NEW: Jan Marsalek, the fugitive COO of disgraced company Wirecard, wasn't just behind Germany's biggest financial fraud in history. The Insider can now reveal he was also a GRU agent for a decade. theins.press/en/politics/26…

If anyone thought the geopolitical dimension of subsea cables is purely theoretical, here is a reality check. Yemen’s Houthi rebels cut at least three internet cables in the Red Sea, affecting 25% of the traffic passing through this critical choke point. apnews.com/article/red-se…

Denmark getting NVIDIA Sovereign AI supercomputer - it's serious! dr.dk/nyheder/viden/…

I didn’t get my checkmark back. Does that mean I’m not real?

Yes!

Terrible, fascinating, and extremely well-reported. This will be one to discuss for a while to come. 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

Copenhagen Emergency Services (Hovedstadens Beredskab) confirmed to me that, yes, they use Crowdstrike on some systems which affected automatic fire alarm systems.

It is perhaps unsurprising that the two men with cyber/fraud charges who were released both appear to have significant Kremlin connections beyond the crimes they were convicted for: nbcnews.com/tech/security/…

NEW: Microsoft has reversed its irreversible decision to ban scores of Palestinians from their email and Skype accounts. The people affected by the moderation error were told the decision was final. But then myself and Mohamed Shalaby reported on it and their accounts are now restored

My oped about my father in The Sunday Times thetimes.com/article/9c1e84…

Elon Musk has been vocal in his support of Pavel Durov and suggested that the Telegram chief was arrested over his support of "free speech." But Musk has been a longtime Telegram and Durov fan. When he took over Twitter, he and his advisors wanted to know why Twitter couldn't

“The only statement I’d wish to make is that Telegram is in conformity with every aspect of European norms on digital matters. It is absurd to think that the head of a social network is being charged,” Durov’s lawyer David-Olivier Kaminsk <= *norms*? politico.eu/article/france…

When Pavel Durov was arrested, we were months into an investigation on Telegram. Today we published. We analyzed 3.2 mln messages from 16k channels. We found gun stores run from prison, extremists, criminals, and a platform committed to ignoring it all. nytimes.com/2024/09/07/tec…

Så’ der Prompt! Denne uge m eminente Kashmir Hill der dissekerer Politiets nye, nyttige værktøj & dets risici: ansigtsgenkendelse. Anbefaler *varmt* hendes journalistiske tour de force om emnet & Clearview amazon.com/Your-Face-Belo… - tænd radioen eller lyt her: dr.dk/lyd/special-ra…