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Prompt Injection Bugs Found in Official Anthropic Git MCP Server
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/prompt-injection-bugs-anthropic/

Prompt Injection Bugs Found in Official Anthropic Git MCP Server
Three vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Git server for the MCP can be exploited via prompt injection

KI simuliert Evolution: So entstehen Insekten- und Linsenaugen
Ein Forschungsteam hat die Evolution des Auges in einer Physik-Simulation nachgebaut. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, warum die Natur so unterschiedliche Formen wählte.

NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/grok-x-ai-elon-musk-deepfakes.html

Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show
Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.

High resolution Near IR images of fragmenting #comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) on 19 December from the JWST: on the left one of two raw images which just appeared on https://yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_latest_release.html, on the right two false-color images from both images published in https://www.reddit.com/r/jameswebb/comments/1prolrq/fragmented_comet_c2025_k1_atlas_nircam/ and
https://bsky.app/profile/cheribliss.bsky.social/post/3mahu4to7ss2f (and further processed by me).

🐛 Mechanisms and Perspectives of Microplastic Biodegradation by Insects and Their Associated Microorganisms
#bugs

Fossil fuel industry's 'climate false solutions' reinforce its power, aggravate environmental injustice, study suggests https://phys.org/news/2025-12-fossil-fuel-industry-climate-false.html

Fossil fuel industry's 'climate false solutions' reinforce its power, aggravate environmental injustice, study suggests
Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies—including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsetting—operate as false solutions that not only fail to effectively reduce emissions, but also prolong the lifespan of fossil fuel infrastructures, entrench environmental injustices, and reinforce the political and economic power of the very industry responsible for the climate crisis.

"Satellite images indicate that the Doñana Marshland will disappear within 60 years"
#Environment
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-satellite-images-doana-…

Satellite images indicate that the Doñana Marshland will disappear within 60 years
The Doñana National Park, considered one of Europe's most valuable wetlands, is expected to lose its marshland in 61 years, according to calculations from a major water-resource monitoring study carried out by the University of Seville. The study has developed an innovative algorithm, based on machine learning, capable of detecting the presence of surface water with high precision using images from the Sentinel-2 satellite.

Hammastahnakin on kosmetiikkaa – mutta onko se eläinkokeetonta? #eläinoikeudet

Hammastahnakin on kosmetiikkaa – mutta onko se eläinkokeetonta?  | Animalia-media
Eläinkokeetonta kosmetiikkaa markkinoidaan monin erilaisen symbolein ja sertifikaatein. Mitä eroja niissä on ja voiko niihin luottaa?

Snap updates its Family Center tool to let parents view daily screen time averages and a breakdown of time spent by specific app segment like Snap Map (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/snapchat-gives-parents-n…

Snapchat gives parents new insights into teens' screen time and friends | TechCrunch
With these new features, Snap is likely looking to appease regulators and parents over concerns about safety and screen time on its platform.

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a run-down of the best long-form infosec-related reads that I couldn't get to in the daily news crush.
This week's selection is one for the record books and covers
--Don't threaten noted cybersecurity researchers,
--Romance scammers use AI to exploit victims,
--Drug cartels embrace crypto,
--Chinese hackers exploited insecure VPNs,
--Chinese bot traffic is flooding the web,
--Isra…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 2/14/26
Don't threaten noted cybersecurity researchers, Romance scammers are using AI to exploit victims, Drug cartels are embracing crypto, Chinese hackers exploited insecure VPNs, Chinese bot traffic is flooding the web, Israel gains an edge on automotive spying, A fake DPRK IT worker tells all, more