Tootfinder

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--The time is now to end cybersecurity with AI,
--Prosecutors say PowerSchool hacker was skilled,
--People with facial differences struggle with digital identity systems,
--Autistic teens can't grasp ramifications of digital crimes, …

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 10/11/25
The time is now to end cybersecurity with AI, Prosecutors say PowerSchool hacker was skilled, People with facial differences struggle with digital identity systems, Autistic teens can't grasp ramifications of digital crimes, Online predator groups can kill teens, Crypto ATMs rip off scam victims

"U.S. District Judge Tim Kelly, a Donald Trump appointee, found the government's "reunification" plan included little proof that any parent or guardian wanted the children returned."
Federal judge blocks deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-blocks-deportation-of-hundreds-of-guatemalan-children/

It is officially funny-fur-hat season for the RCMP!
(Seen just now on a TV hit from Manitoba : ))
#drivers #rcmp #checkstop
https://globalnews.ca/video/11578323/rcmp-checkstop-ramps-up/

The US justice department has scrubbed a study from its website concluding that far-rightextremists have killed far more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group
The report, now archived, titled
What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism,
vanished from the Department of Justice website between 11 and 12 September,
according to Jason Paladino, an independent investigative reporter who first wrote the story.
The vanished study opened with: “Sinc…

Facebook removes Chicago-area page dedicated to ICE sightings after Justice Department intervenes (Lauryn Azu/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/facebook-removes-chicago-ice-watch-page/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p147#a251014p147

Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/google-removes-ai-videos-disney…

Google Removes AI Videos of Disney Characters After Cease and Desist
Google has taken down dozens of AI-generated videos of Disney-owned characters after the studio sent a cease and desist letter on Wednesday.

Your reminder that Trump openly threatened the citizenship of Zohran Mamdani.
✅ Trump ramps up attacks against Zohran Mamdani | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-communism-attacks-nyc-ma…

Trump ramps up attacks against Zohran Mamdani
President Donald Trump has a new political foil: New York’s Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani. In recent days, the president has escalated his attacks against the 33-year-old self-described Democratic socialist, threatening to arrest Mamdani, to deport him and even take over the country’s largest city if he wins the general election in November. Mamdani’s stunning, surprise victory over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has given Republicans a new target as they seek to paint t…

🥄 'Self-fixturing' friction stir technique removes barriers for US manufacturing
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-fixturing-friction-technique-barriers.html

'Self-fixturing' friction stir technique removes barriers for US manufacturing
A spinning tool plunges into two pieces of metal, rotating at a high rate of speed. As the tool begins to move, it softens and mixes the metal, creating a powerful weld—one that can securely join similar and dissimilar materials (particularly metals and alloys) without rivets, fasteners, or adhesive. This advanced manufacturing technique—called friction stir welding—requires only a fraction of the energy required by conventional techniques, but it isn't used on many assembly lines today.

Facebook Removes ICE-Tracking Group Under Pressure From Trump Regime
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-removes-ice-tracking-group-under-pressure-from-trump-regime-2000672106

Trump's Attempt to Deport Chinese Dissident Guan Heng is Part of an Awful Pattern (Ilya Somin/Reason)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/12/17/trumps-attempt-to-deport-chinese-dissident-guan-heng-is-part-of-an-awful-pattern/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p127#a251217p127