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heise | Investieren in Silber: Wie Sie mit Aktien, ETCs und Fonds profitieren
Silber erlebte 2025 eine Renaissance an der Börse. Anleger können davon auf verschiedenen Wegen profitieren – im besten Fall sogar ohne Kapitalertragsteuer.

Sources: the Trump administration is weighing a substantial shift in its cyberstrategy, including by enlisting private companies to assist with cyberattacks (Adam Sella/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/us-cyberwarfare-privat…

U.S. Weighs Expanding Private Companies’ Role in Cyberwarfare
The proposal raises a host of questions about the legality and practicality of bolstering the involvement of the private sector in offensive cyberoperations.

OpenTofu v1.11 is out and now supports ephemeral resources and write-only attributes 🎉
I registered my provider in the OpenTofu registry: https://search.opentofu.org/provider/x-cli/remotefs/latest
Enjoy ♥️

OpenTofu Registry
A fast and easy-to-use UI for quickly browsing and viewing OpenTofu modules and providers.

I wish @… would go back to providing the pwned passwords list as a simple download and not require a weird tool that I have to deal with...
If someone wants to provide a service: Provide something like quarterly dumps of the list as a download.

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Trump to hand some offsec ops against adversaries to the private sector, report,
--Canada to probe billboard facial recognition use,
--Pope Leo weighs in on Italian spyware scandal,
--Oracle bug led to theft of sensitive NHS docs,
--Coupang founder will go MIA at parliamentary hearing,
--Asahi will change cyber posture after ransom…

Trump to hand some offsec ops against adversaries to the private sector, report
Canada to probe billboard facial recognition use, Pope Leo weighs in on Italian spyware scandal, Oracle bug led to theft of sensitive NHS docs, Coupang founder will go MIA at parliamentary hearing, Asahi will change cyber posture after ransomware attack, Apple issues emergency updates, much more

US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market (Mike Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-priva…

Rural Fire Departments Squeezed By Software Prices As Investors Profit
Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.

Millionenstrafe nach Datenpanne: CNIL sanktioniert französischen Provider Free
Nach einem großen Datenabfluss bei Free und Free Mobile zieht die französische Aufsicht Konsequenzen: Die Unternehmen müssen 42 Millionen Euro Bußgeld zahlen.

LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to TV home screens, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG unveiled an AI TV strategy at CES (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/service-provi

LG TV users baffled by unremovable Microsoft Copilot installation — surprise forced update shows app pinned to the home screen
Users report Copilot appearing after a recent software update, with no option to uninstall.

TSMC reports Q4 net profit up 35% YoY to a record ~$16B, handily beating estimates, as it benefited from surging demand for AI chips (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/tsmc-q4-profit-jumps-35-record-beats-expectations-2026-01-15/