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Over the past decade, the EU provided autocratic regimes along its borders with radars, undersea and airborne drones, radios and other surveillance technology worth hundreds of millions of euros. The International Centre for Migration Policy Development, ICMPD for short, an organization based in Austria, serves as the bloc's go-to intermediary for these business. Because the ICMPD is not a government institution, it can enable states to carry out operations along EU borders with much less transparency, accountability or regulation than what would be required of any EU government.

 

Legal cases usually referred to as Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are often aggressively used by wealthy individuals or large businesses to intimidate and financially exhaust opponents, threatening them with extreme costs for defending a claim. SLAPPs have been used prominently by Russian oligarchs to silence critics including investigative journalists, writers and campaigners to avoid scrutiny, often on bogus defamation and privacy grounds that prevent the publication of information in the public interest.

 

Likewise, you can send encrypted messages to contacts who are offline, and the messages will be delivered automatically when your contacts come online.

 

Mr Assange last year lodged an appeal in the United Kingdom's High Court after the UK government signed an order authorising his extradition to the US. This week, the court rejected his appeal in a three-page written decision from Justice Jonathan Swift. Julian's wife Stella Assange remains optimistic that her husband will not be extradited to the United States "where he faces charges that could result in him spending the rest of his life in a maximum security prison for publishing true information that revealed war crimes committed by the US government."

 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last week sought to interview acclaimed novelist Andrew O’Hagan about his time working as a ghostwriter on Assange’s autobiography over a decade ago. However, O’Hagan refuses the speak to the police. “I would not give a witness statement against a fellow journalist being pursued for telling the truth." Meanwhile, Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton said the FBI's move shows that "they understand how weak the charges against Julian are and are trying to strengthen them."

 

A proposed addition to the existing Dutch Intelligence and Security Services Act would extend a warrant requested to intercept the communications of a specific hacking organization automatically to the victims of this hacking group. Or, more concretely, if your computer gets hacked by group X and there was a warrant to intercept the traffic of group X, the Dutch services would gain automatic approval to also intercept your communications or hack you.

 

"Foreign tourists who behave inappropriately, do activities that are not allowed in their visa permit, use crypto as a means of payment and violate other provisions will be dealt with firmly," Bali Governor Wayan Koster said at a tourism development press conference. He also reiterated that the use of currencies other than rupiah as a means of payment in Indonesia was prohibited. "Strict actions range from deportation, administrative sanctions, criminal penalties, closure of business premises and other tough sanctions," Mr Koster said.

 

Related to the military conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a joint report of international security researchers says that the malware by Israeli company NSO Group was used to spy on a former Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia (the Ombudsperson), two Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Armenian Service journalists, a United Nations official, a former spokesperson of Armenia’s Foreign Ministry (now an NGO worker), and seven other representatives of Armenian civil society.

 

Volunteers have been transporting the books and other precious documents, which became submerged in water and mud in flooded libraries in the worst-affected areas, to Cesena, where the items will be placed on shelves in temperatures of -25C in industrial-size freezers provided by Orogel, a company that specialises in frozen food.

 

Neuroscientists and neurosurgeons have re-established the communication between the patient's brain and spinal cord with a wireless 'digital bridge', allowing a paralysed person to walk again naturally. The device enabled him to regain control over the movement of his paralysed legs, allowing him to stand, walk, and even climb stairs, a report published in Nature says.

The study is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06094-5

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