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#AxisOfEasy 428: Samsung Faces Renewed Scrutiny Over Hidden Spyware Claims On Its Budget Phones

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 28, 2025 | 1 Comment
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Samsung faces renewed scrutiny over hidden spyware claims on its budget phones,
Windows 11 Update Causes Major Disruption for Virtual Desktop and First Time Users,
Hackers Breach Major Banking Vendor Compromising Client and Customer Data… this and more in AofE #428

24 Things I’m Grateful For

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 28, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Things large and small worthy of recognition and gratitude.

A Stoic’s Thanksgiving Gratitude

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 26, 2025 | 0 Comments
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There are times when the only triumph within reach is survival.

The Middle Class Is Cracking

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 24, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Borrowing more to maintain spending is hanging on by one’s fingernails, not middle-class security.

The Telefon Problem: Hacking AI with Poetry Instead of Prompts

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 22, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Researchers have found that most AI’s and LLM’s can have their security guardrails overridden through rewriting hostile prompts as poetry.

#AxisOfEasy 427: Cloudflare’s Internal Failure Briefly Turns The Internet’s Biggest Platforms Dark

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 21, 2025 | 4 Comments
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Cloudflare’s internal failure briefly turns the internet’s biggest platforms dark
Protei is hacked and its surveillance data spills into public view
AI runs most of a state-backed cyberattack and forces OpenAI to sound the alarm… this and more in AofE #427

Is AI a Catalyst for Growth–or For Collapse?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 20, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Yes, AI is a catalyst. But for what is not yet knowable.

What We’ve Lost

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 18, 2025 | 0 Comments
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What we’ve lost are the foundations of a healthy standard of living / quality of life.

#AxisOfEasy 426: Canada Quietly Advances Digital Identity Plans In The 2025 Federal Budget

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 14, 2025 | 1 Comment
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Canada quietly advances digital identity plans in the 2025 federal budget,
OpenAI faces lawsuits claiming ChatGPT’s design led to user suicides,
Washington Post and Other Major Organizations Fall Victim to Widespread Oracle E Business Suite Hack… this and more in AofE #426

Inequality Then and Now: Now It’s Too Late

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 14, 2025 | 0 Comments
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In refusing to recognize that inequality had the potential to bring down the entire system, our delay has made that reckoning inevitable.

Did the "Solution" Solve the Problem, Or Did It Just Make Somebody Rich?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 11, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Here’s the real problem: there’s no profit in a raw carrot and a walk around the block.

#AxisOfEasy 425: Microsoft Teams Security Flaws Show How Easily Digital Trust Can Be Exploited

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 7, 2025 | 3 Comments
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Microsoft Teams Security Flaws Show How Easily Digital Trust Can Be Exploited,
DHS Plans to Collect Biometrics from Immigrants and US Citizens Alike,
Threat Actors Have Turned the OpenAI Assistants API Into a Stealthy Malware Control Channel .. this and more in AofE #425

The Risk of AI Isn’t Skynet

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 6, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Just as a reminder of what’s being gambled on “AI supremacy”: it’s not just financial capital, it’s everything.

The Inevitable Drift Down from "Can’t Lose" Owning Stocks to "Can’t Win"

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 3, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Even if an AI program advises selling everything and walking away from the market for five years, how many of us would take this advice?

#AxisOfEasy 424: ChatGPT Atlas Exploit Exposes Persistent Memory Vulnerability In AI Browsers

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 31, 2025 | 1 Comment
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ChatGPT Atlas Exploit Exposes Persistent Memory Vulnerability in AI Browsers,
CharacterAI Restricts Teen Access Amid Legal and Regulatory Backlash Over AI Chat Risks,
XWiki Servers Under Active Attack Through Critical Solr Search Vulnerability… this and more in AofE #424

Neuroscience Shows Organizational Learning is Decentralized at its Core And Patterned in its Effect

By Bryan Lutz | October 31, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Recently, I’ve wanted a dog. Maybe […]

Yes, Everything Crashed–Just Not For You

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 30, 2025 | 0 Comments
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When people stop participating in their own servitude, then things change.

The Revolution Trilogy

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 28, 2025 | 0 Comments
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It would serve our interests to plot out what we can do from where we are right now should the status quo succumb to gravity.

Anatomy of AI Cold Turkey

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 26, 2025 | 0 Comments
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The problem with AI and the rest of Ultra-Processed Life is we slowly lose the ability to even grasp what’s been lost.

#AxisOfEasy 423: Amazon Web Services Outage Disrupts Major Online Platforms

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 24, 2025 | 2 Comments
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Amazon Web Services Outage Disrupts Major Online Platforms,
Banks End Client Relationships Without Explanation Amid Rising Risk Controls,
Freedom Under Fire? New Bills, New Problems… this and more in AofE #423

ZIRP or ZAP? Will the Fed’s ‘Zero-Interest Rate Policy’ Return, and Will It Work?

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 23, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Only the wealthy will benefit from ZIRP, and the benefits of “the wealth effect” and “trickle down” have not just diminished–they’re now negative. Welcome to the era of ZAP.

The State of Canadian Anti-Privacy & Surveillance Legislation 2025

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 22, 2025 | 0 Comments
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At the 2025 Canadian Bitcoin Conference […]

Could a Rip-Your-Face-Off Rally in the Dollar Trigger a Global Financial Crisis?

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 21, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Is this scenario guaranteed? No, of course not. But that doesn’t mean it’s excluded from the realm of possibility.

The Crisis and Revolution Hidden in Plain Sight

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 19, 2025 | 0 Comments
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While we focus on AI and finance, society is crumbling beneath our feet.

#AxisOfEasy 422: Why Treating AI As A Tool Is A Dangerous Illusion

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 17, 2025 | 2 Comments
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Why Treating AI as a Tool Is a Dangerous Illusion,
Chinese Espionage Group Expands Into Russia Through Jewelbug Cyber Campaign,
Cabinet Push for Secret Telecom Cutoffs Raises Privacy Concerns… this and more in AofE #422

Contributors

Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark is the co-founder of easyDNS and the editor-in-chief of #AxisOfEasy. He is the author of Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS (Packt UK, 2018) and Unassailable: Protect Yourself from Deplatform Attacks & Cancel Culture. 

The Canadian Bitcoiners

The Canadian Bitcoiners

Joey Tweets and Len the Lengend are the hosts of The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast, and you may recognize them as the voices (and faces) behing the AxisOfEasy Podcast. CanadianBitcoiners.com

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.