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Check out today's Metacurity for a comprehensive run-down of crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea,
--CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,'
--Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season,
--Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled,
--Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money …

Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea
CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,' Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season, Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled, Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money laundering, Firefox gets anti-fingerprinting fix, much more

James Comey pleads not guilty to criminal charges following Trump pressure to prosecute (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/08/james-comey-pleads-not-guilty-trial-date-00597839
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p53#a251008p53

Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Speech Arrest During Direct Cortical Stimulation Mapping
Nikasadat Emami, Amirhossein Khalilian-Gourtani, Jianghao Qian, Antoine Ratouchniak, Xupeng Chen, Yao Wang, Adeen Flinker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08703

Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Speech Arrest During Direct Cortical Stimulation Mapping
Identifying cortical regions critical for speech is essential for safe brain surgery in or near language areas. While Electrical Stimulation Mapping (ESM) remains the clinical gold standard, it is invasive and time-consuming. To address this, we analyzed intracranial electrocorticographic (ECoG) data from 16 participants performing speech tasks and developed machine learning models to directly predict if the brain region underneath each ECoG electrode is critical. Ground truth labels indicating…

Incarcerated Welsh rock singer Ian Watkins #Lostprophets killed in another UK prison attack behind bars, in 2023 he'd been stabbed and held hostage by inmates. He was 48 and had spent over a decade in prison thus far after a 2013 drug bust found pedophiliac materials on his electronic devices, and after police investigation, he admitted to a string of sex offences – including the attempted rape of…

Effect of crystallographic texture on dealloying kinetics and composition of nanoporous gold surface
Ezgi Hatipo\u{g}lu, Ayman A. El-Zoka, Yujun Zhao, Stanislav Mr\'az, Jochen M. Schneider, Baptiste Gault, Aparna Saksena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05970

Effect of crystallographic texture on dealloying kinetics and composition of nanoporous gold surface
Nanoporous metals allow for tailoring composition and surface-to-volume ratio, both aspects critical for applications in catalysis. Here, Ag70Au30 (2 at. %) films with a face-centered cubic structure were deposited at 400°C, either {111}-textured or randomly oriented. Upon chemical dealloying, atom probe tomography of the nanoporous structure reveals that the textured film retains a up to 2.7 times higher Ag concentration within the ligaments compared to the randomly oriented film that exhibit…

A surge in AI company valuations is driving the popularity of special purpose vehicles, but some involve high fees, opaque structures, and layers of middlemen (Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/mar

Investors warn AI FOMO could be fueling a risky bubble in companies like OpenAI and Anthropic
As AI valuations soar into the hundreds of billions, a parallel market of temporary financial shells is proliferating to meet investor FOMO, and many investors are starting to sound the alarm bells that it portends a bubble in the AI gold rush

Zwei Veranstaltungstipps für Berlin:
1) Von Filmhistoriker und -theoretiker Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann ist unlängst das Buch "Gewalt als Bild. Die Bilder vom 7. Oktober im Spiegel der visuellen Erinnerung an die Shoah" erschienen (Neofelis Verlag). Kommenden Sonntag gibt es dazu eine Diskussion im Jüdischen Museum Berlin mit Annette Vowinckel.

Veranstaltungstipp 5. Oktober 2025 | Jüdisches Museum Berlin
Gewalt als Bild. Die Bilder vom 7. Oktober im Spiegel der visuellen Erinnerung an die Shoah

I've noticed that @… has a carbon emission number for his blog at the bottom of the pages. So I've decided to try it. With 0.01g (i.e. better than 98% tested pages), it pleased my environmental conscience. I’m not sure how relevant this number is, but it did alleviate some feelings of guilt :)