OSINTdefender
Federal prosecutors have charged OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications, the Justice Department said Tuesday. He is accused of hiding a recorder in an executive conference room at OpenAI’s San Francisco offices. He was arrested Oct. 9 and appeared in federal court Tuesday. The charge is an allegation in a criminal complaint, and he has not been convicted.

According to the complaint, OpenAI staff found the device on or about Sept. 30, plugged into a USB port on the back of a TV and concealed in toilet paper. OpenAI determined it was installed around Sept. 28 and that its contents were encrypted. The complaint alleges CCTV footage showed Alfozan near the room on multiple dates, though he had no authority to access or attend meetings there, and that before Sept. 28 he used a productivity tool to ask about building addresses, meeting rooms, calendars and executive locations.

It further alleges that on Oct. 5 he was seen looking behind the TV, and that OpenAI security later found a second, similar recording device in a bag he left unattended in another room, along with his wallet and ID.

If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The release does not allege he acted for a foreign government, does not give a motive, and does not say what, if anything, the device recorded. FBI Director Kash Patel called protecting American AI innovation “one of our highest counterintelligence priorities.”

OpenAI said it used its internal AI models to identify him and trace the device, and that it has no indication he accessed or took model weights, source code or customer data. The company fired him. The FBI is investigating.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/saudi-national-arrested-installing-surreptitious-audio-recording-device-openai

We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.

At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.

We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats. - OpenAI Newsroom
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Nuno Felix
RT @kvoneggert: В интервью Рагозина @meduzaproject лично меня шокировал вот какой момент: журналист никак не отреагировал на слова Леонида о том, происходящее с ним – "садизм" со стороны властей Латвии. Любое СМИ, которое хотя бы раз сообщало о судьбе украинских военнопленных, Жени Беркович или Александра Скобова, не имеет права оставить это гротескное по уровню самомнения и солипсизма заявление без хотя бы одного уточняющего вопроса. "Медуза" смогла.
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Nuno Felix
RT @SaudiNews50: عاجل:

استهداف مبنى إداري تابع لشركة أرامكو السعودية في الظهران دون إصابات.

(مصدر مسؤول في وزارة الطاقة)
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Open Source Intel
In a rare Wall Street upset, JPMorgan missed Q3 earnings expectations, reporting $5.57 per share against forecasts of $5.90, hit by weaker bond trading and $658 million in securities losses. https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2110124216854983142/photo/1
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Nuno Felix
Kremlin has good reason to be spooked over Kaliningrad. They know they can’t defend it if push comes to shove

Russian officials say that if #NATO were to attack #Russia or its parts like the #Kaliningrad region, the military conflict would be very brief. Do our Western opponents understand this hint? - Mikhail Ulyanov
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Open Source Intel
Following tonight’s Houthi missile attack on Saudi Arabia, the headquarters of Saudi Aramco in Dhahran were struck.

A limited fire broke out at the facility, with no casualties recorded.

Source: Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy
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Open Source Intel
The New York Post reports that Ilhan Omar’s staff helped alter her birthdate in public records after her 2018 election, raising fresh questions about her age and citizenship history. https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2110125106840363079/photo/1
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OSINTtechnical
Major Ukrainian attack drone raid into Russia ongoing tonight.

Local channels report several hundred drones in the air, primarily bypassing Moscow to the east and entering the Volga River basin. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/2110127900167180778/photo/1
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OSINTdefender
RT @All_Source_News: This image follows CNN reporting from last year that the U-2 has been operating over Mexico. If confirmed, it would be the first known photograph of the aircraft operating over Mexican territory.

From @coco_coindreau we have a photo allegedly taken from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon of a U-2 Dragon Lady flying overhead. Many cartels have a presence in the city like other major metropolitan cities within Mexico.

Left source photo & right comparison photo is 7 years ago in the US. https://twitter.com/natsecboogie/status/2110120068755423745/photo/1 - Pernicious Propaganda
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Nuno Felix
RT @michaeldweiss: They just posted a video of a guy being mauled by a tiger. Was that meant to compensate for this possible about-face?

New: Trump and his advisers are debating whether to call off plans to livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, with Trump having remarked privately that he did not initially know that Nidal Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down, two sources familiar with the discussions told CNN https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/13/politics/trump-fort-hood-shooter-livestream-execution - Alayna Treene
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Nuno Felix
RT @SaladinAlDronni: https://twitter.com/SaladinAlDronni/status/2110110322069504494/photo/1

https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/2110098796856365196/video/1 - Rapid Response 47
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