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Crime/OC/Future. Founder BuzzingCities Lab/School of Conflict&Crime. Reports @SPIEGEL/SWR Vollbild/WIRED. AI Fellow AlgorithmWatch. Researcher HU/Eco Crime&Tech

[CrimeWatch @glocalreporting]

Tracken, stalken ...töten? Psycho-Terror mit Trackern von Apple, Samsung & Co.

Unsere neue #SWR VOLLBILD Doku über #Cyberstalking mit #Airtags & Co – und was sich dringend ändern muss @A_Gehrmann @Achim_Reinhardt @frauke_vogel @cembozdo @SWRpresse

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[IISS News @IISS_org]

The IISS has produced the most comprehensive open-source database currently available on Russian sabotage operations across Europe and its periphery. It captures the full spectrum of activity with physical effects: from sabotage on undersea cables to GPS blocking across multiple domains and geographies.

Find out more from Charlie Edwards and Nate Seidenstein: https://t.co/LezP3texeX

#HybridWarfare #CriticalInfrastructure #EuropeanSecurity

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

New AFP taskforce to target men 'hunting' young girls and coercing them into violent acts
https://t.co/wZ6S6plmZW

[Oscar Balmen @oscarbalmen]

Por años, el argentino Raúl Martins hizo de Cancún su feudo de explotación sexual con ayuda de Los Zetas. Le apodaban "Rey del Burdel" hasta su detención en 2019.

Ahora, inexplicablemente, un juez le concedió volver a Cancún. Mi texto para @Milenio:

https://t.co/bAkAFEYbcq

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

Sexual assault survivors like me seek justice as a sign of strength. Few of us end up winning
Victims don’t report because the legal system is stacked against them. It protects perpetrators and further traumatises victims
https://t.co/Bh3YaOYCuQ

[Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo]

Since Calderón launched an army offensive on cartels in 2006 the total homicide count in Mexico has now topped 500,000! An intel unit estimated 60% of deaths were by cartels or security forces "fighting them."

How can we frame this hybrid armed conflict↓
https://t.co/owqpxUv8PC

[InSight Crime @InSightCrime]

🏴‍☠️ Fast boats, nighttime raids, and terrified crews. From the Caribbean to the Pacific, piracy is once again on the rise in Latin America, driven by internal crises and the absence of state control. Read more here: https://t.co/jaAhXxQrB5

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

Young Men’s Online Lives: Cultivating Critical Digital Dispositions for Gender Justice
This new book explores young men’s online lives in the context of growing concerns about gender-based digital harms
By Prof Amanda Keddie and Prof Michael Flood
Web: https://t.co/pavoHX2PMM

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

This might be the most disturbing AI paper of 2025 ☠️

Scientists just proved that large language models can literally rot their own brains the same way humans get brain rot from scrolling junk content online.

They fed models months of viral Twitter data short, high-engagement posts and watched their cognition collapse:

- Reasoning fell by 23%
- Long-context memory dropped 30%
- Personality tests showed spikes in narcissism & psychopathy

And get this even after retraining on clean, high-quality data, the damage didn’t fully heal.

The representational “rot” persisted.

It’s not just bad data → bad output.
It’s bad data → permanent cognitive drift.

The AI equivalent of doomscrolling is real. And it’s already happening.

Full study: llm-brain-rot. github. io

[Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo]

Cuautla, Capital of Extortion

How did the touristic state of Morelos become the 2nd most murderous in Mexico? I went to Cuautla to find out, whizzed about with a cop reporter and talked to victims of extortion. Things decayed under Gov Cuauhtémoc

Read↓
https://t.co/4V6KMFqt3O

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

NOW: US court permanently bans Pegasus spyware maker from hacking WhatsApp.

NSO Group can't help their customers hack @WhatsApp, etc ether. Must delete exploits...

Bad news for NSO. Huge competitive disadvantage for the notorious company.

Big additional win for WhatsApp 1 /

[ZETA Tijuana @ZETATijuana]

En el #podcast hablamos de los policías de la #FESC involucrados en presunto #robo de droga; de la #revocación de la #visa de la diputada de #Morena: #AraceliBrown y sus cuentas congeladas; de la #millonaria #renta de patrullas de #MarinaDelPilar. 
https://t.co/6bwYvvMWvF

[Laura Richards BSc, MSc, MBPsS @laurarichards99]

He made it up. One case and he called it Stockholm Syndrome. No peer review. Just one male psychiatrist and his misogyny labeling and diagnosing women with a faux syndrome @thecrimeanalyst

[La Saga @LaSagaOficial]

Ruben Moreira cuenta su experiencia con Los Zetas | Esquina Balderas https://t.co/0hsiHpe4W1

[Signal @signalapp]

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.

https://t.co/015qmQnIS2

[Eva Wolfangel @evawolfangel]

Ich hab einen Vortrag gehalten zu generativer KI und Cybersecurity (Bild: eine Zwischenfazit-Slide) und erklärt, dass diese Systeme qua Natur angreifbar sind und anfällig für Social Engineering und dass das auch nicht weggeht. 🧵

[CrimeWatch @glocalreporting]

Skinny um jeden Preis - wer profitiert vom Abnehm-Hype?" Unsere team.recherche Doku zum Business um Abnehmspritzen wie #Ozempic, #Mounjaro & Co. jetzt in der ARD Mediathek

https://t.co/7DIrpTCIWC

#skinnytok #abnehmspritze

[The Nation @thenation]

A staggering number of Mexican mayors have been brutally killed in the past few years—and there’s no end in sight. What’s going on? @oscarlopezgib reports.
https://t.co/J0tTgwIyZ6

[Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo]

My piece today in the NYT. I argue bombing cartels in Mexico won't work because they are sprawling networks with thousands of affiliates on both sides of border and you would only scratch surface and make it politically impossible for Sheinbaum to continue with such cooperation.

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

Prevention is Possible: Global lessons on halving violence against women and girls
This briefing consolidates global evidence and learning from the What Works Programme - the UK's flagship programme to end violence against women and girls (VAWG)
https://t.co/3QHpy9AY1O