JL;DR SUMMARY The Israeli spyware firm NSO Group has been ordered by a U.S. court to pay $167 million in damages to WhatsApp for illegally hacking 1,400 accounts using its Pegasus software, marking a significant victory for privacy advocates. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.