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France is preparing an emergency plan to protect critical infrastructure, energy networks, transport and defense industry sites against Russian drone and cyber attacks, after Macron briefed party leaders with the heads of DGSI, DGSE and DRM

Trump: We will discuss pressing security and artificial intelligence issues with the Chinese President.

Russians destroy Mirahost data center in Kyiv. No estimates for service recovery, — company statement

Fire breaks out at Starlink base in Masovian region of Poland on Wednesday evening. The station enables internet access for large parts of Eastern Europe, including Ukraine. Initial investigations suggest a possible arson attack.

Failures in internet services in Kyiv after Russian strikes against datacenters

Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses

The Independent Scientific Panel on AI, established by the UN, issues a warning: the traditional models for keeping artificial intelligence under control are beginning to fail. Its first report arrives in the midst of, following recent AI-linked security incidents

NATO official: Russia has launched cyberattacks and airspace violations targeting several NATO allies.

Russia had targeted Kyivstar datacenter in Kyiv region for the 2nd time

Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun: In response to risks of abusive military use of emerging technologies and their spillover, all parties should act proactively and participate in security governance together. We will actively engage in security dialogues on AI, outer space, the deep ocean and other areas, step up risk assessment, experience sharing and rules making so as to make new technologies better benefit human society

The UK, US & Netherlands have exposed Iranian state-linked spyware 'CHOSEN BRICK' used to target dissidents, activists & journalists worldwide. The malware steals emails, messages, screen content & microphone data via spear-phishing on WhatsApp & Telegram

In the latest edition of its threat intelligence report, AI corporation Anthropic said it had disrupted the activities of a Russian group that was using Claude to try to develop a fully autonomous swarm of FPV kamikaze drones

Rosfinmonitoring has included two hacking groups, "Cyberpartisan BY" and Silent Crow, in its list of militants and extremists, allegedly involved in attacks against Russia and the Republic of Belarus.

Trump: The only control or "guardrails" that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ.) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades. The Trump Administration has stopped AI "people" from doing bad, or potentially bad, "things," like Dario (Anthropic.), who is now pretending to be a "perfect little angel" - and we will continue to do so. We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies. There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS. We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE

Major outage affecting SkyNet, a major internet provider in St. Petersburg, continues for approximately 14 hours.

Sen. Josh Hawley, chair of the Senate Homeland subcommittee on disaster management, is investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face breach

OpenAI just released GPT-6 Astra and says it is the first model to cross the "Critical" cyber threshold in its Preparedness Framework. In internal testing, Astra found and used two previously unknown zero-days — OpenAI is disclosing both to maintainers. It scored 100% on ExploitBench, versus 78.5% for GPT-5.6 Sol. Without production safeguards, expert assessments found it could achieve arbitrary code execution in hardened browsers

Now also Gemini, OpenAI, Canvas, Claudflare, Google and other services. This does not only affect Grok. Claudflare, QuickBooks, etc. are also affected.

AI outage: Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok are currently down for many users

A major outage on the RuNet has been linked to a power outage in southwest Moscow. Problems accessing several internet services may be related to a power outage in Moscow's Gagarinsky District, home to a major MMTS-9 communications hub.

Users are reporting a widespread internet outage in the Russian segment. Complaints indicate that many Russian websites, services, and apps are no longer accessible.

Apple: We briefly removed Telegram from the App Store after our review found content that violates our strict guidelines prohibiting child sexual abuse material. The app was subsequently restored after the developer promptly removed the content and banned the user who posted it

Federal and state authorities are investigating coordinated cyberattacks targeting more than 30 water treatment plants across Minnesota earlier this week. Officials are examining whether Iran or Iran-linked hackers were involved - ABC News

Rosfinmonitoring added Pavel Durov to its list of terrorists and extremists.

US and UAE to establish Task Force Talon Synapse focused, which is the first bilateral task focused on accelerating the development of military artificial intelligence applications. It is scheduled to formally launch in the coming weeks, says Centcom. & the Abu Dhabi-based team will consist of approximately 20 American and Emirati personnel with expertise in AI, data, and cybersecurity

The MAX messenger is experiencing widespread outages in Russia. Users are reporting messages aren't being delivered and photos and videos aren't loading

Google Play removed VKontante application

MAX Messenger Has Disappeared from Russian Google Play – Eyewitnesses

Google, Github and Apple websites are no more accessible from Russia

Telegram messenger has started using the alternative domain telegram.me to generate internal links instead of the usual short address t.me.