voluntary safety testing" raises a question ... The companies' staff "will meet with U.S. President Donald ​Trump's advisers on Tuesday about voluntary safety testing for advanced AI ‌models, according to four sources familiar with the meeting, as concerns over rogue AI agents grow." Reuters: Meta, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI to meet with Trump advisers amid "rogue AI agent" fallout https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/met...

• Post #4379600

  Action speaks louder than words. "Ellison, who sought fit to hand control of CBS News to conservative gadfly Bari Weiss despite her lack of experience in running a straight news organization, claimed in his op-ed that he values 'journalistic independence' and claimed he would not 'put a finger on the scale' if he took control of CNN." Raw Story: Scrambling Paramount head goes into damage control amid CNN takeover fears and CBS woes https://www.rawstory.com/david-ellis...

• Post #4379397

  The theater of the absurd. Huff Post: Senate Committee Schedules Vote On Holding Anthony Fauci In Contempt Of Congress https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-contempt-congress-vote-anthony-fauci_n_6a71e6b1e4b0963665e830ae @huffingtonpost@flipboard.com

• Post #4379336

  Giving fodder to the opposition ahead of a major election? Smart, Carville. Never mind the fact that Piker won't survive this storm. From yesterday. NJ.com: The stunning reason why James Carville might abandon the Democratic Party https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/08/the-stunning-reason-why-james-carville-might-abandon-the-democratic-party.html

• Post #4379221

  Newsweek: Senate Blocks Major Veterans Bill: What It Means for Disability Benefits https://www.newsweek.com/senate-blocks-veterans-bill-disability-benefits-12281633 @Newsweekdotcom@flipboard.com

• Post #4379176

  These are two separate items. Do with them what you will. Yesterday: BBC: Moroccan king's letter confirms naming of major highway in honor of Trump https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3r0vg88zr2o @BBCNews@flipboard.com Today: The Intercept: Liberals Are Ceding Ground to the Far Right on Ceuta Border Crossings https://theintercept.com/2026/08/03/ceuta-spain-morocco-refugee-border/ @theintercept@journa.host

• Post #4379040

  FIFA's "expansionist strategy is now encountering increasing resistance from the players themselves. Trade unions, medical experts and international organisations argue that fixture congestion, longer playing times and growing travel demands are pushing elite footballers beyond acceptable limits." The Conversation: Fifa’s failed equity plan and football’s growing welfare crisis https://theconversation.com/fifas-failed-equity-plan-and-footballs-growing-welfare-crisis-289068 @TheCo...

• Post #4378755

  New. Rapid7: CVE-2026-18577: N-able N-central Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/etr-cve-2026-18577-n-able-n-central-authentication-bypass-exploited-in-the-wild/ @Rapid7Official@infosec.exchange #infosec #vulnerabiity

• Post #4378700

  New. "Throughout 2025 and 2026, we have observed phishing operators steadily migrate toward platforms like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, and IPFS." Kaspersky: How legitimate cloud platforms enable phishers to bypass MFA https://securelist.com/cloud-platforms-in-phishing/120832/ @Kaspersky@noc.social #infosec #phishing #Cloudflare #GitHub

• Post #4378646

  New. Fortinet: QuickFox Supply Chain Attack Used to Deploy FDMTP Implant https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/quickfox-supply-chain-attack-used-to-deploy-fdmtp-implant @fortinet@infosec.exchange #threatresearch #infosec #cyberattack #supplychain #Windows

• Post #4378493

  New. Huntress: Fake Bank of America "Action Needed" Phishing Email Deposits ScreenConnect Instead https://www.huntress.com/blog/bank-spam-rmm @huntress@infosec.exchange #infosec #phishing #scam

• Post #4377960

  New; Broadcom has released advisories relating to several high and medium-severity vulnerabilities https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/security-advisory #Broadcom Nvidia: CRITICAL: NVIDIA Dynamo - July 2026 https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5842 NVIDIA Triton Inference Server - June 2026 https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5860 #Nvidia Dell: Security Update for Dell PowerProtect Data Domain Multiple Vulnerabilities https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-...

• Post #4377689

  Bitdefender: OpenAI shuts down ChatGPT accounts used by organized scam networks https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/openai-shuts-down-chatgpt-accounts-used-by-organized-scam-networks #OpenAI #infosec #scam #cybercrime #ChatGPT

• Post #4377642

  New and part self-promotion. Barracuda:AI-enabled email accounts could become the ultimate insider threat https://blog.barracuda.com/2026/08/04/ai-enabled-email-accounts-insider-threat #infosec #Copilot #phishing #databreach

• Post #4377542

  CISA added this vulnerability to the catalogue yesterday, if you missed it: CVE-2026-18577: N-able N-central Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Vulnerability https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-18577 Arctic Wolf: CVE-2026-18556 / CVE-2026-18577: N-able N-central Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities Require Immediate Patching https://arcticwolf.com/resources/blog/cve-2026-18556-cve-2026-18577/ #infosec #vulnerability #CISA

• Post #4377349

  This report was released yesterday. Darktrace: Why Trust is the New Attack Surface: Darktrace’s Mid-Year Threat Update 2026 https://www.darktrace.com/blog/why-trust-is-the-new-attack-surface-darktraces-mid-year-threat-update-2026 More: Infosecurity-Magazine: Cloud and SaaS Environments Now Top Targets for Attackers https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cloud-saas-targets-attackers/ #infosec #cybercrime

• Post #4377304

  New. Cisco: “Keep going, bro. You’ve got this!” A data-driven look at how adversaries are weaponizing AI https://blog.talosintelligence.com/keep-going-bro-youve-got-this-a-data-driven-look-at-how-adversaries-are-weaponizing-ai/ @TalosSecurity@mstdn.social More: "Talos said guardrails 'did not provide much protection', and that it encountered no sophisticated encoding or evasion techniques. Where guardrails did engage, they achieved little, and the pattern held across models and...

• Post #4377222

  From yesterday: Pillar: I'll Just Call You: Agent-to-Agent Privilege Boundary Failures in CI/CD on Google's ADK Repository https://www.pillar.security/blog/ill-just-call-you-agent-to-agent-privilege-boundary-failures-in-ci-cd-on-googles-adk-repository More: The Hacker News: Google Deletes 3 ADK AI Workflows After Malicious GitHub Issue Could Trigger Privileged Agent https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/google-deletes-3-adk-ai-workflows-after.html @thehackernews@social.tchncs.de #infosec...

• Post #4377046

  New. Securonix: Analyzing SMOKE#SCREEN: ScreenConnect RMM Abuse, Cloudflare Tunnels, and Trusted Software Lures https://www.securonix.com/blog/smoke-screen-screenconnect-rmm-abuse-cloudflare-tunnels/ #infosec More: The Hacker news: Fake Adobe and Zoom Updates Install ScreenConnect for Persistent Remote Access https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/fake-adobe-and-zoom-updates-install.html @thehackernews@social.tchncs.de #infosec #threatintel #threatintelligence #Adobe #Zoom #malware

• Post #4377000

  New. Socket: Popular npm Packages in the keyv and Cacheable Namespaces Compromised in Active Supply Chain Attack https://socket.dev/blog/popular-npm-packages-in-the-keyv-and-cacheable-namespaces-compromised-in-active-supply-chain @SocketSecurity@fosstodon.org More: The Hacker news: Keyv-Linked npm Worm Poisons Hundreds of Packages, Plants Claude Code and VS Code Hooks https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/keyv-linked-npm-worm-poisons-hundreds.html @thehackernews@social.tchncs.de #infosec #npm #t...

• Post #4360038

  Where in the world is Mitch McConnell? While he's not running again, he's still trying to beat down the competition ahead of the midterms, (assuming he's not already dead.) "The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican has been MIA and unable to fulfill his Senate duties since he was hospitalized on June 14." The Daily Beast: Missing Mitch’s Governor Speaks Out on Crucial Deadline https://www.thedailybeast.com/missing-mitchs-governor-speaks-out-on-crucial-deadline/ @thedailybeast@...

• Post #4359944

  The view from the other side: "Donald Trump’s pal, FIFA President Gianni Infantino, is appealing to top administration officials to help him keep his job as he faces a mutiny over his failed plot to sell a stake in the World Cup to a firm connected to the U.S. president’s inner circle." "He has repeatedly tried and failed to reach Trump, 80, by phone since the deal collapsed on Friday, and has instead scheduled a call with Secretary of State Marco Rubio for Monday." The Da...