PROPUBLICA.ORG ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

EFF.ORG The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

APNEWS.COM The Justice Department has released additional Jeffrey Epstein files involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump that the department said had been mistakenly withheld during an earlier review.

THEINTERCEPT.COM The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

TECHCRUNCH.COM Lawyers say Meta's marketing materials promised privacy and user control over sharing footage. But an investigation found that subcontractors are reviewing footage from customers' glasses.

ARSTECHNICA.COM Meta accused of "concealing the facts" about smart glass users' privacy.

RAWSTORY.COM Political analysts and observers were outraged on Thursday after an investigation determined that the U.S. was likely responsible for a Feb. 28 strike on a girls' school in Iran that killed 175 civilians, many of whom were children. The New York Times reported on Thursday that the strike on the girl...

BBC.CO.UK Take Back Power had been preparing a campaign to steal goods from supermarkets, police said.

DW.COM Hungary announces move as it asks Ukraine to repair a pipeline that pumps Russian oil to Budapest and Bratislava.

ALJAZEERA.COM Files summarise a woman's accusations against Trump over alleged sexual encounter when she was aged between 13 and 15.

TIME.COM If Trump campaigned as a President of peace, he has governed as the opposite

FUTURISM.COM Residents of a once quiet Mississippi town complain that Elon Musk's AI facility is constantly emitting a horrible noise.

ROLLINGSTONE.COM Donald Trump's war against Iran is part of a terrifying new era of American imperialism, one in which the military budget never stops growing.

PROPUBLICA.ORG A judge ruled that the Navy’s long-standing policy to withhold records from its criminal trials violated the First Amendment.

ALJAZEERA.COM Most of the costs are not budgeted for, meaning the Pentagon will need to request more funding soon, researchers say.

OMGUBUNTU.CO.UK A new-look Firefox is on the way, with Mozilla designers working on a 'Nova' redesign that introduces more curves and colour. First reported by tech

SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

CBC.CA The head of the Canadian Armed Forces says Canada may be called on to help defend Persian Gulf states from Iran's strikes as the U.S.-led offensive expands into a wider regional war.

THEREGISTER.COM : Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk

GAMINGONLINUX.COM We've already covered how California has a new operating system age-checking law coming into force next year - but many more US states also have plans.

BBC.CO.UK The discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say

ALJAZEERA.COM Protests grow as attack on British military site stirs fears that Cyprus is being dragged into a regional conflict.

THECONVERSATION.COM Cultural, spiritual, and most environmental impacts aren’t taken into account when launching thousands of satellites.

APNEWS.COM Officials say Iran’s retaliatory attacks in the Middle East over strikes from Israel and the U.S. have left some of America’s partners in the Gulf frustrated over a lack of notice or adequate defense.

NYTIMES.COM If the courts force the administration to restore money to one group, it moves on to another.

MACRUMORS.COM Benchmarks for the new MacBook Neo surfaced today, and unsurprisingly, CPU performance is almost identical to the iPhone 16 Pro. The MacBook Neo uses the same 6-core A18 Pro chip that was first introduced in the iPhone 16 Pro, but it has one fewer GPU core. The MacBook Neo earned a single-core score of 3461 and a multi-core score of 8668, along with a Metal score of 31286.

THE-INDEPENDENT.COM One of his victims informed investigators that the abuse began around April 2024, several months before Johnson was sentenced for his Capitol riot conviction

BBC.CO.UK The 70th Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Vienna after Austrian singer JJ won the 2025 event.

BBC.CO.UK Hungary says the workers were detained on suspicion of money laundering as a fierce row between the two countries escalates.

ALJAZEERA.COM Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says 'no reason why we should negotiate', calls Washington untrustworthy.

THEVERGE.COM Meta claims media stays on the smart glasses — unless you share it with the company.

THEVERGE.COM Construction on the advanced Wyoming nuclear power plant is set to finish by 2030.

THEVERGE.COM Epic CEO is muzzled.

THEVERGE.COM Activision and Xbox have not commented on the video.

TECHDIRT.COM We’ve been pointing out the fundamental contradiction at the heart of mandatory age verification laws for years now. To verify someone’s age online, you have to collect personal data fr…

PROPUBLICA.ORG Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Noem denied that Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving contracts. But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency staffers contradict her testimony.

POLITICO.EU Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

POLITICO.EU The U.S. is even looking to Ukraine to help its operations against Iran — as Trump rages at Starmer and Sánchez for refusing to back his war.

NBCNEWS.COM The president said he would tap Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to replace her.

INDEPENDENT.CO.UK Justice Department expects to restore missing documents that were taken offline for review

GAMINGONLINUX.COM Here's a reminder that when you connect up various accounts - you may end up just increasing the risk of your private data going somewhere else.

CBC.CA Alberta is not ready to deal with the threat of online disinformation coming from foreign actors in a possible referendum campaign on separation this fall, according to national security experts.

BELLINGCAT.COM Turnstone can visualise historical trends in flight data or filter them by geography, aircraft type and other parameters.

BBC.CO.UK Sum represents £1 out of every £7 they have been given by NHS as dentists opt to chase private work.

BBC.CO.UK Baroness Heather Hallett said completing the hearings in under four years was an achievement but critics have questioned its cost.

ALJAZEERA.COM Amid rocket sirens and explosions in the sky, the regional war feels distant compared to the terror on the ground.

THECONVERSATION.COM This conflict exposes the fragility of the global fossil fuel economy and how renewables create resilience.

THECONVERSATION.COM Without this form of fertiliser, crops will not produce yields on which the world’s population depends, leaving people starving.

TECHCRUNCH.COM Hackers allegedly broke into the FBI’s networks, according to a report by CNN.

TECHCRUNCH.COM Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his company's investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last — but his explanation may not tell the whole story.

TECHCRUNCH.COM Anthropic gave up its contract with the Pentagon over AI safety disagreements -- then, OpenAI swooped in.

GIZMODO.COM Not for your eyes only.

APNEWS.COM Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has drawn negative attention for his comment that the press has emphasized casualties in the Iran war because it wants to make President Donald Trump look bad.

APNEWS.COM The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

APNEWS.COM A Georgia man who gave his teenage son the gun he’s accused of using to kill two students and two teachers at a high school has been convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.