😎😎🤓😎 College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time

Two Harvard students have created an eerie demo of how smart glasses can use facial recognition tech to instantly dox people’s identities, phone numbers, and addresses. The most unsettling part is the demo uses current, widely available technology like the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and public databases.

https://www.404media.co/someone-put-facial-recognition-tech-onto-metas-smart-glasses-to-instantly-dox-strangers/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/2/24260262/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-doxxing-privacy

https://x.com/AnhPhuNguyen1/status/1840786336992682409

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🇬🇧🤝🇲🇺 UK renounces sovereignty over the Chagos islands. Hands them over to Mauritius

The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.

This includes the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, used by the US government as a military base for its navy ships and long-range bomber aircraft.

The US-UK base will remain on Diego Garcia – a key factor enabling the deal to go forward at a time of growing geopolitical rivalries in the region between Western countries, India, and China.

"This is a seminal moment in our relationship and a demonstration of our enduring commitment to the peaceful resolution of disputes and the rule of law," the statement from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth read.

🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o?at_format=link&at_bbc_team=editorial

🇵🇦🇻🇪🖐 — The government of Panama has issued a decree allowing Venezuelans with expired passports to carry out internal procedures for six months. President José Raúl Mulino made the announcement, providing temporary relief for thousands of migrants facing difficulties due to the expiration of their documents.

🇺🇾💳💰⚖️⚖️ Uruguay Passes Cryptocurrency Law

Proposed over two years ago, the law recognizes cryptocurrency as virtual assets in the country, establishing the Central Bank of Uruguay as the regulator and overseer of companies seeking to offer cryptocurrency services. The law positions Uruguay at the forefront of Latin American countries that have already included crypto in their regulatory frameworks.

https://news.bitcoin.com/uruguay-passes-cryptocurrency-law/

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🇮🇱📞🇺🇳 — The State of Israel has notified the United Nations:

The Israeli response to Iran's attack is imminent and will be very strong and painful.

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — 📰The AP news agency published satellite images of the Netavim base tonight, which show damage to the roof of a central building - near one of the runways at the base.
The agency states that the satellite images showing the damages were taken on Wednesday (the day after the Iranian attack), and on Monday these damages were not observed.

Note: the base is much bigger than just these 2 pictures.

🇺🇸⚡️🇱🇻🇱🇹 — 🔥 Rybar:

"🇱🇻🇱🇹🇷🇺🇪🇪 About the new NATO exercise over the Baltics

While we were discussing possible threats to Russia from the Baltics, a new North Atlantic Alliance exercise under the code name Rammstein Alloy took place over the former Soviet republics.

This is a planned event, the purpose of which is to test the readiness of air defense assets deployed in the Baltics, as part of the Baltic Air Policing mission.

The exercise took place over two days: September 30 and October 1, and involved fighters from NATO countries, including the air forces of Italy, Germany, Finland, as well as a NASAMS air defense system battery of the Spanish armed forces and F/A-18 fighters from Romania.

🔻The main point is to train and maintain the tone of NATO pilots in a crisis situation in the region. The planes maneuvered along the Kaliningrad region, Belarus and the Leningrad region and conditionally repelled the attack.

Training over the Baltic states has recently become more frequent, as have harsh and loud statements from the authorities of the three republics. The most prominent example is Estonia, which has taken on the role of leader in provocations towards Russia.

The other day, Kaupo Rosen, the head of the department of Estonian foreign intelligence, which has already become a kind of meme, said that Estonians would like internal problems for Russia, which can be achieved by defeat in the Northern Military District.

As everyone already understands perfectly well, any exercises, especially near the borders, make it possible to accomplish another important task: under the pretext of training, Western intelligence collects data on the activity of our air defense systems and other military facilities.

High resolution map"

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🇺🇸🔫⚡️🇱🇻 — 🪖 NATOpoRusski:

"NATO is deploying an air defense unit from a multinational. brigades in Latvia 🇱🇻 to protect the sky over the territory of the union.

This mission demonstrates our enduring ability to deter and defend against any airborne threat from any direction.‌‌"

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🇫🇷🇺🇸🔫⚡️🇪🇪 — 🪖 NATOpoRusski:

"SERVAL light armored vehicles of the latest generation of the French🇫🇷 NATO BG contingent have arrived in Estonia🇪🇪. This is their first overseas deployment.

Our logistics potential has once again demonstrated the ability to deliver NATO technical equipment in a short time to any point.‌‌"

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🌐🌍 #BREAKING: it's really happening

Connecting blockchains: Overcoming fragmentation in tokenised assets Swift’s interoperability experiments connecting to public and private blockchain networks

https://www.swift.com/sites/default/files/files/results_report_swift_interoperability_experiments_final_310823.pdf

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⁉️💻 Who will HBO doc identify as Satoshi?

https://polymarket.com/event/who-will-hbo-doc-identify-as-satoshi

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🔵❌💰 Coinbase to Delist Unauthorized Stablecoins in EU by December

Crypto exchange Coinbase plans to de-list any unauthorized stablecoins in the European Union by December 30.

Crypto companies are racing to comply with the European Union's Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) rules, which require firms to be authorized in at least one EU country.

Tether, which is the largest issuer of stablecoins, has not managed to snag the necessary e-money license yet in the European Union.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/10/04/coinbase-to-delist-unauthorized-stablecoins-in-eu-by-december/

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🇷🇺🧠📈 Russia to spend $2.54 billion on its own chipmaking tools industry by 2030

A new vague plan pins domestic 65nm to 2030.

The initiative involves launching 110 research and development (R&D) projects to reduce dependence on imported wafer fab tools and eventually make chips on a 28nm-class process technology. To put the $2.54 billion number into context, that is 57 times less than the country will spend on defense in its war against Ukraine in 2025 alone.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/russia-to-spend-dollar254-billion-on-its-own-chipmaking-tools-industry-by-2030

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🇪🇺❌🇨🇳EU votes in favour of hefty tariffs on China-made EV imports

The European Union backed tariffs of up to 45% on imported Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) on Friday as it looks to counter Beijing's subsidies for automakers now targeting Europe.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT URSULA VON DER LEYEN:

"The electric vehicle sector holds huge potential for Europe's future competitiveness and green industrial leadership."

"EU car manufacturers and related sectors are already investing and innovating to fully develop this potential. Wherever we find evidence that their efforts are being impeded by market distortions and unfair competition, we will act decisively."

"And we will do this in full respect of our EU and international obligations - because Europe plays by the rules, within its borders and globally. This anti-subsidy investigation will be thorough, fair, and fact-based."

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-votes-favour-hefty-tariffs-china-made-ev-imports-2024-10-04/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly20n4d0g9o

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🐙 🤝🇧🇲 Kraken Launches Regulated Derivatives Venue in Bermuda

Kraken, one of the longest-standing, most liquid and secure cryptocurrency exchanges, is delighted to unveil its new global derivatives venue in Bermuda, as it prepares to open up a fast-expanding part of the space to clients looking for a properly licensed venue in a sophisticated, internationally respected jurisdiction.

Reflecting the 24/7 nature of the crypto market, Kraken clients can trade derivatives round-the-clock via a venue that operates under a robust regulatory framework. Kraken is now licensed by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, a global leader in cryptocurrency regulation, to offer crypto derivatives trading from the territory.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241003985524/en/Kraken-Launches-Regulated-Derivatives-Venue-in-Bermuda

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🇺🇸📞🇱🇧 — 📰 Axios: Scoop: U.S. wants to use Hezbollah's weakness to elect new Lebanese president

➡️ U.S. officials say the White House wants to take advantage of Israel's massive blow to Hezbollah's leadership and infrastructure to push for an election of a new Lebanese president in the coming days.

➡️ Why it matters: Lebanon hasn't had a president for almost two years, which has increased instability and exacerbated the political and economic crisis in the country.

➡️ Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, top militia commanders and other Hezbollah members were killed by Israeli airstrikes in recent weeks, weakening the influential militia.

➡️ Nasrallah blocked any effort to elect a person who was not its ally Suleiman Frangieh.

➡️ One candidate is the commander of the Lebanese armed forces Gen. Joseph Aoun, who is supported by the U.S. and France. The Lebanese armed forces will be a key player in any post-war settlement in Lebanon.

➡️ With Nasrallah dead and Hezbollah at its weakest in years, the Biden administration thinks there is now an opportunity to dramatically reduce its influence on the Lebanese political system and elect a new president who is not an ally of the Shia militia, two U.S. officials said.

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🇺🇸📞🇾🇪 — Reuters cites a Yemeni official:

Washington informed us of its willingness to recognize the Sana’a government in exchange for halting attacks, and we rejected the offer.