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”On Bluesky, server choice doesn’t affect what content you see. Servers are only one piece of the protocol — when you browse Bluesky, you see posts that are pulled together from many different servers. This is why you can change your server after signing up without losing your username, friends,

”the top 25% most active posters were responsible for 98% of all public videos. The previous study on Twitter reveals a nearly identical statistic, showing that the top 25% posters produced 97% of all tweets. The study also found that age wasn’t necessarily a factor in assessing adults’ TikTok…

”Russia’s war against Ukraine cannot be ended in or by Ukraine. Its roots lie in Russians’ political and societal imagination of what their own country is and what it must be. That imagination, McGlynn shows, has been encouraged and facilitated—but not created—by a propaganda campaign that has…

"Estonia is the only country in the European Union to have such a law under discussion in its parliament. And this raises the question of whether it is safe, what countermeasures can Russia take… Once the law is implemented, the frozen assets of people and companies that have contributed

”The institution's cybersecurity "has not yet met industry standards” and is “not fully in-line with the threat level" posed by state-sponsored hackers and other threat groups.”…

”in the EU, the DMA's changes will result in a less secure system. We're limiting these changes to the European Union because we're concerned about their impacts on the privacy and security of our users' experience — which remains our North Star. These changes

”Server admins worked together to create ongoing lists of abandoned instances that other admins could use as a basis for a blocklist to protect their own users from the spam attacks. Many servers were simply shut off as their admins decided it would be easiest to wait out the attack…

”Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has lost the connection to its last back-up external power line The ZNPP is still receiving the electricity it needs from its only 750 kV line, but the loss of the 330 kV line means the plant currently has no back-

”To our knowledge, PQ3 has the strongest security properties of any at-scale messaging protocol in the world.” ”Even though they can’t decrypt any of this data today, they can retain it until they acquire a quantum computer that can decrypt it in the future, an attack scenario known…

”[in ’22-23] about 10 billion euros’ worth of goods ended up in Russia via Belarus — either exported directly to Belarus and then resold, or simply shipped through the country… It’s fairly obvious that, in order to make the export controls effective, the Belarus sanctions must mirror the Russia…

”The presence of a large proportion of recently produced non-domestic electronic components in a North Korean ballistic missile strongly suggests that the country has developed a robust acquisition network capable of circumventing, without detection, sanction regimes that have been in place for nearly two decades.”…

”Mr. Assange had to be convinced to redact the names of Afghan civilians who had cooperated with the American military. “Well, they’re informants,” Mr. Assange defiantly told them. “So if they get killed, they’ve got it coming to them. They deserve it.”…

Boycotting banana imports from Ecuador by the EU would flip it again? ”Ecuador was planning to send six Russian military helicopters, long-range rocket launchers and air defense systems to the United States… Ecuador's foreign minister said Monday the country did not plan to send Soviet-era weapons

It’s called “Flirt With Los.” There’s no algorithm recommending an endless stream of polished photos. There are no “Super Likes” to consider. The app doesn’t try to sell you subscriptions when you run out of swipes. There aren’t any swipes to begin with. There’s only…

”We didn’t expect that it would go mad. In December 2023, Voyager started sending back gibberish instead of data. A software glitch, though perhaps caused by an underlying hardware problem; a cosmic ray strike, or a side effect of the low temperatures, or just aging equipment randomly causing some…

”This is part of Russia's hybrid attacks, which are not dissimilar to the bomb threats emailed to schools and cyber attacks… The public does not talk about what is happening in other countries. I would say with high confidence that such action has not only been against Estonia

”Germany is the most important economy in Europe, but it relies on imported energy and borrowed military strength… The question each European nation needs to ask itself is this: are you prepared to defend yourself? And the question the US must ask is: if our European allies can’t even…

”Outmanned and outgunned, Ukrainian ground forces are in perhaps their most precarious position since the opening months of the war Russia’s assault has split into five major lines of attack, spanning towns and cities across much of the front in eastern and southern Ukraine”…