Collaborate Disseminate
Election officials in Arizona and Minnesota are creating novel training exercises to combat AI-generated content this November.
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The governor just signed the most comprehensive right to repair bill in the country. Continue reading Minnesota Passes Right to Repair
To help people through these trying times, a Minnesota artist created a new version of the mysterious monolith. Continue reading A Caveman Encased in Ice Has Appeared In a Minneapolis Park
The office of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says the National Security Agency did not provide the state with signals intelligence as its law enforcement agencies responded to protests against the killing of George Floyd. For awhile this weekend, though, the governor stirred up some confusion about whether the intelligence agency could do so. “No NSA involvement,” a Walz spokesperson told CyberScoop. The Democratic governor was mistaken in suggesting Saturday during a press conference that the U.S. military had provided the state with signals intelligence collected by the NSA, the spokesperson said. CyberScoop could not independently verify the spokesman’s comment. The NSA deferred comment to the governor’s office. Generally speaking, the NSA, the Pentagon’s foreign signals intelligence agency, does not target U.S. citizens to collect electronic communications information. But there are specific times when it can. Walz’s comments — combined with speculation about how those legal circumstances might apply to the protests — were enough to fuel questions about the NSA’s involvement. Walz said Saturday that he had […]
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Anonymous, the once-formidable hacking collective, continued its transformation into a cohort of social media opportunists over the weekend by claiming to “leak” files and personal information that, in some cases, has been available for years. Anonymous said it retaliated against the Minneapolis police department for the May 25th killing of George Floyd by publishing email addresses and passwords apparently stolen from a police website. The information was previously taken in prior data breaches, then re-packaged to appear to be a new batch, according to Troy Hunt, owner of Have I Been Pwned, which tracks stolen credentials. Of the 798 email addresses included in the Anonymous database, 689 are unique, the rest being duplicates. Of that 689, 659 were already available in the Have I Been Pwned database, Hunt said in his analysis, and those email addresses were leaked an average of 5.5 times. Many seem to have originated in the […]
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Krekelberg alleged that 58 fellow officers broke a federal privacy law by searching for her driver’s license data without any reason. Continue reading Cop awarded $585K after colleagues snooped on her via license database
The new arrivals bring the total wolf population of Isle Royale National Park to eight. Continue reading Elite Canadian Wolves Airdropped Into Michigan to Kill Moose and Have Babies
If we do nothing to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the weather in New York City will feel like Alabama and Los Angeles will be as hot as the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Continue reading Here’s an Interactive Map That Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Your Town in 60 Years
The cryptic lives of gray wolves in Minnesota’s Voyageurs National Park are revealed through stunning GPS location maps. Continue reading Watch Wolves Claim Their Territories in GPS Map of Their Movements
Limited oversight, no competition, and state corruption aren’t a recipe for broadband success. Continue reading American Phone Companies Are Literally Letting Their Networks Fall Apart