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BREAKING: Wikileaks Releases ‘Vault 7’ Part 1 – ‘Year Zero’
via 21stcenturywire

21st Century Wire says… WikiLeaks has released its largest ever publication of confidential documents on the Central Intelligence Agency. Entitled ‘Vault 7’ and containing a password that echoed the alleged JFK quote “splinter the CIA into a thousand...
CIA Poised To Crack Down on Whistleblowers If Torture Program Restored
via shadowproof

Newly confirmed CIA director Mike Pompeo informed United States senators he would “aggressively seek to ensure we have the most effective programs for identifying insider threats.” It was a pledge to pursue the same anti-leaks policies that discourage...
‘He’s Going to Be an Enabler’
via politico

When Don McGahn first arrived at the Federal Election Commission in July 2008 as a shaggy haired, guitar-playing campaign finance lawyer, his casual appearance masked his carefully crafted plans for the sleepy agency charged with regulating campaign...
British teacher banned from travelling to the United States
via neweurope

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on LinkedIn + A British teacher has been denied entry to the United States, two sources that are not considered reliable by the US President confirm (CNN and BBC). The incident Yes, he...
…And the people respond
via briandbuckley

A couple days ago, when I ranted about Trump’s horrible new immigration ban, I didn’t really expect a lot of people to care. I figured it would blow over like everything else. I’ve never been happier to be wrong. Judge Blocks Trump Order on Refugees...

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Ian Fleming Published the James Bond Novel 'Moonraker' 70 Years Ago Today

"The third James Bond novel was published on this day in 1955," writes long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger. Film buff Christian Petrozza shares some history: In 1979, the market was hot amid the studios to make the next big space opera. Star Wars blew...
NASA Seeks Proposals for Two More Private Astronaut Space Station Visits

This week NASA "issued a solicitation for the next two private astronaut missions to the International Space Station," reports Space News. Scheduled after May of 2026 and then mid-2027, "These will be the fifth and sixth such missions to the ISS, part...
Microsoft Uses AI To Find Flaws In GRUB2, U-Boot, Barebox Bootloaders

Slashdot reader zlives shared this report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders. GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader...
Open Source Coalition Announces 'Model-Signing' with Sigstore to Strengthen the ML Supply Chain

The advent of LLMs and machine learning-based applications "opened the door to a new wave of security threats," argues Google's security blog. (Including model and data poisoning, prompt injection, prompt leaking and prompt evasion.) So as part of the...
Eric Raymond, John Carmack Mourn Death of 'Bufferbloat' Fighter Dave Taht

Wikipedia remembers Dave Täht as "an American network engineer, musician, lecturer, asteroid exploration advocate, and Internet activist. He was the chief executive officer of TekLibre." But on X.com Eric S. Raymond called him "one of the unsung heroes...

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The Rise of the New Crypto War - Slashdot

blottsie writes: For more than 20 years, the U.S. government has been waging a war on encryption, with the security and privacy of all Americans at stake. Despite repeated warnings from security exper...
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Sears To Convert Old Auto Centers Into National Chain of Data Centers - Slashdot

1sockchuck writes "Sears plans to convert dozens of Sears Auto Center stores into a national chain of server farms, saying it wants to be "the McDonald's or Starbucks of data centers." The strategy is...