New: Visual Investigation Is North Korea's 'princess' walking a path toward succession? asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata... North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a young daughter. Using AI facial recognition technology, Nikkei analyzed 14,115 hours of Korean Central Television footage.

New: Visual Investigation Inside North Korea's bizzare beach resort 🇰🇵 A symbol of the current honeymoon with Russia vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics... The Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone, a sprawling seaside resort on North Korea's eastern seaboard, opened its doors this summer.

New on Bloomberg : “What Is the World Going to Do About Iran’s Uranium?”

We just added 100 more Texas agencies using Flock Safety automated license plate readers to the Atlas of Surveillance. As police tech spreads, you can count on EFF to track it and fight for your rights. www.atlasofsurveillance.org/

On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

Magnitude 8.7 #earthquake in Kamchatka, following a M7.4 last week - may be largest earthquake since 2011, 8th largest on record globally, #tsunami warning in place for US west coast and Canada - the historic 1952 M9 closely caused a destructive tsunami across the Pacific

NEW: "Money Machine" in Japanese FT and Nikkei have released the Japanese version of the Apple Vision Pro app Money Machine, with Nikkei engineers leading the localization. Check it out! @data.ft.com @theboysmithy.ft.com www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

NEW: Visual Investigation Proliferating Scam Centers in Myanmar: “Prisons” Along the Border Show Three Distinctive Features vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics...

In which Republican support for bombing Iran jumped 30 points in a week www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

【NEW】 Fordow, Iran: Enrichment Facility May Lie Beneath Strike According to the U.S. military, a B-2 stealth bomber departed Whiteman Air Force Base on the morning of June 21 (ET) and dropped a bunker buster on the Fordow facility via a transatlantic route. www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

【NEW】 Fordow, Iran: Enrichment Facility May Lie Beneath Strike The Fordow uranium facility is believed to lie 80–90 meters underground. A GBU-57 bunker buster, capable of penetrating up to 200 feet, was likely used to target it. www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

【NEW】 Fordow, Iran: Possible Uranium Enrichment Facility Beneath Impact Site Satellite and diagram analysis suggests centrifuges may lie beneath the Fordow impact crater. www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

As with Fordow, the search for ventilation shafts and other small external structures are critical to helping understand the scale and purpose of underground facilities, such as those in North Korea. From AccessDPRK, NK's Largest Underground Facilities mynorthkorea.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-...

The final in a special @justsecurity.org series, @alexakoenig.bsky.social and Andrea Richardson discuss how #OSINT can strengthen accountability for gender crimes through our report on attacks against #WomanLifeFreedom protestors: www.justsecurity.org/112988/open-...

The Iran-Israel conflict marks the first time in a war where AI-generated videos and images have been widely shared by supporters of both sides as an effective tool to fight the information war. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Significant damage in downtown Tel Aviv/Ramat Gan. Maslawi Elite Tower, 32.082825, 34.805663 Glass blown out in at least a two-block radius from the tower.

NEW: Fire at Iranian Nuclear Site? Verifying Israeli Strikes with Video Following the Israeli strikes, aircraft have been avoiding Iranian airspace. According to data from Flightradar24, which tracks global air traffic, planes disappeared from Iranian skies.

NEW: Fire at Iranian Nuclear Site? Verifying Israeli Strikes with Video The nuclear facility in Natanz, central Iran, was targeted. We verified footage posted on X and confirmed flames and thick black smoke near the site. www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

NEW: Fire at Iranian Nuclear Site? Verifying Israeli Strikes with Video We verified videos and photos posted on social media. www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

A new satellite imagery analysis by Dr. He Yin of Kent State University shows that nearly all of Gaza's crops, tree cover and grassland have been damaged in Israel's invasion — devastation that some have said should be prosecuted as "ecocide."

I believe the Kaliningrad and St Petersburg (and more?) spoof-jammers have increased their reach significantly. The area around Baltic Sea presently affected by electronic warfare directed at GNSS/GPS-receivers is enormous, larger than before. Bbl with a timelapse. Nb, this is reach at 10-30k ft.

The death toll of Israel’s war in Gaza, according to this investigation, includes 266 entire nuclear families (two parents and their children) of three, 192 entire nuclear families of four, 171 of five, 121 of six, 50 of seven, 17 of eight, 10 of nine, 3 of eleven, and 1 of fourteen.

New & not new details of GPS/GNSS Spoofing, Jamming,Anomaly,Faults,Bug,Hack or Magic The New Blender of Moscow New Spoofing GPS/GNSS configuration in Moscow, Russia. Putin's stinky guy shit his pants 😎🤓 #Jammer #Jamming #Spoofer #Spoofing #GPS #GNSS #EW #ElectronicWarfare

New & not new details of GPS/GNSS Spoofing, Jamming,Anomaly,Faults,Bug,Hack or Magic Spoofing GPS/GNSS in Moscow, Russia Putin's stinky guy shit his pants 😎🤓🥳 #Jammer #Jamming #Spoofer #Spoofing #GPS #GNSS #EW #ElectronicWarfare

Again, cannot stress enough how much people should have fought the proliferation of automatic license plate readers when they had the chance.

A powerful and moving #dataviz.

New on USA Today : “New Orleans jail escape: Maps and videos show how it happened”

None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway. Here's an article on Amazon authors with GAN-generated faces and the books these authors publish (which appear to be almost entirely devoid of original human-created content). conspirator0.substack.com/p/none-of-th...

#LessonsLearned: Improvement of LLMs sometimes also comes with downsides. We used GPT4o to create trainingdata for our findthatspot.io Geolocation-application. Now, GPT stoppped to follow our prompts to add deliberate mistakes in the data to mimic user input. Makes retraining our model difficult.

The onset of the melting season in Greenland is defined as the first of at least three days in a row with melting over more than 5% of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The median over the period 1981-2025 is on 26 May. This year, the melting onset was 12 days early, on 14 May, which is rank 11 of 45 years.

Finding some of the 'fishing only employs less than [insert other industry]' posts a bit irksome, firstly because a) the EU-UK deal is not actualyl a bad one for UK fishing! But also because yes, it is a small industry, but it is an important one where people risk their lives:

Geolocation| Israeli forces blow up approx. 8 buildings amid vast destruction in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood, Rafah, South #Gaza 31.307989, 34.244029 Video: t.me/yinonews/36168

New from Bellingcat - How deepfake videos are getting mainstream coverage in the conflict between India and Pakistan www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of...

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NEW: Visual Investigation 1,000 Pages Disappear from U.S. Government Websites Signs of Information Manipulation Under the Trump Administration vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics...

I've been going through the imagery and mapping any destroyed/damaged structure, particular rescue priorities (potential mass casualty events) and IDP locations in all the imagery available. google.com/maps/d/edit?... Please check the map and share widely with anyone who will find it useful.

We’re excited to share the first batch of US Government websites that Webrecorder has archived as part of the @eotarchive.org initiative. They’re now available on our public collections gallery app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgo... #WebArchiving #Browsertrix #EOTarchive

Fabulous (but terrifying "Transpolar sea route (future route)") maps of Greenland by @reuters.com www.reuters.com/graphics/GRE... via @cchurchili.bsky.social

Important and careful visual investigation of what happened at UCLA from the New York Times establishes how counter-protestors provoked violence. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

From Marine Traffic, here's the moment of the crash between the oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate and a cargo vessel MV Solong. Live updates here www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

New on The New York Times : “How South Korea’s President Planned a Military Takeover, Then Blew It”

"I have betrayed the love and grace of the party" This hastily written note contains the reflections of a North Korean soldier far from his homeland. Read the English version→ [The last words of North Korean soliders killed in Russia] asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata...

Looking forward to presenting my new work on the threat of disordered discourse to democracy at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, where I'll be giving the opening keynote, and probably making everyone feel a bit sad www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

Used @washingtonpost.com push alerts to visualize the deluge of Trump's executive orders and actions in the first six weeks of his second term, while @sadbumblebee.buzz helped make sense of all the chaos: wapo.st/4i31t4x

Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN ABC news analyses password patterns in our digital lives and readers will gain new insights from the story. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

NEW: Visual Investigation Last Words of North Korean Soldiers in Russia vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics... Around 4,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded. What were their final thoughts? This report analyzes notes and belongings left behind on the battlefield.

NEW: Who attended President Trump's inauguration? Our team analyzed multiple images and created the graphics. www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

New houses in North Korea are being constructed, which was hit by floods last summer. We used QGIS to analyze multiple satellite images taken in the past. www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

Geolocation| Israeli airstrike on an alleged Hamas launch site next to UN buildings, including the UNSCO office, Gaza City, Northern #Gaza 31.521229, 34.436321 Source: x.com/idfonline/st...