Jaime Black
jaimeblack.bsky.social
Jaime Black
@jaimeblack.bsky.social
Media producer of 25+ years, incl. two decades of podcasting | Studying cybersecurity | Also produce digital for hospitality brands
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I’m a media producer of 25+ years, including two decades of podcasting.

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A Hotel Podcast | Substack
A series showcasing noteworthy hotels and hotel industry professionals across articles, interviews, podcasts, video, and more. Click to read A Hotel Podcast, a Substack publication with hundreds of su...
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By me @forbes.com: As Google updates Gmail following the subpoena attacks, what 3 billion email users need to know.

#infosec

www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...
Gmail Update For 3 Billion Users — Google Says: Take Action Now
As Gmail update rolls out, Google issues four-step response to attack.
www.forbes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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How to keep your data safe when you travel
How to keep your digital data safe when you travel
On The Vergecast: securing your phone before you cross the border, and Big Tech’s real streaming ambitions.
buff.ly
April 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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4) Well over half of Americans expect the economy to deteriorate over the next year, again the highest figure ever recorded.
April 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The combination of cruel + brain dead manosphere content and dogshit AI images for the stupidest people alive and this unbearable incel wave and people stanning Tesla and Elon and Kanye destroying his career to be a has been Nazi idiot. Just a stunningly stupid and exhausting time to be alive
March 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Not loving living through recurring waves of recession and fascism over the past two and a half decades
March 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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ICE illegally arrested 22 people in the Midwest since Trump took office, a new lawsuit alleges. buff.ly/hZGgg0J
March 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Apple has revealed a Passwords app vulnerability that lasted for months
Apple has revealed a Passwords app vulnerability that lasted for months
The iOS Passwords app was a phishing attack vector.
buff.ly
March 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Is your internet being throttled? Here's how to find out (and stop it)
Is your internet being throttled? Here's how to find out (and stop it)
The good news is a VPN can help figure out if your internet provider is purposefully depriving you of bandwidth.
buff.ly
February 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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In case you are wondering, these are the 22nd and 23rd stalkerware companies since 2017 to either get hacked or inadvertently expose data online due to flaws, bugs, and mistakes.

We are keeping track in this post:

techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/h...
February 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Tribune editorial board stays bootlicking
A Chicago Tribune editorial scolds IL Gov. J.B. Pritzker for his supposedly “premature” comparison of the rise of Trumpism with the rise of Nazism in Germany. Apparently the Trib wants everyone to wait until Trump gets even more authoritarian before speaking out. Which might be too late. 🧵 1/2
February 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Gambling firms are secretly sharing your data with Facebook

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/uncateg...
Gambling firms are secretly sharing your data with Facebook
Gambling companies are sharing their users’ data with Meta for marketing and tracking purposes.
www.malwarebytes.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all.

www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/
The Generative AI Con
It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st ...
www.wheresyoured.at
February 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
So many days of the week that don’t contain a new Severance episode. And for what? Who does this help?
February 18, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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The IRS is preparing to give a team member working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive taxpayer data. IRS data is tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details, and employment information.
Musk Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records
A White House spokesman said that the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency needed to review data to fix waste within the agency.
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:

www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co
February 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Neo-Nazis are 'activity flourishing on Instagram,' and neo-Nazi fight clubs have 'been sharing articles a Substack newsletter launched in late January 2025.'
Extremists Links: Neo-Nazis Monetizing Instagram and Substack
Neo-Nazis are 'activity flourishing on Instagram,' and neo-Nazi fight clubs have 'been sharing articles a Substack newsletter launched in late January 2025.'
www.radicalreports.org
February 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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NEW: We caught another government spyware vendor, which made fake Android apps masquerading as WhatsApp and cellphone providers' apps.

The spyware, called Spyrtacus, was made by SIO, which sells to Italian government and says that it partners with "Police and Intelligence Agencies."
Exclusive: Spyware maker caught distributing malicious Android apps for years
Italian company SIO, which sells to government customers, is behind an Android spyware campaign called Spyrtacus that spoofed popular apps like WhatsApp, per security researchers.
techcrunch.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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NEW — Morgan Elise Johnson, co-founder and publisher of The TRiiBE, will be honored next month by the Chicago Defender during Women’s History Month 🥳

thetriibe.com/2025/02/trii...
TRiiBE publisher named among Chicago Defender’s Women of Excellence • The TRiiBE
Morgan Elise Johnson is one of 50 Black women who will be inducted into the 2025 Chicago Defender's Women of Excellence class during Women's History Month.
thetriibe.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”
Incredible updates from Hulu
February 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Morning hacker peeps! By me @forbes.com: This Safer Internet Day, would you let AI change your passwords for you? Google wants a word...

#infosec

www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...
Google’s Shock New Chrome Password Update—What You Need To Do
Would you want AI to change your password automatically? Google has some good or bad news for you if you are a Chrome user.
www.forbes.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Any candidate talking about "healing the divide" or "bringing people together" from this point forward needs to get laughed out of the room. Let's win the war first and we'll sort that shit out later.
If we DO have a 2028 election, the qualifying question for the primaries must be "How will you destroy the fascist movement for generations"
February 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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End-to-end encryption by default means “if you show up with a warrant or a subpoena (to Signal), they have almost nothing about you that they can hand over,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @cnn.com.
How to keep your private conversations private | CNN Business
As we all live more of our lives online, it’s important to understand who might have access to our conversations and internet searches – and to understand how to maintain privacy in an increasingly co...
www.cnn.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM