Twitter is full of porn. Automated accounts, some of whoch are designed to drag you off to a web of dodgy dating sites, overwhelm the social network, constantly clogging up mentions with insincere likes and retweets. But what actually sits behind Brianne’s, Helen’s, or Christina’s account? Thanks to an apparently misconfigured bot, now we can see.

On Thursday, an account using the name Barbara Hughes tweeted out the usual seductive message and picture of a woman, but, presumably accidentally, also an IP address of a server the bot appears to be linked to.

During the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas in 1991, Senate Democrats chose not to call Angela Wright, a former colleague of Judge Thomas’s who was prepared to accuse him of sexual misconduct. Only Anita Hill testified about experiencing harassment by Judge Thomas. He consistently denied her allegations and was ultimately confirmed.

Ms. Wright, in a recent interview from her home in Charlotte, N.C., reflected on both the Hill-Thomas hearings and the Judiciary Committee session scheduled for Thursday featuring Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexual assault when they were teenagers. Like Ms. Hill, Dr. Blasey will not be joined by other witnesses who have made accusations against the nominee.

THE UNITED NATIONS accidentally published passwords, internal documents, and technical details about websites when it misconfigured popular project management service Trello, issue tracking app Jira, and office suite Google Docs.

The mistakes made sensitive material available online to anyone with the proper link, rather than only to specific users who should have access. Affected data included credentials for a U.N. file server, the video conferencing system at the U.N.’s language school, and a web development environment for the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Security researcher Kushagra Pathak discovered the accidental leak and notified the U.N. about what he found a little over a month ago. As of today, much of the material appears to have been taken down.

THE EVIDENCE IS mounting that President Donald Trump is unhinged, knocking the United States into an unforeseen crack in the constitutional framework. Our founding documents offer few clues on how to handle the scenario we now confront. The country is saddled with a president who is not just thoroughly corrupt but also appears to be mentally impaired — yet retains the backing of his own enabling party. This makes him nearly impervious to the nation’s traditional checks and balances.

Bondars is convicted for running Scan4You, a multi-engine virus scanning tool just like Google’s legitimate web service VirusTotal. Using this service, hackers were able to run their code through various mainstream antivirusesbefore launching them officially into an actual malware campaign.

“Ruslans Bondars helped malware developers attack American businesses,” said Assistant Attorney General Benczkowski. “The Department of Justice and its law enforcement partners make no distinction between service providers like Scan4You and the hackers they assist: we will hold them accountable for all of the significant harm they cause and work tirelessly to bring them to justice, wherever they may be located.”

WASHINGTON — The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office for being unfit.

Mr. Rosenstein made these suggestions in the spring of 2017 when Mr. Trump’s firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director plunged the White House into turmoil. Over the ensuing days, the president divulgedclassified intelligence to Russians in the Oval Office, and revelations emerged that Mr. Trump had asked Mr. Comey to pledge loyalty and end an investigation into a senior aide.