Hacker News with Generative AI: Intelligence

Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults in Germany (wired.com)
A joint investigation by WIRED, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), and Netzpolitik.org reveals that US companies legally collecting digital advertising data are also providing the world a cheap and reliable way to track the movements of American military and intelligence personnel overseas, from their homes and their children’s schools to hardened aircraft shelters within an airbase where US nuclear weapons are believed to be stored.

Privacy, Military, Intelligence, Data Security, Germany

6 points by marban 22 hours ago | 1 comments

NRO chief: "You can't hide" from our new swarm of SpaceX-built spy satellites (arstechnica.com)
The director of the National Reconnaissance Office has a message for US adversaries around the world.

Space, National Security, Satellites, Surveillance, Intelligence

33 points by rbanffy 15 days ago | 12 comments

An Evaluation of the Remote Viewing Program: Operational Applications (1995) [pdf] (cia.gov)

Remote Viewing, CIA, Government Documents, Intelligence, Research

37 points by mmastrac 25 days ago | 23 comments

Chinese Hackers Are Said to Have Targeted Phones Used by Trump and Vance (nytimes.com)
Chinese hackers targeted data from phones used by former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, as part of what appears to be a wide-ranging intelligence-collection effort, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Politics, Cybersecurity, China, Intelligence

14 points by jbegley 27 days ago | 1 comments

The Rise and Fall of IQ: The Cognitive Divide (onepercentrule.substack.com)
For most of the 20th century, IQ scores steadily climbed, a phenomenon so consistent it was named the “Flynn effect” after the psychologist James Flynn, who first documented it.

Intelligence, Psychology, Social Science

27 points by drcwpl 28 days ago | 63 comments

Israel’s Secret Stealth Drone (twz.com)
The existence of a secret Israeli drone, referred to as RA-01 and used for covert missions, has emerged from an unauthorized disclosure of U.S. intelligence documents which have now been posted all over social media.

Israel, Drones, Military, Intelligence, Government Secrets

32 points by belter 29 days ago | 16 comments

The U.S. Spies Who Sound the Alarm About Election Interference (newyorker.com)
The Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda, a vast office complex covered in vertical panels of maroon siding and mirrored glass, sits on a cliff overlooking the Potomac, surrounded by a forty-acre lawn and a tall wrought-iron fence.

Politics, National Security, Elections, Intelligence

12 points by mitchbob 29 days ago | 5 comments

Intelligence is not Enough [video] (youtube.com)

Intelligence, Philosophy, Video

15 points by mooreds 31 days ago | 9 comments

US Offers $10M for Information on Russia War Blog Rybar (bloomberg.com)
The US government is offering a reward of as much as $10 million for information “leading to the identification or location” of the Russian military media outlet Rybar and its employees, according to a statement posted on the Rewards for Justice mission.

Russia, War, Intelligence, Rewards

19 points by giuliomagnifico 32 days ago | 2 comments

Germany's most spectacular espionage cases – DW – 04/18/2024 (dw.com)
As a supporter of Ukraine, Germany has been targeted by foreign intelligence services, but not just since the Ukraine war began. Here's a reminder of some prominent spy cases.

Espionage, Germany, Intelligence, Ukraine, History

7 points by scapecast 34 days ago | 1 comments

Do Fungi Recognize Shapes? (tohoku.ac.jp)
Can organisms without a brain still show signs of intelligence? Researchers at Tohoku University and Nagaoka College had this question in mind when conducting a study to measure the decision-making processes in fungi. While it may sound like science fiction, this level of basal cognition is possible even in fungi.

Science, Fungi, Cognition, Intelligence

84 points by svilches 35 days ago | 29 comments

Germany: Spy chiefs warn of increasing Russian threat (dw.com)
German intelligence chiefs on Monday warned of the increasing threat posed by Russia, which they said could be capable of launching a direct assault on NATO "by the end of this decade."

Germany, Russia, NATO, Security, Intelligence

7 points by doener 37 days ago | 0 comments

Graph Databases for Crime-Fighting: How Memgraph Maps and Analyzes Criminal (memgraph.com)
Graph databases, such as Memgraph, are highly effective in crime-fighting and intelligence work because they excel at uncovering and analyzing relationships between entities, such as individuals, communication channels, and locations. In counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence operations, graph databases are often used to map out and analyze complex networks of individuals and their associations.

Graph Databases, Crime, Data Analysis, Security, Intelligence

13 points by taubek 38 days ago | 4 comments

Being generous, thoughtful, and kind is a sign of high intelligence (inc.com)
If you tend to be a giver rather than a taker, research shows you also could be much smarter than the average person.

Intelligence, Psychology, Generosity, Kindness

105 points by happy-go-lucky 42 days ago | 81 comments

The Atlantic: Studies Show Short People Are Dumb, Poor, Criminals (theatlantic.com)
There are plenty of studies that claim it pays to be tall. A 2004 report found that each inch of height amounts to a salary increase of about $789 per year (controlling for gender, weight and age). Another concluded that taller people are flat out smarter. Indeed, no American president has been below average height since 1888.

Height, Social Science, Salary, Intelligence

5 points by popcalc 53 days ago | 0 comments

Everything we know about spies is wrong (lithub.com)
In the movies, spies are usually ripped hunks who carry lots of gadgets, like James Bond and Jason Bourne. That’s rarely the case in real life, however. When the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, was established in haste at the outset of WWII, the spies tapped to join were librarians, professors, and researchers quite literally pulled from college campuses.

History, Intelligence, Espionage, Media, Reality

129 points by bookofjoe 55 days ago | 117 comments

G, a Statistical Myth (2007) (bactra.org)
Anyone who wanders into the bleak and monotonous desert of IQ and the nature-vs-nurture dispute eventually gets trapped in the especially arid question of what, if anything, g, the supposed general factor of intelligence, tells us about these matters.

Intelligence, Psychology, Statistics

22 points by akalin 57 days ago | 4 comments

How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Intelligence (libsyn.com)
Osama bin Laden helped plan the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 which killed nearly 3,000 Americans. To find him, the U.S. government had to put its best people on the job. Along with their counterparts across multiple agencies, experts at the National Security Agency answered the call. NSA generated foreign signals intelligence to help find, and ultimately eliminate, the terrorist leader.

National Security, Terrorism, Intelligence, Government, History

77 points by gmays 62 days ago | 77 comments

Zersetzung (wikipedia.org)
Zersetzung (pronounced [t͡sɛɐ̯ˈzɛt͡sʊŋ] ⓘ, German for "decomposition" and "disruption") was a psychological warfare technique used by the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) to repress political opponents in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s.

Cold War, East Germany, Psychology, Political Repression, Intelligence

8 points by rendx 64 days ago | 1 comments

Interview Learnings from Former CIA Intelligence Officer (lopespm.com)
I’ve been getting into the habit of writing down what I learned from content I consume and I’ve recently seen an interview with Andrew Bustamante, a former CIA intelligence officer on the Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett.

Intelligence, Interviews, CIA

80 points by lopespm 70 days ago | 38 comments

The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50 (nsarchive.gwu.edu)
Washington, D.C., September 9, 2024 – Fifty years ago, as the New York Times prepared to break a major exposé on CIA covert operations in Chile, the architect of those operations, Henry Kissinger, misled President Gerald Ford about clandestine U.S. efforts to undermine the elected government of Socialist Party leader Salvador Allende, documents posted today by the National Security Archive show.

Politics, History, United States, Chile, Intelligence

133 points by robtherobber 71 days ago | 92 comments

Selected academic fields by estimated intelligence (twitter.com)

Intelligence, Academia, Social Sciences

5 points by ivewonyoung 72 days ago | 5 comments

The CIA's 8 steps to wreck organizations (youtube.com)

Intelligence, Organizations, Management, Strategy, CIA

11 points by TotalCrackpot 73 days ago | 0 comments

Crows are even smarter than we thought (nautil.us)

Animal Behavior, Intelligence, Science

506 points by dnetesn 83 days ago | 287 comments

Telegram as an Independent Intelligence Agency (maxread.substack.com)