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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 21h

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1h

The news comes just days after Maria Corina Machado was announced the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.

Venezuela to close Norway embassy after opposition leader wins Nobel Prize

The news comes just days after Maria Corina Machado was announced the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.

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Kulotissima @kulotissima.bsky.social · 2h

Secret3: In early November of 2022, Magalong attended a rally in Baguio city organized he said by Bantag’s clan relatives (they are native Ibaloi).

Where is Bantag now? A Percy Lapid family member I had spoken to believes Magalong knows where Bantag’s hiding place is in the Cordilleras.

The 3 untold secrets of Benjamin Magalong

COMMENTARY: What we need are crime busters. Magalong is not. No unapologetic Duterte protector can be a crime buster.

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Kulotissima @kulotissima.bsky.social · 2h

Secret2: Notice that Magalong skirts commenting on the allegations of his being the junta head tasked to appoint Sara Duterte. He will be damned if he admits, yet damned if he denies. Hence it remains his second untold secret because it will spill the beans on who he is protecting.

The 3 untold secrets of Benjamin Magalong

COMMENTARY: What we need are crime busters. Magalong is not. No unapologetic Duterte protector can be a crime buster.

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Kulotissima @kulotissima.bsky.social · 2h

Secret1: Yap was House Appropriations chair when Paolo Duterte received P51 billion in #porkbarrel funds.
Yap and Duterte were the names Magalong had revealed to Trillanes as behind the P36 billion rock-netting corruption in Benguet. Have we heard Magalong say this in public? Never.

#DiscayaScam

The 3 untold secrets of Benjamin Magalong

COMMENTARY: What we need are crime busters. Magalong is not. No unapologetic Duterte protector can be a crime buster.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 4h

Chikungunya is difficult to test for & has no treatment. It has exploded globally in the past 20 yrs bc of climate change, w/ outbreaks in areas it wasn’t previously found. First detected in the W Hemisphere in 2015, local transmission now occurs in the US. This administration suspended the vaccine…

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 4h

The world's largest factory that produces mosquitoes that can prevent dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses from reproducing has opened in Curitiba, Brazil, aiming to boost protection in 40 municipalities with high infection rates.
www.upi.com/Health_News/...

Brazil opens world’s largest mosquito biofactory to fight disease - UPI.com

The world's largest factory that produces mosquitoes that can prevent dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses from reproducing has opened in Curitiba, Brazil.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4h

"The Day I Knew Israel’s ‘Aggression’ Had Turned Into a Full-Blown Genocide"

Via Zeteo, read an excerpt from Gaza journalist Plestia Alaqad’s powerful new memoir, ‘The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience.’

The Day I Knew Israel’s ‘Aggression’ Had Turned Into a Full-Blown Genocide

Read an excerpt from Gaza journalist Plestia Alaqad’s powerful new memoir, ‘The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience.’

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 4h

The Japan Coast Guard on Monday spotted a Chinese marine survey ship in the Japanese exclusive economic zone off an island in Kagoshima Prefecture.

Chinese survey ship spotted in Japan's EEZ off Amami Oshima

The ship was found extending a pipe-like object into the sea about 385 kilometers west of the island.

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CNN @cnn.com · 13h

The Dutch government has taken control of Chinese-owned computer chipmaker Nexperia, ratcheting up tensions with Beijing as a global fight brews over technology intellectual property, especially around semiconductors. https://cnn.it/48s9Uo7

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Reuters @reuters.com · 13h

Imprisoned Cuban dissident goes into exile in US reut.rs/4ndM5UQ

Imprisoned Cuban dissident goes into exile in US

One of Cuba's best known dissidents went into exile from prison on Monday, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said, headed for the U.S. at the Trump administration’s request.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 13h

The move reflects how valuable exploitable vulnerabilities can be within Apple's highly protected mobile environment—and the lengths the company will go to to keep them from falling into the wrong hands.

Apple ups the reward for finding major exploits to $2 million

With bonuses, maximum rewards can be as high as $5 million.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15h

“You cannot understand [Israeli opinion on the war] without understanding the kind of blindness that the Israeli media promotes.”

Israeli media's distorted view of the war in Gaza

While global news showed a humanitarian disaster, most outlets in Israel remained silent.

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Kulotissima @kulotissima.bsky.social · 15h

@news.abs-cbn.com: LOOK: Aerial footage of how China Coast Guard vessel 21559 intentionally rammed BRP Datu Pagbuaya during a maritime patrol in the #WestPhilippineSea.

The incident happened less than 2 nautical miles from Pag-asa Island, which meant it was within Philippine’s 🇵🇭 territorial sea.

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Kulotissima @kulotissima.bsky.social · 19h

He added that he hopes to instill a sense of urgency in the office.

“Parang kasi, ako lagi ako nagmamadali. I always want things to go fast. And the sense of urgency does not seem to be within the area.”

#PharmallyScam
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Kulotissima @kulotissima.bsky.social · 19h

Remulla said he observed a lack of continuity in how the case was handled.

“And I noticed kasi the way the structure of this office is, or the way it was ran before, parang everybody was in the dark. It was not working as a complete team. Everybody was segregated.”

#PharmallyScam

Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla takes his oath as the new Ombudsman before Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen in Manila on Wednesday, October 9, 2025. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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Kulotissima @kulotissima.bsky.social · 23h

“Support for accountability was highest in the Visayas at 54 percent and Metro Manila at 53 percent, followed by the rest of Luzon with 52 percent.

Only 39 percent agreed in Mindanao, the Dutertes’ bailiwick.”

#tokhang
#DuterteLegacy
#DutertePanagutin

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Kulotissima @kulotissima.bsky.social · 23h

“The country is traversed by over 180 active fault segments and has 6 active trenches, all capable of generating earthquakes.

Our trenches, particularly the #PhilippineTrench, are active. But there is no basis for the predictions that a magnitude 8 or 9 #earthquake is coming.”
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Kulotissima @kulotissima.bsky.social · 1d

Conti, however, noted that it could be difficult to arrest Dela Rosa now because of various factors, including his incumbency as a senator.
The Philippines’ arresting bodies — PNP, National Bureau of Investigation, and other law enforcement agencies — may also hesitate to arrest a former PNP chief.

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Kulotissima @kulotissima.bsky.social · 1d

“The prosecution has already built up a case against Bato Dela Rosa at the least. Bato’s name even appears in the documents containing the charges,” she said

#ArrestBato
#tokhang
#DavaoDeathSquad

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

At 92, Cameroon's President aul Biya is running for an eighth term on Sunday — a reminder of how Africa's aging leaders continue to cling to power, even as their nations face unrest, corruption, and calls for change.

Africa's oldest leader isn't ready to retire - and he's not the only one defying age

At 92, Cameroon's President aul Biya is running for an eighth term on Sunday — a reminder of how Africa's aging leaders continue to cling to power, even as their nations face unrest, corruption, and calls for change.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

They sure make a lot of mistakes

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

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