Tootfinder

For your Saturday reading pleasure, Metacurity offers our free and paid readers a run-down of the top infosec-related long reads of the week.
This week's selection covers,
--Microsoft's Chinese "Digital Escorts" are a huge threat to DoD's digital security,
--Myanmar's scam centers are proliferating rapidly,
--Are VCs unpatriotic for investing in Chinese AI?,
--Afghanistan's extensive data systems need proper governance,
--AI c…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 7/12/25
Microsoft's Chinese "Digital Escorts" are a huge threat to DoD's digital security, Myanmar's scam centers are proliferating rapidly, Are VCs unpatriotic for investing in Chinese AI?, Afghanistan's extensive data systems need proper governance, AI can't replace humans in bug hunting

How I Approach Performance Investigations
https://ricomariani.medium.com/how-i-approach-performance-investigations-69f4191c553f?source=rss-e6e91dab0708------2

#COZMIC - Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Initial Conditions Beyond Cold Dark Matter / Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Fractional non-CDM Initial Conditions / Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations of Self-interacting Dark Matter with Suppressed Initial Conditions: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adceef / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adce83 / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adce82 -> Scientists code Milky Way twin galaxies to better understand dark matter: https://today.usc.edu/scientists-code-milky-way-twin-galaxies-to-better-understand-dark-matter - USC researchers led the development of a computer simulation that gives astrophysicists a mechanism for testing ideas about dark matter and its behavior in the Milky Way and other galaxies.

Spot the kitty

Internal workings of the Fediverse algorithm

50 years ago #OTD at 16:09 UTC #Soyuz 19 and the final #Apollo spacecraft docked in orbit in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project or Экспериментальный полёт «Союз»–«Аполлон» (the Americans and Soviets never agreed on which s/c comes first): https://www.nasa.gov/apollo-soyuz-test-project/ = various NASA materials, https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/astp.htm = many links, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4209.pdf = a biiiig book, https://www.facebook.com/AstroDrewMorgan/posts/pfbid0wcN12LcAfRYYTmiWS71GQ47P42jukXVhd2QWA7eBzgg1wbdZAKq8LXVGTC9o7tKtl and https://www.facebook.com/ralf.heckel1/posts/pfbid02jcFp85PRy2UBUs4JVhPQcBnmddC8sQbPL3Vx26XoFMvbbsToNJmpLMDrRfce98HPl and https://www.facebook.com/groups/176051159106442/posts/24331420949809459 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/48800622850/posts/10162318303047851 = more visuals, https://www.youtube.com/live/Mu7iEyaOmDM = an online event, https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/not-that-into-peace-doves-the-apollo-soyuz-patch-nasa-rejected/ and https://www.spacerockethistory.com/2025/02/space-rocket-history-457-apollo-soyuz-test-project-soviet-concerns-with-apollo/ and http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071425a-apollo-soyuz-test-project-astp-official-flight-kit-ofk-apk.html and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/science/apollo-soyuz-test-project-1975-anniversary.html?smid=bs-share = articles and https://scicomm.xyz/@Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art/114858897568849751 = a contemporary cartoon.

Me and the gang about to do gang shit (nap all day)

Yeah I'll have the uh.. EFI Shell with a diet coke

Yes, hi, question...
When is dinner?

I also like to take pics of what I want eat 📸