2026-07-16 00:57:29
How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/magazine/data-center-heist.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/magazine/data-center-heist.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
How NYT lost its first US defamation trial in 50 years to an ex-college basketball player after relying on one source, fixing the story 3 months after it ran (Bill Grueskin/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/how-the-new-york-
Informed by the press conference with U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen and Homeland Security Special Agent Michael McCarthy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X3DhFnngDY
PDF (untagged) of indictment:
Had to update yesterday's Substack after news broke later that day of Trump's teleprompter making $100k on Kalshi.
This administration has certainly set a new low bar for self-dealing, but prediction markets are supercharging anonymous corruption at the highest levels of government. https://
Your daily reminder to not use block lists from anonymous* ban-evading trolls whose dozens of sock-puppet accounts have been suspended on servers across the fediverse and whose blocklists include me as well as every verified Palestinian from Gaza on Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org)
Block this sorry ex…
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyers told officers investigating voter fraud they would not be held responsible for violating state laws around accessing voter registration information, an anonymous whistleblower revealed on Monday.
DHS officers also had concerns about the reliability of the data they were working with, the whistleblower said.
The Trump administration has ramped up its investigation into noncitizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.
Noncitize…
Never be afraid to tell the world who you are.
-- Anonymous
A look back at the 2007 heist of a Verizon data center in London, highlighting the role of physical data security as cyber defenses grow more sophisticated (Nathaniel Rich/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/magazin
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Anonymous, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maya Magub & Matthew Schellhorn:
🎵 Waltz in B flat major "Gertrude's Dream Waltz"
#Anonymous #LudwigvanBeethoven #MayaMagub #MatthewSchellhorn
The hacker group Black Mirror and the anonymous project VChK-OGPU claimed to have leaked correspondence of Russian propagandist Ksenia Sobchak, exposing how Kremlin censorship works.
h…
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyers falsely told officers investigating voter fraud they would not be held responsible for violating state laws around accessing voter registration information, an anonymous whistleblower revealed on Monday.
DHS officers also had concerns about the reliability of the data they were working with, the whistleblower said
When is data truly considered anonymous? The European Data Protection Board has published new guidelines on this topic: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/public-consultations/guidelines-022026-on-anonymisation_en#no-back
Anonymous GM Makes Thoughts on Raiders’ Brock Bowers Extremely Clear https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/anonymous-gm-thoughts-brock-bowers-extremely-clear/
#LeftWordler’s:
I’m working on a major change. This change is the main reason I forked a Wordle repo into Left Wordle - the ability to login and maintain stats, streaks, and prefs across multiple devices.
I’m implementing this with Passkeys which will allow users to be completely anonymous. Please see
Spec-Driven Hardware Evolution via Executable Contract Refinement and Proof-Guided RTL Update
Shibo Zhao, Yang Zhang, Mengxia Tao, Baoqi Zhang, Kezhi Li, Qiang Xu, Binwu Zhu, Hao Yan, Min Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12684 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12684 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12684
arXiv:2608.12684v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Hardware development is inherently evolutionary: major revisions typically begin by changing intended behavior and then updating a previously validated implementation, rather than regenerating RTL from scratch. Yet most recent LLM-based hardware research still frames the task primarily as prompt-to-RTL generation, offering limited support for semantic version evolution of trusted legacy designs. We present spec-driven hardware evolution, a contract-centered formulation for RTL version iteration. Instead of treating a new feature request as a direct prompt for RTL generation, we refine it into a reviewed executable contract for the next version. This contract specifies what must hold at the externally visible transactional level through a behavior-level reference together with explicit observation and checking semantics, while leaving how the change is realized in RTL to the evolution process. Based on this formulation, we organize hardware evolution into four stages: Specify, Plan, Implement, and Validate. After contract approval, the remaining stages proceed automatically: Plan derives cross-version semantic deltas and localizes affected RTL regions, aided by mutation-based semantic probing; Implement and Validate then perform legacy-aware RTL update under proof-guided checking and iterative repair. We evaluate the framework on a controlled version-evolution case study of a representative TPU datapath block under data-format changes. The results support the feasibility of contract-driven hardware evolution and demonstrate that the proposed backend workflow can effectively drive validated legacy RTL toward next-version functional convergence under a reviewed executable contract. An anonymous artifact for reproducibility is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/SDHE-3A6C.
toXiv_bot_toot
The anonymous hacker group SikLik claimed to have breached the infrastructure of Russia’s Central Election Commission and its contractors ahead of the State Duma elections.
https://mezha.net/eng/news/5197b263_anonymous_hackers_claim/
The UK's Report Remove service receives 420 reports from under-18s of explicit images digitally faked or manipulated to depict them in H1, exceeding 2025's 397 (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/08/uk-ch…
If you have problems with your Atlassian Confluence Wiki today (unable to change formatting of text, change tables etc.), then you might want to take a look at this ticket here:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-104454
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of order.
---- - Anonymous - ----
Holy crap. Common sense from a NY judge regarding guns.
And shame on the school and everyone involved here.
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/01/n-y-judge-rejects-schools-request-for-red-…
Buttigieg was briefly separated from his children after police say he was target of false report (Joey Cappelletti/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/buttigieg-police-false-report-anonymous-0e0a586db4efcb63e70344f2b1f8fe98
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p88#a260626p88
As they say, “Al has not killed the scientific literature, but it is showing where to find the corpse." (anonymous quote)
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-paper-mills-go-straight-without.html
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Anonymous
Donald Macleod presents musical works ascribed to named composers whose true authors have been hidden, confused, and even deliberately obscured.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002x4ql
An anonymous federal whistleblower has warned that the Trump administration’s new system for handling mail ballots through the U.S.
Postal Service is untested,
fatally flawed and likely to lead to a
“catastrophic failure”
if it’s implemented ahead of November’s midterm elections.
This follows President Trump’s executive order in March
directing his administration to create federal lists of citizens and to refuse delivery of mail-in ballots to people not o…
"The two were shot down over Iran and then rescued in April. Multiple anonymous sources told CNN that Hegseth went as far as meeting with them personally about going on '60 Minutes.' Hegseth ignored concerns from military officials that the interview risked exposing classified details of the rescue effort, three anonymous sources told CNN."
Pentagon rages as Pete Hegseth's pressure campaign on rescued airmen exposed: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-60-minutes/
RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117036096486689894
Dear @…,
According to the anonymous Linux-Is-Best account, I am a …
Intriguing. "You and I both eat through the labor of people whose hands we might decline to shake if we just knew a little more about them. Their sentiments are not our own. Maybe they have bad politics. Or they’re kooky about health and wellness. Or they’re racists. In the vast, anonymous network that feeds us all, there are certainly quite a few people like that. If you asked them, they’d have a litany of bad things to say about us, too."
WordPress updates required: https://wordpress.org/news/2026/07/wordpress-7-0-2-release/
> The attack has no preconditions and can be exploited by an anonymous user in a stock install of WordPress with no plugins —
"Private Access Control Tokens (#PACT) are designed to allow sites with strong knowledge of “personhood” to issue anonymous tokens. A user's browser can then provide these tokens to other sites to prove that a human is in the loop, reducing the need for annoying and clunky captchas or invasive tracking. PACT is designed so that sites cannot leverage it to track or identify users or their …
Anonymous Hollywood advice for David Ellison to get his WBD deal done: announce more jobs for starved-for-work LA, fire Bari Weiss, and chat with Kamala Harris (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/paramount-warner-merger-kamala-harris-12370158…
All across America, the midterm elections are drowning in dark money.
A New York Times review of advertising data, campaign-finance filings and tax records
revealed that about $1 billion in anonymous money is sloshing through the political landscape in 2026,
a staggering sum and yet almost certainly a low-end estimate,
given how difficult this money is to trace.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Anonymous, Buckfast Abbey Choir & Matthew Searles:
🎵 Introit Gaudeamus
#Anonymous #BuckfastAbbeyChoir #MatthewSearles
On the increase of references to non-existing articles: "AI has not killed the scientific literature, but it is showing where to find the corpse." – anonymous quote, heard on the radio.
Any BBC (company not micro) geeks out there? - their 'BBCInsideScience@bbc.co.uk' email is bouncing with a '5.7.13 STOREDRV.AuthenticationRequiredForPublicFolder; Anonymous users are not permitted to
add contents to mail enabled public folder, authenticated required [Stage: CreateMessage]'
I‘m pretty sure that the world doesn’t need yet another social media/microblogging platform …
Operation Bluebird Launches New Twitter - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/27/0051211/operation-bluebird-launches-new-twitter
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work (Ej Dickson/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/burnerverse-maddie-kowalski/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260914/p76#a260914p76
Btw the quote is often wrongly attributed to Einstein; it actually most likely originates with a Twelve-step program (like Alcoholics Anonymous).
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Anonymous /Traditional Sephardic & Sean Shibe, Karim Sulyaman:
🎵 La prima vez
#Anonymous #TraditionalSephardic #SeanShibe #KarimSulyaman
Top U.S. Postal Service officials tasked with issuing new regulations on mail voting
expressed concerns in internal meetings about how
the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms,
but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned.
The revelations about the discussions, from someone familiar with the rulemaking process, come as a separate anonymous federal employee filed a wh…
Prediction market political betting on insider info spreads in DC; sources: WH lawyers raised alarms over anonymous Polymarket bets on the Iran ceasefire timing (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/dc-government-prediction-m…
Ariana Grande files a lawsuit in Los Angeles against anonymous hackers who allegedly stole and sold unreleased music, photos, and videos via the dark web (Derrick Bryson Taylor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/arts/music/ariana-grande-hackin…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3Breakfast
Anonymous, Musica Reservata & John Beckett:
🎵 La seconde estampie royale
#Anonymous #MusicaReservata #JohnBeckett
WTF: An anonymous security researcher has published working exploit code for a total of 15 previously unknown vulnerabilities without first notifying the affected manufacturers and open-source projects: #OpenSource #Vulnerability
U.S. Postal Service officials tasked with issuing new regulations on mail voting
expressed concerns in internal meetings about how the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms,
but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned.
The revelations about the discussions, from someone familiar with the rulemaking process,
come as a separate anonymous federal employee filed a whistl…
Idaho labor economist ran anonymous accounts promoting pro-Russian, far-right views (Jacob Jones/InvestigateWest)
https://www.investigatewest.org/idaho-labor-economist-ran-anonymous-accounts-promoting-pro-russian-far-right-views/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260703/p54#a260703p54
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Anonymous, The Marian Consort & Rory McLeery:
🎵 CL_Sancte Anne Matris Marie & Missa Felix Anna 1) Kyrie 2) Gloria_St Magnus
#Anonymous #TheMarianConsort #RoryMcLeery
#Spotify
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Anonymous, Ensemble Gilles Binchois & Dominique Vellard:
🎵 Alleluia: Multifarie olim
#Anonymous #EnsembleGillesBinchois #DominiqueVellard
After months of scandal, Republican Representative Cory Mills is finally under investigation.
MS NOW, citing two anonymous sources, reports that the Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into the Florida man, who is accused of sexual misconduct, campaign finance violations, financial disclosure violations, accepting inappropriate gifts, and multiple ethics violations.
A third source told MS NOW that the FBI has spoken to at least one person about Mills’s finances an…
Shockwaves in DC as anonymous account teases more Fetterman dirt: 'Tip of the iceberg' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/former-fetterman-staffers/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
André da Silva Gomes, Anonymous, Samuel Boden, Thomas Hobbs, Ex Cathedra & Jeffrey Skidmore:
🎵 Qui tollis peccata mundi (Missa a 8 vozes e instrumentos)
#AndrédaSilvaGomes #Anonymous #SamuelBoden #ThomasHobbs #ExCathedra
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post
Responsible Statecraft’s
Trita Parsi reported this week that
U.S. service members marooned in the Persian Gulf have been expressing themselves in messages fingered onto a dusty aircraft flap.
The anonymous graffiti,
which calls to mind the helmet scrawls of disgruntled soldiers in Vietnam,
include
“Operation Epstein Fury,”
“Peace deal #64 incoming …
ALL THIS FOR THE HOLY LAND,”
and “Bibi’s cucks.”
Sounds like things aren’t going s…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- Music for a summer's evening
Choral music spanning 750 years bookends this episode of Radio 3’s Classical Mixtape – from the anonymous 13th-century round Sumer is icumen in to Eric Whitacre’s Sleep.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y0c7
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Anonymous & Ian Bostridge:
🎵 The Little Turtle Dove
#Anonymous #IanBostridge
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
Anonymous & Contre le temps:
🎵 Deus Mistertus
#Anonymous #Contreletemps
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #KeyChanges:Radio3sEssentialHistoryOfClassicalMusic
Anonymous & City Waites:
🎵 'Diddle Diddle' from Bawdy Ballads
#Anonymous #CityWaites
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Anonymous & Frankie Armstrong:
🎵 Lovely on the Water
#Anonymous #FrankieArmstrong
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Anonymous, Ben Nicholls & Fay Hield:
🎵 The Bloody Gardener
#Anonymous #BenNicholls #FayHield
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Anonymous, Richard Wistreich & City Waites:
🎵 Old England Grown New
#Anonymous #RichardWistreich #CityWaites
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Anonymous, Robert Harre-Jones & Orlando Consort:
🎵 Alleluya moduletur
#Anonymous #RobertHarreJones #OrlandoConsort
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Anonymous, Orlando Consort & Robert Harre-Jones:
🎵 Thomas gemma Cantuarie primula
#Anonymous #OrlandoConsort #RobertHarreJones
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Anonymous, Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel:
🎵 Sumer is icumen in (Perspice, christicola)
#Anonymous #HuelgasEnsemble #PaulVanNevel
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Anonymous, Fay Hield & Hurricane Party:
🎵 Green Gravel
#Anonymous #FayHield #HurricaneParty
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Anonymous, Vincent Dumestre & Le Poème Harmonique:
🎵 In te Domine speravi
#Anonymous #VincentDumestre #LePoèmeHarmonique
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Anonymous, Montserrat Figueras, Jordi Savall, Capella Reial De Catalunya Instrmntal Ens & Capella Reial De Catalunya Vocal Ens:
🎵 El Cant de La Sibilla (excerpt)
#Anonymous #MontserratFigueras #JordiSavall
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Anonymous
Donald Macleod examines the idea that Anonymous music can represent something preserved rather than someone forgotten. With guest contributors Fay Hield and Lisa Colton.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002x53y
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Joseph Haydn, Anonymous, Donna Brown, Sally Bruce-Payne, Peter Butterfield, Gerald Finley, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & Sir John Eliot Gardiner:
🎵 Haydn: Mass in D Minor - Missa in angustiis (\"Nelson Mass\"), Hob. XXII:11: Kyrie
https://open.spotify.com/track/4pSL83oX5LtsdQR3FIa6YQ
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Anonymous
Donald Macleod presents another selection of anonymous music and asks: when a work’s creator is unknown, who else comes to the fore in its story? With Lisa Colton and Fay Hield.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002x68q
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Anonymous & Komale Akakpo:
🎵 Folias de Espana
#Anonymous #KomaleAkakpo
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Anonymous French, Pierre Boragno & Brigitte Lesne:
🎵 Le roy engloys se faisoit appeller le roy de France
#AnonymousFrench #PierreBoragno #BrigitteLesne
https://open.spotify.com/track/4y4hfN35yqUUrxCl92Ijyo
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Anonymous, Clara Coutouly, Nolwenn Le Guern, Ludwin Bernatene, Anne Delafosse-Quintin & Paulin Bündgen:
🎵 O sponsa Dei electa
#Anonymous #ClaraCoutouly #NolwennLeGuern #LudwinBernatene #AnneDelafosseQuintin
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Anonymous, Jon Boden, Hannah James, Sam Sweeney, Keith Angel, Fay Hield & Jess Arrowsmith:
🎵 The Banks of the Nile
#Anonymous #JonBoden #HannahJames #SamSweeney #KeithAngel #FayHield #JessArrowsmith
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Alessandro Scarlatti & Anonymous:
🎵 Correa nel seno amato, H. 146: I. Sinfonia and Balletto
#AlessandroScarlatti #Anonymous
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Anonymous, Philip Thorby, Clare Wilkinson, Josquin des Prez & Musica Antiqua of London:
🎵 3 pieces
#Anonymous #PhilipThorby #ClareWilkinson #JosquindesPrez #MusicaAntiquaofLondon
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
Anonymous & Contre le Temps:
🎵 Qui n'a le cuer
#Anonymous #ContreleTemps
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
Anonymous & Contre le Temps:
🎵 En remirant vos douce portraiture
#Anonymous #ContreleTemps
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Anonymous, Dowland Consort & Jakob Lindberg:
🎵 Robin is to the Greenwoode Gone
#Anonymous #DowlandConsort #JakobLindberg
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Anonymous, Currende & Erik Van Nevel:
🎵 Confitebor tibi, Domine (Psalm) for soprano, strings and continuo
#Anonymous #Currende #ErikVanNevel
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3Breakfast
Anonymous, Scottish Early Music Consort & Warwick Edwards:
🎵 Pavane et Gaillarde, "La Royne d'Escosse"
#Anonymous #ScottishEarlyMusicConsort #WarwickEdwards
https://open.spotify.com/track/4xkDhLd7mmzVAtnnOW1JNe
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Josef Rheinberger, Anonymous & VOCES8:
🎵 Mass in E-Flat Major, Op. 109 "Cantus Missae": I. Kyrie
#JosefRheinberger #Anonymous #VOCES8
https://open.spotify.com/track/1RBZWvqJB2rSMDh6wRNEB5
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
Hildegard of Bingen & Anonymous 4:
🎵 Vision 1 "The fire of creation": Et audivi
#HildegardofBingen #Anonymous4
https://open.spotify.com/track/3CSeJ2FtMgRtL8IfykOVtO
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Hildegard of Bingen & Anonymous 4:
🎵 O felix anima
#HildegardofBingen #Anonymous4
https://open.spotify.com/track/22TPTyktklhp7fepUG28vS
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Anton Bruckner, Becky Haley, Rory Cartmell, Joe Arnold, Anonymous & Andrew Lucas:
🎵 Afferentur regi, WAB 1
#AntonBruckner #BeckyHaley #RoryCartmell #JoeArnold #Anonymous #AndrewLucas
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
Nadine Shah, Nadine Shah, Royal Northern Sinfonia & Ellie Slorach:
🎵 Sad Lads Anonymous
#NadineShah #RoyalNorthernSinfonia #EllieSlorach