“It certainly didn’t start with Ukraine…Russian intelligence plays a huge role in getting this sort of technology. They always have. This is what the Russians do…Scientific espionage has long been a core mission for Russia’s intelligence agencies. “… petri Nov 14, 2023, 5:57 PM
“A leading western journalist who has long been considered one of Germany’s top independent experts on Russia received at least €600,000 in undisclosed offshore payments from companies linked to an oligarch close to Vladimir Putin…”… petri Nov 14, 2023, 5:46 PM
"…let users pick which sounds filter through their headphones in real time. The team is calling the system "semantic hearing." Headphones stream captured audio to a connected smartphone, which cancels all environmental sounds."… petri Nov 14, 2023, 7:51 AM
"Hikvision won a ~$9m PRC 'Smart Campus' project in mid-2022 that alerts administrators to any ethnic minority students "suspected of fasting" during Ramadan based on "dining records." The alerts are part of a larger surveillance system against ethnic minority students that tracks petri Nov 13, 2023, 4:34 PM
What if nostr would have amazing sdks for the major languages so that it’s ridiculously easy to build clients and apps? This is not glamorous but would help if the building blocks are reliable, up-to-date and with MIT license. More devs could build value-added services, UX… petri Nov 13, 2023, 3:38 PM
They also have significant private funding that helps to scale the infrastructure.… petri Nov 13, 2023, 3:35 PM
