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Google says North Korea hackers are using "EtherHiding" to embed malware on blockchains, the first time it has seen a nation-state threat actor using the method (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Com members doxx DHS and ICE employees,
--DPRK hackers use EtherHiding malware to turn blockchain into C2 server,
--Trump buys Dominion Voting Systems to be "America-owned,"
--Trump's DoJ sues voting tech company Smartmatic amid defamation suit,
--MI5 points to new Chinese threat disruption,
--Hackers st…

The Com members doxxed DHS and ICE workers
DPRK hackers use EtherHiding malware to turn blockchain into C2 server, Trump buys Dominion Voting Systems to be "America-owned," Trump's DoJ sues voting tech company Smartmatic amid defamation suit, MI5 points to new Chinese threat disruption, much more

David Eugene Edwards' legendary band 16 Horsepower reunite for a 2026 European tour and one US festival
For the first time in over 20 years, the original 3 members David Eugene Edwards, Jean-Yves Tola, and Pascal Humbert will be playing together (with Chuck French, the guitarist from David EE’s band Wovenhand)
https://wovenhandband.com/n…

“First time a duke has lost title in more than a century, says historian”
“The last time a dukedom was taken away from a senior royal was more than 100 years ago…That was in 1919, when Prince Charles Edward – one of Queen Victoria’s grandsons – lost the title of Duke of Albany for fighting on the German side during World War One”
Charles should have asked old Andy to publish his rolodex too.
#EpsteinFiles #Epstein #PrinceAndrew
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgw31y75ywt

11/17/75 keystone berkeley: SUGAREE/CATFISH JOHN seems to be the classic combo opener for the early era of the garcia band, the 4th of 44. languid RUSSIAN LULLABY & POSITIVELY 4TH STREET on audience tape. as always, the soundboard version provides more nuance, especially on the half-slowed FRIEND OF THE DEVIL. 19-minute LET’S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER with quiet semi-bass solo, arpeggio piano flutters, & big build; not going into EDWARD for once.

Teens who jumped ex-DOGE staffer Edward 'Big Balls' Coristine avoid jail, sentenced to probation (Anthony Blair/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/15/us-news/teens-who-jumped-ex-doge-staffer-edward-big-balls-coristine-avoid-jail-sentenced-to-probation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p101#a251015p101

Geometric Uncertainty for Detecting and Correcting Hallucinations in LLMs
Edward Phillips, Sean Wu, Soheila Molaei, Danielle Belgrave, Anshul Thakur, David Clifton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13813

Geometric Uncertainty for Detecting and Correcting Hallucinations in LLMs
Large language models demonstrate impressive results across diverse tasks but are still known to hallucinate, generating linguistically plausible but incorrect answers to questions. Uncertainty quantification has been proposed as a strategy for hallucination detection, but no existing black-box approach provides estimates for both global and local uncertainty. The former attributes uncertainty to a batch of responses, while the latter attributes uncertainty to individual responses. Current loca…

In a peer-reviewed Nature article, DeepSeek says it has spent $294,000 on training its R1 model and used 512 Nvidia H800 chips (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-deepseek-says-its-hit-ai-model-cos…

John Bel Edwards won't run for U.S. Senate, dashing Louisiana Democrats' hopes (Tyler Bridges/NOLA.com)
https://www.nola.com/news/politics/john-bel-edwards-wont-run-for-us-senate-in-louisiana/article_53519e46-47de-4a24-921c-2a73706bdce7.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p103#a251013p103

Sparse Neurons Carry Strong Signals of Question Ambiguity in LLMs
Zhuoxuan Zhang, Jinhao Duan, Edward Kim, Kaidi Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13664 https://

Sparse Neurons Carry Strong Signals of Question Ambiguity in LLMs
Ambiguity is pervasive in real-world questions, yet large language models (LLMs) often respond with confident answers rather than seeking clarification. In this work, we show that question ambiguity is linearly encoded in the internal representations of LLMs and can be both detected and controlled at the neuron level. During the model's pre-filling stage, we identify that a small number of neurons, as few as one, encode question ambiguity information. Probes trained on these Ambiguity-Encoding …