Tootfinder

Attendees of Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit erupted in boos over the Trump administration’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein,
the deceased child predator.
Top MAGA leaders criticized the White House from stage and on their wide-reaching social media accounts throughout the weekend,
-- attacking not only Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, for declining to release more on the investigation and potential Epstein associates,
-- but raising questi…

MAGA leaders sound alarm about discontented Trump base: ‘A huge risk’
At the Turning Point USA conference in Tampa, the young MAGA faithful boils over the Epstein memo saga and boos talk of protecting immigrant workers.

"British Courts Service Destroys "Banksy Mural Depicting Attack by Judge
The work, painted onto the walls of one of Britain’s most important court buildings, showed a judge attacking a demonstrator with a gavel."
What the courts have succeeded in doing is making the Mural go Viral.
#Bansky

Zelensky has told European allies that he is open to halting hostilities and ceding to Russia de facto control over territory it already holds. So Putin can agree with a cease-fire anytime! That would freeze the situation for talks. But instead Putin, the agressor, chooses to continue attacking. Putin deeds illustrate his intentions, the complete destruction of Ukraine. Putin simply can't live with a prosperous Ukraine.

Am I living in slow motion? Is nobody posting to (#)Mastodon?
Recent news folks:
New scam attack attacking people right now, they say you need to verify your account.
Don't listen to them, it's a scam! Don't give anyone your details.
If you just registered you already gave everything the service wants, also if they misspell Mastodon as "Mastadon" you know 100% that they are scamming you!
I'll try to be here for 1 hour trying to warn pe…

The Hidden Threat in Plain Text: Attacking RAG Data Loaders
Alberto Castagnaro, Umberto Salviati, Mauro Conti, Luca Pajola, Simeone Pizzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05093

The Hidden Threat in Plain Text: Attacking RAG Data Loaders
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed human-machine interaction since ChatGPT's 2022 debut, with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) emerging as a key framework that enhances LLM outputs by integrating external knowledge. However, RAG's reliance on ingesting external documents introduces new vulnerabilities. This paper exposes a critical security gap at the data loading stage, where malicious actors can stealthily corrupt RAG pipelines by exploiting document ingestion. We propose a t…

The Kremlin is waiting for new soldiers from the DPRK, and Ukraine is attacking Russian airfields: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/the-kremlin-is-waiting-for.html

Violent Settlers Turn on Israeli Military After Attacking Palestinians in West Bank (Dov Lieber/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/west-bank-settlers-turn-on-israeli-military-after-attacking-palestinians-dfd1bd19?st=gbqsHE&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p107#a250630p107

Meanwhile ... https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/

Elon Musk's Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust
The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

“Perilous turn”: UN chief warns U.S. against attacking Iranian nuclear sites, condemns any military escalation in Middle East
https://maktoobmedia.com/world/perilous-turn-un-chief-warns-u-s-against-attacking-iranian-nuclear-sites-condemns-any-military-escalation-in-middle-east/

Thresholds of Queen covers
Tirthankar Adhikari, Harman Agrawal, Anjali Bhagat, Ankita Dargad, Sahana Jahagirdar, Prem Kant, Urban Larsson, Sahil Wagh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02545

Thresholds of Queen covers
We study optimal configurations of Queens on a square chessboard, defined as those covering the maximum number of squares. For a fixed number of Queens, $q$, we prove the existence of two thresholds in board size: a non-attacking threshold beyond which all optimal configurations are pairwise non-attacking, and a stabilizing threshold beyond which the set of optimal configurations becomes constant. Related studies on Queen domination, such as Tarnai and Gáspár (2007), focus on minimizing the n…

Look, if you go to Galaxy 9, you're going to be forced to deal with its giant catmen

“Following attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran… the IAEA can confirm that no increase in off-site radiation levels has been reported as of this time,”
US joins Israel in attacking Iran, strikes Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz sites | Israel-Iran conflict News | Al Jazeera

US joins Israel in attacking Iran, strikes Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz sites
IAEA says it has not detected any increase in radiation levels at key nuclear sites in Iran following US air strikes.

Little fella has just been adopted by me and @… yesterday! Already a fan of Mastodon (not staged at all)

Undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East, experts said Sunday,
though it wasn’t immediately clear what caused the incident.
There has been concern about the cables being targeted in a Red Sea campaign by Yemen’s Houthi rebels,
which the rebels describe as an effort to pressure Israel to end its war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
But the Houthis have denied attacking the lines in the past.

Red Sea cables are cut, disrupting internet in Asia and the Mideast
Undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea have disrupted internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East. Experts say the disruption began early Sunday, but the cause remains unclear. There are concerns about possible targeting by Yemen's Houthi rebels, though they have denied cutting cables in the past. Microsoft announced that the Middle East may face increased latency. NetBlocks reported degraded connectivity in countries like India and Pakistan. The affected cables are managed by Tata Communi…

Trump and Putin are creating all kind of diversions, delays etc. while the start of ending the war in Ukraine is simple. If Putin stops attacking Ukraine, Ukraine will stop, talks can start. Putin correctly believes Trump is weak and just plays for time.
#trump #geopolitics

Trump's Risky Gamble on Attacking Iran (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010243288/trumps-risky-gamble-on-attacking-iran.html?smid=bs-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p2#a250623p2

Titans' JC Latham: Cam Ward not expecting QB1 job to 'just be given to him' over Will Levis https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-jc-latham-cam-ward-not-expecting-qb1-job-to-just-be-given-to-him-over-will-levis

Can all German genocide deniers please get the fuck out of my mentions.
Genocide denial is the last and final stage of genocide and constitutes complicity in genocide.
Matze Schmidt, you are complicit in genocide.
And history is taking notes.
https://masto.ai/@matzeschmidt/1150655

Take notes, everyone, this is the way:
❝I am not going to lead with a discussion of what Cook may or may not have done. That would be playing Trump’s game.❞
Don’t lead with refuting the BS. Lead with attacking the rotten motives behind the BS.

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--N. Korea's IT worker scheme ensnared a troubled woman,
--Iran is harvesting millions of airline passengers' data,
--Myanmar is isolated in its digital tyranny,
--Pushing the UK to abandon its encryption backdoor,
--The racist hacker …

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 7/19/25
N. Korea's IT worker scheme ensnared a troubled woman, Iran is harvesting millions of airline passengers' data, Myanmar is isolated in its digital tyranny, Pushing the UK to abandon its encryption backdoor, The racist hacker attacking universities, Making quantum cryptography stronger

Dutch caretaker-minister of defense joins in with German chancellor Merz, saying "Israel is doing our dirty work". That'd be by attacking Iran while negotiations were ongoing, and after US intelligence concluded that Iran was not actively pursuing nuclear weapons development.
ht…

Kabinet met spoed bijeen vanwege situatie in Iran
In die raad bespreken ministers internationale ontwikkelingen die de Nederlandse veiligheid raken. Nu zal het gaan over hoe om te gaan met de Amerikaanse bombardementen op Iran.

Even my taco Spanish tells me she said she's proudly Guatamalan (like I'd mention my ethnic roots) but first, she's American..."The Trump administration and MAGA world are attacking Representative Delia Ramirez over a bad-faith translation."
DHS Stoops to Shocking Low in Racist Attack on Latina Congresswoman | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/198824/dhs-attacks-democratic-lawmaker-delia-ramirez-spanish

https://theguardian.fivefilters.org
https://www.medialens.org/2019/dump-the-gua…

Dump the Guardian!
The Guardian has spent the last 2 years relentlessly attacking Jeremy Corbyn. Here are some highlights. Dump the Guardian!

The LA Press Club, CWA, and others sue the DHS, alleging it used excessive force and violated journalists' First Amendment rights during the LA protests (ACLU of Southern California)
https://www.aclusocal.org/en/press-release

Attacking LLMs and AI Agents: Advertisement Embedding Attacks Against Large Language Models
Qiming Guo, Jinwen Tang, Xingran Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17674 https://

Attacking LLMs and AI Agents: Advertisement Embedding Attacks Against Large Language Models
We introduce Advertisement Embedding Attacks (AEA), a new class of LLM security threats that stealthily inject promotional or malicious content into model outputs and AI agents. AEA operate through two low-cost vectors: (1) hijacking third-party service-distribution platforms to prepend adversarial prompts, and (2) publishing back-doored open-source checkpoints fine-tuned with attacker data. Unlike conventional attacks that degrade accuracy, AEA subvert information integrity, causing models to …

#caturday #CatsOMastodon
Teddy is protecting the household from an invasion of tea towels.

Singapore accuses Chinese state-backed hackers of attacking critical infrastructure networks https://therecord.media/singapore-accuses-chinese-backed-hackers-critical-infrastructure-attacks

The American president wrote, “Vladimir, STOP!” on his Truth Social account in April,
-- but the Russian president did not halt his offensive in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian president called for an unconditional cease-fire in May,
-- but the Russians did not agree to stop attacking Ukrainian civilians from the air.
Donald Trump repeatedly promised, during his campaign, that he would end the war “in one day,”
-- but the war is not over.
He spoke to Vla…

America's Great Realignment Toward Putin
Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.

#trump #iran
What trump said about attacking Iran when #Obama was president.

It feels like Trump is running into the inherent problems of international diplomacy among a world order of autocrats.
He tells Putin to stop bombing Ukraine, Putin says yes and does no. He tells Netanyahu to stop attacking Syria, Netanyahu says yes and does no.
Their nature as autocrats is that they do not respect a leader above them. They cannot be seen to respect a leader above them. Realists like Rutte are happy to play obsequious, but the "strong men" never will.

The current holder of high office has shown himself to be unfit to lead a free and just society.
* He disrespects women, mocking survivors of violence and stripping away their rights.
* He fuels racism and white supremacy, scapegoating communities of color and denying their equality.
* He assaults free speech, attacking the press, punishing dissent, and spreading disinformation.

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
DRONES ATTACK MOSCOW MILITARY OBJECTS: AIRLINES COLLAPSE Vlog 1110: War in Ukraine
#Ukraine has been attacking #Moscow military obj…

Attacking interpretable NLP systems
Eldor Abdukhamidov, Tamer Abuhmed, Joanna C. S. Santos, Mohammed Abuhamad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16164 https://

Attacking interpretable NLP systems
Studies have shown that machine learning systems are vulnerable to adversarial examples in theory and practice. Where previous attacks have focused mainly on visual models that exploit the difference between human and machine perception, text-based models have also fallen victim to these attacks. However, these attacks often fail to maintain the semantic meaning of the text and similarity. This paper introduces AdvChar, a black-box attack on Interpretable Natural Language Processing Systems, de…

Over the past month, federal prosecutors in D.C. have failed at least five times to persuade a grand jury to indict a D.C. resident for allegedly attacking federal law enforcement.
These are not the only embarrassments suffered recently by federal prosecutors in the District,
and judges have begun to lose their patience over missteps and sloppy cases.
Despite the president’s promise to “take our capital back,” his law-enforcement surge is struggling in court.
The most …

Trump’s Crime Crackdown Isn’t Holding Up in Court
Grand juries are not delivering the indictments that the Trump administration is asking for—and that may just be the start of a massive legal failure.

Putin clearly wants to show how powerless Trump and NATO are against him attacking civilian targets in Ukraine during the NATO-summit.
#ukraine #russia #NATOsummit

Israel attacking government sites in Iran as Trump floats regime change (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5363872-israel-targets-iran-sites-trump-regime-change/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p42#a250623p42

Time is running out for wild salmon in the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest.
Their populations, as well as those of some other native fish, have been declining for decades.
Now, Donald Trump is attacking the progress that had been made to restore those once-abundant salmon runs.
In June 2025, Trump signed a memorandum signaling his administration’s unwillingness to abide by the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement signed in December 2023 after two years of neg…

Tribes Condemn Trump for Backing Out of Columbia River Deal for Salmon Recovery
Tribal leaders and environmental advocates warn salmon populations will go extinct without remediation efforts.

ExtendAttack: Attacking Servers of LRMs via Extending Reasoning
Zhenhao Zhu, Yue Liu, Yingwei Ma, Hongcheng Gao, Nuo Chen, Yanpei Guo, Wenjie Qu, Huiying Xu, Xinzhong Zhu, Jiaheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13737

ExtendAttack: Attacking Servers of LRMs via Extending Reasoning
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated promising performance in complex tasks. However, the resource-consuming reasoning processes may be exploited by attackers to maliciously occupy the resources of the servers, leading to a crash, like the DDoS attack in cyber. To this end, we propose a novel attack method on LRMs termed ExtendAttack to maliciously occupy the resources of servers by stealthily extending the reasoning processes of LRMs. Concretely, we systematically obfuscate characte…

Working Americans are set to take to the streets this Labor Day
with over 1,000 “Workers Over Billionaires” rallies and protests planned nationwide.
The mobilizations, spearheaded by the "Mayday Strong Coalition" of national, state, and local labor and community organizations,
will protest what organizers call a “billionaire agenda”
that is suppressing the labor movement,
attacking workers' rights,
and burdening families across the country…

Labor Day 2025: Workers will take to the streets to protest the billionaire agenda
Mobilizations will take place at over 1,000 "Workers Over Billionaires" rallies, demanding an end to wealth inequality amidst a deepening economic squeeze.

With regard to Ukraine the next step is very simple. Russia must stop attacking and advancing in Ukraine.
After that talks can start and other things are possible. The fact that Russia doesn't want to start with a cease-fire tells you everything you need to know. Putin can't live with a strong, prosperous and succesful Ukraine.
#russia

Buy it Now, Track Me Later: Attacking User Privacy via Wi-Fi AP Online Auctions
Steven Su, Erik Rye, Robert Beverly, Dave Levin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13052

Buy it Now, Track Me Later: Attacking User Privacy via Wi-Fi AP Online Auctions
Static and hard-coded layer-two network identifiers are well known to present security vulnerabilities and endanger user privacy. In this work, we introduce a new privacy attack against Wi-Fi access points listed on secondhand marketplaces. Specifically, we demonstrate the ability to remotely gather a large quantity of layer-two Wi-Fi identifiers by programmatically querying the eBay marketplace and applying state-of-the-art computer vision techniques to extract IEEE 802.11 BSSIDs from the sell…

Tim Scott's video attacking CBO: Nine errors in 60 seconds (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/16/tim-scott-cbo-nine-errors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p25#a250616p25

'Severe Overreaction': Fox News Host Blasts Secret Service For Attacking Padilla | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/severe-overreaction-fox-news-host-blasts

ExtendAttack: Attacking Servers of LRMs via Extending Reasoning
Zhenhao Zhu, Yue Liu, Yingwei Ma, Hongcheng Gao, Nuo Chen, Yanpei Guo, Wenjie Qu, Huiying Xu, Xinzhong Zhu, Jiaheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13737

ExtendAttack: Attacking Servers of LRMs via Extending Reasoning
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated promising performance in complex tasks. However, the resource-consuming reasoning processes may be exploited by attackers to maliciously occupy the resources of the servers, leading to a crash, like the DDoS attack in cyber. To this end, we propose a novel attack method on LRMs termed ExtendAttack to maliciously occupy the resources of servers by stealthily extending the reasoning processes of LRMs. Concretely, we systematically obfuscate characte…

If the Iranian leadership has the feeling that Israel wants to completely destroy Iran's military capabilities, why wouldn't they do something extreme like attacking US bases in the region, destroy oil installations in the neighbourhood , close Hormuz etc, while they still have the capabilities... 🤔
There doesn't seem to be an opening for de-escalation for Iran?
#iran

Buy it Now, Track Me Later: Attacking User Privacy via Wi-Fi AP Online Auctions
Steven Su, Erik Rye, Robert Beverly, Dave Levin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13052

Buy it Now, Track Me Later: Attacking User Privacy via Wi-Fi AP Online Auctions
Static and hard-coded layer-two network identifiers are well known to present security vulnerabilities and endanger user privacy. In this work, we introduce a new privacy attack against Wi-Fi access points listed on secondhand marketplaces. Specifically, we demonstrate the ability to remotely gather a large quantity of layer-two Wi-Fi identifiers by programmatically querying the eBay marketplace and applying state-of-the-art computer vision techniques to extract IEEE 802.11 BSSIDs from the sell…

It's Esther Kim Varet,
Democrat running to flip blue California's closest Republican held seat.
We know the Republicans are scared of my brand of leadership, because they've already started attacking me online.
This week my opponent announced that she wants to work with Trump to sell federal parks to pay for tax cuts for their friends.
It's unacceptable.
My opponent is powered by billionaires,
but I'm powered by you.
Can you …

I'm with Esther Kim Varet
Show your support with a contribution.

everyonehateselon_ '**@Sabra hummus is distributed by @osem_nestle, who donate to and publicly support the Israeli military (IDF) that are trying to wipe out Palestinians in Gaza.**
Just a few days ago the IDF dropped a huge bomb on a cafe where people were simply eating lunch. Israel has killed more than 50,000 people since they began attacking Gaza.
So don’t buy Israeli goods or products supporting Israel.
Link to download the stickers in our bio.'
https://www.instagram.com/everyonehateselon_/reel/DLponCko4VM/

As the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt has done little to uphold his organization’s claims to fight antisemitism
as the “leading anti-hate organization in the world.”
Instead, he’s shored up the ADL’s role as little more than a fierce pro-Israel lobby group known for defending Israel by attacking its critics.
With no sense of irony, much of this effort manifests as defamatory speech
— at least in the everyday, if not the legal, sense
— by…

MIT Student Condemned Genocide — So ADL Chief Said She Helped Cause Boulder Attack
Jonathan Greenblatt accused commencement speakers of spreading antisemitic lies — and suggested they’re responsible for violent attacks.

Senate Democrats are increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump is considering striking Iran without seeking authorization from Congress
— or even filling them in on his plans.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) is mounting a last-ditch push to force a vote as soon as next week
to restrain Trump from attacking Iran without Congress’s approval.

Other Senate Democrats say the White House has not briefed them on its plans for a potential strike.
And some are warn…

Democrats raise war powers concerns as Trump mulls Iran strike
The pushback follows Trump’s encroachment on almost every congressional prerogative — from taking control of the power of the purse to threatening tariffs.

Republicans Introduce Bill to Revoke the Charter of Largest US Teachers Union
They cited the union’s pledge to “defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism”
and cutting ties with the ADL
https://www.commondreams.org/news/national-education-associa…

'Congress Must Reject This Attack': GOP Bill Would Revoke Charter of Largest US Teachers Union | Common Dreams
The president of the National Education Association said Republicans are attacking the union because "the billionaires that fund their campaigns don't want educators to have a voice."

UniC-RAG: Universal Knowledge Corruption Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Runpeng Geng, Yanting Wang, Ying Chen, Jinyuan Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18652 https://…

UniC-RAG: Universal Knowledge Corruption Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are widely deployed in real-world applications in diverse domains such as finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity. However, many studies showed that they are vulnerable to knowledge corruption attacks, where an attacker can inject adversarial texts into the knowledge database of a RAG system to induce the LLM to generate attacker-desired outputs. Existing studies mainly focus on attacking specific queries or queries with similar topics (or keywords). …