Weekends are never slow for cyber news, particularly this past weekend. Check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you might have missed, including
--DHS warns of likely Iranian cyberattacks after Trump's missile strikes
--Authorities warn of Salt Typhoon threats in Canada,
--Aflac struck by likely Scattered Spider attack,
--DPRK likely behind BitoPro $11m theft,
--CoinMarketCap hit by wallet-draining attack,
--Hacker stole $250K …
AWS shuts down its Shanghai AI research lab, following similar moves by other US tech groups, including Microsoft and IBM, to scale back China-based R&D efforts (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a7cdb3bf-9c9d-40ef-951e-3c9f5bafe41d
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
Enlightening thread on Proton's new LLM
https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/114906970072548804
Shield AI has emerged as a lead contender in the increasingly crowded race against competitors like Anduril and AeroVironment
to outfit the U.S. military with killer drones.
The $5 billion-valued startup, founded in 2015 by brothers Ryan and Brandon Tseng,
sells a suite of hardware and products, including autonomous piloting software that has been used to fly fighter jets.
In March, it raised $240 million in a funding round led by Korean conglomerate Hanwha and Amer…
I am quite sick and tired of the D-party doing little more than useless posturing (such as writing letters to El Cheeto) or simply asking for money. (The purpose of that money is almost never sufficiently described, if the purpose is described at all.)
So it is good to hear that new candidates are arising who will challenge the fuddy-duddy-crats of the D-party. (My own Congress Critter included.)
Note to others: We need good, fresh faces filling elective posts at *all* levels -…
lol everything's going great over there https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2072388/full-list-airlines-cancelled-flights-dubai-iran-war
Browns WR Diontae Johnson believes Kenny Pickett will emerge as starting QB after camp competition https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-wr-diontae-johnson-believes-kenny-pickett-will-emerge-as-starting-qb-after-competitio…
Cost for research -- how cost data of research can be included in open metadata to be reused and evaluated
Julia Bartlewski, Christoph Broschinski, Gernot Deinzer, Cornelia Lang, Dirk Pieper, Bianca Schweighofer, Colin Sippl, Lisa-Marie Stein, Alexander Wagner, Silke Weisheit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18517
UMG has partnered with IP asset management company Liquidax Capital to "accelerate the development of UMG's music-related AI patents", already filing 15 (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business