I'll say that Havana Syndrome sounds like a cliche spy thriller concept, which is enough to make me find its existence pretty dubious.
"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"
Found the full episode on HS.
This also mentioned that HS attacks happened in China/parts of Europe/DC in certain times even after they got evacced from overseas back to the US. Also, some Canadian officials posted overseas were also hit.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1778751625386922468
NEXTA reported that a SBU officer who flipped to join the FSB got injured in a bombing incident after he tried to start his vehicle.
Austria arrested an ex-BVT officer for being an agent of Russia. Supposedly, the guy's been involved in helping Russian inteligence track down Christo Grozev of Bellingcat.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68874822
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68873836
Looks like some arrests made in the UK and Germany regarding peeps being agents of the MSS/providing them with classified info.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/29/india-assassination-raw-sikhs-modi/
WP has a long article on RAW and how it's likely that RAW ops on assassinating pro-Sikh activists are approved at the highest level.
PS - May be paywalled.
ASIO revealed that they've been able to dismantle a RAW network in Australia.
Ottawa's introducing new laws to counter foreign interference in Canada.
Foreign agent laws are all the rage nowadays.
In the name of being honest
Bloomberg: Microsoft Creates Top Secret Generative AI Service for US Spies. The service is completely isolated from the internet (a first for a major LLM) and only accessible to a closed network of around 10,000 people. The GPT4 model is "static" and will not learn from the files it reads, in order to keep it "clean" and prevent the leak of classified information.
I also find it ridiculous that some rando who just happened to be born in Russia is a better expert than the fucking National Institutes of Health
Edited by minseok42 on Apr 2nd 2024 at 10:40:19 AM
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