Microsoft Used China Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-sharepoint-hack-china-cybersecurity/?ref=ActivityPub
Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in its popular SharePoint software but didnt mention that it has long used China-based engineers to maintain the product.
#ProPublica #News VIA #MPAQ #English #Illinois August 1, 2025
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07-29-2025
A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives.
Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. They both received peptide injections, an alternative therapy promoted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a way to fight aging and chronic disease.
https://www.propublica.org/article/peptide-injections-raadfest-rfk-jr/?ref=ActivityPub
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Offices Work to Costly Private Lawyers
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers - many to whom he has personal or political ties - to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a days work.
#ProPublica #English #Illinois 07-24-2025 #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-private-lawyers-texas-cases/?ref=ActivityPub
The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison
On March 15, President Donald Trumps administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as theyd been taken away. These are their stories.
#ProPublica #English #Illinois 07-23-2025 #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ
https://projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-immigrants-trump-deported-cecot/?ref=ActivityPub
Damn.
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE.
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
Texas Overhauls Anti-Abortion Program That Spent Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars With Little Oversight
#FederalReport Details #NYPD Unit’s “Troubling,” “Unconstitutional” Conduct.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nyc-nypd-police-community-response-team-stop-frisk.
How El Salvador’s Government Impeded a U.S. Probe of MS-13
>>A long-running U.S. investigation of MS-13 has uncovered evidence at odds with Bukele’s reputation as a crime fighter. The inquiry, which began as an effort to dismantle the gang’s leadership, expanded to focus on whether the Bukele government cut a secret deal with MS-13 in the early years of his presidency.
New reporting on that investigation by ProPublica shows that senior officials in Bukele’s government repeatedly impeded the work of a U.S. task force as it pursued evidence of possible wrongdoing by the Salvadoran president and his inner circle.<<
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https://www.propublica.org/article/bukele-trump-el-salvador-ms13-gang-vulcan-corruption-investigation
@ProPublica It's a nice article, but it feels like it's going very easy on Lavingia, who is in no way even slightly innocent here. People can always say no, and in this case, just joining in the first place is a definite flex.
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