Joe Warminsky

There's so much going on here, including fake NFT hustling

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

Cybercriminals are stuffing infostealer malware into bogus apps aimed at tracking gas prices, police activity, drone strikes and other information of concern to average Russians, researchers said therecord.media/malicious-ap...

Some unhinged comments and quote posts on this. Machine learning with artificial neural networks has transformed the environmental sciences, and rightly deserved the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. This isn’t using a chatbot to predict hurricanes.

Spoke to a bunch of incident responders and researchers about PHP2Shell When might me see successful exploitation? How many real-world POCs actually work? How long will ASLR be a barrier to mass exploitation? What have the attempts looked like? therecord.media/php-php2shel...

The headline-grabbing bugs known colloquially as PHP2Shell are giving cyber analysts a lot to track — and a lot to debunk therecord.media/php-php2shel...

Scoop: Matthew Prince of Cloudflare tells me and @ajvicens.bsky.social he is aware of "a bunch of additional severe vulnerabilities that are present in other pieces of critical software." Experts are forecasting more PHP-style update scrambles around the corner. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The Russian government is attempting to harm the Democratic Party and erode voter confidence ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, continuing a decade-long trend, according to two senior congressional lawmakers. therecord.media/democrat-law...

Sidebar: @jgreig.bsky.social breaks down the lengthy statement issued by the PHP Foundation earlier today therecord.media/php-foundati...

Coverage from @jgreig.bsky.social on the big PHP bugs. We'll be updating this story all day. therecord.media/php-script-v...

Knicks rings were straight out of the Anchorman cologne stash

A pro-Ukraine group that says it operates within Russia took responsibility for anti-Putin messages appearing on an education assessment platform. Authorities said they had restored systems therecord.media/anti-putin-m...

A beautiful @philipkennicott.bsky.social tribute to the great Ann Hornaday — plus the best tribute to her talents, her words. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/1...

People who make homemade Chex Mix only for Christmas are not committed to the culture

Just gutting. I did not know Ann well, but she was always kind to me and a steady, invaluable presence in the DC film community. Her book Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies is a great introductory volume for anyone wanting to learn more about the medium. This sucks.

"machine speed," except it's a variety of meth

Would be a deep cut to get a 10:17 tattoo

The Ukrainian military can again use SpaceX’s Starshield satellite service on the move, a Defense Ministry source told Recorded Future News on Thursday, days after sudden restrictions disrupted drone missions along the front line therecord.media/ukraine-says...

“Starshield connectivity while in motion has now been restored and remains operational,” a Defense Ministry source told @therecordmedia.bsky.social Washington and Musk disagree over who was responsible for the disruption. therecord.media/ukraine-says...

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40 years ago, San Manuel casino changed the tribe — and the Inland Empire. My story in the @sbsun.bsky.social: buff.ly/J8TxdMl

I feel like this consciously avoids using the acronym MANPADS www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/b...

fantastic Don Cherry-oriented show happening now on WOWD with DC Space co-founder Bill Warrell at the helm: takomaradio.org

“I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.” -- Nicole Noren, 24-year ESPN veteran and winner of Emmy, Murrow, and Peabody awards. Her grandfather, father and one of my brothers "were pretty much destroyed by sports gambling addiction." www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Lawmakers criticized a major developer of dating apps for not doing enough to stop romance scams, and issued a report finding that nearly 1.5 million scammers on Tinder and Hinge were able to match with legitimate users therecord.media/congressiona...

'Tis the season to revive this masterpiece www.patreon.com/dirtfarm/pos...

NEW: Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food. Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won’t pay for it.

Leaked chats apparently show the inner workings of an extortion group that the FBI warned was sending agents to physically infiltrate victims' offices therecord.media/leaked-chats...

New: Members of a Russia-based cyberextortion gang plotted to send operatives into US law firms, kidnap executives and even recruit military personnel to spy on submarine-based nuclear forces, according to leaked chats reviewed by Recorded Future News. Crazy stuff in this archive. More to follow:

$11 million plan for psychological support at Cyber Command gets fresh boost from lawmakers therecord.media/cyber-comman...

One of those days where @therecordmedia.bsky.social just happens to be the Daily Daryna (@darynant.bsky.social)

How a recent Supreme Court decision on geofencing influenced a federal judge to toss a sheriff's Flock camera evidence in a drug trafficking case therecord.media/oklahoma-flo...

This is an an amazing and bizarre story of a “news” website in the small town of Winchester, VA which has no bylines, seems to have AI generated stories and forced a freelance staffer to sign an NDA. How an anonymously-run news website can appear in a news desert. READ: https://loom.ly/4u6bDjk

Beyond the potential misuses of its services, Wikimedia said activity by AI agents can be a drain on web platforms that are already operating with limited resources therecord.media/wikimedia-fo...

Shoutout to the electrical tape mustache

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

Nurse Dana approves

The Phillies should receive no home games against the Braves, as a penalty for this past week.

the kids’ movie writes itself

New from the CBO: www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Never underestimate your local low-power-FM radio station: Beth Orton is apparently in studio at WOWD right now.

The last couple of weeks have been such a tornado of nonsense, I couldn't help myself.

WIRED tested samples of four types of peptides. The results show how lightly regulated the industry is, even as popularity surges. www.wired.com/story/viral-...

The Young Ones

Recently was in a tremendous “Hacks” episode www.vogue.com/article/bob-...

When a Commanders’ opponent misses a field goal, apparently fans can get free nuggets in the McDonald’s app. The hypothetical corruption scenario is way funnier than somebody missing 2 free throws against the Sixers.