Florian Bender

I try to make things work better. Aerospace Engineer @DLR_de & Web developer. @TU_Muenchen alumnus. Team Open Web, @mozilla, and @WARR_TUM.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

In case anyone was wondering, we are here:

[Fidelius Schmid @FideliusSchmid]

While it is quite common for private details to appear in hacked data - this is significant given the careless use of a messenger app by Trumps top security brass. Hostile intelligence could have easily infiltrated their devices with the information at hand. (4/

[Fidelius Schmid @FideliusSchmid]

++++ Exclusive: Not only are Trump‘s top security advisors discussing attack plans on Yemen on Signal - their mobile numbers, E-Mail and passwords can be found in commercial databases and publickly available leaks. Our ⁦@derspiegel⁩ Investigation (1/ https://t.co/ByVq0SuMSa

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Interesting article about how the Trump administration's security advisors' mobile numbers, emails, and passwords can be found in commercial databases and publicly available leaks.

My question is, why does Pete Hegseth have a Russian email address?

[Julian Röpcke 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke]

Der E-Mail Server des amerikanischen Verteidigungsministers steht in Russland.

➡️Er nutzt die E-Mail zusammen mit der Telefonnummer, mit der er streng geheime Nachrichten austauscht.

➡️What could possibly go wrong?

[Isar Aerospace @isaraerospace]

The countdown has started for the first test flight of Spectrum. Subject to weather, launch window opens from 12:30pm - 03.30pm CET.

Follow us here for updates.

#fromisartospace #goingfullspectrum

Photo: Isar Aerospace, Brady Kenniston, https://t.co/3AgWSm6LE0

[Isar Aerospace @isaraerospace]

Launch period for test flight mission ‘Going full Spectrum’ begins today. Follow us for updates on the launch window via: https://t.co/aWgKTNUJzE

#fromisartospace #goingfullspectrum

Photo: © Isar Aerospace | Robin Brillert, Wingmen Media

[Andrew Parsonson @AndrewParsonson]

A shot of a fully stacked Isar Aerospace Spectrum rocket on its launch pad at Andøya Spaceport! The photo was shared by the Arctic Ocean Lodge on Instagram five days ago.

[Isar Aerospace @isaraerospace]

NCAA permit for launch ✅
Subject to weather, safety and range availability, we are preparing for Spectrum's first test flight in a launch period beginning from Mar 20.

Stay up to date: https://t.co/aWgKTNUJzE
#fromisartospace #goingfullspectrum

[Andreas Umland @UmlandAndreas]

Replace "Greenland" with "Crimea" or "Donbas" - and you get Moscow’s propaganda preparing the Russian invasions of Ukraine since 2014.

Reminds also of the aggressors' narratives for justifying many other military interventions, occupations, and annexations in world history.

[Mark Wallace @wallaceme]

What this means is American satellites will see Russian bombers carrying missiles taking off, bound for Ukrainian hospitals, power and transport infrastructure, and they will intentionally choose to sit on their hands rather than warn them it’s coming.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Remember wen Republicans kept claiming that Biden was going to start WW3?

China just released this statement:

"If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end."

I don't remember this type of Chinese threat under Biden. Do you?

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Did anyone think this through? Some two-thirds of European defense procurement is spent on American weapons. If the U.S. indeed switched off the targeting of HIMARS in Ukraine — a country fighting a war that not just Kyiv, but most of Europe, consider existential — buying any American technology will soon be considered a security risk.

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

1/ Trump has been conned by Putin. Russia isn’t a global superpower—its GDP (~$2 trillion) is smaller than Italy’s and about 1/15 the size of the US. 🧵

[Radu Hossu 🇹🇩🇺🇦 @RaduHossu]

Donald Trump mentioned the Republic of Moldova in last night's State of The Union speech. Not in a good way, but in a bad way. Not in the transatlantic sense, but in the Moscow sense.

With each passing day, Donald Trump moves closer to realizing the Kremlin's ambitions from the letter Putin sent to NATO in December 2021, months before the invasion of Ukraine. In case you don't remember it, I'll remind you of some of the demands considered absurd by the civilized world at the time:

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

It felt like a curiously Soviet entrance, as if every Republican there knew someone would be going over video to see who was clapping hardest and longest, but maybe my imagination...

[🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @front_ukrainian]

❗️The behavior of the US authorities changed after they met with Russian officials - EU foreign policy chief Kaia Kallas, commenting on the recent vote on the UN resolution on Ukraine

"We drafted a resolution together with the new Trump administration to support Ukraine. But when they (the Americans) met with the Russians, something happened after that, because the behavior changed," she added.

[ESA Science @esascience]

. @BepiColombo made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping photos of a newly named impact crater as well as tectonic and volcanic curiosities 👉 https://t.co/1lkCTO7jff

#YearInReview #ESAHighlights