Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email—but Not the FBI’s
Handala’s second claim, however—that it hacked the FBI—seems, for now, to be fiction. All evidence points to Handala having breached Patel’s older, personal Gmail account.…
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Anduril Wants to Own the Future of War Tech. Mishaps, Delays, and Challenges Abound
One lesson on wrangling equipment arrived within months. A recently hired maintenance technician trying to clean out a fairly new machine disconnected a part before…
How Trump’s Plot to Grab Iran’s Nuclear Fuel Would Actually Work
President Donald Trump and top defense officials are reportedly weighing whether to send ground troops to Iran in order to retrieve the country’s highly enriched…
A $20 Billion Crypto Scam Market Faces a New Government Crackdown
Chinese-language online black markets have become one of the biggest drivers of cybercrime in history, processing tens of billions of dollars of illicit finance every…
Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying
Six Democratic lawmakers are pressing the nation’s top intelligence official to publicly disclose whether Americans who use commercial VPN services risk being treated as foreigners…
When Satellite Data Becomes a Weapon
Last month, Iran’s Tehran Times posted what appeared to be damning satellite proof: a before-and-after image of “American radar,” supposedly “completely destroyed.” It wasn’t. The…
Iranians Don’t Have a Missile Alert System, So Volunteers Built Their Own Warning Map
Since Donald Trump’s war on Iran started more than three weeks ago, United States military forces have allegedly attacked more than 9,000 sites, creating a…
Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy
Know thyself. It’s an old adage that has new resonance in the digital age. Today, you can buy smart devices that monitor your heartbeat, blood…
‘Get Down! Get Down! They’re Gonna See Us!’: Six Months of Hiding From ICE
The ICE raids in Chicago that have terrorized immigrant neighborhoods like Ava and Sam’s have been both highly performative and extremely random. Six weeks earlier,…
ICE Is Paying the Salaries of This Town’s Entire Police Force
On March 2, the town of Carroll, New Hampshire, population 820, received a $122,515 wire transfer from the Department of Homeland Security, making it among…
Hassan Took a Bike Ride. Now He’s One of the Thousands Missing in Gaza
In the early morning dark, Abeer Skaik turned to her husband, Ali Al-Qatta, and said that today would be the day they would find their…
A Mysterious Numbers Station Is Broadcasting Through the Iran War
“Tavajoh! Tavajoh! Tavajoh!” a man’s voice announces, before going on to narrate a string of numbers in no apparent order, slowly and rhythmically. After nearly…