new for @BW:
Shootings + plots against US power stations are way up since a white supremacist network distributed instructions on how extremists can cause havoc.
The feds are worried about more attacks like the one that killed someone in North Carolina.
https://t.co/vRiGhftDiY
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US cyber chief Jen Easterly is in the hot seat at a fraught political moment.
She’s worked to win the trust of fellow government agencies and private sector companies. Now, she must do the same with an even more volatile constituency: American voters.
https://t.co/5NoDjy1D2v
why a cybersecurity prodigy carried out a hacking spree during his off hours.
the latest @rj_gallagher tale is another gripping read
https://t.co/Gg9F1goQh3
Conspiracy theorists in Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin and elsewhere have created communities on the messaging app Telegram to monitor and film polling places -- > @JeffStone500 for @business https://t.co/DcrtrE5mwV via @technology
New from @atavist: Before he promoted lies about Haitians eating pets in Ohio, Christopher Pohlhaus, aka Hammer, tried to build a neo-Nazi training compound in Maine. His neighbors had other plans.
https://t.co/K19ODFvGK0
New: Tech distributor @Carahsoft placed an order with @CrowdStrike for $32 million of software intended for the US Internal Revenue Service.
But the tax agency didn’t end up buying it.
Why is Carahsoft paying CrowdStrike anyway?
W/ @CGorrivan https://t.co/RnpDkAdyaU
NEW: We analyzed more than 53,000 posts over more than a decade sent by Elon Musk on X, and found that immigration and voter fraud has become — by far — his favorite and most popular policy topic online. https://t.co/Crb3g3vFt0
NEW INVESTIGATION:
Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of work to game a NYC minimum wage law. We crowdsourced screenshots, monitored surge pricing and ran financial models to reveal the devastating impact on drivers. w/ @natlungfy@A_W_Gordon@DeniseDSLu
https://t.co/W1hI5besZy
I ran into one of the Buffalo Sabres in the elevator at the Prague hotel. They were in town to play the New Jersey Devils. He invited me to the game but I was performing that night.
Four years ago, an @SAP executive introduced Carahsoft Technology Corp. founder @craigabod on stage at a sales awards event.
This week, the companies were again in the limelight, this time as subjects of a yearslong DOJ investigation.
W/@jeffstone500 https://t.co/cM2c6nbasY
A woman who plotted with a neo-Nazi to knock out power in Baltimore was just sentenced to 18 years in prison
She continued calling white supremacists from behind bars and admitted to holding the same beliefs
https://t.co/2513oFy6wj
More on that plot: https://t.co/vRiGhftDiY
NEW for @business:
German software developer @SAP SE, product reseller Carahsoft Technology Corp. and other companies are being probed by US officials for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies over a decade.
W/@ckyrious, @MargiMurphy https://t.co/REYvzSZV0u
🚨🚨 SAP and Carahsoft -- raided Tuesday by the FBI -- are under US investigation for potential price-fixing 🚨🚨
big @JZBleiberg scoop, live on @business -->
https://t.co/rqVqOt3Ook
93 1st Ave. in the East Village, once home to 3 brightly lit Indian-Bangladeshi spots, is now down to 1. Panna II stopped using the former Milon dining room last month due to a lack of business. Downstairs, Royal Bangladesh closed in 2022. 📷 on 9/20 @Joy_of_photos
Telegram will start providing user IP addresses and phone numbers in exchange for govt requests, Durov says.
Russian politicians said in 2022 that Telegram was helping them “monitor all dangerous subjects” under Russian law.
https://t.co/cNM15xtqDI