Visual Investigations @Reuters via Hanoi, Seoul, Pyongyang & cyberspace. Co-author, 'North Korea Confidential'
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NEW: Fresh details on Mossad's deadly pager-bombs, based on Lebanese sources, teardown photos of an unexploded pager, and evidence of an attempt to give the pager's bulky battery a credible backstory online. With @GebeilyM and @gauthiervillars
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Private researcher reported a security vulnerability to Chromium on August 4. The fix went into the public source code but Chrome users never got it due to patching timelines. Two Chinese groups, apparently read that public fix, built an exploit chain from it and started phishing NGOs on September 1 using identical code. Technically an N-day but for anyone actually running Chrome, a zero-day. Here the public patch knowledge worked as an instruction manual. Open source means everyone can read the fix. With AI, some people just operationalise the knowledge faster. volexity.com/blog/2026/09/09…
ShinyHunters hackers say they breached FBI, stole data on bureau employees - reuters.com/world/shinyhunte…
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Downing Street has given UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's reaction to England's loss to Argentina in the World Cup semi-final.
Read more: bbc.in/3RaWkiF
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Seleção do Irã desembarcou para a Copa do Mundo com um pin #168 no uniforme em homenagem às vítimas do bombardeio dos EUA a uma escola de meninas em seu país. 🇮🇷
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Today is my first day as an Iran Correspondent for Reuters where I'll continue my Visual Investigations reporting. Thrilled to have another opportunity to do this type of work.
Say hi / tips / Persian cinema recommendations to: [email protected] 🧿
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it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.
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I get an email from Dr. @SebGorka. He’s heard I’m writing a piece about him. It’s from his official White House account and this is the middle of the day. I am surprised he has the time to speak to me – surely it’s busy on the National Security Council? – but pleased to get the chance to talk about US counterterrorism policy. He ignores my earnest questions. Instead, he calls our editor, @Freddygray31, a “risible little twerp” and “a ball-less wonder.” Such rancor is out of all proportion to the gentle fun The Spectator has had in pricking his pomposity in the past, but Gorka is notorious for his feuds.
✍️ Paul Wood
Article: spectator.com/article/the-in…
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ChatGPT allegedly shares your chat query topics, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, according to a new class action lawsuit filed today.
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the most low-effort / high reward thing you can do for security is installing the Russian language pack
(not even joking, it's ridiculous how often that prevents execution)
Microsoft is investigating mistralai PyPI package v2.4.6 compromise. Attackers injected code in mistralai/client/__init__.py that executes on import, downloads hxxps://83[.]142[.]209[.]194/transformers.pyz to /tmp/transformers.pyz, and launches a second-stage payload on Linux. The file name transformers.pyz appears deliberately chosen to mimic the widely used Hugging Face Transformers library and blend into ML/dev environments.
The main payload is a credential stealer, but it also includes country-aware logic; it avoids Russian-language environments and contains a geo fenced destructive branch that has 1-in-6 chance of executing rm -rf / when the system appears to be in Israel or Iran.
To mitigate this threat: isolate affected Linux hosts, block 83[.]142[.]209[.]194, hunt for /tmp/transformers.pyz, pgmonitor[.]py, and pgsql-monitor.service, and rotate exposed credentials.
ALT Screenshot of mistralai PyPI package v2.4.6 compromise
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openai․com was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and tiktok․com was the quaint shared homepage of a couple who went from dating to married with a baby (~1998-2001). THREAD!!!
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Congrats to @Reuters journalists @adolfux, @poppymcp, @DevjyotGhoshal & @Han_Miami for being named a @pulitzerprizes finalist for Illustrated Reporting. Read Scammed into Scamming: reuters.com/graphics/SOUTHEA…
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Reuters wins #PulitzerPrizes for Beat Reporting and National Reporting; named finalist in Illustrated Reporting and Breaking News Photography
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BREAKING: Reuters won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for a series of stories revealing how social-media behemoth Meta knowingly exposed users, including children, to harmful AI chatbots and made billions of dollars from fraudulent ads reut.rs/4d24nFh
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Two brothers from one of Iran's most powerful families founded the country's largest crypto exchange. It has become a central node in a parallel financial system used to move illicit funds beyond Western sanctions, a Reuters investigation found reut.rs/4cXkQuh
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How did Iran's biggest crypto exchange become a conduit to the global economy used by blacklisted state institutions and ordinary citizens? A Reuters investigation traced Nobitex to a powerful family tied to Iran's new supreme leader reut.rs/4cUfQXu @specialreports
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Nobitex, Iran's biggest crypto exchange, processed between tens and hundreds of millions in transactions linked to sanctioned groups, including Iran's central bank and the IRGC, Reuters found. Nobitex says it has no relations with the central bank or IRGC reut.rs/3PfSvHR
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Congratulations to Westminster Council for their acceptance of Banksy’s brilliant statue near Pall Mall. Let’s hope it stays — a welcome note of calmness and humour at a time of growing extremism.
🚨 NEW: The sons of a powerful family with close ties to Iran’s new supreme leader control the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, transforming it from a startup into a conduit to the global economy used by both blacklisted state institutions and ordinary citizens.
Since Nobitex was founded by the two brothers under an alternative family name, it has processed between tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions linked to sanctioned groups including Iran’s central bank and the IRGC, a Reuters investigation has found.
