CISA updated ransomware intel on 59 bugs last year without telling defenders
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/greynoise_cisa_ransomware_gripe/
Telling peoples they should use the Fediverse instead of Facebook get the same kind of reaction as telling them to put glue instead of Ketchup on their fries...
Under Pete Hegseth, War Minister, U.S. troops were told the war in Iran is for “Armageddon” the return of Jesus Christ. He's telling people this war is all part of God's divine plan and that Trump was advised by God to start it.
Trump on Sunday threatened military action against Colombia,
telling reporters that such an operation "sounds good to me."
"Colombia is very sick, too, run by a sick man, who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States,
and he's not going to be doing it very long,"
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, in an apparent reference to Colombia's President Gustavo Petro.
The story about the 13-year old Aussie boy who swam 4 kilometres and ran 2km more for help... to save his mom and 3 siblings. (this report has a little more detail than canadian outlets that I've seen, and it has a video of the boy telling his story himself)
Pretty amazing stuff.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-03/teen-speaks-after-saving-family-in-geographe-bay/106298798
Multiple US embassies are telling Americans they cannot evacuate or help them get out of the Middle East (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-embassies-say-they-cannot-evacuate-americans-middle-east-iran2026-3
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p135#a260303p135
The State Department has urged all Americans in the Middle East to leave immediately,
but U.S. embassies in the region are telling people trying to flee that they are on their own.
U.S. allies within the region are at high risk of being targeted by Iranian missiles, with Iran strikes already occurring across Israel, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, after the joint attack by the United States and Israel last weekend.
Meanwhile, Israel has bombed Lebanon.
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Two sides of the same presidency played out simultaneously along the National Mall on Thursday afternoon.
At one end, Donald Trump was telling the world to give peace a chance at a meeting with African leaders.
It was possible, he said, “to begin healing old wounds and transcending past differences and creating a future where every child of God can live in dignity, prosperity and peace.”
At the other end of the mall, top officials from his Defense Department were being grill…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has so far been unable to access data from a Washington Post reporter’s iPhone
because it was protected by Apple’s "Lockdown Mode"
when agents seized the device from the reporter’s home, the US government said in a court filing.
FBI agents were however able to access the reporter’s work laptop by telling her to place her index finger on the MacBook Pro’s fingerprint reader.
This occurred during the January 14 search at the…