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Check out today's Metacurity to stay on top of the never-ending overload of infosec developments, including
--Operation Secure disrupts infostealer malware groups worldwide
--Microsoft 365 Copilot harbored critical 'EchoLeak' security flaw,
--FIN6 targets LinkedIn recruiters,
--Smart watches can steal data from air-gapped systems,
--Cybercrims stole NHS Active Directory database,
--Two journalists hacked using Paragon spyware,
--Ransomware…

Operation Secure disrupts infostealer malware groups worldwide
Microsoft 365 Copilot harbored critical 'EchoLeak' security flaw, FIN6 targets LinkedIn recruiters. Smart watches can steal data in air-gapped systems, Cybercrims stole NHS Active Directory database, Two journalists hacked using Paragon spyware, Ransomware hits large hospitals in Maine, much more

Shareholders in his companies feared that Musk was closing the golden money faucet for them in the White House.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/elon

Elon Musk backs off from feud with Trump, saying he regrets social media posts that 'went too far'
Musk earlier deleted a post in which he claimed without evidence that the government was concealing information about the president's association with infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has said he has no desire to repair their relationship.

#jerecrute pas moi. Mais bonne boîte j'y ai travaillé.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4248435284

Grasp Prediction based on Local Finger Motion Dynamics
Dimitar Valkov, Pascal Kockwelp, Florian Daiber, Antonio Kr\"uger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10818

Grasp Prediction based on Local Finger Motion Dynamics
The ability to predict the object the user intends to grasp offers essential contextual information and may help to leverage the effects of point-to-point latency in interactive environments. This paper explores the feasibility and accuracy of real-time recognition of uninstrumented objects based on hand kinematics during reach-to-grasp actions. In a data collection study, we recorded the hand motions of 16 participants while reaching out to grasp and then moving real and synthetic objects. Our…

With the first #AAS246 presser "Cosmic Accelerators and Active Black Holes" came the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb7e0 (Discovery of a Pulsar Wind Nebula Candidate Associated with the Galactic PeVatron 1LHAASO J0343 5254u) &
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adccb9 (Swift-XRT Observations and Upper Limits at Five LHAASO Galactic Sources) with the press release https://natsci.msu.edu/news/2025/2025-06-where-did-cosmic-rays-come-from.aspx, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adccc1 (Radial Profiles of Radio Halos in Massive Galaxy Clusters: Diffuse Giants Over 2 Mpc) etc. with the press release https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/record-breaking-cosmic-structure-discovered-colossal-galaxy-cluster and https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09676 (Investigating the Emission Mechanism in the Spatially Resolved Jets of Two z ≈ 3 Radio-loud Quasars) with the press releases https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2025/j1610/ and https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-chandra-sees-surprisingly-strong-black-hole-jet-at-cosmic-noon/ and the abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025AAS...24520421S/abstract (NIRCam imaging of NGC 4258).

Frankrikes president Emmanuel Macron kräver att de sex franska medborgare som förts bort från #Madleen av israeliska styrkor "ska få återvända till Frankrike så snart som möjligt", enligt Elyséepalatset, skriver Le Monde.

En direct, guerre à Gaza : après l’interception du « Madleen » par Israël, la France réclame le retour de ses ressortissants « dans les plus brefs délais »
Six ressortissants français, dont l’eurodéputée Rima Hassan, se trouvent à bord du bateau humanitaire qui faisait route vers Gaza et a été intercepté par les autorités israéliennes pendant la nuit. La diplomatie française a aussi demandé le « retour rapide » de ses citoyens ; l’Etat hébreu, de son côté, assure que les activistes « vont retourner dans leurs pays ».

X-ray linear polarization prediction in Black-Hole binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei and its measurements by IXPE
Lev Titarchuk, Paolo Soffitta, Elena Seifina, Fabio Muleri, Romana Mikusincova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09571

X-ray linear polarization prediction in Black-Hole binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei and its measurements by IXPE
We present a theoretical framework for the formation of X-ray linear polarization in black hole (BH) source. The X-ray linear polarization originates from up-scatterings of initially soft photons within a hot, optically thick Compton cloud (CC) characterized by a flat geometry. The IXPE observations of several BHs X-ray binaries and of one Seyfert-1 galaxy confirm our theoretical prediction regarding values of the linear polarization P. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that the main phy…

Nearly 300,000 crash records stolen from Texas transportation department https://therecord.media/car-crash-records-stolen-texas-transportation-department

Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang!
[Full speed ahead in reverse gear!]
What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

MDR SACHSEN-ANHALT HEUTE: Rückwärts-Weltrekord: Die Fahrt ging noch weiter… | Jaap Burger
Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang! [Full speed ahead in reverse gear!] What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry. This week, a German manufacturer set a new world record for reversing in an electric truck. The German automotive industry as a whole is also attempting to reverse in electric mode: it has presented a 10-point plan to postpone, water down, weaken, undermine, regret, delay, reduce, replace, backtrack on and ridicule European CO2 re…

🧪👩‍🔬🧠 I attended my 25th college reunion at Harvard this weekend.
It was the biggest reunion attendance ever recorded. 💪
President Alan Garber got standing ovations from the 9000 of us in the crowd before even being introduced.
So proud of my alma mater, and wearing my Harvard swag proudly!
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Martha Bhattacharya (@marthabhattacharya.bsky.social)
🧪👩‍🔬🧠 I attended my 25th college reunion at Harvard this weekend. It was the biggest reunion attendance ever recorded. 💪 President Alan Garber got standing ovations from the 9000 of us in the crowd before even being introduced. So proud of my alma mater, and wearing my Harvard swag proudly!