#opensourceintelligenceosint_ — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #opensourceintelligenceosint_, aggregated by home.social.
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Calishat: Researching Public Figures in the Epstein Birthday Book, Part I: MiniGladys. “MiniGladys is a collection of four research tools to use Wikipedia data. For this article I’ll use the example of Leon Black, who appears in the Epstein birthday book but is not on the public stage as much as someone like Alan Deshowitz. In the time it takes to click a few times and read a few news […]
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Calishat: Researching Public Figures in the Epstein Birthday Book, Part I: MiniGladys. “MiniGladys is a collection of four research tools to use Wikipedia data. For this article I’ll use the example of Leon Black, who appears in the Epstein birthday book but is not on the public stage as much as someone like Alan Deshowitz. In the time it takes to click a few times and read a few news […]
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Calishat: Researching Public Figures in the Epstein Birthday Book, Part I: MiniGladys. “MiniGladys is a collection of four research tools to use Wikipedia data. For this article I’ll use the example of Leon Black, who appears in the Epstein birthday book but is not on the public stage as much as someone like Alan Deshowitz. In the time it takes to click a few times and read a few news […]
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NiemanLab: It just got easier to make an archival copy of that website you’re digging into. “Today Bellingcat, the OSINT-fueled news organization, announced a new version of its tool Auto Archiver, which it describes as ‘a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down’ — a critical need for any reporting on our lives online.”
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NiemanLab: It just got easier to make an archival copy of that website you’re digging into. “Today Bellingcat, the OSINT-fueled news organization, announced a new version of its tool Auto Archiver, which it describes as ‘a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down’ — a critical need for any reporting on our lives online.”
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Calishat: CivicRadius Search: Find Gov Web Sites On a Map And Search Them Via Google. “Recently I learned (via experimenting and mucking around) how to use APIs to enhance datasets. After that I grabbed CISA’s official list of .gov sites from GitHub and used the Nominatim API to add a lat/long to each listing. That enhanced dataset is the heart of CivicRadius Search, a new way to find and […]
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Calishat: CivicRadius Search: Find Gov Web Sites On a Map And Search Them Via Google. “Recently I learned (via experimenting and mucking around) how to use APIs to enhance datasets. After that I grabbed CISA’s official list of .gov sites from GitHub and used the Nominatim API to add a lat/long to each listing. That enhanced dataset is the heart of CivicRadius Search, a new way to find and […]
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Calishat: Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader Updated and Now Available. “The Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader is a Google Sheets-based tool that lets you schedule your RSS feeds and give them expiration dates. I have used TOFR for monitoring breaking news topics over the short-term, scheduling feeds in advance for a known business-/stock- related deadline, and to ‘audition’ keywords I […]
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Calishat: Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader Updated and Now Available. “The Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader is a Google Sheets-based tool that lets you schedule your RSS feeds and give them expiration dates. I have used TOFR for monitoring breaking news topics over the short-term, scheduling feeds in advance for a known business-/stock- related deadline, and to ‘audition’ keywords I […]
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Calishat: Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader Updated and Now Available. “The Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader is a Google Sheets-based tool that lets you schedule your RSS feeds and give them expiration dates. I have used TOFR for monitoring breaking news topics over the short-term, scheduling feeds in advance for a known business-/stock- related deadline, and to ‘audition’ keywords I […]
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Calishat: RSS With An Expiration Date: The Temporary Obsessions Feed Reader. “I love RSS; I literally couldn’t do my self-appointed job without it. But when it comes to temporarily monitoring topics, RSS feeds are a bit unwieldy; you have to add another layer of workflow to add/remove feeds, set up reminders for yourself, etc. All that has hitherto discouraged me from using RSS when there […]
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Calishat: RSS With An Expiration Date: The Temporary Obsessions Feed Reader. “I love RSS; I literally couldn’t do my self-appointed job without it. But when it comes to temporarily monitoring topics, RSS feeds are a bit unwieldy; you have to add another layer of workflow to add/remove feeds, set up reminders for yourself, etc. All that has hitherto discouraged me from using RSS when there […]
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University of Toronto: Researchers use AI to ‘see’ beyond a structure’s facade in Google Street View. “Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a method that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and Google Maps’ Street View images to glean more detailed information about buildings – such as their age and floor area. This additional data can then be used to assess building […]
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University of Toronto: Researchers use AI to ‘see’ beyond a structure’s facade in Google Street View. “Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a method that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and Google Maps’ Street View images to glean more detailed information about buildings – such as their age and floor area. This additional data can then be used to assess building […]
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TechCrunch: The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos . “This week, OpenAI released its newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, both of which can uniquely ‘reason’ through uploaded images. … These image-analyzing capabilities, paired with the models’ ability to search the web, make for a potent location-finding tool. Users on X quickly discovered that o3, […]
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Nico Dekens: The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to AI. “When OSINT becomes too easy, too efficient, too comfortable… you should be worried. Tradecraft isn’t just about speed, it’s about judgment. And judgment doesn’t come from a language model. If we keep going down this path without pushing back, without actively preserving the critical habits that define our […]
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Euromaidan Press: Russia caught presenting own Kursk losses as Ukrainian defeats, OSINT analysis shows. “Russian losses are repurposed as Ukrainian defeats, a single damaged Challenger tank is spun into multiple victories, and old footage is rebranded as new losses—Russian propaganda accounts reached millions with fabricated evidence of Ukrainian setbacks.”
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Euromaidan Press: Russia caught presenting own Kursk losses as Ukrainian defeats, OSINT analysis shows. “Russian losses are repurposed as Ukrainian defeats, a single damaged Challenger tank is spun into multiple victories, and old footage is rebranded as new losses—Russian propaganda accounts reached millions with fabricated evidence of Ukrainian setbacks.”