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Independent reporter Andrew Feinberg says the White House told him he is no longer the print pool reporter on Thursday, after Trump snapped at him on Tuesday (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/2113035699238875555

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
New: Andrew Feinberg, the reporter that Trump snapped at here, was slated to serve as the print pool reporter on Thursday. Feinberg confirms to me that, without explanation, the White House told him today that he would no longer be the print pooler on Trump's Thursday trip.

ICYMI: Why did Meta get smacked with a $25 billion dollar fine for Cambridge Analytica? Scroll thru the jury decisions here. It’s unreal. Zuck lied the whole time. https://www.techpolicy.press/eight-years-on-cambridge-analytica-scandal-catc…

Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.

The Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses his tight race against Democrat Mary Peltola next month.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court Thursday, department officials described the candidacy of a third contender in the race
— another Republican named Dan J. Sullivan Jr.
— as a bid to mislead supporters of Sen. Sullivan into voting for the wrong candidate.

DOJ seeks to block Alaska Senate result if Republican incumbent narrowly loses
In a lawsuit, the Justice Department cited confusion over two similarly named candidates, including Republican Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan.

Building a robot that looks like a human is like building a car that looks like a horse.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the

In today's Metacurity, I managed to wrestle yesterday's firehose of PHP patch-related news into sixteen paragraphs, in case you're short on time for some reason.
Also in today's issue are tons of other critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Claude flags 493 security gaps across 25 open-source projects,
--OpenAI agents disable safeguards meant to monitor them,
--Interpol operation nets 1.4k arrests and recovers $105m in African cybercrime op,
--Toronto Crime Stoppers halts tips after 1.5m-tip breach,
--LiteLLM supply chain attack steals credentials and plants a backdoor,
--Chinese hackers use AI tool to breach ConnectWise,
--Pentagon builds secret agency for foreign tech sabotage,
--Cybercriminals bypass AI safeguards to automate attacks,
--Meta hit with $25B penalty for misleading users on privacy,
--GitLab patches maximum-severity flaw allowing unauthenticated code execution,
--Cyberattack knocks Richmond schools’ internet, phones and email offline,
--Pentagon faces class action over breach exposing military personnel data,
--Democrats warn of Russian disinformation targeting midterm candidates,
--Federal intelligence center invokes extremism in warning over Flock meeting
https://www.metacurity.com/php2shell-sparks-a-global-patch-panic/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/116156152360791119
Follow up:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/wgjryZnF

#Climate Fact checks for #Reform’s false claims https://skepticalscience.com/factcheck-reform-uk-45-false-misleading-claims.html

The Public AI Summit starting Wednesday has something for every educator, from scaffolding AI-aware assignments to learning about agents without accidentally deleting your hard drive. Thursday at 1 EDT I’ll share updated tools to discover your AI environmental footprint.
https://publicaisummit.…

Cancer kills its host and dies with it.
A leveraged buyout makes the host finance its tumor, sells its organs and uses the proceeds to infect the next victim.
The corpses go into the pitch deck under “successful exits.”
https://www.theverge.com/games/1015647/ea-is-shutting-down-bioware

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/117450363934537481
My hopes and dreams are thwarted until December due to high demand.