Tootfinder

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-millions-of-iphones-can-be-hacked-with-a-new-tool-found-in-the-wild/

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
A powerful iPhone-hacking technique known as DarkSword has been discovered in use by Russian hackers. It can take over devices running iOS 18 that simply visit infected websites.

Researchers from Google, iVerify, and Lookout discover DarkSword, a hacking tool used by Russian state-sponsored groups to target iOS 18 via Ukrainian websites (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-millions…

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
A powerful iPhone-hacking technique known as DarkSword has been discovered in use by Russian hackers. It can take over devices running iOS 18 that simply visit infected websites.

Hundreds of millions of dollars for Trump's ballroom ruled out of order in Senate (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/17/hundreds-millions-trumps-ballroom-ruled-out-order-senate/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p43#a260517p43

Outside groups are pouring millions into this race.
But we have the momentum.
A grassroots movement that answers to voters, not AIPAC or corporations.
https://bsky.app/profile/katmabu.bsky.social/post/3mfp3xoxlmc2o

Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social)
Outside groups are pouring millions into this race. But we have the momentum. A grassroots movement that answers to voters, not AIPAC or corporations.

Hacker says they compromised millions of confidential police tips held by US company
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/hacker-says-they-compromised-millions-confidential-police-tips-held-by-us-2026-03-18/

In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says "AI tools are great" but the flood of duplicate AI bug reports has made the security list "unmanageable" (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
https://www.

Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’
Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating ‘unnecessary pain and pointless work’

Millions of Americans Are Going Uninsured Following Expiration of ACA Subsidies (Anna Wilde Mathews/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/millions-of-americans-are-going-uninsured-following-expiration-of-aca-subsidies-0051240d?st=Vx6dtW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p36#a260319p36

How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20…

Sources: Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions for a VC fund; Patel raised a $50M SPV toward Fluidstack's $700M fundraising (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/dylan-patels-semia…

Dylan Patel’s SemiAnalysis Mulls Raising Venture Fund
SemiAnalysis, the top chip and infrastructure research firm founded by Dylan Patel, is considering raising money to invest in startups, according to someone with direct knowledge of the discussions. The talks are in the early stages, and the firm does not yet have a target, but it could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The move to raise a venture capital fund would formalize

Mullin says he regrets calling Alex Pretti 'deranged' (Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/18/congress/mullins-comments-on-pretti-and-good-00833803
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p88#a260318p88