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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

The team I've cheered my whole life failed once again to make it all the way through October (but they got close!). So while my neighbors would call it fish and chips, we're having what any self-respecting Brewers fan knows is called fish fry for Game 1 - it is Friday, after all. Go Jays Go!
#baseball #WorldSeries

"Windows Broken Into Become Earrings in One Woman’s Quest to Keep Glass Out of Landfills"
#Landfill #Environment

Windows Broken Into Become Earrings in One Woman's Quest to Keep Glass Out of Landfills
She takes advantage of safety glass' crystalline structure to quickly turn the broken pieces into floral-themed earrings of jade green.

Listening to the Christmas concert from Wiener Konzerthaus. Good music, but why does Brownlee sing the musical pieces with vibrato?
I'm not much of a classical music buff and ignorant of much in this field, but this came across to me as odd. It's almost as if the Tenor decided to not adapt his technique to the style of the piece.
Is this common, or with purpose?
Or to put it in another way, is using vibrato a choice?

i have a dozen or so xmas records on continuous loop for the next couple days, including three by johnny mathis!
this one is a 1967 reissue of the 1958 classic. i picked it up at the used record store up the street for seven bucks.
#nowplaying #OldVinyl

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gil Scott‐Heron:
🎵 Pieces of a Man
#GilScottHeron

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
ZEN: That information is not available.
VILA: Very helpful.
CALLY: Avon, those Federation assessment teams were always followed up by invasion and colonization.
AVON: Usually.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/60 B7B2

Robert Saleh got his groove back with the 49ers: 'I’m recovering the missing pieces' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6734853/2025/10/24/robert-saleh-49ers-defensive-coordinator-jets-head-coach/

Not surprised. I found stuff that looked great. I am fairly experienced at baking and part of them didn't turn out. Going over them afterwards I should have clued in on the temperatures for the candies. I have made fudges and candies for decades and thought maybe they knew something that I didn't. They turned out to be almost as runny as cold syrup and will be used as a topping for fruit cake with ice cream.

Went to a staged reading of Orwell's 1984. They had a well selected set of pieces from the text. Overall it was doubleplus good.
I had forgotten how well Orwell predicted our present el cheato government, plus our self-created monitoring overloads - Facebook, smart phones that track everything, even Wikipedia which, due to editors promoting their view of the world, starts to resemble the Ministry of Truth.
Afterwords we all chatted - and to my mind too many of the responses…

Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again. Yep, More Pieces Are Falling Off.
https://cnznews.com/tesla-is-recalling-cybertrucks-again-yep-more-pieces-are-falling-off

Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again. Yep, More Pieces Are Falling Off. - Cnznews
Here's what you'll learn when you read this story:

#caturday

from my link log —
White Hart Lane's movable football pitch in three pieces.
https://www.ingenia.org.uk/Ingenia/Articles/a57524c7-215a-484d-9ffb-94c16030f3fc
saved 2018-12-26

High 5: Reserve players to watch in final 2 games https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/high-5-reserve-players-to-watch-in-final-2-games

👀 Defensive regression. If you review most of the goals this season, it usually isn’t that LFC don’t have enough people behind the ball. It’s that depth & injuries have been more undermining than expected. Little choice but to play those out of form or out of position.
Missing out on Guehi was massive, as was the injury to Leoni, and the decision to sell Quansah now looks bad. I think Trent, when he wanted to, was a better defender than his reputation, but defensively, he’s not mis…

Here’s my 35th “Long Links” outing, curation of long-form offerings, which assume that nobody has time to read all this stuff but one or two of the pieces might brighten your day. This one is mostly political but some of the politics are from France and China. Plus a way-cool analytical history of blogging and a section labeled “wonderful things”.

learn 👇

DC-focused digital news startup NOTUS launches Perspectives, an opinion-focused section with editorial "symposiums", or op-eds from diverse political voices (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/19/2025/notus-to-offer-new-op-ed-section

NOTUS to offer new op-ed section
NOTUS said its opinion efforts will be focused on short “symposiums” published weekly, along with longform reported opinion pieces published semiregularly.

a feature that i wish was built into mastodon from the start & hope it eventually comes to heads.social. feel like being able to communicate only with people on your local server is one of the missing pieces in actually making local servers work. (i'd certainly be more apt to live-toot live shows/streams if i knew the readers were specifically the heads server.)

Ignoring evil does not make it go away.
The world needs to wake up and stand against corruption, fascism, oligarchies and billionaires.
Giorgio is a singular point of truth from the frontlines in Ukraine.
Giorgio risks his life and shares the friend link to tell the world what is happening, and what is coming to their cities next.
Please support his work, share widely, and help the world stand up to the evil of greedy and horrid men.

«They tore them to pieces in front of me» – live from the European front of Zaporizhzhia
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Hey! Phil Nusbaum did a lovely little radio piece some of the musicians on an upcoming concert I’m a part of:
https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/595107
(My half of the interview starts around 3:57.)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Stefan Bojsten & Robert Schumann:
🎵 Waldszenen - 9 pieces for piano, Op 82
#StefanBojsten #RobertSchumann

As the system comes up, the component builders will from time to time appear,
bearing hot new versions of their pieces -- faster, smaller, more complete,
or putatively less buggy. The replacement of a working component by a new
version requires the same systematic testing procedure that adding a new
component does, although it should require less time, for more complete and
efficient test cases will usually be available.
-- Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Myt…

High 5: Reserve players to watch in final 2 games https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/high-5-reserve-players-to-watch-in-final-2-games

Joe Burrow back at practice? No Ja’Marr Chase? How Bengals offensive pieces are shuffling https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6821515/2025/11/19/joe-burrow-practice-jamarr-chase-bengals/

My 8 year old is now making custom notebooks and zines in her shop!

The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It. (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-family-business-visualized-6d132c71
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p152#a251217p152

captchas in 2027: Please take this sphere into pieces and rearrange them into two spheres of exactly the same size

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
VILA: Are we expecting trouble on this trip?
AVON: A federation patrol attacked Scorpio at Bucol Two. They might wonder what it was doing there in the first place. I would in their position.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/287 B7B4

I’m somewhat exhausted to announce attrs 25.4.0!
The main reason for this release (and why it's published today) is that it ships the first pieces of work for Python 3.14 and PEP 749. There will be more work required and there's going to be a lot more churn once everyone starts testing 3.14 earnestly. We hope to receive more feedback before spending more time on this. #Python

Release 25.4.0 · python-attrs/attrs
Highlights The main reason for this release (and why it's published today) is that it ships the first pieces of work for Python 3.14 and PEP 749. There will be more work required and there's going ...

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.

Google finds Russian state hackers replacing burned malware with new tools https://therecord.media/coldriver-callisto-russia-hackers-new-malware-google

The Inner Workings of JavaScript Source Maps
A deep dive into how JavaScript source maps work under the hood, with examples showing how all the pieces fit together.
🧑‍💻 https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/11/04/javascript-source-maps-interna…

The Inner Workings of JavaScript Source Maps
A deep dive into how JavaScript source maps work under the hood, with examples showing how all the pieces fit together.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Catherine Tang:
🎵 Of Moving Pieces
#CatherineTang
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://catherinetang.bandcamp.com/track/of-moving-pieces
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uJE3FqQye8vNbaxWNpM1W

The new Raspberry Pi Connect feature works really, really well. After setting one up for work, it has me rethinking what I want to do with my various pieces of pi-ware at home. The latest Raspberry Pi Imager is a bit of a joke, though. Two different installs for two different machines where it completely ignored my custom settings during install, so I had to set up everything twice.

from my link log —
First debris pieces from the Indian ASAT test of 27 March catalogued.
https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/04/first-debris-pieces-from-indian-asat.html
saved 2019-04-24

First debris pieces from the Indian ASAT test of 27 March catalogued
classified military Space (spy satellites) and Missiles

Tried to make a square shape New York Cheesecake for the first time yesterday. It was meant to be shared at a party and I thought it would be easier to share in smaller pieces. It came out good I think. The base was solid enough to get the out of the pan. I also properly caramelized the top of the base so it doesn't soak as quickly
#NewYorkCheesecake

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Average White Band:
🎵 Pick Up The Pieces
#AverageWhiteBand
https://marvinheyedits.bandcamp.com/track/average-white-band-pick-up-the-pieces-marvin-hey-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2H5nsVLjDwWsxfyajm0lVS

🥄 'Self-fixturing' friction stir technique removes barriers for US manufacturing
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-fixturing-friction-technique-barriers.html

'Self-fixturing' friction stir technique removes barriers for US manufacturing
A spinning tool plunges into two pieces of metal, rotating at a high rate of speed. As the tool begins to move, it softens and mixes the metal, creating a powerful weld—one that can securely join similar and dissimilar materials (particularly metals and alloys) without rivets, fasteners, or adhesive. This advanced manufacturing technique—called friction stir welding—requires only a fraction of the energy required by conventional techniques, but it isn't used on many assembly lines today.

The tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more volatile.
Discovery — the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia
— is the subject of a political battle over whether the shuttle should remain part of the National Air and Space Museum's collection
or be relocated to Houston, home to NASA's Johnson Space Center.
New correspondence between the space agency, Ted Cruz and the Smithsonian shows both the p…

The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces
"You'd be doing irreparable damage."

Tried to mirror some gate legs for my Lego table and it went very badly. Somehow I managed to use the wrong pieces (swapped horizontal and vertical pieces). I had to completely unscrew it and start again. Fortunately, these won't be highly visible.
#woodworking
#fail

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 time is now to end cybersecurity with AI,
--Prosecutors say PowerSchool hacker was skilled,
--People with facial differences struggle with digital identity systems,
--Autistic teens can't grasp ramifications of digital crimes, …

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 10/11/25
The time is now to end cybersecurity with AI, Prosecutors say PowerSchool hacker was skilled, People with facial differences struggle with digital identity systems, Autistic teens can't grasp ramifications of digital crimes, Online predator groups can kill teens, Crypto ATMs rip off scam victims

The US right-wing have now lost the ability to object to political AI deepfakes in principle.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/09/ai-leadership-trump-posts-deepfakes-of-dems-calling-themselves-woke-pieces-of-s-t/

The AI slop drops right from the top, as Trump posts vulgar deepfake of opponents
A sombrero and a fake mustache were also involved.

How Raiders' Ashton Jeanty Is Putting it All Together https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/ashton-jeanty-kansas-city-chiefs-las-vegas-chip-kelly

I am not a #web #designer, but something has stuck with me over the years.
https://josvelasco.com/basic-web-d…

They're sparing no expense!*
*no expenses were made putting up three pieces of paper with godawful golden script font as signage at the White House

what in the tesla diner hell

Picking Up The Pieces | Mick Shots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U6o5h5rOF8

#Soffritto — you know what that means. Five hours to go!
#food #Bolognese

pass the Ketchup

A lot of journalistic pieces contain too little information. But here's one that is chock full of interesting stuff, not details, but hooks for deeper inquiry. That stuff goes far beyond the topics in the headline. For instance I had never previously considered subway cars as a potential form of spyware.
"After F-35 “Kill Switch”, Now Europe Perturbed By Chinese “Kill Switch” That Could Cripple Its Transport Infra'

After F-35 “Kill Switch”, Now Europe Perturbed By Chinese “Kill Switch” That Could Cripple Its Transport Infra
The debate about a “kill switch” in Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets was hardly over when a new worry is pestering Europe. Do Chinese electric buses plying across multiple cities in Europe come with a similar “kill switch” that allows Beijing to deactivate them remotely? In the last month, multiple European countries, […]

Evaluation Framework for Highlight Explanations of Context Utilisation in Language Models
Jingyi Sun, Pepa Atanasova, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Sekh Mainul Islam, Isabelle Augenstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02629

Evaluation Framework for Highlight Explanations of Context Utilisation in Language Models
Context utilisation, the ability of Language Models (LMs) to incorporate relevant information from the provided context when generating responses, remains largely opaque to users, who cannot determine whether models draw from parametric memory or provided context, nor identify which specific context pieces inform the response. Highlight explanations (HEs) offer a natural solution as they can point the exact context pieces and tokens that influenced model outputs. However, no existing work evalu…

@Gabriel1977@masto.es
Was it Gardel who they used to put on photos inside bandoneones?
Or I think it was a player?
#Tango #bandoneon #concertina

🍰
cut my slice into pieces
this is my plastic fork

Last night I tried two new recipes. Chocolate donuts with a chocolate icing topped with candy cane pieces. The other was a maple donut with maple icing.
They didn't last long.

looks like lynn is planning to repaint

Indonesians pick up the pieces after floods ravage Sumatra; death toll hits 442 (Channel NewsAsia)
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/indonesia-sumatra-cyclone-floods-destruction-residents-pick-up-pieces-5498106
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p48#a251130p48

$q$-de Rham cohomology and topological Hochschild homology over ku
Ferdinand Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06057 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06057

$q$-de Rham cohomology and topological Hochschild homology over ku
Hodge-filtered derived de Rham cohomology of a ring $R$ can be described (up to completion and shift) as the graded pieces of the even filtration on $\mathrm{HC}^-(R)$. In this paper we show a deformation of this result: If $R$ admits a spherical $\mathbb{E}_2$-lift, then the graded pieces of the even filtration on $\mathrm{TC}^-(\mathrm{ku}\otimes\mathbb{S}_R/\mathrm{ku})$ form a certain filtration on the $q$-de Rham cohomology of $R$, which $q$-deforms the Hodge filtration. We also explain ho…

It's good to have hobbies

(Yet another) 1-minute excerpt of an #Umbra variation, one of my recent algorithmic/generative realtime animation art pieces, constantly evolving and exhibited exclusively on Layer.
Very much love this color theme, especially after ~15 seconds... 🤌
(See above hashtag for other clips)
Made with ❤️ and my opensource

"Plastics dominate UK litter as rural and outdoor spaces emerge as pollution hotspots"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Plastic #Plastics

Plastics dominate UK litter as rural and outdoor spaces emerge as pollution hotspots
A new study by the University of Portsmouth shows that plastic items make up more than seven in ten pieces of litter recorded across the UK, with countryside locations and public recreation areas carrying some of the heaviest burdens.

New: Podcast ep 207: 13 actionable pieces of mental health advice from six former podcast guests https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-207-actionable-mental-health-advice

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Heinrich Schütz, Kölner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum & Peter Neumann:
🎵 3 sacred pieces (SWV.415, SWV.138, SWV.27)
#HeinrichSchütz #KölnerKammerchor #CollegiumCartusianum #PeterNeumann
#Spotify

When I die right now this is what I drop.

Automatic Music Sample Identification with Multi-Track Contrastive Learning
Alain Riou, Joan Serr\`a, Yuki Mitsufuji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11507 https://

Automatic Music Sample Identification with Multi-Track Contrastive Learning
Sampling, the technique of reusing pieces of existing audio tracks to create new music content, is a very common practice in modern music production. In this paper, we tackle the challenging task of automatic sample identification, that is, detecting such sampled content and retrieving the material from which it originates. To do so, we adopt a self-supervised learning approach that leverages a multi-track dataset to create positive pairs of artificial mixes, and design a novel contrastive lear…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Michelle David & the True-tones:
🎵 Pick Up The Pieces
#NowPlaying #MichelleDavid #theTruetones
https://open.spotify.com/track/1E568TomvGi3FW7NvePXvp

D-party congress critters ought to begin drafting bills to dismantle DHS.
DHS, including its highly nazi-flavored name, was constructed by a Congress and president (bush) who were terrified after 9/11.
It is time to pull the pieces of DHS apart, retaining some parts, deleting other parts (such as ICE), and reshaping the rest.
There is a rule of thumb that suggests that if one wants to re-form an entity to change its internal culture that no more than 10% of the staff should…

Cowboys Trade Pieces: 3 Players Dallas Should Move Before the Deadline https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-trade-pieces-3-players-dallas-should-move-before-the-deadline

Each week, Metacurity offers 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 includes,
--A journalist's talks with an Iranian hacking leader ended with murder,
--Hackers attacked Aeroflot's still-insecure infrastructure,
--The war on disinformation has been dismantled,
--Trump's DOJ uses Americans' own data …

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 12/6/25
A journalist's talks with an Iranian hacking leader ended with murder, Hackers attacked Aeroflot's still-insecure infrastructure, The war on disinformation has been dismantled, Trump's DOJ uses Americans' own data to limit voting rights, The Wassenaar Arrangement can help limit spyware exports

Glue up on the first leaf of the Lego table.
#woodworking
#inprogress

Delicious lunch in the famous Karczma Polska in Szczecin. Always very good food 🤤

there exist several pieces of folk wisdom:
- "you cannot run your own mail server in 2025, this is too hard and time consuming" (completely false, i've done this since ~2010 with minimal ongoing maintenance)
- "you can do it but gmail will sort your mail to spam" (partially true and what i want to talk about here)
recently, my hand was forced: i had to migrate my mail server across providers and regions. it's unimportant why but important what the …

This piece from @… is especially good. None of the pieces should be entirely unfamiliar to anybody who’s been paying attention — racism, how power self-perpetuates, the past, the future, denial — but Larson brings the big picture into focus with unusual clarity.
🧵
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/21/the-gops-new-new-jim-crow/

Israel’s killing of two young Palestinian boys in Gaza
for supposedly crossing the Israeli military’s ever-shifting yellow line last week
is “horrific” and must be investigated, the UN has said.
“It’s hard to see how two boys,
eight and 10,
can be considered a threat.
And there needs to be an investigation and accountability into what happened,”
said Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Dujarric said the kil…

UN Calls for Investigation Into Israeli Killing of 2 Boys Aged 8 and 10 in Gaza
The boys’ father said that their bodies were torn to pieces by Israel’s strike.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Johannes Brahms & Paul Lewis:
🎵 4 Pieces, Op. 119: No. 1, Intermezzo in B Minor. Adagio
#JohannesBrahms #PaulLewis
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Ksyd1XDtZw43EyBe9ESQ8

Got this from a friend! LEGO is child’s play compared to this! Let’s
see if I can build this over the upcoming weeks.

Another 1-minute excerpt of an #Umbra variation, one of my recent algorithmic/generative realtime animation art pieces, constantly evolving and exhibited exclusively on Layer.
(See above hashtag for other clips)
Made with ❤️ and my opensource https://th…

I don’t know what to say. We are terrible on set pieces. Just terrible.
Here is a place where I think it’s absolutely fair to lambast Slot.
#LFC

Chiefs aftermath: What does Week 15 disaster mean for Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, K.C. in 2026? https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-aftermath-week-15-disaster-kansas-city-patrick-mahomes-travis-kelce-2026

MyJobQuote, a trades-booking business, includes dubious "experts" who have provided AI-generated or misinformed commentary to the UK press at least 600 times (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Dubious experts deployed by MyJobQuote published more than 600 times in UK press
A network of apparently fake experts has polluted the British media with at least 600 pieces of often AI-generated and misinformed commentary.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mac DeMarco:
🎵 Passing Out Pieces
#NowPlaying #MacDeMarco
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

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
--North Korea's fake IT worker program is a goldmine,
--The Com group called Purgatory is creating swatting nightmares,
--How age verification laws change user behavior,
--What happens when the internet shuts down,
--AI is not ye…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 10/4/25
North Korea's fake IT worker program is a goldmine, The Com group called Purgatory is creating swatting nightmares, How age verification laws change user behavior, What happens when the internet shuts down, AI is not yet our overlord, Some chatbots may have independent thought

Big Picture: 10 Cowboys-Cardinals Storylines https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/big-picture-10-cowboys-cardinals-storylines-x8676

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #MusicMap
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre & Elisabetta Guglielmin:
🎵 Suite no.1 in D minor (Pieces de clavecin): II Allemande
#ÉlisabethJacquetdeLaGuerre #ElisabettaGuglielmin
https://open.spotify.com/track/5FU4OjdSwSrCDhjBmHbNlP

Sam Altman:
I find this a very interesting thought experiment of what would have to happen for an AI CEO to be able to do a much better job of running OpenAI than me,
which clearly will happen someday.
How can we accelerate that?
What’s in the way of that?
I have found that to be a super useful thought experiment for how we design our org over time
and what the other pieces and roadblocks will be.
I assume someone running a science lab should try …

Sometimes hacking a computer means a whole different thing...
In this use, I'm actually hacking (with a hacksaw) the case apart to add an I/O shield (custom made) so I can fit an older motherboard that was not designed for this case.
And thank you to Gateway for making me do this by not using a removable shield and instead stamping every hole they needed and covering them with a sticker if they weren't on this model. 🤦‍♂️

Big Picture: 10 Cowboys-Cardinals Storylines https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/big-picture-10-cowboys-cardinals-storylines-x8676

My TL is full of people making these connections: white supremacy, oligarchs ending democracy, the US has never been a democracy for everyone, Jim Crow was the model the Nazis followed, etc. All important. All worth repeating over and over.
(“Broken record therapy,” my dad says: just keep saying it until they hear it.)
I’m bookmarking this particularly essay for the way it gathers the pieces in one place, the way it brings the history and the present into a single clear picture.
/end

Been working on some additions/adjustments for #Umbra, one of my recent algorithmic/generative art pieces, currently shown exclusively on Layer.
Here's a 3 minute segment (of an infinite realtime animation). Give it time to develop/change! Fullscreen playback probably best...
Made with

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Lang Lang and the Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra from Shanghai
From the Concert on the Green Festival in Shanghai, the Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra and Lang Lang play well-known Romantic pieces in the Chenshan Botanical Garden.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n8k2

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
--Europe needs to break free of American cybersecurity,
--The horrifying truth of those employment text scams,
--How Treasury's Cfius really doesn't protect national security,
--How hackers made Microsoft's Kinect cool,
…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 11/1/25
Europe needs to break free of American cybersecurity, The horrifying truth of those employment text scams, How Treasury's Cfius really doesn't protect national security, How hackers made Microsoft's Kinect cool, Why Ukraine's offensive cyber ops should be studied

A 17-year-old in Japan allegedly asked ChatGPT for ways to bypass the security of the Kaikatsu Club internet cafe chain and used it to launch malware that stole over 7 million pieces of personal data.
Japan teen arrested for alleged ChatGPT-assisted cyberattacks
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/new

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Edvard Grieg & Llŷr Williams:
🎵 Lyric Pieces, Op 65 (No 1, 2 and 6)
#EdvardGrieg #LlŷrWilliams #newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/1gXIxv3a0CDF45FRGxhGcK

Happy Saturday morning! Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid 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
--Southeast Asian economies are becoming dependent on cyberscams,
--Cybercriminals are inflicting pain throughout India,
--Mr Deepfakes damaged people beyond the reach of the law,
--Soaring sales of Starlink are creating…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 11/29/25
Southeast Asian economies are becoming dependent on cyberscams, Cybercriminals are inflicting pain throughout India, Mr Deepfakes damaged people beyond the reach of the law, Soaring sales of Starlink are creating risks around the globe, Digital opsec for teens made easy

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Hugo Alfvén & Valma Rydstrom:
🎵 Skärgårdsbilder (Pictures from the Archipelago) - Three Piano Pieces, Op 17
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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
--How the internet radicalizes young men,
--The real-life damage of porn deepfakes,
--The JLR attack damaged local communities,
--Amazon is pushing into the police tech market,
--Russian misinformation targeted a Canadian journalist…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 9/27/25
How the internet radicalizes young men, The real-life damage of porn deepfakes, The JLR attack damaged local communities, Amazon is pushing into the police tech market, Russian misinformation targeted a Canadian journalist

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Hugo Alfvén & Valma Rydstrom:
🎵 Skärgårdsbilder (Pictures from the Archipelago) - Three Piano Pieces, Op 17
#HugoAlfvén #ValmaRydstrom

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Hugo Alfvén & Valma Rydstrom:
🎵 Skärgårdsbilder (Pictures from the Archipelago) - Three Piano Pieces, Op 17
#HugoAlfvén #ValmaRydstrom

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:
--A hacking gang extorted Italy's elite,
--An Indian backwater became a wealthy cybercrime locale,
--The nature of China's espionage threat to the UK,
--Cybercrime laws are used to censor the press,
--The dark side of Apple&…

As some of you may know, I spent a gazillion years as a media/telecom analyst but have been strictly cyber for ten years now.
But TechTarget commissioned me to write a series of "pillar" pieces on 5G and here's the first.
Thanks to Tom Pace of NetRise, Jack Fritz of Deloitte and Dave Krauthamer of QuSecure for their insights.