There is a "realistic possibility" that Ukrainian forces can break through the remaining Russian defensive lines on the southern front by the end of 2023, Trent Maul, the director for analysis of the U.S.' Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), said in an interview with The Economist on Sept. 6.
It was super fun to interview @jerry for this week's episode of the Infosec Sidekick Podcast!
I had wanted to do this a while back; when the heat of the twitter migration was taking place, but I almost feel like now was a better time.
With the dust somewhat settled, @jerry and I talk about Information Sharing, Community Building, and how Mastadon plays a role in that.
I genuinely appreciate this conversation and hope it can provide you some value and entertainment throughout your week.
You will be sure to find gems in this episode, such as the unlikely comparison to twitter vs mastadon as Monsters Inc. Power Generation (don't ask, just listen lol)
Scientists and the general public have long dismissed the cognitive abilities of cows, pigs, and other livestock. But farm animals are capable of much more than we think.
Moscow has found better ways to conceal #influence ops, by using harder-to-trace tech, to amplify arguments for #isolationism before #UnitedStates elections, acc/to disinfo experts & #intelligence.
In recent days, #intelligence agencies have warned that #Russia has found better ways to hide its #InfluenceOperations, & Treasury issued #sanctions last week against 2 Russian companies that it said supported the Kremlin’s campaign.
The stepped-up ops, run by aides to #Putin & Russian #military intelligence, come at a critical moment in the debate in the #UnitedStates over support for #Ukraine.…
Russian ops are laying the groundwork for what could be a stronger push to support candidates who oppose aiding #Ukraine, or who call for pulling the #UnitedStates back from #NATO & other alliances, US ofcls & independent researchers say.
Investigators say that firms working in the “#Doppelgänger” network —& #Russia’s #intelligence agencies duplicating the tactics— are using the techniques to replicate & distort legitimate #news sites in order to undermine #aid to Ukraine.
Should #AI ever live up to the hype and actually achieve #sentience, I'm certain we worry so much about it killing us all in our sleep because we invented it.
If history proves anything, it's that humanity is adept at inadvertently killing itself, and professionally adept at advertently killing anything resembling an out-group.
In short, until we can trust that we don't constantly want to inadvertently kill ourselves, or give others suspicion that we constantly want to kill them -- we have no business inventing other intelligent forms of existence.
But, let's not hide the elephant in the room.
As soon as we do invent true artificial #intelligence, we'll immediately employ it to more effectively kill out-groups that don't have it. So, at the end of the day, if it turns on us and kills us all, we'd deserve it.
If I read this right, @signalapp, @torproject, and other well-known #privacy-centric communications systems were largely funded by and aligned with Western covert #intelligence agencies, for the purpose of aiding dissidents of enemy governments while centralizing secret traffic onto networks the intelligence community could subvert.
Only now they’re unhappy that Western citizens use them and so have pulled #SignalApp’s funding.
Plans for the world’s first commercial octopus farm are well advanced – just as science discovers more about this curious, intelligent and affectionate animal. Can it be done ethically?
Newly declassified US #intel claims Russia is laundering propaganda through Westerners
Alert: Former moscow bathroom robber Vlad Putin and his murderous FSB (KGB) use relationships with traitorous republicans to spread Russian propaganda and disinformation.
Vlad putin doesn't need to bomb the USA, he just buys republicans to destroy America.
Russian intelligence is operating a systematic program to launder pro-Kremlin propaganda through private relationships between Russian operatives and US and western targets, according to newly declassified US intelligence.
US #intelligence agencies believe that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) is attempting to influence public policy and public opinion in the West by directing Russian civilians to build relationships with influential US and Western individuals and then disseminate narratives that support Kremlin objectives, obscuring the FSB’s role through Putin shills, hello republicans.
#Russia is obtaining U.S.-made computer chips and other dual-use goods, products with potential battlefield use, by transporting them through #centralasia Many of these goods have been the target of #sanctions passed by the U.S. and its allies.
Must be why US taxpayers pay $2 million per month for the criminal defendant's security.
Adds proof to confirms my theory that criminal defendant Donald was trading top secrets to Iran to get off the hit list for ordering Qassim Soleimani's assassination. My guess is fat Mike Pompeo is also on the list.
5 times indicted criminal defendant arrested 4 times for 91 felony crimes Donald Trump ordered the #killing of #Qasem#Soleimani, with Mike #Pompeo and then publicly admitted it. Iran has an arrest warrant out for #criminal#defendant Donald.
Hey #Iran, get in line. We just arrested this fucker 4 times!
After obstructionist Bill Barr completely covered-up the Trump-Russia investigation in a way that let criminal defendant Donald skate, US Intelligence now has told us that Russians are involved in using a variety of technologies, including ultrasound, microwave weapons, pesticides, and toxins on our diplomats and intelligence personnel.
Why exactly is American counterintelligence so dead-set on protecting the Kremlin and those close to it?
' The researchers say that the birds' counting skills are like those of human toddlers, who often count based upon vocalizations of numbers rather than using numbers themselves. '
Tom Nichols reports that it's likely Trump will be given clearance to access highly confidential information with national security implications.
But as Nichols notes, all indicators are that Trump's in terrible financial shape as he faces more than half billion dollars in court judgments. And that kind of debt has always been "a bright-red light in the clearance process" for anyone else.
US intelligence: 'Realistic possibility' that Ukraine can break through remaining Russian lines in 2023 (kyivindependent.com)
There is a "realistic possibility" that Ukrainian forces can break through the remaining Russian defensive lines on the southern front by the end of 2023, Trent Maul, the director for analysis of the U.S.' Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), said in an interview with The Economist on Sept. 6.
‘A symbol of what humans shouldn’t be doing’: the new world of octopus farming (www.theguardian.com)
Plans for the world’s first commercial octopus farm are well advanced – just as science discovers more about this curious, intelligent and affectionate animal. Can it be done ethically?