Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal.

Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said.

The decision to cut off Unit 8200’s ability to use some of its technology results directly from an investigation published by the Guardian last month. It revealed how Azure was being used to store and process the trove of Palestinian communications in a mass surveillance programme.

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On this week’s ‘We’re Not Kidding’ Mehdi Hasan sits down with award-winning Hollywood actor and activist Mark Ruffalo. For over two decades, Mark has been one of the most politically courageous actors in Hollywood, having spoken out against the fracking industry, US imperialism, Donald Trump, and the genocide in Gaza. Mark and Mehdi get into all of that, but first… Mehdi nerds out with some ‘Marvel’ movie questions.

The two talk about Mark’s political evolution, from being raised in a household with three different religions to getting involved in the anti-war movement during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. When discussing Trump’s second term and rising fascism here in the US, Mark doesn’t mince words when it comes to the tepid opposition from Democratic party leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.

Finally, Mehdi asks Mark about his years-long advocacy for Palestine and the elaborate “propaganda machine” deployed by Israel and its allies, as Mark is no stranger to being attacked for his pro-Palestine views. Now almost two years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Mark gets deeply emotional when discussing the human cost of the conflict. “I'm a humanist, okay? What's happening there is inhumane,” Mark says. “It's f*cking heartbreaking, man.”

00:00 - Opening montage 1:04 - Intro 3:14 - ‘Task’ on HBO 8:12 - Mark’s history with ‘Marvel’ 14:20 - ‘Marvel rapid-fire questions 20:42 - Mark’s politics 24:09 - Democratic party failures 31:58 - Ritchie Torres 33:25 - Mark’s advocacy for Palestine 38:05 - Filmworkers for Palestine 44:41 - Hollywood censorship 48:43 - Kamala Harris’ election loss 50:16 - Trump 2.0

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• German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius warned that Russia might deploy nuclear weapons in space and said Germany would spend billions to protect its satellites.
• Pistorius stated that satellite networks are the Achilles heel of modern societies and that attacking them can paralyze entire countries.
• Germany plans to invest €35 billion in space projects by 2030 to harden military space systems against disruptions and attacks.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius warned that Russia might deploy nuclear weapons in space, saying that Germany would spend billions to protect its satellites and that NATO allies should consider building “offensive capabilities” in orbit.

Germany plans to invest €35 billion ($41 billion) in space projects by 2030, Pistorius said. The money will flow into hardening military space systems against disruptions and attacks.

“Satellite networks are now the Achilles heel of modern societies. Attacking them can paralyze entire countries,” Pistorius told a space industry conference in Berlin on Thursday. “We know that the conflicts of the future will no longer be confined to the Earth. They will also be fought openly in orbit.”

Pistorius said that Russia and China in recent years have rapidly expanded their capabilities for warfare in space.

“They can jam, blind, manipulate, or kinetically destroy satellites. In space, there are no borders or continents,” he said. “Already today, German Armed Forces systems are affected by jamming attacks. These attacks are directed not only against the military, but against the economy and society as a whole.”

As an example, Pistorius pointed to two IntelSat satellites, used by the German Armed Forces, that he said Russian reconnaissance satellites were tracking. He said he doubted the satellite activity was peaceful.

“This shows how close we are now to real threats,” he said.

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Following an initiative by noyb, more than 2,400 affected individuals requested their data from the credit agency CRIF and have now received it. An evaluation by noyb shows that many well-known Austrian companies, such as Erste Bank, Verbund and Drei, evaluate their customers using CRIF data. Some companies, such as T-Mobile, the online retailer Otto, and the insurance company Allianz, also seem to provide their customer data to CRIF. The initial evaluation of over 40,000 queries with more than 28,000 scores transmitted also shows that men are rated significantly worse than women. People in cities receive a lower score than people on the countryside. noyb will conduct detailed analyses in the coming weeks to evaluate the individual accuracy of the CRIF scores.

Behind the slogans of anti-colonial liberation, the Sahel has become the front line of a new Cold War – with Africans bearing the cost.

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A critical vulnerability in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Wi-Fi configuration interface used by several different Unitree robots can result in a root level takeover by an attacker, security researchers disclosed on 20 September. The exploit impacts Unitree’s Go2 and B2 quadrupeds and G1 and H1 humanoids. Because the vulnerability is wireless, and the resulting access to the affected platform is complete, the vulnerability becomes wormable, say the researchers, meaning “an infected robot can simply scan for other Unitree robots in BLE range and automatically compromise them, creating a robot botnet that spreads without user intervention.”

Initially discovered by security researchers Andreas Makris and Kevin Finisterre, UniPwn takes advantage of several security lapses that are still present in the firmware of Unitree robots as of 20 September, 2025. As far as IEEE Spectrum is aware, this is the first major public exploit of a commercial humanoid platform.

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