Robin Molnar

Also on: @[email protected] & @robintel.bsky.social & RO/ EN/ DE. #SlavaUkraini (and my great-great-grandmother was Russian). #NAFO

[Mary J. Ruwart Ph.D. @MaryRuwart]

The State shall have no other gods before it.

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

I'm a little confused, is giving Alaska to the russians going to make America great again?

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Ukrainian Nobel laureate Matviichuk: Russian occupiers abducted a woman for her pro-Ukrainian views. They tortured her and gang-raped her multiple times.

Then they took her to Russia and fabricated criminal charges against her.

I met her five-year-old daughter. She hugged me, started crying and begged: "Please return my mom."

I'm a human rights lawyer, but I have no legal tools to force Russia to return her mother. I felt broken.

I hugged her and promised we'd fight for her mother until she returned home.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️European Parliament Vice President ends hunger strike following Oleshky ceasefire announcement.

European Parliament Vice President Pina Picierno announced the hunger strike on Oct. 20, demanding an immediate humanitarian truce in the occupied town.

https://t.co/z0pmU3LqGI

[Bala 🧤 @BalaiBB]

black october just got worse. a japanese company lost 27,000 servers and it’s not even the scariest part

GMO Internet runs a cloud service called Onamae Desktop, mostly used by forex traders running automated trading bots

hackers broke in, installed malware across up to 26,739 servers, stole trading credentials and started making unauthorized trades on people’s accounts

not one broker. over 70 different securities and forex firms across japan and internationally. people woke up to trades they never made, money moving they never authorized

OANDA Japan froze customer withdrawals. GMO refused to pay the ransom, permanently shut down the entire service, and did something nobody expected

they asked the japanese government to use brand new active cyber defense powers, literally military-grade authority that just went into effect october 1st, to trace and neutralize the attackers’ infrastructure. the government can now legally hack back

the technical details from the attacker’s own site are terrifying. GMO configured their VPS network using Active Directory, something you should never do on shared hosting

every server had admin credentials. and the RDP files customers used to connect? drive redirect was enabled by default, meaning the moment you connected to your VPS, your entire local PC was shared with the server

hackers didn’t just own the servers. they had a direct path into every customer’s personal computer. they extracted data, installed backdoors. customers were exposed like this for over 7 years

27,000 servers. 70+ brokers. unauthorized trades. personal computers backdoored. a company begging its government to go to cyber war

october isn’t slowing down

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

As Ukrainian Forces continue to liberate territory, residents return back to their homes to find all the hallmarks of Russian culture, looting, drunkenness and death.

The town of Sudenok.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ An encrypted USB drive from SecZure has a backdoor that opens its files without the user's password.

Two built-in accounts with fixed passwords decrypt them, Binary Ninja's Xusheng Li found.

OpenAI's Codex broke Netac's FileLock in 7 minutes and saw it logging passwords.

[Mircea Marian @mircea_marian]

Pe fondul dramei de la Univ Iași - faptele lui Toader Jr, tăcerea lașă a universității - apar noi mărturii: Universitatea Medicină Cluj, o rezidentă fuge din oraș ca să scape de hărțuire, domnul doctor conferențiar, trimis în judecată, universitatea tace https://t.co/ODOeqYpJA0

[Alexander @alexanderrX_]

China's ordered every government agency to draw up plans for mass AI job losses. We should be doing the same tbh.

We're a services country, ~80% of the economy is people answering messages, entering data, writing reports. That's the exact work this stuff does first, and does better. Only thing in the way is compliance and we're still early.

Nobody I know is hiring juniors or mids. I've been the youngest in my team for 5 years and I'm 29.

Yes it's a change, a big one. But it's only a problem if we sit on our hands. Get ahead of it and it's the biggest opportunity this country's had in my lifetime.

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

🇪🇺🇩🇪 Green Party leader Katharina Schulze has called for a full ban on putinist parties in Germany: "Freedom means being independent of gas from Russia or the Emirates". Spot on! It's time to deputinise Europe. Ukraine shows the way

[GeoInsider @InsiderGeo]

NEW: 🇷🇴 Romanian customs officers have seized 24 drones worth more than €200,000 from a Bulgarian-registered van near the Calafat–Vidin Bridge, at the Romania–Bulgaria border.

The van was stopped during a joint inspection by customs officers and border police. The driver reportedly said the shipment was travelling from Bulgaria to Germany but could not provide documents proving the origin of the goods.

The seized equipment included drones fitted with advanced imaging systems, including thermal cameras. Two were heavy-lift transport drones capable of carrying payloads of up to 80 kg

The total value of the seized equipment was estimated at 1.011 million Romanian lei (approximately €200,000).

Authorities detained the equipment for confiscation, and the driver was fined 15,000 lei. No further details about the shipment’s intended use have been disclosed.

[Coffe Report @CoffeReport]

🇲🇩🇷🇺 MAJOR UPDATE: The Russian Geran drone that crashed near homes in Moldova was carrying a 52.4 kg THERMOBARIC warhead.

Moldovan police have now identified the aircraft as a jet-powered Geran-4.

The warhead was found just 5 metres from the wreckage, which came down within 100 metres of a residential home.

Bomb disposal teams have since safely destroyed the explosive payload.

No casualties were reported.

[Robin Molnar @robintel]

@DigitalFleurie Lufthansa, we brought our cat from Germany to Texas and back. When buying the ticket, you have the option to check a box for extra luggage/ pet. There's also a form. Make sure the cat's vaccines are up to date more than a month before the flight.

[Robin Molnar @robintel]

@dmc_dmcc Maybe it's time we talked about Anti-Agentic Architecture https://t.co/muueif8BUq

[Robin Molnar @robintel]

@Jpod_art It's easier if you stick 2 toothpicks in the middle, with 1 cm between them, so it's easier to manipulate. Sometimes, though,I also use just 1 toothpick.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

In Putin’s Russia, state standards (GOST) for bread are being altered "quietly"—in a manner not even seen during the famine years of the late Soviet era: the weight of loaves is decreasing, shelf lives are being extended, and the composition is deteriorating.

It is likely no coincidence that the Russian population has been accustomed, through various initiatives, to so-called "blockade bread"—a product baked from whatever ingredients happen to be on hand, which may soon become a permanent fixture on the shelves of grocery stores.

https://t.co/wv4YfTlyVF

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Can we get this shared 10,000 times?

"War crimes don't hide sex crimes!"

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

Last month, my sister's name appeared in an obituary in Iowa.

In 1998, she was a 16-year-old exchange student. Shy. Terrible English. She landed in Des Moines with one suitcase and a dictionary.

Her host family had a farm and four sons. She became the daughter they never had.

Her host dad taught her to drive a pickup in a cornfield. In Japan, you can't get a license until 18. In Iowa, she was driving before she could pronounce "Des Moines."

When she left, he cried at the airport. She had never seen a grown man cry. In Japan, fathers don't.

Every Christmas for 28 years, a card came from Iowa. Always the same first line.

"To our Japanese daughter."

When she got married, he flew to Tokyo. He sat next to our father at the wedding. Neither spoke the other's language. They shared a bottle of sake and nodded at each other for three hours.

In August, he passed away.

My sister flew 14 hours to the funeral.

At the church, her four brothers walked her to the front row. The family seats.

Then she read the obituary.

"He is survived by his wife of 52 years, four sons, eleven grandchildren, and his daughter, Yuki, of Tokyo, Japan."

Not "exchange student."
Not "host daughter."

Daughter.

When she came home, she told our father.

He didn't say a word. He went to his room.

The next morning, there was a new photo on our family altar, where we keep our ancestors. A big man in a seed cap, smiling in a cornfield.

Right next to my grandmother.

Some families are too big for one country.

[Liberal voice @vocea_liberala]

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