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A wide-angle lens shot of a flickering fluorescent light in a dark, brutalist hallway. To the side, a stack of shredded paper overflows from a metal bin. 4K HDR documentary photography, high contrast black-and-white, heavy shadows and blown-out whites.
A wide-angle lens shot of a flickering fluorescent light in a dark, brutalist hallway. To the side, a stack of shredded paper overflows from a metal bin. 4K HDR documentary photography, high contrast black-and-white, heavy shadows and blown-out whites.

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DHS LEAKS MASTER KEYS WHILE GUARDS GO UNPAID #

Guillaume Valadon looked at his screen in Paris and saw the skeleton of the American security state sitting in a public folder. The security researcher found a GitHub repository named Private-CISA that had been left wide open for six months. Inside were spreadsheets containing plain-text passwords, private keys, and administrative tokens for AWS GovCloud accounts. One file was simply named AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv, according to report from Krebs on Security. This was not a sophisticated hack; it was a total administrative collapse…

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NEW ZEALAND FIRES 9,000 TO FEED THE AI MACHINE #

Nicola Willis stood in the halls of Parliament in Wellington on Tuesday and announced the end of the public servant. The Finance Minister confirmed the government will lay off nearly 9,000 workers by mid-2029. This amounts to 14% of the country's public sector workforce. Willis stated the goal is to…

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QUEEN ELIZABETH BYPASSED SECURITY VETTING FOR PRINCE ANDREW #

Ed Davey stood in the House of Commons and demanded to know how a disgraced royal became a global trade envoy without a single background check. Documents released on Thursday by the British government reveal that no formal vetting or due diligence was performed on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor before his 2001…

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VIBE CODING TURNS SOFTWARE INTO DANGEROUS DIGITAL SLOP #

Andrej Karpathy sat in his new office at Anthropic and prepared to change the way the world builds software. The OpenAI founder and former Tesla AI director has defected to…

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In Brief #

COREWELL HEALTH SUED FOR FAKE DEBT

A proposed class action in Michigan alleges Corewell Health used debt collector DCM Services to chase patients for millions in bills that were already paid. The suit claims the provider targeted vulnerable residents for medical costs covered by insurance and government programs.

KRAKEN GRANTED FEDERAL RESERVE PAYMENT ACCESS

Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester has demanded answers from the Federal Reserve after it granted a limited-purpose master account to Kraken Financial. The move gives the crypto exchange direct access to the nation's core payment infrastructure before a formal policy framework has been finalized.

TRUMP USES AI IMAGES AS PROPAGANDA

Experts warn that Donald Trump's frequent use of cartoonish AI-generated images on Truth Social is a calculated tactic of name-calling. Propaganda historians argue the images serve as a visual equivalent of name-calling to dehumanize political opponents and mayors.

RUSH UNIVERSITY NURSES VOTE TO UNIONIZE

Over 2,000 registered nurses at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have voted to join the National Nurses Organizing Committee. The 77% majority vote comes as healthcare workers nationwide organize against AI implementation and corporate mismanagement.