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[Kevin Kaminski @kkaminsk]

Microsoft Entra ID just flipped a switch: passwordless is now the default sign-in experience for millions of users. Here's what changed and why IT leaders need to pay attention. 🧵 #MicrosoftEntra

[shenetworks @shenetworks]

After not receiving a raise in the four years I’ve worked at BHIS they’ve now decided to reduce my pay by $40k after coming back from maternity leave and moving my role to solely pentesting. So I am looking for a new position effective immediately if anyone has any leads 😇

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Warren Buffett, in his first sit-down since stepping down as Berkshire CEO, gave the cleanest indictment of legalized gambling in a decade. He called it a tax cut for the wealthy. The math proves him exactly right.

Americans wagered $165 billion at legal sportsbooks in 2025. They lost $16 billion of that. FanDuel pulled $6 billion of the losses. DraftKings pulled $5.3 billion. Every state with legal mobile sports betting collected a tax on the bettor side. New York alone took in over $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax revenue.

Layer the lottery on top. State lotteries generate over $90 billion a year. The bottom half of income earners account for roughly 70% of total spend. The average lottery player makes $38,000. A household earning $20,000 spends three times more on tickets than one earning $30,000. The implicit tax rate, meaning whatever the state keeps after prizes, runs 30 to 50% depending on the game. No other revenue source in America has that base and that rate.

The structural design is the engine. A single straight sports bet carries a hold of 4 to 5%. A four-leg parlay carries a hold above 30%. FanDuel and DraftKings spent five years rebuilding their apps to make parlays the default product. FanDuel's blended hold rate hit 11.4% in 2025, up from roughly 7% in 2022. The product got worse for the customer and the customer wagered more anyway.

Now look at the substitution. Nine US states have no state income tax. Seven of those nine run state lotteries. Seven of those nine have legalized sports betting. The states most committed to never taxing wealth are the same states running the largest extraction machines on people who cannot afford to lose. Read it as policy.

Here is what Buffett is actually pointing at. The state needs revenue. It can raise income tax on the top decile, or it can run a lottery plus a sports betting tax. The second option raises the money from the people who can least afford it. The first option becomes politically optional. New York's $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax is $1.2 billion the state did not have to ask of someone earning $5 million.

DraftKings and FanDuel sell a privatized collection mechanism for a regressive tax that the state never has to defend at the ballot box again. Voters approve legalization once. Collection runs forever. The state takes a cut. The wealthy get a quieter top bracket. The bettor's cut shrinks every quarter as the parlay menu gets pushed harder.

The function of a government, Buffett said, is not to play its people for suckers.

Thirty-nine state governments now do.

[Nathan McNulty @NathanMcNulty]

Please stop using Private browser sessions for cloud admin accounts

Look, we all know we shouldn't be using admin accounts while signed into our productivity account, but if you're gonna do it, at least use browser profiles so you can enforce compliance

https://t.co/e8I882Lh9w

[ً @prinkasusa]

NO LIES DETECTED

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Never in history have good people done this.

[Atheist Girl @iamAtheistGirl]

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

When your crimes are so bad, even Switzerland stops being neutral.

[Lydia Kauppi @lydiakauppi]

My favorite genre of TikTok right now is MAGA tourists abroad complaining about how they are treated once the locals immediately clock them as MAGA. This one is fucking Ireland of all places lmaoooooo

[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

BREAKING: Rep. Ted Lieu says the full Epstein files contain information that Donald Trump RAPED minors.

So he started a war to distract us from his crimes.

MAKE THIS GO VIRAL. 👏

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

The craziest thing about the price of Oil doubling in one week is that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

Makes me sick to my stomach.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Elorm Daniel @elormkdaniel]

With Apple Pay, your real card number never really leaves your device. When you add your card, the bank creates a special replacement number called a Device Account Number (DAN). That DAN is stored securely inside the phone’s Secure Enclave chip, not on Apple’s servers. When you pay, your phone sends this DAN plus a one-time cryptographic code to the merchant. The merchant never sees your real card, and Apple doesn’t process the transaction itself. It’s basically: phone → bank → done. Everything sensitive stays on the device.

With Google Pay, the idea is similar but the path is different. Instead of storing everything only on the device chip, Google often uses cloud tokenization. Your card info is linked to Google’s servers, which generate payment tokens during transactions. When you tap to pay, a token is fetched/created and sent to the merchant, then validated by the bank. So it’s more like: phone → Google server → bank. Still secure, but it relies more on the cloud.

So both systems hide your real card number. Apple leans more toward hardware-based security (on-device chip), while Google leans more toward server/cloud-based token management.

In simple terms:
Apple Pay locks your card inside your phone.
Google Pay locks your card behind Google’s servers.

Either way, the shop never gets your real card details; which is why mobile payments are often safer than swiping your physical card.

[Coinspiracy Theorist @CoinTheorist]

@YourAnonCentral This is 100% what the 2A is all about.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Ok, this is hilarious. 😂

[SpecterOps @SpecterOps]

WSL2 is a powerful attacker hideout because it runs as a separate Hyper-V VM, and defenders rarely monitor it.

Daniel Mayer explains how attackers pivot into WSL2 and what it took to build tooling that works across WSL2 versions.

Read more ⤵️ https://t.co/TaPsDDW4Cq

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

DIFFERENT WARS, SAME PROPAGANDA