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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
--Bashar al-Assad was toppled by spyware,
--Facial recognition threatens us all with deportation,
--VC money fuels worker surveillance,
--Will Trump launch offensive cyber ops on US networks?,
--The Pall Mall Process and commercial c…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 5/31/25
Bashar al-Assad was toppled by spyware, Facial recognition threatens us all with deportation, VC money fuels worker surveillance, Will Trump launch offensive cyber ops on US networks?, The Pall Mall Process and commercial cyber intrusions, Self-confidence leads to GenAI skepticism, more

We had some sun before the rain moved in #dogsofmastodon

Ik zag vanmorgen een opmerking langskomen over Bluesky als 'het linkse Twitter'.
Dan hebben ze nog nooit hier gekeken..
(Of heb ik zo'n afwijkende tijdlijn?)
Ben in elk geval blij met hier. 🙂

Steam Deck ftw
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@baskingamer/114637630442410895

Going up to MŸrkgonga was kinda scary, especially after the rains yesterday. Very rewarding getting to the top, but I must admit my pulse was high with all that mud and loose, slippery rocks.
Absolutely ridiculous views!

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
AVON: These adaptations, if they went in haphazardly, could they be removed the same way?
ORAC: A lot of them have been. There are circuits in the PPC section which serve no function at all now. It seems that games are added at a whim, and when the adaptor gets bored with them, taken out again.
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There have been many instances documented, do a damn web search.
But forget that for a moment: What I’m doing is the same as what Netanyahu is doing? My opposing genocide is the same as a fucker perpetrating genocide?
Fuck you, Alfred.
Get some fucking perspective. https://mastodon.social/@amsz…

Desconfio que hoje os alunos novamente vão me segurar na faculdade até depois de 22:20, que mais uma vez eu terei que praticamente arrancar a prova da mão deles para conseguir ir embora.

Discounting and Drug Seeking in Biological Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Vardhan Palod, Pranav Mahajan, Veeky Baths, Boris S. Gutkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04549

Discounting and Drug Seeking in Biological Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Despite a strong desire to quit, individuals with long-term substance use disorder (SUD) often struggle to resist drug use, even when aware of its harmful consequences. This disconnect between knowledge and compulsive behavior reflects a fundamental cognitive-behavioral conflict in addiction. Neurobiologically, differential cue-induced activity within striatal subregions, along with dopamine-mediated connectivity from the ventral to the dorsal striatum, contributes to compulsive drug-seeking. H…

I'm looking for a #wallswitch that has the same aesthetics as #Livolo switches but that's reliable. From my internet searches I don't feel comfortable ordering Livolo devices
#homeassistant