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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 3h

My latest @forbes.com daily cover profiles startup Leo Cancer Care, which is transforming cancer radiation treatment with a simple idea: having patients sit up instead of lying down. Now hospitals are buying dozens of its chairs.

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How A High-Tech Chair Could Revolutionize Cancer Radiation Therapy

Startup Leo Cancer Care is transforming proton radiation treatment with a simple idea: having patients sit up instead of lying down. Now hospitals that include Stanford and McLaren are lining up to bu...

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 21h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 6h

I'm very here for this.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 23h

NEW: Abu Dhabi’s MGX is suddenly everywhere in Trump’s Washington—

📱 TikTok’s possible new US ownership

💰 A $2B Binance deal using Trump’s stablecoin

💻 A 51% stake in Intel’s Altera unit—and US taxpayers own 9.9% of Intel

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What Is MGX? Abu Dhabi Fund Linked To TikTok And Trump’s USD1 Crypto

Founded in 2024, the Abu Dhabi investment vehicle has quickly become a major force in Trump administration deals, from the reported TikTok restructuring to a controversial $2 billion investment in Bin...

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 1d

You could say the devices really sucked.

I'm here all week.

Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 1d

🚨NEW🚨 A couple made millions from an anti-choking device that sucked objects out of throats, claiming it was FDA-approved.

Turns out the FDA had told them to stop selling it.

While a bunch of similar devices were on Amazon up until this week when I flagged them.

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Amazon Sellers Made Millions From Banned Anti-Choking Tech, FDA Says

Amazon has now removed the Dechoker and rival unapproved suction devices marketed at parents to save children from choking.

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 1d

🚨NEW🚨 A couple made millions from an anti-choking device that sucked objects out of throats, claiming it was FDA-approved.

Turns out the FDA had told them to stop selling it.

While a bunch of similar devices were on Amazon up until this week when I flagged them.

www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Amazon Sellers Made Millions From Banned Anti-Choking Tech, FDA Says

Amazon has now removed the Dechoker and rival unapproved suction devices marketed at parents to save children from choking.

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 1d

The US seized today $15b from a mega cyber scam operator: www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...

Elliptic says it tracked these funds to the the hack of Chinese mining pool LuBian in December 2020: www.elliptic.co/blog/15-bill...

Things... are getting weird

Chairman of Prince Group Indicted for Operating Cambodian Forced-Labor Scam Compounds Engaged in Cryptocurrency Fraud Schemes

25-cr-312_indictment.pdf BROOKLYN, NY - An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Chen Zhi, also known as “Vincent,” the founder and chairman of Prince Holding Group (Prin...

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 2d

🚨NEW🚨 Feds have been raiding the data of 3D printed gun communities on Facebook and Discord, which have tens of thousands of members.

A "slippery slope," says one privacy activist.

'3D2A' leaders say neither social media nor the government can "stop the signal."

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Inside Facebook And Discord’s 3D Printed Ghost Gun Groups

The world’s biggest social media sites are home to thousands of 2nd Amendment devotees who believe anyone should be able to use a 3D printer to build their own gun. Meta, Discord and the DOJ are tryin...

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 8d

New in The Wiretap newsletter:

Turns out this Oracle 0day is really very bad...

Also, Amazon appears to be a big fan of AI surveillance again.

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FBI Is Warning Companies To Patch Their Oracle Databases Immediately

Oracle zero-day vulnerabilities are being targeted by at least one major cybercrime group and the FBI says it's looking bad.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 9d

New from 404 Media: police used a nationwide network of Flock cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an abortion, said it was for her 'safety'. But new docs show they considered charging her with a crime as part of a 'death investigation' into the fetus
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Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 9d

Also the search was two weeks after she'd gone missing.

The claim they were suddenly concerned about her safety is a stretch.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 9d

New from 404 Media: police used a nationwide network of Flock cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an abortion, said it was for her 'safety'. But new docs show they considered charging her with a crime as part of a 'death investigation' into the fetus
www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 13d

This may come as a surprise to some people, but reality exists and if you just put your screens away you might find it.

NPR @npr.org · 13d

With the launch of Sora 2, OpenAI has opened a new chapter in addictive, and some worry dangerous, AI video content.

Kiss reality goodbye: AI-generated social media has arrived

With the launch of Sora 2, OpenAI has opened a new chapter in addictive, and some worry dangerous, AI video content.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 13d

Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE official sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal (Ashley Oliver/Fox Business)

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 14d

New: Abu Dhabi fund MGX told me it picked USD1—a Trump family–linked stablecoin from World Liberty Financial—to put $2B into Binance, citing its “compliance history.”

USD1 had just launched.

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MGX Says $2 Billion Binance Investment Used USD1 Because Of ‘Compliance History’—But The Trump-Linked Stablecoin Was Brand New

The Abu Dhabi fund told Forbes that Binance requested settling with a cryptocurrency and used a stablecoin for stability, ultimately selecting USD1, in part, because it was backed by U.S. government a...

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Forbes @forbes.com · 13d

Already understaffed and now further diminished, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is scrambling to investigate a spate of cyber attacks. The lapse of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act has made it even harder.

Government Shutdown Leaves US Cyber Defenses Weaker, Insiders Say

Already understaffed and now further diminished, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is scrambling to investigate a spate of cyber attacks. The lapse of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act has made it even harder.

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 13d

NEW - CISA insiders tell me about "chaos" in the agency since the shutdown began, exacerbated by major leadership departures and the expiration of the Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act.

“It's just a matter of time before something major happens,” says one.

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Government Shutdown Leaves US Cyber Defenses Weaker, Insiders Say

Already understaffed and now further diminished, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is scrambling to investigate a spate of cyber attacks. The lapse of the Cybersecurity Information ...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14d

Red Hat is investigating a breach impacting as many as 28,000 customers. We got some files related to it, shows impacted customers might include the Navy and Congress. Also Federal Aviation Administration, Bank of America, AT&T.

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Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress

A hacking group called the Crimson Collective says it pulled data from private GitHub repositories connected to Red Hat's consulting business. Red Hat has confirmed it is investigating the compromise.

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 14d

ICYMI from yesterday. Amazon's previously unknown work boosting AI surveillance for cops (and schools).

Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 15d

🚨NEW🚨 Amazon has been developing drone surveillance tech for American cops, from gun detection to repurposing Twitch's streaming code.

It's also pushing all manner of surveillance tools, including Flock car tracking and AI that constantly monitors all prison calls.

www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI Surveillance

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 14d

Sloppy scary shit enabled by Amazon:

Al software that can help write police reports from startups Abel Police and Mark43;
Various technologies from Veritone, a $444 million market cap business that makes AI that can identify and track individuals in surveillance footage or video posted to social media;
Leo Technologies' Verus product, which constantly monitors and transcribes prison inmate calls in "near-real time" for Al-powered analysis.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14d

“At conferences and parties with local and federal law enforcement, it’s [Amazon] been promoting its own products and an expanding array of partner surveillance tools that run on its vast cloud infrastructure…”

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI Surveillance

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI

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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 14d

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 15d

🚨NEW🚨 Amazon has been developing drone surveillance tech for American cops, from gun detection to repurposing Twitch's streaming code.

It's also pushing all manner of surveillance tools, including Flock car tracking and AI that constantly monitors all prison calls.

www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI Surveillance

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI

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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 14d

Sad news today. Honored to have met her a week ago at #ForbesSustainabilitySummit:

“We are the most intellectual species to walk the planet, but we’re not intelligent. If you’re intelligent you don’t destroy your only home.” youtu.be/RCbcF-ePDzA?...

Dr. Jane Goodall's Urgent Call To Action: 'We've Been Stealing Our Children's Future'

YouTube video by Forbes

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 15d

This was all found in hundreds of emails obtained via public records requests for comms between various police departments and Amazon's law enforcement and school safety lead, an ex-cop himself.

Yes, Amazon has also been pushing AI surveillance at schools.

Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 15d

🚨NEW🚨 Amazon has been developing drone surveillance tech for American cops, from gun detection to repurposing Twitch's streaming code.

It's also pushing all manner of surveillance tools, including Flock car tracking and AI that constantly monitors all prison calls.

www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI Surveillance

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI

www.forbes.com

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 15d

🚨NEW🚨 Amazon has been developing drone surveillance tech for American cops, from gun detection to repurposing Twitch's streaming code.

It's also pushing all manner of surveillance tools, including Flock car tracking and AI that constantly monitors all prison calls.

www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI Surveillance

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI

www.forbes.com

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 15d

The wheels of justice now turning even slower thanks to the gov shutdown...

Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 15d

Stay requests coming in waves now.
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