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The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta’s “AI support assistant” bot into resetting account passwords.

On May 31, word began to spread on several Telegram instant message channels that Meta’s AI bot would happily add an email address to an existing account as part of the bot’s standard password reset flow.

A video released on Telegram by pro-Iran hackers claimed to document a remarkably simple exploit that appears to have involved using a VPN connection with an IP address that is in or near the target’s usual hometown, requesting a password reset for the account, and then choosing to chat with Meta’s AI support assistant. From there, the video shows the attacker told the bot to link the account in question to a new email address, after which the bot dutifully sent that address a one-time code that allowed a password reset.

The Telegram account that posted the video also linked to screenshots of pro-Iran images, videos and messages that defaced the hacked Instagram accounts, saying hackers had used the exploit to hijack a number of valuable (read: short) Instagram account names that allegedly have a resale value of more than a half million dollars.

Meta has not responded to requests for comment on the video’s claims, but Meta’s Andy Stone said on Twitter/X that the issue had been resolved and that they were securing impacted accounts. The security blog thecybersecguru.com reports that Meta pushed an emergency patch over the weekend, and clarified that no back end database was breached.

“Instagram has notoriously poor human support infrastructure,” Cybersecguru wrote. “Recovering a locked account – especially a high-value one can take weeks of back-and-forth with an automated ticketing system. Meta’s solution was to deploy a conversational AI layer to handle common recovery workflows: relinking a lost email address, triggering a password reset, verifying account ownership. The assistant, presumably, was supposed to reduce friction for legitimate users stuck in account-access hell.”

Ian Goldin, a threat researcher at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, said we’re entering unchartered security territory as more large online platforms start allowing AI chatbots to handle sensitive account recovery requests. Just like human customer support employees can be social engineered into providing unauthorized access to someone’s account, AI bots are equally eager to help and vulnerable to persuasion and trickery, he said.

“AI chatbots create interesting new attack surface, and we’re likely going to see a lot more of these kinds of attacks,” Goldin said.

Securing your various online accounts means taking full advantage of the most secure form of multi-factor authentication (MFA) offered (such as a passkey or security key). In this case, even using the least robust form of MFA that Instagram offers — a one-time code sent via SMS — likely would have blocked the exploit: The hackers who released the video on Telegram said their exploit failed to work against any accounts that had MFA enabled.

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Marianna Mitchem grew up in the Denver suburbs, where she played high school soccer. One day in April 1999, her team faced off against a nearby rival, Columbine High. The next day, two teenagers went on a shooting rampage at Columbine, killing more than a dozen people.

The massacre left an imprint on Mitchem. After graduating from Providence College, she joined the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. “Fearing for my friends and watching what was happening — you don’t forget things like that,” she told me. “I wanted to make a difference.”

She started in the ATF’s Denver office as an industry operations investigator, the bureau’s term for inspectors who ensure that firearms dealers are conducting the required background checks on buyers and maintaining sales records. When the bureau found discrepancies, it tended to settle for reprimands and improvement plans, rarely going so far as to revoke a dealer’s license.

In 2021, things started to change. The country was experiencing a surge of deadly violence, with homicides up more than a third since 2019, and the administration of President Joe Biden was desperate to reverse the trend. For years, data had shown that a large share of guns used in shootings came from a small fraction of dealers, and that guns that were trafficked — sold by stores to straw purchasers (people other than the intended users) or resold on the street — were far more likely to be used in shootings.

Acting on this data, the administration in June 2021 announced what became known as “zero tolerance”: Dealers found to be willfully violating the law would lose their licenses, period. Revocations spiked, from fewer than 50 in 2019, 2020 and 2021 to a record 181 in 2023.

Also in 2021, Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, started urging federal prosecutors to prioritize gun violence. A year later, Congress passed a law that added a firearms trafficking conspiracy charge to the federal criminal code, a crucial new tool for prosecutors.

After 2021, the homicide rate started falling, which criminologists attributed to several factors, including repair of the social fabric since the coronavirus pandemic and a closing of the breach in police-community relations that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd. One other factor got less attention: the clampdown on the illegal flow of firearms.

The Biden administration struggled to broadcast its gains on public safety, and Donald Trump won the election in 2024 partly by vowing to restore order. By the time Trump reentered the White House, Mitchem had risen to associate assistant director for industry operations, overseeing inspectors across the country. “We were making incredible progress on trafficking, on violent crime,” she said late last year.

But the Trump administration, driven both by gun-lobby advocacy and its own political priorities, quickly set about undoing much of its predecessor’s moves to combat gun violence. It repealed the zero-tolerance policy, going so far as to invite revoked dealers to reapply for new licenses. It shifted hundreds of ATF agents to immigration work. And it scaled back on prosecutions for gun trafficking. The White House declined to comment, referring questions to the ATF and the Department of Justice.

The homicide rate fell further last year, but criminologists warn against complacency, because the illicit gun trade is a classic pipeline problem: The harm can take a while to make itself felt. Research has found that the typical “time to crime” for trafficked firearms ranges up to about three years, which means that any positive lag of the anti-trafficking efforts of the Biden years would still be in effect now, with any negative effects of the Trump pullback lying in the years to come.

Among those now sounding the alarm is Mitchem. Dismayed at the policy reversal, she left the ATF last spring, after 21 years, and joined Everytown, the gun-safety group founded by Michael Bloomberg.

“Just because no one is watching the trafficking pipelines right now doesn’t mean guns aren’t flowing through it. It just means they’re not being intercepted,” she told me.

“And as you walk away from that, and you don’t have your focus on that anymore,” she added, “that pipeline is going to be flowing, and we are going to start to see the violent crime impact from that over time.”

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Estimates put the number of guns in the United States at close to 400 million, but the odds that any of them will be put to ill use rise exponentially if they are obtained illegally. Of the 2.3 million firearms traced from crime scenes between 2017 and 2023, half were bought less than three years earlier and 87% were recovered in possession of someone other than the original, legally authorized buyer. Over that period, stores sold almost 1.3 million guns to traffickers that were subsequently recovered in a crime, according to an Everytown analysis of ATF statistics.

This is why the laws governing gun sales carry such high stakes for public safety. But enforcement of these laws has long occupied an unusual no-man’s-land in this country, scrambling the standard political lines around criminal justice. Conservatives favoring tough-on-crime rhetoric are frequently torn when it comes to firearms trafficking: On the one hand, traffickers are helping fuel the violent crime that conservatives decry; on the other, prosecution of gun laws brushes against tenets that conservatives hold sacrosanct. It is liberals who are more likely to push for tougher enforcement, though they can be conflicted, too, as their belief in stricter gun laws runs up against a general preference for a less punitive approach to lawbreaking.

Marooned in this no-man’s-land for decades now has been the agency assigned the task of enforcing federal gun laws, the ATF. Going back to an episode at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992, where an ATF investigation of illegal gun dealing led to federal agents killing the wife and son of a white separatist, the ATF has been viewed with scorn by people who otherwise might side with armed government authorities. “ATF IS GAY” read the T-shirt worn by one attendee of a big gun show I attended earlier this year in Manassas, Virginia.

The agency’s radioactivity with the gun-rights lobby has left it on shaky political ground. It went seven years without a Senate-confirmed director. Its budget has not enjoyed the same expansion as that of other federal law enforcement agencies. And stringent laws constrain any ATF capabilities viewed as potentially threatening the rights of gun owners. To comply with a 1986 law preventing the creation of a federal gun registry, for example, the ATF uses software with some features disabled. Steve Dettelbach, who served as director under Biden, joked in a 2024 congressional hearing that the ATF might be “the only customer of Adobe Acrobat that pays money to remove search function.”

Despite these constraints, the ATF has developed its investigative capability. In the 1990s, the agency started sharing with local law enforcement agencies its National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, which collects the unique marks on bullet casings found at shooting scenes. The system has become much more potent as it became easier to share large numbers of images from crime scenes rapidly and compare them against the NIBIN database. The work was boosted further by the creation, starting in 2016, of 25 crime gun intelligence centers to process the data.

Given that a tiny share of the nation’s guns are used in shootings, with many of those used multiple times, the leads produced by the technology can have an outsized impact, said Daryl McCormick, who retired last year as special agent in charge of Ohio and southern Indiana. “It’s crazy how it might spiderweb out,” he told me, “because you have a gun that’s used in three shootings, but in one of those three shootings, there’s a guy that’s linked to three more shootings.”

Starting in the spring of 2020, that technology was put to the test. As homicides rose sharply, so did sales at dealerships. By one estimate, there were 3 million more guns sold between that March and July than would have been expected. Many soon turned up in shootings; the number of guns recovered at crime scenes that had been bought from a dealership less than a year earlier, an especially strong indicator of firearms trafficking, jumped by nearly a third from 2019 to 2021.

Meanwhile, many shootings involved ghost guns assembled from kits, which had begun proliferating a few years prior. Amid other factors driving the killing, the sheer plenitude of weaponry on the streets was pivotal, said Daniel Webster, a gun-violence researcher at Johns Hopkins University. “We know,” he told me, “that a small number of dealers can create a substantial amount of harm, and traffickers as well.”

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In the spring of 2021, a 25-year-old man was summoned to help a friend in a confrontation at a low-income housing development in Middletown, Connecticut. It was a petty beef arising from disrespectful comments made to someone’s girlfriend, but Tylon Hardy responded anyway. “He was one of the guys who wanted to protect his community,” his sister, Tianna Hardy, told me later. “He showed up to protect his friend.” After he arrived, Tylon was fatally shot in the back.

Guns are tightly regulated in Connecticut, where buyers must first obtain a permit. But this gun had not been sold by a Connecticut store. It had been purchased six days earlier at Smokin’ Barrel Guns and Ammo in Raleigh, North Carolina, more than 600 miles away.

It was a particularly rapid movement up the Iron Pipeline, the name for the trafficking channel from southern states with lax gun laws to northern states with stricter ones. And it turned into a clear example of why trafficking enforcement matters. Investigators obtained camera footage from the shop showing a young man emerging after buying the gun, a Taurus 9 mm pistol, to make a call on his cellphone.

The following spring, the Biden-nominated U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Michael Easley Jr., produced indictments in the case that started with the camera: Four people were charged with having engaged in a conspiracy to traffic dozens of guns from shops in eastern and central North Carolina. All told, the ringleader had bought more than 100 guns from straw purchasers in North Carolina; 10 of the guns surfaced at crime scenes in Connecticut and New Jersey. The ringleader ended up pleading guilty and being sentenced to more than 10 years in prison; the other three received sentences ranging from 18 months to five years.

Easley kept pursuing trafficking cases, poring over spreadsheets full of NIBIN data showing information for every gun traced from shootings in his district. His office would zero in on guns with a short “time to crime” from the initial sale and see if investigators could build leads from purchase records. His team made its interest in trafficking plain to the local ATF division, motivating agents to build cases. “Prosecutors have the ability to send a demand signal to the marketplace of agents, that we have an interest in these and if you bring us the cases, we will push them over the end zone and get convictions,” he told me.

Prosecutors kept getting more encouragement from Washington. In April 2022, the ATF issued a rule decreeing that ghost guns had to conform to the same regulations as regular firearms, including carrying serial numbers and requiring background checks.

Two months later, Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which got crucial Republican backing from North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis. In addition to the new trafficking conspiracy charge, the law included a new straw-purchasing charge, expanded background checks for buyers under 21 and funding for states with red-flag laws permitting gun confiscations from those judged dangerous. And a month after that, the Senate confirmed Dettelbach, giving the ATF its first confirmed director since 2015, one who had prosecuted gun crimes as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

Across the country, federal prosecutors took on trafficking cases with gusto. Over the remainder of Biden’s term, they charged more than 500 defendants using the new trafficking statutes; others brought cases using laws already on the books.

In Ohio, McCormick and his ATF colleagues took on a sprawling case that started with a shooting with a machine gun in Avondale, outside Cincinnati, and led to a six-year prison sentence for a 24-year-old man who had made and sold over 80 machine-gun conversion devices; two other men who trafficked the devices to Cincinnati gangs were sentenced to nine and 11 years. As in North Carolina, the Ohio agents were getting encouragement from prosecutors, including Kenneth Parker, the then-U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. “I made it clear, through my edicts, my announcements to them that we wanted those cases involving violence, that they know how seriously we were taking them,” he told me.

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In February, I drove to Raleigh to meet with Easley and visit Smokin’ Barrel — or what used to be Smokin’ Barrel. The shop closed after the ATF revoked its license in early 2023, not for having sold the gun in the Connecticut case, but for an earlier incident, in which the owner sold a gun to an 18-year-old woman, in violation of North Carolina’s 21-year age minimum for buying a handgun. The shop, a small outbuilding adjacent to a used car lot, now sat empty; its fading sign still stood roadside.

Not far away, I found the former owner, Richard Humphries, at his home. He told me how upset he still was over the revocation, especially since, he said, he had self-reported the improper sale.

When I asked him about the Taurus that ended up being used six days later in the Connecticut killing, he initially had trouble recalling it, confusing it with another case in which a man had used a gun bought at the store to kill his wife. What was it like to learn about shootings with the guns he sold? “I hate it,” he said. “I hate that I sold it and he might have used it, but there’s nothing I can, you know …” He trailed off.

I pointed out that in the Connecticut case, investigators had been able to uncover the trafficking ring after tracing the gun to his shop. Was that a good use of resources? “Yeah,” he said. “I mean, they need to be able to do that. But they just, you know, they need to pay more attention to the crooks than people trying to make an honest living.”

I heard similar complaints from other dealers who had their licenses revoked during Biden’s term for transgressions they insisted were mere clerical mistakes. One in Indiana told me that his violations included a mix-up involving an Amish customer’s name; one in South Carolina told me his violations included filling out forms on behalf of elderly customers with shaky handwriting. “If it had been six months earlier, they would have given us a slap on the hand,” he said.

Even some within the ATF had misgivings, worrying that the policy would strain the agency’s relations with law-abiding dealers and make them less likely to offer alerts on suspicious behavior by buyers. “The industry is probably one of the best ways we get information about trafficking,” McCormick, the retired Ohio agent, told me. “But if there’s friction between us and the industry, they’re less likely to report it.”

Gun-safety advocates discounted that risk, saying the policy had both shut down many lawless stores and encouraged countless other sellers to make sure they were complying with the law. “It’s not only targeting bad dealers but sending a message to the entire industry: button up,” Josh Scharff, general counsel of Brady United, told me.

In 2024, revocations rose yet further, to 183. This represented a mere sliver of dealers — only 2% of those inspected that year — but it provoked new ire, not only from traditional lobby groups such as the National Shooting Sports Foundation and National Rifle Association but from ascendant groups of gun owners with even more aggressively anti-regulation stances.

Some dealers challenged their revocations in federal court. In 2023, the ATF revoked the license of a shop in the Phoenix suburbs, Chambered Group, after four inspections in five years turned up a host of violations. The business sought unsuccessfully to block the revocation in court, with a federal judge, Steven Logan, finding that the business had “purposefully disregarded [federal] regulations by repeatedly violating the same regulations despite being given multiple opportunities to cure its mistakes.” In 2024, one of the shop’s co-owners tried to get a new license under a slightly different name, Chambered Custom Firearms, and the ATF blocked him, noting his past role with the revoked store. (A lawyer for the shop declined to comment.)

But after Trump returned to the White House, his administration announced an end to the zero-tolerance policy, urged revoked dealers to reapply and started settling the court cases, one after another. In April 2025, the DOJ informed the court that it had started settlement talks in the Arizona case and a month later alerted it that Chambered Custom had submitted a new application “which ATF will expeditiously process.” It issued the license in July.

In Oregon, a dealer had gone to federal court to challenge the ATF’s 2024 denial of his license renewal for South Valley Firearms in the town of Monroe due to his past conviction for domestic violence. Trump’s DOJ initially contested the dealer’s bid, but early this year, the department notified his attorney out of the blue that his client would be getting his license, after all. “They didn’t give any explanation as to why,” said the lawyer, Leonard Williamson. “They just said, ‘Have him resubmit his application and we’ll give it to him.’”

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The end of zero-tolerance was, on its own, hardly a surprise for an administration elected with the strong support of gun-rights and gun-industry groups. What has differed from the first Trump term has been the wholesale shift of resources away from the enforcement of gun trafficking laws and toward the immigration crackdown, both at the ATF and DOJ.

Last spring, the administration began shifting large numbers of ATF agents to a new assignment: assisting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions against undocumented immigrants. ICE records obtained by the libertarian Cato Institute in September showed that nearly 1,800 of ATF’s roughly 2,500 agents had taken part in enforcement and removal operations.

While ATF agents were shifted to immigration operations, criminal referrals fell. ATF referrals for common trafficking-related charges, including the two added in the 2022 law, decreased 15% in 2025 from 2024, according to a ProPublica analysis. Asked about the drop, ATF spokesperson Tanya Roman pointed at DOJ prosecutors. “Not every ATF referral is accepted by the [United States Attorney’s Office] for prosecution,” she said in a written response to questions.

Eventually, the shift toward immigration enforcement reached even beyond ATF’s agents to the industry operations investigators who inspect dealers. Terrence Robinson had served in that role for six years, based in Baltimore. He took pride in the work, but soon after Trump’s second term began, Robinson realized it would be a turbulent year for his agency. As part of the push by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to shrink the government, the ATF offered early retirement to many of its 800-odd inspectors. In the end, some 125 took the offer, threatening to overburden a corps already struggling to inspect even a sliver of the nation’s 130,000 licensed firearms dealers. “ATF does not comment on personnel matters,” Roman said.

Around the same time, Robinson went to inspect the location of an applicant for a dealership license in Baltimore. The city, long wracked by gun violence, has come to have virtually no licensed dealers within its boundaries; those that remain are mostly in the suburbs. Robinson was startled to discover that this applicant intended to sell guns from his apartment in a building downtown, a few blocks from Camden Yards. Robinson voiced his concerns to his supervisor, who told him that he had to approve it. “According to our rules and regulations now, he passed a criminal background check, and he’s a citizen, so …,” Robinson said. “It’s mind-boggling.”

Most upsetting, though, was the directive that he and other industry operations investigators received in late summer to start spending at least six hours per week on immigration-related work. It was hard to understand what this even meant — their job was to inspect firearms dealers. To comply, he began scouring dealers’ sales records looking for buyers with foreign-sounding names, which were then relayed to the Department of Homeland Security. This struck him as a monumental misuse of resources.

This was what pushed him over the edge and made him decide to take early retirement, too, in September. “I didn’t sign up to be an immigration person,” he said. “I’m just not that.”

Asked about such orders, the ATF’s Roman said: “In support of President Trump’s whole of government approach to combat illegal immigration, ATF is assisting the Department of Homeland Security and other federal law enforcement partners with their immigration enforcement efforts. To ensure operational security and the safety of our agents and partners, ATF does not disclose details or specific numbers of personnel deployments or enforcement activities.”

Now that Robinson was gone, his former team was down from 10 to six, with a temporary supervisor. He worried what the changes at ATF meant for public safety. “I’m not saying I can see the future, but I don’t see things getting better,” he said. “I see things getting worse.”

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“Everyone’s been in a little bit of shock about what’s going on,” Marianna Mitchem said last December, speaking from the stage of a conference on gun violence at the Center for American Progress, the center-left think tank in Washington. She described what the ATF had accomplished in recent years, then she laid bare the extent of the pullback now underway.

Mitchem told the advocates that they would have to look to officials in their home states and cities to try to fill the void left by the Trump administration. “It’s up to the states to start tackling this trafficking problem, because unfortunately, you’re not going to have the support of the ATF,” she said.

This has already started happening in a few places. In the suburbs of Philadelphia, a city that suffered one of the worst pandemic-era homicide spikes but has since experienced dramatic improvement, county sheriffs have started doing more inspections of dealers to make up for the decline in ATF enforcement. A member of the conference audience asked Mitchem what else states could be doing to respond. Her answer suggested she wasn’t sure.

“ATF wasn’t always the most widely known agency. I think we sort of liked it that way. We did really, really good work and kept our head down,” she said. “And so now, you’re trying to let everybody know, unfortunately, there are still good people there, but they’ve been redirected.”

In February, Trump’s nominee to lead the agency, Robert Cekada, downplayed that redirection at his confirmation hearing. Cekada is a 20-year ATF veteran, a fact in which gun-safety advocates have tried to take some reassurance. Cekada testified that the agency was continuing to “do dealer inspections uninhibited.”

But ATF has made it much harder for researchers and the public to track that work. It took the administration more than 15 months to release a tally of how many dealer licenses it had revoked: 56 in 2025, down 69% from the year before. Cekada also challenged a report last fall that 80% of the ATF’s agents had been reassigned to immigration enforcement. The reassignment had never amounted to more than 100 agents at a given time, Cekada said. “ATF in those operations has been focused on offenders that were illegally armed with firearms,” he told senators.

But as the former federal prosecutors and ATF agents I spoke with noted, the key question when it comes to the fight against trafficking is whether prosecutors are seeking out cases. After all, the ATF investigates cases, but U.S. attorneys prosecute them. And here the evidence suggests a pullback. A ProPublica analysis shows that in the first year of the Trump administration, the DOJ declined 30% more referrals from the ATF for the main trafficking-related charges than it had the year prior. 

Despite the high rate of declinations for ATF referrals, the DOJ last year ended up prosecuting nearly as many gun-trafficking cases from all sources as it had in 2024. But a growing share of the cases, roughly 30%, were under the new trafficking conspiracy charges included in the 2022 law, which since its inception has proven especially useful in cases involving gun trafficking across the Mexican border: About a fifth of all people charged under that law over the course of 2024 and 2025 are in a single district, western Texas. Asked about the rise in declinations of ATF referrals and the shift toward border-related cases, DOJ spokesperson Katie Kenlein said, “The department declines to comment on prosecutorial strategy.”

Webster, the Johns Hopkins researcher, said numbers leave little doubt as to the shift away from general anti-trafficking enforcement. “Everything is diverted,” he said. “It’s all about immigrants.”

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On April 29, right after being confirmed as ATF director, Cekada announced 34 proposed rule changes, including requiring dealers to hold records for only 20 or 30 years, not indefinitely, and limiting ATF scrutiny of the state-issued permits that can replace background checks for buyers. “We are proposing to remove unnecessary hurdles that were standing in the way of law-abiding citizens and businesses,” he said, flanked by leaders of the NRA and National Shooting Sports Foundation.

One crucial Biden-era reform has persisted: the clampdown on ghost guns. The 2022 ATF regulation survived a Supreme Court challenge last year, and lawsuits by several cities helped drive the leading producer of ghost guns out of business. Webster and other criminologists note that the reduced flow of ghost guns correlates with a sharply lower rate of shootings by teenagers, who had been heavy users of the guns during the 2020-21 homicide surge.

Even that progress seemed as if it might be at risk. In early April, a joint status report issued to the federal court in Texas where the case originated stated that “ATF has advised that it plans to take agency action to amend the challenged rule” (even though the rule has been upheld by the Supreme Court). A day later, the White House’s 2027 budget called for reversing “the imposition of excessive restrictions on homemade firearms.” But five days after that, the DOJ notified the court in the Texas case that “the government has decided to maintain the definition” that underlies the ghost gun rule. Asked for clarification, the ATF’s Roman said last week: “ATF is still conducting legal reviews for other, more technically challenging rules. If changes are needed following the review, a proposal will be published.” For now, one key valve in the pipeline remains closed.

The post “No One Is Watching”: How Trump Reversed Biden’s Crackdown on Gun Trafficking appeared first on ProPublica.

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  Alors que le nombre de victimes du virus Ebola ne cesse d’augmenter, le conflit en cours dans l’est du pays ne fait qu’aggraver la situation. Manque de personnels soignants, déplacements des équipes médicales entravés, camps de déplacés… La situation pourrait devenir incontrôlable si les belligérants ne s’entendaient pas pour mettre en place les mesures nécessaires.

• Découverte de centaines de monuments funéraires dans l’est du Sahara (theconversation.com)
• « Ils nous interdisent tout : écrire, parler, chanter » : ces jeunes Russes qui contournent le blocage d’Internet (basta.media)
• How A Ukrainian Stork Outflew A Russian Drone, And What This Tells Us (forbes.com)
• Guerre en Ukraine : la Roumanie accuse la Russie d’avoir frappé un immeuble sur son territoire, l’Otan dénonce « une nouvelle limite » franchie (humanite.fr)
  

  En parallèle, Moscou est accusée par l’Ukraine de s’être attaquée à un cargo truc, tandis que trois autres bateaux ont aussi été touchés sans que l’opération ne soit revendiquée.

• Sweden authorizes police use of live facial recognition (biometricupdate.com)
  

  New law permits real-time biometric surveillance in cases involving serious crime, kidnappings and threats to life

• Les glaciers européens sont parmi les plus vulnérables face à la hausse des températures (legrandcontinent.eu)
  

  C’est dans le massif des Alpes que la hausse des températures est aujourd’hui parmi les plus visibles en Europe. À 10h du matin aujourd’hui, jeudi 28 mai, le thermomètre a atteint les 10°C sur la pointe Helbronner, un sommet du massif du Mont-Blanc parmi les plus élevés du continent, à 3 466 mètres d’altitude.

• Les Pays-Bas bloquent le rachat d’un fournisseur numérique par une société états-unienne (next.ink)
  

  Le gouvernement néerlandais vient de bloquer le rachat de la société numérique Solvinity par l’acteur états-unien Kyndryl. En cause : des préoccupations en matière de souveraineté.

• Europe told to cool its datacenter boom before water and power run short (theregister.com)
• What’s behind the EU’s digitalisation push ? Surveillance, control and exclusion (edri.org)
  

  underneath the rhetoric of efficiency, modernisation, and citizen empowerment lies a more troubling reality. It is not a mere technical upgrade of public services, but a political choice, long in the making, to forego care and rights of individuals in favour of normalising surveillance, control and exclusion of the most marginalised.

  

• Inside Italy’s low-cost spyware economy (edri.org)
  

  Commercial spyware in Europe has recently made headlines with the now notorious names of Pegasus and Graphite, the expensive, exploitation-driven products at the top end of the market. Much less known is the wide underworld ecosystem of low-cost spyware vendors, often targeting citizens via their smartphones. EDRi member Osservatorio Nessuno has investigated and analysed two separate products, Spyrtacus and Morpheus.

• Remigration Summit : l’extrême droite européenne rassemblée pour promouvoir l’expulsion de masse des immigrés (basta.media)
  

  La seconde édition du « Remigration Summit », un évènement identitaire organisé par d’ex-néonazis, a lieu ce 30 mai à Porto. De nombreux partis politiques européens y prônent la déportation des immigrés dans leur pays d’origine.

• UK Visa Portal exposed thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies — then called the lawyers on us (techcrunch.com)
• New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise (theguardian.com)
  

  Britain has created a new breed of political prisoners through the systematic incarceration of people acting to prevent climate breakdown and the annihilation of Gaza

• White House’s UFO-Inspired ‘Aliens’ Site Triggers Bait-and-Switch Backlash : ‘Fascist Garbage’ (thewrap.com)
• From Charlottesville to San Diego (crimethinc.com)
  

  While Trump Brands Anti-Fascism “Terrorism,” Fascists Murder People in the Streets

• Lors des Enhanced Games, compétition où le dopage était autorisé, un seul record a été battu (huffingtonpost.fr)
  

  Le Grec Kristian Gkolomeev a fait mieux que le record du monde du 50m nage libre mais sa performance ne sera pas homologuée.

• Trump admin to block Ebola-exposed Americans from US, move them to Kenya (arstechnica.com)
• These researchers would be in Africa fighting ebola—but Trump cut their funding (arstechnica.com)
  

  US Infectious diseases centers launched during COVID have lost their funding under Trump.

• L’étrange expérience « MAGA-chaviste » qui déterminera l’avenir du Venezuela (contretemps.eu)
  

  L’enlèvement de Nicolás Maduro et de son épouse Cilia Flores par les forces spéciales américaines a marqué le début d’une nouvelle ère au Venezuela : celle d’un protectorat de facto dans lequel Washington gère le pétrole, les finances et le commerce extérieur.

  Voir aussi Le banquier français Matthieu Pigasse décroche le contrat pour restructurer la dette du Venezuela (france24.com)

• California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages (tomshardware.com)
• Websites have a new way to spy on visitors : analyzing their SSD activity (arstechnica.com)
  

  Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.

• Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks (techcrunch.com)
• Perfect randomness realized for the first time (phys.org)
  

  Creating perfect randomness is surprisingly difficult. Even modern random number generators never generate completely ideal random numbers : small systematic errors can result in some numbers appearing slightly more frequently than others. For many applications, this does not matter. In cryptography, however, even the tiniest deviations can be problematic.

• Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules (arstechnica.com)
  

  Musk says drones used Starlink instead of Starshield, blames military contractor.

• Sur le front, les militaires états-uniens ciblés grâce aux données de tracking commercial (next.ink)
• Nasa : l’impressionnant plan de base lunaire dévoilé par l’agence spatiale américaine (france24.com)
  

  La NASA a dévoilé mardi un plan d’investissement massif pour établir, à moyen terme, une base habitable sur la Lune prévue pour les années 2030. L’agence spatiale a fait appel aux géants de la tech que sont Space X et Blue Origin appartenant respectivement aux milliardaires Elon Musk et Jeff Bezos pour mettre en œuvre cette opération gigantesque.

• L’industrie de demain : des usines dans l’espace ? (socialter.fr)
  

  En quelques années, les entreprises qui ambitionnent de faire décoller les usines dans l’espace se sont multipliées. En promettant de révolutionner la production de médicaments et de dépolluer l’industrie, elles attirent les financements privés comme publics. Pourtant, l’intérêt de ces projets ne fait pas l’unanimité.

• The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida (arstechnica.com)
  

  New Glenn was due to play a starring role in NASA’s Artemis Program.This is the worst disaster in the history of Blue Origin, founded in 2000.

  Voir aussi Rocket Report : A dark day for Blue Origin ; Pentagon eyes new launch site (arstechnica.com)

• Un météore explose au-dessus des États-Unis, des caméras enregistrent l’impressionnante détonation (huffingtonpost.fr)
  

  Le météore filait à 120 000 km/h à quelque 64 kilomètres dans le ciel avant d’exploser au-dessus de la région nord-est des États-Unis.

Spécial IA

• Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package (arstechnica.com)
  

  Millions of AI agents and tools around the world have been imperiled by a critical vulnerability that can allow hackers to breach the servers running them and make off with sensitive data and credentials to third-party accounts […]The vulnerability is present in Starlette, an open source framework that its developer says receives 325 million downloads per week.

• Raz-de-marée de « code slop » : Linus Torvalds sature et bannit les patchs générés par l’IA du noyau Linux ! (cercll.wordpress.com)
• DuckDuckGo Installs Spike as Google Moves to Replace Search With AI (futurism.com)
  

  Instead of links, Google is looking to push users down an AI chatbot rabbit hole. That’s despite the tech’s glaring shortcomings, which the company has yet to meaningfully address, with the company’s flagship AI Overview feature still suffering from a staggering number of hallucinations. Even something as simple as googling the word “disregard” sent the feature into a spiral, forcing the company to jump in after a wave of mockery.

• Open source project contains hidden instruction for “AI” agents : delete my code (osnews.com)
  

  It’s no secret there’s a war going on inside the open source community, with people adopting “AI” on one side, and those that want nothing to do with it on the other. While the former are, by nature, using destructive tactics like mass website scraping, license washing, taking people’s creative works without permission, taking all the RAM and GPUs, and oh, destroying the planet, the latter have mostly stuck to fairly benign things like policies banning “AI” use, “AI” bot blockers, and the occasional honey pot mazes to trap “AI” crawlers. No more. Things are escalating

  

• Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis (techcrunch.com)
  

  “CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI”[…]these top-level executives aren’t the people who have to review code, discover bugs, and identify calls to hallucinated libraries before software is deployed.

• ‘AI washing’ : firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused (theguardian.com)
  

  PR executives say UK companies are forcing them to present ordinary automation as artificial intelligence

• Appel à témoignages : vous refusez les injonctions de votre employeur à utiliser l’IA au travail ? Racontez-nous (lemonde.fr)
• ‘Big AI’ influence on laws and oversight mapped (ed.ac.uk)
  

  Artificial intelligence (AI) companies influence policy and regulation using similar techniques to Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and Big Oil, according to a new study.

• AI sticker shock hits corporate America (axios.com)
  

  Corporate leaders are starting to question whether soaring AI spending is delivering meaningful returns.

• 500 millions de dollars brûlés en 30 jours : cette entreprise a « oublié » d’encadrer l’usage de l’IA Claude (numerama.com)
• You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze (theverge.com)
  

  Ads, rate limits, feature restrictions, price hikes. The AI free ride is over.

• FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent (arstechnica.com)
  

  The earliest arrests under the Take It Down Act (TIDA) suggest that cops don’t have to work too hard to identify people illegally posting and selling nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes of women online.

• La Cité artificielle et l’IA à visage humain (legrandcontinent.eu) – voir aussi Magnifica Humanitas, texte intégral de l’Encyclique de Léon XIV (legrandcontinent.eu)
• Ce que dit l’encyclique de Léon XIV sur l’IA, qui doit être « empêchée de dominer l’humain » (nouvelobs.com)
  

  Le pape va jusqu’à dénoncer « les nouvelles formes d’esclavage », nées des besoins d’extraction de ressources nécessaires à l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle (IA), comme les microprocesseurs.

• Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must “disarm” AI (arstechnica.com)
  

  With the co-founder of Anthropic at his side today in Rome, Pope Leo XIV released a major new encyclical—his first—called “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”). It calls for AI to be “disarmed” in service of the common good.

  Voir aussi Is Peter Thiel the target of Pope Leo’s Gandalf quote ? An investigation. (arstechnica.com)

• Meta data center allegedly muddies Georgia town’s drinking water, investigation underway (tomshardware.com)
  

  EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearing

• ‘We will fight until the end’ : Pennsylvania township erupts over $5 billion data center plan (yahoo.com)
• Saboter les data centers ? L’administration Trump craint l’émergence d’un « extrémisme » anti-technologique (legrandcontinent.eu)
• Les datacenters réchauffent la planète (multinationales.org)
• L’IA ça sert, d’abord, à faire la guerre (danslesalgorithmes.net)
• Unlawful by design : Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI (amnesty.org) – voir aussi Les énormes pipelines de données qui alimentent les principaux systèmes d’IA générative reposent intrinsèquement sur des intrusions massives dans la vie privée (amnesty.org)

Spécial Israël et Palestine

• La rapporteure de l’ONU sur Gaza de nouveau visée par des sanctions américaines (lapresse.ca)
  

  Les États-Unis ont réinstauré les sanctions prises à l’encontre de Francesca Albanese, une experte de l’ONU spécialiste des territoires palestiniens ayant vivement critiqué Israël, seulement quelques jours après leur levée.

• Israël : du bon usage du fasciste Ben Gvir (politis.fr)
  

  Le ministre suprémaciste a eu le tort de montrer à la face du monde cette réalité d’Israël que le monde ne veut pas voir.

• In first since Oslo, Israel seizing land for army base inside West Bank city (972mag.com)
  

  The seizure order, near Jenin refugee camp, is the latest move aimed at expanding military and settler presence in the north of the occupied territory.

Spécial femmes dans le monde

• La crise des droits des femmes en Afghanistan est une catastrophe humanitaire (theconversation.com)
• Les mutilations génitales féminines en Égypte : répression légale, résistance culturelle (theconversation.com)
  

  Comment faire respecter la loi quand la famille devient le premier relais de la mutilation, au nom de l’honneur et de l’intégration sociale ?

• Le tatouage amazigh, entre transmission et réappropriation (bondyblog.fr)
• La compositrice Antonia Bembo a fui Venise pour échapper à son mari violent. Plus de trois siècles plus tard, son opéra est enfin mis en scène (theconversation.com)
• I was drugged and raped by my husband for years (bbc.co.uk)
  

  A woman whose husband drugged, raped and filmed himself abusing her for years is speaking out about her experience in a bid to help other victims of similar crimes.

Spécial France

• « Les esclaves sont nos parents » : comment le 22 et le 27 mai façonnent encore les mémoires antillaises (bondyblog.fr)
  

  Chaque année, le 22 mai en Martinique et le 27 mai en Guadeloupe, les Antillais·es commémorent l’abolition de l’esclavage dans leurs territoires. Distinctes du 10 mai retenu par l’État français, ces dates hautement symboliques pour les communautés antillaises rappellent la résistance des personnes mises en esclavage.

• L’Assemblée nationale abroge définitivement le Code noir (guyaweb.com)
  

  L’Assemblée nationale abroge définitivement le Code noirLes député·es ont voté à l’unanimité ce jeudi 28 mai pour l’abrogation du Code noir et l’ensemble des textes ayant réglementé l’esclavage dans les colonies françaises aux XVIIᵉ et XVIIIᵉ siècles. Bien que sans effet juridique depuis longtemps, ces textes n’avaient jamais formellement été abrogés après l’abolition définitive de l’esclavage en 1848.

• Patrick Balkany écope de deux peines de prison ferme pour détournements de fonds publics (huffingtonpost.fr)
  

  Patrick Balkany, âgé de 77 ans, a été condamné à 15 mois de prison ferme et à trois ans ferme, mais sans mandat de dépôt. Il n’ira donc pas immédiatement derrière les barreaux.

• Fête nationale : Pourquoi Paris avance son feu d’artifice au 13 juillet cette année (huffingtonpost.fr)
  

  C’est le maire de la capitale, Emmanuel Grégoire, qui a pris cette décision, en lien avec le président de la République, Emmanuel Macron. […] « J’ai souhaité que l’édition 2026 ait lieu le lundi 13 juillet, afin de permettre le respect nécessaire pour le temps national de commémoration des dix ans de l’attentat de Nice »

• Un mort et huit blessés graves en marge des célébrations de la victoire du PSG en Ligue des champions (huffingtonpost.fr)
• La justice déclare illégale l’édition de manuels scolaires numériques par la région Ile-de-France (lemonde.fr)
• Qui sont les 30 % de foyers éligibles au RSA qui ne le perçoivent pas ? (alternatives-economiques.fr)
  

  De nouveaux travaux affinent le profil des personnes qui ne demandent pas le RSA alors qu’elles y ont droit. Et montrent l’impact qu’aurait le recours à la prestation sociale sur le taux de pauvreté.

• Datacenter de Google à Châteauroux : vers une enquête publique sur fond de « secret des affaires » (multinationales.org)
  

  Saisie par Google et RTE, la Commission nationale du débat public (CNDP) va organiser une concertation autour du projet de datacenter géant de la multinationale américaine à Ozans, près de Châteauroux – et ce bien qu’officiellement, Google n’ait toujours pas pris sa décision.

• Canicule : « Dans les logements sociaux, on cuit dans l’indifférence » (reporterre.net)
• 35°C dans la classe : quand passer le BAC devient infernal (bonpote.com)
• Un jeune ouvrier de 19 ans meurt après avoir travaillé sur une toiture sous une chaleur intense (midilibre.fr)
  

  Un ouvrier de 19 ans est mort dans la nuit du mardi 26 au mercredi 27 mai après avoir travaillé sur un toit par plus de 31 °C.

• Rails à 50 °C, plus de clim… Pourquoi la SNCF peine à faire face à la canicule ? (huffingtonpost.fr)
  

  Les chaleurs exceptionnelles ont semé la pagaille dans les trains, révélant les limites du réseau ferroviaire français face au changement climatique.

• Pointes à 39 °C dans le Sud-Est, 17 départements en alerte orange, épisodes de pollution critique à l’ozone… Face à la canicule, le gouvernement appelé à « prendre des mesures structurantes » (humanite.fr)
• Refuges thermiques en rivière : quand les eaux souterraines sauvent les poissons de la surchauffe (theconversation.com)

Spécial femmes en France

• « La marche des femmes » : leçon d’histoire féministe avec Michelle Perrot en BD (lesnouvellesnews.fr)
• Lycéennes et vocations scientifiques : des stages en écoles d’ingénieurs pour contrer les stéréotypes de genre (theconversation.com)
• Égalité professionnelle : la France retarde la transparence (lesnouvellesnews.fr)
  

  La France avait trois ans pour transposer la directive européenne sur la transparence salariale, favorable à l’égalité professionnelle. Le gouvernement repousse désormais ses obligations, invoquant une mésentente entre partenaires sociaux.Qui aurait pu prédire ?

• Affaire Bruel : en Suisse, le Paléo Festival confirme un accord après un « comportement inadmissible » du chanteur en 2019 (leparisien.fr)
  

  une masseuse bénévole du Paléo avait dénoncé le « comportement inadmissible » du chanteur en 2019. L’affaire s’était conclue par « un accord entre les parties incluant une clause de confidentialité ».

• « Bruel violeur ! » : des militantes féministes interrompent la pièce du chanteur à Paris (huffingtonpost.fr)
  

  Des militantes du collectif Nous Toutes s’étaient placées dans le public de la pièce « Deuxième partie », dans laquelle joue Patrick Bruel au théâtre Édouard VII.

• Patrick Bruel annule concerts et festivals cet été : le point sur une affaire hors norme (telerama.fr)
  

  L’étau se resserre autour du chanteur accusé de nombreuses agressions sexuelles. Une trentaine de femmes ont témoigné contre lui. Rappel des faits alors qu’il vient d’annuler ses dates prévues jusqu’à l’automne.

  

• « Les violences faites aux femmes, c’est un problème d’hommes » Thomas Pesquet appelle les hommes à réagir (lesnouvellesnews.fr) – voir aussi la vidéo : Droit dans les yeux – Thomas Pesquet (france.tv)

RIP

• Disparition : Huguette Bouchardeau, l’exigence militante (politis.fr)
  

  Première femme en France à diriger un parti politique, le PSU, à la fin des années 1970, Huguette Bouchardeau est décédée à l’âge de 90 ans.

• Sociologue, philosophe et résistant, Edgar Morin est mort à l’âge de 104 ans (rfi.fr)
  

  Considéré comme le dernier grand intellectuel français, Edgar Morin est décédé ce 29 mai […] Philosophe et sociologue, directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS, l’auteur de Le paradigme perdu et d’une soixantaine d’autres ouvrages laisse derrière lui une œuvre transdisciplinaire, abondamment commentée et traduite, au service d’une pensée toujours libre et critique de son temps.

  Voir aussi Edgar Morin, penseur de la complexité et passionné de l’humanité (humanite.fr)

Spécial médias et pouvoir

• Le Sénat malmène la presse indépendante et oublie Vincent Bolloré (reporterre.net)
• La ministre Annie Genevard, épinglée pour sa présence à une réunion de Bolloré au casting sulfureux (huffingtonpost.fr)
  

  « Le Monde » a révélé la présence de la ministre à un déjeuner visant à structurer un think thank, fondé par Bolloré, pour promouvoir ses idées conservatrices en vue de 2027.

• Crise à « Ouest-France » : le journalisme pourrait être une solution (politis.fr)
  

  Le pilier de la presse régionale va mal, et sa direction engage un énième plan d’économie. Suggestion proposée par le syndicat SNJ : arrêter de « trouver des excuses » et sortir des informations.

• CNews, La Baule et la fabrique de l’« insécurité » (acrimed.org)
• Ce journaliste météo de BFM dénonce à l’antenne des « dizaines d’insultes et menaces » (huffingtonpost.fr)
  

  Kévin Floury a pris la parole lors de la matinale de la chaîne d’info en continu pour défendre les cartes météo jugées trop « rouges » par les climatosceptiques.

Spécial emmerdeurs irresponsables gérant comme des pieds (et à la néolibérale)

• Lutte contre les inégalités : la France décroche par rapport au reste de l’Europe (alternatives-economiques.fr)
• Présidentielle. En meeting, Gabriel Attal refait le coup du « progressisme » macroniste (humanite.fr)
  

  ce qu’il décrit comme ses quatre chantiers prioritaires : « école, salaires, frontières, IA ».

• Pour la présidentielle 2027, Gabriel Attal récupère un compte de soutien à Emmanuel Macron sur les réseaux (huffingtonpost.fr)
  

  Tout le week-end, des internautes se sont étonnés d’être abonnés au compte « Attal président » sans jamais l’avoir demandé […] le compte dispose déjà de 35 000 abonnés sur Instagram et de plus de 50 000 sur X […] Sans rien dire à personne, Gabriel Attal a mis la main sur les comptes de soutien du candidat… Emmanuel Macron en 2022 »

• Ouverture à la concurrence du train : même des sénateurs de droite décrivent un fiasco (reporterre.net)
  

  Deux sénateurs de droite dressent un bilan critique de la libéralisation du rail : coûteuse pour les finances publiques, elle fait courir le risque d’une « balkanisation » du réseau et de l’abandon des petites dessertes.

• L’adaptation au changement climatique, gros point noir d’Emmanuel Macron sur l’écologie (huffingtonpost.fr)
• En pleine canicule historique, le gouvernement bafoue la protection de l’eau (lareleveetlapeste.fr)
  

  Véritable atteinte démocratique, les préfets pourront permettre aux agriculteurs de continuer à pomper l’eau pendant deux ans, même lorsqu’une mégabassine aura été rendue illégale par la justice !

• Le gouvernement a censuré des campagnes de prévention sur la canicule et le tabac (reporterre.net)
• « Les scientifiques avaient beau savoir que ça arriverait, on est sur quelque chose de stupéfiant » (reporterre.net)

Spécial recul des droits et libertés, violences policières, montée de l’extrême-droite…

• Vidéosurveillance algorithmique : la loi Ripost étend encore la prolongation jusqu’en 2030 (next.ink)
• Vidéosurveillance « intelligente » : bientôt une loi taillée sur mesure pour les intérêts privés ? (multinationales.org)
  

  La vidéosurveillance algorithmique se déploie en France non seulement dans l’espace public, avec la loi JO, mais aussi dans les commerces, sans le cadre juridique nécessaire. Des startups comme Veesion ont lancé une campagne de lobbying de longue haleine pour obtenir la légalisation de ces pratiques, avec le soutien des géants de la distribution et de députés.

• L’extrême droite et la droite française testent un rapprochement inédit lors d’une élection très peu médiatisée (legrandcontinent.eu)
  

  Du 22 au 31 mai 2026, les Français·es résidant hors de France éliront 433 conseiller·es des Français·es de l’étranger et 77 délégué·es consulaires

• Critiquée pour avoir participé à la manif antiracisme, la présidente de WWF France démissionne (huffingtonpost.fr)
  

  « Il est apparu clairement que nous n’étions plus alignés sur des questions essentielles de valeurs et de conception du rôle d’une organisation comme le WWF dans la société contemporaine […] Ce désaccord est devenu explicite après ma participation, à titre strictement personnel, à un rassemblement transpartisan contre le racisme à Saint-Denis »

• Syndicats sous pression (politis.fr)
  

  De la mise en examen de Sophie Binet après ses prises de position sur les Pfas aux attaques des municipalités du RN contre les syndicats, une même logique est à l’œuvre : affaiblir la démocratie sociale.

• Deux inspecteurs du travail accusés de harcèlement moral par leur hiérarchie : “Il y a eu des pressions que nous n’avions jamais connues” (france3-regions.franceinfo.fr)
  

  À Grenoble, les tensions au sein de l’inspection du travail se sont accentuées à l’approche du 1er mai. Selon les syndicats, des courriers destinés à rappeler aux employeurs la réglementation applicable ce jour-là ont d’abord été bloqués par la direction.

• Bourses du travail : un contre-pouvoir syndical sous la pression des maires (basta.media)
  

  Menacées d’expulsion dans plusieurs villes de droite et RN, comme à Carcassonne, les Bourses du travail sont des lieux essentiels pour l’accès aux droits des salariés et pour leur organisation collective.

• Mairies RN : la guerre contre le monde du travail est déclarée, il faut faire front (politis.fr)
  

  Dans les communes dirigées par le Rassemblement national, les attaques contre les syndicats se multiplient. L’extrême droite veut affaiblir les contre-pouvoirs du monde du travail et imposer un ordre réactionnaire au service des politiques antisociales et racistes.

• Sainte-Soline : le gendarme qui a failli tuer Serge Duteuil-Graziani identifié (reporterre.net)
  

  C’est un élément majeur qu’ont identifié Mediapart et Libération. Au bout de plusieurs mois d’analyses de plus de 150 heures d’images produites par les gendarmes et des journalistes, les deux médias ont révélé le 26 mai précisément l’origine du tir de grenade qui a grièvement blessé Serge Duteuil-Graziani le 25 mars 2023 lors de la mobilisation à Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres).

• Provocation : le commissaire Chassaing responsable de la noyade de Steve à Nantes décoré pour « service rendu à la nation » (contre-attaque.net)
• De légères sanctions prononcées contre des gendarmes mis en cause lors de la manifestation à Sainte-Soline (huffingtonpost.fr)
  

  Les militaires n’ont été sanctionnés que pour « propos inadaptés ». Pour ce qui est des tirs tendus filmés sur place, le ministère de l’Intérieur s’en remet à la justice.

• « C’était inhumain. Même à un chien, on ne fait pas ça » : Toufik, autiste et malentendant, violenté par la police (basta.media)
• Amputée des quatre membres, verbalisée sur une place handicapée, 375 euros saisis : le cauchemar administratif d’une mère de famille (france3-regions.franceinfo.fr)

Spécial résistances

• À Paris, le monde de la culture fait front contre Bolloré devant l’Olympia (humanite.fr)
  

  À l’appel de la CGT Spectacle, acteurs du monde de la culture, syndicats et partis politiques de gauche se sont rassemblés devant la salle de spectacle détenue par le milliardaire d’extrême droite ce samedi 30 mai, pour appeler à lutter contre la bataille culturelle menée par Bolloré.

  Voir aussi Jean-Luc Mélenchon fait de la lutte contre Bolloré un argument de campagne lors de la manif à L’Olympia (huffingtonpost.fr)

  Le leader de La France insoumise a manifesté près de la salle de spectacle qui appartient au groupe Canal+, avec plusieurs dizaines de personnes.

• Au Stade de France, Aya Nakamura « brûle » une banderole raciste d’un groupuscule d’extrême droite (huffingtonpost.fr)
  

  L’interprète de « Djadja » a répondu à sa manière aux militants identitaires du groupe Les Natifs, condamnés pour avoir déployé une pancarte raciste à son encontre

• À Besançon, une manifestation spontanée chasse Alice Cordier d’un bar (lechni.info)
  

  Pour les membres du « collectif Némésis », trouver un café ou un estaminet accueillant est devenu un chemin de croix. Contraintes de venir dans la capitale comtoise à cause d’un énième calendrier judiciaire, les militantes d’extrême droite pourront désormais ajouter un nouveau lieu où elles sont « persona non grata ».

• Augmentation des frais d’inscription pour les étudiants étrangers : les universités se mobilisent contre un nouveau décret (basta.media)
  

  Des enseignants-chercheurs et des étudiants multiplient les mobilisations contre les frais différenciés imposés aux étudiants étrangers hors UE. Le gouvernement fait pression pour généraliser, par décret, cette mesure.

• Victoire ! Après 4 ans de procédure, EDF est enfin condamnée (sortirdunucleaire.org)
  

  La Cour d’appel de Grenoble a rendu, ce 27 mai 2026, un arrêt confirmant la responsabilité d’EDF et de Cédrick Hausseguy dans les fuites de tritium survenues en novembre 2021 à la centrale nucléaire de Tricastin (Drôme). Cette décision fait suite à une procédure engagée par le Réseau “Sortir du nucléaire” (RSDN) dès octobre 2022, après la découverte d’une contamination des eaux souterraines par 900 litres d’effluents radioactifs.

• Victoire pour un lanceur d’alerte nucléaire : EDF condamnée pour harcèlement moral (reporterre.net)
• « Des grains de sable dans la machine » : partout en France, des mobilisations contre le béton (reporterre.net)
• Le travail du sexe au cœur d’une bataille législative (streetpress.com)
  

  Dix ans après la loi pénalisant les clients, la sénatrice écolo Anne Souyris propose de décriminaliser le travail du sexe. Un texte co-écrit avec les concernées, qui pourrait bousculer un Parlement tenté par de nouvelles lois coercitives.

• Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia (medium.com)
  

  Sign the solidarity petition if you edit Wikipedia.

• Ciblé par deux textes de lois, des peines de prison et des amendes prohibitives, le mouvement des free parties se mobilise (basta.media)
  

  Du 30 mai au 13 juin, le mouvement des free parties organise des « manifestives » aux quatre coins du pays pour s’opposer à deux textes législatifs en cours de discussion, et jugés extrêmement répressifs.

Spécial outils de résistance

• “Que peut faire la police” : le guide qui prolonge une enquête et donne des moyens d’agir (rembobine.info)
• « Basta ! » en campagne pour faire entrer le sujet des violences policières dans le débat public (basta.media)
  

  Basta ! prépare un nouvel outil de visualisation de sa base de données sur les interventions policières létales. Une manière de faire entrer durablement dans le débat public le sujet des violences policières, lorsque celles-ci sont illégitimes.

• Le RN vote contre vous (stoprn.hop.kim)
  

  À l’heure où les médias télévisés ne relatent que des discours et des opinions, nous voulions remettre les faits au centre des décisions de chacun-e et montrer à toutes et tous que le RN n’agit pas dans votre intérêt. Le RN vote contre notre santé, contre les femmes, contre les personnes précaires, contre les personnes non blanches, contre les travailleurs et travailleuses, contre les demandeurs et demandeuses d’emploi, contre les personnes LGBT+, contre les malades, contre les agriculteurs et agricultrices, contre le vivant, contre l’écologie et contre la démocratie.

• Élection présidentielle 2027 : l’ONG Quota climat et le média Les Surligneurs lancent une plateforme anti-désinformation (vert.eco)
• Ce site surveille les jets privés des milliardaires pour traquer leur fuite en cas de catastrophe mondiale (slate.fr)
  

  Un programmeur américain a créé un système qui analyse l’activité des avions privés et attribue un « niveau d’urgence » global. Une œuvre à mi-chemin entre art, satire politique et surveillance technologique.

• AI Data Centers & Our Communities (brockovichdatacenter.com)
• Tax the 1 % (taxthe1percent.com.au)

Spécial MAGAM et cie

• Comment Google et Apple brident Galileo et l’IGN, pourtant gratuits et plus performants (clubic.com)
  

  En conditions normales, le système de navigation européen Galileo offre des performances deux à trois fois supérieures au GPS américain. Imaginez qu’avec son service haute précision, il peut descendre sous les 25 centimètres. Le tout gratuit et ouvert à tous. Pourtant sur votre téléphone, vos données de déplacement transitent par les serveurs de Google ou d’Apple. Et l’IGN, que l’État français finance à hauteur d’une centaine de millions d’euros par an, reste absent de la majorité des services numériques publics.

• WhatsApp Chat Histories Stored Unencrypted on macOS and iOS (cybersecuritynews.com)
• Les Pays-Bas construisent leur propre GitHub pour ne plus dépendre de Microsoft (01net.com)
• Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation (techcrunch.com)
  

  After a security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products, along with code to exploit them, the company is now threatening to take legal action and call the cops on them. Microsoft’s veiled threat reignites a long-running argument over what responsibility, if any, security researchers have to disclose vulnerabilities affecting large and wealthy tech giants.

Les autres lectures de la semaine

• L’emmerdification du web : comprendre le phénomène pour s’en libérer (lasuite.coop)
• The Last Quiet Thing (terrygodier.com)
• The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech (theringer.com)
  

  The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can’t escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI

• La réponse capitaliste a échoué (politis.fr)
  

  La réponse du capitalisme à ses propres crises a échoué, en dépit de sa tentation libertarienne actuelle. Mais la gauche le sait-elle ?

• The ‘warrior ethos’ promises victory — history says it leads to defeat (theconversation.com)
• Quels premiers ministres ont banalisé les idées d’extrême droite ? (theconversation.com)
• De la “Honte noire” au fémonationalisme (komunemedia.substack.com)
  

  Comment les discours de l’extrême droite sur la protection des femmes réactivent-ils des imaginaires coloniaux hérités de la campagne raciste allemande de la « Honte noire » ?

• L’entrée en Ehpad non consentie : une citoyenneté confisquée ? (mouvements.info)
• Coutume tyrannique, pourquoi obéir ? L’égalité des sexes dans l’utopie de la révolution anglaise (contretemps.eu)
• Si vous aimez les grêlons gros comme des pamplemousses, vous allez adorer le réchauffement climatique (slate.fr)
  

  Une étude alerte sur une explosion des épisodes de grêle extrême d’ici 2100. Aux États-Unis comme en Europe, le réchauffement climatique pourrait favoriser des tempêtes capables de produire des grêlons records, et des dégâts considérables.

Les BDs/graphiques/photos de la semaine

• Sales connes
• Advertising
• Concerned
• Efface tout
• Get in
• No going back
• Croix gammée
• Privacy

Les vidéos/podcasts de la semaine

• Canicule en mai : simple “coup de chaud” ou nouveau point de bascule ? Avec V. Masson-Delmotte, paléoclimatologue et coautrice du dernier rapport du GIEC (humanite.fr)
• Allemagne : l’extrême droite aux portes du pouvoir ? (humanite.fr)
• 2027, rapports avec LFI, anticapitalisme… Philippe Poutou face à l’Huma (humanite.fr)
• Do Chatbots Really Belong in Schools ? (techwontsave.us)
• M.I.T. Computer Program Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040 (openculture.com)

Les trucs chouettes de la semaine

• M6 – Reportage sur déMAILnagement (peertube.libretic.fr)
• “Un téléphone qu’on peut réparer sur la table de la cuisine pour 30€, ça devient une évidence” – Interview Fairphone (clubic.com)
• Ne jetez pas votre vieux PC portable : transformez-le en machine ultime contre la distraction ! (goodtech.info)
• Révolution dans l’isolation : des laines végétales acoustiques et résistantes au feu (theconversation.com)
• Ce marais vieux de 4000 ans dépollue naturellement les nitrates (lareleveetlapeste.fr)
  

  Le marais de Taligny, en Indre-et-Loire, absorbe les nitrates, freine les crues, soutient les nappes phréatiques et stocke le carbone. Ces fonctions, longtemps ignorées, ont justifié une restauration complète engagée depuis les années 2000. Une réserve naturelle régionale qui rend, silencieusement, des services que l’agriculture industrielle et l’urbanisme continuent de détruire ailleurs.

• Severed sea cucumber appendages don’t seem to die (arstechnica.com)
  

  They seem to reorganize their tissues and then just keep living.

• “It’s blue !” Deep-sea scientists discover exciting new species in the Galápagos (discoverwildlife.com)
  

  Microeledone galapagensis, a tiny blue octopus, is new to science

• La sexualité animale est bien plus diverse que nous ne voulons le savoir (reporterre.net)
• Des chercheurs du CHU de Lille sont en train de développer… un stérilet masculin ! (lebonbon.fr)
  

  des chercheurs lillois travaillent actuellement sur un stérilet masculin implantable et réversible. Une innovation qui pourrait complètement changer la contraception dans les prochaines années.

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