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At @turquoiseroof.org we’re experimenting with machine learning x #Sentinel-1 radar to monitor infrastructure when snow, cloud, & sun glare limit optical imagery. #geoAI
February 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
At @turquoiseroof.org we’re experimenting with machine learning x #Sentinel-1 radar to monitor infrastructure when snow, cloud, & sun glare limit optical imagery. #geoAI
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We continue exploring provincial level’s involvement in cyber operations. See details in analysis by @euben.bsky.social
www.nattothoughts.com/p/provincial...
www.nattothoughts.com/p/provincial...
Provincial Tasking, Cross-Provincial Execution: A Case-Based Look at How China Scales Cyber Operations
How decentralized MSS and MPS tasking and market-enabled, cross-provincial execution by commercial firms shape the scale of China’s cyber operations
www.nattothoughts.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:16 PM
We continue exploring provincial level’s involvement in cyber operations. See details in analysis by @euben.bsky.social
www.nattothoughts.com/p/provincial...
www.nattothoughts.com/p/provincial...
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We talked with Dr. Valentin Weber about his research on secure messenger services inside the PLA, their flaws and limitation and how a system obsessed with surveillance, even compromises on security to keep tabs on what their soldiers talk about: open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...
January 28, 2026 at 4:17 PM
We talked with Dr. Valentin Weber about his research on secure messenger services inside the PLA, their flaws and limitation and how a system obsessed with surveillance, even compromises on security to keep tabs on what their soldiers talk about: open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...
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BTS on the data science, geospatial methods, & engineering behind transnational threat investigations matters. Transparency about *how* evidence is built strengthens the work & the field.
Turquoise Roof uses C4ADS' investigative platform to power our open source/PAI research and investigative work:
Turquoise Roof uses C4ADS' investigative platform to power our open source/PAI research and investigative work:
‼️We’re launching a new tech bulletin — sharing the data science, software engineering, and methods behind our investigations into transnational threat networks.
From our Horizons platform to geospatial analysis and emerging tech, we’re diving into the BTS of C4ADS.
More 👇
c4ads.org/news/c4ads-l...
From our Horizons platform to geospatial analysis and emerging tech, we’re diving into the BTS of C4ADS.
More 👇
c4ads.org/news/c4ads-l...
C4ADS Launches Tech Bulletin Highlighting Data & Software Innovation
C4ADS is launching a regular tech bulletin, going behind the scenes to reveal how our Data and Software Teams' innovation powers our investigations and impact. Interested parties can subscribe to C4AD...
c4ads.org
January 27, 2026 at 6:28 PM
BTS on the data science, geospatial methods, & engineering behind transnational threat investigations matters. Transparency about *how* evidence is built strengthens the work & the field.
Turquoise Roof uses C4ADS' investigative platform to power our open source/PAI research and investigative work:
Turquoise Roof uses C4ADS' investigative platform to power our open source/PAI research and investigative work:
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Senior research associate @emiledirks.bsky.social will be presenting a report on transnational repression at the EU Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs on Jan 28.
Tune in here: www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
Tune in here: www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
Highlights | Home | AFET | Committees | European Parliament
Main page of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET). Latest news, links to documents and videos of meetings.
www.europarl.europa.eu
January 26, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Senior research associate @emiledirks.bsky.social will be presenting a report on transnational repression at the EU Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs on Jan 28.
Tune in here: www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
Tune in here: www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
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AI is turning electricity into a strategic input like semiconductors: whoever can route vast, reliable, low carbon power to dense data centre clusters can scale model training, inference, & industrial automation faster & cheaper. The UHV corridor bridges frontier generation & coastal compute:
China has begun building the Guangdong section of the Tibet-Guangdong ultra high-voltage ‘green power’ line, moving #Tibet hydropower, solar, & wind to Guangzhou/Shenzhen.
Due 2029: 43bn kWh/yr, cutting approx 12m tonnes of coal, & feeding AI-driven demand.
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
Due 2029: 43bn kWh/yr, cutting approx 12m tonnes of coal, & feeding AI-driven demand.
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
China’s massive project to funnel clean energy from Tibet enters new phase
The ultra-high-voltage power lines will connect Tibet’s vast hydropower, solar and wind projects with factory hubs in southern China.
www.scmp.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:56 PM
AI is turning electricity into a strategic input like semiconductors: whoever can route vast, reliable, low carbon power to dense data centre clusters can scale model training, inference, & industrial automation faster & cheaper. The UHV corridor bridges frontier generation & coastal compute:
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It was a privilege contributing to this report on transnational repression in the EU. I learned a great deal working with @nateschenkkan.bsky.social, @zecsaky.bsky.social, & @alexdukalskis.bsky.social. A special thank you to the victims of TNR who shared their experiences & expertise with us.
🚨 New report alert! 🚨
Our new study for the European Parliament on transnational repression in the EU is live!
Co-authored with @zecsaky.bsky.social, @emiledirks.bsky.social, and @alexdukalskis.bsky.social: a great team to work with.
Our new study for the European Parliament on transnational repression in the EU is live!
Co-authored with @zecsaky.bsky.social, @emiledirks.bsky.social, and @alexdukalskis.bsky.social: a great team to work with.
www.europarl.europa.eu
January 23, 2026 at 3:19 PM
It was a privilege contributing to this report on transnational repression in the EU. I learned a great deal working with @nateschenkkan.bsky.social, @zecsaky.bsky.social, & @alexdukalskis.bsky.social. A special thank you to the victims of TNR who shared their experiences & expertise with us.
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".. an unprecedented experiment in high-altitude engineering, ecological transformation and geopolitical leverage rolled into one. It is a strategic instrument whose consequences will flow far beyond the Himalayas." (Chellaney reviews @stimsoncenter.bsky.social #osint)
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
January 23, 2026 at 2:20 PM
".. an unprecedented experiment in high-altitude engineering, ecological transformation and geopolitical leverage rolled into one. It is a strategic instrument whose consequences will flow far beyond the Himalayas." (Chellaney reviews @stimsoncenter.bsky.social #osint)
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
AI is turning electricity into a strategic input like semiconductors: whoever can route vast, reliable, low carbon power to dense data centre clusters can scale model training, inference, & industrial automation faster & cheaper. The UHV corridor bridges frontier generation & coastal compute:
China has begun building the Guangdong section of the Tibet-Guangdong ultra high-voltage ‘green power’ line, moving #Tibet hydropower, solar, & wind to Guangzhou/Shenzhen.
Due 2029: 43bn kWh/yr, cutting approx 12m tonnes of coal, & feeding AI-driven demand.
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
Due 2029: 43bn kWh/yr, cutting approx 12m tonnes of coal, & feeding AI-driven demand.
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
China’s massive project to funnel clean energy from Tibet enters new phase
The ultra-high-voltage power lines will connect Tibet’s vast hydropower, solar and wind projects with factory hubs in southern China.
www.scmp.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:56 PM
AI is turning electricity into a strategic input like semiconductors: whoever can route vast, reliable, low carbon power to dense data centre clusters can scale model training, inference, & industrial automation faster & cheaper. The UHV corridor bridges frontier generation & coastal compute:
MI5 has drawn up a “package of national security mitigations” designed to minimise threats from the new embassy, including the supervised relocation of fibre optic cables that carry financial and internet data between the City of London and Canary Wharf:
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
January 21, 2026 at 5:44 PM
MI5 has drawn up a “package of national security mitigations” designed to minimise threats from the new embassy, including the supervised relocation of fibre optic cables that carry financial and internet data between the City of London and Canary Wharf:
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
BBC Verify confirm that the site for the new Chinese embassy in London is close to a dense network of fibre optic communications cables www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
BBC Verify Live: Extensive fibre optic network passes near China's new London embassy
Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 8:04 PM
BBC Verify confirm that the site for the new Chinese embassy in London is close to a dense network of fibre optic communications cables www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
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How it's going: "The opposition Conservative Party described the decision as a 'disgraceful act of cowardice' from a government 'utterly devoid of backbone'."
UK approves China plan for mega embassy in London despite spy fears reut.rs/4sJfH01
UK approves China plan for mega embassy in London despite spy fears
Britain's government gave approval on Tuesday for China to build its largest embassy in Europe in London, hoping to improve ties with Beijing despite British and U.S. politicians' warnings that it could be used as a base for spying.
reut.rs
January 20, 2026 at 2:23 PM
How it's going: "The opposition Conservative Party described the decision as a 'disgraceful act of cowardice' from a government 'utterly devoid of backbone'."
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Chinese pen-testers know about the Chinese eco system as much as they know about western tools and techniques. While western researchers often never step inside the Chinese world of red-teams: tinyurl.com/48z9etwk
What's in the box !?
NetAskari got access to a little "toolbox" of a Chinese red-team/pen-tester. Let's explore.
tinyurl.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Chinese pen-testers know about the Chinese eco system as much as they know about western tools and techniques. While western researchers often never step inside the Chinese world of red-teams: tinyurl.com/48z9etwk
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Incredible reporting from the wreckage of a brutal Chinese-run scam center in Myanmar that wreaked devastation across the globe and in the lives of its workers from @hkbeech.bsky.social. Must read.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...
At This Office Park, Scamming the World Was the Business
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Incredible reporting from the wreckage of a brutal Chinese-run scam center in Myanmar that wreaked devastation across the globe and in the lives of its workers from @hkbeech.bsky.social. Must read.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...
Glass Onion: @graphika.com exposes the commercialised machinery of Chinese influence operations: PR firms, fake “foreign media” x #Spamouflage amplification. graphika.com/reports/glas...
Glass Onion
Graphika has uncovered a network of 43 domains and 37 subdomains that pushed pro-China messaging while posing as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, and other legitimate media o...
graphika.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Glass Onion: @graphika.com exposes the commercialised machinery of Chinese influence operations: PR firms, fake “foreign media” x #Spamouflage amplification. graphika.com/reports/glas...
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If you want to know about the future of AI, take a look at the kaleidoscope of disinfo and psychological operations underway in Iran 🇮🇷
This excellent piece by @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com is a great start
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
This excellent piece by @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com is a great start
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
How Doubt Became a Weapon in Iran
AI manipulation, and the very suspicion of it, serves those who have the most to hide.
www.theatlantic.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
If you want to know about the future of AI, take a look at the kaleidoscope of disinfo and psychological operations underway in Iran 🇮🇷
This excellent piece by @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com is a great start
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
This excellent piece by @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com is a great start
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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We are also tracking Meiya Pico in Tibet and Xinjiang therecord.media/chinese-firm...
January 15, 2026 at 10:47 AM
We are also tracking Meiya Pico in Tibet and Xinjiang therecord.media/chinese-firm...
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“China & India are far more closely related than I once imagined or could fully grasp .. develop profound ways of understanding the human condition. In both Indian and Chinese cultures, these questions have been lived, contemplated, and recorded with profound depth…” www.thehindu.com/entertainmen...
Ai Weiwei interview: ‘China and India are facing the collapse of humanity’s spiritual life’
Ahead of his visit for the India Art Fair next month, the Chinese dissident artist who’s known to call out power worldwide brings to India his first solo show in Delhi
www.thehindu.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
“China & India are far more closely related than I once imagined or could fully grasp .. develop profound ways of understanding the human condition. In both Indian and Chinese cultures, these questions have been lived, contemplated, and recorded with profound depth…” www.thehindu.com/entertainmen...
Taiwan’s NSB says PRC agencies are working with tech firms, including Meiya Pico, to scrape personal data, social networks, & polling signals on politicians and opinion leaders at scale, enabling precision propaganda & targeted attacks during elections. www.visiontimes.com/2026/01/14/t... #SNA #认知战
Taiwan Security Agency Details Five CCP Cognitive Warfare Tactics Targeting Taiwan in 2025 - Vision Times
Taiwan’s National Security Bureau (NSB) said on Jan. 11 that it had completed an internal report titled Analysis of the Chinese Communist Party’s Cognitive
www.visiontimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Taiwan’s NSB says PRC agencies are working with tech firms, including Meiya Pico, to scrape personal data, social networks, & polling signals on politicians and opinion leaders at scale, enabling precision propaganda & targeted attacks during elections. www.visiontimes.com/2026/01/14/t... #SNA #认知战
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Update on this:
Chinese authorities are blacklisting security software from —
Palo Alto
CrowdStrike
SentinelOne
Check Point
Fortinet
Wiz
Mandiant
Recorded Future
McAfee
Rapid7
— and more.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Chinese authorities are blacklisting security software from —
Palo Alto
CrowdStrike
SentinelOne
Check Point
Fortinet
Wiz
Mandiant
Recorded Future
McAfee
Rapid7
— and more.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Exclusive: Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say
Chinese authorities have told domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software made by more than a dozen firms from the U.S. and Israel due to national security concerns, three people briefed o...
www.reuters.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Update on this:
Chinese authorities are blacklisting security software from —
Palo Alto
CrowdStrike
SentinelOne
Check Point
Fortinet
Wiz
Mandiant
Recorded Future
McAfee
Rapid7
— and more.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Chinese authorities are blacklisting security software from —
Palo Alto
CrowdStrike
SentinelOne
Check Point
Fortinet
Wiz
Mandiant
Recorded Future
McAfee
Rapid7
— and more.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Iran's internet shutdown is systematically crippling Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk that is said to be almost impossible to jam
restofworld.org/2026/iran-st...
restofworld.org/2026/iran-st...
Iran crippled Starlink and why the rest of the world should worry
The service became synonymous with censorship-proof connectivity. Iran has just proved that assumption wrong.
restofworld.org
January 13, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Iran's internet shutdown is systematically crippling Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk that is said to be almost impossible to jam
restofworld.org/2026/iran-st...
restofworld.org/2026/iran-st...
The original post on MSS public wechat is archived here: archive.is/UAJP2 隐秘的测绘 秘密的泄露 ("The leak of secret surveying methods") (2024年10月16日 02:03)
MSS has warned that hostile foreign actors are conducting "covert mapping" activities to obtain sensitive geographic data, framing the issue as a national security threat and signalling tighter scrutiny of geospatial work. www.scmp.com/news/china/p... #geoAI #geoint
China warns of covert mapping by foreign forces to steal sensitive geodata
Counter-espionage agency says ‘anti-China’ actors are gathering information on natural resources, energy facilities and terrain in key areas.
www.scmp.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:38 AM
The original post on MSS public wechat is archived here: archive.is/UAJP2 隐秘的测绘 秘密的泄露 ("The leak of secret surveying methods") (2024年10月16日 02:03)
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CDT 2025 Year-End Roundup: Notable Reports
Topics: online censorship systems, the nexus of censorship and "stability maintenance," AI-powered digital totalitarianism, the role of Western tech companies in Chinese censorship and surveillance, and the export of censorship tools and norms.
Topics: online censorship systems, the nexus of censorship and "stability maintenance," AI-powered digital totalitarianism, the role of Western tech companies in Chinese censorship and surveillance, and the export of censorship tools and norms.
CDT 2025 Year-End Roundup: Notable Reports
As 2025 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding quot...
chinadigitaltimes.net
January 13, 2026 at 5:45 PM
CDT 2025 Year-End Roundup: Notable Reports
Topics: online censorship systems, the nexus of censorship and "stability maintenance," AI-powered digital totalitarianism, the role of Western tech companies in Chinese censorship and surveillance, and the export of censorship tools and norms.
Topics: online censorship systems, the nexus of censorship and "stability maintenance," AI-powered digital totalitarianism, the role of Western tech companies in Chinese censorship and surveillance, and the export of censorship tools and norms.
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Myanmar’s digital resistance is adapting under military repression. New research shows how activists organise, fundraise, and survive online, but they urgently need allies: donors, governments, and tech platforms with leverage. secdev-foundation.org/k4dm-mdr-dig... #whatishappeninginmyanmar
Myanmar’s Digital Resistance: Five Studies of Ingenuity Under Repression - The SecDev Foundation
Even as the military tries to control online space, five studies map how the resistance is adapting its organizing, fundraising and survival.
secdev-foundation.org
January 13, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Myanmar’s digital resistance is adapting under military repression. New research shows how activists organise, fundraise, and survive online, but they urgently need allies: donors, governments, and tech platforms with leverage. secdev-foundation.org/k4dm-mdr-dig... #whatishappeninginmyanmar