#information-warfare

#information-warfare

Britain is caught in a space between peace and war complicated by the rise of artificial intelligence and other technologies dominated by powerful individuals and corporations, according to the new head of MI6. Blaise Metreweli, giving her first speech in the job, also accused Russia of being insincere about Ukraine peace negotiations but made minimal reference to China as the prime minister, Keir Starmer, seeks to arrange a visit to Beijing.

Across Europe we are witnessing an escalation in hybrid threats - from physical through to cyber - designed to weaken critical national infrastructure, undermine our interests and interfere in our democracies all for the advantage of malign foreign states,

Earlier this year, as North Korea began sending more soldiers to Russia to assist in its war against Ukraine, Maggie Feldman-Piltch turned to a group of adult content creators for their help. The creators had noticed an uptick in subscribers from the DPRK who suddenly had access to a less restrictive internet environment than they were used to back home, including adult content recommended by their Russian counterparts.

Sinan Selen, the head of the BfV, the country's domestic spy agency, said a recent peace deal for Gaza did not mean that there is a "reason to sound the all-clear when it comes to Hamas and its activities in Europe and Germany." Selen said Hamas had "infrastructure" in Germany, and his office estimated that about 32,500 people living in the country can be classified as foreign extremists. This is an increase of 6% over the previous year.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Friday and chastized some of his fellow world leaders in a defiant speech, vowing to finish the job against Hamas in Gaza. Netanyahu also claimed that Israeli intelligence had managed to hack every cell phone in Gaza to broadcast his address on every device in the Strip, allowing him to speak directly to the people of Gaza as well as the remaining Israeli hostages.

Some of the documents refer to the company using DeepSeek in this," Professor Brett Goldstein from Vanderbilt told The Register. "But once we published the documents they started stripping references to the technology from [the] website very rapidly.