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Five years after the Taliban took power, an increasing number of countries are renewing ties or scaling up diplomatic contacts with the hardline Islamists, who seized power in Kabul in 2021 after 20 years of brutal insurgent warfare.
Campaigners fear that the individual contacts by different countries risk undermining “coherent, consistent” demands for an improvement in human rights in return for any diplomatic concessions.
The United Nations described a recent “cascade of [Talib…

Concerns grow over increased global ties with Taliban in Afghanistan
Campaigners fear deeper diplomatic contacts are undermining demands for improvements in human rights

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- Holst's The Planets at the BBC Proms
Student musicians unite under conductor Sakari Oramo to perform Holst's suite alongside Sibelius’s The Wood Nymph and a new work from Finnish-American composer Lara Poe.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yxqd

An Iranian-linked cyberattack knocked a small British power generator offline for four days last month, putting a spotlight on the security of smaller energy facilities.
Check out today's Metacurity for more on what happened in the UK and other top infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--GTA VI hacker leaks gameplay and map,
--Hackers claim 6.1 TB theft from Italian schools,
--CISA warns of exploited MLflow flaw,
--OpenAI warns of persistent AI cyberattacks,
--Anthropic puts Mythos 5 to work on cyber defense,
--Anthropic customers balk at pricey Fable 5,
--Black Hat and DEF CON attendee phishing campaign weaponizes Google Docs,
--OpenAI calls for stronger California AI law,
--Apollo confirms breach after social engineering attack,
--Irregular postmortem leaves key questions unanswered,
--Latvia road agency faulted for late breach reporting,
--Medusa ransomware victim count tops 500,
--Thousands of leaked AWS keys remain active,
--Malware targets Android car head units,
--ToxicPanda expands Android attack arsenal,
--New Zealand moves to ban social media for under-16s,
--Prevalent AI raises $22 million,
--Munich Re buys At-Bay for $575m
--Lawmakers seek probe of CISA staffing cuts,
--TikTok settles children’s privacy case for $400m,
--Google launches tool to expose image context,
--Flock builds AI to identify and track drivers,
--Flock CEO calls for privacy-safety “compromise”
https://www.metacurity.com/iran-linked-uk-power-generator-attack-exposes-a-cybersecurity-blind-spot/

Newly disclosed records reveal
the US government extensively spied on prominent leftwing organizations
and on protesters as part of a vast operation into groups opposing the immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year.
Internal investigative reports show the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent undercover agents to community meetings in the Twin Cities and New York City,
infiltrated Signal chats and obtained financial records of mainstream unions and le…

US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown

Ever wish your R pipelines talked back? 📣
logrittr adds a verbose pipe (%>=%) that logs what’s happening at every step—rows, columns, changes, and timing—without touching your dplyr code.
Great for debugging, teaching, or just understanding your data flow.
👉 https://guillaumepressiat.github.io/lo

A Verbose Pipe Operator for Logging dplyr Pipelines
Provides the `%>=%` pipe operator that logs row counts, column counts, added/dropped columns, and timing at each step of a dplyr pipeline, inspired by the SAS DATA step log. Supports nested pipelines and configurable options for display width, number formatting, and language.

The presumption of regularity
encompasses the idea that, in a range of legal contexts,
courts presume that public officials “have properly discharged their official duties.”
This doctrine has long been taken for granted in litigation against the federal government.
But as the Trump administration has repeatedly misstated facts to courts
and resisted compliance with their orders,
the presumption of regularity has come under unprecedented strain.
Pub…

What the Presumption of Regularity’s Erosion Means for Challenges to Executive Action
The erosion of the presumption of regularity presents opportunities to those challenging the Trump administration’s agenda in court.