Peter Wiegand

Trying to understand the internet, and how to make it better.

[Heather Adkins - Ꜻ - Spes consilium non est @argvee]

In the U.S., more than 21 million people fell victim to fraud last year, and 42% now say they’ve lost money or sensitive info to scams. Read about @Google’s tips and tools for avoiding scams online for whatever platform you use: https://t.co/bWc53mk1Bg

[Heather Adkins - Ꜻ - Spes consilium non est @argvee]

Today, we joined several other U.S. technology companies in filing an amicus brief in Dada v NSO Group Technologies aimed at protecting journalists, civil society groups, software providers and people around the world from the dangers of spyware. https://t.co/NsAlwRSoIy

[billy leonard @billyleonard]

🔥 new research and analysis from @Google TAGs @AZakButler on the most prolific 🇨🇳 IO actor, DRAGONBRIDGE 🐉🌉

a short 🧵

https://t.co/ble27ie2Si

[Steve Weis @sweis]

If Google Project Zero finds a bug and your favorite intelligence agency finds a bug, someone you don't like will find the bug will too.

[Society for News Design @SND]

🥇 A #SND45 Digital gold medal in Portfolio: Combination (staff or team) has been awarded to @puddingviz.

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[natalia antelava @antelava]

As if in a bad dream, the city where for the past 30+ years of all sorts of turmoil no one ever dared restrict free speech wakes up to posters of some of the best and brightest like Nino now labeled “foreign agent”. Look after your democracies, people! Takes a blink of an eye

[Sebastian Majstorovic @storytracer]

Open source LLMs need open training data. Today I release the largest dataset of English public domain books curated from the @internetarchive and the @openlibrary. It consists of more than 61 billion words and 650,000 OCR texts. Stay tuned for more! https://t.co/Gay4favad9

[Azi Vaziri @az_matazz]

Thanks to our friends at @Jigsaw who helped us share the stories of 3 tireless defenders of free speech and human rights (cc: @meduza_en @CentroProdh @_elfaro_)

[Maddie Stone @maddiestone]

We're naming names 🔥 because the harm is not hypothetical.

Today we share "Buying Spying", our new report diving into the commercial surveillance/spyware industry. We dive into the players, the campaigns, the spyware, & the harm it perpetuates.

https://t.co/D8Lx4wRrw6

[Shane Huntley @ShaneHuntley]

The proliferation of spyware causes real world harm. We partnered with @Jigsaw to highlight the stories of three high-risk users who attested to the fear felt when these tools were used against them.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Unfortunately , too few people understand the distinction between memorization and understanding. It's not some lofty question like "does the system have an internal world model?", it's a very pragmatic behavior distinction: "is the system capable of broad generalization, or is it limited to local generalization?"

[Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @DonnchaC]

Yet more cases of critical journalists being targeted and intimated across borders with advanced spyware tools @RSF_inter @pressfreedom @Rozen_J

[Maddie Stone @maddiestone]

Who needs a 0-click when you have MITM? ✨ Working with @billmarczak & @citizenlab we discovered 3 iOS and 1 Chrome 0-day from Intellexa, used to install Predator spyware in Egypt 🇪🇬

https://t.co/5KF5v4xEnr

[Yasmin Vossoughian Reports @YasminMSNBC]

"The internet's been described as the oxygen of this movement."

@yasmind on the critical efforts to preserve internet access in Iran, as protests are held around the world marking one year since the death of Mahsa Amini

[Felicia Anthonio @FelAnthonio]

Has your government shut down the internet recently? Do you want to tell the world how the shutdown affected you and those around you? Share your shutdown impact story with us via this form (available in other languages): https://t.co/QCKY6Lk97y #KeepItOn

[Doug Madory (also on Bluesky) @DougMadory]

Internet shutdown in Gabon continues into the third day. #KeepitOn

The shutdown began in the evening on Saturday following a national vote for the president. #Gabon has a history of Internet shutdowns during elections and periods of civil unrest.
https://t.co/nsGP9OcwQD

[Winnona 💾 @__winn]

Working with @DEFCONPolicy this year has been so rewarding and I can’t wait for this! The speakers are top notch and the takes, as always, will be 🔥🔥🔥

[Heather Adkins - Ꜻ - Spes consilium non est @argvee]

Excited for @google TAG’s annual look at 0days in the wild. Nice job @maddiestone - the thing that stood out for me was the importance of variant analysis to the exploit devs. https://t.co/QDBEfomfe2

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

Authoritarians around the world will hear Breton’s message loud and clear:
(1) internet shutdowns are a permissible tool, and
(2) the DSA (and local copies) legitimates their use and rapid deployment in situations like the one in France. 🇫🇷 9/

[Vinicius Fortuna @vinifortuna]

Traffic numbers from @CloudflareRadar suggest that Irancell blocked traffic to @Cloudflare, in what would be a significant escalation in network-level censorship in #Iran

From: https://t.co/qeE2jHf81M

#KeepItOn