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Don't leave for the weekend without reading today's Metacurit for the most critical infosec developments you should know today, including
--US sanctions Filipino firm for pig butchering scams that cost Americans $200 million
--DIA IT specialist tried to share classified info,
--Oz firms must now report paying ransom,
--Oregon bans sale of precise geolocation data,
--CISA's KEV catalog has unexploitable flaws,
--ConnectWise reports APT cyberattac…

US sanctions Filipino firm for pig butchering scams that cost Americans $200 million
DIA IT specialist tried to share classified info, Oz firms must now report paying ransom, Oregon bans sale of precise geolocation data, CISA's KEV catalog has unexploitable flaws, ConnectWise reports APT cyberattack, Imposter posed as WH chief of staff, Netskope preps for $500m IPO, much more

The US Treasury sanctions Philippines-based Funnull Technology for allegedly facilitating "pig butchering" crypto scams that stole over $200M from US victims (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/us-g

US government sanctions tech company involved in cyber scams | TechCrunch
The Treasury said FUNNULL was involved in providing infrastructure for pig butchering crypto scams.

Former Wisconsin football star lands contract extension with Dallas Cowboys https://badgerswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/badgers/football/2025/07/28/wisconsin-jake-ferguson-cowboys-contract/85398968007…

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Death:
🎵 Flattening of Emotions
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RFK Jr. cannot be contained
Battacharya defended Kennedy’s decision to defund research into mRNA vaccines,
which was crucial to developing coronavirus shots, based on absurd falsehoods.

What comes next could be the dismantling of America’s vaccine infrastructure.
During Trump’s Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Kennedy teased a report on autism expected next month.
Despite reams of evidence to the contrary, he has long sought to link the condition to vaccines.

RFK Jr. cannot be contained
The ouster of Susan Monarez from the CDC is an ominous sign for American public health.

An in-depth look at how foreign scammers use US banks to facilitate large-scale transfers of funds stolen from victims of "pig butchering" scams overseas (Cezary Podkul/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/pig-butcher…

How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
Asian crime syndicates’ online scams have reached industrial proportions, cheating victims around the world out of more than $44 billion a year. U.S. banks have been unable to stop them.

"Why Badger Vaccination won’t save the badger"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers #Animals

Why Badger Vaccination won’t save the badger
Badger Trust Chief Executive Nigel Palmer: Why Badger Vaccination won’t save the Badger. Published in the Yorkshire Post, August 2025

Is Lindblad for me?
Martino Stefanini, Aleksandra A. Ziolkowska, Dmitry Budker, Ulrich Poschinger, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Antoine Browaeys, Atac Imamoglu, Darrick Chang, Jamir Marino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22436

Is Lindblad for me?
The Lindblad master equation is a foundational tool for modeling the dynamics of open quantum systems. As its use has extended far beyond its original domain, the boundaries of its validity have grown opaque. In particular, the rise of new research areas including open quantum many-body systems, non-equilibrium condensed matter, and the possibility to test its limits in driven-open quantum simulators, call for a critical revision of its regimes of applicability. In this pedagogical review, we r…

Heisenberg spin chain models for realising quantum battery with the aid of Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction
Suprabha Bhattacharya, Vivek Balasaheb Sabale, Atul Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20529

Heisenberg spin chain models for realising quantum battery with the aid of Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction
This work investigates the energy storage properties of quantum spin chains in the context of quantum batteries by introducing Heisenberg spin chain models composed of eight qubits, organized into three configurations: open, closed, and supercube geometries. The charging dynamics of the mentioned systems are examined using Hamiltonians that include contributions from the battery, spin-spin interactions, and a transverse magnetic field. The inclusion of the Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction (DMI…