I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time.
https://influence.citationneeded.news/
Here’s the full story behind the Tech Influence Watch launch, including what I found while building it and why it matters now: https://www.citationneeded.news/tech-influence-watch/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
> "For the 27 releases, we've started writing parts of the core operating system kernel in Swift."
Swift for the Kernel was an awesome project to work on this year! I'm very happy to have been able to make these first steps towards a truly memory-safe kernel possible :)
@flaki Back in My Day™, we used to call community datacenters a dorm.
Happy birthday to autodidact #mathematician Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940), shown here with diagrams of cross-sections of 4D polytopes from her publications.
Alicia came to math honestly. Her father Prof George Boole developed Boolean logic, but died when she was 4. Her mother Mary Everest Boole was an autodidact mathematician & innovative math educator, who taught kids math through manipulation of objects.
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Started to roll my eyes and say "Here, let me Google that for you" and then remembered that Googling it unlikely to yield a correct answer anymore.
NEW: WhatsApp said it caught and disrupted a new hacking campaign by NSO Group against its users.
The Meta-owned messaging giant said this phishing campaign violates a court decision that ordered NSO to stop targeting WhatsApp and its users. WhatsApp is seeking to hold NSO in contempt of court because of this violation.
Spy Tech: The GPS Numbers Station
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/08/spy-tech-the-gps-numbers-station/
Agents need better tools for reversing! I'm releasing declib (previously libbs), with a new CLI today that gives agents CLI access to 4 decompilers (IDA, Ghidra, Binja, angr), parity feature support to most MCP (12 features), and the ability to sync those changes across decs!
https://asciinema.org/a/J6jHm77G4a5L0TVZ
🚨 New advisory by @kruxinator & Christian Hager: Local privilege escalation in @genetec 's #RabbitMQ deployment (#CVE-2026-25112)
Writable dir + missing binary + SeImpersonatePrivilege = SYSTEM via Rotten Potato 🥔
Patch available. Apply now!
🔗 https://r.sec-consult.com/genetec
#privesc
Here's yet another reason to not give money to Proton:
Happy 31st Birthday to the #PHP programming language.
X.Org Security Advisory: June 2, 2026 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/02/1
8 issues in X server and Xwayland, all with ZDI-CAN identifiers, one also already has a CVE