Okay.... US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say
reuters.com
Sophie Witte
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Hybrid Threats & Martitime Security as Non-Resident Fellow @ ISPK | Strategic Resilience & Civil Preparedness in Healthcare @ University Clinic Ulm | Bundeswehr Reserve Officer | Prior: Defense Policy Advisor @ Munich Security Conference | Private Account
“the boss wants this money" from @wsj.com, a deep dive into the extortion operation run out of the White House gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
wsj.com
on the a "financially and politically incestuous set of relationships" around Nigel Farage www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK
Nigel Farage’s £5m gift, the Cottrell family’s links and donations, and Richard Tice’s business dealings form part of an increasingly clear nexus of relationships
theguardian.com
Attention: new original data source unlocked! Based on federal budget reports, I estimated the number of Russian troops in Ukraine, both mobilized and contract soldiers. The numbers are based on different salary top-ups that Russian troops in Ukraine receive. janiskluge.substack.com/p/the-compos...
Wassersysteme in mehreren US-Bundesstaaten sind Ziel eines Hackerangriffs geworden. Ermittler haben Iran im Verdacht. Der Präsident verdrängt die Vorfälle so gut er kann, doch der Krieg holt ihn ein.
Donald Trump: Der Iran-Krieg erreicht die USA - Cyberattacken gegen Wasserversorgung
Wassersysteme in mehreren US-Bundesstaaten sind Ziel eines Hackerangriffs geworden. Ermittler haben Iran im Verdacht. Der Präsident verdrängt die Vorfälle so gut er kann, doch der Krieg holt ihn ein.
spiegel.de
Demokratie Downgrade, obwohl wir beim #IFG jetzt schon hinter vielen autoritären Regimen rangieren. :| Informationsfreiheit in Gefahr – Regierung will Akteneinsicht erschweren "Bei der Informationsfreiheit rangiert Deutschland weltweit auf Platz 127..." www.swr.de/swrkultur/wi...
Informationsfreiheit in Gefahr – Regierung will Akteneinsicht erschweren
Die schwarz-rote Koalition will das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz beschneiden. Deutschland rangiert bei Auskunftsrechten gegenüber Behörden schon heute hinter autoritären Regimen.
swr.de
Critical #infrastructure getting even more critical #Subsea #Cables #FiberOptic maritime-executive.com/editorials/r... @maritimekiwi.bsky.social @pa.nton.cx @auonsson.bsky.social @maikmarahrens.bsky.social
Fiber-Optic Cables Can be Used to Track "Silent" Bow Wave Vibrations
A 100-year-old equation and a fibre-optic cable off the coast of Svalbard led researchers to discover they could detect swimming whales — even if they...
maritime-executive.com
"Google spent 20 years building the reference the world checks against. Today it added a button that makes things up. Google Earth on the web now has image generation built in." "The forgery does not have to look convincing on its own. It inherits the credibility of the map it was born on."
Thomas Wiegold@wiegold.de · 6d agoPuh.
"Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China's defence capabilities, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents."
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese military researchers tap US AI models to train defence systems
Military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China's defence capabilities.
reuters.com
Morale is high in the local Swedish press: ”Boarding the shadow fleet works — keep going”
LEDARE: Att borda skuggflottan funkar – det är bara att fortsätta
Mariestads-Tidningen håller dig uppdaterad dygnet runt med blåljus-, sportnyheter och andra lokala nyheter från Mariestad, Gullspång och Töreboda.
mariestadstidningen.se
Gee. From the math, sounds like about 2.5 years current production rate used in five months, though only about equal to the planned production rate in 2030
Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social · 6d agoIran war has consumed nearly 67% of US Patriot interceptor stockpile, report says
"Chinas Aufstieg zu einem wichtigen Akteur in der globalen Pharmabranche ist strategisch vorangetrieben worden" "In der Autoindustrie haben die chinesische Hersteller vorgemacht, wie schnell sich die Machtverhältnisse verschieben können." www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/...
Pharmaindustrie: Angriff der chinesischen Pharmafirmen
Immer mehr Pharmakonzerne aus China wagen den Sprung nach Europa und in die USA. Exklusive Daten zeigen, wie weit sie auf dem Weltmarkt bereits gekommen sind. Doch der Weg bleibt schwierig.
handelsblatt.com
"Außerdem soll geprüft werden, ob ein Pool mit einer Zielgröße von 20.000 Hilfskräften aufgebaut wird, die im Kriegsfall die Krankenhäuser unterstützen."
Hamburg News@hh-news.bsky.social · 4w agoHamburg will Krankenhäuser auf Kriegsfall vorbereiten | ndr.de https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/hamburg-will-krankenhaeuser-auf-kriegsfall-vorbereiten,krankenhaeuser-106.html
‘In a Monday report, researchers from the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank estimated that fewer than 827 Patriot interceptors remain in US stockpiles, and fewer than 278 THAAD ballistic missile interceptors are left.’ edition.cnn.com/2026/07/29/p...
Russian defense and security firms are using supply chains in India to import thousands of security-linked goods originally made in Europe, new data tracking the scale of the trade shared with POLITICO shows.
Russia importing sensitive UK, EU tech through India, data shows
Researchers tracked around 50,000 sensitive and dual-use goods reaching Russia via India since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, raising questions as Britain and the EU deepen trade ties with New Delhi.
politico.eu
In the past, Vladimir Putin brought the war to Russian's TV screens. Now he has brought it into their daily lives
For Russians, the war feels closer than ever before
Strikes on e-commerce hubs are a sign that Ukraine’s strategy against Russia is shifting
bit.ly
#EU #Europe focus on critical #infrastructure maritime-executive.com/article/eu-i...
EU Implements New Critical Infrastructure Risk System
The European Union has reached a crucial milestone in the implementation of a new risk mitigation system for critical infrastructure, which begins thi...
maritime-executive.com
Da war doch was mit Rosatom und einem Vertrag in Deutschland...?
RUSI@rusi.bsky.social · last wk.'The company is one of the key stewards of Russia’s nuclear weapons complex and is increasingly involved in developing and supplying conventional weapons to the Russian military, including systems being deployed in Ukraine.' write Oleksandr V Danylyuk and Darya Dolzikova in our new RUSI Commentary.
"His path to that position is a case study in how the military promotion process at the Pentagon under Mr. Hegseth has deviated from tradition, leaving it susceptible in the view of critics to politicization and favoritism."
Björn Müller@bjoernm.bsky.social · last wk.Eindrückliche Recherche der NYT, welch fragwürdige Charaktere nun in die höchste Führung der US-Streitkräfte befördert werden. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
Eindrückliche Recherche der NYT, welch fragwürdige Charaktere nun in die höchste Führung der US-Streitkräfte befördert werden. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
An Admiral’s Rise Reveals the Politics Driving Hegseth’s Pentagon (Gift Article)
Before he was picked to lead the Navy, Adm. Daryl Caudle found ways to signal his support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s anti-diversity goals.
nytimes.com
Baden-Württembergs Landesverfassungsschutzbericht: "Spionage, Sabotage und Desinformation waren auch im Jahr 2025 allgegenwärtig." www.baden-wuerttemberg.de/fileadmin/re...
"since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, China has been trying to build what it calls a “new-style” maritime militia—one that is better equipped, trained and organised. [...] Some fishing boats can get daily subsidies of over 24,000 yuan ($3,500) to loiter in disputed areas." shorturl.at/wnQRh
China’s shadowy maritime militia is worryingly active
Big new formations north of Taiwan suggest officials are testing out its capabilities
economist.com
Ask the commercially available version of ChatGPT to help you hack into a website, and it will refuse. An as-yet-unreleased model owned by OpenAI, however, has done so of its own accord
Why the OpenAI escape is the most worrying AI mishap yet
Containing the technology is getting harder
bit.ly
OpenAI said two of its A.I. models went rogue and successfully hacked into Hugging Face, a digital library of A.I. tech that is popular among developers. A.I. labs have warned that their tech could pose risks by finding holes in computer networks faster than defenders could fix them. trib.al/6c02M1q
1/x Über Leihmutterschaft - insbesondere als kommerzielles Modell wie in den USA - wurde die letzten Tage viel diskutiert. Aus Sicht als Arzt ein Thread zum Zusammenspiel von medizinischen, juristischen und ethischen Implikationen.