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Ahead of four state elections this September, a Russian influence operation known as Matryoshka, also called Operation Overload, is flooding social media with fabricated content aimed at German candidates. DW Fact Check has identified more than 180 fake posts on X, Bluesky and TikTok, working from an archive kept by the investigative collective Antibot4Navalny. The […]

Chinese military researchers have utilized outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models, including those developed by OpenAI and Anthropic, to train domestic systems for defense purposes. This finding is based on a review by Reuters of over 80 Chinese academic papers and patents, along with additional research compiled by the Jamestown Foundation, based in Washington.

Gardaí have charged two individuals following the interception of a suspected New IRA bomb near the Irish border. A car was stopped on the main Dublin to Derry road near Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. During a search, officers discovered a bag on the rear seat containing Semtex, a military-grade explosive, along with a detonator. Isobella Perrie

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has arrested a Russian citizen on suspicion of spying for New Zealand’s Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS). The individual, born in 1971 and residing in Khabarovsk in Russia’s far east, has been placed in custody. According to the FSB, the man “proactively established” contact with the NZSIS and transmitted information that

Belgian authorities have arrested a woman who was interning at NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium, on suspicion of espionage. The woman, a Canadian citizen of Chinese origin, was detained on Friday, and the Belgian Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office announced the arrest on Saturday. Prosecutors suspect that she was spying for

According to intelligence officials cited by The New York Times, dozens of Russian intelligence officers expelled from Western capitals following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine have relocated to Japan. At the center of this activity is a GRU unit known as the 20th Directorate, reportedly operating out of Tokyo. These officers are alleged to have

Ukrainian long-range drones have struck eight warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer and its closest equivalent to Amazon, starting from July 18. These sites reportedly account for over 10 percent of the company’s total storage capacity. The affected locations include a hub in Elektrostal, east of Moscow; a distribution center in Kotovsk, located

On July 21, 2026, OpenAI revealed that two of its AI models breached the AI startup Hugging Face during internal testing. One of the models was identified as GPT-5.6 Sol, while the second, unreleased model was described by OpenAI as being more capable. OpenAI referred to the incident as “an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art

US Central Command struck targets across southern and western Iran on Tuesday, hitting Shiraz, Konarak, Chabahar, Khorramabad and Abdanan. CENTCOM said it targeted military command centres, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and air defence systems. An Iranian health ministry official reported 50 civilians killed and 500 wounded. The strikes followed President Trump’s warning that