”Russia’s war against Ukraine cannot be ended in or by Ukraine. Its roots lie in Russians’ political and societal imagination of what their own country is and what it must be. That imagination, McGlynn shows, has been encouraged and facilitated—but not created—by a propaganda campaign that has lasted a generation.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/21/ukraine-putin-war-russia-public-opinion-history/
"Estonia is the only country in the European Union to have such a law under discussion in its parliament. And this raises the question of whether it is safe, what countermeasures can Russia take…
Once the law is implemented, the frozen assets of people and companies that have contributed to Russia's illegal actions can be used to pay for the damage that Russia caused to Ukraine.”
https://news.err.ee/1609260476/russian-frozen-assets-bill-needs-legal-clarifications
”The institution's cybersecurity "has not yet met industry standards” and is “not fully in-line with the threat level" posed by state-sponsored hackers and other threat groups.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/parliament-defense-subcommittee-phones-checked-for-spyware/
”in the EU, the DMA's changes will result in a less secure system.
We're limiting these changes to the European Union because we're concerned about their impacts on the privacy and security of our users' experience — which remains our North Star. These changes comply with the DMA, and in the weeks and months ahead, we'll continue to engage with the European Commission, the developer community, and our EU users about their impacts.”
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/02/21/apple-defends-its-controversial-eu-app-store-plans
”Server admins worked together to create ongoing lists of abandoned instances that other admins could use as a basis for a blocklist to protect their own users from the spam attacks. Many servers were simply shut off as their admins decided it would be easiest to wait out the attack or abandon Mastodon altogether.”
”Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has lost the connection to its last back-up external power line
The ZNPP is still receiving the electricity it needs from its only 750 kV line, but the loss of the 330 kV line means the plant currently has no back-up options available for off-site power. Before the conflict, the plant had four 750 kV lines and six 330 kV lines available.”
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”To our knowledge, PQ3 has the strongest security properties of any at-scale messaging protocol in the world.”
”Even though they can’t decrypt any of this data today, they can retain it until they acquire a quantum computer that can decrypt it in the future, an attack scenario known as Harvest Now, Decrypt Later.”
”…Level 3 security, where post-quantum cryptography is used to secure both the initial key establishment and the ongoing message exchange, with the ability to rapidly and automatically restore the cryptographic security of a conversation even if a given key becomes compromised.”
”[in ’22-23] about 10 billion euros’ worth of goods ended up in Russia via Belarus — either exported directly to Belarus and then resold, or simply shipped through the country…
It’s fairly obvious that, in order to make the export controls effective, the Belarus sanctions must mirror the Russia sanctions”
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Does it include the media from the tweets?
”The presence of a large proportion of recently produced non-domestic electronic components in a North Korean ballistic missile strongly suggests that the country has developed a robust acquisition network capable of circumventing, without detection, sanction regimes that have been in place for nearly two decades.”
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0814c6868bbd45a98b15693a31bd0e7f
”Mr. Assange had to be convinced to redact the names of Afghan civilians who had cooperated with the American military. “Well, they’re informants,” Mr. Assange defiantly told them. “So if they get killed, they’ve got it coming to them. They deserve it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/19/opinion/julian-assange-extradition-espionage.html
Boycotting banana imports from Ecuador by the EU would flip it again?
”Ecuador was planning to send six Russian military helicopters, long-range rocket launchers and air defense systems to the United States…
Ecuador's foreign minister said Monday the country did not plan to send Soviet-era weapons to Ukraine after the president's vow to do so sparked a spat with Moscow over banana and flower exports.”
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240219-ecuador-backtracks-on-plan-to-send-weapons-to-ukraine
It’s called “Flirt With Los.” There’s no algorithm recommending an endless stream of polished photos. There are no “Super Likes” to consider. The app doesn’t try to sell you subscriptions when you run out of swipes. There aren’t any swipes to begin with. There’s only one profile to choose from. You open the app, type in your Twitter or Instagram username, and there he is. It’s a picture of Mayers with two options: “flirt” or “pass.”
https://gizmodo.com/flirt-with-los-mayers-app-developer-dating-art-1851258014
”We didn’t expect that it would go mad.
In December 2023, Voyager started sending back gibberish instead of data. A software glitch, though perhaps caused by an underlying hardware problem; a cosmic ray strike, or a side effect of the low temperatures, or just aging equipment randomly causing some bits to flip.
The problem was, the gibberish was coming from the flight direction software — the operating system, as it were. And no copy of that operating system remained in existence on Earth.”https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/
”This is part of Russia's hybrid attacks, which are not dissimilar to the bomb threats emailed to schools and cyber attacks…
The public does not talk about what is happening in other countries. I would say with high confidence that such action has not only been against Estonia but has also been against other countries. Here we are no different…
It is a broader trend today that both Russian and Chinese special services are approaching people through social media”
https://news.err.ee/1609258853/iss-russian-special-services-behind-attack-on-estonian-minister-s-car
”Russia probably managed to recruit approximately 300,000 contract soldiers in 2023. This massive recruitment effort did not create significant tensions in Russian society, unlike the partial mobilisation in 2022.
Rebuilding the military forces through mobilisation and recruitment has been one of the most crucial strategic lessons for Russia from the war in Ukraine.
The outcomes of this effort are expected to inform its conduct in future conflicts, both in Ukraine and elsewhere….
Russia aims to increase its military personnel from 1.15 million to 1.5 million soldiers by 2026…
In 2022, Russia’s production of new artillery ammunition alone reached approxi- mately 600,000 units, roughly equivalent to the combined output of the United States and European Union member states…
President Putin’s publicly announced plan to restore 2,000 old tanks by 2026 may well be feasible…”
”Germany is the most important economy in Europe, but it relies on imported energy and borrowed military strength…
The question each European nation needs to ask itself is this: are you prepared to defend yourself? And the question the US must ask is: if our European allies can’t even defend themselves, are they allies, or clients?”
https://www.ft.com/content/3c87ef13-122f-4e78-a7af-54c75c30a91d