🇺🇸🇵🇰🇺🇿🇦🇫 Многие долгое время рассуждали, в какой из республик Центральной Азии могли бы закрепиться американцы, покидая Афганистан. И похоже, что этой страной постепенно становится Узбекистан. Сейчас это всего лишь четырёхсторонняя площадка для консультаций по афганскому вопросу, участниками которой будут США, Пакистан, Афганистан и Узбекистан (соответственно без прямого участия России и других приграничных стран ОДКБ).
🇹🇷 Интересно ещё и то, что премьер-министр Пакистана Имран Хан на брифинге в Ташкенте предложил подключить Турцию к урегулированию афганского конфликта, так сказать для полного комбо.
🇺🇸🇵🇰🇺🇿🇦🇫 Многие долгое время рассуждали, в какой из республик Центральной Азии могли бы закрепиться американцы, покидая Афганистан. И похоже, что этой страной постепенно становится Узбекистан. Сейчас это всего лишь четырёхсторонняя площадка для консультаций по афганскому вопросу, участниками которой будут США, Пакистан, Афганистан и Узбекистан (соответственно без прямого участия России и других приграничных стран ОДКБ).
🇹🇷 Интересно ещё и то, что премьер-министр Пакистана Имран Хан на брифинге в Ташкенте предложил подключить Турцию к урегулированию афганского конфликта, так сказать для полного комбо.
That hurt tech stocks. For the past few weeks, the 10-year yield has traded between 1.72% and 2%, as traders moved into the bond for safety when Russia headlines were ugly—and out of it when headlines improved. Now, the yield is touching its pandemic-era high. If the yield breaks above that level, that could signal that it’s on a sustainable path higher. Higher long-dated bond yields make future profits less valuable—and many tech companies are valued on the basis of profits forecast for many years in the future. Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. If you initiate a Secret Chat, however, then these communications are end-to-end encrypted and are tied to the device you are using. That means it’s less convenient to access them across multiple platforms, but you are at far less risk of snooping. Back in the day, Secret Chats received some praise from the EFF, but the fact that its standard system isn’t as secure earned it some criticism. If you’re looking for something that is considered more reliable by privacy advocates, then Signal is the EFF’s preferred platform, although that too is not without some caveats. "Someone posing as a Ukrainian citizen just joins the chat and starts spreading misinformation, or gathers data, like the location of shelters," Tsekhanovska said, noting how false messages have urged Ukrainians to turn off their phones at a specific time of night, citing cybersafety. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children.
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