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Online Safety Regulation Increases Privacy Risk: Evidence from the UK Online Safety Act
Governments worldwide are increasingly regulating digital platforms to reduce online harms, particularly those affecting children. However, access restrictions can alter user behaviour and introduce new privacy and security risks. The UK Online Safety Act OSA, passed in October 2023, illustrates...
Insider Betting on Polymarket
Insider trading is rife on Polymarket: Analysis by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, a non-profit research and advocacy group, found that long-shot bets--defined as wagers of $2,500 or more at odds of 35 percent or less--on the platform had an average win rate of around 52 percent in markets...
Team Mirai and Democracy
Japan’s election last month and the rise of the country’s newest and most innovative political party, Team Mirai, illustrates the viability of a different way to do politics. In this model, technology is used to make democratic processes stronger, instead of undermining them. It is harnessed to...
CVE-2026-28056
Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program 'PHP Remote File Inclusion' vulnerability in ThemeREX MCKinney's Politics mckinney-politics allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects MCKinney's Politics: from n/a through = 1.2.8...
EUVD-2026-9716
Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program 'PHP Remote File Inclusion' vulnerability in ThemeREX MCKinney's Politics mckinney-politics allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects MCKinney's Politics: from n/a through = 1.2.8...
CVE-2026-28056
Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program 'PHP Remote File Inclusion' vulnerability in ThemeREX MCKinney's Politics mckinney-politics allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects MCKinney's Politics: from n/a through = 1.2.8...
CVE-2026-28056 WordPress MCKinney's Politics theme <= 1.2.8 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability
Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program 'PHP Remote File Inclusion' vulnerability in ThemeREX MCKinney's Politics mckinney-politics allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects MCKinney's Politics: from n/a through = 1.2.8...
CVE-2026-28056
CVE-2026-28056 is a Local File Inclusion issue in the WordPress theme “MCKinney’s Politics” (ThemeREX) affecting versions up to 1.2.8. The root cause is improper control of the filename used in PHP include/require statements, enabling an attacker to include local files via crafted input. Public s...
CVE-2026-28056 WordPress MCKinney's Politics theme <= 1.2.8 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability
Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program 'PHP Remote File Inclusion' vulnerability in ThemeREX MCKinney's Politics mckinney-politics allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects MCKinney's Politics: from n/a through = 1.2.8...
PT-2026-23336
Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program 'PHP Remote File Inclusion' vulnerability in ThemeREX MCKinney's Politics mckinney-politics allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects MCKinney's Politics: from n/a through = 1.2.8...
WordPress plugin MCKinneys Politics 安全漏洞
WordPress and WordPress plugins are both products of the WordPress Foundation. WordPress is a blog platform developed using the PHP language. This platform allows for the creation of personal blog websites on servers based on PHP and MySQL. A WordPress plugin is an application extension. The...
WordPress MCKinney's Politics theme <= 1.2.8 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability
Local File Inclusion vulnerability discovered by Bonds in WordPress Theme MCKinney's Politics versions = 1.2.8...
Malicious code in political_opossum_z3n (npm)
--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 78e57c0651a74e67d60bdd21406d5c90ff468634179341856430d2aa87642152 This package appears to be part of the tea.xyz token reward campaign that flooded npm. These packages typically contain autopublish scripts auto.js,...
Rewiring Democracy is Coming Soon
My latest book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship , will be published in just over a week. No reviews yet, but you can read chapters 12 and 34 of 43 chapters total. You can order the book pretty much everywhere, and a copy signed by me here. Pleas...
AI and the Future of American Politics
Two years ago, Americans anxious about the forthcoming 2024 presidential election were considering the malevolent force of an election influencer: artificial intelligence. Over the past several years, we have seen plenty of warning signs from elections worldwide demonstrating how AI can be used t...
My Latest Book: Rewiring Democracy
I am pleased to announce the imminent publication of my latest book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI will Transform our Politics, Government, and Citizenship: coauthored with Nathan Sanders, and published by MIT Press on October 21. Rewiring Democracy looks beyond common tropes like deepfakes to exami...
Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad
In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics--but it won't necessarily be for the worse. India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate his speeches for his multilingual electorate in real time, demonstrating how AI can help diverse democracies to be more...
The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President
A successful CIA hack of Venezuela's military payroll system, insider fights for spy agency resources, and messy opposition politics: A WIRED investigation reveals a secret Trump-era attempt to oust autocratic ruler Nicolás Maduro...
More on My AI and Democracy Book
In July, I wrote about my new book project on AI and democracy, to be published by MIT Press in fall 2025. My co-author and collaborator Nathan Sanders and I are hard at work writing. At this point, we would like feedback on titles. Here are four possibilities: 1. Rewiring the Republic: How AI Wi...
GHSA-CC4G-M3G7-XMW8 Decidim has a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the version control page
Impact The version control feature used in resources is subject to potential cross-site scripting XSS attack through a malformed URL. Workarounds Not available References OWASP ASVS v4.0.3-5.1.3 Credits This issue was discovered in a security audit organized by Open Source Politics against Decidi...