Since the NoName supporters in the Telegram groups are starting to get arrested in Europe, I should point out I was casually in the Telegram channel with my normal mobile number *monitoring them* - it’s how I was getting the DDoS configs for UK councils and such defending.
Law enforcement in the UK know about this but in case I disappear I’ve been vanned in the Venga Bus 🚌 in error.
Feels like all of us (even people w/out a car) need to pay way more attention to the WTAF new rules affecting EU and US folk, requiring all new cars to include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face.
"Glance at your phone, your kids in the back seat, or the radio for too long, and the car will flash a warning light and sound an alert," reads a recent post from Allaboutcookies.org.
https://allaboutcookies.org/eu-mandatory-distracted-driver-system
First spotted this story in the Risky Business newsletter yesterday and have been reading as much as I can about it ever since. https://risky.biz/RBNEWS587/
Risky's @campuscodi writes the new regulation has entered into effect in the EU on Monday and will enter into effect next year in the US. In the EU, the new camera requirement is part of the block's second General Safety Regulation (GSR2), a broader swath of new safety rules introduced for the auto industry and designed to improve road safety.
https://www.inkl.com/news/new-eu-car-safety-rules-take-effect-7-july-how-your-car-could-monitor-you
https://www.gadgetreview.com/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-in-new-cars-by-2027
This is some next level Orwellian shit. My dreams of one day replacing one of our cars with an electric vehicle just got much darker.
Important story from Wired: A government report claims DOGE didn’t access sensitive systems. It also says the agency deleted records that would show if they had.
From the story:
"In April 2026, though, the Government Accountability Office (GAO)—a federal agency within the legislative branch that performs audits and investigations for Congress— published its own report about DOGE’s access to the NLRB’s systems, titled “National Labor Relations Board Detailees Did Not Access IT Systems Between April 16 and July 25, 2025.” The report conspicuously only covers the time period immediately following Berulis’ complaint, and does not address any DOGE activity before that point."
"But nested in the footnotes of the report is another revelation: In August 2025, shortly after DOGE members left the NLRB but before the GAO’s investigators “requested to observe the systems,” the agency “deleted the team member accounts for system access after the agreement to detail DOGE team staff had expired.” Basically, this means that the digital records of what data and systems DOGE members accessed and when had been eliminated, leaving the GAO no way to confirm what NLRB staff told their investigators."
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-investigators-say-certain-doge-records-were-deleted/ (paywall)
Paging MITRE's IT team: The MITRE website for vulnerabilities -- cve.mitre.org -- is using an expired cert. I realize this is an easy thing to overlook, but it doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
Someone asked me recently to name the craziest thing that's ever happened to me. I had to really think about this, having been the recipient of multiple swatting attacks, doxings, several record-smashing ddos campaigns, sex toys, weapons and giant bags of shit showing up at our doorstep for years. Even had a guy send $1200 worth of pure heroin to our house in a failed bid to frame me with narcotics possession.
Honestly, the weirdest thing I experienced in my work happened in May 2013. On that day, apropos of nothing, the reclusive lady renting the townhouse across the street from us came over to our lawn dressed to kill -- -- wearing a black skirt, pressed white shirt and a mask -- and carrying a saw. After she moved out of the camera's lowermost frame, she proceeded to cut down a pretty huge pine tree in our front yard. I can only surmise that she did this because a small portion of the tree was dead on account of it being crowded by an unkempt shrub next door.
Mind you, the only interaction I had with this lady previously was watching her stand in the parking lot in flowing robes and screaming at guests parking where they shouldn't.
I never got the full story about what her deal was, because she split the neighborhood not long after that. But I still refer to her as "that hacker lady," because she literally hacked down my tree.
@campuscodi Somewhere out there I imagine is a secret govt manual on how to disable all of the radio telemetry points, transmitters and wireless doodads in modern cars. You know, for all the important gov types who probably shouldn't be super trackable by everyone. Assuming such a compendium does exist, it's probably gotten so thick it requires multiple binders. I just wanna borrow one page from that book lol.
Holy shit! The literal video version of Total Eclipse of the Heart is on YouTube again. I remember looking for a few times, but I guess it kept falling foul of copyright strikes.
Anyway, in honour of the memory of the great Bonnie Tyler, enjoy one of the finest things YouTube has ever hosted.
#ChatControl 1.0 HAS PASSED - despite a majority voting against it (314:276) 🚨
After the EU parliament has rejected it TWICE in the past, it has been pushed as an urgent procedure for a new plenary vote. The EU has simply continued to put the vote on the agenda to get the outcome they've wanted since the start.
This is not democratic‼️
📸 Roberta Metsola (EPP) who revived Chat Control 1.0 shaking hands with Mark Zuckerberg. Taken from EP_President posted May 27, 2026 on X.
