The owner of a company Trafigura alleges was part of a “systematic” nickel fraud also owns an Indian food joint in Hong Kong, with a PornHub-style logo & the tagline: “Sandwich that’ll make you come”

Hang this @cynthiao & @kayewiggins intro in the Louvre!https://t.co/zGfyVUljNH pic.twitter.com/3UpG9R5QKh

— Robert Smith (@BondHack) July 11, 2023

Would you watch "Napoleon vs Alien"? pic.twitter.com/mHZ99sqfqZ

— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) July 10, 2023

I went through many open-source models lately.

Here are my current top models that I suggest you test for yourself:

- Nous-Hermes: Still the best in my opinion for day-to-day usecases. It follows your instructions flawlessly nearly all the time. [Especially if you use beam… pic.twitter.com/GzipBDYsAR

— Yam Peleg (@Yampeleg) July 11, 2023

Unbelievable

A Russian submarine commander was assassinated on his run yesterday

He was posting his workouts on Strava!

One of the people who liked the posts, was the Chief of Intelligence of Ukraine pic.twitter.com/pbOYjBquP2

— Iman Jalali (@Stealx) July 11, 2023

Perfect illustration of why ML/AI is an empirical field, built on intuition.

Next time you get lost in a sea of math while reading a paper, remember that the author probably discovered the method this way and tacked on the math later (to pass peer review). https://t.co/l4gGtOBNtH

— Mark Tenenholtz (@marktenenholtz) July 11, 2023

The Brazilian Central Bank is launching an ERC20-based digital currency soon.

The smart contract for their CBDC contains logic that allows them to freely move, burn, or freeze user funds. They will also be able to control who can move funds around. pic.twitter.com/r4UxSNKqBX

— cygaar (@0xCygaar) July 11, 2023

Fascinating nugget from when SIS
ran Johann (‘Jonny’) Heinrich de Graff as a double agent. Here, Jonny helps SIS disrupt a Russian-planned revolution in Brazil.

(From Keith Jeffery, ‘MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949’.)

cc: @thegrugq pic.twitter.com/DioEU1WoGF

— Ravi Nayyar (@ravirockks) July 11, 2023

"Spikes placed on buildings to deter birds are being used by birds to build nests" https://t.co/Jf0vEB0wDp pic.twitter.com/yuGu9tUlRS

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) July 11, 2023

Actually, @0xricksanchez's whole "Low-level adventures" blog is extremely cool ✊
​https://t.co/NPcTk0bZDD

— raptor@infosec.exchange (@0xdea) July 12, 2023

Well spotted! Potentially a rather serious issue for MI5.
We recall Katia Zatuliveter ‘won’ her case but MI5 ended her career in the West successfully (she’s now in Russia, working to promote Putin). https://t.co/lzTJReybqg

— Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @anthonyglees.bsky.soc (@AnthonyGlees) July 12, 2023

The head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, has claimed that during its mutiny, Wagner tried to seize backpack nuclear weapons from the Voronezh-45 base. I’m sceptical. A short thread 1/https://t.co/uoDS7ZaK4u

— Mark Galeotti (@MarkGaleotti) July 11, 2023

The unclassified version of the latest issue of @CIA’s Studies in Intelligence (Vol. 67, No. 2, June 2023) is now available. https://t.co/1sRPHc16Sm

— 𝙰𝚕𝚎𝚡 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕 (@alexrblackwell) July 12, 2023

Bee-yond Capacity: Unauthenticated #RCE in Extreme Networks/ Aerohive Wireless APs - CVE-2023-35803

// by @lachlan2k

“So how did I solve it? It’s not the most elegant answer, but brute-force.”https://t.co/BWVpfZ1DK9

— raptor@infosec.exchange (@0xdea) July 12, 2023

Reading the TTPs here are enough to make anyone cry. 2023 and we still have malicious word documents as stage 1.

Wild times I tell ya, wild https://t.co/nyeMtizFGj

— Daniel Cuthbert (@dcuthbert) July 12, 2023

Security Analysis, A Critical Thinking Approach (2023) https://t.co/uYizj7aoTE

Full book, open access, ~540 pages.

Author: Dr Michael W. Collier, retired Associate Professor of Homeland Security at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU).

(h/t Bob de Graaff) pic.twitter.com/FsEvGFKSZY

— Matthijs R. Koot (@mrkoot) July 12, 2023