the grugq's newsletter

Archives
February 17, 2026

February 17, 2026

February 17, 2026



https://www.ft.com/content/dbd1d803-ab37-43f1-920f-fce74952313a



Ukraine’s War of Endurance | Foreign Affairs

The fight for advantage in the conflict’s fifth year.


Talks & Community Engagement - Cloudbrothers

Date Conference/User Group Title Slides Recording 14.02.2026 Disobey 2026 Are Passkeys As Secure As You Think? Slides 05.02.2026 MC2MC Connect 2026 From anonymous user to Global Admin in 45min, or not Slides 04.02.2026 WPNinja Connect 2026 XDRInternals - Automate Defender for Endpoint Slides 30.01.2026 Cloud Tech Tallinn 2026 Become a Maester in Microsoft 365 Security 29.01.2026 Cloud Tech Tallinn 2026 Attack on Token: Why post-auth attacks are the next frontier 10.


Iridium-Sniffer: A Standalone Iridium Satellite Burst Detector and Demodulator

Thank you to Aaron, who is most well known for creating the DragonOS distribution, for writing in and sharing with us a new open-source program he's recently released over on GitHub. The program is called 'Iridium-Sniffer', and it is a standalone Iridium satellite burst detector and demodulator written in C. Typically, gr-iridium has been used for Iridium demodulation in the past, but it can be clunky and slow on lower-power embedded systems like the Raspberry Pi, as it requires the large GNU Ra...



https://washingtonian.com/2021/11/09/how-gen-z-and-the-tiktok-generation-are-becoming-spies/






http://erdosproblems.com


https://medium.com/the-dock-on-the-bay/ukraines-new-weapon-dropping-swedish-smart-155mm-shells-from-drones-6668a7be4e3b


Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Pete Hegseth’s crackdown on ‘biased’ schools | CNN Politics

Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign against schools he describes as being biased against the US military and sponsoring “troublesome partnerships with foreign adversaries.”



How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt

This piece by Margaret-Anne Storey is the best explanation of the term cognitive debt I've seen so far. Cognitive debt, a term gaining traction recently, instead communicates the notion that …


Objective-See's Blog

Defending against malicious terminal pastes


Don't miss what's next. Subscribe to the grugq's newsletter:

Add a comment:

Share this email:
Share on Twitter Share on Hacker News Share via email Share on Mastodon Share on Bluesky
Twitter