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#DEFCON Group in New Jersey. We meet at Sub Culture, Jersey City once a month to work on hardware/software projects! CFP: info (at) defcon201 [dot] org STATUS […]

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot #grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks,
including classified systems,
as part of a broader initiative to
💥incorporate AI technology across the military.

Speaking at SpaceX headquarters […]
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c.im
January 14, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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This new Apple II game is an incredible take on Frogger and Crossy Road. It's extremely well-made and has varied and fun challenges. Bravo, Ben and Paul Wasson.

https://www.lasermego.com/a2sw/froggo
January 12, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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This Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hack was discovered in late 2024. Arguably the biggest foreign attack on U.S. telecoms in history and we clearly STILL haven't figured out how fully the intrusion went.
January 8, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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back in June, it was reported by NextGov that attorneys at companies like AT&T told their engineers to STOP LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF SALT TYPHOON INTRUSION due to worries about liability (many of them left key hardware "secured" with default usernames/passwords)
US agencies assessed Chinese telecom hackers likely hit data center and residential internet providers
Data center giant Digital Realty and mass media titan Comcast were documented as likely victims of the Salt Typhoon cyberespionage group, people familiar say, marking a potentially major expansion of ...
www.nextgov.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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Tracking pixels in documents are nothing new in tech circles, but whistleblowers and activists need to be aware of them. Here's what a company promises to their prospects:
January 8, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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US Rep Thomas Massie on the DOJ's brazen cover up of the Epstein files and criminal collaborators: “They’re still trying to protect billionaires, politically connected people, and trying to obscure the involvement of our own intelligence agencies.” #OpDeathEaters
January 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM
You know things are bad with the #minneapolis #ice shooting when THIS is #twitter #x rn:

#fediverse #mastodon
January 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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its hard to put into words how utterly. UTTERLY. the javascript environment and its developers hate you. 2 minor breakdowns later, however,
January 8, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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The first Silver Spook game was my Deus Ex total conversion Terminus Machina. Homeless hacktivist dodges robot cops & drone-strikes in downtown San Fran amidst financial collapse & 90% AI-driven unemployment, tries to grow food & jailbreak prison-slaves into […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
January 5, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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#ledger subit une nouvelle fuite de données via son partenaire e-commerce Global-e. Si les fonds et clés privées restent sécurisés, les informations personnelles (noms, coordonnées) des clients ayant commandé sur le site sont compromises. Cet incident expose les utilisateurs à des risques accrus […]
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piaille.fr
January 5, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Uh so just random nazi flags are going to be a thing in this?

#Monsterdon
January 5, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: Alco branchline diesel loco 4808 in SRA NSW Candy livery in the station yard at Queanbeyan, NSW, April 2 1987

NSW Rail bought 165 of these 48 class diesels from AE Goodwin between 1959 and 1970 making them the most numerous […]

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January 1, 2026 at 1:22 AM
This is why you should use this for #chrome & #firefox to NOT PAY for Trumproganda like @nytimes & @washingtonpost:

https://gitflic.ru/user/magnolia1234

#fediverse #mastodon #venezuela #trump #war #newsmedia #propaganda #nytimes #washingtonpost
January 4, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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December 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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What are you looking for in social media? (2/N)

It's not just a rhetorical question, I really am curious!

You can respond with a reply to this post, via the pol.is conversation here, or -- if you're on fedi -- in the polls below.
Polis
pol.is
January 1, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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“White Supremacist dating platform hacked and deleted - live on stage Chaos Communication Congress” (Reddit)
https://www.reddit.com/r/chaoticgood/comments/1pzu0ei/white_supremacist_dating_platform_hacked_and/

Data analysis https://okstupid.lol/

Full talk (download for English) […]
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mastodon.social
December 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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It’s a very compelling pitch: tear down anti circumvention laws and reap billions for your economies, while at the same time also becoming digitally sovereign.

Now do European, or other, politicianshave the guts to do it?

From: @pluralistic
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115819402267996681
Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image *On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech*: https://archive.org/details/doctorow-39c3 -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition 1/
mamot.fr
January 1, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Reading the speech @pluralistic held at #39c3 is an amazing way to start the the new year.

A great way to calibrate your political compass.

"Let's call time on enshittification. Let's seize the means of computation. Let's build the drop-in, free, open, auditable alternatives to the services […]
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social.edu.nl
January 1, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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“We’ve got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.”

— Walter Cronkite

#ripcbs #USpol
January 2, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Time to do the ritual again.

Happy New Year From #DCG201!

@defcon #fediverse #mastodon #HappyNewYear #happynewyear2026 #nye #hackers #39c3
January 1, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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[selfie, ec]

can confirm that the lighting in the lobby at #39c3 was excellent
December 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM