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Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Qilin ransomware activity is surging, with 100 victims listed in August,
--A major Swedish power supplier was hit by Everest gang,
--Some top tech companies relent on Australia's age ban,
--Google denies it suffered a 183m Gmail accounts breach,
--Western Sydney University hit with fifth cyber incident in two years,
--Afghan data breach kil…

Qilin ransomware activity is surging, with 100 victims listed in August
A major Swedish power supplier was hit by Everest gang, Some top tech companies relent on Australia's age ban, Google denies it suffered a 183m Gmail accounts breach, Western Sydney University hit with fifth cyber incident in two years, Afghan data breach killed 49 people, much more

Millionen Kundendaten vom Wired-Magazin im Netz – Diebstahl bei Condé Nast?
Have I been Pwned listet einen Data Breach für Wired, der sensible Daten von 2,3 Millionen Nutzern umfasst. Mutmaßlich könnten weitere Millionen folgen.

It’s funny how many people have no idea how to buy used stuff for non-inflated prices.
Here’s some tips to get you started (for eBay):
1. The first thing about eBay is that most things listed as “buy now” are overpriced—otherwise someone else would have bought it already. You have to always look at sold listings to see what things are actually worth.
2. Use saved searches specifically limited in price and distance.
3. Always sort by newly listed for “Buy Now” and ending soonest for auctions.
4. Look for older buy now listings and make offers. The older the listing the lower you offer. Some tools like flippah.net show you the listed date directly without having to dig deep on the eBay website. You can make offers even when the button isn’t there, just send a message.
5. Never buy anything from sellers with 0 feedback or less than a 98% or so rating.
A general thing to remember is that unless you buy new stuff or see a listing from a store (some categories have a lot of stores, e.g. cameras) you’re likely to deal directly with a private seller and a human being. Be polite and respectful but don’t be afraid to say no. Don’t make insulting offers.

Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to buy NYSE-listed DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers and digital infrastructure operators (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29…

Forecasting Liquidity Withdraw with Machine Learning Models
Haochuan (Kevin), Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22985 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22985

Forecasting Liquidity Withdraw with Machine Learning Models
Liquidity withdrawal is a critical indicator of market fragility. In this project, I test a framework for forecasting liquidity withdrawal at the individual-stock level, ranging from less liquid stocks to highly liquid large-cap tickers, and evaluate the relative performance of competing model classes in predicting short-horizon order book stress. We introduce the Liquidity Withdrawal Index (LWI) -- defined as the ratio of order cancellations to the sum of standing depth and new additions at th…

Hey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to four families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Mohamed Ismail (@…)
• Zaki (

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Jaguar Land Rover secures £2B from banks as "a liquidity backstop", on top of a £1.5B UK government loan, and aims to resume manufacturing after its huge hack (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/17722051-33f4-4def-9812-e3623d0671a8

There are a couple of anonymous cowards on Mastodon telling people that all Palestinians you see here are fake and that the Internet there doesn’t work at all and spamming the #fediblock hashtag to get my Mastodon instance defederated so they can silence me and the work we are doing with @…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Analysis: wholesale electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did in 2020 in US areas located near significant data center activity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/
…

Hi everyone,
Due to a combination of Internet issues and personal issues we were only able to hold a verification call with one person from Gaza today.
Please give Lubna (@…), who is a mother of three and an engineer, a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse (and please follow her, donate to her fundraiser if you can, and share this so others mi…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan