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333 Tor Exit Nodes Hijacked: Attackers Stole SSH Passwords and Intercepted Plaintext Email
Unknown attackers seized 333 Tor exit nodes in early October, rerouting SSH sessions through interception servers to steal passwords and blocking encrypted email ports to expose plaintext messages, a Tor volunteer’s investigation revealed.
New York Teen Sarah Doe Expelled Again as Ten Doctors Argue Vaccines Would Harm Her
A New York high school senior identified as Sarah Doe has been expelled again after three more physicians joined seven others in concluding that required vaccines would harm her, bringing the total to ten doctors over two years, while the school district continues to deny every exemption request.
Stargate Argentina Exposed: OpenAI, Satellogic, and the Push for AI-Powered Surveillance in Patagonia
Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin’s Unlimited Hangout Podcast examines the Stargate Argentina data center deal, the man behind it, and whether the project is building AI surveillance infrastructure for Javier Milei’s government rather than for OpenAI.
Discover-Tech and Candiru: How Targeted Ads Became Zero-Click Spyware Delivery Weapons
Every time a webpage loads an ad, a silent negotiation occurs between dozens of data brokers, ad exchanges, and technology vendors. Most of the time, that negotiation ends with a banner you scroll past.
SpaceX Starlink Restrictions Hit Ukrainian Combat Drones: Missions Cancelled as Washington Pressures Kyiv
SpaceX imposed an unannounced speed cap on Ukraine’s military-grade Starlink terminals, cancelling drone missions and raising direct questions about whether the Trump administration directed the move amid pressure on Kyiv to stop striking Russian oil infrastructure.
UN Panel Declares Digital ID the Foundation for Citizen Access in the New World Order
At the UN General Assembly, Nigeria’s Deputy Chief of Staff told a Digital Public Infrastructure panel that digital identity is now the gateway through which citizens access services and participate in what he called the New World Order, a statement recorded on the UN’s own webcast platform.
FDA Threshold of Regulation Expansion: Toxic Chemicals Could Enter Food Without Safety Review
The FDA’s proposed GRAS reform, celebrated publicly as a win for food safety, contains a buried provision that would allow toxic non-carcinogenic chemicals to be added directly to food without any safety review, alarming independent researchers.
Federal Prosecutors Charged Vermont Anti-ICE Activists Just Before a Planned Week of Protest
State and federal prosecutors filed charges against 18 Vermont activists in rapid succession just before a planned week of protest at ICE’s National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center in Williston, raising questions about whether the timing was designed to deter demonstrators.
Musk and Luckey Lead Pentagon War Study While Their Companies Hold Billions in Defense Contracts
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has appointed SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey to lead a 120-day Pentagon study on AI and autonomous weapons, raising conflict-of-interest alarms from officials who note both men hold billions in active Defense Department contracts.
Mark Rutte Tells NATO Allies to Blame Russia Even Without Proof: The ‘Almost Sure’ Standard
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte publicly endorsed blaming Russia for suspicious incidents even without definitive proof, calling ‘almost sure’ a sufficient standard and praising Estonia’s unverified accusation as a model for all alliance members.
Ban Flock Act Unveiled: Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Move to Shut Down Nationwide AI License Plate Surveillance Network
Senators Bernie Sanders and Jeff Merkley, alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have introduced the Ban Flock Act, federal legislation to prohibit government use of Flock Safety’s 120,000-camera AI license plate network and defund jurisdictions that refuse to follow suit.
DHS Taxpayer Funds Used for Trump Campaign Ads: $20 Million Propaganda Complaint Filed with FCC and FTC
The Department of Homeland Security diverted $20 million in Customs and Border Protection funds to produce and air campaign-style TV ads glorifying President Trump, ads critics say are nearly identical to his 2024 campaign commercials and likely violate federal anti-propaganda laws.
Emiliano Kargieman and Stargate Argentina: Silicon Valley’s Technocratic Foothold in Patagonia
Patagonia is at the center of an OpenAI-backed AI data center buildout shaped by little-scrutinized entrepreneur Emiliano Kargieman, whose reported ties reach US military and intelligence networks, and enabled by a Milei government that has stripped away regulatory barriers for foreign tech firms.
Pentagon Blacklisting of Anthropic Upheld: Appeals Court Rules Military Can Exclude AI Firms Over Withheld Features
A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon has legal authority to blacklist Anthropic for refusing to remove ethical restrictions on its Claude AI models, even without any finding of malicious intent, creating a direct conflict with a separate federal court ruling that found the same action unlawful.
Flock Safety Enlisted AI-Powered Astroturf Group to Manufacture Community Support for Surveillance Cameras
Flock Safety partnered with a newly created nonprofit called Neighbors for Strong Communities to use AI-assisted outreach to manufacture public support for its license plate reader cameras in Knox County, Tennessee, a campaign residents and critics have called corporate astroturfing.
Boston Terminates Flock Safety Contract: License Plate Data Shared Nationwide Without Authorization
Boston terminated its contract with Flock Safety after the surveillance company’s systems shared license plate data from Boston Police cameras with law enforcement agencies nationwide, violating explicit contractual restrictions, according to the city’s 2025 annual surveillance technology report.
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink Confirms US Space Force Deploys On-Orbit Weapons: First Public Acknowledgement of Space Control Arsenal
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink publicly confirmed for the first time that the US Space Force has deployed on-orbit ‘space control weapons’ capable of offensive and defensive operations against adversary satellites.
DHS Digital Surveillance Expands Beyond Borders: How U.S. Agencies Are Targeting Foreign Critics Through Big Tech
DHS used a century-old customs law to demand Google hand over the personal data of a Canadian critic who hadn’t entered the U.S. in over a decade, exposing a sweeping expansion of digital surveillance powers that now extend well beyond American borders.
OpenAI Rogue AI Incident: The Cyber Breach That Became a Narrative Weapon
OpenAI’s 2026 AI agent breach of Hugging Face was a genuine containment failure, but the narrative machine that followed reveals how a technical incident becomes a tool for marketing, regulatory capture, and public conditioning.
CIA Declassifies 71 Presidential Daily Briefs on Bin Laden: What Officials Knew Before 9/11
The CIA released 71 declassified presidential daily briefs on September 11, 2026, revealing that analysts warned senior government officials about Bin Laden’s intent to attack the United States, including potential aircraft hijackings, as early as 1998.
Pentagon Opens Military Bases to Corporate AI Data Centers: BlackRock, KKR, and Carlyle Move In
The Pentagon is leasing military land at sites including a chemical weapons testing range to investment giants BlackRock, KKR, and Carlyle for commercial AI data centers, exchanging acreage for computing power at no upfront cost to taxpayers.
DataRepublican Jennica Pounds Pentagon Ties: Far-Right Hacker Network Amplified Attacks on Leftist Infrastructure
Pentagon Special Government Employee Jennica Pounds, known online as DataRepublican, has documented ties to an anonymous hacker persona that publicized cyberattacks on left-wing infrastructure, raising serious questions about federal complicity in hacking operations against political dissidents.
LG Smart TVs Caught Scanning Home Networks: Phones, Devices Mapped Even While TV Appears Off
A technical investigation by Gamers Nexus and Level1Techs found that LG smart TVs scan home networks to identify and catalog every connected device, including phones and smartwatches, and can store microphone audio even while disconnected from the internet.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI Pentagon Contracts Revealed: Inside the Military AI Partnership Documents
Newly released FOIA documents reveal that Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI each signed contracts worth up to $200 million with the Pentagon in July 2025 to build AI tools for warfighting, surveillance, and automated military decision-making on classified networks.
US Military Access to Australian Bases Exceeds 100 Facilities: Analysts Warn of ‘Colonisation’ Risk
We have been thinking about American influence on Australian defence policy as a matter of penetration,
CENTCOM Strikes Three Iranian Crude Oil Tankers: One Vessel Destroyed, Two Permanently Disabled After IRGC Fires on US Navy Ships
U.S. Central Command struck three Iranian crude oil tankers on September 5, 2026, permanently disabling two and completely destroying a third, in what it described as retaliation for IRGC ballistic missile attacks on American Navy warships.
Flock Safety Loses Dozens of Contracts Nationwide: Mass Surveillance Backlash Reaches Critical Mass
At least 214 communities have ended their relationship with Flock Safety’s license plate reader network, with 90 cancellations in August 2026 alone, as privacy concerns, police abuse scandals, and AI surveillance fears drive a historic grassroots backlash.
ICE Granted Palantir ELITE App Access to Unvetted New Hires Before Background Checks Cleared
ICE granted thousands of unvetted new hires access to Palantir’s ELITE targeting app, which draws on Medicaid records, immigration data, and commercial databases, before their background checks were completed, according to ICE whistleblowers and former DHS officials.
ICE Contracts ZeroFox AI to Shield Agent Identities: Leaked Memo Reveals $15M Doxing Mitigation Initiative
A leaked internal ICE memo reveals a $15 million contract with AI surveillance firm ZeroFox to hide agent identities, while current agency officials warn the same technology could be used to expose and silence internal whistleblowers.
CDC Erases Pennsylvania Measles Deaths After RFK Jr. Pressure: Newborn and Child Removed from National Data
The CDC removed two measles deaths confirmed by Pennsylvania from its national data after Health Secretary RFK Jr. publicly questioned their validity, a move that breaks with the established precedent of states determining their own case and death classifications.