Excited to share the first edition of OSINT Field Notes for 2026. There's a lot here, from film geolocations, hybrid war maps, laptop farms, broken redactions and surveillance map sources.
Read here: tinyurl.com/osintfieldno...
Here's some nuggets from the dispatches section 👇🧵
Film geolocation, hybrid warfare, laptop farms, broken redactions, and the camera map that did not come from Brown.
We completed the @vera-ai.bsky.social project, funded by @ec.europa.eu @horizoneu.bsky.social recently. Here, I look back on what was done and achieved - together with my @dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy colleague Anna Schild who, with Eva Lopez, focussed on tool evaluation and testing.
Benjamin Strick
NEWS! A new study from @oii.ox.ac.uk and @oxprimarycare.bsky.social, carried out in partnership with @mlcommons.org and other institutions warns of risks of AI chatbots giving medical advice. More: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... 1/5
innovation.dw.com
In this article, our colleagues Anna Schild and Jochen Spangenberg reflect on EU project ver.ai and the lessons we've learned from it.
“Terror is not only masked men and arbitrary detention. It also operates through fear. Policies are designed to make people more compliant, more submissive.”
@janinedigi.bsky.social writing in @theguardian.com Opinions.
So this is dystopian as hell and I can't believe this is real...
AI agents are now writing takedown blog posts to shame maintainers for not accepting agent-generated PRs.
github.com/matplotlib/m...
It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned, says war correspondent and author Janine di Giovanni
This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance.
IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...
Wishing you, all our followers and your families, a happy holiday season - assuming you have one! If this isn’t the case: keep rocking!
On Tuesday, 2 December, from 2-6 pm, we welcome everyone interested to attend the "Meet the Future of AI" event in Brussels.
You can attend on location or online. Registration required. 👇
www.eventleaf.com/Attendee/Att...
ICYMI: we now provide factsheets and more information about veraAI results & services. Tools that were developed and/or enhanced in the course of the project.
All related to #disinformation detection, #ArtificialIntelligence, #NetworkAnalysis, #DataScience & more.
More on the veraAI website!
Time to act! EFCSN calls on platforms to actively counter #disinformation
Today (in fact right now!) we’re having the final project review - meaning the final evaluation of the project work by external experts, doing this on behalf of the @ec.europa.eu
www.veraai.eu
efcsn.com
The law is clear in the EU: disinformation is a systemic risk on the biggest digital services. However, platforms have...
VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!
