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The Ex-OpenAI Engineer Caught Planting a Bug Inside the Office

1 hour ago 8 minute read 0 comments Learn With Hatty $0.01

Walk into the executive conference room at OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters, and you are standing in one of the most consequential rooms of the twenty-first century. This is where the leaders of the world’s most famous artificial intelligence labo...

Japan Builds a New Intelligence Agency to Counter Russia, China, and North Korea

15 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist $0.14

Western nations are providing support to help Japan reinstate a national intelligence agency, which was disbanded after World War II. This is an important step to understand and counter how their regional adversaries may move against Japan’s assets,...

"We must ban Chinese phones and Russian antivirus because otherwise we can't spy on you"

2 Jun 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Kovichni $0.16

This is why I go out of my way to have Kaspersky in both my browser extension and phone. You can't even get it anymore on the app stores themselves since it's been banned by the gutless weak four eyed nerds who literally live behind a screen and watc...

Using Google Chrome? Then your PC just became their storage device and AI playground

6 May 2026 1 minute read 3 comments Kovichni $0.57

Sincerely no idea who in their right mind would use anything Google has to offer, I'm not exaggerating when I say that I haven't used its search engine on my PC for years now. Occasionally, when I do need to cross reference something like research a...

Modern Espionage: The IT Worker Scam

21 Mar 2026 5 minute read 2 comments Investigator515 $0.19

Fake workers earn revenue to bypass sanctions and treat data theft as an extra perk. As we’ve developed the Silent Wars publication, we’ve taken a look at several historical and Cold War-era espionage incidents that would play a key role in times of...

Exploring Espionage: Operation Rubicon

9 Jan 2026 5 minute read 1 comment Investigator515 $0.15

Compromised encryption machines would lead to an intel bonanza that lasted decades. Today, we can communicate globally in a matter of seconds. Texts, pictures, and even voice messages traverse the globe, and for the most part, we don’t even give them...

Exploring Espionage: The Hollow Nickel

30 Nov 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515 $0.14

A single coin paid to a 14-year-old boy would expose a Soviet spy. In the aftermath of WW2, the stage had been set for some serious spying. In a world still reeling from the social and economic aftermath of total war, the presence of nuclear weapons...

Exploring Esionage: The RC-135 Rivet Joint

16 Nov 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515 $0.19

As the saying goes, “if it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it” sometimes, things turn out that way with intelligence gathering aircraft as well. While some platforms are destined for a short life with an enduring legacy, some that have been featured have...

Exploring Espionage: The IBM Selectric

5 Nov 2025 6 minute read 2 comments Investigator515 $0.18

We live in an age of information, and as such, we have the world at our fingertips. The evolution of the smartphone has meant that knowledge on pretty much any niche or obscure topics is more often than not easily available. However, this wasn’t alwa...

Silent Wars: USS Parche (SSN-683)

27 Oct 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515 $0.10

It’s fair to say that while submarines were a key part of WW2, they really didn’t reach their full utility until the early days of the Cold War. While the diesel engine would go through several iterations to help improve its utility as a sub-surface...