Elon has almost doubled his wealth in one year. Is this still #democracy or is it already #oligarchy or neo-feudalism?

Source: forbes.com/billionaires/

#capitalism #money #finance #politics #humanrights #ethics #problem #news #system #fail #wealth #musk #economy

'Nowhere's safe': How an #island of #penguins ended up on #Trump #tariff list

source: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly8xl…

Two tiny, remote #Antarctic outposts populated by penguins and #seals are among the obscure places targeted by the Trump #administration's new tariffs.

The penguins are understandably pissed off.

It's hard to say who is the craziest head of state with all the crazy politicians in the world.

#usa #fail #problem #economy #penguin #seal #intelligence #future #democracy #politics #trade #world #globalization

#Lawyers for a detained Tufts #student from #Turkey demand her case remain in #Massachusetts

source: independent.co.uk/news/massach…

#Ozturk is among several people with ties to American universities who attended demonstrations or publicly expressed support for Palestinians during the war in #Gaza and who recently had #visas revoked or been stopped from entering the U.S. She was one of four students who wrote an op-ed in The Tufts Daily last year criticizing the #university’s response to student activists’ demands.

#journalism #press #Palestine #criticism #politics #usa #fail #humanrights #problem #news #justice #crime #protest #visa

Lawyers for a detained Tufts student from Turkey demand her case remain in Massachusetts

Lawyers for a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities have argued that her case should be handled by the federal court in Massachusetts

^{Michael Casey (The Independent)}

Last night, the #exploiter of #zkLend tried to use #TornadoCash to #mix 2930 #ETH of the #stolen funds and interacted with a known Tornado Cash #phising website tornadoeth[.]cash, thereby losing the funds to another party.

Source: https://x.com/zkLend/status/1906953225204564360

drain the swamp!

#crypto #crime #money #fail #news #cybersecurity

#Waltz’s team set up at least 20 #Signal group chats for #crises across the world

source: politico.com/news/2025/04/02/w…

Two of the people said they were in or have direct knowledge of at least 20 such chats. All four said they saw instances of sensitive information being discussed.

#chat #usa #security #cybersecurity #politics #government #problem #fail #news #whitehouse

#Waltz and #staff used #Gmail for #government #communications, officials say

source: washingtonpost.com/national-se…

#Trump’s national #security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a #crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.

Don't forget that #Hillary was smart enough to use her own #email server.

#fail #omg #wtf #politics #WhiteHouse #USA #news #privacy #cybersecurity #problem #communication

#Mississippi #governor signs typo tax overhaul bill into #law to phase out income #tax

source: apnews.com/us-news/taxes-tate-…

#Senators last week had conceded to eliminate the income tax, but only with economic growth “triggers” as safeguards — the tax wouldn’t phase out unless the state saw robust economic growth and controlled spending. It would have likely taken many years.

Or so they thought. The Senate bill had typos that essentially nullified the growth triggers and would eliminate the income tax nearly as quickly as the House proposed. The House passed the flawed bill on to the governor, who signed it into law Thursday.

#politics #usa #fail #problem #omg #wtf #fnord #facepalm #news #economy

#Trump admin accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian mega-prison and says it can’t get him back

Source: independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

“On March 15, although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, #AbregoGarcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,”

#justice #politics #usa #news #fail #help #immigration #ice #ElSalvador #mistake #Problem #humanrights #Democracy

Trump admin accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian mega-prison despite order barring removal

Government argues it no longer has control over Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s fate

^{Josh Marcus (The Independent)}

Tech companies are telling #immigrant #employees on #visas not to leave the U.S.

Source: washingtonpost.com/technology/…

#Trump #politics #travel #Democracy #freedom #border #visa #Problem #job #siliconvalley #technology #economy #fail #news #usa #government #WhiteHouse

Key #evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian #Assange for #CIA, says expert report

A hard drive in which the Spanish #police dumped the contents of David Morales’ phones was allegedly tampered with while in the custody of the High Court. Over 17,000 email messages have disappeared

source: english.elpais.com/spain/2025-…

#spain #justice #fail #backup #scandal #problem #politics #wikileaks #spay #surveillance #humanrights #court #security #democracy #news

Key evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian Assange for CIA, says expert report

A hard drive in which the Spanish police dumped the contents of David Morales’ phones was allegedly tampered with while in the custody of the High Court. Over 17,000 email messages have disappeared

^{José María Irujo (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

How easy is it to get #plutonium?

source: theguardian.com/australia-news…

#security #fail #problem #australia #news #usa #internet

Sydney ‘science nerd’ may face jail for importing plutonium in bid to collect all elements of periodic table

Emmanuel Lidden, 24, to learn fate after breaching nuclear non-proliferation laws by shipping samples of radioactive material to parents’ suburban home

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

Union und SPD planen den Generalangriff auf den Datenschutz: Bürgerkonto-Pflicht, Altersverifikation, verpflichtende ePA, massiver behördlicher Datenaustausch – dazu ein Opt-out-Prinzip, das faktisch jeden zur gläsernen Person macht. Wer profitiert? Wirtschaft, Militär, Forschung. Wer verliert? Unsere Grundrechte. Unfassbar!👇

netzpolitik.org/2025/schwarz-r…

#union #csu #cdu #spd #datenschutz #fail

Schwarz-rote Koalitionsgespräche: Daten vernetzen, Datenschutz schleifen

Union und SPD wollen Bürgerkonten und Altersverifikation zur Pflicht machen. Und sie träumen von Fusionsreaktoren und KI-Gigafactorys.

^{netzpolitik.org}

President Donald #Trump, asked yesterday afternoon about the same matter, said, “It wasn’t classified #information.” - so here is the full #Signal #chat with the attack plans ...

source: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

#usa #government #politics #military #Yemen #warfare #war #cybersecurity #fail #communication

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

^{Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)}

#USA oh no 😱

Source: euronews.com/business/2025/03/…

#child #children #labour #Florida #job #work #news #politics #economy #business #humanrights #fail

WhatsApp war schon immer ein Datenschutz-Desaster. Mit der Einführung der Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung waren zumindest die Inhalte geschützt – doch das dürfte mit dem neuen KI-Assistenten Geschichte sein. Eine KI, die ständig mithört, konterkariert jede E2EE und macht sie wertlos.

#WahtsApp #KI #messenger #e2ee #fail

netzpolitik.org/2025/angriff-a…

Angriff auf Privatsphäre: Meta-Messenger führen KI-Assistenten in Europa ein

Künftig können Nutzer*innen von WhatsApp und Co. mit einer KI chatten und auch sprechen. Dabei werden ihre Daten mit Meta geteilt. Und ein Test-Feature lässt die KI sogar durchgängig mithören.

^{netzpolitik.org}

The #Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its #War Plans 🤨🧐

Source: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

#wtf #omg #transparency #news #warfare #usa #fail #problem

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

^{Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)}

#AI and books 😵‍💫🤮😱🤯

See: mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerblo…

From page 25: "It is important to note that as an AI language model, I can provide a general perspective, but you should consult with medical professionals for personalized advice..."

#fail #problem #technology #book #knowledge #news

Major #web services go dark in #Russia amid reported #Cloudflare #block

source: therecord.media/russia-website…

According to data from several internet monitoring websites, the outages were observed Thursday across multiple Russian regions, particularly in the #Urals and #Siberia, affecting platforms such as #TikTok, #Steam, #Twitch, #EpicGames, #Duolingo and major Russian #mobile operators.

#online #www #internet #fail #problem #censorship #politics #test #news

Major web services go dark in Russia amid reported Cloudflare block

Website outages were observed across Russia this week, with regulators attributing them to issues with foreign servers. Observers said the problems might be tied to Russian government moves to block Cloudflare services.

^{therecord.media}

US ‘deletes #evidence’ of #Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian #children

source: independent.co.uk/news/world/e…

The #Trump #administration cut funding to #Yale #University’s Humanitarian #Research Lab, which was compiling a #database of alleged Russian #war #crimes, including the #abduction of an estimated 35,000 children from occupied areas of #Ukraine, last month.

#politics #warcrime #war #terror #fail #problem #humanrights #usa #news

US ‘deletes evidence’ of Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian children

Researchers at Yale University had been compiling database of alleged Russian war crimes, including abduction of up to 35,000 children

^{Sam Kiley (The Independent)}

It's a mad world: thedailybeast.com/musks-dad-el…

#musk #news #racism #nonazis #problem #fascism #altright #usa #politics #fail #friendship

Musk’s Dad: Elon’s Not Racist—He Was Friends With ‘Black Servants’

The Musk patriarch also fondly recalled apartheid-era South Africa as as a “well-run, law abiding country.”

^{Erkki Forster (The Daily Beast)}

#AI #hallucinations: #ChatGPT created a fake child murderer

source: noyb.eu/en/ai-hallucinations-c…

When the Norwegian user Arve Hjalmar Holmen wanted to find out if ChatGPT had any information about him, he was confronted with a made up #horror story: ChatGPT presented the complainant as a convicted criminal who murdered two of his children and attempted to murder his third son. To make matters worse, the #fake story included real elements of his personal #life.

#internet #technology #crime #cybercrime #fail #problem #news

AI hallucinations: ChatGPT created a fake child murderer

ChatGPT created a fake story about a Norwegian man, claiming that he killed his two children and went to jail. This never happened

^noyb.eu

#Tesla (TSLA) #accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing

source: electrek.co/2025/03/19/tesla-t…

Compare Tesla’s #capital expenditure in the last six months of 2024 to its valuation of the assets that #money was spent on, and $1.4bn appears to have gone astray.

#fail #economy #finance #news #musk #warning

Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing

Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion...

^{Fred Lambert (Electrek)}