The world’s largest residential proxy network runs on consent, TLS and vibes. The TV is always watching and apparently it is also available for contract work in surveillance or data acquisition? Bright Data sells access to a residential proxy network, the kind customers use to route requests through real home IP addresses instead of datacenter IPs that Cloudflare, DataDome and HUMAN are trained to block. The supply comes from an SDK embedded in consumer apps. So: CTV games, messengers, mobile apps and screensavers. With consent somewhere upstream, the device becomes an exit node. The TV is perfect for this job. It is plugged in, on WiFi, often unattended and barely supervised. It also asks for consent through a privacy policy and a remote-control UI, which is one way to make “informed choice” look like an endurance sport. One config flag tells the SDK to ignore whether the screen is on. Another tells it to ignore whether the user is on a call. In this economy, watching TV counts as downtime. https://t.co/WvFVvEFrzY
European security policymakers must URGENTLY take note. This is a critical security risk from foreign actors. Registering a front mockup company and getting this data to monitor targets is very simple. It's a ticking bomb.
STOLTENBERG: My country, Norway, borders Russia. Just on other side of our land border, we see highest concentration of nuclear weapons in the world: missiles, submarines, bombers. These weapons are not directed at Norway — they're directed at United States.
Yet Norway helps United States monitor and track those submarines, share intelligence, provide early warning, and report precisely what Russians are doing.
This is part of America’s homeland defense, delivered by a NATO ally. And there are many other similar examples.
So United States is safer with a strong NATO. That is why I expect and believe the United States will remain committed to the Alliance.
Shockingly uninformed and hostile approach towards Europe on Fox News 🇺🇸. They are obviously campaigning for an Atlantic divorce - which shouldn’t be in anyone’s interest.
Hungary's intelligence services have been using Israeli-made surveillance tools to track hundreds of millions of people, @OsintFlow reports citing a VSquare and Citizen Lab investigation.
The most powerful tool is Webloc, which pulls GPS, Wi-Fi, and ad data from over 500 million phones worldwide. It builds detailed profiles including home addresses, daily routines, political views, and health conditions.
The purchases were run through SCI-Network Ltd., headed by a former counterintelligence officer with ties to Orban's cabinet chief Antal Rogan, who controls both civilian intelligence and the PM's propaganda machine.
Licenses were renewed in March 2026 – just weeks before Hungary's elections.
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💥Orbán’s intelligence agencies have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR. https://t.co/sk3UMli9NN
Another day in these strange times. Trump 🇺🇸 threatens to obliterate thousands of years of Iranian civilisation. JD Vance is in Budapest campaigning with Orbán and spreading lies about the EU. And Trump Jr is in Banja Luka with Dodik and his gang. Could it get worse? Probably…
This looks very much like the false flag operation Orbán has been rumored of planning to disrupt or stop the 🇭🇺 election. Little doubt that Vucic 🇷🇸 would have been happy to help. Most opinion polls put Orbán well behind facing Sunday’s election. https://t.co/5Z5UmJ46xa
BREAKING: Epstein survivors have released a statement slamming Bondi after her firing: "Attorney General Pam Bondi failed survivors. Under her leadership, the Department of Justice mishandled the release of the Epstein Files, leaving millions of pages withheld from the public…”
Now that we’ve released the first part of our joint investigation into Viktor Orbán's foreign minister Péter Szijjártó’s collusion with Russia, I hope it’s clearer why Orbán’s government tried to preemptively discredit me with bogus espionage allegations. https://t.co/2luZfBde3Y
Murray: Is it true that people making under $184k pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate?
Dahl: Yes
Murray: And the rate for someone making $1 million?
Dahl: 2.2%
Murray: So, a 12.4% tax for people making less than $184k, but 2.2% for a millionaire or .0002% for billionaires.
Cyberattacks can kill? Ransomware is now a regional public health event, not an IT incident at one address. When a hospital system in a region gets hit, its own patients are diverted to nearby hospitals. A cyberattack on hospital A was associated with measurable excess mortality at hospital B, which had functioning computers and no idea it was in the middle of a disaster. The nearby hospitals recorded that cardiac arrests nearly doubled, and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients who survived with good brain function dropped from 40% to 4.5% (study of 78 cases; no data on transport times or arrest duration).
Seeing a headline twice makes it feel true. Every algorithm that fills a feed is, by this logic, a misinformation engine by design. https://t.co/Xv6CIGpwn8
The best defence against misinformation turns out to be... age. A resource that compounds slowly and cannot be nudged, boosted, or delivered via a software patch. Older people (including those less digitally literate, more likely to share misinformation) were paradoxically better at telling true from false headlines than younger adults who grew up online. More education results in no improvement in accuracy (but it gives more confidence that what is being read is "probably fine").