Japan's Self-Defense Forces used USB drives containing a China-linked virus on computers with access to classified information for nearly a year, then elected not to disclose the matter even though similar memory sticks were widely available online.
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Linkdump 26/2026 – #fundstücke
(LinkedIn) AI glasses just earned a new nickname. It's not flattering. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-glasses-just-earned-new-nickname-its-flattering-kayvan-mirza-sjtre/
Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/983502/linkedin-ai-slop-button-one-million-people-message
AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezo…
Micron setzt hohe Speicherpreise auf 5 Jahre fest
Zahlreiche Langzeitabkommen sollen Microns Gewinnmarge sichern – zum Leidwesen aller, die auf sinkende Speicherpreise hoffen.
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So little time, so many cybersecurity developments to cover. Check out today's Metacurity for the most important infosec news stories today, including
--Frontier AI Beat: AI security becomes a geopolitical arms race,
--Microsoft uses AI to link malware groups in RICO case,
--Ukraine exposes Russian messenger hacking,
--Nation-state hackers mapped CI for sabotage,
--DPRK-linked election attacks surge 68-fold,
--DraftKings hacker 'Snoopy' gets 18 m…