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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
--The unlikely pair who pioneered RaaS,
--Lifting the lid on a global spyware operation,
--The teens who brought down Jaguar Land Rover,
--How a Log4j maintainer weathered a zero day crisis,
--Chinese spying could paralyze the UK

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 10/18/25
The unlikely pair who pioneered RaaS, Lifting the lid on a global spyware operation, The teens who brought down Jaguar Land Rover, How a Log4j maintainer weathered a zero day crisis, Chinese spying could paralyze the UK

@… encoding_rs needs some maintainer attention

Wichtige Info für Syncthing-Nutzer auf Android: https://linuxnews.de/neuer-maintainer-beim-fork-von-syncthing-for-android-erweckt-misstrauen/

The #libxml2 situation is a sad one. It sucks that big tech companies refuse to fund a library that is so critical to their products.
Let it be known that I support Nick, the now-former, original maintainer of the project.
#opensource

I'm currently looking for one or more volunteers to maintain the Openmoko USB PID OUI service at https://github.com/openmoko/openmoko-usb-oui as the existing maintainer is no longer available. This is a service providing free USB Product IDs and Ethernet MAC addresses for the

<Overfiend_> Overfiend's First Law of Package Quality: If the
maintainer likes to spell part or all of his name in
CAPS, the package will suck.

Ah yes, classic "important backstory" that turns out to be half-assed personal attacks against a OSS maintainer; meanwhile no syllable lost about a millionaire who is speedrunning racism.

I have a new Kia Sportsge (non EV) in Latvia and the problem is this car is only used 3 months a year.
Rest of the time we have it started and idled etc every few weeks for a hour but it’s just not enough. Battery falling below 40% etc.
I don’t have a garage for it so trickle chargers is hard. Might need to fix the garage wife’s grandma but not sure it will be better. But maybe can then put a battery maintainer.
EV would be worse in this situation I bet. Hard problem.

from my link log —
Fixing rust-lang stdarch issues in LLVM.
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/196/fixing-rust-lang-stdarch-issues-in-llvm
saved 2025-10-26

Fixing rust-lang stdarch issues in LLVM - Blog - Tweede golf
A couple of months ago I became a co-maintainer of rust-lang/stdarch, which defines vendor-specific APIs that are used by the Rust standard library and Rust users writing explicit SIMD code.