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It's been about three weeks, but Metacurity's digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush is back!
This issue's selection covers
--Russian cybersecurity companies are tools for global expansion,
--Merrick Garland's fears of a judicial system cyberattack came true,
--Flock has plans for ubiquitous surveillance to stop crime,
--Misinformation from adversaries now runs ram…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 8/16/25, 8/23/25, and 8/30/25
Russian cybersecurity companies are tools for global expansion, Merrick Garland's fears of a judicial system cyberattack came true, Flock has plans for ubiquitous surveillance to stop crime, Misinformation from adversaries now runs rampant with no US pushback, AI can't capture personality, more

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Quickest Change Detection in Continuous-Time in Presence of a Covert Adversary
Amir Reza Ramtin, Philippe Nain, Don Towsley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17778 https://

Quickest Change Detection in Continuous-Time in Presence of a Covert Adversary
We investigate the problem of covert quickest change detection in a continuous-time setting, where a Brownian motion experiences a drift change at an unknown time. Unlike classical formulations, we consider a covert adversary who adjusts the post-change drift $μ= μ(γ)$ as a function of the false alarm constraint parameter $γ$, with the goal of remaining undetected for as long as possible. Leveraging the exact expressions for the average detection delay (ADD) and average time to false alarm …

Hola @… una duda. ¿Es posible cambiar el layout del teclado en la BIOS? Mi caso concreto es que tengo un teclado dvorak conectado a un ONE y para poner la contraseña del cifrado del sistema operativo necesito tirar de otro teclado

Experimental Implementation and Validation of Predictor-Based CACC for Vehicular Platoons With Distinct Actuation Delays
Amirhossein Samii, Redmer de Haan, Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21579

Experimental Implementation and Validation of Predictor-Based CACC for Vehicular Platoons With Distinct Actuation Delays
We provide experimental validation, in a pair of vehicles, of a recently introduced predictor-based cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) design, developed for achieving delay compensation in heterogeneous vehicular platoons subject to long actuation delays that may be distinct for each individual vehicle. We provide the explicit formulae of the control design that is implemented, accounting for the effect of zero-order hold and sampled measurements; as well as we obtain vehicle and string…

"Filha do medo, a raiva é mãe da covardia". Mesmo no fim da carreira, #ChicoBuarque continua entregando letras maravilhosas. "Caravanas" merece entrar em qualquer coletânea dele, a música é ótima e a letra, além dessa pérola acima, ainda tem referências a Camus e Chico cantando "picas enormes". Merece ser mais conhecida e celebrada.

Replaced article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Explaining human cooperation through a dual mechanism of individual and social learning
Zhihao Hou, Zhikun She, Quanyi Liang, Qi Su, Daqing Li

Collaborative Loco-Manipulation for Pick-and-Place Tasks with Dynamic Reward Curriculum
Tianxu An, Flavio De Vincenti, Yuntao Ma, Marco Hutter, Stelian Coros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13239

Collaborative Loco-Manipulation for Pick-and-Place Tasks with Dynamic Reward Curriculum
We present a hierarchical RL pipeline for training one-armed legged robots to perform pick-and-place (P&P) tasks end-to-end -- from approaching the payload to releasing it at a target area -- in both single-robot and cooperative dual-robot settings. We introduce a novel dynamic reward curriculum that enables a single policy to efficiently learn long-horizon P&P operations by progressively guiding the agents through payload-centered sub-objectives. Compared to state-of-the-art approaches for lon…

DCT-MARL: A Dynamic Communication Topology-Based MARL Algorithm for Connected Vehicle Platoon Control
Yaqi Xu, Yan Shi, Jin Tian, Fanzeng Xia, Shanzhi Chen, Yuming Ge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12633

DCT-MARL: A Dynamic Communication Topology-Based MARL Algorithm for Connected Vehicle Platoon Control
With the rapid advancement of vehicular communication and autonomous driving technologies, connected vehicle platoon has emerged as a promising approach to improve traffic efficiency and driving safety. Reliable Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication is critical to achieving efficient cooperative control. However, in real-world traffic environments, V2V links may suffer from time-varying delay and packet loss, leading to degraded control performance and even safety risks. To mitigate the advers…