Journalist, Blogger, Media Consultant (rt ≠ endorsement, rt = something worth checking out)
Armenia
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Artur Papyan retweeted
🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: zero-click mercenary spyware hacking via targeted ads.
A normal-looking ad loads. If you're a target, you're infected. No click needed.
To protect yourself, block ads now.
First time it's been confirmed in the wild. We call it #AdFection.
Candiru spyware infections at @AJEnglish. 45+ devices infected.
Same ad pipeline operated by Israeli company Discover-Tech reached NATO, European Parliament, dozens of gov networks & critical infrastructure incl US nuclear giant Westinghouse.
Confiant, which worked with us, found signs ads were displayed at US @DeptofWar, IAEA & ICC.
Investigation ongoing 1/
READ our report by @billmarczak @WolfieChristl, me Astrid Perry, Siena Anstis & Ron Deibert : citizenlab.ca/research/how-d…
Confiant's blog: blog.confiant.com/p/adint-we…
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BREAKING: @TheJusticeDept arrested US-based Oxygen Forensics CEO for concealing the tech company's Russian ties.
Civil society like @zairbekds & @OlgaNYC1211 have been sounding alarm for years about US law enforcement using this 🇷🇺 company for their sensitive operations! 🧵1/
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The world’s biodiversity conference is coming to Yerevan!
Discover the COP17 Green Zone through exhibitions, discussions, and new experiences.
19–30 October 2026
Register as an attendee!
Artur Papyan retweeted
I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks.
Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that the AI industry must slow the pace of development for new models, citing growing concerns about the “serious” risks to humans. Read more: bloom.bg/4xUgA8k
📷: Jason Henry/Bloomberg
Here's a targeted phishing attack against Armenian civil society experts and a Women's rights organization. Changing your password will not stop them. Two-factor authentication will not stop them;
cyberhub.am/en/blog/2026/07/…
Artur Papyan retweeted
It’s been a huge week of breaking Apple news:
- Apple’s Vision Pro and Glasses chief is leaving for OpenAI in a blockbuster defection bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
- Apple’s first touch/OLED high-end MacBook will use the M5 Pro/Max chips. A follow up is coming with M7 Pro/Max: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
- Apple will soon launch the M6 chip and skip the M6 Pro, Mac and Ultra, quickly following up with the M7 line: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
- Apple hikes prices on Macs, iPads and several other products: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
More to come in Power On Sunday and more next week.
Artur Papyan retweeted
Today we’re introducing Gemma 4 12B — our latest open model that brings advanced agentic reasoning, vision and audio directly to your laptop.
It delivers performance nearing our larger Gemma models with a much smaller total memory footprint, while being small enough to run locally with just 16GB of VRAM. It’s open and accessible for everyone to use under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.
This is all made possible by our new, unified architecture that removes separate multimodal encoders. Here’s how we did it 🧵
ALT Promotional graphic on a black background featuring the large blue text "Gemma 4 12B" above smaller white text that reads "Unified Transformer." A glowing blue ribbon containing multi-modal icons (representing images, text, and audio) flows from the left into a central point, branching out into a complex, luminous blue neural network map on the right.
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A new VPN leak that allows any app to leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel has recently been discovered by @cybaqkebm
Read more here: mullvad.net/blog/any-app-on-…
Artur Papyan retweeted
Today we are also publishing a forensic guide to help defenders and civil society leverage this tool to further accountability efforts.
securitylab.amnesty.org/late…
Artur Papyan retweeted
Google is rolling out Android “Intrusion Logging” for high-risk users.
It stores encrypted forensic logs in the user’s Google account, making it harder for spyware or forensic tools to erase traces after compromise
Very useful shift for Android spyware investigations
techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/go…
Artur Papyan retweeted
To help protect Signal users from phishing and social engineering attacks, we’ve introduced additional confirmations and educational messaging in the app to help people better detect fraudulent profiles, especially message requests from scammers posing as Signal.
More changes are on the way.
ALT New changes to help you stay safe in Signal. Look out for the name not verified notice. Signal can't verify profile names.
ALT Screenshot showing an additional confirmation step for accepting message requests
ALT A screenshot showing more detailed safety tips
ALT A screenshot showing a reminder to never respond to a chat pretending to be Signal
Artur Papyan retweeted
New breach: Udemy had 1.4M email addresses leaked yesterday following an extortion attempt by ShinyHunters. Data included name, address, phone, employer info and instructor payout method. 56% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Ud…
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We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following @404mediaco reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.
Apple’s advisory confirmed that the bugs that allowed this to happen have been fixed in the latest iOS release. You can read more here: support.apple.com/en-us/1270…
Note that no action is needed for this fix to protect Signal users on iOS. Once you install the patch, all inadvertently-preserved notifications will be deleted and no forthcoming notifications will be preserved for deleted applications.
We’re grateful to Apple for the quick action here, and for understanding and acting on the stakes of this kind of issue. It takes an ecosystem to preserve the fundamental human right to private communication.
Mark the date, on April 17th I'll be on a panel at the Global Forum: FIMI & Hybrid Threats
osavul.cloud/blog/global-for…
Artur Papyan retweeted
Introducing TurboQuant: Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedup, all with zero accuracy loss, redefining AI efficiency. Read the blog to learn how it achieves these results: goo.gle/4bsq2qI
