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  1. Is AI the true enemy, or just a convenient distraction from systemic failure?

    New piece on why moral panics around technology are often just masks for structural decay. Instead of fighting the machine, we should be auditing the foundation.

    Read:
    open.substack.com/pub/brandonb

    #AI #TechEthics #SystemicChange #CriticalThinking #reading #writing #substack #change #government #society #outrage #bigotry #robots #machines #economics #technology #ethics #futureofwork

  2. EU plans would fund European cloud and AI alternatives while assessing dependencies on US software and digital infrastructure providers. 🇪🇺
    Draft tech sovereignty rules also target “sovereignty washing” and could expand EU data center capacity within seven years. ☁️

    🔗 techradar.com/pro/eu-to-back-e

    #TechNews #EU #Europe #Sovereignty #Cloud #AI #DataCenters #OpenSource #Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #Infrastructure #Regulation #Security #FOSS #BigTech #US #USA #Government #Politics #Software

  3. 1 “Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of #government on others by #violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a #criminal work.” 🧵

  4. Exposing a Global Smishing Operation Across 19 Countries: Governments, Postal Services, and Telecoms Targeted

    A coordinated smishing operation spanning 19 countries across Europe, the Americas, and the Caucasus has been exposed, originating from fraudulent SMS messages impersonating Romania's government payment portal Ghișeul.ro. Investigation revealed 1,628 malicious URLs linked by a single 128-character campaign identifier, targeting government portals, traffic police departments, postal services including DPD and SEUR, tax authorities, and telecommunications providers like T-Mobile and Vodafone. The infrastructure utilizes 32 backend IP addresses distributed across Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Cloudflare CDN, and ALEXHOST Moldova. Threat actors employ two distinct phishing templates: a Vue.js single-page application and a Bootstrap-based clone, executing a four-stage credential harvesting process that collects complete payment card details through fabricated traffic fines, toll payments, and delivery notifications.

    Pulse ID: 6a17527240dde65694eed30e
    Pulse Link: otx.alienvault.com/pulse/6a175
    Pulse Author: AlienVault
    Created: 2026-05-27 20:22:10

    Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

    #Americas #CDN #Caucasus #Cloud #CredentialHarvesting #CyberSecurity #Europe #Government #InfoSec #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Phishing #RAT #SMS #Smishing #Telecom #Telecommunication #bot #AlienVault

  5. Exposing a Global Smishing Operation Across 19 Countries: Governments, Postal Services, and Telecoms Targeted

    A coordinated smishing operation spanning 19 countries across Europe, the Americas, and the Caucasus has been exposed, originating from fraudulent SMS messages impersonating Romania's government payment portal Ghișeul.ro. Investigation revealed 1,628 malicious URLs linked by a single 128-character campaign identifier, targeting government portals, traffic police departments, postal services including DPD and SEUR, tax authorities, and telecommunications providers like T-Mobile and Vodafone. The infrastructure utilizes 32 backend IP addresses distributed across Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Cloudflare CDN, and ALEXHOST Moldova. Threat actors employ two distinct phishing templates: a Vue.js single-page application and a Bootstrap-based clone, executing a four-stage credential harvesting process that collects complete payment card details through fabricated traffic fines, toll payments, and delivery notifications.

    Pulse ID: 6a17527240dde65694eed30e
    Pulse Link: otx.alienvault.com/pulse/6a175
    Pulse Author: AlienVault
    Created: 2026-05-27 20:22:10

    Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

    #Americas #CDN #Caucasus #Cloud #CredentialHarvesting #CyberSecurity #Europe #Government #InfoSec #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Phishing #RAT #SMS #Smishing #Telecom #Telecommunication #bot #AlienVault

  6. Exposing a Global Smishing Operation Across 19 Countries: Governments, Postal Services, and Telecoms Targeted

    A coordinated smishing operation spanning 19 countries across Europe, the Americas, and the Caucasus has been exposed, originating from fraudulent SMS messages impersonating Romania's government payment portal Ghișeul.ro. Investigation revealed 1,628 malicious URLs linked by a single 128-character campaign identifier, targeting government portals, traffic police departments, postal services including DPD and SEUR, tax authorities, and telecommunications providers like T-Mobile and Vodafone. The infrastructure utilizes 32 backend IP addresses distributed across Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Cloudflare CDN, and ALEXHOST Moldova. Threat actors employ two distinct phishing templates: a Vue.js single-page application and a Bootstrap-based clone, executing a four-stage credential harvesting process that collects complete payment card details through fabricated traffic fines, toll payments, and delivery notifications.

    Pulse ID: 6a17527240dde65694eed30e
    Pulse Link: otx.alienvault.com/pulse/6a175
    Pulse Author: AlienVault
    Created: 2026-05-27 20:22:10

    Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

    #Americas #CDN #Caucasus #Cloud #CredentialHarvesting #CyberSecurity #Europe #Government #InfoSec #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Phishing #RAT #SMS #Smishing #Telecom #Telecommunication #bot #AlienVault

  7. Exposing a Global Smishing Operation Across 19 Countries: Governments, Postal Services, and Telecoms Targeted

    A coordinated smishing operation spanning 19 countries across Europe, the Americas, and the Caucasus has been exposed, originating from fraudulent SMS messages impersonating Romania's government payment portal Ghișeul.ro. Investigation revealed 1,628 malicious URLs linked by a single 128-character campaign identifier, targeting government portals, traffic police departments, postal services including DPD and SEUR, tax authorities, and telecommunications providers like T-Mobile and Vodafone. The infrastructure utilizes 32 backend IP addresses distributed across Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Cloudflare CDN, and ALEXHOST Moldova. Threat actors employ two distinct phishing templates: a Vue.js single-page application and a Bootstrap-based clone, executing a four-stage credential harvesting process that collects complete payment card details through fabricated traffic fines, toll payments, and delivery notifications.

    Pulse ID: 6a17527240dde65694eed30e
    Pulse Link: otx.alienvault.com/pulse/6a175
    Pulse Author: AlienVault
    Created: 2026-05-27 20:22:10

    Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

    #Americas #CDN #Caucasus #Cloud #CredentialHarvesting #CyberSecurity #Europe #Government #InfoSec #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Phishing #RAT #SMS #Smishing #Telecom #Telecommunication #bot #AlienVault

  8. Exposing a Global Smishing Operation Across 19 Countries: Governments, Postal Services, and Telecoms Targeted

    A coordinated smishing operation spanning 19 countries across Europe, the Americas, and the Caucasus has been exposed, originating from fraudulent SMS messages impersonating Romania's government payment portal Ghișeul.ro. Investigation revealed 1,628 malicious URLs linked by a single 128-character campaign identifier, targeting government portals, traffic police departments, postal services including DPD and SEUR, tax authorities, and telecommunications providers like T-Mobile and Vodafone. The infrastructure utilizes 32 backend IP addresses distributed across Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Cloudflare CDN, and ALEXHOST Moldova. Threat actors employ two distinct phishing templates: a Vue.js single-page application and a Bootstrap-based clone, executing a four-stage credential harvesting process that collects complete payment card details through fabricated traffic fines, toll payments, and delivery notifications.

    Pulse ID: 6a17527240dde65694eed30e
    Pulse Link: otx.alienvault.com/pulse/6a175
    Pulse Author: AlienVault
    Created: 2026-05-27 20:22:10

    Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

    #Americas #CDN #Caucasus #Cloud #CredentialHarvesting #CyberSecurity #Europe #Government #InfoSec #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Phishing #RAT #SMS #Smishing #Telecom #Telecommunication #bot #AlienVault

  9. When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism.

    We found that the request came directly from the White House.
    propublica.org/article/donald-

    #News #WhiteHouse #Trump #Pentagon #Defense #Business #Ethics #Law #Government #DonaldTrumpJr

  10. When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism.

    We found that the request came directly from the White House.
    propublica.org/article/donald-

    #News #WhiteHouse #Trump #Pentagon #Defense #Business #Ethics #Law #Government #DonaldTrumpJr

  11. When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism.

    We found that the request came directly from the White House.
    propublica.org/article/donald-

    #News #WhiteHouse #Trump #Pentagon #Defense #Business #Ethics #Law #Government #DonaldTrumpJr

  12. When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism.

    We found that the request came directly from the White House.
    propublica.org/article/donald-

    #News #WhiteHouse #Trump #Pentagon #Defense #Business #Ethics #Law #Government #DonaldTrumpJr

  13. When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism.

    We found that the request came directly from the White House.
    propublica.org/article/donald-

    #News #WhiteHouse #Trump #Pentagon #Defense #Business #Ethics #Law #Government #DonaldTrumpJr

  14. 🚄🇬🇧 Britain’s largest train operator will return to public ownership on 31 May, bringing Thameslink, Southern, Great Northern and Gatwick Express under government control. The move means publicly owned operators will account for around 80% of rail journeys overseen by Great #British #Railways.

    The #UK #government says passengers will benefit from more reliable and accountable services, including extra Gatwick Express trains, more drivers to reduce cancellations, upgraded signalling and improved customer support. GTR’s 100-day plan also includes safer stations, cleaner trains and expanded online services.

    Ministers described the transfer as a major step in rail reform, while operators said closer integration with Network Rail would help improve performance across the South East and East of #England.
    gov.uk/government/news/britain

  15. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    People do not always remember that politics, economics, and social organisation generally, belong in the realm of means, not ends. Our political and social thinking is prone to what may be called the “administrator’s fallacy,” by which I mean the habit of looking upon a society as a systematic whole, of a sort that is thought good if it is pleasant to contemplate as a model of order, a planned organism with parts neatly dove-tailed into each other. But a society does not, or at least should not, exist to satisfy an external survey, but to bring a good life to the individuals who compose it. It is in the individuals, not in the whole, that ultimate value is to be sought. A good society is a means to a good life for those who compose it, not something having a separate kind of excellence on its own account.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 6, BBC Radio

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/838…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #administration #control #economics #goodlife #government #individual #individuality #management #order #organization #planning #politics #society #system

  16. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    People do not always remember that politics, economics, and social organisation generally, belong in the realm of means, not ends. Our political and social thinking is prone to what may be called the “administrator’s fallacy,” by which I mean the habit of looking upon a society as a systematic whole, of a sort that is thought good if it is pleasant to contemplate as a model of order, a planned organism with parts neatly dove-tailed into each other. But a society does not, or at least should not, exist to satisfy an external survey, but to bring a good life to the individuals who compose it. It is in the individuals, not in the whole, that ultimate value is to be sought. A good society is a means to a good life for those who compose it, not something having a separate kind of excellence on its own account.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 6, BBC Radio

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/838…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #administration #control #economics #goodlife #government #individual #individuality #management #order #organization #planning #politics #society #system

  17. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    People do not always remember that politics, economics, and social organisation generally, belong in the realm of means, not ends. Our political and social thinking is prone to what may be called the “administrator’s fallacy,” by which I mean the habit of looking upon a society as a systematic whole, of a sort that is thought good if it is pleasant to contemplate as a model of order, a planned organism with parts neatly dove-tailed into each other. But a society does not, or at least should not, exist to satisfy an external survey, but to bring a good life to the individuals who compose it. It is in the individuals, not in the whole, that ultimate value is to be sought. A good society is a means to a good life for those who compose it, not something having a separate kind of excellence on its own account.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 6, BBC Radio

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/838…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #administration #control #economics #goodlife #government #individual #individuality #management #order #organization #planning #politics #society #system

  18. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    People do not always remember that politics, economics, and social organisation generally, belong in the realm of means, not ends. Our political and social thinking is prone to what may be called the “administrator’s fallacy,” by which I mean the habit of looking upon a society as a systematic whole, of a sort that is thought good if it is pleasant to contemplate as a model of order, a planned organism with parts neatly dove-tailed into each other. But a society does not, or at least should not, exist to satisfy an external survey, but to bring a good life to the individuals who compose it. It is in the individuals, not in the whole, that ultimate value is to be sought. A good society is a means to a good life for those who compose it, not something having a separate kind of excellence on its own account.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 6, BBC Radio

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/838…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #administration #control #economics #goodlife #government #individual #individuality #management #order #organization #planning #politics #society #system

  19. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    People do not always remember that politics, economics, and social organisation generally, belong in the realm of means, not ends. Our political and social thinking is prone to what may be called the “administrator’s fallacy,” by which I mean the habit of looking upon a society as a systematic whole, of a sort that is thought good if it is pleasant to contemplate as a model of order, a planned organism with parts neatly dove-tailed into each other. But a society does not, or at least should not, exist to satisfy an external survey, but to bring a good life to the individuals who compose it. It is in the individuals, not in the whole, that ultimate value is to be sought. A good society is a means to a good life for those who compose it, not something having a separate kind of excellence on its own account.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 6, BBC Radio

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/838…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #administration #control #economics #goodlife #government #individual #individuality #management #order #organization #planning #politics #society #system

  20. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    It’s all very well to dismiss the dismal sight of our Legislature in action by saying, “I’m just not interested in politics,” but the qualifications of the people who prescribe your eyeglasses, how deep you will be buried, what books your kids read in school, whether your beautician knows how to give a perm, the size of the cells in Stripe City, and a thousand and one other matters that touch your lives daily are decided by the dweebs, dorks, geeks, crooks, and bozos we’ve put into public office.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1992-03-01), “Good morning, Fort Worth! Glad to be here,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/83846/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #disinterest #government #impact #legislature #politicians #politics #disdain

  21. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    It’s all very well to dismiss the dismal sight of our Legislature in action by saying, “I’m just not interested in politics,” but the qualifications of the people who prescribe your eyeglasses, how deep you will be buried, what books your kids read in school, whether your beautician knows how to give a perm, the size of the cells in Stripe City, and a thousand and one other matters that touch your lives daily are decided by the dweebs, dorks, geeks, crooks, and bozos we’ve put into public office.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1992-03-01), “Good morning, Fort Worth! Glad to be here,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/83846/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #disinterest #government #impact #legislature #politicians #politics #disdain

  22. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    It’s all very well to dismiss the dismal sight of our Legislature in action by saying, “I’m just not interested in politics,” but the qualifications of the people who prescribe your eyeglasses, how deep you will be buried, what books your kids read in school, whether your beautician knows how to give a perm, the size of the cells in Stripe City, and a thousand and one other matters that touch your lives daily are decided by the dweebs, dorks, geeks, crooks, and bozos we’ve put into public office.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1992-03-01), “Good morning, Fort Worth! Glad to be here,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/83846/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #disinterest #government #impact #legislature #politicians #politics #disdain

  23. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    It’s all very well to dismiss the dismal sight of our Legislature in action by saying, “I’m just not interested in politics,” but the qualifications of the people who prescribe your eyeglasses, how deep you will be buried, what books your kids read in school, whether your beautician knows how to give a perm, the size of the cells in Stripe City, and a thousand and one other matters that touch your lives daily are decided by the dweebs, dorks, geeks, crooks, and bozos we’ve put into public office.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1992-03-01), “Good morning, Fort Worth! Glad to be here,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/83846/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #disinterest #government #impact #legislature #politicians #politics #disdain

  24. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    It’s all very well to dismiss the dismal sight of our Legislature in action by saying, “I’m just not interested in politics,” but the qualifications of the people who prescribe your eyeglasses, how deep you will be buried, what books your kids read in school, whether your beautician knows how to give a perm, the size of the cells in Stripe City, and a thousand and one other matters that touch your lives daily are decided by the dweebs, dorks, geeks, crooks, and bozos we’ve put into public office.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1992-03-01), “Good morning, Fort Worth! Glad to be here,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/83846/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #disinterest #government #impact #legislature #politicians #politics #disdain

  25. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    It’s all very well to dismiss the dismal sight of our Legislature in action by saying, “I’m just not interested in politics,” but the qualifications of the people who prescribe your eyeglasses, how deep you will be buried, what books your kids read in school, whether your beautician knows how to give a perm, the size of the cells in Stripe City, and a thousand and one other matters that touch your lives daily are decided by the dweebs, dorks, geeks, crooks, and bozos we’ve put into public office.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1992-03-01), “Good morning, Fort Worth! Glad to be here,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/83846/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #disinterest #government #impact #legislature #politicians #politics #disdain

  26. "CNN: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll"

    The dumbest POTUS in the history of our nation raped her and lost in a court of law, and on appeal. Now, the orange turd has turned its vindictive dogs on her. This boorish criminal has to go.

    yahoo.com/news/politics/articl

    #impeach #felon #rapist #criminal #POTUS #DoJ #vindictive #government #administration #USPolitics #USPol

  27. "CNN: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll"

    The dumbest POTUS in the history of our nation raped her and lost in a court of law, and on appeal. Now, the orange turd has turned its vindictive dogs on her. This boorish criminal has to go.

    yahoo.com/news/politics/articl

    #impeach #felon #rapist #criminal #POTUS #DoJ #vindictive #government #administration #USPolitics #USPol

  28. "CNN: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll"

    The dumbest POTUS in the history of our nation raped her and lost in a court of law, and on appeal. Now, the orange turd has turned its vindictive dogs on her. This boorish criminal has to go.

    yahoo.com/news/politics/articl

    #impeach #felon #rapist #criminal #POTUS #DoJ #vindictive #government #administration #USPolitics #USPol

  29. "CNN: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll"

    The dumbest POTUS in the history of our nation raped her and lost in a court of law, and on appeal. Now, the orange turd has turned its vindictive dogs on her. This boorish criminal has to go.

    yahoo.com/news/politics/articl

    #impeach #felon #rapist #criminal #POTUS #DoJ #vindictive #government #administration #USPolitics #USPol