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40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #oakland, the middle night of 3 at the kaiser convention center with a proper liquid light show. mickey hart’s 42nd. late summer ’85, show #10.
soundboard:

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Embargo may be a rebranded version of ALPHV ransomware group,
--Russian threat group GreedyBear is stealing crypto,
--Israel beat Iran in the brief war's cyber conflicts,
--M&S resumes click and collect orders,
--GPT-5 was a disaster and easy to hack,
--Hacker breached dealership portal and could hack customers' cars,

New Embargo group may be a rebranded version of ALPHV ransomware gang
Russian threat group GreedyBear is stealing crypto, Israel beat Iran in the brief war's cyber conflicts, M&S resumes click and collect orders, GPT-5 was a disaster and easy to hack, Hacker breached dealership portal and could hack customers' cars, Korea's Yes24 ransomwared again, much more

Beyond the Hype: Mapping Uncertainty and Gratification in AI Assistant Use
Karen Joy, Tawfiq Ammari, Alyssa Sheehan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09220 https:…

Beyond the Hype: Mapping Uncertainty and Gratification in AI Assistant Use
This paper examines the gap between the promises and real-world performance of emerging AI personal assistants. Drawing on interviews with early adopters of devices like Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin, as well as services like Ohai and Docus, we map user experiences through the lens of Uses and Gratifications and Uncertainty Reduction Theory. We identify three core types of user uncertainty, functional, interactional, and social, and explore how each disrupts different user gratifications. We show…

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead in #oakland, opening the 2nd of 3 ’85 runs at the reopened kaiser convention center, with old school liquid light show for 1st time in years. late summer ’85, show #9.
soundboard:

Jamal Adams humbled by long injury recovery 'grateful just to get the call' from Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/09/jamal-adams-long-recovery-i…

Das #GreatBarrierReef erlebt den schwersten #Korallenverlust seit fast 40 Jahren.
Hohe #Wassertemperaturen,

Kahlgefressen und ausgebleicht: Great Barrier Reef verliert so viele Korallen wie seit 39 Jahren nicht
Das Great Barrier Reef steht unter massivem Stress - schon länger, aber in den letzten Monaten besonders: Wirbelstürme, hohe Temperaturen und gefräßige Seesterne setzen dem Riff zu. Das führt zum schwersten Verlust an Korallen seit Beginn der Messungen vor fast 40 Jahren.

Between #GiveUpGitHub and #iNaturalist jumping the "AI" shark, I'm extra grateful for infrastructures like @… that have democratic governance mechanisms to give contributors a real vote and power in decision making.
I hope more folks use those opportunities to find infrastructures that they can actually co-own, instead of wasting time & energy in dictatorial platforms that at best "make the community feel heard" (notice the subtle difference between being heard and feeling heard).

I used to live in the next town over, and it’s gratifying to see the #Nadesalingam family finally thriving as part of #Biloela's community. The lengths #ScoMo’s government—and particularly then-Home Affairs Minist…

on this week’s good ol’ #GratefulDead cast, we unpack “franklin’s tower,” including tape of garcia's 1st time singing it, a look into the multitracks, & robert hunter’s verse-by-verse lyric breakdown (in response to our buddy jürgen fauth!)

I can't recall a time when I heard about a Russian threat group stealing crypto.
GreedyBear: 650 Attack Tools, One Coordinated Campaign
https://blog.koi.security/greedy-bear-massive-crypto-wallet-attack-spans-across-mult…