Spyware once built for governments now rides ordinary ads and forgotten website code. If your iPhone is out of date, opening the wrong page is enough. This week, two security firms published joint research showing that criminal groups are delivering two of the most capable iPhone exploit kits ever found, Coruna and DarkSword, through the…
IMPORTANT: This will affect you, even if you don’t live in Europe. Britain calls it defense. We call it “a seat at a table that’s already being cleared.” Today the UK Ministry of Defense announced that Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon fighters will fly “defensive counter air missions” over Saudi Arabia, plus a transport aircraft,…
European leaders are increasingly talking about a war with Russia. Meanwhile European capabilities to fight such a war are laughably absent. All the bluff and bluster is just a cover story to justify a bill your household is paying already. George Beebe, former director for Russian analysis at the CIA and now at the Quincy…
Samuel Tunick already faces five years in a federal cage for giving Customs a GrapheneOS duress PIN instead of a device containing his readable life. Georgia State University has now finished the sentencing that the indictment itself only started. Six hours before his first Geosciences lab, an automated email told him he had failed a…
The predicted inflation shock is no longer a forecast. It’s at the pump, in the freight lane, and on Friday’s CPI calendar. Over the past forty-eight hours the Strait of Hormuz stopped being a paused conflict and went back to being a shooting gallery. U.S. forces struck three Iranian tankers after IRGC ballistic missiles were…
Why ordinary households are being forced to run hotter while the system stays “resilient.” Here’s what’s happening and why: American families are spending more than they’re bringing in after taxes, and they’ve been doing it long enough that their emergency savings have shrunk to almost nothing. The official personal saving rate (the share of after-tax…
Three of the Muslim world’s most consequential powers just formalized a collective security arrangement that quietly redraws the regional map. And while public attention remains firmly fixed on the grinding conflict with Iran and the almost daily Houthi escalations, this agreement marks a deeper structural shift. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan have chosen to bind…
This is NOT the Future. This IS happening NOW. Federal prosecutors are trying to put a man in prison for the crime of protecting his private data. Samuel Tunick was flagged by AI-assisted surveillance systems for the sole offense of political association, detained at an Atlanta airport without a warrant, denied a lawyer, and ordered…
While it’s still largely overlooked by most geopolitical analysts, the Indo-Pacific is probably the clearest indicator of the emerging multipolar world order. Resource competition over is rife in this region, not just over oil, gas, and rare earths but, more crucially, over fish stocks and fishing rights. Territorial claims also abound, not just around Taiwan,…
This Is A Direct Threat to Encryption Worldwide, Including for Americans On July 11, 2026, the European Parliament advanced the “Chat Control” regulation using an “urgent procedure” pretext while many Members of the European Parliament were already away on summer recess. The proposal, which requires messaging platforms to scan private communications for Child Sexual Abuse…
