Nostr notes by Frédéric Jacobs

Putin’s Wishlist: ✅ USA no longer funding support for Ukraine ...

2026-10-15T08:28:15Z

Putin’s Wishlist:
✅ USA no longer funding support for Ukraine
✅ USA not giving Starshield for strikes in Russia to Ukraine
✅ USA no longer delivering EU-paid Interceptors for Ukraine
✅ USA no longer delivering early warnings for ballistic missile strikes to Ukraine

✅🆕 USA buying Russian Diesel

✅🆕 USA proposing to unfreeze immobilized Russian sovereign assets

✅🆕 USA temporarily disabled Starshield for high-speed logistics drones in Ukraine

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2026-10-11T20:03:59Z

quoting
nevent1q…6zdn

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears.

Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:movn6xzezospl7lnkhy7nzpt&cid=bafkreifhsjdrmzp7mj7sjjmidiyakvscuolchzjkjx67qzxqxuav6aabay

Assassinations against European civilian targets — once ...

2026-10-11T06:19:10Z

Assassinations against European civilian targets — once considered taboo, even by Russia’s spy agencies — are an increasingly prominent part of those plans, European intelligence services have told the FT

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/5e64652d-b3be-43aa-bc5d-d3d0ad73603e

A Starlink base station in Mazovia, Poland was likely put on fire ...

2026-09-24T07:42:45Z

A Starlink base station in Mazovia, Poland was likely put on fire by Russian operatives in an attempt to sabotage Ukrainian coverage of Starlink.
Antennas and the generator were targeted.

https://www.tvp.info/95558038/mazowsze-pozar-stacji-bazowej-starlinkow-w-woli-krobowskiej-ta-infrastruktura-zapewnie-lacznosc-internetowa-naszemu-regionowi-w-tym-ukrainie

The School of Computer and Communication Sciences at ...

2026-09-22T08:55:15Z

The School of Computer and Communication Sciences at nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq05evv0hsmpm7yrdsaqpk0v2fy0hrwjhu74hpj3rdwwtsthpa58dq0h4hmc (nprofile…4hmc) invites applications for a faculty position in security and privacy. The appointment will be at the Tenure Track Assistant Professor level.

Application deadline: November 1, 2026

https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/faculty-positions-in-computer-communication-sciences-security-and-privacy/

Congrats to Steve Weis at Anthropic for factoring RSA-896 in 10 ...

2026-09-21T05:33:41Z

Congrats to Steve Weis at Anthropic for factoring RSA-896 in 10 days adapting CADO-NFS to run on a max of 2048 GPUs.

No algorithmic breakthrough, just code optimized for recent parallel compute architectures.

“it does demonstrates that RSA-1024 keys are vulnerable to many actors with data center-level fleets of GPUs.”

https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.html

🇪🇺🔥 Want some nice European merch? 🚀 The team at ...

2026-09-01T14:03:04Z

🇪🇺🔥 Want some nice European merch? 🚀

The team at PROTOTYPE is cooking some nice things

Get a poster to put on at home, in your office space, in a kid's room 🌈

https://prototype-shop.com/collections/europropaganda

Designer Simon Weckert has created a colourful camouflage shirt ...

2026-08-27T08:03:48Z

Designer Simon Weckert has created a colourful camouflage shirt that is not detected by some AI video systems.

Developed in response to a pilot project to use artificial intelligence (AI) video surveillance at Berlin's Kottbusser Tor, which starts this month, the shirt was designed to stop the user being recognised as a person.

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/08/25/digital-camouflage-shirt-ai-video-surveillance-simon-weckert/

@nprofile…tk8a Switzerland does this too for sure.

2026-08-24T09:31:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…dl9y
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nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq9kucpg8gdq8jhz2g9mqqydvwf80rmwcpzeqp48wwg28f25lrmmuqtrtk8a (nprofile…tk8a) Switzerland does this too for sure.

La Russie a représenté 100 % des importations de gaz naturel ...

2026-08-13T08:22:36Z

La Russie a représenté 100 % des importations de gaz naturel liquéfié de la Belgique en juillet.

Les volumes d’importations européennes de GNL russe ont augmenté de 16 % au premier semestre par rapport à 2025.

https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/08/12/la-russie-a-represente-100-des-importations-de-gnl-de-la-belgique-en-juillet/

Shameful behavior from some European member states lacking ...

2026-08-02T10:06:55Z

Shameful behavior from some European member states lacking solidarity with Spain regarding the current developments in #Cueda

There's a lot of instrumentalisation going on.

But I mostly feel bad for the Moroccan people whose aspirations for a better life are being weaponized by their government, with support from the the US

https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/08/01/comment-se-positionnent-les-pays-europeens-face-a-la-crise-de-ceuta/

Happy Signal Birthday! 🎉 Signal 1.0 hit the App Store 12 years ...

2026-07-29T12:04:05Z

Happy Signal Birthday! 🎉

Signal 1.0 hit the App Store 12 years ago already today

quoting
nevent1q…gn4p
🥳 On this day, 10 years ago, we launched Signal on iPhone, which existed on Android as RedPhone and TextSecure 🎂

📞 Back then, Signal was only an encrypted voice calling app using the ZRTP protocol with short-authentication strings.

💬 It’s only 6 months later, that Signal Protocol-based encrypted messaging would launch.

https://www.wired.com/2014/07/free-encrypted-calling-finally-comes-to-the-iphone/

Congrats Spain for making Team Europe proud! 🫶🇪🇸🇪🇺 ...

2026-07-19T22:23:33Z

Congrats Spain for making Team Europe proud! 🫶🇪🇸🇪🇺
United in Diversity, we win!

I've always hated owning a printer, but yet love reading and ...

2026-07-06T08:14:21Z

I've always hated owning a printer, but yet love reading and working on paper.

Everything about the experience of owning one has been terrible and the design held back by adversarial behavior against the user.

The open hardware Open Printer feels very different, designed from first principles to be easy to assemble, maintain, and repair, ensuring longevity 😍

🖨️ https://www.opentools.studio
💸 https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

“La slopagande prospère dans le vide intersidéral d’un fil ...

2026-07-04T12:03:55Z

“La slopagande prospère dans le vide intersidéral d’un fil d’actualité, où chaque affirmation est déconnectée de sa source et de ses conséquences — et où chaque affirmation renforce un sentiment universel de doute.”

"C’est dans des espaces à la temporalité volontairement plus lente que devra être imaginé cet avenir, au sein d’une société capable de reconnaître qu’elle participe à la même réalité.”

https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/07/01/lage-de-la-slopagande/

The Schrödinger Straight America is leading in maintaining ...

2026-06-22T18:33:49Z

The Schrödinger Straight

America is leading in maintaining coherence of quantum systems over HUGE states and INCREDIBLE duration, keeping the whole Straight of Hormuz in a superposition of open and closed for months now.

Who remembers this? Our community has fought cryptography export ...

2026-06-13T11:09:24Z

Who remembers this?

Our community has fought cryptography export controls for years.

First they wanted to control exports of transport security, now they want to control model intelligence exports.

Our community knows how to solve this problem. Just do it the Phil Zimmermann (PGP) way: print all the model weights in a book so they are protected by first-amendment free speech protections.

But the oligarchic tech industry today doesn't seem to have the same ethics & values than back in the day

Claude Malhuret, more lucid than ever, on the challenges ahead ...

2026-06-10T10:45:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…nmcs
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Claude Malhuret, more lucid than ever, on the challenges ahead for Europe's defense

As Mastodon adoption grows, attackers are also looking at ...

2026-06-04T08:22:16Z

As Mastodon adoption grows, attackers are also looking at leveraging it for hostile activities.

Sekoia explains how Russian malware used Mastodon encrypted post updates as a dead drop resolver to tell the malware where to exfiltrate data:

"[Mastodon] posts were consistently updated four times per day at uniform intervals with a variance of only a few minutes”

https://blog.sekoia.io/fsbs-matryoshka-3-3-gamaredons-gifts-that-keeps-unpacking-gammasteel/

Hot take: Stop designing your websites with AI—it makes them ...

2026-05-09T19:41:17Z

Hot take:
Stop designing your websites with AI—it makes them look like your company is a CIA front or shell company.

Great interview with Christine Lagarde in the Economist in which ...

2026-05-03T06:01:57Z

Great interview with Christine Lagarde in the Economist in which she correctly pushes that we need new venues to resolve global crises caused unilaterally by the US.
https://www.economist.com/insider/the-insider/christine-lagarde-on-crisis-fighting-in-a-trumpian-world

Hello, I really want to date you. But can you please go scan your ...

2026-04-27T12:32:23Z

Hello, I really want to date you. But can you please go scan your Iris first on Sam Altman's Orb so I can know you're real?

"On April 17, World, a project designed to distinguish humans from bots using biometrics, announced strategic partnerships with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign. The three companies will use World’s digital identification to verify users, aiming to reduce deepfakes, scams, and other fraudulent activity.”

https://restofworld.org/2026/sam-altman-worldcoin-zoom-tinder-partnerships/

💗 Schengen “Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more ...

2026-04-22T09:12:58Z

💗 Schengen

“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/borders-are-a-construct-but-this-swing-isnt

Works on any device is really overselling it because it ...

2026-04-15T12:37:52Z

Works on any device is really overselling it because it doesn't work on any European device such the /e/OS Fairphone or a Jolla phone due to attestation enforcement.

Given that Age Verification app has the potential to exclude users who cannot prove their age, it’s mind-blowing to me that they would make it harder to use European operating systems.

quoting
nevent1q…zu77
It is for parents to raise their children. Not platforms.

The European Age Verification App is ready.

It will allow users to prove their age when accessing online platforms. Just like shops ask for proof of age for people buying alcoholic beverages.

And it ticks all the boxes:
✅ Highest privacy standards in the world
✅ Works on any device
✅ Easy to use
✅ Fully open source

More info: https://link.europa.eu/HmnrJc

Alice & Bob, one of the leading quantum computing startups, ...

2026-04-15T07:11:49Z

Alice & Bob, one of the leading quantum computing startups, is hiring an intern in Quantum Cryptanalysis Research in Paris. This internship focused on Grover attacks on password-based security (symmetric algorithms) and not Shor.

https://jobs.lever.co/alice-bob/ecb08334-27e1-49ce-8146-83370a8028d5

"It’s worth sitting with this for a moment, I think; the ...

2026-04-13T09:12:23Z

"It’s worth sitting with this for a moment, I think; the fact that Alex Jones has expressed more moral concern over a US president’s calls to kill an entire civilization than any major [Silicon Valley] tech executive. […] Currently, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, xAI, Oracle and even Meta have large contracts with the US military.”
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-firms-and-their-us-military-ties

I really like this ad campaign in Paris. “Another addiction is ...

2026-04-12T11:31:32Z

I really like this ad campaign in Paris.

“Another addiction is possible"

Less screens, more reading.

Keep these monstrosities off our roads 🙅‍♂️ "US ...

2026-04-08T08:19:04Z

Keep these monstrosities off our roads 🙅‍♂️

"US carmakers have accused Brussels of keeping their largest pick-up trucks, including the Ford F-150, the Chevy Silverado and the Ram 1500, off European roads”

https://www.ft.com/content/3eb796fd-bcdb-4a9f-89b7-f7d5e692a3cd

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/renault-twingo-1998-3-door-hatchback-vs-ford-f-350-2016-4-door-pickup-crew-cab/

Bombing bridges and power plants that serve primarily civilian ...

2026-04-05T18:20:39Z

Bombing bridges and power plants that serve primarily civilian purposes, without clear and immediate military necessity, would violate the principles of distinction, proportionality, and military necessity under International Humanitarian Law. Such actions would likely be classified as war crimes.

Yet, most of our leaders are not taking a stand against Trump. Shameful.

quoting
nevent1q…3tej
I think it’s worth asking again — and seriously — what exactly do we have a 25th Amendment for if not for this?

[Internship] OVH is looking for an intern to help work on their ...

2026-04-02T07:16:27Z

[Internship] OVH is looking for an intern to help work on their post-quantum transition
https://careers.ovhcloud.com/job/PARIS-Stage-6-mois-Septembre-Cryptage-Post-Quantum-HFN-75017/1379456433/

Why is any European country still ordering American weapons when ...

2026-04-01T18:26:07Z

Why is any European country still ordering American weapons when Trump behaves in such an unpredictable way and constantly threatens to withhold deliveries?

Donald Trump threatened to stop supplying [European paid] weapons for Ukraine in order to pressure European allies to join a “coalition of the willing” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/3ee11bdd-80f8-4d7a-b574-3289f29d594c

People who defend the leading AI companies working with the ...

2026-02-28T11:39:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…dkuq
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People who defend the leading AI companies working with the Department of War claim that the law is already constraining how these tools will be used.

I would have more sympathy for that argument if in the first few months of the use of AI, it had not been used in violation of International Law, abducting a head of state.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-used-anthropics-claude-in-maduro-venezuela-raid-583aff17

Magnifique dossier préparatoire au discours du Président de la ...

2026-02-27T13:32:07Z

Magnifique dossier préparatoire au discours du Président de la République de lundi prochain (2 Mars à l’Ile Longue)

👉 Contrairement à ce que le RN prétend, seul le PR (élu au suffrage universel direct) peut donner des ordres d'engagement des forces nucléaires, et cela ne va pas changer.
👉 Cela dit, cela n'empêche pas la dissuasion française d'avoir une dimension européenne
👉 Les alliances européennes complémentent l'alliance de l’OTAN et ne la remplacent pas.

https://www.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/ministere-armees/dossier-preparatoire-discours-PR-2-mars-2026-dissuasion-nucleaire-francaise.pdf

🤦Oh, it’s the Snowden revelations all over again. They are ...

2026-02-27T06:45:50Z

🤦Oh, it’s the Snowden revelations all over again.

They are claiming that AI-powered mass surveillance is a good thing but mass **domestic** surveillance isn’t

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

How would that be even remotely acceptable?! "Under the ...

2026-02-25T08:57:00Z

How would that be even remotely acceptable?!

"Under the proposed EU-US EBSP framework, the DHS[/ICE] would gain access to national biometric databases for the purposes of immigration screening and vetting [...] The draft agreement seen by Euractiv also allows for the transfer of “special categories” of personal data – for example on political opinions, trade union memberships, information about a person’s sex life or their biometric data.”

https://www.euractiv.com/news/exclusive-us-algorithms-judging-eu-travellers-not-fully-excluded-in-draft-data-deal/

The UN General Assembly has adopted the resolution titled ...

2026-02-25T08:03:27Z

The UN General Assembly has adopted the resolution titled "Support for Lasting Peace in Ukraine," initiated by Ukraine.

The US abstained to support Ukraine, in line with Orban.

With the US funding MAGA-aligned think-tanks in 🇪🇺 [1], ...

2026-02-09T10:53:36Z

With the US funding MAGA-aligned think-tanks in 🇪🇺 [1], it's important cultivate a spirit of resistance to foreign influence.

Super interesting textbook [2] released by the 🇸🇪 Psychological Defense Agency.

"Psychological defence is not about controlling information. It is about safeguarding the conditions that allow free societies to think, decide and act together under pressure.”

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/f8696da1-5fe6-4218-be9c-5309bd9a6ae5

[2]: https://mpf.se/psychological-defence-agency/publications/archive/2026-01-19-psychological-defence-and-information-influence----a-textbook-on-theory-and-practice

Think of the folks at Palantir who built this. ...

2026-01-16T08:30:23Z

Think of the folks at Palantir who built this.
https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

quoting
nevent1q…r023

Reading recommendation for everyone working in tech right now for no reason whatsoever

IBM and the Holocaust
The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

https://bookwyrm.social/book/13323/s/ibm-and-the-holocaust
https://mastodon.social/@bitboxer/114024300854186610

“#Meta met 38 times with MEPs from the ECR, the Patriots and ...

2026-01-15T05:25:32Z

“#Meta met 38 times with MEPs from the ECR, the Patriots and the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group.

#Google has also not shied away from meeting far-right MEPs. A few days after the launch of the digital omnibus, the Head of Public Affairs of Google France joined a dinner party in Strasbourg hosted by six French MEPs from the far right Rassemblement National.”

quoting
nevent1q…rq3x
US Big Tech is conspiring with European (and American) fascists to wreck the EU's ability to even modestly regulate this rogue industry, which has unparalleled -- and growing -- power over people's lives.

Fascism and tech are an unholy, and maybe unstoppable, alliance.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1916422/us-tech-giants-allying-with-european-far-right-to-strip-back-eu-rules

Who thought that electing a man known for sexual assault and ...

2026-01-14T08:50:14Z

Who thought that electing a man known for sexual assault and rejecting the will of the people (#January6th) was a good idea?

For Trump, let’s put it simply: No means no. Greenland doesn’t want you. She doesn’t consent. Move on.

@nprofile…8llp The cap exists with the Flags of Greenland and ...

2026-01-10T12:07:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…v898
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nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqdtqqn46j9lflwn3wdmupyu9vqj7n7xq07czjxyf4qru528e2n4ss6q8llp (nprofile…8llp) The cap exists with the Flags of Greenland and Canada.

It's obviously about making Americans go away from these places.

Nostr event nevent1qqsqs0yznztgzd4wyejmdzszqkm23s06rlcgw9pfa80ue5hdvn6p84gzyptygxajadhawc2la2mk0jxhz6jz8aw55jm896vaszq9v9rlv46j7fwhwnn

2026-01-10T12:02:27Z

🛍️: https://www.55.style/product-page/make-america-go-away-cap

J’ai bien apprécié cet entretien avec Arthur Mensch de ...

2026-01-09T20:59:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…y65x
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J’ai bien apprécié cet entretien avec Arthur Mensch de Mistral.

“Mensch, Lample et Lacroix sont frustrés par la politique des Big Tech américains qui, course à l’IA oblige, commencent à rendre de moins en moins publics leurs travaux.
Des discussions débutent alors autour de l’idée de monter un projet commun” Mistral est né

Autre point intéressant, il cite comme modèle de jeunesse le mathématicien Laurent Schwartz, médaille Fields à la pointe des luttes anticoloniales
https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2026/01/09/arthur-mensch-l-ascension-fulgurante-du-champion-francais-de-l-intelligence-artificielle_6661208_4500055.html

🪄⏱️ In the age of relatively short-lived personal objects, ...

2025-12-23T13:14:23Z

🪄⏱️ In the age of relatively short-lived personal objects, there’s something truly magical about putting on a multi-decades old automatic watch, move it and it keeps going.

😢🪫Batteries (chemistries/lack of self-servicing) and software are making our current tech so fragile in comparison. I assume at some point NAND wear also leads to problems.

Oh noes, the US Trade Representative is acting like the mafia ...

2025-12-17T10:38:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…043s
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Oh noes, the US Trade Representative is acting like the mafia again.

They want to take some unrelated companies hostage because of the failure of X and other tech companies to follow clear non-discriminative rules or pay their fines.

Say all you want about the imperfections of European Digital Rules but at least there's a framework of rules and not a “we don't like what they are doing, let's pick on some of their companies" vibe is clearly the US vibe here, not the EU's.

✈️☀️ Bit of a long shot, but does anyone have #Airbus ...

2025-12-08T06:43:40Z

✈️☀️ Bit of a long shot, but does anyone have #Airbus ELAC L103 and/or L104 binaries?

Would be curious to see some diffs or a writeup between the two software versions to see where the radiation-resistance mitigations regressed.

Also seems like pitch attitude and bank angle protections are gone with the downgrade so the airplane might be more often in alternate law.

How’s the #NerdReich going? Palantir co-founder is now ...

2025-12-07T09:37:41Z

How’s the #NerdReich going?

Palantir co-founder is now proposing to hang people on the public square.

🆕🐈 New Mistral Models dropped. Mistral 3 is their most ...

2025-12-02T16:08:30Z

🆕🐈 New Mistral Models dropped.

Mistral 3 is their most complete model family, released in sizes from 3B up to 675B total parameters, all multimodal, all Apache 2.0.

As a family, Mistral 3 covers base, instruct, and reasoning variants, giving a model for every developer use-case.

Mistral-Large-3 delivers strong performance on the LMArena benchmarks among open models:
🔹#2 non-reasoning open models
🔹#1 in Coding among open models

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3

There's really no doubt about why Mr "Drill baby ...

2025-11-30T19:37:04Z

There's really no doubt about why Mr "Drill baby drill" is obsessed with Venezuela, and why he's buddy buddy with Jamal Khashoggi's murderer.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/4/venezuela-has-the-worlds-most-oil-why-doesnt-it-earn-more-from-exports

The EU should impose sanctions on Witkoff and Exxon Mobil “In ...

2025-11-30T19:12:23Z

The EU should impose sanctions on Witkoff and Exxon Mobil

“In secret talks, Exxon Mobil Senior Vice President Neil Chapman met Rosneft boss Igor Sechin, Putin’s former private secretary, in the Qatari capital Doha, to discuss Exxon’s return to the massive Sakhalin project”

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290

American Patriot missiles are no longer effective against Russian ...

2025-11-27T12:39:55Z

American Patriot missiles are no longer effective against Russian missiles.

MBDA's SAMP/T is way more effective based on experience from Ukraine. But it might not be the only system, Leonardo is set to unveil
🥁 the Michelangelo Dome 🥁 to intercept air threats from Russia.

I'm sure the irony is not lost on them that Michelangelo was the arch-rival of Da Vinci :)

https://www.ft.com/content/4b2bf3ff-ace0-4d99-bcb3-74d19862d601

Should have called it a Stroopwafer 🤭 ...

2025-11-20T12:02:17Z

Should have called it a Stroopwafer 🤭

“This article introduces the concept of ...

2025-11-12T14:12:46Z

“This article introduces the concept of #sovereignty-as-a-service to describe how Big Tech companies are strategically redefining digital sovereignty through their programs of cloud infrastructure. [...] Rather than sovereignty being exercised over platforms, it is now provisioned by them, on their terms. […] In this reframing, digital sovereignty becomes a service to be purchased, configured, and optimized through proprietary platforms.”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01634437251395003

The UK has suspended sharing intelligence with the US about ...

2025-11-11T16:28:02Z

The UK has suspended sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes they are illegal

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/politics/uk-suspends-caribbean-intelligence-sharing-us

🚁🔥🛢️Doing stationary flight with helicopters is an ...

2025-11-11T11:35:36Z

🚁🔥🛢️Doing stationary flight with helicopters is an incredibly energy-consuming phase of flight, burning hundreds of liters of kerosene and emitting huge amounts of CO2, for maintenance operations that require time.

But for a lot of tasks in the Alps, it doesn't have to be this way.
🇫🇷 🫧🌳Grenoble-based aerOnde offers a much quieter and efficient solution for these missions. The donut-shaped helium-filled balloon has smaller wind exposure than competing solutions.

https://aeronde.com/en/

Greenpeace's Supply Change: “Tracking AI Giants’ ...

2025-11-05T09:44:07Z

Greenpeace's Supply Change: “Tracking AI Giants’ Decarbonization Progress,” evaluates the decarbonization progress of the world’s 10 largest AI companies

"Only Apple has committed to transitioning to 100% renewable energy for both its operations and
supply chains by 2030.”

https://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/press/68382/nvidia-ranks-last-on-ai-supply-chain-decarbonization-greenpeace-report-finds/

@nprofile…ug7j You can learn more about the Homomorphic ...

2025-11-03T13:13:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…ts6z
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nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqypxx0u0vx2th2sytdnl9qnatmau3tdal6w0qedd4czd50xtkf35tkpdug7j (nprofile…ug7j) You can learn more about the Homomorphic Encryption protocols used in Apple products in this blog post.
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/homomorphic-encryption
The Swift implementation is also open-source here:
https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-swift-homomorphic-encryption/

Amazon and Google reportedly developed with Israel a ...

2025-11-01T09:29:49Z

Amazon and Google reportedly developed with Israel a "winking" mechanism where they would send some money to the Israeli government revealing the identity of the country they had been compelled to hand over Israeli data to, but were gagged from saying so.

The telephone dialing code of the country requesting the data would be encoded in a payment amount between 1,000 and 9,999 shekels.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/google-amazon-israel-contract-secret-code

“We saved 76% on our cloud bills while tripling our capacity by ...

2025-10-18T12:05:10Z

“We saved 76% on our cloud bills while tripling our capacity by migrating to Hetzner from AWS and DigitalOcean.”
https://digitalsociety.coop/posts/migrating-to-hetzner-cloud/

Glad to see the University of Zurich trying to fix the trade ...

2025-10-11T12:25:44Z

Glad to see the University of Zurich trying to fix the trade balance issue with Trump by importing more US talent.

The Nobel Prize-winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join the University of Zurich (leaving MIT) in July 2026 to establish a new center for development economics, education and public policy.

https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2025/Duflo-and-Banerjee-to-Join-UZH.html

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise ...

2025-10-10T09:12:15Z

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination. Maria Corina Machado meets all three criteria 🇻🇪👏 [whereas Trump did not]”

https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/articles/nobels-fredspris-2025-1

Reinforcement learning makes LLM bullshit more. ...

2025-08-10T19:23:39Z

Reinforcement learning makes LLM bullshit more.
https://machine-bullshit.github.io

Oh WhatsApp, you changed. Meta got the best out of you. "No ...

2025-06-18T07:45:10Z

Oh WhatsApp, you changed. Meta got the best out of you.

"No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.”

"Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought.“

~ WhatsApp Blog, June 18th 2012

🇳🇱🚲🌷& 🍪 A trip to the Netherlands is never a ...

2025-06-17T14:16:10Z

🇳🇱🚲🌷& 🍪 A trip to the Netherlands is never a wasted opportunity to nerd out on semiconductor technology. A thesis defence brought me to TU Delft, but this time I was not gonna miss the opportunity to see the Mapper machine!

🎬 Story time!

You would think the Chief of Staff of an FCC commissioner would ...

2025-06-16T09:36:12Z

You would think the Chief of Staff of an FCC commissioner would understand that the reason US tech has been dominant is because of inclusion and diversity of global talent.

Not in this administration.

Crypto: Sponsoring military parades for the Great Leader’s ...

2025-06-15T05:18:41Z

Crypto: Sponsoring military parades for the Great Leader’s birthday

Just like Satoshi envisioned it.

🆕⚛️🔐 Starting with iOS 26, CryptoKit gets support for ...

2025-06-09T19:28:45Z

🆕⚛️🔐 Starting with iOS 26, CryptoKit gets support for quantum-secure cryptography with algorithms such as ML-KEM, ML-DSA and HPKE with X-Wing:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cryptokit/mlkem1024
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cryptokit/mldsa87
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cryptokit/xwingmlkem768x25519

👉 Join us for a session on how to protect your app's user data from the emerging threat of quantum computing!
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/314

Trump: Come invest in America. Also Trump: The rest of the world ...

2025-06-04T12:25:44Z

Trump: Come invest in America.

Also Trump: The rest of the world is mean to me so if you're a foreigner, I will seize your interests, dividends, rents, royalties, business profits, and certain capital gains.

“Section 899 is nothing more than the first step in holding foreign capital hostage for the purpose of US power projection” Leuchtmann

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-06-03/whose-idea-is-trump-s-big-absurd-revenge-tax

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered US embassies worldwide to ...

2025-05-27T17:15:55Z

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered US embassies worldwide to stop scheduling interviews for student visas as the Trump administration weighs stricter vetting of applicants’ social-media profiles.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-27/us-orders-pause-in-student-visa-interviews-ahead-of-new-vetting

Super insightful report on RISC-V crypto accelerators from the ...

2025-05-27T13:53:20Z

Super insightful report on RISC-V crypto accelerators from the BSI through the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security and Infineon Technologies
https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publications/Studies/RACE/RACE-I_project_report.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3

Harvard International Students speak up about being “caught in ...

2025-05-23T20:16:51Z

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Harvard International Students speak up about being “caught in a battle between the White House and Harvard”

"In Trump’s world, there is no such thing as an independent institution. To this end, he is using us international students as poker chips in this authoritarian game. He is trying to pressure Harvard by putting our futures at risk.”

https://archive.ph/U9RuU

Jeff Bezos rewarded MBS for killing and dismembering his ...

2025-05-19T06:05:19Z

Jeff Bezos rewarded MBS for killing and dismembering his Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by committing to build an “AI Zone” in Saudi Arabia.

"it takes five years for Bezos to go from posting his photo op with the headstone of a murdered reporter to making billion-dollar deals with his killer.”

https://www.theverge.com/amazon/667916/jeff-bezos-amazon-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi

Mexico sues Google over 'Gulf of America' name change in ...

2025-05-10T09:36:47Z

Mexico sues Google over 'Gulf of America' name change in Maps
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/05/09/mexico-sues-google-over-gulf-of-america-name-change-in-maps_6741098_4.html

I’ve always considered it to be super rude to upload pictures ...

2025-05-07T17:29:49Z

I’ve always considered it to be super rude to upload pictures of people to Meta platforms. I’ve repeatedly asked friends to keep me out when posting photos of events or in groups.
It gets even worse from here:
> Meta Platforms, is once again actively working on facial recognition: Earlier this year, the company discussed adding software that could identify people by name to its smart glasses and other devices, such as artificial intelligence-powered earphones with cameras
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-renews-work-facial-recognition-tech-privacy-worries-fade

Very accurate words by Claude Malhuret ...

2025-05-05T16:20:21Z

Very accurate words by Claude Malhuret

It's very sad to see the cuts to so many important US ...

2025-05-05T07:57:09Z

It's very sad to see the cuts to so many important US institutions in this list of recommendation of funding levels by the Trump administration.

But one that I did not see coming are investments in rail safety and infrastructure.

Genuine interest in strengthening freight and passenger transport?
Or a way to reduce the costs of mass deportations?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf

Meta aligning with Trump's false narrative that enforcing ...

2025-04-24T12:45:43Z

Meta aligning with Trump's false narrative that enforcing competition law is a "tariff” 🤢

"the Commission forcing us to change our business model effectively imposes a multi-billion-dollar tariff on Meta while requiring us to offer an inferior service”

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/metas-statement-in-response-to-the-european-commissions-decision-on-the-digital-markets-act/

Volkswagen to use their MOIA autonomous driving stack (built on ...

2025-04-24T12:33:53Z

Volkswagen to use their MOIA autonomous driving stack (built on top of Mobileye) on ID Buzz for Uber rides in Los Angeles next year.

The ID Buzz strikes me as a far superior vehicle for autonomous rides than the “Cybercab”
(https://mastodon.social/@fj/113674675374792360)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-24/uber-volkswagen-partner-to-deploy-autonomous-id-buzz-vans-next-year

"International scholars can now be handcuffed, deported, and ...

2025-04-24T12:24:00Z

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"International scholars can now be handcuffed, deported, and even placed in indefinite confinement for pretty much any reason—including long-ago speeding tickets—or no reason at all. The resulting fear has paralyzed, in a matter of months, an American scientific juggernaut that took a century to build.”
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8820

"The US proposal would effectively freeze the war, with ...

2025-04-18T14:11:10Z

"The US proposal would effectively freeze the war, with Ukrainian territories now occupied by Russia remaining under Moscow’s control”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-18/war-in-ukraine-us-offers-to-ease-sanctions-on-russia-as-part-of-peace-plan

🎶 Fight fiercely Harvard, fight, fight, fight! ✊"The ...

2025-04-15T08:45:50Z

🎶 Fight fiercely Harvard, fight, fight, fight!

✊"The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

https://view.hu.harvard.edu/?qs=351b45ebf3844ed74cb3e38b6aabf7321d561a60d923593b0fa56d07833ffcd9b095b487f8b48c80d4bccb8a2131ca6ef4cdb2fe9766379f78c7965d130d52babfaaf593dc5de3f5a692af14ce1305cc

Needed the new laptop sticker 🙊 ...

2025-04-12T10:32:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…lww5
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Needed the new laptop sticker 🙊

America has turned into a corrupt banana republic under this ...

2025-04-12T07:52:57Z

America has turned into a corrupt banana republic under this administration.
Using personal connections to the presidency to make business.

MAGA has a watchlist of professors. Concerned about the climate? ...

2025-04-09T07:40:06Z

MAGA has a watchlist of professors.

Concerned about the climate? You might get reported by students as a climate alarmist!

https://www.professorwatchlist.org/submitatip

Authoritarian Intelligence™️ "Trump administration ...

2025-04-08T11:59:26Z

Authoritarian Intelligence™️

"Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda"

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/musks-doge-using-ai-snoop-us-federal-workers-sources-say-2025-04-08/

Google: “You are captive in a self-driving car, what a great ...

2025-04-08T07:27:23Z

Google: “You are captive in a self-driving car, what a great opportunity to show you ads and record you to produce GenAI training data”

Waymo One’s privacy page asks users if they accept that “interior camera data” may be used to personalize ads
https://x.com/wongmjane/status/1908629210123677901

Macron Urges EU Companies to Pause US Investments It makes little ...

2025-04-03T15:52:02Z

Macron Urges EU Companies to Pause US Investments

It makes little sense for firms to invest there while the US hits out against Europe, Macron added, speaking ahead of a meeting with representatives of industry groups affected by tariffs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/france-s-macron-urges-companies-to-pause-us-investments

Trump said “Signal could be defective, we're going to have ...

2025-03-27T08:26:42Z

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Trump said “Signal could be defective, we're going to have to find out. And now we hear that Elon and DOGE are getting involved.

I don't know how to say this respectfully, but the go-to Elon person in DOGE for Cybersecurity doesn't seem at all up to the task. It's the person who designed the flawed encrypted DMs on X, which very much are defective ...

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5215547-white-house-asks-musk-investigate-signal/

Great, now you have masked people who just kidnap people in the ...

2025-03-26T18:25:38Z

Great, now you have masked people who just kidnap people in the streets to put them into detention centres without any known charges.
https://zirk.us/@CindyWeinstein/114230100196787636

When Signal was designed, our threat model was protecting the ...

2025-03-25T09:43:00Z

When Signal was designed, our threat model was protecting the communications of civil society, journalists, just regular citizens ...

The threat model of military operations & sharing your hate of Europeans was not what Signal was designed for. Ephemeral messages and cryptographic deniability are not fit for communications that require accountability.
But I appreciate their effort to make government more efficient by adding journalists to the chat instead of requiring to go through FOIA.

Principled and courageous words from #Columbia Math Professor ...

2025-03-24T11:39:42Z

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Principled and courageous words from #Columbia Math Professor Peter Woit in the wake of the University's burial of academic freedom.

“they appear to have decided to not support Mahmoud Khalil or other university community members facing imprisonment and deportation"

"As Fascism takes over US institutions, the one thing I’m seeing almost nowhere is principled or courageous resistance.”

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=14435

The European Union Agency for the Space Program is looking for a ...

2025-03-24T09:22:08Z

The European Union Agency for the Space Program is looking for a Crypto Custodian, implementing and auditing security practices for the Galileo and secure SATCOM programs (GOVSATCOM & IRIS2).

https://vacancies.euspa.europa.eu/Jobs/VacancyDetails/1806

#OpSec #SATCOM #KeyManagement

As demand (but not yet signed orders) is picking up for the only ...

2025-03-23T11:19:32Z

As demand (but not yet signed orders) is picking up for the only European non-ITAR restricted fighter jet, Eric Trappier (CEO of Dassault Aviation) says they are studying ramping production from 3 to 5 Rafales per month, requiring production cadence increases across the 400 suppliers.

Still shy of the 20 per month production rate of the F-35 though. But with cancellation and reductions in order intake, that production capacity might ramp down.

https://www.lejdd.fr/International/eric-trappier-pdg-de-dassault-aviation-nous-etudions-la-possibilite-de-produire-cinq-rafale-par-mois-156251

I was wondering what the new US administration's stance would ...

2025-03-21T13:28:49Z

I was wondering what the new US administration's stance would be on the transition to post-quantum cryptography.

It seems that they are taking the threat of quantum computing very seriously, as the Secretary of Commerce highlighted in an interview:
“the only thing I **need** to do that has to do with regulatory, is post-quantum cryptography”

But then goes on saying "your password is different than mine" and the “central hub has our key” to describe asymmetric cryptography 🤦‍♂️

🔐✌️ Victory for Privacy and Security in France 🇫🇷 ...

2025-03-21T06:43:36Z

🔐✌️ Victory for Privacy and Security in France 🇫🇷

End-to-end encryption will continue to be available in France, as the assembly overwhelmingly voted against (119 votes against, only 24 in favor) an amendment to legislation fighting drug trafficking which required backdoors in encrypted messengers.

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2025/03/21/l-assemblee-vote-pour-le-maintien-de-la-confidentialite-des-messageries-cryptees-lors-d-une-nuit-agitee_6584121_3224.html

You know there's a #Quantum bubble about to pop when quantum ...

2025-03-21T05:54:53Z

You know there's a #Quantum bubble about to pop when quantum computing companies who haven't been coming up with compelling use cases for their machines are now coming up with “Blockchain with Proof of Quantum Work”.
https://www.dwavequantum.com/company/newsroom/press-release/d-wave-introduces-quantum-blockchain-architecture-featuring-enhanced-security-and-efficiency-over-classical-computing/

So much freedom of speech that they refused entry to a French ...

2025-03-19T19:06:49Z

So much freedom of speech that they refused entry to a French CNRS aerospace researcher after scanning his phone and laptop and finding in private conversations opinions critical of Trump’s policies.
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

Very good article about why it doesn't even matter whether ...

2025-03-16T12:09:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…ke9a
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Very good article about why it doesn't even matter whether the F-35 has a kill switch or not.

Without access to the maintenance network, the same result would be achieved but with a small delay.

Especially more advanced key features require access to the ALIS/ODIN cloud-based system.

https://www.twz.com/air/you-dont-need-a-kill-switch-to-hobble-exported-f-35s

✈️ 🔐 Interesting paper co-authored by Airbus cryptographer ...

2025-03-16T11:37:32Z

✈️ 🔐 Interesting paper co-authored by Airbus cryptographer Erik-Oliver Blass on using zero-knowledge proofs in flight control systems.

Sensors would authenticate their measurements, the control unit provides in each iteration control outputs together with a proof of output correctness (reducing the need in some cases for redundant computations),
and actuators verify that outputs have been correctly computed.

Great to see ZKP work in other areas than blockchains!

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/404

Cool testing of Tesla’s vision-only system versus LiDAR, ...

2025-03-16T06:58:56Z

Cool testing of Tesla’s vision-only system versus LiDAR, showing experimentally the superiority of the laser-based sensing technique.

Musk said “Anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed" but turns out that Waymo has a far superior track record than Tesla, and has entered commercial service with far superior technology. This claim was about margin preservation for Tesla (given price of LiDAR sensors), not safety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ