"While it was unclear whether, under Musk, X would continue leasing access to its users to Dataminr — and by extension, the government — the emails from the Secret Service confirm that, as of last summer, the social media platform was still very much in the government surveillanc … | Continue reading
Questions and answers about the new social media network Bluesky that you don’t need an invite to see. First, Jack Dorsey is not an owner. | Continue reading
Twitter executives have claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform. Behind the scenes, however, the social networking giant provided direct approval and internal protection to the U … | Continue reading
Relatos contrariam versão narrada em boletim da polícia e do candidato a governador de São Paulo. | Continue reading
While official language condoning killer robots is shelved for now, Oakland police are still pursuing the option. | Continue reading
High-tech surveillance may have blinded the U.S. to how corruption has weakened the Russian military. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is making China’s expansive surveillance technologies more efficient. | Continue reading
The overthrow of the Iranian regime would be just, but if recent history has taught us anything, its collapse is unlikely to be pretty. | Continue reading
While skeptics doubt the prospects for de-extinction, the CIA’s venture capital firm deems powerful genetic manipulation tools worth the money. | Continue reading
As corporate profits reach record high, Iron Mountain executive tells Wall Street inflation is great for “the bottom line” | Continue reading
The satellite internet technology probably won’t connect Iranian protesters, but Musk already got his PR coup with a two-word tweet. | Continue reading
Retired Gen. Keith Alexander’s company IronNet signed an agreement with a Saudi Arabia cyberwarfare institute led by the official who oversaw Khashoggi’s killing. | Continue reading
That Zawahiri’s killing went so quietly suggests that the cultural and political behemoth that was the war on terror had long preceded him into the grave. | Continue reading
Zawahiri’s rhetorical style would have fit right into the U.S. political spectrum. | Continue reading
Did Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer just fool Mitch McConnell? | Continue reading
A letter from the Health and Human Services Department discloses the anticipated FDA approval of MDMA and psilocybin treatments. | Continue reading
The FBI wanted him to become an informant. After he said no, his life was ruined. | Continue reading
In-Q-Tel — the CIA’s venture capital arm — and the military are investing heavily in the metaverse. There are growing concerns they’re wasting taxpayer money. | Continue reading
Google employees, who have been kept in the dark about the “Nimbus” AI project, have concerns about Israeli human rights abuses. | Continue reading
A veteran ranger who killed a park wolf claims he’s the target of a “witch hunt.” | Continue reading
Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2022/07/14/jan-6-texts-deleted-secret-service/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32102279 Points: 50 # Comments: 3 | Continue reading
In response to recent questions from Sen. Ed Markey, Amazon stated that it has provided police with user footage 11 times this year alone. | Continue reading
Defense contractors, fossil fuel companies, and pharmaceutical giants have also used superficial measures like diverse boards to earn inclusion in so-called socially conscious ESG funds. | Continue reading
Exclusive documents and interviews reveal the sweeping scope of classified 127e operations. | Continue reading
ICE is now able to track transactions made through nearly a dozen different digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether. | Continue reading
Any discussion of Jane’s Revenge, which is responsible for a series of vandalism attacks and threatening statements, is now subject to Facebook’s most stringent restrictions. | Continue reading
Threats against pride events and reports of suicide attempts by trans kids are only the first violent consequences of the far right’s campaign. | Continue reading
In a new letter to Amazon, Markey pushed the company to implement pro-privacy reforms and limit its collaboration with police. | Continue reading
Locked in a cycle of Slack callouts and healing retreats, left-wing groups — from reproductive rights to climate to racial and economic justice — have brought themselves to a grinding halt. | Continue reading
I’ve been reluctant to write what I know about the FBI’s scheme because the tale is so complicated that I’m still not sure I fully understand it. | Continue reading
A panel of journalists discuss the latest revelations regarding the theory that Covid-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory. | Continue reading
Dozens of Russian companies and government agencies have been hacked in apparent retribution for the invasion of Ukraine. | Continue reading
Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button. | Continue reading
Ukraine’s commitment to the laws of war is being tested by how it responds to video that appears to show its forces shooting Russian prisoners. | Continue reading
Also: “Grievance,” “slave labor,” “This is dumb,” “living wage,” “diversity,” “vaccine,” and others. | Continue reading
I asked Amazon to provide the data it had collected on me. The process was a labyrinthine endurance test. | Continue reading
Despite being browbeaten by the U.S., a growing number of Asian, African, and Latin American countries are charting a neutral path. | Continue reading
As effective as sanctions are at driving Russians into poverty, it’s uncertain whether they will affect the course of the war in Ukraine. | Continue reading
Russian scientists who have looked at the documents Russia calls proof of “bioweapons labs” in Ukraine say there is no evidence for such claims. | Continue reading
The Intercept asked the White House if the United States would respect Ukraine’s sovereignty in negotiating with Russia. | Continue reading
Biden vowed to stop supporting the Saudi-led war. A year later, Yemen’s humanitarian crisis is worse by many accounts than when Trump was president. | Continue reading
The U.S. likely relied in part on intercepted communications among senior Russian government and military officials. | Continue reading
“Scientists disagree over an issue where there’s no definitive proof,” said the EcoHealth Alliance president on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
The reversal raises questions about Facebook’s blacklist-based content moderation, which critics say lacks nuance and context. | Continue reading
The NIH continues to withhold critical documents that could shed light on the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
The company formerly known as X-Mode is now part of a federal government contractor that sells location data quietly harvested from apps. | Continue reading
Musk’s blathering illustrates how the people at the top of U.S. society just repeat what are essentially billionaire urban legends. | Continue reading
Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE’s deportation machine. | Continue reading