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Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity, which delivers developments that go beyond the usual infosec news echo chamber.
Today's items cover
--The imminent DHS shutdown will hamper US ability to respond to cyber threats,
--CISA will hold town halls on cyber incident reporting regs,
--Palo Alto removed China attribution in fear of retaliation,
--Tianfu Cup returns,
--Ring cancels partnership with Flock,
--TX AG lau…

The imminent DHS shutdown will hamper US ability to respond to cyber threats
CISA will hold town halls on cyber incident reporting regs, Palo Alto removed China attribution in fear of retaliation, Tianfu Cup returns, Ring cancels partnership with Flock, TX AG launches probe into Conduent breach, AI vibe coding platform Orchids has an unfixed flaw, much more

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The Vibe-coding Era at Microsoft is going greaaaaaaaat.... https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20841

Looks like the vibe coders at Microsoft forgot to add "don't introduce command injection vulnerabilities" to their prompts?
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841

Eu precisando chamar o tšxi pra ir ao trabalho e a Claro fora do ar. Levei um bom tempo pra entender o que era. Tive que resgatar um celular antigo, com um chip da Vivo.
Mas nisso eu perdi uma meia-hora.

Highly optimized code is of course extremely expensive to develop — both to build and maintain. But now even just-average-performance code is the more costly alternative.
And sure, grinding out a vibe-coded LLM horror so you can check that business box may leave you with code that’s not only especially buggy but RAM-hungry and CPU-hungry. And sure that’s expensive to deploy. But hey: your cloud spend is already preposterous, right? And high deployment costs are more predictable than high development costs…right?
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What if I just have shitty ideas?
https://jollycoder.com/posts/rise-of-the-cowboy-coder

Rise of the Cowboy Coder — The Jolly Coder
The nerds are mad about vibe code, but they should build guardrails instead of gates. Help us build good software, not just write code.

Kind of sick of being asked to evaluate some vibe-coded UIs and then, when citing piles of errors, being dismissed because the next LLM release will fix it.

Emergent, which offers an AI-powered software development service, says it is generating annual run-rate revenue of $100M , just eight months after launch (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/emergent-hits-100m-arr-eight-mont…

Just 8 months in, India's vibe-coding startup Emergent claims ARR of over $100M | TechCrunch
Indian vibe-coding platform Emergent was launched just eight months ago, and it now says it's generating annual recurring revenue of more than $100 million, thanks to surging demand by small businesses and non-technical users.

"Tilastokeskuksen työvoimatutkimuksen mukaan työttömyysaste kasvoi kaikissa
kymmenvuotisikäryhmissä sekä miehillä että naisilla vuonna 2025."
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