”You need your first installation to happen at a Tesla Service Center to attach the tent’s brakets, which support the base of the tent, to the Cybertruck’s vault side rails.”
https://electrek.co/2024/03/08/tesla-shipping-cybertruck-tent/
”The Kremlin’s messaging has an extraordinary reach: In the first year of the Ukraine war alone, posts by Kremlin-linked accounts were viewed at least 16 billion times by Westerners.
Every one of those views is part of a full-spectrum attack against the West designed not just to undermine support for Ukraine, but to actively damage Western democratic systems.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/09/russia-putin-disinformation-propaganda-hybrid-war/
”RBI made €1.3bn in profit in Russia last year, where it employed 9,942 people in 490 retail branches.
It also took part in a Russian scheme on loan perks for Russian military conscripts…
RBI is one of eight leading EU banks still in Russia.
The others are: Dutch lender ING, Germany's Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank, Hungary's OTP Bank, Italy's Intesa SanPaolo and Unicerdit, and Sweden's SEB.”
”F-35As being able to deliver nuclear strikes will add major credibility to NATO's nuclear deterrence posture in Europe. The aircraft's unique ability to pierce enemy air defense networks and defend itself on the way to its target will be a standing capability Russia has never had to deal with.
…The situation has even prompted officials in Poland to say they want to join NATO’s nuclear weapons-sharing program. ”
https://www.twz.com/air/f-35a-is-officially-certified-for-nuclear-strike
”Russian state-sponsored hackers had been spying on the email accounts of some members of its senior leadership team. Now, Microsoft is disclosing that the attack, from the same group behind the SolarWinds attack, has also led to some source code being stolen in what Microsoft describes as an ongoing attack.”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/8/24094287/microsoft-hack-russian-security-attack-stolen-source-code
If you market it yourself why not self-publish, and keep it all?
”Authors Equity will pay between 60% and 70% of each book’s profit to its authors”
”The banned phrases…include those related to “human rights,” “climate change China” and “Nobel Peace Prize”… Terms such as “Communist Party corruption,” references to “Tiananmen Square massacre,” “tank man,” the “Dalai Lama,” the late Chinese human-rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and “democracy” are also on the blacklist…
Bing purges Western news websites and Wikipedia. Searches related to alleged abuses of the ethnic minority Uyghur population in China’s Xinjiang region yield results devoid of the specifics of human-rights violations and concentration camps; instead the results are made up of state media news reports that deny abuses and accuse Western governments of waging a “disinformation war against China.”
Is anybody still using #hashtags?
”Germany is offering communications apps to soldiers and other federal employees on Chinese phone maker Huawei's app store — even though the telecoms giant has been deemed a security risk by the U.S. and European Union…
They are repeating the same mistakes over and over again and they are threatening allies by giving access to the Chinese"
https://www.newsweek.com/nato-russia-ukraine-china-germany-tapping-espionage-huawei-1876138
”…existing app marketplaces you have downloaded to your device will stop working if you leave the EU for too long… and any apps you previously installed from an alternative app marketplace will no longer be able to update themselves.”
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/05/ios-17-4-app-stores-stop-working-travel/
”Russia has identified Germany as the weakest link in the alliance and Scholz as a useful idiot to take Germany out of the equation.”
The best way to keep users out.
Disable the next step button.
”The mere act of observing the bead at one moment in time changes where it will be at a later moment when the laser shines the second time. If the rules of quantum mechanics hold, the bead may sometimes be found at B, but sometimes it won’t be.”
”Telling customers to invest 1% of their wealth in generic assets stored in Oracle databases isn't just a category mistake; it's downright reckless. All sorts of wild financial stuff appears on Oracle databases, including sports bets and zero day options.”
http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2024/03/its-time-to-get-rid-of-crypto.html
”When I was a foreign correspondent in West Berlin during the dying days of the Cold War in 1988, a British spy gave me a vivid insight into the state of Germany’s intelligence services.
‘If you want the Kremlin to take something seriously, give it to the Germans and tell them it’s a secret,’ he said. ‘It’ll be on every desk in the Politburo the next morning.’
Sometimes the media servers can be down or the upload fails for some other reason. I doubt any clients have an option for a backup media server in that case.
”The German officers believe it would take 10 to 20 Taurus missiles to bypass Russian air defences and destroy the bridge in an aircraft operation. “There’s no real reason to say we can’t do it
…We know Germany is pretty penetrated by Russian intelligence so it just demonstrates they are neither secure nor reliable,” Ben Wallace, the former defence secretary, said.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ukraine-russia-war-secret-uk-operations-germany-9bprk29nl