Astrea ☽☼☾

Horse trainer, Activist, Computer gamer, Konsole user, Empath and dressage Rider..“✶the first casualty of war is truth✶”

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

An investigation by BBC Verify and the BBC Russian Service revealed that since 2024, 34,002 properties belonging to Ukrainian citizens, including apartments, houses, and dachas, have been confiscated or designated for confiscation to be transferred to holders of russian passports.

​Local authorities began simply labeling properties whose owners fled the war as "ownerless."

​Ukrainians are rarely notified of the confiscation of their homes. Instead, they are forced to independently review announcements on the websites of municipalities in the occupied territories to check whether their homes are among those deemed "ownerless" or "showing signs of ownerlessness" by Russian officials.

​How cool, huh? They invade, bomb our towns and villages, and if we flee so that they don't kill us in their torture chambers, they confiscate our homes because it's 🪄✨️ownerless✨️

​You fled the occupied territories, but your elderly parents are living in your house there because they feel too old to start from scratch? They will be kicked out onto the streets of an occupied town in a war zone.

​You asked your friend to look after your apartment while you yourself cannot return? He will be kicked out, and the apartment will be sold.

​I write about this article and encourage you to read the full version, because people still think that occupation is just a change of flag. That it doesn't matter. No, it's not a change of flag. It's repression behind an iron wall.

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

USA TODAY is partnering with Palantir to de-anonymize & ID readers across 200 newspapers.

And turn them into "actionable intelligence."

That spy language from @USATODAY is a huge red flag.

I'm sure they are trying to stay profitable.

But media exists to hold power accountable.

Not to partner with defense intelligence contractors.

Or treat readers like intelligence targets.

By: @HanaaTameez
https://t.co/KHhSiwWq1J

[Astrea ☽☼☾ @astrea1234]

@ZixuanLi_ collaboration

[Dark Web Informer @DarkWebInformer]

Hansa: The Infiltration of the Dark Web

[Qwen @Alibaba_Qwen]

📢Meet Qwen3.8-Max — our most capable model to date.

Next week, the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max will be released, and Qwen3.8-27B is also going open-weights to meet you all!🎉

Qwen3.8-Max, a new bar for coding and cowork at 2.4T parameters:

- Autonomous coding: 10+ days of self-evolving development, from empty folder to production without hand-holding, complete project trace in the GitHub：https://t.co/iVHZWQoeSo
- Real work, real results: Production-quality deliverables across hundreds of professions.
- Long-horizon mastery: System-level autonomous planning with closed-loop adaptive learning, driving 500+ turns of chip design optimization and 365 days of e-commerce strategy.
- Native multimodal intelligence: Vision isn't just input — it's a continuous feedback loop for planning, execution, and self-correction.

💰Pricing:
Input: $2.0 / M tokens
Output: $6.0 / M tokens
Implicit Caching: $0.25 / M tokens

Start building with Qwen3.8-Max! 🚀

📖 Blog: https://t.co/iwjmQxLBof
✅ Qwen Studio: https://t.co/4V2pFvDovG
⚡ API: https://t.co/gAGqaLQGbN

[Astrea ☽☼☾ @astrea1234]

@EU_Commission How do you even enforce that to begin with?

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

A 22-year-old student teacher in Illinois sent a private Snapchat message to her boyfriend and two roommates.

A student had walked up to her laptop and deleted her lesson plan mid-class. frustrated, she typed something like "should I shoot him" with a gun emoji. venting. four people. private group chat.

An hour later, police walked into her school and arrested her.

here's what happened in between.

Snapchat's AI scanned the private message. flagged it as a potential threat. automatically reported it to the FBI. the FBI forwarded it to local law enforcement. deputies arrived at the school within the hour.

she cooperated immediately. handed over her phone. when shown the message she said: "oh yes. okay. yeah. i'm realizing that was a bad joke. i did not mean it at all serious at all."

police determined she was not a threat. school officials determined she was not a threat. prosecutors reviewed and issued a disorderly conduct charge. she was released the next morning. she lost her student teaching placement.

This means:

Snapchat scans private messages.

Not just public posts or stories. private group chats between you and your closest contacts. automated AI. no human reviewed it first, got flagged and reported.

Snapchat AI → FBI → local police → school → arrest.

in under an hour.

Snapchat's privacy policy says it may share your information with law enforcement when it believes there is a risk of harm. the definition of "risk of harm" is determined by an algorithm.

you are not told when a message is flagged.
you are not told when a report is filed.
you find out when the police arrive.

the message was private.

it wasn't.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Russians use videos of prisoner abuse to indoctrinate Ukrainian children.

🧵 1/9 ⬇️

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russia has imported about 30,000 metric tons of AI-92 gasoline from Morocco.

A Panama-flagged tanker loaded the cargo at Morocco's port of Tangier in mid-July and is now discharging it at Russia's Arctic port of Murmansk. Lukoil acted as the supplier.

Morocco became the third country, after India and Kazakhstan, to export gasoline to Russia after fuel production declined due to drone attacks on Russian oil refineries.

Source: Reuters

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russia killed nine people and injured 28 more, including four children, in Kyiv overnight.

It was a massive attack involving dozens of ballistic missiles.

Civilian infrastructure was heavily damaged across multiple districts of the city.

📹: Horrific aftermath of Russia's strike on Kyiv / Radio Liberty / Yan Dobronosov

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

"I've lost everyone. My parents. My brothers and sisters. My son..."

Ukrainian Defender Danylo Voronov lost his entire family in a Russian strike on Radushne, Dnipropetrovsk region.

At the moment a Russian ballistic missile hit their home, his parents, seven brothers and sisters, and his 1.5-year-old son, Artem, were inside.

Danylo says Artem was a cheerful little boy who was always smiling and loved pressing the keys of a piano. His family believed he had a gift for music.

This is an unimaginable tragedy.

Deepest condolences to Danylo.
May he find the strength to endure this devastating loss.

📹: Suspilne / Svoi Kryvyi Rih

[NVIDIA @nvidia]

Incredible to see the open model momentum continue.

Seeing more than 230 organizations rally around open weights reinforces what’s possible when the ecosystem comes together.

Thank you to @Microsoft for your partnership, and to everyone helping strengthen the open ecosystem. 🤝

[Mewtwo @Project_Mewtwo]

Russia hit a US drone factory in Kyiv…

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

🛑 One malicious webpage visit was enough to compromise Tor Browser. No settings changes. No extra clicks.

Firefox JIT flaw, CVE-2026-10702, runs code inside the browser’s renderer process and forms the first stage of an Android 17 root chain.

Read how the exploit works: https://t.co/92ObVWyORg

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”

it was called project panama.

here's exactly what happened:

1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”

2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy.

it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.”

3: that piracy created a massive legal risk.

so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.”

4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs.

those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers.

5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months.

6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them.

a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling.

7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data.

the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

[NHK WORLD News @NHKWORLD_News]

A magnitude 7.1 quake struck Kumamoto Prefecture on July 28, registering the highest intensity of 7 on the Japanese scale in some areas. A tsunami advisory has been issued for the coasts of the Ariake Sea and the Yatsushiro Sea.
Visit https://t.co/bZpiKm94yl for more.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ Anthropic was hiding a secret internal project to destructively scan every book in the world, irreversibly damaging heritage. The company spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, even very rare ones. This means no other AI, and no human, can access this knowledge anymore.

It now markets itself as the responsible lab.

One bookseller told 404 Media his inventory is full of rare, foreign-language and low-circulation books, meaning that if they are destroyed in the process of becoming training data, they will be even harder to obtain.

Second-hand booksellers across Europe are sounding the alarm, because rare books are being destroyed. They have received random lists of thousands of titles. Books too obscure to resell at a profit. Requests arriving overnight from companies nobody in the trade has heard of.

One email came from "Nataly" at 2077AI, a Singapore company. Attached: 3,000 English titles grouped by ISBN. A 1999 geomechanics monograph. A 2018 study of laser shock peening on ceramics. A 2021 academic book on Irish folk tales.

A German dealer watched the orders arrive every night between 3am and 5am. Canadian company Zoom Books, buying systematically, titles with nothing in common. Zoom told Swiss broadcaster SRF that this is a regular recycling and trading model.

[ollama @ollama]

Kimi K3 is now available on Ollama’s cloud.

To use it with Claude Code, run:

ollama launch claude --model kimi-k3:cloud

Currently Kimi K3 requires a Pro or Max subscription, and consumes extra usage credits. We’re quickly working on adding capacity to expand access.

[NVIDIA @nvidia]

AI security advances when the industry builds in the open, together.

We're introducing the Open Secure AI Alliance with industry leaders to develop new techniques and tools to safeguard software and agents.

By sharing models, tooling and research in the open, we can broaden the community of defenders.

Learn more about the founding members’ contributions: https://t.co/A16oqxs5Ty

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

BREAKING: climate scientists are now admitting that averting the hothouse trajectory to extinction at 5°C which wipes out the majority of Earth's species "won’t be easy" 🧵