Collaborate Disseminate
Bobble-Bot uses the standard inverted pendulum problem to teach modern robotic control using a Raspberry Pi, RT-Linux, and ROS.
We’re really impressed by the polish and design effort put into this project, and it’s no surprise that it’s a finalist in the 2019 Hackaday Prize. Bobble-Bot is a top heavy …read more
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Russian state media’s approach to the next U.S. presidential election will look a lot like the plan for the last one, if a new analysis of articles from the network RT is any indication. RT is a Kremlin-funded television network with a strong digital presence that broadcasts in English, Russian and a range of other languages. The outlet’s biases have been well documented, with English-language TV broadcasts, YouTube videos and articles on the RT website covering news through an anti-establishment and anti-government lens. Researchers from threat intelligence company Recorded Future analyzed content from RT’s website from Jan. 2017 through July 2019 to find that the Russian news agency continues to revisit the same topics in an apparent attempt to divide public opinion in the United States. The analysis was shared exclusively with CyberScoop prior to its publication Thursday. Phrases including “Hillary Rodham Clinton,” “Russian Hackers,” and “COLLUSION” (in all capital […]
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Russia Today and Sputnik swear up and down they’re legitimate news sources. The FBI, and former employees, beg to differ.
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“It’s basically RT and Sputnik,” he said on Saturday. Continue reading Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will ‘Engineer’ Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed
Over the past several days, many Western news media outlets have predictably devoured thinly-sourced reporting from a Russian publication that the arrest last week of a Russian spam kingpin in Spain was related to hacking attacks linked to last year’s U.S. election. While there is scant evidence that the spammer’s arrest had anything to do with the election, the success of that narrative is a sterling example of how the Kremlin’s propaganda machine is adept at manufacturing fake news, undermining public trust in the media, and distracting attention away from the real story. Continue reading Fake News at Work in Spam Kingpin’s Arrest?
Experts suggest the leaking is Kremlin retaliation for the BBC expanding its Russian-language programming Continue reading BBC launches probe into leak of Russian-dubbed Sherlock finale
Russian President Vladimir Putin directed a massive propaganda and cyber attack operation aimed at discrediting Hillary Clinton and getting Donald Trump elected, the top U.S. intelligence agencies said in a remarkable yet unshocking report released on Friday. Continue reading DNI: Putin Led Cyber, Propaganda Effort to Elect Trump, Denigrate Clinton
Report asserts “high confidence” of Putin involvement, Russia support of Wikileaks Continue reading Intel report describes Putin-directed smear campaign to elect Trump