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The California State Senate launches an inquiry into whether Paramount's proposed $15M settlement with Trump violated bribery and unfair competition laws (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/30/2025/california-opens…

California opens inquiry into Paramount and Trump
The California Senate’s move follows a letter from three US senators to the embattled media company.

Branchenstudie: Pay-TV-Services im "industriellen Maßstab" illegal kopiert
Die Untätigkeit von Big-Tech-Konzernen unterstütze den "Diebstahl" von Premium-Videodiensten wie Live-Sportstreams im großen Stil, heißt es in einer Analyse.

OMGWUUUUUUT
▶️ NCIS: Tony & Ziva | First Look Trailer | Paramount
#ParamountPlus

Love this photo of a guy pointing to something on the co-working screen of a braille console (Canute https://www.sightandsound.co.uk/product/canute-console-premium/)

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 regular Americans unwittingly aid DPRK job scams,
--Self-driving truck startup sent massive amounts of IP to China,
--The Com claims it's behind the Coinbase hack,
--It feels like Panetta's Cyber Pearl Harbor is nigh,
…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 5/24/25
How regular Americans unwittingly aid DPRK job scams, Self-driving truck startup sent massive amounts of IP to China, The Com claims it's behind the Coinbase hack, It feels like Panetta's Cyber Pearl Harbor is nigh, Brazil's counterintel agents exposed Russian spy imposters

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11540 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDB_…

Pruning in Snowflake: Working Smarter, Not Harder
Modern cloud-based data analytics systems must efficiently process petabytes of data residing on cloud storage. A key optimization technique in state-of-the-art systems like Snowflake is partition pruning - skipping chunks of data that do not contain relevant information for computing query results. While partition pruning based on query predicates is a well-established technique, we present new pruning techniques that extend the scope of partition pruning to LIMIT, top-k, and JOIN operations…

Sein erstes Mal re:publica: Viele Themen, gute Organisation, Wasser gratis, Powerbanks zum Leihen (mit Tücken) und prominente Gäste wie Raul Krauthausen. KI & Digitale Souveränität als Schwerpunkte – sein Fazit: Komme gerne wieder! @…
Schön, dass wir uns getroffen haben - Bier holen wir nach

Rudolf Rocker (1873–1958) was a prominent German anarchist writer and activist, best known for his advocacy of anarcho-syndicalism.
Rocker argued that genuine liberation cannot be achieved through authoritarian systems or centralized state power.
Rocker was deeply critical of the Bolshevik regime in Russia, viewing it as a betrayal of the ideals of freedom and workers’ self-management.
He believed that the Bolsheviks simply replaced one form of oppression with another, demo…

Am 5.6. ist es soweit: das Video zu unserer zweiten Single TRAITOR kommt raus.
Am 6.6. geht es dann um 0 Uhr direkt weiter mit den Streaming Diensten. Wenn ihr neugierig seid und uns helfen wollt, die Algorithmen zu massieren, würde ich mich freuen, wenn ihr Presaved.
Schreibt gerne in die Kommentare, für welchen Service ihr das macht, bin neugierig.
Bisher sind es 27 Presaves.
Gerne boost. 🚀

Rep. Emily Randall of Washington's 6th congressional district via FB (link to SeaTimes in 2/2):
"The American people are being told one thing, but my eyes saw another: the people inside this facility are our neighbors, people who we would see in the community, parents, and siblings. We spoke with a legal permanent resident who is being detained on a 20 year old crime for which he served his time." 1/2