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reporter covering cyber (both crime and state-sponsored) for Der Spiegel and ZDF, short overview at https://linktr.ee/hakantanriverdi, Signal: hakan.25
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"Device in restricted region: Locale == 'US' || 'IL'"

Real ransomware operators inadvertently telling you where they're from, only for Predator spyware

www.jamf.com/blog/predato...
Screenshot from JAMF threat blog about Predator spyware with one-line reading "Device in restricted region: Locale == 'US' || 'IL'"
January 26, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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German chancellor on the situation in Venezuela: the "legal assessment of the US operation is complex"

www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktu...
statement from BKAmt, german chancellor, relevant portion in the skeet
January 3, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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WaPo editorial outright celebrating Trump all the way, only in the second-to-last paragraph „and it’s good for democratic hygiene to scrutinize the decision.“

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
From the editorial Millions of people around the world, most of all in Venezuela, are celebrating the downfall of the dictator Nicolás Maduro. President Donald Trump’s decision to capture him on Saturday is one of the boldest moves a president has made in years, and the operation was an unquestionable tactical success. The next step is ensuring that this triumph sets Venezuela up for stability rather than chaos.
Details are still emerging, but what happened in Caracas was a clear reminder that America’s military and intelligence capabilities are second to none. Airstrikes on several locations in Venezuela preceded the capture of Maduro and his wife by members of the U.S. Army’s elite Delta Force. The couple has been extradited to the U.S., where they will face narcoterrorism, weapons and drug charges in Manhattan. Miraculously, there were no American deaths, although some U.S. service members were injured and one helicopter was damaged.
January 3, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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This week's newsletter is about analyzing ChatGPT-share conversations with pandas and what kinds of things ChatGPT is or was looking for once you open(ed) up that conversation in your browser.

That screenshot is ChatGPT telling me that they're basically oversharing

buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...
chatgpt telling me that what chatgpt is storing in the html shouldn't be there
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Privately, however, staff assured Nick Clegg, Meta's then-head of global public policy, that the conclusions of the research were valid.
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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What a weird way to frame the discussion around the Online Safety Act by the FT, not the headline, the teaser.

(the article itself is more nuanced)

on.ft.com/3IOsPyz
July 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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ProPublica obtained the code underlying DOGE’s AI-tool used to „munch“ government contracts and published the actual prompts

www.propublica.org/article/insi...
the initial prompt to set up the AI tool
June 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Per WaPo: the MAHA report included this type of citation smh

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The MAHA report uses OAICite in the reference section which stands for OPEN AI cite
May 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Spiegel did an OSINT-based search and was able to find numbers apparently in use by Hegseth (tied to his WhatsApp), Waltz and Tulsi Gabbard

www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use, with some of them linked to profiles on social media platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn. They were used to create Dropbox accounts and profiles in apps that track running data.
March 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Soldatov and Borogan citing German intel official saying Russian spy services in the runup to 🇩🇪 election **may** have iinstigated attacks „in order to inflate support for the far right, which opposes German support for Ukraine.“

Which is quite the claim and, afaik, hadn’t been reported before
In the run-up to Germany’s federal election in February, for example, there was a series of attacks against civilians in Germany by Afghans and other immigrants. According to a senior German intelligence official we spoke to shortly before the election, the German agencies believed that Russian security agents may have instigated these attacks i
March 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Screenshot of careless people
March 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1...
Screenshot from NPR interview They are omniscient. And because he figured that they already knew this, he interpreted the accusations that he was harboring WMD as just a game, a plot, an excuse to overthrow him. And he thought, you know, why should I play their game?
January 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Really enjoyed reading this book. While it doesn’t answer that one question – are they being used for spying or not – it does an excellent job in explaining the company, where it came from, how they are operation and how it is „made in the image of its nation“.
Book House of Huawei written by Eva Dou
January 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Astounding that Israel at one point basically just took a guess how much civilians might be killed during an airstrike – and, on top, relying on faulty assumptions

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
„It relied, for example, on people having enough electricity to power their phones — and a working phone network. But power and network outages in Gaza often made that impossible.“
December 26, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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Can recommend, so insanely detailed.
Book titles Everyone who is gone is here about the refugee situation in the U.S.
December 22, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Great article in the Washington Post breaking down what exactly happened around that Ajax-Maccabi soccer match

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Screenshot from the article, the highlighted bit reads: The Post found that the violence that unfolded was not one-sided. Israeli fans were harassed, chased and in some cases beaten. But video of one of the earliest post-match altercations, shared by multiple news organizations as an example of attacks on Israelis, in fact shows Maccabi supporters as the aggressors.
December 18, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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„Andi loves when the referees reach into her gloves. She likes watching their hands go into a hole where her hands are about to go. The fact that they check every time makes Andi feel like she is capable of murder. She loves having an adult confirm that her fist could be a weapon.“
November 24, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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One of the most well-known journalists covering Russia ,a biographer of Putin, a go-to expert throughout Germany, was secretly paid by Russia He received hundreds of thousands of euros.

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
November 14, 2023 at 4:09 PM