🇺🇦❗️🇰🇵🔫 — 🇺🇦 Ukrainian journalist Andrii Tsaplienko:

"❗️ 18 North Korean soldiers on the territory of Russia escaped from a position on the border of the Bryansk and Kursk regions, "Suspilne" reports.‌‌"

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🇰🇵🔫🤝🇷🇺⚡️🇷🇺 — 🇺🇦 Ukrainian journalist Andrii Tsaplienko:

"Russia is forming a battalion of North Korean citizens on the basis of the Buryat brigade: the media with reference to sources in the State Government

The approximate number of personnel of this battalion is approximately 3,000 people. Currently, the military is provided with small arms and ammunition.

Scouts assume that the battalion may be involved in combat missions near Sudzha a and Kursk.‌‌"

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👤🗯🇰🇵🔫🤝🇷🇺 — ☑️ 24 Channel:

""❗️ North Korea actually joined the war against Ukraine: Zelenskyi in the evening address.

"Among the main ones was the intelligence report — the Foreign Intelligence Service and GUR on the intentions of the Russians for the fall and winter. Everything is quite detailed. In fact, the inclusion of North Korea in the war. Also, Russia's relations with some other countries, which, unfortunately, are investing in prolonging the war."

— said the president."

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Kyiv considering ceding territory to end war with Russia

The Ukrainian government is considering options to end Russia's full-scale war that would involve temporarily suspending its goal of restoring Ukraine's full territorial integrity, the German news outlet Der Spiegel reported on Oct. 13, citing an official close to the Ukrainian government.

Over 20% of Ukraine's territory is currently under Russian occupation. A pillar of President Volodymyr Zelensky's peace formula for Ukraine involves the full liberation of all occupied territories, and Kyiv has repeatedly said it is not willing to make territorial concessions to Moscow.

The Kyiv Independent contacted the Presidential Office for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

According to Der Spiegel's source, the government is now holding "serious discussions" about relinquishing its aim of full territorial restoration.

"We believed that victory had to mean the unconditional surrender of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's Russia," the source reportedly said.

This was "a mistaken view of victory," the source claimed, saying an agreement to end the war would be impossible without some concessions.

Factors pushing Kyiv to consider territorial concessions include Russia's grinding advance in eastern Ukraine and the uncertain outcome of the U.S. presidential election, according to the official.

"Whether it's (former U.S. President Donald) Trump or (Vice President Kamala) Harris, the Americans will slowly but surely withdraw," the official told Der Spiegel.

🔗 https://kyivindependent.com/kyiv-considering-ceding-territory-to-end-war-with-russia-der-spiegel-reports-2/

🇰🇵North Korea says 1.4 million people have applied to join the military amid tensions with the South, Reuters reports.

Photos released by North Korean state media show young people signing papers.

Pyongyang says Seoul's launch of drones carrying leaflets has brought the "tense situation to the brink of war." North Korea responds by blowing up two border roads.

"If war breaks out, the Republic of Korea will be wiped off the map. Since it wants war, we are ready to put an end to its existence," the DPRK said in a statement.

🚔⚛️🪨🔋🔌 Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors

AWS announced it has signed an agreement with Dominion Energy, Virginia’s utility company, to explore the development of a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR), near Dominion’s existing North Anna nuclear power station.

AWS, Amazon’s subsidiary in cloud computing, has a massive and increasing need for clean energy as it expands its services into generative AI. The agreement is also a part of Amazon’s path to net-zero carbon emissions.

Amazon is the latest large tech company to buy into nuclear power to fuel the growing demands from data centers. Google and Microsoft have announced similar plans.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/16/amazon-goes-nuclear-investing-more-than-500-million-to-develop-small-module-reactors.html

@FelipeChannel

🇮🇹💰📈💰⚡️ Italian Deputy Minister of Economy Maurizio Leo during the announcement literally says:

seeing that the [cryptos] phenomenon is spreading, we are increasing the tax from 26% to 42%

@FelipeChannel

🚨🌐💻 Firefox Zero-Day Under Attack: Update Your Browser Immediately

Mozilla has revealed that a critical security flaw impacting Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) has come under active exploitation in the wild.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a use-after-free bug in the Animation timeline component.

"An attacker was able to achieve code execution in the content process by exploiting a use-after-free in Animation timelines," Mozilla said in a Wednesday advisory.

"We have had reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild."

https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/mozilla-warns-of-active-exploitation-in.html

https://x.com/optimizoor/status/1846328252379566472

UPDATE YOUR BROWSER NOW!

@FelipeChannel

🇮🇹❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — The Italian Prime Minister and G7 leader, Giorgia Meloni, reiterated her condemnation of the repression by Nicolás Maduro's regime in Venezuela on Tuesday, and called for a peaceful and democratic transition in the government.

"We continue to condemn the unacceptable repression of the regime, calling for the release of all political prisoners. Together with the European Union, we are working towards a peaceful and democratic transition in the country, so that the will of millions of Venezuelans, who continue to risk their lives for a democratic, prosperous, and secure future, can finally be realized."

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❌🦠💉 US FDA pauses Novavax's trial of combo COVID-flu shot on safety concerns

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has put Novavax's, opens new tab trial of an experimental COVID-flu vaccine combination on hold after one person who received the shot reported nerve damage, the company said on Wednesday.

Shares of the vaccine maker plunged about 20% to $10.13 in early trading. Novavax said it was working with the FDA to resolve the clinical hold on the trial of its combination shot and the standalone flu vaccine.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-places-trials-two-novavax-vaccines-hold-2024-10-16/

@FelipeChannel

🇨🇳🇹🇼 'Dead end for Taiwan independence' — Chinese state media

📝 Phillip Pilkington: China confirms what many of us have long suspected: there is no plan to invade Taiwan;

Rather the plan is to blockade the island. Not remotely clear how America would respond to this given that they lost against the Houthis.

🔗 Phillip Pilkington

2️⃣🤝👁👮‍♂️ Today 53% of the Ethereum blocks are OFAC-Compliant

https://www.mevwatch.info/

@FelipeChannel

❗️ Radiant Capital appears to suffer $51 million exploit on its BNB Chain and Arbitrum instances — link | tl;dr