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Cybersecurity is never not insanely busy so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--China says the US attacked mobile devices of timekeeping agency,
--F5 hackers lurked in company's systems for years,
--Cyberattack on supplier is disrupting Japanese retailers,
--Russian hackers stole sensitive UK military documents,
--Envoy Air hacked by Clop,
--Pro-Palestine hackers…

China says the US attacked mobile devices of timekeeping agency
F5 hackers lurked in company's systems for years, Cyberattack on supplier is disrupting Japanese retailers, Russian hackers stole sensitive UK military documents, Envoy Air hacked by Clop, Pro-Palestine hackers expose top Israeli military researchers, much more

Running #Java on #iOS: Gluon Introduces OpenJDK Mobile Resources and Automated Build Pipelines
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/java-on

Osmo Mobile 8: Gimbal mit Apples DockKit von DJI
DJI hat die nächste Generation seines Smartphone-Gimbals vorgestellt. Er kommt nun mit Support für Apples DockKit und kann Motive besser tracken.
https://www.

Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was walking to a store in 1981
when two members of the United Klans of America abducted the Black youth,
beat him, cut his throat and hung his body from a tree on a residential street in Mobile, Alabama.
Angry that an interracial jury had failed to convict a Black man for killing a white police officer in Birmingham,
the Klansmen selected Donald at random
and lynched him to threaten the Black community.
On the same evening…

Donald v. United Klans of America
Michael Donald Lynching Case Shutting down the notorious United Klans Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was walking to a store in 1981 when two members of the United Klans of America abducted the Black youth, beat him, cut his throat and hung his body from a tree on a residential street in Mobile, Alabama. Angry that an interracial jury had failed to convict a Black man for killing a white police officer in Birmingham, the Klansmen selected Donald at random and lynched him to threaten the B…

I am delighted that we now have a short summary video of our research lab (#ArsElectronica2025 online:

Digidow

https://defend612.com has been blocked at the domain name level for me and at least two other people over T-Mobile networks (which includes GoogleFi, MetroPCS, and… wait for it… Trump Mobile). For at least all day today.
Seems unlikely to be a technical problem but instead to be Actual Censorship (unless its not …

I guess the Chamber of Commerce just likes the fossils more than it likes the insurance industry…and all the rest of us.
Appeals court pauses California law requiring companies to report climate-related financial risk - https://

Political fixer Bradley Tusk's nonprofit releases VoteSecure, an open-source cryptographic protocol for mobile voting, amid skepticism from cryptographers (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/bradley-tusk-mobile-voting-protocol/

Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Make Mobile Voting Happen
Political consultant Bradley Tusk has spent a fortune on mobile voting efforts. Now, he’s launching a protocol to try to mainstream the technology.

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Vocus, the parent company for Dodo and iPrimus, said in a statement that 1600 home internet and mobile customers had been affected by a hack on the businesses email and mobile services.
Fourth largest telco confirms cybersecurity breach impacting 1600 Aussies

Endpoint-Manager Tanium kommt auf Mobilgeräte von Apple
Bislang unterstützt die Tanium-Plattform vor allem Server, Desktops und Notebooks. Die Plattform kennt nun auch mobile Endpoints – und beginnt mit Apple.
http…

JWT vs PASETO vs Branca: The Future of Secure Tokens in 2026
If you’ve worked on authentication anytime in the last decade, chances are you’ve implemented a JWT somewhere. It became the go-to standard — not because it was flawless, but because it was everywhere.
🔏 https://mojoau…

JWT vs PASETO vs Branca — The Future of Secure Tokens in 2026 | MojoAuth - Advanced Authentication & Identity Solutions
Learn the key differences between JWT, PASETO, and Branca tokens in 2026. Explore real-world examples, migration strategies, and which token suits APIs, Zero Trust, mobile, and edge applications best.

Meta prompt engineering - using GenAI to optimize prompts for GenAI - is the homeopathy of computer science.
Both promise better results by diluting the real essence to the point of nonexistence. What is left is pure noise.

Il y a des gens qui jouent Š #Codenames sur l'app mobile dans mon réseau ?
Le niveau des randoms est un peu triste, et j'aimerais bien faire des parties qualitatives :)
(je demande pas un niveau de ouf, mais juste des gens qui ont compris le jeu, genre "si deux mots peuvent être reliés par un indice évident et que c'est pas celui-lŠ qui est donné, c'est sûremen…

CloudX, which uses Anthropic's Claude to automate mobile ad pricing and inventory optimization for publishers, raised a $30M Series A led by Addition (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/adtech-founders-raise-30-million…

Adtech Founders Raise $30 Million to Automate Mobile Ads for Publishers
CloudX enlists AI agents for ad pricing and optimizing inventory.

I'd been meaning to switch off T-Mobile for years because of their dead zone in the Mission but never got around to it. This boycott that begins this weekend is pushing me to finally do it
https://tmobileboycott.org/

It's time to hang up on authoritarianism. It's time to hang up on T-Mobile.
TAKE THE PLEDGE TO BOYCOTT T-MOBILE

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
CHAOS AND PANIC IN ST. PETERSBURG: FULL MOBILE #INTERNET SHUTDOWN Vlog 1262: War in #Ukraine

Is there any ''lightweight'' mastodon web client that's actually usable? By usable I mean that can replace my mobile app?
#askfedi

Everyone has their own risk profile and security posture, but these "mobile IDs" are a bad idea. In order to show your mobile ID to, say, a cop who pulls you over, you have to hand them your _unlocked phone_. #ItsATrap

Arkansas mobile ID now available in Samsung, Google Wallets
Access to your Arkansas driver’s license is just a tap away.

OnePlus 15R review: the new $700 device is fast with a big battery and a vibrant 165Hz OLED, but one less camera than 2024's 13R and only four years of support (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphone

OnePlus 15R review: A 165Hz display and big battery for $700
The OnePlus 15R has many of the same strengths as the more expensive OP15, but shaves off $200 off by compromising on cameras.

I’m an industry dev turned comp sci prof. I’ve been writing code for 40-some years; my first commercial software was for the Apple ][ . I’ve worked on web, mobile, desktop, server, and data plumbing projects for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 to arts nonprofits. In short, I’ve been lucky to know a lot of people in a lot of corners of tech.
@…’s opening paragraphs are spot on. If consensus is not 100%, well, it’s 99%.
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/

Moody Urbanity - TWO 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780

I think the combination of bikerouter.de and BikeGPX might be the (free) solution I am looking for to create routes on the desktop and then follow them using a mobile device.
https://bikerouter.de/
…

bikerouter.de
▶ Der wahrscheinlich beste Fahrrad-Routenplaner der Welt! Kostenlos und datenschutzfreundlich. Gravel, Rennrad, MTB, City, Long Distance, Trekking uvm.

One of the more famous digital investors, Marc #Andreessen, half of the #a16z name, is not only on the board of #Meta, but also investor in

Remember Firefox OS? Of course you don't.
Well, they tried to do "for mobile what we did for the web" and utterly failed—while neglecting their core product.
Now they’re all in on “doing for AI what we did for the web”.

Die Handreichung des Bundesverbands Mobile Beratung ordnet rechtsextreme Anfeindungen gegen die Wissenschaft demokratietheoretisch ein und präsentiert Handlungsperspektiven https://bundesverband-mobile-beratung.de/publikationen/umgang-…

A very dear friend of mine, Fern, who taught me pretty much all I know about overland bike travel, is in need of a new wheelchair. One that will get her out and about again on new adventures on five wheels rather than the two she is more used to.
Please do give what you can - it all helps.
https://www.justgivin…

Help raise £4500 to get mobile and living on 5 wheels rather than two, with a specialist wheelchair and power assist, and hopefully have some adventures too! – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to get mobile and living on 5 wheels rather than two, with a specialist wheelchair and power assist, and hopefully have some adventures too!. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

Neuer Chef bei T-Mobile: Srini Gopalan übernimmt zum 1. November
Zum 1. November wird Srini Gopalan neuer Chef bei T-Mobile und löst damit Mike Sievert ab. T-Mobile will damit ein neues Kapitel als Uncarrier aufschlagen.

Major Russian insurer facing widespread outages after cyberattack https://therecord.media/russia-vsk-cyberattack-outages

I wonder why quite a number of authors/presenters (and even workshop keynote speakers) from the US did not make it to #Taipei for ACM #CCS 2025. Is there some political issue I am not aware of?

FSF announces Librephone project https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
"The Free Software Foundation announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. "Librephone" is an initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile phone freedom until its goal is…

Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and vertical dramas, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a $500M valuation and has 10M paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/indias-kuku-snags-85m-as-mobil…

India's Kuku snags $85M as mobile content wars intensify | TechCrunch
Kuku plans to expand beyond India with a U.S. launch slated for next year.

Droidian is potentially the best Linux mobile operating system for on-boarding newcomers into the field.
https://theprivacydad.com/using-droidian-on-a-google-pixel-3axl-phone/
@…

I Bringing Fluent Design to Mobile: My Reimagining of Windows Phone UI and Live Tiles (Windows Astra Concept)
[I cannot get enough of these Windows Phone concepts that would never have helped 🤷🏾‍♀️]
https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comm

https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=197518
Crazy times in South Korean cyber.

Police Raid KT Offices in Data Breach Investigation
The police raided KT’s offices in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province as part of an investigation into a recent data breach at the mobile carrier.The anti-corruption and economic ...

ReInAgent: A Context-Aware GUI Agent Enabling Human-in-the-Loop Mobile Task Navigation
Haitao Jia, Ming He, Zimo Yin, Likang Wu, Jianping Fan, Jitao Sang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07988

ReInAgent: A Context-Aware GUI Agent Enabling Human-in-the-Loop Mobile Task Navigation
Mobile GUI agents exhibit substantial potential to facilitate and automate the execution of user tasks on mobile phones. However, exist mobile GUI agents predominantly privilege autonomous operation and neglect the necessity of active user engagement during task execution. This omission undermines their adaptability to information dilemmas including ambiguous, dynamically evolving, and conflicting task scenarios, leading to execution outcomes that deviate from genuine user requirements and pref…

CloudX, which uses Anthropic's Claude to automate mobile ad pricing and inventory optimization for publishers, raised a $30M Series A led by Addition (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/adtech-founders-raise-30-million…

Adtech Founders Raise $30 Million to Automate Mobile Ads for Publishers
CloudX enlists AI agents for ad pricing and optimizing inventory.

MoBiLE: Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Inference on Consumer GPU with Mixture of Big Little Experts
Yushu Zhao, Yubin Qin, Yang Wang, Xiaolong Yang, Huiming Han, Shaojun Wei, Yang Hu, Shouyi Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12357

MoBiLE: Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Inference on Consumer GPU with Mixture of Big Little Experts
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have recently demonstrated exceptional performance across a diverse range of applications. The principle of sparse activation in MoE models facilitates an offloading strategy, wherein active experts are maintained in GPU HBM, while inactive experts are stored in CPU DRAM. The efficacy of this approach, however, is fundamentally constrained by the limited bandwidth of the CPU-GPU interconnect. To mitigate this bottleneck, existing approaches have employed prefetch…

In case you're trying to export your E-mail accounts from Thunderbird Desktop to Thunderbird Mobile, there's a bug with the QR code you need to set your Thunderbird Desktop Theme to Light in order for the QR Code reader built into Thunderbird Mobile to read some of them (yes, really).
I just struggled 20 minutes with this 😂

from my link log —
Software architecture is overrated, clear and simple design is underrated.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-architecture-is-overrated/
saved 2019-09-19

Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated
I had my fair share in designing and building large systems. I've taken part in rewriting Uber's distributed payment systems [https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/distributed-architecture-concepts-i-have-learned-while-building-payments-systems/] , designing and shipping Skype on Xbox One and open-sourcing RIBs [https://github.com/uber/RIBs], Uber's mobile architecture framework. All of these systems had thorough

The tv at this tire Shoppe is set to local network affiliate.
Holy crap is tv Morning Show insipid meaningless crap. Like my brain wants to escape. Beautiful perky hosts, with big dad joke rizz, showing tiktok videos in between massively distilled news pieces that are so meatless they're vegan.
The meteorologist is the least flake, they actually have a post-sec degree.
Ok thank for mobile devices, I can choose my own brain rot.

Kann ja sein, das die Menschen, die keinen Computer haben, aber ein Smartphone, die mobile #EID begrüßen, oder gar als notwendig erachten.
Ich für meinen Teil will nicht davon abhängig sein, dass mein Smartphone funktioniert und der Webservice antwortet. Lt. Vertragsbedingungen der DB-App z. B.liegt die Schuld beim Kunden, wenn etwas nicht geht - jedenfalls hat der Kunde dann eine Bringschuld und…

Digital-Gipfel: Wirtschaft will die digitale Brieftasche vorantreiben
Digitale Ausweise, Führerschein und Krankenkassenkarte im Handy? Die EUDI-Wallet könnte das bald für Millionen Bürger möglich machen – und die Wirtschaft drückt aufs Tempo.

Out of the following mobile operating systems, which one do you use the most, not at work, but in your free personal time?
Please consider boosting for a larger sample size. Thank you.
#poll #os #mobile

““We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.
“The process was so heavily automated that there were no workers on the manufacturing side, just a small number who were there to ensure the plant was working.
“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number of highly skilled, educated engineers who are innovating like mad.””
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/why-western-executives-visit-china-coming-back-terrified/

Autonomous Legged Mobile Manipulation for Lunar Surface Operations via Constrained Reinforcement Learning
Alvaro Belmonte-Baeza, Miguel Cazorla, Gabriel J. Garc\'ia, Carlos J. P\'erez-Del-Pulgar, Jorge Pomares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12684

Autonomous Legged Mobile Manipulation for Lunar Surface Operations via Constrained Reinforcement Learning
Robotics plays a pivotal role in planetary science and exploration, where autonomous and reliable systems are crucial due to the risks and challenges inherent to space environments. The establishment of permanent lunar bases demands robotic platforms capable of navigating and manipulating in the harsh lunar terrain. While wheeled rovers have been the mainstay for planetary exploration, their limitations in unstructured and steep terrains motivate the adoption of legged robots, which offer super…

Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and vertical dramas, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a $500M valuation and has 10M paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/indias-kuku-snags-85m-as-mobil…

India's Kuku snags $85M as mobile content wars intensify | TechCrunch
Kuku plans to expand beyond India with a U.S. launch slated for next year.

So far:
Average person my age: using a mobile train ticket.
Me: using a paper ticket (pass) bought at a ticket office.
Now:
Average person my age: using a mobile train ticket.
Me: using a plastic card (pass).

More Screen Time Linked To Lower Test Scores For Elementary Students - Slashdot
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0036214/more-screen-time-linked-to-lower-test-scores-for-elementary-students

#Elevate #SF 2025...coming in a few weeks to the JW Marriott
Inaugural Summit by the National Association of Minorities & Women in Mobile and Tech (NAMWMT)
with guest speakers from Adobe Lightroom, Reddit, locally based global game publisher Zimad , Smartly AI etc

If you are interested in software supply chain security, join us today at #CCS at 14:30 (Taiwan local time) for the talk "Attestable builds: compiling verifiable binaries on untrusted systems using trusted execution environments" given by @… and Daniel Hugenroth.…

Wir erzählen die Zachäusgeschichte mit Octostudio Octostudio (https://octostudio.org/de/) stammt von den Scratch-Machern und soll Kindern das Programmieren nahebringen. Besonders reizvoll ist es, dass man die Sensoren von Tablets und Handys benutzen kann, etwa die Lage oder das Schütteln. So lassen sich sehr leicht…

The Trump Mobile phone is nowhere to be found after months of delay;
Trump Mobile has posted conflicting photos of the phone and scrubbed mention of its “Made in the USA” promise.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-mobile…

Trump Mobile phone customers left waiting after months of delay
Trump Mobile has posted conflicting photos of the phone and scrubbed mention of its “Made in the USA” promise.

Capcom gave us Puzzle Fighter for mobile in 2017 and then ended it in 2018. I've never forgotten or forgiven them, and probably never will

Sequencing on Silicon: AI SoC Design for Mobile Genomics at the Edge
Sebastian Magierowski, Zhongpan Wu, Abel Beyene, Karim Hammad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09339 https://

Sequencing on Silicon: AI SoC Design for Mobile Genomics at the Edge
Miniature DNA sequencing hardware has begun to succeed in mobile contexts, driving demand for efficient machine learning at the edge. This domain leverages deep learning techniques familiar from speech and time-series analysis for both low-level signal processing and high-level genomic interpretation. Unlike audio, however, nanopore sequencing presents raw data rates over 100X higher, requiring more aggressive compute and memory handling. In this paper, we present a CMOS system-on-chip (SoC) de…

"Your Doctor is Spying on You": An Analysis of Data Practices in Mobile Healthcare Applications
Luke Stevenson, Sanchari Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06015 https://

"Your Doctor is Spying on You": An Analysis of Data Practices in Mobile Healthcare Applications
Mobile healthcare (mHealth) applications promise convenient, continuous patient-provider interaction but also introduce severe and often underexamined security and privacy risks. We present an end-to-end audit of 272 Android mHealth apps from Google Play, combining permission forensics, static vulnerability analysis, and user review mining. Our multi-tool assessment with MobSF, RiskInDroid, and OWASP Mobile Audit revealed systemic weaknesses: 26.1% request fine-grained location without disclosu…

Russia imposes 24-hour mobile internet blackout for travelers returning home https://therecord.media/russia-24-hour-traveler-mobile-internet-blackouts-ukraine-drones

@… und http://www.dsa-mobile.de ist sogar noch verbunden 🙂

I Bringing Fluent Design to Mobile: My Reimagining of Windows Phone UI and Live Tiles (Windows Astra Concept)
[I cannot get enough of these Windows Phone concepts that would never have helped 🤷🏾‍♀️]
https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comm

Eine tolle Werbung für die #telekom Ich hoffe einfach, dass sie in den USA weiter deutsche Standards fahren.
https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/115374029862529905

Russland blockiert SIM-Karten – "zum Schutz vor Drohnen"
In Russland geht das mobile Internet der SIM-Karte Einreisender nicht mehr. Die Regierung erklärt nun, warum die Funktion beim Mobilfunk blockiert wird.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
Simian Mobile Disco:
🎵 Audacity Of Huge
#SimianMobileDisco
https://luki.bandcamp.com/track/audacity-of-huge
https://open.spotify.com/track/4sdDtDEo8tdAIcwMDLNgpW

Trump lied again? #SHOCKED
"Made in the USA", my ass.
✅ Trump Family Dragged After Promise Of 'Trump Mobile' Phones 'Made In The USA' Goes Up In Flames
https://www.comicsands.com/trump-mo…

'Trump Mobile' Scrubs 'Made In USA' Promise From Website
Is anyone surprised?

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251014828221/en/T-Mobile-Unveils-New-Cyber-Defense-and-Executive-Briefing-Centers
T-Mobile Unveils New Cyber Defense and Executive Briefing Centers

Apple unveils iOS changes in Japan to comply with local law, including alternative app stores and payment options, a new fee structure, and new default controls (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/17/japan-app-store-feature-updates/

Japan App Store Gets Alternative Marketplaces, Third-Party Payments and More
Apple today introduced several changes to the App Store in Japan to meet the requirements of the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA) that goes...

Adobe partners with YouTube to launch a dedicated content creation space for YouTube Shorts creators within its Premiere mobile app for iOS (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/adobe-launches-content-…

Adobe launches content creation hub in Premiere mobile for YouTube Shorts creators | TechCrunch
The company says the space is designed to give creators everything they need to produce viral videos, grow their audience, and tap into trends, whether it's creating day-in-the-life vlogs, travel videos, or behind-the-scenes clips.

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Oh my god.
"Australia's TPG Telecom said a customer died after their Samsung mobile phone running out-of-date software failed to connect with the Triple Zero emergency services, and there was no network outage at the time."
https://www.

EA schaltet "The Sims Mobile" ab
Ein Mobilableger der Spielereihe "Die Sims" ist bald nicht mehr spielbar: "The Sims Mobile" wird komplett abgeschaltet. Gekaufte Inhalte gehen verloren.
https://www.

Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11194
Super interesting work 😍
> "an attacker could extract private information such as the online and activity status of a victim, e.g., screen on/off. More…

Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
With over 3 billion users globally, mobile instant messaging apps have become indispensable for both personal and professional communication. Besides plain messaging, many services implement additional features such as delivery and read receipts informing a user when a message has successfully reached its target. This paper highlights that delivery receipts can pose significant privacy risks to users. We use specifically crafted messages that trigger delivery receipts allowing any user to be pi…

Trump Mobile is offering phones for $500 —they are just refurbished, and three years old | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mobile-trump-phone-refurbished-prices-b2879224.html

❌Mobile Fortify,
the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters,
is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike.
That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights organizations are
🔥demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
shut down the use of Mobile Fortify,
release the agency's privacy anal…

Rights Organizations Demand Halt to Mobile Fortify, ICE's Handheld Face Recognition Program
Mobile Fortify, the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters, is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike. That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and...

VBM-NET: Visual Base Pose Learning for Mobile Manipulation using Equivariant TransporterNet and GNNs
Lakshadeep Naik, Adam Fischer, Daniel Duberg, Danica Kragic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04171

VBM-NET: Visual Base Pose Learning for Mobile Manipulation using Equivariant TransporterNet and GNNs
In Mobile Manipulation, selecting an optimal mobile base pose is essential for successful object grasping. Previous works have addressed this problem either through classical planning methods or by learning state-based policies. They assume access to reliable state information, such as the precise object poses and environment models. In this work, we study base pose planning directly from top-down orthographic projections of the scene, which provide a global overview of the scene while preservi…

Effective and Stealthy One-Shot Jailbreaks on Deployed Mobile Vision-Language Agents
Renhua Ding, Xiao Yang, Zhengwei Fang, Jun Luo, Kun He, Jun Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07809

Effective and Stealthy One-Shot Jailbreaks on Deployed Mobile Vision-Language Agents
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) enable autonomous mobile agents to operate smartphone user interfaces, yet vulnerabilities to UI-level attacks remain critically understudied. Existing research often depends on conspicuous UI overlays, elevated permissions, or impractical threat models, limiting stealth and real-world applicability. In this paper, we present a practical and stealthy one-shot jailbreak attack that leverages in-app prompt injections: malicious applications embed short prompts…

"Permitting Parking in Driveways" is at Monday's SFBOS land use committee.
I plan to comment against this. It seems to allow driveways to be unlimited width and to remain even after garages are converted to ADUs. This is nakedly an inducement to more driving at the expense of green space, stormwater drainage, active transportation, and public transit.

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon's rivalry is moving beyond ads with explicit customer poaching efforts and lawsuits; AT&T twice blocked T-Mobile's Easy Switch tool (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busi…

Bummed, I just noticed the Space Invaders: World Defense app doesn't really work anymore-- it doesn't connect to the servers or high scores, it errors out when you try and play outside.
Space Invaders: World Defense came out in 2023 and was really cool, it had an AR aspect, you could go outside and see the ships coming down in the real world. I messed around with it some back then and took some photos, but I can't find them. Should've messed around with it more then. I…

WebKit browsers see telephone numbers everywhere
#WebKit

Russia blocks mobile internet for foreign SIM cards, citing drone threats https://therecord.media/russia-blocks-mobile-internet-foreign-sim-cards

The list of members for the newly starting "Expert Group for a Technology Roadmap on Encryption (E04005)" is now online: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupI…

Kayak launches a ChatGPT-powered chatbot on its desktop and mobile website that lets users ask travel questions and compare flights, hotels, and car rentals (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/kayak-launches-an-ai-m…

Kayak launches an 'AI Mode' for travel questions, search, and bookings | TechCrunch
Kayak is bringing AI directly to its main platform with a new “AI Mode” that lets travelers research, plan, and book trips through a built-in chatbot.

MobRT: A Digital Twin-Based Framework for Scalable Learning in Mobile Manipulation
Yilin Mei, Peng Qiu, Wei Zhang, WenChao Zhang, Wenjie Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04592 ht…

MobRT: A Digital Twin-Based Framework for Scalable Learning in Mobile Manipulation
Recent advances in robotics have been largely driven by imitation learning, which depends critically on large-scale, high-quality demonstration data. However, collecting such data remains a significant challenge-particularly for mobile manipulators, which must coordinate base locomotion and arm manipulation in high-dimensional, dynamic, and partially observable environments. Consequently, most existing research remains focused on simpler tabletop scenarios, leaving mobile manipulation relativel…

Apple-Brief: EU-Gesetze widersprechen sich und machen Plattformen unsicher
Apple wirft der Europäischen Union vor, dass sich ihre Digitalgesetze gegenseitig in die Quere kommen und mobile Plattformen für Verbraucher unsicherer machen.

The #KeepassXC discussion about GenAI coding tool use seems a bit too simplistic at the moment.
There is room for nuance:
1. Yes, LLM based code generators consume insane amounts of electricity and generate collateral environment damage. That's bad, and we should talk much more about energy efficiency and reasonable use of resources.
2. Yes, LLMs generate a lot of bad o…

"Unifying our mobile and desktop domains" -wikimedia
#Wikipedia
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/<…

Researchers used an off-the-shelf system to compile a vast collection of private data, including T-Mobile users' calls and texts, sent by satellites unencrypted (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-w…

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

YouTube starts rolling out its redesigned video player, which features rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, web, and TV globally (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799492/youtube-new-video-player-update-changes

YouTube has a new video player
YouTube is introducing a bunch of changes, including a new look for the video player and animations for liking a video.

New 'DroidLock' malware demands a ransom, locks user out of device https://therecord.media/android-droidlock-malware-demands-ransom-locks-mobile-device

FOGMACHINE -- Leveraging Discrete-Event Simulation and Scene Graphs for Modeling Hierarchical, Interconnected Environments under Partial Observations from Mobile Agents
Lars Ohnemus, Nils Hantke, Max Wei{\ss}er, Kai Furmans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09483

FOGMACHINE -- Leveraging Discrete-Event Simulation and Scene Graphs for Modeling Hierarchical, Interconnected Environments under Partial Observations from Mobile Agents
Dynamic Scene Graphs (DSGs) provide a structured representation of hierarchical, interconnected environments, but current approaches struggle to capture stochastic dynamics, partial observability, and multi-agent activity. These aspects are critical for embodied AI, where agents must act under uncertainty and delayed perception. We introduce FOGMACHINE , an open-source framework that fuses DSGs with discrete-event simulation to model object dynamics, agent observations, and interactions at scal…

Check out my latest CSO piece, which provides the key takeaways from the 2026 NDAA compromise bill released earlier this week, chief among which are provisions that protect the mobile communications of top brass and requirements to safeguard AI systems from digital threats.
https://www.

Key cybersecurity takeaways from the 2026 NDAA
A 4.1% increase in military cyber funding in the FY2026 NDAA budget underpins new requirements for hardened mobile devices, AI security frameworks, and expanded DoD cyber workforce authorities.

One of my latest public debates on #Chatcontrol at @… is online now: https://youtu.be/H-Q…

Sources: Rakuten began considering a US IPO of its credit card business after SoftBank announced plans to launch an IPO for its mobile payment app PayPay (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/japans-rakuten-wei…

Polish loan platform hacked; mobile payment system and other businesses disrupted https://therecord.media/poland-hacks-loan-platform-mobile-payments-system-travel-agency

Today is one of those days again, isn't it?

YouTube starts rolling out its redesigned video player, which features rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, web, and TV globally (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799492/youtube-new-video-player-update-changes

YouTube has a new video player
YouTube is introducing a bunch of changes, including a new look for the video player and animations for liking a video.

Appfigures: dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have yet to gain traction, with Instance: AI App Builder, the largest such app, seeing just 16,000 downloads (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/dedicated-mob…

Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction | TechCrunch
An analysis of mobile apps offering vibe coding tools shows few have found traction.

Meta brings back job listings on Facebook, available for mobile users in the US via a dedicated Jobs tab in Marketplace, and across Groups and Pages (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/facebooks-job-board-returns-as-ai-threatens-entry-level-…

T-Mobile expands its Starlink satellite service to support apps such as WhatsApp, Google Maps, and X, after launching it in July with basic features like SMS (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Anthropic announces Claude Code on the web and in the Claude iOS app, available in beta as a research preview for Pro and Max users (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/anthropics-claude-code-comes-to-web-and-mobile/

Anthropic's Claude Code Comes to Web and Mobile
Anthropic's Claude Code agent is now available on web and mobile, allowing developers to run parallel coding tasks from anywhere.

A joint Databroker Files investigation shows commercially traded mobile phone location data allows the tracking of millions of Europeans, including EU officials (netzpolitik.org)
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/databroker-files-targeting-the-eu/

Databroker Files: Targeting the EU
Precise locations and revealing movement patterns: the mobile phone location data of millions of people in the EU is up for sale. Collected supposedly only for advertising purposes, this data can also be used for espionage. European data protection is failing – even top EU officials in Brussels are affected. The EU Commission says: 'We are concerned.