NotHarlock
@notharlock.bsky.social
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Technologist (dev). Rather vapid. (He/him, early 30s, ace)
I don't follow back
All my homies use alt text
Here for: funny shit, infosec, FOSS, UK, Europe, transit, climate, civility, rights, intersection of tech with all people
Technologist (dev). Rather vapid. (He/him, early 30s, ace)
I don't follow back
All my homies use alt text
Here for: funny shit, infosec, FOSS, UK, Europe, transit, climate, civility, rights, intersection of tech with all people
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No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.
February 10, 2026 at 11:40 AM
No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.
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As Epstein courted Moscow, he built ties with Peter Thiel – first through mutual friends like Ian Osborne and Joi Ito discussing Bitcoin, then direct emails on crypto rules and funding for Blockstream. 4/12
www.febspot.com/explore/epst...
www.febspot.com/explore/epst...
Epstein funded Blockstream and debated Bitcoin with Peter Thiel, files show
The newly unsealed Epstein files, released on January 30, show Jeffrey Epstein funded early crypto firm Blockstream and exchanged messages about Bitcoin with figures including Peter Thiel and Adam Bac...
www.febspot.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM
As Epstein courted Moscow, he built ties with Peter Thiel – first through mutual friends like Ian Osborne and Joi Ito discussing Bitcoin, then direct emails on crypto rules and funding for Blockstream. 4/12
www.febspot.com/explore/epst...
www.febspot.com/explore/epst...
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Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
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Anathema to such conspiracies is transparency, frameworks which arrange to require accountability for dishonest or harmful behaviour, anything which meaningfully repays powerful people misusing that power with having it stripped.
Collaboration of a majority of honest people defeats conspiracy.
Collaboration of a majority of honest people defeats conspiracy.
February 4, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Anathema to such conspiracies is transparency, frameworks which arrange to require accountability for dishonest or harmful behaviour, anything which meaningfully repays powerful people misusing that power with having it stripped.
Collaboration of a majority of honest people defeats conspiracy.
Collaboration of a majority of honest people defeats conspiracy.
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For months, an Indian computer engineer trapped in a pig-butchering scam compound in Laos was secretly messaging @agreenberg.bsky.social and leaking him materials. This mini documentary is the incredible story of how he exposed the Chinese organized crime groups and, more importantly, escaped.
I Escaped Chinese Mafia Crypto Slavery | Hacklab | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
youtu.be
February 3, 2026 at 1:10 AM
For months, an Indian computer engineer trapped in a pig-butchering scam compound in Laos was secretly messaging @agreenberg.bsky.social and leaking him materials. This mini documentary is the incredible story of how he exposed the Chinese organized crime groups and, more importantly, escaped.
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ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
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Same tools being used on Americans we use on foreign adversaries. This goes for SIGINT as well as meat space, we are being reaped by all our electronic devices. Way to go America, you found a way to rival China.
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 15, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Same tools being used on Americans we use on foreign adversaries. This goes for SIGINT as well as meat space, we are being reaped by all our electronic devices. Way to go America, you found a way to rival China.
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House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer.
That alone won't do. Mandelson leaked sensitive govt info. How many times did he do so? Who benefited from the leaks?
Mandelson advised Starmer. Starmer made him US ambassador. What did Starmer know?
That alone won't do. Mandelson leaked sensitive govt info. How many times did he do so? Who benefited from the leaks?
Mandelson advised Starmer. Starmer made him US ambassador. What did Starmer know?
House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer
PM believes ex-Labour minister should not be member of House of Lords or use title, No 10 spokesperson says
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:35 PM
House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer.
That alone won't do. Mandelson leaked sensitive govt info. How many times did he do so? Who benefited from the leaks?
Mandelson advised Starmer. Starmer made him US ambassador. What did Starmer know?
That alone won't do. Mandelson leaked sensitive govt info. How many times did he do so? Who benefited from the leaks?
Mandelson advised Starmer. Starmer made him US ambassador. What did Starmer know?
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Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today.
Notepad++ update feature hijacked by Chinese state hackers for months
Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today.
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The revolving door of corruption.
"Palantir hired four Ministry of Defence officials last year. Then it won its biggest ever contract with the department."
#SayNoToPalantir
"Palantir hired four Ministry of Defence officials last year. Then it won its biggest ever contract with the department."
#SayNoToPalantir
The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline
The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline
Palantir hired four Ministry of Defence officials last year. Then it won its biggest ever contract with the department
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 7:15 AM
The revolving door of corruption.
"Palantir hired four Ministry of Defence officials last year. Then it won its biggest ever contract with the department."
#SayNoToPalantir
"Palantir hired four Ministry of Defence officials last year. Then it won its biggest ever contract with the department."
#SayNoToPalantir
Every Home Secretary has been worse than the last on basic rights
"When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times."
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Britain's Home Secretary wants AI so "the eyes of the state can be on you at all times"
Mahmood she said she hopes for an "AI version" of the Panopticon so that "the eyes of the state can be on you at all times."
boingboing.net
January 28, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Every Home Secretary has been worse than the last on basic rights
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After Renée Good was murdered, an ICE agent told a protester “We killed one of you yesterday!” before trying to slap / snatch the phone out of the hand of the protestor filming him.
They are willing to execute dissenters and threaten others with the same fate should they not bow down.
They are willing to execute dissenters and threaten others with the same fate should they not bow down.
January 27, 2026 at 6:04 PM
After Renée Good was murdered, an ICE agent told a protester “We killed one of you yesterday!” before trying to slap / snatch the phone out of the hand of the protestor filming him.
They are willing to execute dissenters and threaten others with the same fate should they not bow down.
They are willing to execute dissenters and threaten others with the same fate should they not bow down.
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Researchers have succeeded in developing the smallest fully autonomous robot in history. It measures less than 1 millimeter and can swim underwater for months powered only by light. www.wired.com/story/autono...
This Autonomous Aquatic Robot Is Smaller Than a Grain of Salt
Researchers have succeeded in developing the smallest fully autonomous robot in history. It measures less than 1 millimeter and can swim underwater for months powered only by light.
www.wired.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Researchers have succeeded in developing the smallest fully autonomous robot in history. It measures less than 1 millimeter and can swim underwater for months powered only by light. www.wired.com/story/autono...
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Watching America finally realise it was never immune to fascism in real time is *something*
europeans: fuck your government!
americans: yeah fuck our government!
europeans: 😠
americans: yeah fuck our government!
europeans: 😠
January 21, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Watching America finally realise it was never immune to fascism in real time is *something*
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as this circles around, i wanted to share some more pieces abt flock's history:
www.404media.co/tag/flock/
haveibeenflocked.com/news
www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
www.aclu-co.org/press-releas...
www.404media.co/tag/flock/
haveibeenflocked.com/news
www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
www.aclu-co.org/press-releas...
January 19, 2026 at 9:52 PM
as this circles around, i wanted to share some more pieces abt flock's history:
www.404media.co/tag/flock/
haveibeenflocked.com/news
www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
www.aclu-co.org/press-releas...
www.404media.co/tag/flock/
haveibeenflocked.com/news
www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
www.aclu-co.org/press-releas...
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📢⚠️ An AWS supply chain flaw dubbed #CodeBreach nearly gave attackers full control of the AWS Console, thanks to a two-character bug in a regular expression (regex) filter.
Read: hackread.com/how-2-missin...
#Cybersecurity #AWS #Vulnerability #SupplyChain #CloudSecurity
Read: hackread.com/how-2-missin...
#Cybersecurity #AWS #Vulnerability #SupplyChain #CloudSecurity
How 2 Missing Characters Nearly Compromised AWS
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread
hackread.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:46 PM
📢⚠️ An AWS supply chain flaw dubbed #CodeBreach nearly gave attackers full control of the AWS Console, thanks to a two-character bug in a regular expression (regex) filter.
Read: hackread.com/how-2-missin...
#Cybersecurity #AWS #Vulnerability #SupplyChain #CloudSecurity
Read: hackread.com/how-2-missin...
#Cybersecurity #AWS #Vulnerability #SupplyChain #CloudSecurity
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Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question):
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question):
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How City AM editor Steve Dinneen exposed an AI-generated pitch, "London's Fried Chicken Wars," traced to Nairobi-based Wilson Kaharua.
Best of 2025: Mass hallucinations – how I caught an AI reporter
How a pitch about warring London chicken shops led Steve Dinneen on a journey from Chicago to Kenya in search of a rogue AI reporter
www.cityam.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
How City AM editor Steve Dinneen exposed an AI-generated pitch, "London's Fried Chicken Wars," traced to Nairobi-based Wilson Kaharua.
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movie pitch: a couple goes on a first date, each with AI earbuds instructing them on what to say. Eventually, the two AI systems fall in love.
AI companies are on the hunt to design the ideal device to deliver AI's superpowers, and some new enterprises are convinced that headphones or earbuds are the way.
u.afp.com/SXfW
u.afp.com/SXfW
u.afp.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
movie pitch: a couple goes on a first date, each with AI earbuds instructing them on what to say. Eventually, the two AI systems fall in love.
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A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
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Watch as researcher Martha Root infiltrates and wipes white supremacist dating sites like, leaks thousands of profiles on #okstupid.lol after a live demo at CCC 2025.
Read: hackread.com/white-suprem...
#Cybersecurity #Hacktivism #CCC2025 #okstupidlol #MarthaRoot
Read: hackread.com/white-suprem...
#Cybersecurity #Hacktivism #CCC2025 #okstupidlol #MarthaRoot
Researcher Wipes White Supremacist Dating Sites, Leaks Data on okstupid.lol
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread
hackread.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Watch as researcher Martha Root infiltrates and wipes white supremacist dating sites like, leaks thousands of profiles on #okstupid.lol after a live demo at CCC 2025.
Read: hackread.com/white-suprem...
#Cybersecurity #Hacktivism #CCC2025 #okstupidlol #MarthaRoot
Read: hackread.com/white-suprem...
#Cybersecurity #Hacktivism #CCC2025 #okstupidlol #MarthaRoot
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This is absolutely amazing. Hurray for science! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 1:27 PM
This is absolutely amazing. Hurray for science! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Arabische cartoonisten hebben een field day.
January 4, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Arabische cartoonisten hebben een field day.