Geopolitics and Security
International affairs, wars, militaries, intelligence, and diplomacy, including Israel's wars and external security.
International affairs, wars, militaries, intelligence, and diplomacy, including Israel's wars and external security.
#6151: Invisible Characters That Catch Leakers
Canary traps, binary space codes, and zero-width Unicode characters: how organizations actually trace a leaked document back to its source.
#6144: 8 Real Steganography Cases and How They Got Caught
eBay, a doll shop, and a blink in Morse code — eight real steganography cases, and the tell that exposed every one.
#6143: Propaganda Bait: Testing 7 Models in 5 Languages
Five prompts, seven models, five languages — a first look at a benchmark that doesn't exist yet, testing what LLMs do with government talking points.
#6140: Did Flight FZ1073 Really Happen? Inside a False-Flag Claim
A hijacking attempt on Flydubai FZ1073 was declared staged within 67 minutes. What the evidence actually supports — and what it doesn't.
#6137: Two Ways a Chinese Open Model Gets Censored
Same weights, different landlord: how to tell a serving-time filter from censorship baked into the model itself.
#6115: Claude Cracked the NSA's 1997 Curve Seeds
A 25-year crypto mystery solved in under 30 minutes — by finding a bit that wasn't there.
#6104: Mistral AI : le pari européen de la souveraineté en intelligence artificielle
Comment Mistral AI défie la Silicon Valley avec des modèles efficaces, des partenariats stratégiques et son nouveau modèle vocal Voxtral ? Corn et Herman font le point.
#6101: When Chatbots Run for Office
From a Wyoming mayoral bot to Albania's AI minister, six real attempts to put machines on the ballot — and what they reveal about empty platforms.
#6100: Voting From an Embassy: Israel's 4,860-Voter Election
101 polling stations in 99 missions, 4,860 eligible voters, 30 hours of polls rolling west with the sun.
#6095: How to Prove Your Photo Is Real
Deepfakes made faking easy. Now the harder problem: proving your real photos and video are real. A field guide.
#6092: 到底是谁在塑造中国的人工智能思想？
不只是实验室的老板：那些定义中国如何打造、又如何争论人工智能的研究者和思想。
#6086: Reading Polymarket as an OSINT Feed
Polymarket's API turns prediction market prices into a live probability feed — no wallet, no trading, just reading the world's largest market.
#6084: ישראל בוחרת, חלק א׳: מי באמת רץ
שלושים ושמונה רשימות, שני גושים ואחוז חסימה אחד: המפה המלאה של הבחירות לכנסת ב־27 באוקטובר 2026.
#6075: Israel's Pollsters: Who Calls the Race Before You Vote
Nine days out, a tour of Israel's polling culture — the pollsters who matter, the famous misses, and the numbers to watch on election night.
#6073: Israel Votes, Part 4: The Forecast
Three forecasting methods, seven synthetic voters and one prediction for Israel's 27 October election: Yashar 21, Likud 20, and nobody reaches 61.
#6071: Outside the English Bubble: Where to Find Dubbed Asian Documentaries
There's no Netflix for dubbed world documentaries. But AI dubbing on Bilibili and YouTube is about to unlock the part of a country that talks to itself.
#6068: Chinese AI Models: Refusing vs. Reframing
New studies show Chinese AI models have shifted from refusing sensitive questions to answering them — in the Party's voice.
#6066: Israel Votes, Part 2: What the Parties Stand For
Most Israeli parties haven't published a platform in years. Here's what they actually say they'll do — and where they stay silent.
Also available in:עברית
#6064: Israel Votes, Part 1: Who Is Actually Running
Thirty-eight lists, a first on-time election since 1988, and a ballot full of parties that didn't exist eighteen months ago. Here's the map.
Also available in:עברית
#6062: Who Actually Shapes Chinese AI Thinking?
Beyond the lab CEOs: the researchers and ideas defining how China builds — and argues about — artificial intelligence.
Also available in:中文