Alex S.

AI/Cybersecurity
OSINT Researcher
From Italy 🇮🇹

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Latvian President Rinkēvičs said further Russian escalation is "very likely" and that Latvian and NATO troops are authorized to resist a limited incursion without waiting for Brussels. https://t.co/z5N8ZePXOA

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇫🇷 11% of gas stations in France are now out of gas or diesel.

• Diesel has surged to €2.38 per liter, putting it within 1% of a record high.

• French President Emmanuel Macron called an emergency meeting to address the situation.

• The French government is preparing financial assistance for drivers who travel long distances.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

NATO Military Chief Giuseppe Cavo Dragone:

We have 4,000 pages of plans for the eastern flank, and this goes from the minimal crisis or interference on our soil with Article 5 and on and on.

The alliance is ready. The structure is ready. The soldiers, the system, the weapons are ready.

In case of an attack, I can tell you that today they have much more to lose than to gain, that’s for sure, and that’s deterrence.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Lithuanias foreign ministry has said it has received intelligence of upcoming Russian hybrid attacks on Europe in particular a large false flag operation under a foreign flag, Latvia mentioned a similar operation potentially using special forces.

Not good…

[Sébastien Blanc 🇪🇺 🥑 @sebi2706]

Vu la réaction super mesurée de l’ensemble de l’opposition à la sortie de la réunion avec Macron, je pense que la situation est super préoccupante, bien plus qu’on ne le pense.

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇪🇺🇷🇺 President Putin says European leaders are openly declaring that they are preparing for war with Russia.

[Tomi 🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 @TallbarFIN]

Leaderships of multiple European countries are simultaneously holding emergency meetings and telling their citizens to prepare for hostile actions.

russian desperation is driving it to escalate the tensions into aggressive acts.

Something big is currently brewing.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

The U.S. military nearly launched an operation against a Chinese ship after an AI-assisted intelligence report falsely claimed it was carrying nuclear weapons components.

Officials discovered shortly before the planned action that the report was generated using AI and contained inaccurate information.

The incident has raised concerns about the risks of relying on AI for military intelligence and targeting decisions.

Source: CNN

[Faytuks News @Faytuks]

This is the first time NATO jets have shot down a drone over Lithuania

[Clash Report @clashreport]

BIG: Boris Johnson, German Chancellor Merz's top security adviser, and security advisers from UK, France, and Italy were all on a chartered night train from Kyiv when a Russian drone hit the locomotive of a passenger train on the same route near the Polish border.

Their train was stopped and partially evacuated at 5am before an all-clear.

They were returning from the YES security conference in Kyiv.

Polish jets scrambled, sirens sounded on the Polish side.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

Nightmare Eclipse, the person who has been dropping Windows zero-days, has finally decided to share his story. He's an ex-Microsoft employee, we had dinner together, and I've known him and his story for some time.

His real name is Abdelhamid Naceri. He's a very talented and intelligent individual, and he came across as someone who'd be a real professional to work with.

"If only I didn't pour my soul into that job with countless of stupid non sleep nights, i would have gotten over it..." - Naceri

He loved Microsoft.

I wouldn't say that what he did, releasing all those zero-days, was normal, but he felt he had no other option because of the injustice Microsoft did to him.

They fired him, and you can read the vague reason they gave in the email sent to him by the Vice President of Engineering at MSRC, below.

According to Abdel's account, VP Tom Gallagher met with him after the firing to tell him they were blacklisting him from Microsoft and writing him a bad reference so he'd never be able to get a job again.

Normally you'd think, well, big deal, just find another job, right? But Abdel doesn't have a European passport, and he was only a couple of months away from getting permanent EU residence.

So instead of granting him those couple of months, Microsoft fired him for a reason that, as far as we can tell, was never made clear, then fought him in court and offered him €55,000 plus a year's pay to drop the case.

All while Abdel was releasing zero-days.

Abdel continued suing Microsoft for unfair termination in Germany, a fight that has cost him over $200,000.

He says Microsoft refused to reveal any details about the security breach and went another direction.

If you are reading this, and you can offer him a LEGAL job, this is his e-mail: [email protected]

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Rajath Gowda @buildwithrajath]

🚨 I keep seeing people defend OpenAI every time someone complains about Astra’s limits.

“It’s only $20”
“That’s what you get for $20”

I don’t buy that argument.

As someone building with AI, I actually want these products to get better without making the user experience worse at every new tier.

Because if we normalize :
“Pay more if you want the good stuff.”

Today it’s $20 vs $200 subscription plans.

Tomorrow it’s $200 vs $500

And suddenly the best AI tools are only practical for people willing to keep upgrading.

Not everyone needs Pro.
Not everyone can afford Pro.

Paying $20 shouldn’t mean getting an experience designed to push you toward $200.

We don’t need to defend billion-dollar companies.

Speak up for your fellow users.

We should be pushing them to build better products for the people actually using them. 👀

[Jakub Pachocki @merettm]

I wrote about the state of AI, why I’m concerned about the next few years, and the choices we need to make to keep the future in humanity’s hands.

An Alien Mind: https://t.co/FeIfWNe0UE

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

We will give one banked reset for every day you don't have access to Astra on your paid ChatGPT plan, starting today. Team is moving mountains to give access as fast as we can.

First one will land in ~ 3 hours. There is still time to create your account if you don't have one.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Estonian defence minister has resigned after signing a 60 million defence contract with an Indian arms company who never fulfilled the order due to them never producing ammunition before the contract started.

Insane…

[360°Radar @wipljw]

I hear NATO combat planes near the border with Ukraine

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

German authorities have identified two men as responsible for the Leipzig drone attack one Latvian man with a Russian passport and a Belarusian man with a Russian passport both had DNA found at the scene.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Germany successfully tested a LORA ballistic missile in the northern Atlantic overnight with a range of over 500km.

A strong message.

[Ultimora.net @ultimoranet]

Germania, un oggetto non ancora identificato è esploso nella stazione centrale di Augusta intorno alle 5 del mattino: due persone hanno riportato lievi ferite, riconducibili a uno shock acustico; danneggiate alcune vetrate. L'area è stata isolata e il binario 1 chiuso, con ripercussioni sul traffico ferroviario e sul trasporto pubblico. Sul posto sono intervenuti gli artificieri della Baviera