What’s the best way to lift people out of poverty? “Cash giving programs believe the people experiencing poverty best understand what they need to escape it.”
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals Ken Klippenstein
Behind the Scam: How Fraudsters Use Social Media, Software, and Shell Companies to Steal Millions
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Alleged Russian Tax Fraud Mastermind Funneled Millions Into Luxury Dubai Properties
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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 7, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Six highlights from this week:
Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vulnerability; WhatsApp closes loophole that let researchers collect data on 3.5B accounts; Real or AI? The 7 Telltale Signs Every Fake Image Still Can’t Hide; Does a VPN really slow down your internet? I measured it; Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer; and Yep, Cloudflare died again. Here’s what happened.
Bloomberg’s Jealousy List for 2025 – token access [no paywall], a collection of journalism admired by the magazine’s writers and editors. “For an industry that’s perpetually facing the parallel challenges of diminishing reader trust and declining advertising revenue, the media business sure delivered in 2025.
There were way too many podcasts, documentaries, in-depth investigations and entertaining magazine stories to consume, let alone optimistically bookmark for later.
That is why we, the philanthropic-minded editors and writers of Bloomberg Businessweek, assemble our annual Jealousy List, where we each identify the one piece of journalism from the past 12 months that we think is absolutely not to be missed.
The only stipulation: We only pick stories from rival outlets, never the home team. —The Editors [Subject matter spans war, hunger, politics, medicine, privacy, music, human trafficking, crypto, drugs and sports]
