Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-using-gemini-give-chatgpt-like-ans…
Using Starlink ruse, Ukrainian cyber forces trick Russian soldiers into revealing positions, donating to armed forces: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/using-starlink-ruse-ukrainian-cyber.html
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) dipped into her campaign funds
to attend a concert hosted by MAGA artist Kid Rock,
amid ongoing rumors that the two are dating
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lauren-boebert-torched-for-using-cam…
Exclusive: Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/beijing-tells-chinese-firms-stop-using-us-israeli-cybersecurity-software…
Why Cowboys' Stephen Jones was using walkie talkie during Week 15 game vs. Vikings https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/why-cowboys-stephen-jones-using-walkie-talkie-week-15-g…
If you want to stop something using namespaces, e.g. to stop Glycin using bwrap namespaces; the easiest way seems to be to run it in a namespace using bwrap!
/usr/bin/bwrap --bind / / --dev /dev --disable-userns --assert-userns-disabled --unshare-user /usr/bin/bash
seems to work!
ICE, which has no authority to police US citizens, is creepily using data to spy on observers and activists.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/ice-using-private-data-to-intimidate-observers-and-activists-advocates-say…
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p16#a260113p16
The week's cybersecurity news is really heating up today, so check out Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--China orders domestic companies to stop using US cybersecurity software,
--White House renominates Plankey as CISA Director,
--Whistleblower leaks sensitive data on ICE and Border Patrol workers,
--Man to plead guilty for hacking Supreme Court system,
--Microsoft issues fixes for 114 flaws,
--Belgian hospital …
Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at risk using more than their guns.
An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold,
wrapping his arm around the boy’s neck, choking him so hard that his neck had red welts hours later.
A black-masked agent in Los Angeles pressed his knee into a woman’s neck while she was handcuffed;
she then appeared to pass out.
An agent in Massachusetts jabbed his finger and thumb into the neck and arteries of a young f…