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Georgia's imprisoned ex-leader asks Zelensky for status of 'civilian captive' in Russia-Ukraine war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/georgias-imprisoned-exleader-asks-zelensky.html

It was Operation Endgame that took down Rhadamanthys.
End of the game for cybercrime infrastructure: 1025 servers taken down
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/end-of-game-for-cybercrime-infra…

End of the game for cybercrime infrastructure: 1025 servers taken down – Operation Endgame’s latest phase targeted the infostealer Rhadamanthys, Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT, and the botnet Elysium | Europol
Between 10 and 14 November 2025, the latest phase of Operation Endgame was coordinated from Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. The actions targeted one of the biggest infostealers (Rhadamanthys), the Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT, and the botnet Elysium, all of which played a key role in international cybercrime. Authorities took down these three large cybercrime enablers. The main suspect for VenomRAT was also arrested in Greece on 3 November 2025.

⚠️ An important wetland in Ghana is under siege. Researchers investigate the real issues
https://theconversation.com/an-important-wetland-in-ghana-is-under-siege-researchers-investigate-the-real-issues-269016<…

An important wetland in Ghana is under siege. Researchers investigate the real issues
In Ghana, the degradation of wetlands is widespread and many are in poor condition.

"France halts imports of food with traces of banned pesticides"
#France #Pesticides #Food

France halts imports of food with traces of banned pesticides
France on Wednesday officialized a ban on food imports containing traces of five pesticides currently banned in the EU, a move aimed at easing farmers' opposition to the Mercosur trade deal with four South American nations.

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is establishing a new "top-level" initiative called Meta Compute to build "tens of gigawatts" of AI infrastructure during this decade (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/12/meta-compute-ai-infrastructure<…

Meta launches new "Meta Compute" initiative to build AI infrastructure
Zuckerberg said Meta plans to build tens of gigawatts of AI infrastructure this decade, "and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time."

F*%! #interrail and railway operators that require passport information
https://www.interrail.eu/en/ni/data-security-incident

(PDF, PhD thesis 2018) Improving visual-to-auditory cross-modality information conversions https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55721/ by Shern Shiou Tan, on visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (VASS) devices.
"The integration of visual recognition in parallel with the soundscape will be the…

Cloud: Zoff in Bayern wegen Milliardenauftrag an Microsoft ohne Ausschreibung
Das Open-Source-Lager, Informatiker und IT-Wirtschaft warnen vor Verlust der digitalen Souveränität in Bayern und fordern den Stopp der Microsoft-Verhandlungen.

Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer stocks, ETFs, and other financial instruments, raised a $150M Series D led by Drive at a $1.15B valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/14/alpaca-fundraise-series-d-brokerage-infrastruct…

Brokerage tech firm Alpaca raises $150 million in push to compete with trading giant Interactive Brokers
Drive Capital led the round, with participation from Citadel Securities and the crypto exchange Kraken.

Razzia in Deutschland: Behörden machen Cybercrime-Hoster RedVDS dicht
Internationalen Ermittlern und Microsoft ist ein Schlag gegen die Infrastruktur des Cybercrime-Hosters RedVDS gelungen. Die Server standen auch in Deutschland.