Brian Nguyen

I curated over 900 local sources on the ground in Ukraine, analysts, and OSINT sources here - updating and maintaining it daily twitter.com/i/lists/149708…

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users got a calculator showing their actual monthly token burn - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. I believe it's indicative of every AI startup. wheresyoured.at/premium-what-i…

An absolutely astonishing account of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in the @latimes They called 62-year-old Ahmad Turmus and asked: “Ahmad, you want to die with those around you or alone?” His response, below, is chilling. Story by @nabihbulos latimes.com/world-nation/s…

az-Zallāqa Media just published it's victory note JNIM claims responsibility for today's high-profile attacks in Mali’s capital, Bamako, including: The presidential headquarters (Koulouba) The Ministry of Finance Modibo Keita International Airport Military targets in Kati Major territorial and military gains claimed: Full control of Ménaka Capture of key army barracks and positions in Ségou and Gao Seizure of Kidal, a strategically important northern city Targeting and fighting against both the Malian army and Wagner (Russian-linked) forces The group says these operations were carried out in coordination with the allied FLA (Front de libération de l'Azawad), emphasizing joint planning and sustained effort.

Mali 🇲🇱: FLA Tuareg rebels got their hands on the dress uniform of Kidal governor El Hadj Ag Gamou, who fled the city this morning.

💢 HORRIFIC: Lebanon “death call” drone strike A man was killed in an Israeli drone strike moments after leaving his family to avoid putting them at risk, according to accounts circulating from southern Lebanon. Videos show him exiting his vehicle and running into a nearby field before being targeted and killed. Footage shows the moments before the strike, with the man fleeing the area alone. The incident echoes a previously documented case in Tallousa, near the Israeli border, where 62-year-old Ahmad Tarmas reportedly received a call from the Israeli army asking whether he wanted to “die alone or with his family.” He left his home and was killed minutes later in a drone strike. Similar “death call” accounts have been reported in southern Lebanon, journalist Radwan Mortada reported.

Everyone was worried about a rogue AI turning all raw material into paperclips. But right now the market is sending the signal that all humans should be turning all raw material to AI datacenters. May be same net effect by the end

An increasingly coherent picture of the impact of AI on jobs, by @jburnmurdoch @ft: 1. New Fed paper by Crane and Soto now confirms with official labor force survey data what private payroll analysis was showing: roughly 500,000 fewer coders are working than pre-LLM trends would predict. 2. Argues evidence consistent with my work (with Lin and Wu, link in my pinned post) on weak/strong bundles: junior developers and contractors hold "weak bundles" (their work is mostly standalone coding that AI can substitute directly), senior developers hold "tight bundles" where coding is combined with domain expertise, judgment, and cross-functional responsibilities, making substitution much harder. 3. Freund & Mann and Gans & Goldfarb add a second lens: what matters is the value of the tasks that survive automation. Remove coding from a senior role and you free up time for higher-value work; remove it from a junior role and almost nothing remains. ft.com/content/b69f85…

The BBC has been speaking to the creators of Iran's viral Lego-style AI slopaganda. Explosive Media admitted for the first time that the Iranian government is a direct "customer" of theirs. Read our piece here... With: @Matt_A_Shea bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

“Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions and people a place to hide.”

A fact I hope no one ever needs to use but the way thugs track down Starlink terminals is by their wifi fingerprints and not the space antenna. Disable WiFi and add a cheap WiFi router and you look like every other house.

Just got my hands on a 3-page "guide to detect starlink terminals" Islamic Regime's security forces are utilizing a specialized software protocol to identify and triangulate Starlink terminals through unique signal signatures, such as high BSSID density and the use of 802.11ac/ax radio types. The tool enables field personnel to physically locate hardware via real-time distance estimation and acoustic tracking that intensifies as they approach the source. People arrested with Starlink possession might face extreme legal consequences, including charges of "sabotage and spying" which may result in execution. #Iran

NASA FIRMS data shows that multiple large fires are burning at U.S. Camp Buehring in Kuwait after Iranian attacks, which is used to house U.S. troops.

One of the most important US-based commercial satellite imagery providers on whom most media outlets rely says the government has asked all imagery providers to indefinitely withhold satellite images from the Iran war

Reported footage of an Iranian ballistic missile just missing a bunker housing American troops in the Gulf region.

Trying to keep up with American operations in Iran? Chinese companies already doing what Western OSINT organisations can’t/won’t. Just because the White House is suppressing the release of commercial satellite imagery, it doesn’t follow everyone else is… flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/202…

Photos have surfaced showing extensive damage to US Air Force E-3 Sentry #AE11EA 81-0005 following the drone and missile attack at Prince Sultan Air Base yesterday that also damaged several KC-135s.

“They opened fire. More than 400 fell dead.” Pickups were driven over survivors. Eventually the trucks could not move: there were too many bodies." After months survivor testimonies of El Fasher (Sudan 🇸🇩) are finally being recorded, and they're gruesome. theguardian.com/global-develop…

An Iranian-backed militia carried out a successful FPV drone strike on Camp Victory in Iraq yesterday, successfully hitting multiple targets. Seen here, one of the FPV attack munitions hits a parked UH-60 Black Hawk.

After 3 years in a besieged Darfur city, a journalist reaches safety. "As his phone vibrated with hundreds of accumulated messages, he found himself reading a three-year-old timeline of tragedy. The first message he opened was from a friend who had been dead for two years."

For those people who assert that taking Kharg (aka Khark) Island somehow controls the Strait of Hormuz, I offer the following - arrow points to Kharg Island, circle is the Strait of Hormuz. You might note there is some distance between the two. Over 400 miles by sea. Just saying.