#Ring cancels its partnership with #Flock Safety after #surveillance backlash
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#GoldmanSachs top lawyer resigns over Epstein ties

Kathy Ruemmler, Goldman's general counsel and former #Obama White House counsel, is stepping down June 30 after DOJ files exposed her extensive, long-term communications with Jeffrey Epstein — post-conviction.

#Epstein files showed 100+ emails and 50+ meetings between 2014-2019.

"The media attention on me, relating to my prior work as a defense attorney, was becoming a distraction," she told FT.

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Yeah, so pretty much that whole Windows 11 Notepad RCE thing was ridiculously stupid. Like, it was so dumb it kind of hurts.

Windows 11 Notepad, with the fancy Copilot AI slop, now possesses the ability to handle mark up, or markdown, ... It's mark something, the stuff used in ReadMes. Whatever.

Anyway, a security researcher realized that if you used markup in Notepad and instead of a hyperlink to a website with https:// you put file:// (the protocol on Windows for files, like in file explorer), it will arbitrarily execute it. It won't prompt you.

Furthermore, he realized you could specify a remote host to execute it from using a different Microsoft specific protocol used for app installation. In other words, if you user clicked the hyperlink in Notepad it would download and run a program from any website ... without alerting the user.

Normally, any sort of hyperlink that leads to a different domain, or tries to execute a file, is supposed to prompt you with an alert message, ... or something. However, Microsoft software engineers seemingly forgot to implement this notification Window.

With this attack vector which has been present for AT LEAST 9 months, a malicious actor could send a .txt file and if the user clicked the link inside the .txt file it would automatically execute and run anything specified in the hyperlink.

Even more silly, forensically under the hood, the logs on Windows, or to an anti malware service, it would look like Notepad was downloading something and then running a program. This is a very unique scenario which (to the best of my knowledge) no security product has encountered before. This could hypothetically result in files being downloaded and executed and being completely ignored by anti malware services because Notepad is a known and trusted program. Why would an anti malware service question Notepad?

Basically, the point I'm trying to get to here is that I don't understand why Microsoft has introduced so many new features into Notepad. With new features means a new attack landscape (more stuff to abuse).

Whatever man

"The Master Plan Is Finally Being Exposed" | Whitney Webb

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Credit to corbettreport for their great interview with #WhitneyWebb.

Jeffrey #Epstein was not merely a disgraced financier undone by sex crimes between 2000 and 2006. He operated at the intersection of intelligence, finance, real estate, and elite philanthropy—an ecosystem that long predates his arrest and, arguably, survives him. To focus exclusively on the criminal exploitation exposed in court is to ignore the broader architecture of power in which he functioned. Pull on the Epstein thread, and what begins to unravel is not just personal depravity, but a network linking distressed real estate, political influence, technology capital, and opaque financial vehicles that shaped the modern era.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Epstein was frequently described not as a billionaire or global financier, but as a property developer. His proximity to figures like #LeslieWexner and future president Donald #Trump placed him squarely inside Manhattan’s high-stakes real estate world—a sector notorious for serving as both investment vehicle and financial laundromat. Social overlaps reportedly extended to investors such as Tom Barrack, whose distressed asset strategies paralleled the era’s speculative excess. Real estate, after all, is uniquely suited for opaque capital flows. If Epstein’s fortune remains mysterious, property markets may hold part of the answer.

But the story does not end in New York. The #Maxwell dynasty—anchored by the late media baron Robert Maxwell—bridges Epstein’s world of sex trafficking with technology, espionage, and political philanthropy. After Robert Maxwell’s 1991 death under murky circumstances, his daughters, including #GhislaineMaxwell, maintained ties across finance and emerging tech. Through ventures like early search engine projects and later telecom investments, members of the Maxwell network intersected with #Microsoft leadership during the formative years of Silicon Valley’s consolidation. Figures such as Bill Gates and Paul Allen appear in overlapping timelines that challenge the conventional narrative that these relationships began only in the 2010s.

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"For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning former BBC journalist Chris Moore has been working on the story since it first emerged in 1980, and has uncovered a horrific catalogue of failed opportunities to put an end to the sadistic activities of the men who were running the home, in particular those of prominent Orangeman and MI5 source William McGrath.

What has emerged over the course of Moore’s investigation, in which he has gained exclusive access to witnesses, secret documents and whistleblowers within the British intelligence services, is that not only were the boys in Kincora systematically sexually abused, but that some were forced into a countrywide paedophile ring, whose members included Lord Louis Mountbatten. Moore also exposes MI5’s attempts to cover up what actually happened and that the organisation knew as early as the 1970s that the boys in Kincora were being abused.

Kincora is a shocking exposé of how the British state failed to protect some of its most vulnerable members"


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We speak to veteran journalist Chris Moore about the establishment cover up of child abuse in Northern Ireland

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#Kincora

Max Blumenthal: 'The Venezuelan government has been kidnapped and is doing everything at the point of a gun. Trump is imposing a Gaza-style siege on Cuba.

What we're witnessing is a mafia in action.'