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Putin hater since before it was cool, passionate about #osint and trying to be active about it, also software, drones & pasta. Bluesky: @orbint.bsky.social

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This is exactly why — months ago, while deep in a completely separate project — I started building Long John Silver: an open-source agentic harness for… piracy. In the age of AI. Set it up once, hand a model of your choice (local or remote) every tool it needs, and 🧵
PlayStation is deleting over 500 purchased movies from its customers' accounts 🎞️ • Includes films like 'Terminator 2', 'Rambo', 'Apocalypse Now', 'Hot Fuzz', and 'Moonlight' • Comes after a licensing deal ended
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This was being done already in the 80s, still cool as fuck, but absolutely far from new for anybody into espionage history.
your HDMI cable can leak what’s on your screen watch the laptop on the left. it reconstructs the video playing on the monitor beside it from radio signals leaking out of the HDMI connection this is TempestSDR. an antenna picks up the leakage, a HackRF radio captures it, and software turns it back into an image researchers took this further with Deep-TEMPEST, using AI to make recovered images and text easier to read. this clip shows the original technique quality depends on shielding, distance and interference. the picture is imperfect, but recognizable content still gets through a wired connection can still leave a wireless trace
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HDMI TEMPEST demos like TempestSDR recover distorted images only in controlled close-range setups often using unshielded or poorly shielded cables; standard consumer HDMI connections and distances prevent practical screen leakage or remote recovery. rtl-sdr.com/easvesdropping… arxiv.org/pdf/2407.09717 techradar.com/computing/cybe… kaspersky.com/blog/deep-temp…
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Happy Anniversary to those who celebrate.
Replying to @_RichardHall
I’ve arrived at Four Seasons Landscaping. It’s next to an adult book store called Fantasy Island.
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Epic meme material
🇷🇸 Surrounded by women, Serbian ex-President Vucic looked melancholic while attending a party.
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In normal times the nvidia dude in perennial midlife crisis would have already resigned such as the government officials tied to this epic fuck up….. but it is 2026 and in 12 hours we will have something just as big to distract us in the endless shit loop we are stuck in
The story keeps getting crazier. To recap everything that has been reported so far: - The US intelligence community discovered that Jensen Huang, the CEO of the largest company in the world, was sleeping with Alice Huang, a Chinese spy and an executive at Megaspeed. (FT) - Multiple independent investigations have concluded that Megaspeed is likely a Chinese cutout, which helps Chinese companies access AI chips or circumvent export controls. (NYT and Bloomberg) - The US intelligence community also concluded that Alice Huang’s goal was to convince Jensen to lobby the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced AI chips. (NYT) - The intelligence community relayed this information to “a small group of top US government officials” earlier this year. (FT) - Over the last year, Jensen Huang has repeatedly lobbied the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced chips. @BISgov has done so, not only by permitting the export of H200 chips to China, but also not enforcing export controls that would have required a license for exports of the most advanced Blackwell chips to Megaspeed and Southeast Asia. - Although @CommerceGov leadership was presumably briefed on this information by the U.S. intelligence community, @BISgov has taken no actions to tighten controls on Megaspeed or Southeast Asia. - Megaspeed remains a preferred cloud partner of Nvidia, and continues to receive Nvidia Blackwell chips despite employing a Chinese spy who reportedly is romantically engaged with the CEO of Nvidia. - Tens of billions of dollars worth of AI chips have been exported to Southeast Asia this year alone, and Malaysia and Singapore are now two of the four largest importers of AI chips in the world. What is going on here??? We need answers. The question of who gets the most advanced AI chips in the world is literally the defining strategic question of our time. And not only does it seem like the MSS may be directly influencing the debate on export controls in the United States, but also @CommerceGov is refusing to listen to the warnings of the IC on this issue. What is a POSSIBLE good explanation for why Megaspeed is still receiving chips? Why is there not a license requirement for AI chip shipments to all of Southeast Asia? This is beyond strange at this point. The fallout from this story will be massive. Obviously, the motivations underpinning Nvidia’s policy views opposing export controls must now all be questioned. But also, how did @BISgov sit on this information and has still taken no actions? We need answers.
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Another great OSINT tool and many more will come, and they come fast. AI is unlocking possibilities at rate humanity had never experienced before. Amazing times from a technology point of view.
Azimut 0.3.3 is out! Fly down into any valley in 3D, search for where a photo was taken from its skyline, and make maps ready to publish. Free, open source, and running on your own machine. Can't wait to see what you do with it. Please read below👇 github.com/OsintMeThat/azimu…
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Interested to read more a out the pollution of Syria's oil industry? Read our River of Death report here. Apart from stopping the pollution, the land and water sources also need cleanup and remediation support for communities with the oil profits reliefweb.int/report/syrian-…
Thanks to HKN Syria’s work at Rmeilan, 120,000 barrels a day of toxic produced water no longer flows across local land and waterways. The former "River of Death" is fully contained, and energy production continues without harming Syria's enviornment. #HKNSyria
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Rather expensive… especially given all it did was help losing a war against a third world country and target schools full of kids…
Palantir’s US Government Revenue Surges 96% to $953 Million Palantir reported $953 million in quarterly U.S. government revenue as its military software footprint expanded, but shares fell more than 7% in premarket trading as new deal activity slowed. clashreport.com/world/articl…
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It is that time of year…
BREAKING: Israel has informed the United States it has intelligence that Iran is 'considering the use of chemical weapons against its adversaries', according to New York Times report.
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If you're voting today in America it's worth remembering that Trump sided with the people who did this.
To understand Russian culture, understand that Russians just dropped nine multi-ton guided bombs on 60 people that had come to a local school to line up for weekly humanitarian aid distribution.
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Among the coolest works i have seen in a very long time OSINT related. Amazing.
this guy figured out how to leak your exact location from any video with sound using the Doppler curves of nearby airplanes
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This is probably a battle between Carbon and Mythos agents working for both sides... Would be interesting to know what serious precautions are being taken to avoid russia getting access to advanced US models
Significant cyber clash taking place between Ukraine and Russia today. Ukraine’s air alert system was hacked, now Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry has been hacked.
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To recap, US had Facebook and twitter blatantly interfer in favor of one candidate in Brazil elections, they also planned (well ahead of the elections) and executed a bond movie like exfiltration involving also Argentina, to save their candidate from very serious criminal charges
U.S. agents temporarily took control of much of Argentina’s Iguazú airport to facilitate Flávio Bolsonaro’s escape to Miami, according to Argentine newspaper Clarín. The operation reportedly involved cooperation from President Milei’s government, which sent an adviser to oversee it. At least four private jets were used to create diversions and alternative escape routes, allegedly coordinated with the U.S. State Department. Bolsonaro reportedly traveled more than 1,000 kilometers by car to Argentina before boarding a private jet to Miami.
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There is stupid...And then there is ICE Stupid
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A whole operating system, that runs on 20 years old potatoes, for your Kids ! Say hello to Greia frozenpepper.it/greia/ #indiedev
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This would obliterate the Iraqi central bank heist and set a new world record !
BREAKING: Binance has been hacked with wallets across the Ethereum, Bitcoin, and TRON networks seeing outflows of -$5.7 billion. The hack includes $1.45 billion worth of Bitcoin and $875 million worth of ETH. If confirmed, this would mark the biggest hack in crypto history. We expect more information shortly.
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Lots of debate this week on whether journals should ban AI in peer review. We actually tested this in our new preprint, and the results were pretty clear to me. For context, I've reviewed for most of the big journals and evaluated 1,000 human reviews as an editor. I love to read and evaluate science. TLDR: From now on I won't do any peer review without AI. For clinical trials, I'd even call human-only review dangerous 🧵
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Reading posts by foreigners about Brazil, I get the impression that you're not aware of the full extent of the accusations against Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, or of the available evidence of his corruption. So I'd like to kindly invite you to really get to know Flávio. A thread 🧵🇧🇷
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France, since then: ✅ Infant mortality: ÷40. ✅ Life expectancy: +17 years. ✅ Most visited country on Earth for over 30 years. Nostalgia can be misleading.
France before and after is a warning. The chaos, looting, and destruction we’re watching is exactly the future radical Democrats are pushing for America. Is this the future you want?
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You see that dip in global life expectancy in the 1950s? That was caused by one man, Mao Zedong. Mbappe should have apologised only for not being ruder about him.
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A clear majority of Jewish Israelis voted for Netanyahu’s coalition. The man has been indicted on corruption charges in Israel and indicted for war crimes by the ICC. His coalition has waged an assault on Israel’s legal system and he waged a genocidal war on Gaza and a quieter war on the West Bank the past three years. Let that sink in …
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