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How a Music Streaming CEO Built an Open-Source Global Threat Map in His Spare Time Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold.

How a Music Streaming CEO Built an Open-Source Global Threat Map in His Spare Time

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Attributing Russian Information Influence Operations: Testing the Information Influence Attribution Framework with real-world case studies
A Joint Report from the Ukrainian Centre for Strategic Communications and the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
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Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons reigns as one of the world’s most recognizable early 18th-century pieces, thanks to its frequent appearances in films and television commercials. Upon its debut in ...

Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments
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Russia's Shadow Fleet Spies: The OSINT Gap Nobody Sees<br/> — Rae Baker: Deep Dive Armed Russians from Moran Security Group are boarding shadow fleet tankers as covert operatives. Here's why OSINT analysts are missing the human layer and how to find crew data nobody's collecting.

Russia's Little Red Men: The Shadow Fleet Spies Nobody’s Looking For
Rae Baker | February 2, 2026
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China Maritime Studies Institute, Vol. 1, No. 2
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Social Media Manipulation for Sale: 2025 NATO Experiment on Platform Capabilities to Detect and Counter Inauthentic Social Media Engagement NATO released their latest experiment offering the comprehensive evidence to date of how commercially inauthentic engagement continues exploits platform vulnerabilities.

Social Media Manipulation for Sale: 2025 NATO Experiment on Platform Capabilities to Detect and Counter Inauthentic Social Media Engagement
SWJ Staff | February 3, 2026
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Unveiling FSB&#39;s 16th Center SIGINT Capabilities | Claudia T. The beauty of OSINT isn't in doing the same actions over and over for every similar case. It's the ability to find novel solutions to the problems posed by answering a question -- and being empowered ...

OSINT & Phaleristics: Unveiling FSB's 16th Center SIGINT Capabilities
CheckFirst
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Adulting 101: Free MSU courses teach balanced budgets, cooking, pet care - Bridge Michigan Michigan State University Extension is offering free ‘Adulting 101’ courses to help young people learn essential life skills.

Adulting 101: Free MSU courses teach balanced budgets, cooking, pet care
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Adulting 101 2026- Full Listing of Monthly Sessions
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Verify Everything – Viral Information in the AI Era When you’re having a tough time telling fact from fiction

Verify Everything – Viral Information in the AI Era
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Reviewing The Chinese Navy In 2025 - Part I: The Surface Fleet Naval News takes a look at notable events for the Chinese Navy in 2025, In this first part we cover PLAN carriers, amphibs and escorts.

Reviewing the Chinese Navy in 2025 – Part I: The Surface Fleet

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Congress Will Not Limit Itself so the States Must • The Havok Journal Americans across the political spectrum agree on almost nothing anymore—but one idea keeps surviving the culture war unscathed: term limits for Congress. Congress won’t impose term limits. An Article ...

Congress Will Not Limit Itself so the States Must
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2026's Maritime Gray Zone Threats and How to Detect Them Gray-zone maritime threats are rising, from dark activity to covert surveillance. Learn how Remote Sensing Intelligence enables early detection and exposure.

The Gray Zone at Sea: How Adversaries Disrupt Without Firing a Shot
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Why Know Your Data is Essential for Maritime Intelligence Learn what KYD™ is and how it uses Remote Sensing Intelligence to validate AIS signals, reduce false positives, and expose deceptive shipping practices.

The Integrity Gap: Why Know Your Data is the New Frontier of Maritime Intelligence
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What is cookieless tracking? How are you being tracked? Discover what cookieless tracking is, which techniques exist, how it compares to traditional cookies, and steps to limit it.

What is Cookieless Tracking? How are You Being Tracked?
Discover what cookieless tracking is, which techniques exist, how it compares to traditional cookies, and steps you can take to limit it

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They Droned Back Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast

They Droned Back
Young Journalists Expose Russian-Linked Vessels Circling Off the Dutch & German Coast
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Top 2025 OSINT and CTF Advent calendar challenges to keep you busy this December It’s that time of the year again! An entire month dedicated to learning, exploring, and putting your OSINT skills to the test with daily challenges and Capture the Flag (CTF) events. Are you …

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It’s that time of the year again. As we wrap up 2025, I have compiled a list of the best OSINT and CTF Advent calendar challenges that are sure to put your skills to the test this season! 🌟

Are you ready for a busy December? 👇

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GreyNoise launches free scanner to check if you're part of a botnet GreyNoise Labs has launched a free tool called GreyNoise IP Check that lets users check if their IP address has been observed in malicious scanning operations, like botnet and residential proxy networ...

GreyNoise Launches Free Scanner to Check if You'Re Part of a Botnet
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Gmail might be harvesting your emails to train AI—here's how to opt out This is pretty bad.

Gmail might be harvesting your emails to train AI—here's how to opt out
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China's five year plan and why you should care as an investigator YouTube video by Authentic8

China's Five Year Plan and Why You Should Care as an Investigator
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2600 The Hacker Quarterly

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From the VeteransBenefits community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the VeteransBenefits community

For Those Struggling During the Shut Down & for Food

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Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy

Take some time this weekend to get caught up in our #OptOutOctober series, where we’re providing daily tips to reclaim your privacy, one small task at a time. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

China hacking America’s critical infrastructure, retired four-star general warns | 60 Minutes YouTube video by 60 Minutes

Ex-Spymaster on How China Hacks the U.S.
60 Minutes
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Constantly Curious: One Ring to Track Them All? What does the Ōura Ring have to do with government surveillance?

Constantly Curious: One Ring to Track Them All?
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These encrypted DNS providers actually protect your privacy (unlike your ISP) Encrypted DNS is the easiest upgrade you can make for privacy online.

These Encrypted DNS Providers Actually Protect Your Privacy (Unlike Your ISP)
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Google is the World’s Premier Intelligence Agency: By Ami Elazari Data Dominance, Government Alliances, and the Shadow AI Intelligence Project Maven.

Google is the World’s Premier Intelligence Agency
Ami Elazari | September 20, 2025
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This seems relevant today… YouTube video by More Perfect Union

Media-opoly
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Kinda old, but still relevant

MUST-WATCH: “When you live here it feels like a poor country— you’re so reasonable. They painted you in a bad light. It makes me angry.”

Bernie wins over WV Trump voters, shows how @marshablackburn & Trump use averages to lie to us + help the rich.

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OSINT Exercise #032 Welcome to OSINT Exercise #032! Task briefing: Airports are global hubs where cultures, languages, and lives briefly intersect. Millions of people pass through them each day. On an undisclosed date…

OSINT Exercise 032 is now live!
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A video was recorded by an unknown traveller at an undisclosed airport. Despite the absolutely chaos of the footage (be warned!), it is possible to determine the exact date, time, an in which terminal the person was.

I hope you enjoy ❤️

Why is the US government prioritizing the Islamic State in #Somalia | ACLED Briefed YouTube video by ACLED

Why is the US government prioritizing the Islamic State in #Somalia | ACLED Briefed
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ACLED Briefed, the new series where ACLED experts unpack today’s most talked-about conflicts — short videos, bigger picture.

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