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VOICE ARCHIVE

Vera Bergengruen

@verambergen
41 posts
2025-05-21
“A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported” https://www.reuters.com/...
2025-05-21 View on X
Reuters

Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending on May 4, including travel plans

A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier … Bluesky: @metacurity.com , @stokel , @zachsdorfman , and @micah...

2024-08-22
“Any involvement with military and weapon manufacturing impacts our position as leaders in ethical and responsible AI, and goes against our mission statement and stated AI Principles,” the letter that circulated inside Google DeepMind says. @billyperrigo https://time.com/...
2024-08-22 View on X
TIME

Letter and sources: nearly 200 Google DeepMind workers, or 5% of its overall headcount, signed a letter dated May 16 calling to drop its military contracts

Nearly 200 workers inside Google DeepMind, the company's AI division, signed a letter calling on the tech giant to drop its contracts … X: @billyperrigo and @verambergen X: Billy P...

2024-08-12
“The Trump campaign didn't provide direct evidence that Iran was responsible for the hack. Instead, it tied the hack to the new Microsoft cyber-threat research that laid out a range of election interference operations it said were linked to several different Iranian cyber groups”
2024-08-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How Iran has emerged as the most aggressive foreign threat to the US election; Microsoft published a report detailing a litany of efforts to target the election

Hack of Trump campaign has led some to accuse Tehran just weeks after U.S. officials believed Russia posed bigger threat

2023-09-28
Meanwhile: Elon Musk is cutting around half of X/Twitter's global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud on the platform, including the head of the group (via @erinkwoo) https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2023-09-28 View on X
The Information

Sources: X is cutting ~50% of its global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud, less than a month after saying it would expand the team

Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, is cutting around half of the global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud …

“The cuts come less than a month after the company said it would expand the team and as X faces renewed criticism from the European Commission over the volume of misinformation on its platform” https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2023-09-28 View on X
The Information

Sources: X is cutting ~50% of its global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud, less than a month after saying it would expand the team

Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, is cutting around half of the global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud …

2022-08-28
Technically brilliant and morally rigid, Pieter “Mudge” Zatko was an iconoclast stepping into a corporate bureaucracy. “It's like asking a doctor who's been trained to do brain surgery to suddenly become a podiatrist,” says a former Twitter colleague. https://time.com/...
2022-08-28 View on X
TIME

An interview with Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko; some current and former Twitter employees say his allegations are misleading, overblown, or lack context

Peiter Zatko, the Twitter whistle-blower, is a black belt in jiu-jitsu.  The day before his complaint against the social media company …

Technically brilliant and morally rigid, Pieter “Mudge” Zatko was an iconoclast stepping into a corporate bureaucracy. “It's like asking a doctor who's been trained to do brain surgery to suddenly become a podiatrist,” says a former Twitter colleague. https://time.com/...
2022-08-28 View on X
Techdirt

Peiter Zatko's whistleblower report is framed as though it supports Musk's claims that Twitter is lying about spam, but the details actually show the opposite

We already wrote a long story looking at many of the eye-opening claims from Peiter “Mudge” Zatko in his whistleblower report …

The story of how a top Twitter official turned whistleblower is not a straightforward saga. @billyperrigo, @andrewrchow & I spoke w more than a dozen friends, current & former colleagues for this complicated story on whistleblowers, credibility & impact https://time.com/...
2022-08-28 View on X
TIME

An interview with Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko; some current and former Twitter employees say his allegations are misleading, overblown, or lack context

Peiter Zatko, the Twitter whistle-blower, is a black belt in jiu-jitsu.  The day before his complaint against the social media company …

The story of how a top Twitter official turned whistleblower is not a straightforward saga. @billyperrigo, @andrewrchow & I spoke w more than a dozen friends, current & former colleagues for this complicated story on whistleblowers, credibility & impact https://time.com/...
2022-08-28 View on X
Techdirt

Peiter Zatko's whistleblower report is framed as though it supports Musk's claims that Twitter is lying about spam, but the details actually show the opposite

We already wrote a long story looking at many of the eye-opening claims from Peiter “Mudge” Zatko in his whistleblower report …

2022-08-27
The story of how a top Twitter official turned whistleblower is not a straightforward saga. @billyperrigo, @andrewrchow & I spoke w more than a dozen friends, current & former colleagues for this complicated story on whistleblowers, credibility & impact https://time.com/...
2022-08-27 View on X
TIME

An interview with Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko; some current and former Twitter employees suggest some of his allegations are misleading or overblown

Peiter Zatko, the Twitter whistle-blower, is a black belt in jiu-jitsu.  The day before his complaint against the social media company …

Technically brilliant and morally rigid, Pieter “Mudge” Zatko was an iconoclast stepping into a corporate bureaucracy. “It's like asking a doctor who's been trained to do brain surgery to suddenly become a podiatrist,” says a former Twitter colleague. https://time.com/...
2022-08-27 View on X
TIME

An interview with Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko; some current and former Twitter employees suggest some of his allegations are misleading or overblown

Peiter Zatko, the Twitter whistle-blower, is a black belt in jiu-jitsu.  The day before his complaint against the social media company …

2022-04-23
“For those keeping score, that's Europe: three. United States: zero.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-04-23 View on X
New York Times

As the EU prepares its third landmark tech law in the past few years, the US has enacted only two narrow federal tech laws in the past 25 years

one for children's privacy and the other for ridding sites of sex-trafficking content —in the past 25 years.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Chris O'Brien / @obrien : EU policymakers,...

“For those keeping score, that's Europe: three. United States: zero.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-04-23 View on X
Financial Times

The EU finalizes the Digital Services Act, which will force social networks to toughen content moderation, reduce Google and Meta's ad targeting of minors, more

Companies such as Google and Facebook must moderate content more actively in regulatory clampdown

2022-04-06
New: Inside Kyiv's IT office, where a team of municipal tech employees decided not to evacuate and have spent the last five weeks repurposing everyday technology for a city facing a 20th-century style war. https://time.com/...
2022-04-06 View on X
TIME

Inside Kyiv's IT office, whose workers have spent the past five weeks adapting and repurposing everyday tech, like the Kyiv Digital smartphone app, for wartime

Vera Bergengruen / TIME : Tweets: @verambergen Tweets: Vera Bergengruen / @verambergen : “I never imagined that I would develop software in 2022 to help people stay alive...I felt...

“We really were like Alice in Wonderland—we lived in another world, which was peaceful, friendly, and open...Now we're in a new IT age, where we need to put all of our technology minds towards military goals.” https://time.com/...
2022-04-06 View on X
TIME

Inside Kyiv's IT office, whose workers have spent the past five weeks adapting and repurposing everyday tech, like the Kyiv Digital smartphone app, for wartime

Vera Bergengruen / TIME : Tweets: @verambergen Tweets: Vera Bergengruen / @verambergen : “I never imagined that I would develop software in 2022 to help people stay alive...I felt...

“I never imagined that I would develop software in 2022 to help people stay alive...I felt like I was part of a modern world, where all of these [technologies] were part of our everyday life, and now suddenly we need to use them for life or death.” https://time.com/...
2022-04-06 View on X
TIME

Inside Kyiv's IT office, whose workers have spent the past five weeks adapting and repurposing everyday tech, like the Kyiv Digital smartphone app, for wartime

Vera Bergengruen / TIME : Tweets: @verambergen Tweets: Vera Bergengruen / @verambergen : “I never imagined that I would develop software in 2022 to help people stay alive...I felt...

2022-03-13
“Titans of American technology had been brought to their knees by some of the most primitive intimidation tactics in the Kremlin playbook.” Revealing look into how Putin got Apple & Google to cave to his demands that helped erode internal opposition https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2022-03-13 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Apple and Google removed Kremlin critic Navalny's app in September after FSB agents came to top executives' homes and threatened to take them to prison

Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September …

2022-03-12
“Titans of American technology had been brought to their knees by some of the most primitive intimidation tactics in the Kremlin playbook.” Revealing look into how Putin got Apple & Google to cave to his demands that helped erode internal opposition https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2022-03-12 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Apple and Google removed Kremlin critic Navalny's app in September after FSB agents came to top executives' homes and threatened to take them to prison

Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September …

2022-03-05
“In Germany, where the state-backed media outlet was banned in February, RT Deutsch content about Ukraine was the most frequently shared material within more than 200 far-right and conspiracy channels” @markscott82 https://www.politico.eu/...
2022-03-05 View on X
Politico

Telegram says it is blocking Kremlin-backed media outlets in the EU, including all RT channels, starting for users who signed in with an EU-based phone number

RT, in English, Spanish, Germany, French & Russia, have a colletive audience of over 1 million people via their official accounts. FWIW, these break EU sanctions https://www.politi...

2022-02-25
Facebook says it's set up a special ops center in response to the invasion of Ukraine, and added new security features to allow people in Ukraine to lock their profiles. (Similar to what they added during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan last year) https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-25 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Ukraine is asking for volunteers from its hacker community to protect critical infrastructure and conduct cyber spying missions against Russian troops

The government of Ukraine is asking for volunteers from the country's hacker underground to help protect critical infrastructure …