🇩🇪📉‼️ Once again, disappointing data coming out of Germany: Industrial Production YoY plunges to -6.7% (est. -4.3%).

https://x.com/f_wintersberger/status/1809108828484485436

@FelipeChannel

🌍 The Best & Worst Countries for Living Abroad

1 🇵🇦 Panama
2 🇲🇽 Mexico
3 🇮🇩 Indonesia
4 🇪🇸 Spain
5 🇨🇴 Colombia
6 🇹🇭 Thailand
7 🇧🇷 Brazil
8 🇻🇳 Vietnam
9 🇵🇭 Philippines
10 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

https://www.internations.org/expat-insider/2024/best-and-worst-places-for-expats-40450

🇸🇻❤️💰 El Salvador keeps buying one Bitcoin a day, undeterred

https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1809320990947848531?t=BEgR75DImrwFRMfnBuWSmw&s=19

@FelipeChannel

🚨‼️Don't install @signalapp for macOS, it is not secure.

I carried out this small experiment:

- I wrote a simple Python noscript that copies the directory of Signal's local storage to another location (to mimic a malicious noscript or app)
- I ran the noscript in the Terminal and got a copy of my Signal data on my Mac
- I booted a fresh macOS installation in a virtual machine
- I transferred the copy of Signal's data to the VM and placed it where Signal expects it: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal
- I installed Signal and started it
- Signal started and restored my session with all the chat histories 😳
- I exchanged a couple messages with a contact from the VM and it worked 😳
- Then, I started Signal on the Mac
- I got three sessions running in unison: Mac, iPhone, and VM 😳

Messages were either delivered to the Mac or to the VM. The iPhone received all messages. All of the three sessions were live and valid. Signal didn't warn me of the existence of the third session [that I cloned]. Moreover, Signal on the iPhone still shows one linked device. This is particularly dangerous because any malicious noscript can do the same to seize a session.

Perhaps this flaw is what makes some users think that Signal has a "backdoor" as it is easy for sophisticated attackers to target a victim who's using the Mac app and see their chats. (The same may be also true for the Windows app)

https://x.com/mysk_co/status/1809287118235070662?t=lO3FD2PmZ1rVqjak3lwm4g&s=08

@FelipeChannel

🇧🇴✔️🌐 — Bolivia formally joined Mercosur: The news was announced by the country’s president, Luis Arce, through a post on social media, where he announced the enactment of a law approved by the Bolivian Congress

⌛ The law was passed by the Bolivian Chamber on June 14 and sanctioned by the country’s Senate. After the enactment, the law will come into effect in 30 days.

📝 Bolivian Foreign Minister, Celinda Sosa, highlighted in a statement that this is a “historic moment for Bolivia, for the productive sectors, and for Bolivians who are now part of Mercosur.” The minister also commented that it is “a dream that has come true after many years,” allowing Bolivia to participate in one of the world’s most important economic blocs, according to her.

💬During the Mercosur summit, Bolivia’s entry as a full member of the bloc, created in 1991 by Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, is expected to be formalized. Bolivia’s accession had already been ratified previously by the Mercosur member countries.

Source 🖇

#BREAKING

🇮🇷🗳❗️— Masoud Pezeshkian, the liberal Reformist & Azeri Turk candidate for the Presidential elections of the Islamic Republic of Iran, wins the Presidential elections!

➡️ Following the count of votes, the Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian won the presidential elections in Iran after 100% of the electoral ballots were counted, announced the official representative of Iran's electoral commission, Mohsen Eslami.

➡️ According to Eslami, in a statement to the IRIB television channel, based on the results of the processing of 30.530 million ballots, the candidate of the reformist wing, who becomes the ninth president elected in the history of Iran, obtained 16.384 million votes, which represents at least 53.6% of the total.

➡️ Meanwhile it, the Conservative Said Yalili, spokesman for the spiritual leader on the country's Security Council, received 13.538 million votes, equivalent to 44.3% of the total.

💰✈️🌍 Crypto exchanges subject to EU Travel Rule in 6 months

New EU regulations mandate crypto exchanges to comply with Travel Rule guidelines, enhancing AML/CFT measures starting Dec. 30.

As a result, crypto asset service providers (CASPs), as defined in the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), will be subject to the EU’s Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) regime.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/eu-travel-rule-crypto-exchanges-compliance-2024

https://www.eba.europa.eu/publications-and-media/press-releases/eba-issues-travel-rule-guidance-tackle-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing-transfers-funds-and

https://x.com/EBA_News/status/1808866742900338785

@FelipeChannel

🇹🇷🐺🐺📹 — In Berlin, during the Netherlands vs Turkiye match for the Euros, thousands of Turkish fans perform the ultra-nationalist Gray Wolves salute in the stadium, despite the ban imposed by the Pan-European sport authorities on it

📱💻OpenAI was hacked, revealing internal secrets and raising national security concerns — year-old breach wasn't reported to the public

A hacker breached OpenAI’s internal messaging systems early last year, stealing details of how OpenAI's technologies work from employees. Although the hacker did not access the systems housing key AI technologies, the incident raised significant security concerns within the company. Furthermore, it even raised concerns about the U.S. national security, reports the New York Times.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-was-hacked-revealing-internal-secrets-and-raising-national-security-concerns-year-old-breach-wasnt-reported-to-the-public

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/technology/openai-hack.html

@FelipeChannel

⚠️❌ Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant

https://robindoherty.com/2016/01/06/nothing-to-hide.html

@FelipeChannel

🇷🇺🇺🇦The enemy publishes satellite images of the Crimean Bridge as of July 6.

You can see 25 barges for protection against sea drones + booms.

🇺🇸🗳📝 — 📰 Axios: Nancy Pelosi will tell Biden that the matter is over and he must withdraw.

🇫🇷🚩❌🐔🇫🇷 — Deputy of the French National Assembly, Olivier Faure for the French Socialist Party, to his public:

“This evening, France said no to the arrival of the National Rally and its people in power”

🔗 BFMTV (@BFMTV)

🇫🇷🗳 Initial exit polls were right: National Rally leads the French election by over 3 million votes!

Despite this, it will end up the 3rd biggest party in France thanks to the ad-hoc alliance formed by Macron's market-liberals and the leftist New Popular Front who only by withdrawing the 3rd place candidates across France, could their combined voter bases manage to defeat RN.

In other words, the popular support was low for both LREM and the NFP and only through a trick could they score victory, repeating the British elections which saw Reform UK, gain a lot of votes but few seats, helping to remove Conservative MPs in favor of Labour who won the three-way race.

🔗 https://elections.bfmtv.com/resultats-legislatives/?p=compare