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Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/portugal-updates-cybercrime-law-to-exempt-security-researchers/

Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers
Portugal has modified its cybercrime law to establish a legal safe harbor for good-faith security research and to make hacking non-punishable under certain strict conditions.

Elon Musk einigt sich in Millionenklage mit ehemaliger Chefriege Twitters
Vier frühere Twitter-Führungskräfte haben Elon Musk auf 128 Millionen US-Dollar verklagt. Vor Gericht haben sie sich jetzt mit dem neuen Eigentümer geeinigt.

Source: OpenAI privately complained to NBC News that the author of a story about OpenAI pressuring nonprofits was backed by a nonprofit involved in the story (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/07/2025/ai-critics-funded-ai-coverage-…

Exclusive: AI critics funded AI coverage at top newsrooms
A behind-the-scenes media war over coverage of AI reflects a deep split inside the tech community.

Burger King's parent company has come under fire for allegedly using copyright law to suppress a researcher who uncovered serious security flaws in its drive-through ordering technology.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/s…

Burger King accused of silencing security researcher with copyright claim
Burger King's parent company has come under fire for allegedly using copyright law to suppress a researcher who uncovered serious security flaws in its drive-through ...

Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass CyberGhost diese Geschichte lieber nicht verbreitet sehen würde …
CyberGhost DMCAs Our Story About Their Bogus DMCA (Yes, Really) https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/07/cyberghost-dmcas-our-story-about-their-bogus…

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 403394 nodes and 3387388 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted

Neuro-Symbolic AI for Cybersecurity: State of the Art, Challenges, and Opportunities
Safayat Bin Hakim, Muhammad Adil, Alvaro Velasquez, Shouhuai Xu, Houbing Herbert Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06921

Neuro-Symbolic AI for Cybersecurity: State of the Art, Challenges, and Opportunities
Traditional Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches in cybersecurity exhibit fundamental limitations: inadequate conceptual grounding leading to non-robustness against novel attacks; limited instructibility impeding analyst-guided adaptation; and misalignment with cybersecurity objectives. Neuro-Symbolic (NeSy) AI has emerged with the potential to revolutionize cybersecurity AI. However, there is no systematic understanding of this emerging approach. These hybrid systems address critical cybers…

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 403394 nodes and 3387388 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Europe needs to break free of American cybersecurity,
--The horrifying truth of those employment text scams,
--How Treasury's Cfius really doesn't protect national security,
--How hackers made Microsoft's Kinect cool,
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Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 11/1/25
Europe needs to break free of American cybersecurity, The horrifying truth of those employment text scams, How Treasury's Cfius really doesn't protect national security, How hackers made Microsoft's Kinect cool, Why Ukraine's offensive cyber ops should be studied