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Submission + - Kremlin shaken as leak exposes 450,100 Russian soldiers killed (aol.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Vladimir Putin's catastrophic battlefield casualties have been exposed in a massive cyber breach disclosing that up to 450,000 Russian troops have perished in Ukraine. In a mortifying setback to Moscow's strictly controlled wartime information operations, hackers penetrated the Russian state statistics bureau, Rosstat, and obtained thousands of classified documents containing official mortality records registered between February 2022 and August this year.

The coordinated digital assault was carried out by pro-Ukrainian activist collective Silent Crow in partnership with the Belarusian Cyber Partisans, both designated by the Kremlin as extremist organizations. Silent Crow examined the breached data and estimated the Russian fatality count at an astounding 450,100 service members.

Submission + - GNU Photo 3.0.1 released, supports 2,500+ camera models via libgphoto2 2.5.34 (sourceforge.net)

Submitted by ole
ole writes: After 25 years, libgphoto2 2.5.34 now supports more than 2,500 camera models, and GPhoto 3.0.1 is built on it.

GPhoto 3.0.1 is now available for download:

    http://www.gnomephoto.org/src/...

SHA256: f76d347cd013062ee1fdfcc86f9dee4890e89854d95e975ac92a883bba2ca449

This is a stable release for the 3.0 series.

Changes since 3.0.0:

    * Fix segmentation fault

Note for testers: on GNOME desktops, gvfs may claim the camera before
GPhoto can access it. If GPhoto cannot open your camera, stop the gvfs
processes first:

    pkill gvfs

This matches gvfsd, gvfsd-fuse, gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor and the
other gvfs daemons. To stop only the main daemon:

    pkill -x gvfsd

To stop only the gphoto2 backend:

    pkill -f gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
    pkill -f gvfsd-gphoto2

If a process does not exit, force it with:

    pkill -9 gvfs

The gvfs daemons are D-Bus activated and will respawn when another
application (e.g. Nautilus) needs them, so re-run the command if the
camera is claimed again. If a stale mount remains afterwards, unmount it
with:

    fusermount -u /run/user/$UID/gvfs

Please give it a try and report any problems on this list or on the bug tracker.

Thanks to everyone who contributed patches, testing and translations.

Downloads

        libgphoto2 2.5.34: https://sourceforge.net/projec...
        GPhoto 3.0.1: https://www.gnomephoto.org/gph...

More information

        GPhoto: http://www.gnomephoto.org/
        gPhoto: http://gphoto.org/

Best regards,
Ole Kristian Aamot
https://www.aamot.org/ole/ole....

Submission + - China's CXMT Claims DRAM Breakthrough (startupfortune.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) announced key progress in a DRAM architecture that rivals had pursued for years, plunging shares of memory chip makers including Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron. The technology is called 4F^2, shorthand for a memory cell design where each cell occupies an area of four square F, with F representing the minimum line width a chipmaker can etch. Smaller area per cell means more cells per chip, which means more storage density without shrinking the wafer. CXMT said the breakthrough rests on something it calls a Vertical Surrounding Gate transistor, a vertical gate structure meant to fix current leakage while cutting the unit area each cell needs. CXMT plans to ship a DDR5 RDIMM product built on this architecture before the end of 2026. Shim Dae-yong, a former SK Hynix vice president, told The Korea Herald earlier this year that extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, which has been banned from China by US-led export control, is effectively unavoidable at advanced DRAM nodes, and that a realistic alternative path is to go vertical and “narrow part of the gap by pushing vertical integration without EUV.” He meant stacking chips, but a vertical transistor applies the same idea inside every cell. Chinese technology giant Huawei is also applying the similar approach, known as LogicFolding, to its latest CPU and GPU chips and license its patents to Qualcomm. Citrini projects China's combined DRAM capacity could approach 1.41 million wafer starts per month by 2030, enough to make China the world's second-largest DRAM production base, trailing only South Korea.

Submission + - Pneumonic plague outbreak hits Siberia as lab worker, 28, dies (hotair.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: A suspected plague outbreak has erupted in Russia — killing a young lab worker, forcing nearly 200 people into isolation and triggering accusations that Vladimir Putin’s regime is trying to keep the infection’s possible spread under wraps.

The alarm was raised in Siberia after a worker at an anti-plague laboratory died of the disease, which killed tens of millions in the medieval Black Death, according to a report from The Moscow Times.

Anna Popova, who heads Russia’s public-health watchdog, then rushed 2,600 miles from Moscow to the Irkutsk region as authorities quarantined a hospital and placed scores of people who had come into contact with the victim under medical observation.

"FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary.

It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.

https://x.com/AnnieJacobsen/st...

Submission + - Microsoft's X Account Hacked in Crypto Scam with Clippy (theverge.com)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: Unknown attackers hijacked the official Microsoft account on X, which has over 13 million followers, in what appeared to be a pump-and-dump scheme promoting a crypto token.

The attack began when the Microsoft account (@Microsoft) followed and reposted a tweet from another now-suspended X account (@clippymsftcto) impersonating Microsoft's Clippy virtual assistant.

Another deleted tweet (that Microsoft says it didn't post) noted that Microsoft doesn't support any cryptocurrency or crypto-related tokens.

"We are aware of a cryptocurrency token being promoted in connection with $MSFT stock, including the unauthorized use of the Clippy brand and Microsoft-related intellectual property. Microsoft has not authorized, sponsored, endorsed, or granted permission for the creation, promotion, or use of any cryptocurrency token associated with Clippy, Microsoft, or $MSFT," the deleted tweet read.

Microsoft has since removed the attackers' posts and confirmed the incident, saying it's investigating the circumstances.

"We have confirmed unauthorized access to our account on X including posts that did not come from Microsoft," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "The account has been secured and the unauthorized posts have been removed, and we are continuing to investigate the circumstances."

Submission + - Chinese Private Company Achieves Hydrogen-Boron Fusion (interestingengineering.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: ENN Group, a clean energy firm in China, has just achieved hydrogen-boron fusion reactions in the EXL-50U spherical tokamak at a rate exceeding 100 million per second, the first hydrogen-boron fusion reaction achieved by a commercial fusion company on its own device. Typical deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion, pursued by Most fusion projects including the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), relies on scarce and expensive tritium and also releases energetic neutrons that can damage the reactor materials and induce radioactivity in surrounding components. Hydrogen-boron fusion, by contrast, relies on comparatively abundant fuels and primarily produces charged alpha particles whose energy could potentially be converted directly into electricity, without using heat to make steam and power a turbine. However, hydrogen-boron fusion is considerably harder to achieve as it requires vastly higher temperatures and strict confinement conditions. So, instead of trying to raise the temperature of the entire plasma, the team combined high-energy neutral beam injection with radio frequency waves. ENN has started building Helong-2, its 3rd-generation fusion device, and is targeting 2030 for the project's first electricity from hydrogen-boron fusion.

Submission + - Cops Can Bypass iPhoneâ(TM)s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones (404media.co)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: Apple quietly introduced a new feature in iOS that automatically reboots an iPhone that has not been unlocked for 72 hours. The idea behind this so-called âoeinactivity rebootâ is to revert the phone to a state that makes it harder for police to break into the device, and thus extract sensitive data from it with forensics technology.

The new technology to get around inactivity reboot was developed by Magnet Forensics, the company behind GrayKey, a popular tool sold to law enforcement agencies that allows them to unlock and access data stored in iPhones and Android smartphones. Magnet has developed a new device called GrayKey Preserve and a feature for its regular GrayKey devices called Evidence Preservation Mode, according to the video.

Submission + - California scientist emerges as possible Tylenol murders suspect (sfgate.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: A man found dead in a church halfway across the country may have suddenly unlocked the key — quite literally — to one of America’s most famous unsolved crimes.

But although he had a successful career, working at one point for Lockheed Martin on a NASA-related project in New Mexico, Betkouski had a reputation for making unsettling comments. Former coworkers told Cooper that Betkouski spoke of how to commit a “perfect crime,” had a “history of volatility" and referenced cyanide as an ideal way to kill without detection. He also mentioned putting poison in over-the-counter medication, an especially worrisome comment coming from someone who had worked in multiple drugstores.

“It was said that Dr. Betkouski attempted to obtain some type of pills or capsules from a pharmacy in the Las Cruces area,” Cooper said at a press conference last week. “He said this would be for an experiment. For reasons not fully understood, Dr. Betkouski created a disturbance at the location and the police were summoned.”

Less than three months before Betkouski killed himself, a national terror was unfolding in Chicago. In late September 1982, seven people took over-the-counter Tylenol for their usual aches and pains. The capsules had been opened and filled with potassium cyanide, killing the people who took them.

Submission + - Bill Gates's Blunt Warning on A.I. (nytimes.com)

Submitted by hadleyburg
hadleyburg writes: Ezra Klein's recent interview with Bill Gates on the dangers of AI leaves a different impression from the current discussion on this topic. He addresses some of the usual questions — What about China?, plausible dangers, regulation vs. free market, the "jobpocalypse", etc., but with his more Gatesian figures-backed style of response.

One of Gates's perspectives is on providing foreign aid, an area in which he has been involved since stepping away from the helm of Microsoft. He addresses both AI, and the recent drop in contributions to foreign aid.

He is also questioned about Epstein, and his relationship with the man.

Submission + - The Nature of War has just changed forever (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by MrBrklyn
MrBrklyn writes: Ukrainiaan land robots have been deployed in combat, killing thousands of Russian troops and changing the face of warfare forever. Leaders accross the globe are sitting up in the seats and paying attention as what started as a localized Russian agression has now turned into a world altering and historic war which the Russians seemingly have no means to win.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/wo...

Submission + - Complain about a watchlist? Go on a watchlist! (metro.co.uk)

Submitted by Shakes Fist
Shakes Fist writes: "Social media posts criticising government policy are being monitored and investigated by officials, Metro can reveal.

Negative X and Reddit posts from unsuspecting Brits attacking the UKâ(TM)s anti-terror programme Prevent were added to a database of critical online comments.

Metro has obtained a list of nearly 80 critical posts found and logged by the Standards and Compliance Unit (StaCU), which oversees Prevent, between March 2024 and February 2025.

One campaign group whose tweet was recorded in the database said the revelations raised âserious questions about freedom of expression and the right to dissent and protestâ(TM) in the UK."

  âoeIt is deeply concerning to see the Prevent duty being used to enable the monitoring of people and organisations simply because they are critical of the programme. That raises serious questions about freedom of expression and the right to dissent and protest.â

We denounce the âoetroubling lack of transparency about what happens to the information gathered through this social media monitoring [by the Standards and Compliance Unit]: how long it is retained, who it is shared with, and ultimately what the government is using it for.â

Weâ(TM)re clear that âoePrevent has expanded far beyond its stated aim of identifying people considered âoevulnerable to radicalisationâ, and has increasingly been used to justify extensive surveillance.â

Criticising the programme for its many faults shouldnâ(TM)t lead to getting put on a database.

ðY' Sarah Lasoye for ORG.

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