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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 1, 2023

At least a half dozen ships have ignored Russian warnings and appear to be headed to a Ukrainian port on the Danube River.

Ukrainian assault commander reveals horrific encounter with one of Russia’s fake trench traps

Saudi Arabia borrowing rate hits new high

Oil Prices Balloon On Largest Single-Week Crude Inventory Crash In Years

Flesh-rotting tranq infects cocaine supply, takes aim at new, unsuspecting victims

It’s 3am. Paul, the head of PayPal database administration carefully enters his elaborate passphrase at a keyboard in a darkened cubicle of 1840 Embarcadero Road in East Palo Alto, for the fifth time. He hits Return. The green-on-black console window instantly displays one line of text: “Sorry, one or more wrong passphrases. Can’t reconstruct the key. Goodbye.” There is nerd pandemonium all around us. James, our recently promoted VP of Engineering, just climbed the desk at a nearby cubicle, screaming: “Guys, if we can’t get this key the right way, we gotta start brute-forcing it ASAP!”

Blood clots in a fossil that is supposed to be 270-300 million years old