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#BBCNews - EU foreign policy chief says defence spending must rise
www.bbc.com/news/article...
EU's Kaja Kallas says Europe must spend more on defence
Kaja Kallas says Europe needs to increase investment to keep pace with threats facing the continent.
www.bbc.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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📝 This is the clearest breakdown you'll find about DeepSeek R1, from how it works to why it crushed math problems, and how @hf.co plans to reproduce it openly huggingface.co/blog/open-r1
Open-R1: a fully open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
January 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"the methods used to convince Claude to compromise the system it’s using are essentially the same one might take to convince a person."
January 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I was writing about deterrence today and remembered my favourite way of explaining it
January 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
M4 MAX MacBook Pro BENCHMARKED: Deepseek v3 vs Qwen, Phi-4 and Llama on Ollama youtu.be/OwUm-4I22QI?...
M4 MAX MacBook Pro BENCHMARKED: Deepseek v3 vs Qwen, Phi-4 and Llama on Ollama
YouTube video by IndyDevDan
youtu.be
January 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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It's getting exiting now!
Blue origin's #newglenn first flight in just 38 minutes.
Follow online at: www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-1
New Glenn Mission NG-1 | Blue Origin
New Glenn will launch for the first time from LC-36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
www.blueorigin.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"Practicing politics alone, on the internet, rather than in community isn’t only making us more likely to demonize and alienate our opponents, though that would be bad enough. It may also be encouraging deep nihilism."
I wrote the latest cover story for The Atlantic. It's about the far-ranging implications of one simple statistic: Americans have never spent so much time alone, and surging solitude is warping our society.

I'm really proud of it, and I hope you read it.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
January 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
"...it is designed to use artificial-intelligence software for targeting incoming threats...The company’s objective is to create missile systems that are “ten times more affordable, a hundred times faster to produce” than current industry outputs"
January 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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NEW: An investigation into a 20 year intelligence campaign that led to the dismantling of Hezbollah. With Sheera Frenkel and Ronen Bergman www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/w...
Behind the Dismantling of Hezbollah: Decades of Israeli Intelligence
A Times investigation shows how extensively Israel penetrated the Lebanese militia, closely tracking the group’s commanders and culminating in the assassination of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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It includes more than 40 documents and I did English translations/summaries for all of them.
It's been one month since HTS announced its offensive against the former regime.

I put together "Key Documents and Resources From HTS's Offensive (November 27-December 8)" so anyone can have for the historical record: www.jihadologyplus.com/p/key-docume...
Key Documents and Resources From HTS's Offensive (November 27-December 8)
From the offensive's announcement to the fall of Damascus
www.jihadologyplus.com
December 27, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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As footage and images of what might have been the maiden flight of China’s sixth-generation fighter jet went viral, the country’s official military media appeared to tacitly confirm the rumours. www.scmp.com/news/china/m...
New Chinese fighter jet seen over Chengdu tacitly confirmed by military
Mysterious aircraft bearing triangular tailless design sparks speculation it has cutting-edge stealth and endurance capabilities.
www.scmp.com
December 26, 2024 at 9:24 PM
"This is a surprising and important step-function increase in AI capabilities, showing novel task adaptation ability never seen before in the GPT-family models...All intuition about AI capabilities will need to get updated for o3."
December 20, 2024 at 11:42 PM
"The boundary between influence and espionage is blurry"
December 20, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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I've been participating in a blogging competition over at chess.com and just submitted my entry for the Final Four. I'll post an expanded version of this elsewhere, but for now here's a quick look at a study asking if the Stockfish & Maia engines pass the Turing Test: www.chess.com/blog/bjbalas...
Can you tell a human opponent from a machine?
When I first started learning how to play chess as a kid, I was also really excited about computers and programming. This meant that it didn't take long for me to set my sights on getting a computer t...
www.chess.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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Space Force says first national security Vulcan launch now anticipated in spring 2025: spaceflightnow.com/2024/12/18/s...
December 19, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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Although this show was filmed before the 2nd impeachment vote, there are still plenty of great insights on the martial law, regional impact and much more from @victordcha.bsky.social, @myhlee.bsky.social , @sydseiler.bsky.social and Amb. Mark Lippert.
What Happened in South Korea? | The Capital Cable #102
YouTube video by Center for Strategic & International Studies
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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“To the contrary, upon review of available imagery, it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft, operating lawfully.”
Joint DHS/FBI Statement on Reports of Drones in New Jersey | Federal Bureau of Investigation
DHS and the FBI have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings in New Jersey pose a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus.
www.fbi.gov
December 15, 2024 at 5:36 AM
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The Washington Post visits a General Intelligence Directorate facility in Aleppo, finding copious surveillance records alongside evidence of torture and abuse.

@leloveluck.bsky.social
@salwangeorges.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
Files from Aleppo intelligence facility show extent of Assad repression
Branch 322 was one of hundreds of facilities that detained and interrogated civilians and military officers, and recruited locals to monitor their neighbors.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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US officials in 'direct contact' with victorious Syria rebels

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
US officials in 'direct contact' with victorious Syria rebels
Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirms contact with the HTS group, despite it still being on the US terrorism list.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Ordered one of these. Have to work on my chess game again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV5w...
INTENSE Over-the-Board Time Scramble vs a Chess.com Opponent! (ChessUp 2)
YouTube video by Eric Rosen
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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with thousands of people panicking over planes and stars in NJ i believe modern man has, through technology, finally completed his transition back to medieval peasant
December 14, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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A CIA analyst charged with leaking top secret details ahead of a planned Israeli attack on Iran earlier this year will remain jailed pending trial.
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
Judge orders CIA analyst accused of Israel-Iran leak held pending trial
www.stripes.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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Hard-hitting speech by NATO SecGen Rutte at Carnegie Europe today. Key quotes:

"Danger is moving towards us at full speed"
"It is time to shift to a wartime mindset, and turbo-charge our defence production and defence spending"
"We must deliver on our commitments"

www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh...
“To Prevent War, NATO Must Spend More” - Speech by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the Concert Noble, Brussels
(As delivered)
www.nato.int
December 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM