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Two Baltic Sea communications cables have been knocked offline
19 Nov

Two Baltic Sea communications cables have been knocked offline

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Two undersea communications cables in the Baltic Sea have been knocked offline, and at least one appears to have been physically cut. CNN received confirmation from a local telecom company that a cable between Lithuania and Sweden was cut on Sunday morning. A second cable, about 60 to 65 miles from the first, routes communications between Finland and Germany. The cause of that outage has yet to be determined, but officials suspect “intentional damage.”The outages follow a September warning from the US about an increased risk of Russian “sabotage” of undersea cables. That came after a joint investigation from public…
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NATO’s Tech Scouts Are Fortifying Europe for a World With Donald Trump
14 Nov

NATO’s Tech Scouts Are Fortifying Europe for a World With Donald Trump

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It’s the day after Donald Trump declared his election victory, and a tech scout for NATO is peering down at a miniature factory, the size of a shoebox, designed to manufacture semiconductors in space.Chris O’Connor, with his black bomber jacket and military haircut, has spent the past year scouring Europe for companies that will give NATO a technological edge over Russia and China—a job that has become even more urgent in the past 36 hours as the region rushes to prepare for Trump 2.0. Here, in a gray industrial estate on the outskirts of Cardiff in Wales, he believes he’s…
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The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe
19 Oct

The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe

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A TikTok video of actor Brian Baumgartner, from the American version of The Office, calling for the overthrow of the president of a small European country was an early sign that this would be no ordinary election.Late last year, Baumgartner appeared among a lineup of American celebrities addressing Maia Sandu, the current, pro-European president of Moldova and proclaiming in bad Russian: “We, Hollywood stars, support the people of Moldova in their desire to overthrow you, Sandu.” These weren’t deepfakes. Instead the videos—which researchers suggested were part of a pro-Kremlin influence operation—were commissioned on Cameo, the app that lets anyone buy…
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Microsoft says Russian troll farms are targeting the Harris-Walz campaign
18 Sep

Microsoft says Russian troll farms are targeting the Harris-Walz campaign

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Kremlin-affiliated Russian troll farms are running disinformation campaigns that aim to interfere with this year's US presidential elections, and according to Microsoft, they're focusing their efforts on discrediting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. The company has published a new report detailing the movements of two troll farms being monitored by the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center.These Kremlin-backed actors apparently struggled to find the right approach shortly after President Biden stepped down as a candidate, but in late August and early September, one of them started circulating inauthentic videos that managed to generate millions of views. One video depicted a supposed attack…
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YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the DOJ’s Russia indictments
08 Sep

YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the DOJ’s Russia indictments

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YouTube confirmed its termination of five right-wing political channels believed to be connected to the Department of Justice’s Russia-linked US media indictments this week. The platform pulled the channel of Tenet Media, which CNN reported to be the unnamed company implicated in the indictment. The DOJ accused Russian operatives of paying the media organization to spread disinformation designed to influence the 2024 US elections.A YouTube spokesperson confirmed the takedown and provided a statement to Engadget. “Following an indictment from the US Department of Justice and after careful review, we are terminating the Tenet Media channel and four channels operated by…
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Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Charged Over Alleged Criminal Activity on the App
28 Aug

Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Charged Over Alleged Criminal Activity on the App

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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is forbidden from leaving French territory after being charged for complicity in running an online platform that allegedly enabled the spread of sexual images of children, creating an uncertain future for the messaging app that has become one of the world’s biggest social media platforms.Durov was arrested on Saturday at 8 pm local time after his private jet landed at an airport near Paris. He was then detained for four days as part of an investigation into alleged criminal activity taking place on Telegram. On Wednesday evening, local time, he was indicted and forbidden from leaving…
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Pavel Durov’s Arrest Leaves Telegram Hanging in the Balance
25 Aug

Pavel Durov’s Arrest Leaves Telegram Hanging in the Balance

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“Civil society has had a complicated relationship with Telegram over the years,” says Natalia Kapriva, a lawyer at the digital rights group Access Now. “We have defended Telegram against attempts by authoritarian regimes to block and coerce the platform into providing encryption keys, but we have also been raising alarms about Telegram’s lack of human rights policies, reliable channel of communication, and remedy for its users.” Kapriva stresses that French authorities may try to force Durov to provide Telegram’s encryption keys to decrypt private messages, “which Russia has already tried to do in the past.”The hashtag #FreePavel has been spreading…
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Veon to Delist From Amsterdam Due to Volume and Costs, CEO Says
12 Aug

Veon to Delist From Amsterdam Due to Volume and Costs, CEO Says

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Telecommunications company Veon Ltd is delistingBloomberg Terminal from the Amsterdam stock exchange due to low liquidity for the stock in Europe and regulatory costs, according to its chief executive.The Nasdaq-listed firm announced its plan to delist from Euronext Amsterdam earlier this month. It hasn’t made a decision on whether it will shift its Amsterdam headquarters after the move, Kaan Terzioglu said in an interview. Source link lol
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The Fake Indian Cricket League Created for Real Online Betting
11 Aug

The Fake Indian Cricket League Created for Real Online Betting

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The sun was still rising one peaceful morning in late June 2022 when Constable Abdulgfar Saiyedali received an unusual telephone call from a friend. He was at police headquarters in Mehsana, a city of about 215,000 in the western Indian state of Gujarat, where he works as an officer in the Special Operations Group, a national unit that mainly covers narcotics, weapons and counterterrorism.The friend had a tip for Saiyedali. A perplexing cricket tournament was taking place in Molipur, a farming village about 30 miles away that’s populated largely by Sunni Muslims. The matches looked rudimentary, played by local amateurs…
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