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”The hack was not specific to Ledger customers and that users of various hardware and software wallets from other providers were also impacted. “It is affecting anyone with a wallet that is connecting to a dapp that includes this piece of code,” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-14/hacker-hits-one-of-crypto-industry-s-biggest-names-in-security

petri 2 years ago

”Woo told Creyelman he had been tasked with “attacking Adrian Zenz”, a researcher who helped reveal how China detained hundreds of thousands of the mainly Muslim Uyghur minority in its far-western region of Xinjiang.” https://www.ft.com/content/601df41f-8393-46ad-9f74-fe64f8ea1a3f

petri 2 years ago

OpenAI is the new Google https://openai.com/blog/axel-springer-partnership

petri 2 years ago

”RBI has continued to operate in Russia. The bank has long-standing ties with Russia and is only one of only two foreign banks classified as "systemically important" by the Russian central bank.” https://kyivindependent.com/media-austria-posing-obstacle-to-eus-12th-sanctions-package-against-russia/

petri 2 years ago

”The Kremlin has laundered $2.5 billion of African gold since [Feb ’22]..Russia-backed mercenaries, including the Wagner Company, support authoritarian regimes and destabilization in Africa as part of resource extraction schemes…” https://kyivindependent.com/report-russia-has-laundered-2-5-billion-of-african-gold-since-february-2022/

petri 2 years ago

”The intrusions are part of a broader effort to develop ways to sow panic and chaos or snarl logistics in the event of a U.S.-China conflict in the Pacific” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/11/china-hacking-hawaii-pacific-taiwan-conflict/

petri 2 years ago

”Putin viewing the war in Ukraine as a political success, and may even encourage him to attack a Nato member state...This is why every reservist in Finland should…promise themselves that by the beginning of 2025 they will be physically and mentally fit”

News

Foreign policy specialist: Trump presidency could change Russia's attitude towards Finland

FIIA senior researcher Charly Salonius-Pasternak says he does not consider it likely that Finland will face a military threat, but it is possible.

petri 2 years ago

"Anyone who has a naive belief in the power of higher education to instill ethical values has not studied the history of German universities in the Third Reich. A university degree.…made them more likely to embrace [Nazism]."

Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals

Anyone who has a naive belief in the power of higher education to instill morality has not studied the history of German universities in the Third ...

petri 2 years ago

”If we commit ourselves fully to guarantee Ukrainians a European future, Russia would be no match for us. Russia’s strength rests largely on our indecision.”

European Pravda

“We Won’t Return to Europe of 2021: This Would Be Europe of 1930s”

“...in this case, We would not return to Europe of 2021. We would, instead, fall back to a state of permanent insecurity...”

petri 2 years ago

”Since the beginning of the war, Russia earned EUR 552 billion in revenue from fossil fuel exports. European Union countries purchased for more than EUR 181 billion.”

Russia Fossil Tracker – Payments to Russia for fossil fuels since 24 February 2022

petri 2 years ago

”For the West to abandon Ukraine now would allow Russia and its authoritarian friends in China, Iran, and North Korea to believe that the 21st century is moving their way—into a future of brutal armies, cowed populations, and endless lies.”

The Atlantic

‘We Only Need Some Metal Things’

Will America abandon Ukraine?

petri 2 years ago

Is Superman arriving soon? His crystals have arrived.

TechRadar

Microsoft inches closer to glass storage breakthrough that could finally make ransomware attacks impossible in the data center and hyperscalers — but only Azure customers will benefit from it

The technology is strikingly similar to ceramics-based storage and may replace current day technology soon

petri 2 years ago

”Progressives who once argued that free speech is violence now claim that violence is free speech.”

The Atlantic

There Is No Right to Bully and Harass

Progressives who once argued that free speech is violence now claim that violence is free speech.

petri 2 years ago

”both foreign and U.S. government agencies have been asking Apple and Google for metadata related to push notifications to, for example, help tie anonymous users of messaging apps to specific Apple or Google accounts” https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/

petri 2 years ago

Twitter messed up their video encoding

GitHub

Twitter videos encoded with `Twitter-vork muxer` don't play properly on Apple devices · Issue #172 · imputnet/cobalt

some videos encoded with Twitter-vork muxer (most videos on Twitter are usually encoded with "Vireo Eyes" / "Vireo Ears") appear significantly shor...

petri 2 years ago

”…the generals in charge of China’s nuclear weapons program and some of the most senior officials overseeing the Chinese financial sector. Several of these former Xi acolytes have apparently died in custody.”

China’s Xi goes full Stalin with purge – POLITICO

petri 2 years ago

”We experimented with a peer-to-peer model for source quality. Then, we adjusted source quality to a maximum of 720p. While we have lowered costs from these efforts, our network fees in Korea are still 10 times more expensive than in most other countries”