Tootfinder

It's finally Friday but don't head out for the weekend until you check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
--UK ICO fines LastPass $1.6 million over 2022 data breach,
--Cybercrims impersonate cops to get sensitive data on users,
--Throwaway phone numbers undercut SMS 2FA,
--Chinese inverters threaten the power grid,
--Second Irish HSE attack revealed,
--Irish Justice Minister apologizes for gaffe ov…

UK ICO fines LastPass $1.6 million over 2022 data breach
Cybercrims impersonate cops to get sensitive data on users, Throwaway phone numbers undercut SMS 2FA, Chinese inverters threaten the power grid, Second Irish HSE attack revealed, Irish Justice Minister apologizes for gaffe over PSNI data breach, Korea seeks punitive fines over breaches, much more

from my link log —
A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway’s Game of Life.
https://woodrush.github.io/blog/posts/2022-01-12-lisp-in-life.html
saved 2025-12-12

A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway’s Game of Life
Lisp in Life is a Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway’s Game of Life.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,249,380 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Das #MumAndDad am Kieler Ziegelteich ist der HotSpots für schöne Fahrräder. Das Publikum ist bunt.
Am 5. November 2022 kam es dort zu einem Messerangriff. Gegen drei Tatverdächtige wurde wegen gefährlicher Körperverletzung und gefährlicher Körperverletzung in Tateinheit mit versuchtem Totschlag ermittelt. Homophobie soll eine Rolle gespielt haben.
Nun hat die Staatsanwaltschaft Anklage…

Mutmaßlich homophobe Messerattacke in Kiel: Hauptverdächtiger war erst 15 Jahre alt
Mehr als drei Jahre nach der mutmaßlich homophoben Messerattacke vor der Bar „Mum&Dad“ in Kiel hat die Staatsanwaltschaft drei Beschuldigte angeklagt. Alle waren zum Tatzeitpunkt noch minderjährig. Einen 23-Jährigen hatte das Trio damals lebensgefährlich verletzt. Die Einzelheiten.

Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regula…

Trump’s Department of Justice moved to dismiss a criminal case against his former aide
Steve Bannon,
connected to his refusal to testify before Congress relating to the investigation into the January 6 insurrection.
The controversial hard-right strategist,
an ally of Trump,
was convicted in 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress
after refusing to appear for a deposition before the House committee that investigated the 2021 attack on the Capitol
a…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#FastFoodABook
#HashTagGames

📉 Eating more but growing less: Stagnant Philippine farms linked to widening rice gap
#food

Eating more but growing less: Stagnant Philippine farms linked to widening rice gap
As of 2022 alone, Filipinos were eating 2.3 million metric tons more rice than the country produced—an 18% shortfall that has locked the Philippines into deeper dependence on imported rice despite years of government programs to boost local harvests.

from my link log —
Geometric algebra: what is the inverse of a vector?
https://mattferraro.dev/posts/geometric-algebra
saved 2022-09-18 https://

"Malaysia lost 20% of its coral reefs in three years"
#Malaysia #CoralReef #Environment #Oceans

Malaysia lost 20% of its coral reefs in three years
Malaysia’s coral reefs are shrinking at a pace that is hard to ignore. According to the latest national survey by Reef Check Malaysia, about one-fifth of the country’s coral cover has been lost since 2022, a decline compressed into just three years. What had been gradual erosion now looks more like a slide. The 2025 […]

$35M Cryptocurrency Theft Linked to LastPass Password Manager DataBreach
Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs has traced over $35 million in stolen cryptocurrency to the 2022 LastPass breach, revealing a sophisticated Russian cybercriminal laundering operation that remains active into 2025. […]
⛓️‍💥 https://

$35M Cryptocurrency Theft Linked to LastPass Password Manager DataBreach
Over $35 million in stolen crypto tied to the 2022 LastPass breach, with the associated Russian cybercrime operation still active into 2025.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

A few months after handing in my thesis and receiving my Master of Science degree in 2022, ChatGPT was released. Essentially, nothing about how I solve problems has changed since then, but I had to continuously observe the brain drain around me. It's weird how the majority of people suddenly treat anything an LLM spits out as truth while I stick to good old search engines (with the additional hurdle of now having to filter LLM garbage from my search results).

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#CheapSongsOrPoems

📢 Razzia und Festnahmen wegen russischer Embargoverstößen
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat fünf Männer festnehmen lassen, denen sie die Ausfuhr von Material zur Rüstungsproduktion nach Russland in großem Stil vorwirft. Im Zentrum der Ermittlungen steht demnach eine Firma in Lübeck. Es soll um Tausende Lieferungen nach Russland seit Anfang 2022 gehen.
➡️

Festnahmen nach Verstoß gegen Russland-Sanktionen
Im Auftrag der Bundesanwaltschaft sind fünf Männer festgenommen worden, die gegen Russland-Sanktionen verstoßen haben sollen. Über Scheinfirmen sollen seit 2022 Tausende Lieferungen nach Russland gegangen sein - unter anderem aus Lübeck.

Mein Vater war (guter) Kunde im Mitarbeiter-Shop des Unternehmens, bei dem er 2004 nach 35 Jahren Betriebszugehörigkeit in Rente ging. Zuletzt hat er dort 2018 oder 2019 eingekauft, im Januar 2023 ist er verstorben. Ich habe den Shop mehrfach darüber informiert. Kurz vor Weihnachten erneut Werbepost an die Adresse des im Frühjahr 2022 verkauften Elternhauses. Ich überlege jetzt, mal den Datenschutzzuständigen ausfindig zu machen und anzufragen, ob das da alles DSGVO-konform abläuft.

No Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

(2022) Percepts evoked by multi-electrode stimulation of human visual cortex https://www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S1935-861X(22)00185-1/fulltext
"Discussions with our subjects revealed that they did not perceive coherent shapes or easily identifiable for…

Human trafficking. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o2s7e2iusv5jd5gcykzbxms4/post/3mddituuijc2s

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,209,880 troops in Ukraine since 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

16WW House Suburban Sparrows Ambient (2022-05) - House sparrows outside 16WW or close by. #sparrow #wildlife #fieldRecording -

16WW House Suburban Sparrows Ambient (2022-05)
House sparrows outside 16WW or close by. #sparrow #wildlife #fieldRecording

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Stooges:
🎵 1969
#TheStooges
https://lp-hovercraft.bandcamp.com/track/2022-cover-of-the-stooges-1969

This article just cited the Finnish Michaux study. There are others. The whole "industrial renewable energy capture systems" wager has inadequate foundations, which is why the only way is to use much less energy. Hence #degrowth See my article and linked report for the UK case.
Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil? - CounterPunch.org

Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?
A key issue for the accomplishment of renewables is power storage because of the impact of wind and solar intermittency, both of which are highly intermittent. Most studies assume gas will be the buffer for intermittency. Other than using fossil fuel such as gas as a buffer, an adequate power storage system to handle intermittency will require 30 times more material than what electric vehicles require with current plans, meaning the scope is much larger than the current paradigm allows.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#WinterFoodsAnything

Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz

The Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons, has developed a reputation for buying tech companies past their peak and aggressively cutting costs.
The firm acquired Evernote in 2022, followed by Meetup and WeTransfer in 2024, and AOL and Eventbrite in 2025.
Layoffs followed many of those deals. In September 2024, just months after being acquired by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer laid off 75% of its staff.
Just months after Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last ye…

Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Employees reported major job cuts this week, just months after the video hosting site was bought by Bending Spoons.

> The upshot is that, whereas it used to take upwards of 12 minutes to join Matrix HQ […] now down to about 30 seconds
In #matrix , room joins occur after you start to enjoy the loading spinner.
https://

Old article, but I just came across it. Wonderful surrealist photographs.
A House Is Not a Home: the self-portraits of Brooke DiDonato – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/g

Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25M seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after "several pivots, and two rounds of layoffs" (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/386942/entro…

Entropy, a16z-backed decentralized custody startup, is winding down and returning capital to investors
Entropy's "anti-capitalist anarchist" founder is winding down the firm and returning capital to investors after failing to find a scalable business model.

Tiens, encore une différence intéressante pour les amis français. En Allemagne, les homicides peuvent être prescrit, mais les meurtres, eux, ne sont jamais prescrit. C'est une séquelle des poursuites contre les crimes nazis, souvent élucidés avec beaucoup de retard.

La Cour de cassation estime dans une décision historique que le meurtre de Marie-Thérèse Bonfanti en 1986 est
La position de la Cour de cassation, très attendue, rejaillira sur tout "cold case" similaire, notamment dans certains dossiers du pôle de Nanterre, spécialisé dans les crimes non élucidés.

from my link log —
Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on arm64 and x86.
https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/faster-zlib-deflate-decompression-on-the-apple-m1-and-x86/
saved 2022-08-20

Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86)
DEFLATE is a relatively slow compression algorithm from 1991, which (along with its wrapper format, zlib) is incredibly widely used, for example in the PNG, Zip and Gzip file formats and the HTTP, …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Robert Glasper:
🎵 Let It Ride (6 Music Session, 13 Apr 2022)
#RobertGlasper
https://thefruitionexperience.bandcamp.com/track/let-it-ride-robert-glasper-fruition-trio-12-13-15
https://open.spotify.com/track/6PFFOfhu61KGhOEjhdePIS

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,234,040 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

Progressive candidate Nida Allam has launched a primary challenge to a House Democrat from North Carolina,
seeking a redo of the 2022 contest that saw significant interference by the pro-Israel lobby and corporate interests.
Nida Allam announced her campaignon Thursday,
with backing from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and a slate of progressive groups on launch.
She’s running on a platform supporting issues like Medicare for All and affordable housing,
and has …

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,195,610 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

from my link log —
Hardening snmalloc.
https://github.com/microsoft/snmalloc/tree/release_docs/docs/security
saved 2022-05-10 ht…

https://truthout.org/articles/progressive-launches-primary-challenge-to-democrat-who-once-got-2m-from-aipac/

Progressive Launches Primary Challenge to Democrat Who Once Got $2M From AIPAC
AIPAC spent $2 million to oppose progressive Nida Allam from being elected in North Carolina in 2022.

I don't know if this is true for all #EpsteinFiles the #DOJ just released but at least for the PDF linked in the quoted Bluesky post:
1. Open PDF in MS Word
2. Select All (CTRL A)
3. Set text color to Automatic
4. Read on
#redacted #technology #incompetence #unprofessional

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Paul McCartney & Wings:
🎵 Jet
#PaulMcCartney #Wings
https://security2.bandcamp.com/track/chet-parody-of-jet-by-paul-mccartney-wings-re-mastered-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/4D40ZlFAWsvX7lua1Kablh