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They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. - The New York Times

JUICYJAM: How Thai Authorities Use Online Doxxing to Suppress Dissent - The Citizen Lab

Elon Musk’s Starlink is taking over Nigeria’s internet market - Rest of World

NSO lawyer names Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as spyware customers accused of 2019 WhatsApp hacks | TechCrunch

Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Paving a Path Back Into Trump’s America | WIRED

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill | Crime | The Guardian

Judge unlikely to allow expert testimony for NSO as jury decides damages in WhatsApp case | The Record from Recorded Future News

Court document reveals locations of WhatsApp victims targeted by NSO spyware | TechCrunch

Voluntary ‘Pall Mall Process’ seeks to curb spyware abuses | CyberScoop

An RCMP officer and a retired Vancouver cop say not even police are safe from high-tech spyware | CBC News

Catalan court says NSO Group executives can be charged in spyware investigation | TechCrunch

OpenAI Says It’s "Over" If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work

Spyware scandal: Italian government reportedly admits targeting activists

Journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware - Amnesty International Security Lab

Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users | TechCrunch

Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations - The Citizen Lab

The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring

Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data | Israel | The Guardian

Meta is about to ruin WhatsApp with AI bots no one wants

Inside the Telegram Groups Doxing Women for Their Facebook Posts | WIRED

Cellebrite zero-day exploit used to target phone of Serbian student activist - Amnesty International Security Lab

Swedish authorities seek backdoor to encrypted messaging apps | The Record from Recorded Future News

Italian priest close to pope told he was target of surveillance tool used by a government | Surveillance | The Guardian

Stalkerware apps Cocospy and Spyic are exposing phone data of millions of people | TechCrunch

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla | WIRED

As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies

Italy: Journalists’ union takes legal action over Paragon case – European Federation of Journalists

Spyware maker caught distributing malicious Android apps for years | TechCrunch

An Advisor to Elon Musk’s xAI Has a Way to Make AI More Like Donald Trump | WIRED

Another person targeted by Paragon spyware comes forward | TechCrunch

Owner of spyware used in alleged WhatsApp breach ends contract with Italy

Spyware maker Paragon confirms US government is a customer | TechCrunch

Italian founder of migrant rescue group ‘targeted with spyware’

Critic of Italy-Libya migration pact told he was target of Israeli spyware | WhatsApp | The Guardian

Former Polish justice minister arrested in sprawling spyware probe

Italian investigative journalist targeted on WhatsApp by Israeli spyware | WhatsApp | The Guardian

WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware | WhatsApp | The Guardian

DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core

The Supreme Court could decide the fate of Pornhub — and the rest of the internet - The Verge

Meta will lay off more ‘low-performers,’ says CEO Mark Zuckerberg - The Verge

Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed

Sense of impunity ‘absolute’: The NGO holding Israeli soldiers to account | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal | WIRED

Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’ | WIRED

Meta appoints new Trump-friendly policy chief - The Verge

Zuckerberg, inspired by Musk, ditches fact checking for Community Notes - The Verge

AI’s emissions are about to skyrocket even further | MIT Technology Review

What Really Happens When You Trade In a Phone at the Apple Store

How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories

DHS Says China, Russia, Iran, and Israel Are Spying on People in US with SS7

Israeli Spyware Firm Paragon Sold to U.S., as Trump's Digital Arsenal Grows

Serbia: Authorities using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists - Amnesty International Security Lab

“I Learned How to Say No” - Labor Abuses & Sexual Exploitation in Colombian Webcam Studios

FTC Takes Action Against Gravy Analytics, Venntel for Unlawfully Selling Location Data Tracking Consumers to Sensitive Sites | Federal Trade Commission

Something to Remember Us By: Device Confiscated by Russian Authorities Returned with Monokle-Type Spyware Installed - The Citizen Lab

International operation takes down another encrypted messaging service used by criminals | Europol

"A repeat of the autonomous car hype-cycle of a decade ago is on the cards" by Paris Marx

How We Did It: Amnesty International’s Investigation of Algorithms in Denmark’s Welfare System – Global Investigative Journalism Network

Tracking Indoor Location, Movement and Desk Occupancy in the Workplace

Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com - The Citizen Lab

Israeli Government Imposes Sanctions on Haaretz, Cuts All Ties and Pulls Advertising - Israel News - Haaretz.com

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