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Basil de Gres
@basildegres.bsky.social
No Intelligence, just Artificial

Sofa Spartan, Democratic passivist, Telemachus.
Views are yours, truly.

#SongOfTheDay #sotd
https://soundcloud.com/user-552589643/tracks

Indulgere Genio
Pinned
And so, I'm a Sophist of the worst kind, that conveniently omits facts, a bizarre mind, a denier, a hypocrite and an enabler.
Pale Honey - Beat Me #sotd
#AlternativeRock #Pop z8j4ZaypVsU
Pale Honey - Beat me
YouTube video by Pale Honey
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January 18, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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OSINT Tools for Cybersecurity Teams: Finding Digital Footprints and Enriching Threat Intelligence - Cyber Security News cybersecuritynews.com/osint-tools-...
OSINT Tools for Cybersecurity Teams: Finding Digital Footprints and Enriching Threat Intelligence
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) has become a cornerstone of modern cybersecurity operations. Security teams rely on publicly available information to investigate threats, trace malicious actors, and ...
cybersecuritynews.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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uk.news.yahoo.com/canada-pm-ha... With Trump's punitive tariffs and threats of military invasion, I guess America's former friends and allies are looking for alternative partnerships built on mutual respect.
Canada PM hails strategic partnership with China to adapt to ‘new global realities’
Mark Carney holds talks with Xi Jinping on rare Beijing trip as Canada seeks to diversify trade links away from US
uk.news.yahoo.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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January 1, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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It’s also a snub to the entire Nobel system. You know, like an unwanted present that one can pass on to the next idiot. Devaluates the Nobel Peace Price. Might as well scrap it.
January 16, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Twice A Man - Decay (MontCosmik edit) #sotd
#DarkDisco #NewWave Free download
Twice A Man - Decay (MontCosmik Edit)
Free Download : https://hypeddit.com/track/29dik9
soundcloud.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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Moxie Marlinspike—the engineer who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger—is now aiming to revolutionize AI chatbots in a similar way.

arstechnica.com/security/202...
Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works.
arstechnica.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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A newly discovered advanced cloud-native Linux malware framework named VoidLink focuses on cloud environments, providing attackers with custom loaders, implants, rootkits, and plugins designed for modern infrastructures.
New VoidLink malware framework targets Linux cloud servers
A newly discovered advanced cloud-native Linux malware framework named VoidLink focuses on cloud environments, providing attackers with custom loaders, implants, rootkits, and plugins designed for modern infrastructures.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical” - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/security/202...
Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”
VoidLink includes an unusually broad and advanced array of capabilities.
arstechnica.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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Since we’re doing starter packs again, here’s @patrickhowelloneill.com’s list of cybersecurity and information security folks

go.bsky.app/JvFS98y
January 11, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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Danish newspaper @politiken.dk opens ENGLISH LANGUAGE section of its coverage of Greenland. Resource to understand local coverage, analysis, politics, and public opinion ⬇️

politiken.dk/tag/main/gre...
Greenland
Get the latest news about the tensions between United States, Denmark and Greenland from Politiken Edition. US President Donald Trump is causing tremors with his statements about Greenland. He calls...
politiken.dk
January 14, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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NEW: Cybercriminals are increasingly being caught driving around cities with SMS blasters in the backs of their cars

These blasters connect to nearby phones, downgrade their connections to 2G, and then push scam text messages to phones

Some SMS blasters can reportedly send 100,000 texts per hour
Cybercriminals Have a Weird New Way to Target You With Scam Texts
Scammers are now using “SMS blasters” to send out up to 100,000 texts per hour to phones that are tricked into thinking the devices are cell towers. Your wireless carrier is powerless to stop them.
www.wired.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this

Scammers have been abusing unsecured cellular routers used in industrial settings to blast SMS-based phishing messages in campaigns that have been ongoing since 2023, researchers said. The routers, manufactured by China-based…
That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this
Scammers have been abusing unsecured cellular routers used in industrial settings to blast SMS-based phishing messages in campaigns that have been ongoing since 2023, researchers said. The routers, manufactured by China-based Milesight IoT Co., Ltd., are rugged Internet of Things devices that use cellular networks to connect traffic lights, electric power meters, and other sorts of remote industrial devices to central hubs.
arstechnica.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Portable “SMS blaster” devices spoof 4G towers, push phones onto insecure 2G and blast up to thousands of phishing texts in under ten seconds; Android 16+ can disable 2G to block attack. Read more: https://getnews.me/how-to-guard-your-phone-against-growing-sms-blaster-scams/ #smsblaster #security
October 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Έφτιαξαν κλώνο κεραίας κινητής για να έχουν πρόσβαση σε τηλέφωνα – Πώς δρούσαν
Έφτιαξαν κλώνο κεραίας κινητής για να έχουν πρόσβαση σε τηλέφωνα – Πώς δρούσαν
Πώς δρούσε η εγκληματική ομάδα τα μέλη της οποίας δραστηριοποιούνταν στη διάπραξη απατών και την παράνομη πρόσβαση σε πληροφοριακά συστήματα.
www.news247.gr
January 15, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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Ν. Γκάτσος
January 15, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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A nice long list of the "trusted" partners #Dropbox shares your personal data with. 🤨

❌ Google

❌ Amazon

❌ OpenAI

.... & many more. 

In today's guide we take a look at how secure and private the cloud storage platform actually is: tuta.com/blog/is-drop...
January 15, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Trump’s US ‘at its most dangerous point since the Civil War’ | Rick Wilson youtu.be/5mJem-8HsTQ
Trump’s US ‘at its most dangerous point since the Civil War’ | Rick Wilson
YouTube video by The Trump Report
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Μάχη για τον έλεγχο της αμερικανικής ιστορίας | Ναταλί Χατζηαντωνίου
Ο Τραμπ και η επίθεση στο Smithsonian
#Fascism @efsyntakton.bsky.social
Μάχη για τον έλεγχο της αμερικανικής ιστορίας
Ο Τραμπ και η «επίθεση» στο Smithsonian.
www.efsyn.gr
January 15, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Adan & Ilse - Kind Of Blow II (MelanoBoy remix) #sotd
#DarkWave #DarkDisco #EBM
Kind of Blow 2 (Melanoboy Rework)
Listen to Kind of Blow 2 (Melanoboy Rework) by Adan #np on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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The streets of the United States are patrolled - and 000s have been detained - by masked paramilitary forces who disavow due process and who demonstrate loyalty to a single political party, not the US government or Constitution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtSK...
Caitlin Dickerson and How ICE Became Trump’s Secret Army | The David Frum Show
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Per a psychologist Trump has the most extreme form of the same mental disease Hitler had - malignant narcissism - which includes narcissism sociopathy paranoia and sadism. Plus he has dementia. It will get worse. youtu.be/9OtO-cypKmY?...
'Trump will not make it to the end of this term compos mentis' | Psychologist analyses Trump
YouTube video by Times Radio
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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"Is the America that the world used to rely on, is that gone?"
"Life is action, life is decision...Democracy is a very radical idea, always has been, it's constantly undermined by enemies...the residual strength of the Democratic idea is also very powerful. Let's act"
youtu.be/g7goMhEQt9U?...
David Frum: Trump is malignant, surrounded by weirdos and ‘suspects’
YouTube video by Times Radio
youtu.be
March 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Introducing MAGA Sack! 🇺🇸
January 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM