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Russian spy agency says foreign spies turned officials' smartphones into surveillance devices

Russia's domestic spy agency says it has uncovered a sprawling foreign espionage operation that allegedly turned the smartphones of senior Russian officials into pocket-sized surveillance devices, though it has so far offered little in the way of evidence. In a statement Tuesday, the Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed foreign intelligence agencies implanted malware on the mobile devices of high-ranking Russian officials, allowing operators to steal data, intercept conversations, and...

Global watchdog calls for tighter controls on agentic AI in finance

Global watchdog calls for tighter controls on agentic AI in finance LONDON, June 10 : Global regulators said increasingly autonomous forms of AI could amplify risks for the financial system and called for new controls as adoption accelerates. The Financial Stability Board (FSB) in a report on Wednesday "strongly" encouraged boards to consider implementing safeguards to mitigate risks from AI, including from “agentic” AI — or those systems capable of planning, reasoning and executing tasks...

Exiled for an anti-war drawing: A Russian family punished for dissent

It is the moving story of a Russian father and daughter who opposed Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. It all began in March 2022, when 12-year-old Maria drew an anti-war picture at school in response to the invasion launched a month earlier. She was immediately reported by those around her, and the FSB soon visited both her school and her home.

Could ex-ISIL fighters be used against Iran, as a Russian official claimed?

Could ex-ISIL fighters be used against Iran, as a Russian official claimed? Russia’s Federal Security Service chief said Western powers could weaponise former fighters, but analysts doubt the claim. Alexander Bortnikov, head of Russia’s Federal Security Service, claimed late in May that the West is trying to use ex-fighters of the ISIL (ISIS) armed group against Iran.

Ukraine launches massive attack on Russia hours after Putin snubs 'rude' Zelensky

Ukraine launches massive attack on Russia hours after Putin snubs 'rude' Zelensky Kyiv sent a barrage of missiles at Russia with a fire started at a military base hours after Vladimir Putin snubbed Volodymyr Zelensky’s call for face-to-face talks to end the war. A massive Ukrainian drone strike has left a number of key Russian military sites up in flames, just hours after Vladimir Putin snubbed Volodymyr Zelensky’s call for face-to-face talks to end the war. Kyiv launched a series of strikes...

Russia Says It Found Foreign Spyware on Top Officials’ Phones

Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot

Porting the ThinkPad x61 to coreboot Table of Contents An introduction to my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad addiction Over 10 years ago I got my first ThinkPad x60. I got interested in free software by reading the about GNU page in the GNU Emacs editor. Free software back then and certainly now is quite usable, typically without much closed-source software.

‘We will not survive’: jailing of Daria Egereva highlights plight of Russia’s Indigenous people