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March 14, 2026

March 14, 2026

March 14, 2026

Indeed, one thing I have to admit is I feel like I am coming to understand why the genre of 'military manual for aristocratic failsons who keep messing up the basics of war and strategy' was such a durable, useful, important genre. https://t.co/feSUtZUrEU

— "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux (@BretDevereaux) March 13, 2026


Lost in translation: How Russia’s new elite hit squad was compromised by an idiotic lapse in tradecraft@christogrozev, @Dobrokhotov and @michaeldweiss detail how hubris and Google Translate exposed Russia's most secretive assassination unit, Center 795.https://t.co/xqFzy2Y1S4

— The Insider (@InsiderEng) March 13, 2026

Lost in translation: How Russia’s new elite hit squad was compromised by an idiotic lapse in tradecraft

Center 795, which emerged after the start of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine and comprises elite units from the GRU and FSB, was established as a top-secret and fully autonomous entity designed to carry out the most critical operations, ranging from military missions in Ukraine to political assassinations and abductions abroad. The Insider has managed to identify all of the center’s key leaders and sponsors, determine its location, and pinpoint its main areas of activity. One of its officers ...


Yeah, so basically it turns out Meta has been heavily lobbying online age verification laws. They've lobbied over $2,000,000,000 to politicians in form of grants and donations.https://t.co/uNiv8BiIWO

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) March 13, 2026


Pretty crazy way in which agents could maintain state on the internet, found by Anthropic when investigating Opus 4.6's eval awareness pic.twitter.com/9Ncf93LDEG

— Alan Chan (@_achan96_) March 13, 2026


Meta appears to be reversing its strong stance on encryption. The first obvious casualty is that they’re abandoning and disabling end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs.

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) March 13, 2026


NawfalMotii79/PLFM_RADAR (1,238 stars, C) Open-source, low-cost 10.5 GHz PLFM phased array RADAR system

source: chiefofautism (@chiefofautism)


1/3 When we found out back in September '25 that 'Rubicon' is based in Patriot Park (https://t.co/hSTJDwsMlb), I thought location might be a stunt to impress Belousov or something. Now, with this new GRU sabotage unit – 'Centre 795' – also based there, everything falls into place https://t.co/mXlDtkNb2E pic.twitter.com/hgUpJ6RV7W

— Mark Krutov (@kromark) March 13, 2026

Inside Rubicon, The Elite Russian Drone Unit Wreaking Havoc On Ukraine's Troops

Ukrainian forces are struggling to adapt to an elite Russian drone unit known as Rubicon that aims to bring cutting-edge technologies and tactics to the battlefield. New findings from RFE/RL’s Russian Services now shed more light on the secretive military unit.


Real risk isn’t defined by severity, it’s defined by exploitability. https://t.co/1wxfbcEB0I

— Nico Waisman (@nicowaisman) March 13, 2026


The AIatollah https://t.co/USVEHbVWWm

— thaddeus e. grugq (@thegrugq) March 13, 2026


The next Ayatollah will be fully GenAI, agentic, distributed, encrypted, and permissionless. Let them try to get him then! https://t.co/g200qBXxQt

— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) March 12, 2026


Sudo bug exploited by CrackArmor independently discovered by AI
Fail open: a system, upon experiencing a failure, defaults to an unlocked state.
"make a setuid(), setgid() or setgroups() failure fatal. Found by the ZeroPath AI" pic.twitter.com/0I5u1VJqFA

— Juliano Rizzo (@julianor) March 13, 2026


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