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December 1, 2025

December 1, 2025

December 1, 2025

📻 Really enjoyed listening to this BBC show on modern espionage ⏬️https://t.co/0FO5eqUHqT pic.twitter.com/kybTkBVDoO

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) November 30, 2025


The Path of a Packet Through the Linux Kernelhttps://t.co/Opd8uuk5OI pic.twitter.com/pbaMLF6Zcj

— Alex Plaskett (@alexjplaskett) November 30, 2025


Spying is changing and for @BBCRadio4 I've investigated the world of disposable agents for hire used by Russia. Amateurs but still dangerous with links to criminality, they are responsible for surveillance and sabotage and perhaps thefts from rural farms https://t.co/7lOLo7YhPt

— Gordon Corera (@gordoncorera) November 30, 2025


Four Bytes, One Lie: A SMAP-Free Confidence Trick on Kernel Pointers by Hyeonjinhttps://t.co/xybXA1svID pic.twitter.com/MEAXzO9ktD

— Alex Plaskett (@alexjplaskett) November 29, 2025


🛠️ Patchless AMSI bypass using hardware breakpoints and a vectored exception handler to intercept AmsiScanBuffer and AmsiScanString before they execute https://t.co/2uAGl5ByqM

— Panos Gkatziroulis 🦄 (@ipurple) November 30, 2025


This is fascinating: https://t.co/MS8oQ396iQ@TrevorEvans62, @thegrugq pic.twitter.com/xEcnRrPz0q

— Ravi Nayyar (@ravirockks) December 1, 2025


Working paper.

Runs ~500k Chinese graduate dissertations through plagiarism-detection software, then links them to 60k successful civil-service recruits (and controls).

Individuals with high plagiarism scores substantially more likely to enter government + advance faster. pic.twitter.com/B6euKcLV8w

— Jonathon P Sine (@JonathonPSine) December 1, 2025


Reverse proxy hides infrastructure from scannershttps://t.co/bZpv5Xlyri pic.twitter.com/MP0DcQKkIp

— Tom Dörr (@tom_doerr) November 30, 2025


NATO’s top military commander stated that the alliance is considering a more aggressive, including preemptive, response to Russian cyberattacks, sabotage, and airspace violations, treating such actions as defensive. Several member states, especially on the eastern flank, are…

— Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik) November 30, 2025


Introducing Fabricate - fabricate an entire Github persona and commit history in any number of languages with a single command.

⚠️ This is an experimental/research project. Use responsibly and ethically.

In the past, I would use GitHub history to determine the quality of…

— nader dabit (@dabit3) December 1, 2025


Swarm intelligence has a secret.

The standard approach treats swarms as collections of independent learners. Each agent makes decisions, learns from outcomes, and coordination somehow emerges. More agents, more complexity, more mystery.

But what if the swarm itself is the… pic.twitter.com/QlraDZsu1K

— DAIR.AI (@dair_ai) November 30, 2025


Routes all traffic through proxyhttps://t.co/9UMkp1rxM8 pic.twitter.com/NHFecJyZkA

— Tom Dörr (@tom_doerr) November 30, 2025


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