Highlighted by the OP, but

According to FFI, the Ukrainian battlefield experience reinforced Norway’s decision to prioritize artillery systems capable of achieving more than 40 kilometers in range and better survivability, and led to a reassessment of ammunition acquisition strategy, favoring volume and cost-effective accuracy improvements over limited high-cost precision rounds. The evaluation judged the acquisition to be economically sound and aligned with modern operational requirements, despite noting that long-term viability would depend on integrated force protection and continued ammunition procurement. The report applied the Concept program’s standardized methodology, assessing six criteria: productivity, goal achievement, secondary effects, relevance, viability, and economic efficiency.

This really is a concise description what artillery means to War now, and why.

For those on iPhone and at any risk, ICEBlock app is potentially better, as it maintains more privacy.

The reason they don’t do android:

At ICEBlock, user privacy and security are paramount. Our application is designed to provide as much anonymity as possible without storing any user data or creating accounts. While we understand the desire for an Android version of ICEBlock, achieving this level of anonymity on Android is not feasible due to the inherent requirements of push notification services.

Yes I do!

They are working towards requiring it for all travelers.

Why: Think of this as a trial working towards full automation. They aren’t there yet and are not probably legally allowed to do so, but the idea is that you can be fully tracked like the British, Chinese, and other biometric adopted countries.

Prevention: Reliability and legality. As I mentioned I don’t think they can force it in the US for travel yet as it’s not legally allowed, nor is biometrics entirely reliable as is apparent when facial recognition fails.

This android only.

From the article:

Meta managed to do this even when:

• You aren’t using the app (but have a session open in the background).

• You haven’t logged into your account in the browser.

• You’re browsing in incognito mode.

• You’re using a VPN.

• You delete cookies at the end of every session.

The captured data includes:

• Complete browsing history with specific URLs

• Products added to cart and purchases made

• Registrations on websites and completed forms

• Temporal behavioral patterns across websites and apps

• Direct linking to real identities on social networks

You’re not affected if (and only if)

• You access Facebook and Instagram via the web, without having the apps installed on your phone

• You browse on desktop computers or use iOS (iPhones)

• You always used the Brave browser or the DuckDuckGo search engine on mobile

Write at rite, right?

Hugging face is repository and Machine learning hub. https://huggingface.co/huggingface

This Week in Virology talks a bit about this at the 10min mark TWiV 1214: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

Episode webpage: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1214/

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twiv/TWiV1214.mp3?dest-id=25528

Also worth bookmarking the CDC summary… For as long as it’s up. https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html