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TechLetters Insights. AI propaganda factories: from State actors to bedroom micro‑actors AI will transform propaganda and information influence.

What defence should do next: stop chasing single posts or model fingerprints. Track conversations and coordination—cadence, stance persistence, routing fingerprints, template reuse. Open models push capability to the edge.
Substack: techletters.substack.com/p/techletter...

AI Propaganda factories with language models AI-powered influence operations can now be executed end-to-end on commodity hardware. We show that small language models produce coherent, persona-driven political messaging and can be evaluated autom...

Full paper can be found here: arxiv.org/abs/2508.20186

TechLetters Insights. AI propaganda factories: from State actors to bedroom micro‑actors AI will transform propaganda and information influence.

techletters.substack.com/p/techletter...

Fascinating read from @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social on AI propaganda factories:
'We need to stop treating posts, or even networks of accounts, as isolated artefacts and read them as conversational-interactions.'

How Exposed TeslaMate Instances Leak Sensitive Tesla Data Introduction

s3yfullah.medium.com/how-exposed-...

Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating "Rapper Bot," a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets -...

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/oreg...

What Does Palantir Actually Do? Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.

Palantir is in the news a lot lately. However, the public discourse about the company often misconstrues it as a data broker, a data miner, a single centralized database, etc. But what does Palantir actually do?

I wrote a piece to firmly & clearly answer that question:
www.wired.com/story/palant...

shadowdragon.io/blog/the-slo...

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app | Tor Project Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.

blog.torproject.org/introducing-...

Super interesting!

Président syrien accueilli à Paris: "C'est un risque politique mais c'est un gain diplomatique pour la France", estime Wassim Nasr, journaliste France 24 VIDÉO - Le président syrien Ahmad al-Chareh, au pouvoir depuis la chute de Bachar al-Assad en décembre, sera reçu ce mercredi 7 mai à Paris pour sa première visite en Europe.

C'est un risque politique & un pas de plus vers une levée plus importante des sanctions au profit des Syriens, mais aussi un gain diplo. pour la France qui est un acteur majeur du processus de stabilisation, ceci dans l'intérêt régional et européen www.bfmtv.com/internationa...

Logo VIGINUM + Analyse du mode opératoire informationnel russe Storm-1516

VIGINUM publie un rapport sur les activités de Storm-1516, un mode opératoire informationnel russe susceptible d’affecter le débat public francophone et européen.
Ce rapport s'appuie sur l'analyse de 77 opérations informationnelles conduites par Storm-1516 ➡️ www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...

www.intrinsec.com/wp-content/u...

Interesting @intrinsec.bsky.social report from Feb. on Doppelganger followed by a nice investigation on network infrastructure.

Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

Perfect, this is getting better right when I was starting to forget about it...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

Syrie : un pays dans les décombres du régime Assad Quatre mois après la chute de Bachar Al-Assad, le Collimateur revient sur l'état militaire et sécuritaire de la Syrie, avec Wassim Nasr, spécialiste des mouvements jihadistes et de la Syrie, et journa...

Quatre mois après la chute de Bachar Al-Assad, #LeCollimateur revient sur l'état militaire et sécuritaire de la Syrie, avec @simnasr.bsky.social , spécialiste des mouvements jihadistes et de la Syrie, et journaliste à @france24.com
Retrouvez cet épisode sur #LeRubicon
lerubicon.org/collimateur-...

Exclusive: Mali shuts Barrick Gold's Bamako office over alleged non-payment of taxes | Reuters Malian authorities have shut the Canadian miner Barrick Gold's office in the capital Bamako over the alleged non-payment of taxes, two sources close to the matter told Reuters, in the latest escalation of a protracted dispute over mining revenues.

The Barrick saga in Mali continues| Exclusive: Mali shuts Barrick Gold's Bamako office over alleged non-payment of taxes | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/mali-has-shut-barrick-golds-office-bamako-over-alleged-non-payment-taxes-sources-2025-04-15/

Understanding every one of Signal’s identifiers We’ve heard some questions about the difference between Signal usernames, phone numbers, profile names, profiles, and nicknames. Let’s talk about it.

Make sure you’re inviting the right person to your Signal group!

To help confirm someone’s identity and keep track of your contacts, @signal.org offers nicknames and information about the groups you share in common with your contacts.

Learn about Signal’s identifiers:

Project Eldest Son & Exploding Bullets - The Ultimate PSYOP From Rhodesia to Syria, spiked ammunition and exploding bullets spread terror through irregular forces. Project Eldest Son was no exception.

Which brings me back this old piece on psyops from ReaperFeed
reaperfeed.com/project-elde...

With Explosive Goggles, Ukraine Sought to Blast Russian Drone Operators A senior Ukrainian intelligence official confirmed the plot to blow up drone goggles. But it was unclear how much effect the scheme had on Russian forces.

I completely missed this beautiful psyops (whatever the truth of it) by Ukrainian military Intel (HUR)
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

ATHENA: What is the effect of FIMI in everyday life? DISINFORMATION issues · Episode

open.spotify.com/episode/1oJa...

Et qui me fait vous recommander cet excellent podcast de @franceculture.fr qui mentionnent les pressions croissantes sur les chercheuses/eurs travaillant en sciences sociales à l'international (et pas que la Russie ou la Chine, qui sont les "incontournables")
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

« Travailler sur la Russie, comme sur d’autres Etats autoritaires ou aux tendances illibérales, expose nombre de chercheurs à “des procédures-bâillons” » TRIBUNE. Destinées à intimider le monde de la recherche, ces procédures génèrent une forte pression psychologique ainsi qu’une incitation à l’autocensure, souligne, dans une tribune au « Monde », Maxi...

Belle tribune de @maudinet.bsky.social dans Le Monde au sujet des procédures-bâillons contre les chercheuses et chercheurs, avec l'exemple concret des poursuites de RT France (Xenia Fedorova)
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Unsealed documents indicating significant Russian interference in domestic U.S. affairs. The thematic propaganda themes are interesting. Modern technologies in use to spread content & analyze its reach, including psychological operations. www.justice.gov/archives/opa...

Rencontre Zelensky-Trump : analyse d’une vaste campagne de manipulation sur twitter/x Parmi les 77 951 tweets en français dans les 24 heures ayant suivi la rencontre, nous avons détecté de nombreux indicateurs pointant vers une opération d’influence massive.

THREAD - Dans les dernières 24 heures, près de 35 000 comptes francophones ont parlé de la rencontre Trump/Zelensky sur Twitter.

Nos analyses ont permis de mettre en évidence de nombreux comportements coordonnés visant à manipuler l'opinion publique en faveur de la Russie ⤵️

Malaysian police now say the guy we identified has been caught and fined before, also for illegally dealing in wildlife! m.malaysiakini.com/news/735839 @alangbendahara.bsky.social

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have left Romania for the US - reports Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are reportedly on a flight from Romania to the United States after previously having travel restrictions imposed on them.

This morning's WTF news - Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have left Romania for the US - reports news.sky.com/story/andrew...

Thailand Deports Dozens of Uyghurs to China, Activists Say Rights groups criticized the Thai government for sending the Uyghurs, a persecuted Muslim minority, back to China where they face the risk of torture and imprisonment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...

Crazy stuff that will be learnt in history books (at least in Europe). Dramatic for the Ukrainian people on this 'anniversary' of the orcs invasion. Слава Україні!

EU adopts 16th sanctions package against Russia The Commission welcomes the Council's adoption of the 16th Russia sanctions package.

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Russia’s War on Ukraine: Three Years, Three Hundred and Two False Claims AI and Invented Corruption Claims Supercharge Russian Disinformation About the War

www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russias-wa...