Month: March 2022
Russia Radios Spammed
Modern military-grade radios encrypt signals and change the frequency on which they operate many times a second, making their transmissions impossible to intercept. But many Russian forces are communicating on unencrypted high-frequency (HF) channels that allow anyone with a ham radio to eavesdrop. The Russian army does have some modern tech. It started receiving Azart
The West Re-armament
Vladimir Putin has revitalised the world’s democracies and strengthened NATO’s resolve, President Joe Biden told an audience in Warsaw on March 26th. Two days later he submitted a budget to Congress that included $813bn in defence spending. He called it “one of the largest investments in our national security in history”. Among other things, Mr
Russia War Aim
shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, RIA Novosti, a Russian state-run news agency, accidentally published an article that had been due to run two days into what the Kremlin thought would be a quick and easy war. “Ukraine has returned to Russia,” it boasted. “Did someone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin,
Bulli Bai, Sulli Deals creators granted bail
An Indian court has granted bail to two men accused of creating separate apps that put up photos of Muslim women in a fake online auction. The judge said one of the accused was a “first-time offender” and “prolonged” incarceration would harm him. In both cases, there was no actual sale – the purpose was
Ukrtelecom Cyber-Attacked
Ukraine’s national telecoms operator Ukrtelecom is restoring internet services after driving back a major cyber-attack. The company said it restricted customer access to protect military users and critical infrastructure. Ukrtelecom says it is the country’s biggest provider of fixed internet in terms of geographical coverage, but second after Kyivstar in terms of number of clients.
Javelin and Loitering Munitions In Service in Ukraine
Javelin anti-tank missiles supplied to Ukraine by America are imposing a heavy toll on Russian forces. Now, the Americans are sending a batch of 100 somewhat different portable weapons so-called loitering munitions. The difference is that, with a Javelin, you have to choose the target before you launch the missile. With a loitering munition, you
Degrading Ukraine Internet Communication
Ukraine boasts an unusually large number of internet-service providers—by one reckoning the country has the world’s fourth-least-concentrated internet market. This means the network has few choke points, so is hard to disable. In this, indeed, it fulfils one objective of the internet’s ancestor from the 1970s, arpanet, which was intended to be similarly resilient to
Cost of Living in Russia
In december Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, said that inflation was “the main problem” for Russia’s economy and citizens. Today, the country’s greatest woe is its invasion of Ukraine, in which thousands of soldiers have already died. But inflation has not gone away. On the contrary, the war has sped it up to levels not seen
Zelensky and Vladimir Putin
Mr Zelensky said Vladimir Putin is “throwing Russian soldiers like logs into a train’s furnace”. He offered a mixed assessment of the West’s response to Russia’s invasion, praising Britain and warning that Germany is “making a mistake” with its pragmatism. He reiterated his request for planes, armoured vehicles and tanks from the West, and said
Social Media Contributes to less life-satisfaction for Teenagers
Scientists then focused on a smaller group of 17,409 10 to 21-year-olds to investigate whether present day social media use has an impact on future life satisfaction. Young adolescents showed the most negative relationship between social media use and life satisfaction overall. The more time girls aged between 11 and 13 spend on social media,