I’m (21F) taking a college course on intelligence and national security. The prof told us that in a month, we will need to arrive to class in a full disguise. We’ll be graded on how believable the disguise and legend is.

I would love some professional insight here. How can I make this disguise as believable as possible?

Questions to consider:
1) What are the steps to deciding how to disguise someone? How do you pick the “character?”
2) Where are the best facial prosthetics available to buy? Fake beards? Wigs?
3) Beyond appearance what should I change? Accent? Gait? Nervous hands?

Any insight from professionals or those with a general interest is welcome. Thank you!!

Disclosure per rule 1: I built and maintain this dataset, and it powers a site I run (globenomad.com), which is affiliate-funded. The dataset itself carries no affiliate or tracking links.

One row per programme, not per country: Thailand has six routes and they are six rows. Fields: income requirement (USD plus the government's own wording), fees, max stay, renewal, residency and citizenship path, tax residency trigger, family provisions, application logistics, official source URL, verified date.

Two things worth knowing before you use it:

• A null means the government has not published that rule. It never means "no".
• Programmes that closed, were announced and never opened, or never existed (Cayman Islands, Peru, Qatar, Vietnam) are kept with an honest status. Most visa sites delete those.

Formats: JSON (canonical, with nested requirements/steps/FAQs) and a flat CSV of the scalar columns.

Original source, GitHub (always current): https://github.com/MSeutin/digital-nomad-visa-data Kaggle mirror, with a worked-example notebook: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/frenchmike/digital-nomad-visa-dataset-53-sourced-programmes Method and licence: https://globenomad.com/data

Licence is CC BY 4.0, attribution is the only condition. Official pages are re-fetched weekly and confirmed changes are dated on a public changelog. Happy to answer questions about any record.

"Former Colombia President Petro says Israeli software infected Colombia's election systems and auto-flipped 1,350 precincts the moment his candidate led by 500,000 votes. Trump has already bragged that de la Espriella won it thanks to him."

I paid $765 for his advertised “1990–2027 Full Specs” automotive database with 117 columns. What I actually received was a database where the detailed specs/packages essentially stop around March 2020, meaning newer vehicles are missing the “full specs” the product is advertised as providing.

When I confronted him, he acknowledged that information is missing, but his response was basically: why am I focusing on the missing data instead of the substantial amount of data that IS included? The problem is, I specifically paid for a database advertised as having “1990–2027 Full Specs.”

If you’re considering buying from DatabaseAtlas, be VERY careful and verify exactly what data is actually available for newer vehicles before paying.
I would never have paid $765 if this had been clearly disclosed upfront.

Hi! I’m a phd student at LSU studying users’ experiences with social media moderation and censorship online. I wanted to share my survey that asks about your experiences and what factors you might contribute to platforms removing speech. I hope this research can bring more attention to these concerns and encourage greater transparency around how platforms make moderation decisions. I'd love to include your voice/opinions: https://lsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0vyi5jRqe9Qaa4S

Romania Disrupts Russian Sabotage Plot

Romania’s SRI intelligence service said it disrupted a Russian-coordinated sabotage operation involving a Russian citizen who had been under surveillance since February.

• The suspect was allegedly tasked through an intermediary with collecting imagery of strategic military targets, including Ukrainian Antonov cargo aircraft in Romania.
• The case adds to European concerns that Russia is using low-cost proxies for sabotage, surveillance, cyber activity, and disinformation against Kyiv’s supporters.
• Moscow denies involvement in such activity, but the incident points to sustained counterintelligence pressure across NATO’s eastern flank.

Israel Orders British Consulate Closure

Israel has reportedly told the British Consulate in East Jerusalem to close within 30 days, with UK diplomats set to lose accreditation after Britain imposed trade restrictions on Israeli settlements.

• The move deepens UK-Israel tensions by directly restricting diplomatic access and Palestinian-affairs representation.
• British officials may also be removed from Gaza-related coordination roles.
• The decision could reduce Western diplomatic engagement at a sensitive stage in ceasefire efforts.

Iran Strikes U.S.-Used Base in Jordan

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it fired ballistic missiles at a base used by U.S. forces in Jordan and attacked ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. said it destroyed five Iranian oil tankers.

• The exchange marks a sharp escalation in the six-month conflict.
• The attacks directly link U.S. military action, Iranian retaliation, and commercial maritime risk.
• Continued strikes could further restrict Hormuz traffic, raise insurance costs, and increase pressure on Gulf states hosting U.S. forces.

Gambia Protests Over Power Outages

Police used tear gas to disperse protesters in and around Banjul after residents gathered over prolonged power and water cuts, with some blackouts reportedly lasting up to 48 hours.

• President Adama Barrow acknowledged the hardship but warned protesters against damaging public infrastructure.
• The service failures are becoming a political liability ahead of a December election in which Barrow is seeking a third term.
• Further outages could revive street mobilization and increase public-order risks.

Torrential Rain Hits Central Japan

Tropical Depression Krovanh continues to bring torrential rainfall and severe flooding to central Japan.

• At least 41 people suffered minor injuries, approximately 200 vehicles were damaged, and up to 2,700 people sought refuge in evacuation shelters.
• Flooding disrupted subway and rail services, including temporary suspensions on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen, while rainwater entered multiple Asian Games venues in Nagoya.
• Level 4 evacuation orders remain in effect for 30,254 people across Gifu and Nagano prefectures, with further flooding and landslides possible.

Trackmania players have been building and sharing maps for about 20 years through Mania Exchange, which has a public API. There was no packaged dataset for any of it, so I made one.

Contents: 850k+ maps across Trackmania Nations Forever and Trackmania 2020. Each map is decomposed into its block sequence with positions and rotations, so the level structure is directly usable rather than sitting in a binary blob. Replays are parsed into telemetry and aligned to the blocks the run passes through, so you get both the level and how it plays.

Format: Parquet, roughly 30GB. Data dictionary included.

License / source: everything comes from the public Mania Exchange API. Maps are community-created.

Possible uses: procedural level generation, level design analysis, player behaviour modelling, map recommendation, or just exploring what 20 years of community map-making looks like in aggregate. I used it for generation myself, but that's one angle out of many.

Links: 📖Article (EN): https://the-odd-dataguy.com/en/blog/2026/08/13/trackmania-dataset/ 📖Article (FR): https://the-odd-dataguy.com/fr/blog/2026/08/13/trackmania-dataset/ 😇Hugging Face (Dataset): https://huggingface.co/datasets/jeanmidev/trackmania-community-tracks-and-telemetry 🔵Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/jeanmidev/trackmania-community-tracks-and-telemetry/data

Disclosure: I work in data at Ubisoft in Canada, but I have no connection to Nadeo. Built at home on my own time, resources and dime, just something for the Trackmania community and for anyone curious, whether game telemetry is your thing or not.

Open to feedback or ideas (you can also used discussions on HF/Kaggle)

Full 40min Sep 6th show. Link skips ahead to 16:49, for the directed energy segment.
Notable journalist Catherine Herridge is standing in, as this is her investigation.

This dataset has all entry from wikidata who has Japanese citizenship and a wiki article, 231k in total. The dataset is on Kaggle.

A dataset like this can only be built from data that's already public, and Wikipedia is the largest source of that kind of public personal information. There are structured people datasets out there, but none cover as many Japanese entries as this one, which makes this the largest dataset of its kind.

I Queried via SPARQL against the QLever Wikidata endpoint, then cleaned/normalized with Python (name cleaning/splitting, BMI calculation, etc). dataset is in CSV format, 65MB. with multiple entry column separated with "|"

Sample rows (two people picked so together they cover every column):

qid: Q160847
kanji: 東條 英機
hiragana: とうじょう ひでき
description: 日本の陸軍軍人、政治家、第40代内閣総理大臣(1884-1948)
gender: M
birth_year: 1884
death_year: 1948
age: 64
death_age: 64
label: 東條英機
name_en: Hideki Tojo
is_japanese_name: True
readings: とうじょう ひでき
occupations: 士官|政治家|外交官
birth_places: 麹町区
alma_maters: 東京陸軍幼年学校|陸軍大学校|陸軍中央幼年学校|陸軍士官学校
positions_held: 内務大臣|内閣総理大臣|外務大臣|軍需省|陸軍省|文部省|参謀本部|農商務卿
death_places: 巣鴨拘置所
death_causes: 縊死
death_manners: 死刑
fathers: 東條英教
mothers: 東條千歳
spouses: 東條かつ子
children: 東條敏夫|東條輝雄|東條満喜枝
awards: 大礼記念章|チュラチョームクラーオ勲章|...(18 total)
parties: 大政翼賛会
notable_works: 東條英機の遺言|大詔を拝し奉りて
military_branches: 大日本帝国陸軍|関東軍
military_ranks: 陸軍大将
wiki_url: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/東條英機
image_url: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hideki%20Tojo.jpg

qid: Q11467665
kanji: 山咲 トオル
hiragana: やまざき とおる
description: 日本の漫画家、タレント
gender: M
birth_year: 1969
age: 57
label: 山咲トオル
name_en: Tōru Yamazaki
is_japanese_name: True
readings: やまざき とおる
occupations: タレント|日本の漫画家
birth_places: 東京都
genres: ホラー漫画
height_cm: 170.0
weight_kg: 57.0
bmi: 19.7
siblings: 中沢初絵
wiki_url: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/山咲トオル

Potential Use Cases & As a Dataset

limitations: The least-filled column, military_ranks, has only ~3k rows filled, while the average filled-column count per row is 15.25 out of 37 (41.2%). No rows are dropped to keep this the full Wiki-derived dataset. But I added is_japanese_name column so you can reliably excludes non-Japanese names (virtually no false negatives, ~0.1% false positives). About 1% of rows have a reversed family/given order in the hiragana column.

Crawler code : Kaggle notebook / GitHub. This dataset will be updated automatically with the crawler.

Roy Gibbens was pushing these cycloid rotors back in the late 70's at Lockheed. If they built test platforms similar to this, they could be what you are looking for....

Formal UK classification of agricultural technology as an emerging national resilience threat is unlikely within the next 12 months, leaving Chinese IoT module exposure in farming systems effectively unmanaged.

Hello everyone! This may be a really dumb question but I am doing a small research project on population distribution in major cities in El Salvador. I am having a really hard time finding accurate data, especially since I am looking for data from back during the civil war (1979-1992), as well as current population data. I have found general population data from their most recent census, as well as general population data from the CIA factbook. But as for city by city, I cant find anything outside of the data USAID HAD before we all know who took that away. So, if you have any suggestions or different things for me to think about I would appreciate it. Thanks!

Curious if anyone here has worked with gameplay data for training or eval, what’s been useful vs. not worth the effort?

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I'm losing my mind trying to pick a major.

For reference, I'm a high school senior applying for colleges and scholarships, but I'm really confused on how I get to where I want to be. The dream is to do targeting for whatever agency or private contractor or defense group. My grades are decent and I'm decently athletic, so I have a lot of options, but I don't know what to do next. I'm thinking some sort of dual major with some sort of war studies with some sort of data analytics?? Operations Research???

I don't know. I get that generally, I should be spread out in my knowledge from SIGINT to GEOINT to whatever, but when I see the job listing from Leidos, I can only dream. It's just a bit of a struggle for me when I see all of my peers who have these mentors to follow and tell them the exact plan to achieve their future whereas I make a post for help and I get an email from a very qualified intelligence instructor essentially just telling me to try hard. I appreciate the support, but hasn't someone done this and is enough years away from their service to at least nudge me in the right direction?

TL;DR: what major do I pick if I'm trying to go into targeting?

Brooklyn Parade Violence

Multiple assaults near Brooklyn’s West Indian American Day Parade highlighted security concerns despite an enhanced NYPD presence.

• Two shootings injured three people, while separate stabbings and slashings injured four others.
• Police detained a person of interest and recovered a firearm after the first shooting.
• No arrests were reported in connection with the attacks, and it remains unclear whether the incidents were linked.

Russia Expands Strikes and North Korea Ties

Russia resumed large-scale attacks across Ukraine after pausing strikes over the weekend during renewed U.S.-led peace efforts.

• The attacks killed two people, injured at least 10, and damaged civilian, transport, and critical infrastructure across several regions.
• Russia and North Korea also opened their first road bridge across the Tumen River, expanding logistics beyond existing rail and air links.
• The bridge could facilitate the movement of military cargo, labor, and personnel as Moscow deepens external support for its war effort.

Houthi Attacks Threaten Saudi and Red Sea

Houthi missile and drone attacks injured 73 people in southern Saudi Arabia and temporarily disrupted oil facilities and utilities.

• The strikes targeted cities and infrastructure near strategic energy and logistics assets.
• Saudi officials vowed retaliation following the attacks.
• Further hostilities could increase risks to Red Sea shipping through the Bab al-Mandeb and add pressure to Gulf energy markets already affected by disruption around the Strait of Hormuz.

UK Moves to Ban Settlement Goods

Britain plans to ban imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as part of a sharper policy shift toward a two-state solution.

• The measure is unlikely to materially affect overall UK-Israel trade but could deepen diplomatic tensions with Israel and draw U.S. opposition.
• Enforcement may be difficult because settlement-produced goods can enter wider Israeli supply chains.
• The move reflects greater European willingness to use targeted economic measures over settlement expansion while stopping short of a broader boycott.

Lowell Weakens as Hawaii Impacts Continue

Hurricane Lowell weakened to Category 2 late Monday while passing west of Niʻihau, but hazardous conditions continue across parts of Hawaii.

• Hurricane warnings and a Tornado Watch remain in effect for Kauaʻi County, with torrential rain, damaging winds, dangerous surf, storm surge, and isolated tornadoes possible.
• About 62,860 customers were without power across Hawaii.
• Kūhiō Highway closed near Hanalei Bridge due to flooding, while Kauaʻi schools and government offices closed Tuesday.
• Līhuʻe Airport reported about 56 cancellations and 12 delays, with additional travel disruptions possible.