The attack, which began around 1am on Thursday, hit at least four neighbourhoods in Kyiv. In Sviatoshynkskyi district, a fire broke out in a residential building that was damaged in the attack. People were trapped under rubble in the building, the Kyiv City Administration said. Source linkContinue Reading
Russian state hackers, perhaps more than those of any other nation, tend to show off. The notorious Sandworm unit within Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, for instance, has triggered unprecedented blackouts and released destructive, self-replicating code. The FSB’s ingenious Turla group has hijacked satellite internet connections to steal victims’ dataContinue Reading
In December the Kyiv Post reported of the Ukrainian military’s own long-range, tethered drones, that, “currently about 40 percent of the components [are] sourced locally in Ukraine while, because there is limited domestic microelectronics manufacturing capability, the rest are imported, primarily from China.” AliExpress parent company Alibaba and Temu didContinue Reading
For years, Ukrainian officials have hinted that they are working on Starlink alternatives. But the truth is, there aren’t many options on the table. The one most discussed is OneWeb, a satellite communications network owned by Eutelsat, a satellite operator in France. Like Starlink, this network relies on small, ground-basedContinue Reading
When I spoke with Guldin in December, after the first stage of the pilot had finished, he sketched a rough vision of what this work could look like in the not-too-distant future. Robotic crawlers equipped with cameras, powerful lights, sonar, and upgraded grabber systems might be used to pick upContinue Reading
