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DOGE as a National Cyberattack schneier.com/blog/archives/…

Bad, bad precedent through and through. Can’t believe that when push came to shove, a Meta platform (WhatsApp) showed more spine on E2EE (in India) than we-care-for-your-privacy-Apple (in UK). bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

We have emerged with unprecedented tools to battle disease 🏆⚕️ But there's still unprecedented resistance to using them ⚠️ Binayak Dasgupta decodes the central paradox of the post-Covid era 😷💉 Read: hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-…

New: At least four officials said that the ECI’s intention was to always make Aadhaar-electoral rolls linkage mandatory, as reflected in the language of Form 6B, Form 6. With Abhishek Angad Ed: Binayak D Story in today’s paper: Link to full story: hindustantimes.com/india-news/cec…

The Wuhan lab is STILL doing unsafe research that could trigger a pandemic AND is rewarded with prestigious pubs.😫 To fix this for the future, we have to admit we were deliberately misled about the plausibility of a lab leak in the past. Gift link: nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opi…

This is devastating news for CERT-In! Condolences to the babu at CERT-In whose KPI was copy-pasting CVEs and assigning useless CIAD numbers. #DigitalIndia

Now: Twitter’s Global Affairs account restored in India. MeitY had asked X about its tweet from last night (8,000 accounts, etc.), as per a person aware of the matter. X blocked it in India without an order. Now MeitY has issued an order to X to NOT block it, as per this person.

Latest: How a deepfake video infiltrated Indian media coverage of the escalating India and Pakistan conflict… bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-w…

This appears to be pretty misleading reporting, and from my examination of the Maxar catalogue, there is nothing suspicious, least of all to support the implication in the article that Pakistani security forces provided specific imagery-intelligence to the terrorists. See more⬇️

My read of the military situation so far a few days in. The first night, with the downing of at least some Indian aircraft, likely went as well as Pakistan could have expected. Since then, it has gone about as well as India could have expected.

HT has prepared an exhaustive database of all the 279 judges the Supreme Court has so far. We will be running a three part series based on this database. Here is the first part- 1. 32 out of all 279 Supreme Court Judges have had close family relations hindustantimes.com/india-news/onl…

It will be glorious for the margins of European defense companies when bottlenecks in critical supplies meet the great rearmament spending.

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well adapted to conditions there. wired.com/story/bacteria…

Exclusive: From Delhi, UP to Tokyo: Indian students learning Japanese target Japan’s elderly, swindle crores. Six arrested after CBI raids. What gave them away? Broken Japanese, Hindi in the background, & Indian caller IDs. I report. theprint.in/india/from-del…

Welcome to Day 4 of #AIinConversation! Join us today for the panel discussion on “AI and the Changing Landscape of Journalism” on May 29th at 6 PM IST. This panel will explore the shift from traditional long-form reporting to an AI-driven media landscape defined by 60-word

For Kashmir, bruised by terror yet again, a new train that rolled into Srinagar on Saturday may solve more than trade and transit challenges. In today's HT, I write from the Katra-Srinagar Vande Bharat Express, the first train to bridge Kashmir with India's vast rail network.

Geolocation of crash site in Ahmedabad where Air India flight AI171 to London carrying 242 people crashed just after takeoff. Coordinates: 23.054638, 72.611664

Cautionary tale: The last time the Iranian military establishment suffered a “decapitation” comparable to the last few days was when the Khomeini regime purged the Shah’s generals. 1/7

New: K'taka HC allowed X to challenge part of IT Rules, 2021. Rlys min sent X takedown notice on June 26. Digipub's intervention app not admitted but to be heard along with the matter. + details of govt's 2 written submissions Link to full story: thetechtrace.substack.com/p/edition-8-ka…

Now: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told Karnataka HC that railways ministry "misused" Section 79.3.b of IT Act in issuing the takedown notice dated June 26. He said "misuse of provision" doesn't make provision itself wrong. Details of June 26 notice: thetechtrace.substack.com/p/edition-8-ka…