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So one of the authors of the Le Monde story about the secretive US unit called Group 78 contacted me to tell me I had misinterpreted the story published by his outlet and Die Zeit.
I explain everything in this thread on BlueSky (it's hard to thread things here).
Take a look:
https://bsky.app/pro…

Cynthia Brumfield (@metacurity.com)
OK, I misinterpreted the LeMonde/DieZeit story on the secret US cybercrime fighting unit called Group 78. Martin Untersinger, https://bsky.app/profile/untersin.gr, one of the Le Monde story authors, got in touch with me to explain. Here goes 1/8 https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2025/10/16/revelations-sur-le-group-78-une-unite-secrete-americaine-chargee-de-la-lutte-contre-les-cybercriminels_6647096_4408996.html https://www.zeit.de/digital/2025-10/ransomware-blackbasta-fbi-bka/komplettans…

Caleb Williams, Drake Maye and Matthew Stafford had some of the top plays of Week 15 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47316876/caleb-williams-drake-maye-matthew-stafford-wildest-plays-week-15

One of the members of my church's congregation has gotten right to work making use of our state's new ADU law: #NHPolitics #YIMBY #Housing

My talk about #Thunderbird was accepted at @…
it's a talk from a community perspective and I will share my personal story (not so much) and some aspects you wont find anywhere else:

Thunderbird (a community angle) OpenAlt 2025
I am a [community](https://pontoon.mozilla.org/contributors/bogomil/) [contributor](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?user_id=359734) and a long-time user of [Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net/). I want to share with you my vision of what Thunderbird was, is, and will be in the future. Many people are familiar with the interface and the fact that it allows you to manage your email, but this is not why I decided to spend time improving it. I'll cover topics like: - What can any …

FT's Tim Cook retirement story could be a "trial balloon" from people close to him, if Cook makes the decision to leave on a high note after Q1 earnings report (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/tim-cook-retirement-apple/

Let Tim Cook
Might Tim Cook retire as CEO of Apple in early 2026? There are signs...

Evolution of the infrared luminosity function and its corresponding dust-obscured star formation rate density out to z~6
M. P. Koprowski, J. V. Wijesekera, J. S. Dunlop, K. Lisiecki, D. J. McLeod, R. J. McLure, M. J. Micha{\l}owski, M. Solar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12922

Evolution of the infrared luminosity function and its corresponding dust-obscured star formation rate density out to z~6
We present a new determination of the evolving far-infrared galaxy luminosity function (FIR LF) and the resulting inferred evolution of dust-obscured star-formation rate density (SFRD) out to redshift z~6. To establish the evolving co-moving number density of FIR-bright objects, we make use of the high-resolution ALMA follow-up study (AS2UDS), of the JCMT SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS) sub-mm imaging in the UKIDSS UDS survey field. In order to estimate the contributions of faint/low-ma…

So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.

https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

Wind Accretion in Massive Binaries Experiencing High Mass Loss Rates: I. Dependency on Mass Ratio and Orbital Period
Bhawna Mukhija, Amit Kashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12725 …

Wind Accretion in Massive Binaries Experiencing High Mass Loss Rates: I. Dependency on Mass Ratio and Orbital Period
We run numerical simulations to study high-power wind accretion in a massive binary system during a high mass loss event. The system consists of an evolved primary star with a zero age main sequence mass of $ M_{1} = \rm 100~M_{\odot}$ and a hot secondary star with a mass ranging from $ M_{2} = \rm 30-80~M_{\odot}$, orbiting in a circular orbits with periods between 455 and 1155 days. We initiate a weak eruption event with mass loss at a rate of $10^{-3}~\rm {M_{\odot}}\rm~yr^{-1}$ for 1.5 year…

The complexity and effort that went into this scam are amazing.
Inside a Wild Bitcoin Heist: Five-Star Hotels, Cash-Stuffed Envelopes, and Vanishing Funds
https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-scam-mining-as-service/

Inside a Wild Bitcoin Heist: Five-Star Hotels, Cash-Stuffed Envelopes, and Vanishing Funds
Sophisticated crypto scams are on the rise. But few of them go to the lengths one bitcoin mining executive experienced earlier this year.

Mahomes takes blame as division title hopes fade https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46995265/patrick-mahomes-chiefs-inconsistency-starts-me