An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings

Stock Market Crash: The 1929 Warning That Looks Like 2026 Share Talk

       Bestselling in ... the UK

       They've released the list of The Sunday Times top 50 bestselling books of 2025 (possibly paywalled ?) -- with actual sales numbers !
       The top-selling title was (is ? the year isn't over yet ...) Richard Osman's The Impossible Fortune, with 391,429 copies shifted; four more titles sold over 300,000 copies.
       Two of the top fifty are under review at the complete review: Yuzuki Asako's Butter (at number 35, with 152,060 copies sold) and Robert Harris' Precipice (at number 47, with 129,934 copies sold).

Stephen Miller calls on CBS News to fire ‘60 Minutes’ producers over ‘revolt’ The Hill. Pass the popcorn. Looks like Miller never heard of the Streisand effect

An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings Los Angeles Times

What if we taxed what people spend, not what they earn?

What 1,000 pages of documents tell us about DOGE

The Verge [no paywall]: “As Brendan Carr heads to Capitol Hill, newly released documents still don’t say much about what DOGE did at the FCC.

The USA’s Censorship and Surveillance Plot is Working

Privacy Guides sits down with technology journalist Taylor Lorenz to decipher a slate of bills – including KOSA, the SCREEN Act, the App Store Accountability Act, and ongoing efforts to repeal Section 230 – being fast-tracked through Congress which threaten free speech, privacy, and your right to freely access information on the internet. There are more resources put together by ‪@FightfortheFuture‬at https://www.badinternetbills.com covering these bills. Check out their site and contact your representatives while you listen to this interview! Guest: Taylor Lorenz ‪@TaylorLorenz‬(she/her) Hosts: Nate Bartram (he/him), Jonah Aragon (he/him) Writer: Nate Bartram Editors: Nate Bartram, Jordan Warne (they/them) Executive Producer: Jonah Aragon.

• Visit our website: https://www.privacyguides.org ; YouTube is known for silent censorship and general privacy malfeasance. If you want to discuss this video you can do so on our forum at https://discuss.privacyguides.net in addition to commenting here, and you can follow our channel on the fediverse at: https://neat.tube/c/privacyguides/videos
• Have a question, comment, or tip for us? You can securely reach us on Signal at @privacyguides.01 https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/ 00:00 Introduction 00:19 Bad Internet Bills 02:46 Introduction: Taylor Lorenz 03:52 Repealing Section 230 04:57What is Section 230? 09:37 How Does Section 230 Protect Small Websites? 11:04 How Does Section 230 Relate to Privacy? 12:48 What is the SCREEN Act? 17:13 How Would Identity Verification Work? 20:15 Identity Verification is Already Happening 22:02 What is KOSA? 23:02 KOSA is Bad For Everyone 27:03 How Would KOSA Hurt Small Websites? 29:26 KOSA Would Censor Everyone 32:56 Final Thoughts & BadInternetBills 34:48 
• Privacy Guides is a nonprofit project dedicated to promoting privacy, best cybersecurity practices, and digital rights. As a part of MAGIC Grants, a 501(c)(3) public charity, your donation to support our cause may be tax deductible.

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves.

404 Media: “I am standing on the corner of Harris Road and Young Street outside of the Crossroads Business Park in Bakersfield, California, looking up at a Flock surveillance camera bolted high above a traffic signal. On my phone, I am watching myself in real time as the camera records and livestreams me—without any password or login—to the open internet. I wander into the intersection, stare at the camera and wave. On the livestream, I can see myself clearly. 

Hundreds of miles away, my colleagues are remotely watching me too through the exposed feed. Flock left livestreams and administrator control panels for at least 60 of its AI-enabled Condor cameras around the country exposed to the open internet, where anyone could watch them, download 30 days worth of video archive, and change settings, see log files, and run diagnostics. Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, which are designed to capture license plates as people drive by, Flock’s Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras designed to record and track people, not vehicles. 

Condor cameras can be set to automatically zoom in on people’s faces as they walk through a parking lot, down a public street, or play on a playground, or they can be controlled manually, according to marketing material on Flock’s website. 

We watched Condor cameras zoom in on a woman walking her dog on a bike path in suburban Atlanta; a camera followed a man walking through a Macy’s parking lot in Bakersfield; surveil children swinging on a swingset at a playground; and film high-res video of people sitting at a stoplight in traffic. In one case, we were able to watch a man rollerblade down Brookhaven, Georgia’s Peachtree Creek Greenway bike path. The Flock camera zoomed in on him and tracked him as he rolled past. Minutes later, he showed up on another exposed camera livestream further down the bike path. The camera’s resolution was good enough that we were able to see that, when he stopped beneath one of the cameras, he was watching rollerblading videos on his phone…”