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Obama's White House smeared U Colorado prof @RogerPielkeJr after he questioned the climate apocalypse. His speeches were canceled. Colorado closed his research center & put his office in a closet. But he didn’t give up. How activists tried and FAILED to cancel a good scientist:

❗️🚨 An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping. Your TV is relaying strangers' web traffic from your home IP, your bandwidth, your address attached to whatever those scraping jobs touch. Roku, Fire TV and Google TV banned the practice. Samsung and LG didn't. The culprit is Bright Data's proxy SDK, which rides inside Tizen and webOS apps, 200 on webOS alone. Datacenter IPs get blocked, home IPs don't. Include Security reverse-engineered the SDK and found its relay protocol has no message signing, authentication, or device attestation. Their words: less secure than typical malware command-and-control. To make things worse, they found that in iOS the relay tunnel binds straight to the physical network interface, so it routes around any VPN the user is running. Bright Data's config also ships per-country tiers. Devices in Uzbekistan and Oman are cleared to relay down to 1% battery, with data caps up to 60x the worldwide default. Before the BaCkDoOrEd replies land: technically you agreed. In practice you were enrolled into a global proxy network you were never given the information to refuse. And these exit nodes drag down your IP's reputation, potentially leaving you with blocks from providers.

Amazon cancelled the new Stargate show. The rumor is that the show writer, Martin Gero, would not budge on compromising lore or elements within the show for a "wider modern audience" as they did with Rings of Power for LoTR lore. Martin Gero wanted to create a show that maintained continuity in the story and lore of the old shows, including the mythology and tech, while respecting the 17 seasons of history. Amazon instead wanted something new for the "modern audience" that's more accessible, reimagined, with more modern casual sensibilities. Because the showrunners wanted to maintain integrity rather than turn Stargate into another "modern audience slop" like Rings of Power, Amazon leadership canceled it. The franchise heavyweight, like Joseph Mallozzi, was very excited for the fresh stories Gero worked on. Amazon says they are still open to Stargate, just not "this" version... yes they wanted to Rings of Powerify Stargate. We really can't hate these people enough.

Your government can't see what you're doing online. obfs4 bridges ProxyChains = encrypted noise. No signatures. No flags. No trace. New identity every 30 seconds. This is why they want to ban encryption. 🧅 #Tor #ProxyChains #OPSEC #Cybersecurity #InfoSec

Most people think HIPAA protects their medical privacy. It doesn't. It governs how your health data gets shared, not whether it does. Once collected, your information moves through systems you'll never see, for purposes you never approved.

Does Encrypted DNS Keep Your Traffic Private? youtube.com/shorts/O94SYr4vL… via @YouTube

Do not install VLC. Once you install it, you can never go back. You will never pay 99 cents for a codec again. You will never buy QuickTime Pro again. You will never renew RealPlayer Plus again. You will never pay for Blu-ray decoder software again. You will never see the words "this file format is not supported" again. You will become the family tech support person. Forever. Your dad will call you at 11 PM because he downloaded a .mkv from somewhere and Windows refuses to open it. Your answer will always be the same. "Install VLC." And then the orange traffic cone will eat his problem in 4 seconds and he will call you a genius. You did not do that. A French student named Jean-Baptiste Kempf did, in 1996, as a school project at École Centrale Paris. His roommate brought a traffic cone home from the street that year. They made it the logo. 6 billion downloads later, the cone is still undefeated. Repo: github.com/videolan/vlc. 18,463 stars. GPL-2.0. Pushed today. Here is the wildest part: The warning is real. Just not for you. Apple sold QuickTime Pro for $29.99. VLC killed it. Apple shut it down in 2016. Microsoft sold Windows Media Center for $9.99. VLC killed it. Microsoft shut it down with Windows 10. RealNetworks charged $39.99 a year for RealPlayer Plus. VLC killed it. Sony built Blu-ray to need a $79.99 licensed decoder. VLC ships with libdvdcss and a French court ruling that protects it. The codec mafia spent 30 years building a tollbooth on every video file on Earth. A guy whose GitHub location is literally "Coneland" walked through every tollbooth with a cone on his head and never paid a cent. He was offered millions of dollars to sell it. He said no. So yes. Do not install VLC. The codec industry has not recovered from the last 6 billion people who did. 100% Opensource. 100% Free. 100% Yours. The biggest media companies on Earth spent three decades trying to charge you to play your own files. One French student and a cone he found on the street made all of it pointless.

A small handful of senators get briefed on classified surveillance programs the rest of us never hear about. One of them is quietly sounding the alarm about VPNs. Is the US government running a dragnet on VPN users?

Researchers have shown that ordinary Wi-Fi can identify people with extremely high accuracy by analyzing how wireless signals bounce off the human body. Using AI, the system learns unique patterns from a person’s movement, posture, and body shape, almost like a biometric fingerprint. Recent tests using standard Wi-Fi hardware reportedly achieved near-perfect accuracy in controlled environments. The most surprising part is that people do not need to carry a phone or wearable device to be detected. Wi-Fi signals already present in a room can be enough.

There’s no such thing as a “$0 tax.” As the Supreme Court just reminded the Trump Admin: “rais[ing] revenue [is] the defining feature of a tax.” 

The NFA tax is repealed, so suppressors & short-barrels should no longer be registered. This rule fails to recognize that reality.

Google is making big changes to its search engine. Instead of mostly showing links to websites, it’s now going to put AI-generated answers and interactive features front and center. Starting next Tuesday, search results will include bigger conversation-style boxes, AI information assistants, and personalized mini-apps powered by Gemini. The old “ten blue links” era is basically over. This shift will send even less traffic to independent websites and news publishers on top of the drops many have already seen from Google’s AI overviews. Publishers who rely on Google to get readers will need to adapt fast, because fewer people will click through to the original content.

🚨 States Now BLOCKING Flock FOIA Requests Open‑records laws expose ALPR surveillance. Now lawmakers across the country want to shut the records down, with pending bills already in AZ and CT. 'Public safety’ turns into ‘public secrecy’ real quick once the public starts asking questions.

Monroe County Michigan voted to allow local police to use Flock DFR drones on April 14th as shown in the video here. Well, once the people in the county learned what their "leadership" voted for they held another meeting on April 30th (not in this video but it's online also) so the "leaders" could explain why they voted to use forcibly stolen taxpayer dollars to violate the residents basic civil rights. Did county "leadership" provide a good reason why they voted to devolve further into an Orwellian police state? No. Instead they stated they had new terms with Flock and now the Flock DFR drones would now be given to them free by Flock for the first year of use 🤡 That's actually worse. Flock wouldn't agree to that unless they were monetizing (selling) all the personal information they will be unlawfully collecting on the residents of the county. Flock has contracts to sell all of their data to every federal alphabet agency, credit card companies, Walmart, Lowes, thousands of home owners associations, cell phone companies, car insurance companies, Home Depot, etc... Plan accordingly... #4thAmendment #flock #LPR #police #dystopia #USSR #GulagArchipelago #cops #walmart #citibank #ATT #verizon #CivilRights #toledo #detroit #michigan #AI #FlockOne #NOVA #ICE

Google Chrome is quietly downloading a roughly 4 GB AI model to many users’ computers without clear upfront consent. The file, called weights.bin, is part of Google’s Gemini Nano on-device language model and lands in the browser’s user data folder under OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It powers built-in AI tools such as “Help me write,” smarter tab suggestions, on-device scam detection, and page summarization. The download triggers automatically for devices meeting minimum hardware requirements, and Chrome often replaces the files if deleted. While the model processes data locally, installation happens in the background with minimal notification. The scale is noteworthy. Hundreds of millions or billions of installations add up to thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions globally from data transfer, even though each is a one-time event. To prevent or remove it, go to chrome://flags, disable the entries for the optimization guide on-device model and Prompt API, restart the browser, and manually delete the folder.

Though online storage like Google Drive or OneDrive makes things convenient, they come with trade-offs and fewer features. 💾  Watch me build my own cloud storage using an old laptop and a disk, providing way more features and complete ownership of my data. youtube.com/watch?v=xBIowQ0W…

Windows 11 has been secretly sending 15% of your network packets as background connectivity checks this whole time and adding micro lag spikes in Valorant, Fortnite, and CSGO2. Here's the fix they don't want you to know about Win R → gpedit.msc → Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → Network → Network Connectivity Status Indicator → Specify global DNS → Disabled → Apply → OK → Restart PC 15% less background network noise. Lower ping. Every single game.

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in cPanel and WHM known as CVE-2026-41940. This authentication bypass allows attackers to gain full admin access to web servers without needing any login information, the issue affects all currently supported versions of cPanel and WHM. The flaw has been under active attack since February 2026 and presents a major threat to shared hosting providers and the millions of websites they host. Attackers could steal data, install malware, or take over entire servers. cPanel released security patches on April 28 and recommends updating immediately. Many large hosting companies such as HostGator and Namecheap have already deployed the fix. If your server runs cPanel, apply the update now or contact your host to make sure you are protected.

“I have nothing to hide.” A ridiculous naive statement. Here are 10 powerful responses to obliterate this tired excuse and show why privacy matters.