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Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--A bona fide self-replicating worm has infected 187 npm packages,
--BreachForums founder hit with new three-year sentence,
--Coinbase beach suspect accused of participating in $500k bribery scheme,
--DHS intelligence arm exposed sensitive database,
--MSFT seized 338 sites linked to Raccoon0365 stealer,
--DeepSeek is biased against Falun Gong and oth…

A self-replicating worm has infected 187 npm packages
BreachForums founder hit with new three-year sentence, Coinbase breach suspect accused of participating in $500k+ bribery scheme, DHS intelligence arm exposed sensitive database, MSFT seized 338 sites linked to Raccoon0365 stealer, DeepSeek is biased against Falun Gong and others, much more

This is a spectacular way to get folks to see the impact of the #surveillance state. Great job #MassiveAttack!
#privacy

Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment
Massive Attack used live facial recognition technology on concertgoers, turning surveillance into provocative art that sparked debate about privacy.

Variants of a theorem of Macbeath in finite dimensional normed spaces
Z. L\'angi, S. Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11496 https://

Variants of a theorem of Macbeath in finite dimensional normed spaces
A classical theorem of Macbeath states that for any integers $d \geq 2$, $n \geq d+1$, $d$-dimensional Euclidean balls are hardest to approximate, in terms of volume difference, by inscribed convex polytopes with $n$ vertices. In this paper we investigate normed variants of this problem: we intend to find the extremal values of the Busemann volume, Holmes-Thompson volume, Gromov's mass and Gromov's mass$^*$ of a largest volume convex polytope with $n$ vertices, inscribed in the unit ball of a $…

MapIQ: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Map Question Answering
Varun Srivastava, Fan Lei, Srija Mukhopadhyay, Vivek Gupta, Ross Maciejewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11625

MapIQ: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Map Question Answering
Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have driven researchers to explore how well these models read data visualizations, e.g., bar charts, scatter plots. More recently, attention has shifted to visual question answering with maps (Map-VQA). However, Map-VQA research has primarily focused on choropleth maps, which cover only a limited range of thematic categories and visual analytical tasks. To address these gaps, we introduce MapIQ, a benchmark dataset comprising 14,70…

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https://ellierichards.bandcamp.com/track/neil-young-harvest-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/5l9c6bJmzvftumhz4TMPgk

The mere fact that someone is willing to work for Trump, knowing who he is, tells you that they’re willing to debase themselves.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-you-should-fear-a-magafied-fed

Why You Should Fear a MAGAfied Fed
The next Fed chair will debase himself for Trump

Quantum reservoir computing for predicting and characterizing chaotic maps
Qingyu Li, Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay, Ludovico Minati, Abolfazl Bayat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12071 ht…

Quantum reservoir computing for predicting and characterizing chaotic maps
Quantum reservoir computing has emerged as a promising paradigm for harnessing quantum systems to process temporal data efficiently by bypassing the costly training of gradient-based learning methods. Here, we demonstrate the capability of this approach to predict and characterize chaotic dynamics in discrete nonlinear maps, exemplified through the logistic and Hénon maps. While achieving excellent predictive accuracy, we also demonstrate the optimization of training hyperparameters of the qua…

Rauchschwalben am Horizont by Masha Potempa
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Micah McFadden injury update: Giants LB (foot) placed on IR, will reportedly miss 'significant part' of season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/mi…

Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for a ton of critical infosec developments you should know, including
--UK to spend $1.1 billion relocating Afghan helpers following data breach
--DOGE worker published the private key for four dozen-plus LLMs,
--US gov't IT contractor to pay $14.75m fine for overstated cyber services,
--Italian cops arrest Romanian behind 'Diskstation' ransomware gang,
--OMB readies post-quantum standard,
--MSFT'…

UK to spend $1.1 billion relocating Afghan helpers following data breach
DOGE worker published the private key for four dozen-plus LLMs, US gov't IT contractor to pay $14.75m fine for overstated cyber services, Italian cops arrest Romanian behind 'Diskstation' ransomware gang, OMB readies post-quantum standard, MSFT's 'digital escorts' leave DoD vulnerable, much more