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July 10, 2024

July 10, 2024

July 10, 2024

I encountered a delightful little astrodynamics proof last week when an astronaut casually stated it as a fact, and when I looked skeptical, he just smiled and said, "Check it yourself."

Here's the statement:

"It takes 2 hours to orbit at the surface of any object made of rock"

— Max Fagin 🚀🔴🌐☄🌘 (@MaxFagin) July 9, 2024

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@MaxFagin: I encountered a delightful little astrodynamics proof last week when an astronaut casually stated it as a fact, and when I looked skeptical, he just smiled and said, "Check it yourself." Here's the statem...…


NEW: sprawling #ChatGPT-powered pro-#Rwanda propaganda operation on @X.

More than half a million posts this year.

Used #AI / #LLM- drafted posts to propagandize, attack truth tellers & bury negative stories under inauthentic content. 1/

By @ClemsonHubhttps://t.co/8T2V2CJede pic.twitter.com/E7OLCEeQIB

— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) June 22, 2024


Is this what they mean by public private partnership?

The Whataburger app works as a power outage tracker, handy since the electric company doesn't show a map.
Still nearly 1.9 million power outages. pic.twitter.com/d8srWmw1oV

— BBQ Bryan (@BBQBryan) July 9, 2024


NEW: @TheJusticeDept just disrupted a Russian-run AI-enabled Twitter disinformation bot farm.

Almost 1000 accounts on @X.

Masqueraded as Americans & promoted Russian government narratives.

Fascinating sleuthing behind this 1/https://t.co/QOsWnoVUCf pic.twitter.com/pvbVZM3nLj

— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) July 9, 2024


So, Google Chrome gives all *.google.com sites full access to system / tab CPU usage, GPU usage, and memory usage. It also gives access to detailed processor information, and provides a logging backchannel.

This API is not exposed to other sites - only to *.google.com.

— Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 (@lcasdev) July 9, 2024

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@lcasdev: So, Google Chrome gives all *.google.com sites full access to system / tab CPU usage, GPU usage, and memory usage. It also gives access to detailed processor information, and provides a logging backchannel....…


Short reading on Hypervisor-Protected Code Integrity (HVCI) bypass for arbitrary kernel-mode code execution (CVE-2024-21305)https://t.co/RnlxRhVmDp

Credits @standa_t and @aall86#infosec #hvci pic.twitter.com/hF1pfJr3sV

— 0xor0ne (@0xor0ne) July 9, 2024


Beloved Apple blog TUAW was shut down in 2015, sold to private equity, then sold to a company in Hong Kong. It recently relaunched as an AI content farm using the stolen identities and bylines of its former human staff. A nightmare:https://t.co/NKUXy1Y2YT

— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) July 9, 2024


https://x.com/cpresearch/status/1810786417985069286


Together with our international partners, today we released an advisory outlining the threat to Australian networks from a PRC state-sponsored actor. APT40 is increasingly using vulnerable infrastructure to compromise Australian networks.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/0mtxjBbrO5 pic.twitter.com/cwolnDZs52

— Australian Signals Directorate (@ASDGovAu) July 8, 2024

https://www.cyber.gov.au/about-us/view-all-content/alerts-and-advisories/apt40-advisory-prc-mss-tradecraft-in-action

https://www.cyber.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-07/apt40-advisory-prc-mss-tradecraft-in-action.pdf


Giant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canada

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/giant-phallus-shaped-iceberg-floating-in-conception-bay-surprises-residents-of-dildo-canada


New from 404 Media: a U.S. government agency tasked with supporting the nation's nuclear capability bought access to internet backbone data. Sometimes agencies say it takes too long to get the data from NSA, so they just buy it from a private firm instead https://t.co/B6vSqdk1Ih pic.twitter.com/Lpg5jkq71U

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) July 9, 2024


Beijing's ears in Munich#thread

The interception of enemy communications is an important element of China's espionage techniques. In recent years, Beijing has invested a lot of money in new #SIGINT stations around the world. China's ears are also growing in Europe 1/14 pic.twitter.com/sKvwa72oHF

— Le cueilleur (@LCueilleur) July 9, 2024

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@LCueilleur: Beijing's ears in Munich #thread The interception of enemy communications is an important element of China's espionage techniques. In recent years, Beijing has invested a lot of money in new #SIGINT sta...…


New York City paid Mckinsey $4m to conduct a feasibility study on whether trash bins are better than leaving garbage on the street.

The deck is 95-slides long and titled “The Future of Trash”.

Some highlights:

▫️The official term is “containerization”, which is the “storage… pic.twitter.com/6sD8P4TgGq

— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) July 9, 2024

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@TrungTPhan: New York City paid Mckinsey $4m to conduct a feasibility study on whether trash bins are better than leaving garbage on the street. The deck is 95-slides long and titled “The Future of Trash”. Some...…


No idea how real this is or what the impact is/would be. But for completeness:

NATO portal Breached!!!

Threat Actor group SiegedSec obtained access to tens of thousands documents from NATO Headquarters#NATO #ThreatIntel #leaks #Threat #actors #DarkWeb pic.twitter.com/xAZ1Jbektl

— TaskEvil45 (@THETS45) July 8, 2024


Ether in Tornado Cash's main pool is still below pre-2022 OFAC sanction levels, but has been steadily rising despite the blacklisting. pic.twitter.com/UwS9ofE29W

— John Paul Koning (@jp_koning) July 10, 2024


on the next episode of copse pic.twitter.com/mXKGHMv3uh

— Uncle Duke (@UncleDuke1969) July 9, 2024
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