We're watching a White House press conference where Trump has been spouting nonsense for at least half an hour on a scale that is truly unprecedented.
Tune in whitehouse.gov/live/
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#China pitches itself as reliable partner amid #Trump threats
✍️ Carlo Martuscelli
Vice Premier He Lifeng says the world shouldn't slide back into "the law of the jungle, where the strong bully the weak."
politico.eu/article/china-pitc…
China pitches itself as reliable partner amid Trump threats
Vice Premier He Lifeng says the world shouldn’t slide back into “the law of the jungle, where the strong bully the weak.”Carlo Martuscelli (POLITICO)
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These are good pieces on the alleged U.S. cyberattack against the Venezuelan power grid. It seems that for now the skepticism is warranted until we get more details and some independent confirmation from threat intelligence/infrastrucure researchers.
1) This Linkedin post by @msbrumfield
linkedin.com/posts/cynthiabrum…
2) This blog post by @dangoodin
arstechnica.com/security/2026/…
3) And here's the New York Times piece that cites "U.S. officials briefed on the operation."
nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/poli…
Why I’m withholding certainty that “precise” US cyber-op disrupted Venezuelan electricity
NYT says US hackers were able to turn off power and then quickly turn it back on.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
Three weeks ago, I spotted this thing about Russia changing banking fraud detection rules: news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-…
Well, three weeks later, this new system seems to have blocked around 1-2% of all Russian debit cards, and is pissing off a lot of Russians: www1.ru/en/news/2026/01/19/ban…
Banks temporarily blocked up to 3 million accounts and cards in the first weeks of 2026
Expansion of criteria for suspicious transactions under Federal Law No. 161 led to mass restrictions“First Tech” - www1.ru
💬 #Ukraine's new defence minister promised a sweeping, data-driven overhaul of Europe's largest military to reward commanders achieving results on the battlefield and give Ukrainian forces the upper hand against Russia's bigger and better-equipped army.
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Government Officials Must Put Forward Non-Linear Proposals on How to Protect Lives and Reorganize Operations – Address by President #Zelenskyy 20.01.2026
Extract
We must focus on the situation inside the country. Every official, local authorities, all heads of state-owned companies and energy companies – everyone must be right here, in #Ukraine, working in cities, in villages, in the areas where restoration and protection are needed.
Full address president.gov.ua/en/news/uryad…
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Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have admitted that a statement condemning Ukrainian strikes on russia was "inappropriate" and pledged to improve their communications
pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/01…
Red Cross admits its statement criticising Ukraine is inappropriate
The Red Cross has pledged to improve its communications after concerns raised by Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry.Yevhen Kizilov (Ukrainska Pravda)
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20 January 1899 | A Pole, Józef Chudzio, was born in Medyka. A railwayman.
In #Auschwitz from 24 October 1941.
No. 22099
He perished in the camp on 11 February 1942.
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📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_0…
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Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, is sending a message to both, West and East, to what appeasement can lead.
It appears that more and more European leaders are showing their anger, though still in diplomatic clothes. But there is no denying that Europe is extremely agitated. What that means we will see pretty soon.
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🇺🇦 #Ukraine's Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant has restored external power supply after a temporary outage caused by Russia's latest mass attack on energy infrastructure, Ukraine's Energy Ministry said on Jan. 20.
kyivindependent.com/chornobyl-…
Chornobyl plant restores external power after temporary outage caused by Russian attack, according to Energy Ministry
The ministry said that despite overnight missile and drone strikes targeting key energy hubs supplying the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, all facilities at the plant — including the New Safe Confinement and spent nuclear fuel storage sites — are now recei…Kate Tsurkan (The Kyiv Independent)
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🤪 Belarusian dictator Lukashenko signed an agreement on Tuesday to join #Trump's Board of "Peace", the latest step in a rapprochement with Washington after years of international isolation.
reuters.com/world/lukashenko-j…
#usa
Gallego: He is a madman. He is insane.
Cooper: You really think he's insane?
Gallego: Yes. The man is threatening war against a #NATO ally.
🇷🇺 The Russian government has scrapped its first attempt to sell Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport by auction when only a little-known businessman from the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya applied but failed to take part in the bidding.
themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/20/…
Government Auction Fails to Attract Bidders for Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport
The Russian government has scrapped its first attempt to sell Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport by auction when only a little-known businessman from the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya applied but failed to take part in the bidding, the Interfax news a…The Moscow Times
Russia attacked #Ukraine overnight using a Zircon missile, Iskander missiles, cruise missiles, and hundreds of attack drones.
"Today’s Russian attack cost us, just in terms of the missiles, around €80 million." - Zelenskyy.
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russian forces remotely scatter mines on #Kherson hospital grounds, police say
✍️ Benjamin Murdock
Authorities urge residents to avoid unmarked routes until inspections complete.
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#Kyiv at morning today
Consequences of the russian shelling.
Russia is taking away what is most precious - safety and peace
📹Yan Dobronosov
Finnish President Stubb:
I think the DNA of Russia is still expansion&imperialism.I think the driver of Putin is Russkiy Mir - Great Russia -which basically means one Russia, one language, one religion, and one leader.I think he still sees the collapse of the Soviet Union as a big travesty
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#Macron decoded: What he said in text to #Trump - and what he really meant
✍️ Clea Caulcutt
The French president's appeal speaks to a deeper subtext about the state of the geopolitical order.
politico.eu/article/emmanuel-m…
Macron decoded: What he said in text to Trump — and what he really meant
The French president’s appeal speaks to a deeper subtext about the state of the geopolitical order.Clea Caulcutt (POLITICO)
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russia to Launch Al-Powered Internet Censorship System in 2026 to Strengthen Information Control
✍️ Dariia Mykhailenko
united24media.com/latest-news/…
Russia to Launch AI-Powered Internet Censorship System in 2026 to Strengthen Information Control
In 2026, Russia’s Roskomnadzor plans to introduce an AI-based censorship framework, costing 2.27 billion rubles to restrict online content.Dariia Mykhailenko (UNITED24 Media)
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President #Zelenskyy
💬 "Every year on this day, 20 January, we remember the defenders of Donetsk Airport. People who held their ground for 242 days and did not give up, despite being surrounded and under constant attack.
Photo: ArmyInform news agency.
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They were called cyborgs, but they simply demonstrated the best of the Ukrainian character, the Ukrainian heart, and the Ukrainian spirit: never give up, fight the occupier, and impress the world with what #Ukraine is capable of. These are the people we need to support.
Thank you to everyone who stands with Ukraine. Thank you to everyone who helps us."
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🇫🇷 Automobile manufacturer Renault will produce strike drones in collaboration with defense company Turgis Gaillard. The drones, codenamed Chorus, are French counterparts to the long-range Shahed drones used by Russia.
en.defence-ua.com/news/renault…
Renault, Turgis Gaillard Collaborate on French Shahed Drone Analog for Ukraine | Defense Express
In 2025, France promised that Renault would produce drones for Ukraine, and it has now revealed that they will be a local analogue of the russian-Iranian Shahed droneen.defence-ua.com
Con qualche approssimazione cito solo una piccolissima parte di quello che finora è successo
Piovosità: piogge non violente ma persistenti e continue
Che l'ONU così com'è abbia grossi limiti è evidente, perché è un'istituzione dove dittatori e autocrati hanno diritto di veto e piena legittimità.
I limiti dell'ONU vanno però superati attraverso la cooperazione rafforzata tra Stati che rinunciano a parte della propria sovranità per fare valere il diritto internazionale e la democrazia, non per fare i soci in affari.
Python, Is It Being Killed by Incremental Improvements?
In October, I gave a talk at SPLASH, which made its way online.
Is the title click bait? Click the link below, watch the recording, and find out!
Spoiler: I think Python has a problem, but we can do something about it.
stefan-marr.de/2026/01/python-…
Python, Is It Being Killed by Incremental Improvements?
Changes in Python may cause issues in the long term.stefan-marr.de
A New York, USA. 🇺🇸
"Non vogliamo la Groenlandia, vogliamo assistenza sanitaria pubblica."
rilanciato nel gruppo attualità e notizie dal mondo: @attualita
Release v4.5.5 · mastodon/mastodon
Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrad...GitHub
Well, I just recovered my instance from this adventure; It wrecked everything.
But it's not Mastodon' fault; A hint: Remember folks; read all releases logs from where you are to where you're going. Try not to wing it like me just before going to bed...
I missed an important ruby upgrade, a database migration and even more stuff about node...). At a certain point I was sure I've lost everything. But eh ! I'm still here ! Yay
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30-year-old bug in Glibc... 
phoronix.com/news/Glibc-Securi…
CVE-2026-0915: GNU C Library Fixes A Security Issue Present Since 1996
CVE-2026-0915 was published on Friday as a security issue with the GNU C Library 'glibc' for code introduced 30 years agowww.phoronix.com
L’installazione di Michelangelo Pistoletto alla Regione Lombardia | Artribune
L’installazione di Michelangelo Pistoletto – curata da Francesco Monico– si può visitare presso il foyer dell’Auditorium Testori presso la sede della Regione LombardiaAntonio Spadaro (Artribune)
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The landscape of the Bentonite Hills in Utah has an almost otherworldly aspect.
Geologically, the bentonite layer is a remnant of fine rhyolitic volcanic ash and silt deposited in swamps during the Late Jurassic,...
Photo by Erik Young (Via Reddit)
🧪 #geology #landscapes #nature #science #Photography
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20 January 1911 | A Czech Jew, Jaroslav Weber, was born in České Budějovice. A mechanic.
In #Auschwitz from 24 October 1941.
No. 22069
He perished in the camp on 3 November 1941.
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🎧 Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
"On Auschwitz" (12): Polish and Jewish prisoners in the camp
During its entire existence, slightly over 400 thousand people were registered at Auschwitz as prisoners - including 131 thousand women. The two largest grou...YouTube
While there’s quite a few reliable sources of estimates of #Russia losses in the war - like MediaZona/BBC and “Goryushko” - there’s much less so for #Ukraine losses.
The only project #UALosses that monitors Ukrainian losses in the same way as the others - that is, scanning for public obituaries and databases that leave little doubt as to the military affiliation of the deceased (which are surprisingly easy to find in Russia).
The problem is that UALosses had been just caught mixing KIA soldiers with random people who were most likely civilians who were registered as missing, and it’s also easy to check because Ukraine maintains such register for the families of missing persons.
Therefore it’s very difficult to treat UALosses numbers as reliable.
🇷🇺 The administration of #Moscow’s Higher School of Economics will be offering students who are facing expulsion for academic failure the option of signing a contract with #Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
Students of Moscow’s HSE facing expulsion for academic failure encouraged to go to war in exchange for acad...
The administration of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics (HSE University) will be offering students who are facing expulsion for academic failure the option of signing a contract with Russia’s Ministry of DefenseThe Insider
US treasury secretary Scott Bessent is now also speaking at Davos, repeating his warning that Europe should “sit back” and “take a deep breath” but “not retaliate.”
“The president will be here tomorrow, and he will get his message across,”
theguardian.com/world/live/202…
#Ukraine #Russia #EU #US #Denmark #Greenland #Trump
Trump says UK’s Chagos deal is an ‘act of great stupidity’ and another reason to take over Greenland – live
US president says the UK’s decision to hand over sovereignity of the islands is among a ‘long line’ of reasons why Greenland ‘has to be acquired’Yohannes Lowe (The Guardian)
PDFSIDER: Un falso PDF sta aprendo backdoor invisibili: cosa c’è dietro la nuova minaccia
📌 Link all'articolo : redhotcyber.com/post/pdfsider-…
#redhotcyber #news #malware #cybersecurity #hacking #backdoor #cryptbase #sicurezzainformatica
PDFSIDER: Un falso PDF sta aprendo backdoor invisibili: cosa c’è dietro la nuova minaccia
Scopri PDFSIDER, un malware APT che utilizza il caricamento laterale di DLL per distribuire una backdoor crittografata e esfiltrare dati sensibili.Redazione RHC (Red Hot Cyber)
A Russian mass attack overnight on Jan. 20 killed and injured civilians across two Ukrainian regions, targeted substations serving nuclear power plants, and triggered widespread outages of electricity, water, and heating, local authorities said.
kyivindependent.com/russia-att…
Russian missiles, drones target Kyiv on freezing night amid deepening energy crisis
At least one person in Kyiv has been injured, local authorities reported. Ukraine's Air Force has warned that Russian ballistic missiles are targeting multiple regions, including the capital.Abbey Fenbert (The Kyiv Independent)
securityaffairs.com/187110/hac…
#securityaffairs #hacking
Critical TP-Link VIGI camera flaw allowed remote takeover of surveillance systems
TP-Link fixed a critical flaw that exposed over 32 VIGI C and VIGI InSight camera models to remote hacking.Pierluigi Paganini (Security Affairs)
Vendesi Italia (finanziaria): l’asta shock per il controllo di un’azienda da 3,6 milioni di fatturato
📌 Link all'articolo : redhotcyber.com/post/vendesi-i…
#redhotcyber #news #cybersecurity #hacking #malware #ransomware #sicurezzainformatica #minacceinformatica
Vendesi Italia (finanziaria): l'asta shock per il controllo di un'azienda da 3,6 milioni di fatturato
Un threat actor vende accesso abusivo a un'azienda finanziaria italiana con 3,6 milioni di record compromessi.Redazione RHC (Red Hot Cyber)
Il cyber rischio entra nel merito creditizio: l’indice Banca d’Italia
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Banca d’Italia propone un indicatore di vulnerabilità cyber per le imprese non finanziarie costruito con NLP e un LLM (Phi-4), capace di trasformare testi non strutturati – bilanci, news e fonti specialistiche – in segnali quantitativi per la valutazione del merito
this declaration by UK GreenParty leader #ZackPolanski is explosive
Imagine if a major Italian party said: #Italy must close #USbases.
"Italy is home to the most comprehensive set of military capabilities [...] that we [US] have anywhere outside US", #WikiLeaks cables reveal
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant lost all off-site power and lines to other nuclear plants have also been affected, the UN nuclear agency said on Tuesday, as Russian bombardments targeted energy facilities across #Ukraine
20 January 1878 | A Czech Jewish woman, Adéla Skutecká, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 May 1944. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobi…
🎧 Podcast: youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that Greenland was not “a natural part” of Denmark in comments that could further fuel the increasingly contentious debate about the territory’s future.
theguardian.com/world/live/202…
#Ukraine #Russia #EU #US #Trump #Greenland #Denmark
Trump says UK’s Chagos deal is an ‘act of great stupidity’ and another reason to take over Greenland – live
US president says the UK’s decision to hand over sovereignity of the islands is among a ‘long line’ of reasons why Greenland ‘has to be acquired’Yohannes Lowe (The Guardian)
Another great win of The Great Strategist #Putin 🤷
🇲🇩 Moldova has begun the process of withdrawing from the CIS — Foreign Ministry.
“The Republic of Moldova will no longer be an official member of the CIS. This process has already begun. The decision has been taken, the approval procedure is underway, and at the start of the new parliamentary session, documents on the denunciation of these agreements will be submitted. By mid-February, we expect to complete the process within the government, after which parliament will have to make its decision,” Foreign Minister Mihai Popșoi said.
He added that Moldova will retain only those CIS agreements that provide economic benefits and do not contradict the country’s course toward European integration.
In total, Moldova has signed about 283 CIS agreements. Of these, 71 have already been terminated, with around 60 more currently in the process of denunciation.
Source: United24
🇷🇺🇺🇲 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow expects the United States to free the Russian crew members aboard a Venezuela-linked oil tanker seized by Washington in the Atlantic earlier this month.
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#ICE agents pose as utility workers to get inside immigrants’ homes to detain them. The utility company has posted guidelines on how to recognize real utility employees. I have no words!
⚡️ RUSSIA'S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE — JAN 20, 2026
■ Engagements and casualties above average; 13 km² of 🇷🇺 gains confirmed (net gains in 2026: 98 km²; 21k casualties)
■ Equipment losses well above average; record 7-day equipment losses
■ Major overnight attack wave included 340 drones and 33 missiles; 92% were intercepted, with 24 locations hit or affected by debris
■ Information on 🇷🇺 MLRS and 🇺🇦 strikes is missing from today’s GSUA report
📈 See dashboard for full data:
lookerstudio.google.com/s/i_1w…
Dashboard on Russia's war against Ukraine
Looker Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.Looker Studio
Dal Manifesto di oggi
Fischia il vento. Reportage da Minneapolis che resiste alle squadre naziste dell’Ice
di Marina Catucci:
ilmanifesto.it/lotta-e-solidar…
#Minneapolis
#resistenza #Ice #ilmanifesto
@informapirata
@scuola
@lindasartini
@RFancio
@jenshansen
Lotta e solidarietà. Una città unita contro l’occupazione | il manifesto
Usa (Internazionale) «Sono tutti incazzati». Mike ha 65 anni e il dono della sintesi. Arrivi in città e ti accorgi subito che non c’è da discutere. Non ci sono favorevoli e contrari, a Minneapolis.Jacopo Favi (il manifesto)
@defence-blog.com
Russian forces use Chinese-made laser to counter drones
20 January 1910 | A Polish woman, Janina Obtułowicz, was born in Jaworzno. A teacher.
In #Auschwitz from 19 January 1943.
No. 29860
In 1944 she was transferred to KL Natzweiler and liberated there.
AI agentica: l’intelligenza artificiale corre, ma serve una collaborazione sicura per mitigarne i rischi
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
L’AI sta rivoluzionando il digital workspace in agentico, in cui a svolgere le attività non sono più solo le persone, ma anche l'AI agentica operante in autonomia. Ecco come mitigare i rischi
L'articolo
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ESA monitoring January 2026 space weather event
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Weather Office is closely monitoring a notable space weather event, first detected 18:09 UTC on Sunday, 18 January 2026. We are collecting detailed information from our expert service centres.www.esa.int
An American from North Carolina travelled with his yacht to Sochi in Russia in order to meet is Russian online girlfriend. However, when he entered Russian territory the FSB found a rifle and ammunition in his possession which he used for „self-defense“.
Without a valid permit and lacking a visa he was sentenced to 5 years in a penal camp, a remote labor camp.
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