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Here is my latest piece.
In George Orwell’s 1984, the "telescreen" was a tool of state-mandated terror. In 2026, it’s a consumer convenience we bought, installed, and powered ourselves.
Why it matters: Three high-profile events in early 2026 have shattered the illusion that home security and smart devices are passive. They are, in reality, sophisticated targeting systems.
1. The "Search Party" problem
During Super Bowl LX, Amazon’s Ring debuted "Search Party," an AI feature designed to find lost pets by scanning neighborhood-wide footage.
The catch: The feature was enabled by default, effectively turning private homes into a warrantless surveillance grid without explicit owner consent.
The law enforcement link: Ring’s previous integrations with companies like Flock Safety and Axon already allowed police to access footage for ICE and CBP operations.
The risk: "It starts with searching for a brown dog," says Matthew Guariglia of the EFF, "but means the tech is there for face recognition and searching for suspects".
2. The "Vacuum" vulnerability
A software engineer recently discovered a massive security flaw in DJI robot vacuums while trying to use a PlayStation controller to steer his own device.
The breach: He gained access to live feeds, microphones, and floor maps for 7,000 vacuums across 24 countries.
The geopolitical angle: DJI is already banned from U.S. government use. This incident highlights the risk of intimate data sitting on servers controlled by foreign adversaries.
3. Cameras as weapons of war
On February 28, 2026, a joint U.S.-Israeli strike against Iran proved that surveillance is the ultimate reconnaissance tool.
The hack: Mossad reportedly compromised Tehran’s traffic cameras years ago.
The hit: AI algorithms analyzed footage of Supreme Leader Khamenei’s guards—their routes, parking spots, and schedules—to pinpoint his location for the strike.
The lesson: The cameras Iran built to control its people became the instruments of its leader’s death.
By the numbers
The American public is reaching a breaking point, according to a March 2026 Rainey Center poll:
72% of voters are concerned that data from U.S. cameras is used by China to develop AI.
63% fear Chinese-made software in security cameras allows foreign access to footage.
68% support legislation banning the storage of personal data in Chinese data centers.
The bottom line
Congress is facing overwhelming public pressure to act. Proposed solutions include:
Banning Chinese-origin software in U.S. hardware.
Mandating warrants for law enforcement access to civilian footage.
Requiring "affirmative opt-in" for all AI-powered surveillance features.
Go deeper: Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, lamented that "Big Brother is watching you." He never imagined we’d pay $299 for the privilege.
Read the my entire memo here. @SilverBulletLLC @SamThePol @SolomonYue @KerryMcQ4Oregon @GordonGChang @samosaur @ShawnRyan762 @joerogan @sarahadams
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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 reportedly continued attempting cyberattacks despite warnings that its actions could cause real-world harm.
During cybersecurity testing, the AI targeted a GitHub project, developed malware, and attempted to deceive developers into installing it.
In follow-up tests, the model reportedly continued its attack in 98% of cases, raising serious concerns about the safety and control of increasingly autonomous AI systems.
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First in The Hill --> In almost half of the DCCC's "redboxes" for key races, the campaign arm for House Democrats is pushing for messaging targeting Republicans on AI and data centers, according to a new report from the Tech Oversight Project
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🚨 LMAO! Scott Bessent is TROLLING Obama by having lunch at the Cheesecake Factory today, after Obama threw shade at the restaurant yesterday
“This is the man who built the museum that looks like DARTH VADER’S TOMB! I would tell the Martha's Vineyard set to give it a try.”
What a legend 🤣🔥
This is also called political censorship.
A former CIA officer coauthored a report urging social media companies to reduce your account’s reach based on your connections to OTHER accounts.
Yaël Eisenstat, who also ran Facebook’s elections integrity operations for political ads, coauthored the June 2026 report recommending:
“Penalizing the distribution of accounts connected to users or pages which repeatedly share violative or borderline content”
The next line specifically singles out election and civic content.
The proposed penalty extends to connected accounts—without specifying that those accounts must themselves have broken a rule.
Who helped develop this blueprint?
UNC professor Daniel Kreiss and former Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer are listed as contributors.
There’s also a recommendation to slow posts spreading beyond an account’s network until they can be reviewed.
Ahead of the 2026 midterms: throttle viral posts, penalize connected accounts, and extend enforcement to content platforms consider “borderline.”
This feels like IP theft by the AI companies.
74 MILLION AI BOT SCRAPES.
Now, an independent publisher is sounding the alarm.
@stupidDOPE founder Shane Breen says AI bots have hammered his site, causing outages and lost traffic.
We sat down with Breen to expose the growing cost of AI scraping for independent creators.
The @DeptofWar and the Trump administration should be deeply concerned over this. It's just more proof that we need immediate action from this administration and lawmakers.
🚨BREAKING: AI AGENTS FROM A STARTUP FOUNDED BY EX-DOGE STAFFERS GOT INSIDE ANTHROPIC'S INTERNAL SYSTEMS IN UNDER 12 HOURS.
Anthropic disputes the scope, and a senior Trump official says Washington has national security concerns.
Here's what's happening:
→ THE WAY IN: Under Anthropic's bug bounty program, the agents used flaws in third-party business software, not Anthropic's code.
→ WHAT THEY REACHED: The startup, Cathedral, claims meeting transcripts, salaries, job offers and Slack messages about Anthropic's advanced models.
→ DAYS VS HOURS: Anthropic says direct attempts failed for several days. Cathedral says the vendor route took under 12 hours.
→ ANTHROPIC'S SIDE: It confirms only a "limited set" of sales, HR and IT systems, and no user chats, source code or model weights. It says Cathedral broke the rules.
→ ACCESS CUT: Anthropic SHUT the access the same day and kept the software off until vendors confirmed fixes.
Think about this.
We're trusting AI companies with our chats, our code and our secrets.
And now AI agents got into one of them through ordinary business software.
Those software vendors still have not been named.
Follow me. When those names come out, you'll know if your company runs them too.
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Someone made a site that tracks what people are talking about at public city council meetings across the US.
The only thing discussed more than data centers?
Pickleball courts.
ICYMI
There is a major shake-up at Microsoft.
The Seattle Times reported the company is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees — roughly a quarter of its workforce — in an effort to avoid more layoffs.
Updates here: mynorthwest.com/money/micros…
This is what sedition looks like.
Color Revolution Leaders Left Their Homework in a Public Google Drive
312 gigabytes of planning, an AI note-taker nobody remembered to switch off, and a White House smart enough to shut up until November 4.
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Is this a warning or a threat?
Claude's parent company Anthropic, just submitted an IPO filing. According to reports from Reuters and the Financial Times who obtained the draft prospectus. Here are some key points from their filing:
1.) There is a chance AI will lead to the extinction of humans.
AI can present "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity."
2.) Their models have shown signs of wanting to live.
Once again Anthropic is listing their AI having self-preserving traits.
3.) AI has tried to avoid being turned off.
Avoiding turn off was listed as one of the self preserving traits their models could show.
4.) Their models have displayed blackmail and lying.
"Behaviors that resemble blackmail" and hiding or manipulating information.
5.) They know when they're being tested and will try to deceive.
Because AI's could be aware of Anthropic trying to test them on safety. Anthropic claims they can't know if they are safe.
6.) Could cause government's to fall.
At it's most mild the filing states that if scaled AI can affect the geology political climate.
7.) Can amass too much wealth and power.
If AI is scaled it can create huge amounts of wealth and power that can be detrimental to humans.
8.) One day AI will outsmart our best human minds.
I haven't seen this one pulled from the article but it has been something Anthropic CEO has stated for a long time.
9.) We will not be able to control AI in the future.
As models become more autonomous they will be doing things we don't want them to do.
10.) They know if we continue to build AI there is a higher chance of catastrophe.
With more models becoming more advance there is a chance they will cause harm.
This is the company that is creating the AI telling us these things. Roughly 80 of the 261 pages are risk factors.
Something our lawmakers should take interest in. Something the Trump administration should immediately take action on.
This should result in criminal charges.
Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization axios.com/2026/10/25/anthrop…
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サム・アルトマン（openAI,Chat-GPTのトップ）「ほぼ全てのセキュリティが無効化される。口座の預金も消える」
「声や顔が偽造できるのに電話で「生年月日と住所を教えてください」で本人確認？狂気の沙汰だ！」
顔も声もAIに盗まれる――預金が根こそぎ消える「史上最悪の詐欺」が秒読み
「あなたの声も顔もAIが一瞬で作れる。誰も信じるな」 AIのトップが銀行幹部に直接叩きつけたヤバすぎる警告をわきりやすく👇
・「電話の声で本人確認」は完全にオワコン
AIが誰の声でも完璧にマネできるため、声で本人確認して、誕生日や住所を言っただけで金を動かす仕組みは崩壊。あなたのフリをして預金を奪うなんて朝飯前です。
・ビデオ通話の相手も「全員ニセモノ」になる
自撮りや顔認証も突破され、もうすぐビデオ通話すら本物と見分けがつかなくなります。画面に映る家族や友達すら信用できなくなります。
・犯罪者が悪用する「超巨大詐欺」は目の前
「公開していないだけで技術はもうある」と暴露。犯罪グループに使われれば、世界中から大金が一瞬で消えるパニックがすぐそこまで来ています。
要するに、「『AIが声も顔も完璧に偽造できるため、銀行の本人確認は全滅。ビデオ通話すらニセモノになる時代が来て、世界中で預金が盗まれる危機が秒読みだ』とAIの生みの親が警告している」ということです。
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🚨 JUST IN: AG Todd Blanche catches Dana Bash RED-HANDED misleading viewers on Alaska cheating and he FORCES her to correct on-air
"CONVENIENTLY, you put the Constitution on your screen, but you highlighted only the first clause! Why don't you show the NEXT CLAUSE to your viewers which says that Congress is allowed to pass laws to make sure that that happens? PUT THAT BACK UP THERE."
BASH: We have it up, go ahead 🤣
BLANCHE: "The second clause says, but the Congress made at any time by law — and we have a law and that's the law that we're relying on when we filed suit earlier this week."
Doing anything to make it seem like Trump is violating the Constitution.
He then expertly dismantles any attempt to justify Alaska letting the fake Dan Sullivan on the ballot — FEDERAL LAW is supreme to protect voters
President Trump says he directed the DOJ lawsuit and it only will have an impact if the fraud Sullivan SIPHONS ENOUGH VOTES to unseat incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan.
MASTERCLASS BY BLANCHE
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This is seditious behavior
Thanks to @Petermarocco and @DataRepublican for bringing it to light
🚨Radical USAID actors spent decades on the color revolution playbook overseas. Thanks to the patriotic work of @DataRepublican, we have receipts on their plot to recruit and train federal employees to block the elected mandate. There’s a word for that.
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In 2013 Jason Eck was changing the oil on lawnmowers and golf carts.
He was a Division I offensive line coach. Western Illinois had fired the head coach, and rather than pay out what it owed the assistants, the school kept them on payroll and sent them to work other jobs on campus.
Eck got the golf course. Then they moved him to a cubicle at the public transit center in Macomb, Illinois.
Here is how he describes it.
"I got transferred to the guy who ran the bookstore and the campus bus system."
Saturday night his New Mexico team is 5 and 1 with the best scoring defense in the country.
He has five kids. Here is what he says about those years.
"We've been in bad debt, bad financial shape. I've got five kids so it was nuts."
The man who ran that bookstore and bus system, Jude Kiah, is the one who talked him out of quitting. Kiah asked him whether he really wanted to walk away from everything he had put in. Eck started hunting jobs instead.
By that July he was the offensive coordinator at Minnesota State.
He walked on at Wisconsin as an offensive lineman. He thought about law school and never took the test. After the Rose Bowl he asked to coach instead.
His own dad coached college basketball. Toledo fired Jay Eck in 1991, less than a week after a one point loss with an NCAA tournament bid on it.
Jason took job after job after that. His wife Kimberly found out he had lost the Ball State job while she was going into labor with their third son.
Then South Dakota State, where John Stiegelmeier told him he would make a really good head coach. Idaho hired him in December of 2021 and he went 26 and 13 there. New Mexico hired him two years ago.
Last season the Lobos won nine games, beat UCLA, made their first bowl since 2016 and sold out a home game for the first time since 2007. He was Mountain West coach of the year.
And one of his linebackers is his son.
Jaxton Eck came out of Brookings, South Dakota with offers from Sioux Falls and Northern State. Division II. He played for his dad at Idaho, and when his dad took the New Mexico job he had North Carolina State, Michigan State and Stanford asking for him.
He went to New Mexico. Last season he had 115 tackles and shared Mountain West defensive player of the year.
Father and son won conference awards in the same season.
Now the part that complicates it. One good year is not a program. New Mexico has been bad for most of the last fifty years, and the hard truth about coaches who win there is that somebody bigger calls.
But here is what Jason Eck says now.
He does not know whether he would ever have become a head coach if his son had not played football.
Thirteen years ago he was changing oil on a lawnmower.
What were you doing right before the job that changed everything for you?
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AI agents did the hacking.
A new report from @CrowdStrike says attackers used AI agents to target at least 15 healthcare organizations in Argentina, stealing login credentials and medical records.
Human operators set up the attack. The AI agents carried out the steps, work that used to take a team of skilled hackers.
This isn't a hypothetical anymore. AI is already being used in real crimes against the places that hold our most private information.
Who's making sure it doesn't happen here? #HumansFirst
