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Digital investigator & observer Human rights | maritime & environmental issues | conflict & arms Unihemispheric slow-wave sleeper. Orophile. Gscheid & tüchtig. In the good ol' Twitter days aka @bibken.
Yesterday afternoon 14:09 in Lacanau Océan in France. A pale red sun through the smoke tinged everything in Mars style orange. Welcome in the climate emergency! Despite all denial of the fossil fuel lobby, it’s scientific fact: CO2 emissions heat up Earth & make fires worse. 🔥🔥🔥
„A Canadian woman of Chinese origin who was an intern at a #NATO site in #Belgium has been arrested on spying charges (…) "She is suspected of spying on behalf of a third country and of being a member of a criminal organisation," the prosecutor said“ www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Canadian woman who was NATO intern arrested in Belgium on spying charge
A Canadian woman of Chinese origin who was an intern at a NATO site in Belgium has been arrested on spying charges, the Belgium prosecutor said on Saturday.
reuters.com
Der rechtskonservative Techinvestor Peter Thiel wird mit dem Axel Springer Award ausgezeichnet. Dabei sollten unabhängige Medien dessen Methoden eigentlich hinterfragen.
Axel Springer Award 2026: Warum Peter Thiel keinen Demokratiepreis verdient hat
Der rechtskonservative Techinvestor Peter Thiel wird mit dem Axel Springer Award ausgezeichnet. Dabei sollten unabhängige Medien dessen Methoden eigentlich hinterfragen.
zeit.de
MarineTraffic does not show national borders extended into the water (quite frustrating). But can be added using this bookmarklet: gist.github.com/christianpan... How to use: mreidsma.github.io/bookmarklets...
Thousands flee as First Nations bear the brunt of Canada’s wildfires
Thousands flee as First Nations bear the brunt of Canada’s wildfires
Residents of one First Nations community went door to door warning neighbors before fleeing by boat. More than 900 fires continue burning across Canada.
dlvr.it
When firefighters in Oakland, California, saw a pigeon struggling to breathe near the site of a fire they had fought, the crew stopped to help.
"Pegasus training material describes situations where it may not be possible to attack a target directly [...] NSO Group suggests expanding to 'close-circle infection,' targeting [...] colleagues, friends or family members of the primary target in order to gather information about them indirectly."
Inside Pegasus: The evolution of the world's most notorious spyware system - Amnesty International Security Lab
We are presenting here our most complete analysis to date of the Pegasus spyware. This blog post builds on previous technical reports and forensic investigations by Amnesty International’s Security La...
securitylab.amnesty.org
The spending by Palantir Technologies on executive protection rose 150% in a year to nearly $3 million in 2025. www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...
Exclusive | The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives
Violent threats against artificial-intelligence companies are rising and spilling over into real-world security incidents.
wsj.com
The official NSO Group reseller in 🇫🇷France (Syans) revealed, in testimony reviewed by @forbidden-stories.bsky.social, details of its meetings with the French intelligence services and referred to a price of €60–80 million for the purchase Pegasus.
🔴🇲🇦[New Investigation] Pegasus Project: Inside Morocco's spying machine. For years following the publication of the #PegasusProject in 2020, Morocco has been asking for evidence on them spying on journalists. We are releasing them today.
NEW: They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked A decade after climate activists’ emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking How the mystery unfolded through the eyes of the climate activists: grist.org/article/exxo...
They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked.
A decade after climate activists' emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking.
grist.org
GenAI companies are largely operating on the mass theft of intellectual property. It isn’t China you should be worried about, it’s America.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 3w agoNew: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
Preliminary official mortality data and researchers' estimates from the six hardest-hit EU countries point to at least 14,000 excess deaths during the period of extreme heat. www.politico.eu/article/june...
Brutal June heat wave killed as many as 14,000 Europeans
POLITICO calculations show thousands of excess deaths across six worst-hit countries.
politico.eu
The Gulf of Oman is facing severe pollution from ongoing strikes on civilian vessels, mooring ships dumping contaminated bilge water and substances. The targeting of tankers is already causing massive oil spills, seen below. The recent strike on Mombasa-B on July 14 raises wider concerns.
In 2014, LittleSis launched Oligrapher, a tool for visualizing information in the LittleSis database to create graphics of corporate power networks, inspired by They Rule and the artist Mark Lombardi.
The remnants of Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner mercenary group have built a tramadol drug empire along the Central African Republic's Oubangui River, beyond the reach of law enforcement and even Moscow, WSJ reports. "CAR is Wagner’s last remaining hub in Africa." www.wsj.com/world/africa...
Wagner’s Remnants Are Running an Opioid Empire in the Center of Africa
Russia absorbed much of the mercenary group, but several hundred have used the painkiller tramadol to build a new haven in the Central African Republic.
wsj.com
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
newyorker.com
Canadian Keystone Pipeline system’s operator South Bow required to pay a $26.9 million civil penalty over a major breach oil spill in Kansas in December 2022 and to spend about $40 million more to prevent future accidents. apnews.com/article/keys...
Keystone Pipeline system's operator agrees to pay a $26.9M penalty over a major Kansas oil spill
A proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the Keystone Pipeline system’s operator to pay a civil penalty of nearly $27 million over a major oil spill in Kansas in December 202...
apnews.com
1,700 people were killed by the June heatwave in Belgium. Massive overload in hospital emergency rooms, 19,000 calls to the emergency number 112 in a day. Many brought to hospitals with heat stroke, body temperatures of 42°C. #climate #climatechange #extremeweather. www.standaard.be/binnenland/h...
Hulpverleners reconstrueren het fatale hitteweekend: “We vonden mensen dood in de zetel, op een stoel of in bed”
De hittegolf van juni sloeg ongenadig toe, vooral in het laatste weekend. Hoe is dat kunnen gebeuren? Een reconstructie aan de hand van de hulpverleners die het vanop de eerste rij meemaakten. “Ik denk dat veel mensen niet doorhebben wat er echt gebeurd is.”
standaard.be
NEW: Tropical nights come to Europe One of the most striking features of the Europe's record-breaking summer is the intense night-time heat. Globally, the hottest nights are warming at a faster rate than the hottest days — with increasingly severe consequences. as.ft.com/r/eef6f0c5-6...
Case in point: the new Trumpian lead for the next National Climate Assessment is literally a #climate denier, disputing the most basic science fact about #climatechange. This is Stalin-like science.
Peter Gleick@petergleick.bsky.social · 4w agoThere have been 5 US National Climate Assessments, each advancing the science of #climate threats, prepared by the nation's top scientists.The 6th will be prepared by climate deniers & MAGA political hacks & will be a scientific embarrassment, forever to be ignored. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Cambridge University research paper shows that factions of the extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria use frontier AI, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek, to assist in their combat and day-to-day operations. casp.ac/reports/ai-e...
CASP — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy | University of Cambridge
The Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy (CASP) is an interdisciplinary research programme on frontier AI at the University of Cambridge.
casp.ac
Austria’s first Google data center is not yet complete but it will require enormous amounts of energy and could pump up to 5.8 million liters of heated water into the Enns River every day. That river ecosystem is already under stress from heat and drought. science.orf.at/stories/3236...
Kritiker warnen vor Folgen für Enns
Noch ist das erste Google-Rechenzentrum Österreichs in Kronstorf nicht fertiggestellt. Das Datencenter wird riesige Mengen an Energie brauchen und könnte täglich bis zu 5,8 Millionen Liter erwärmtes W...
science.orf.at
UPDATE: This first-of-its-kind wrongful death case is moving forward after a state court denied oil companies' motions to dismiss this week 🧵 (1/3)
Dana Drugmand@danad1012.bsky.social · last yr."This latest case—the first filed on behalf of an individual climate victim—is another step toward accountability," said @climateintegrity.org's Richard Wiles www.climateinthecourts.com/big-oil-face...
In Germany, a new draft "Law on the Reform of Intelligence Service Legislation" significantly expands the powers of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, as well as the Federal Intelligence Service.
Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug@honkhase.de · 4w agoDie Geheimdienste Verfassungsschutz und BND werden gemeinsam zu vollwertigen Geheimdiensten verändert. Und das BSI muss zukünftig alle(!) Schwachstellen inkl. 0-Days an den BND melden, damit sie diese aktiv ausnutzen können... www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/g...
"We have got additional evidence, strong evidence, linking what is occurring in Darfur with leadership levels. And we are very, very pleased to say that this is a breakthrough for us.” 👀 👀 ICC official says breakthrough made in Darfur investigations: www.reuters.com/world/africa...
ICC official says breakthrough made in Darfur investigations
ِِA "breakthrough" has been made in the investigation into crimes committed during Sudan's war in the Darfur region allowing prosecutors to link them to leadership, a senior International Criminal Co...
reuters.com
Today in 1955, Bertrand Russell issued the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in London, calling upon every government on Earth to prevent a nuclear war by publicly renouncing war, abolishing thermonuclear weapons, and pursuing “peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”
“If you’re in a hole, stop digging”
Jeune Afrique@jeuneafrique.com · 4w agoLa Russie poursuivra « son soutien » militaire aux États du Sahel
