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Don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Embargo may be a rebranded version of ALPHV ransomware group,
--Russian threat group GreedyBear is stealing crypto,
--Israel beat Iran in the brief war's cyber conflicts,
--M&S resumes click and collect orders,
--GPT-5 was a disaster and easy to hack,
--Hacker breached dealership portal and could hack customers' cars,

New Embargo group may be a rebranded version of ALPHV ransomware gang
Russian threat group GreedyBear is stealing crypto, Israel beat Iran in the brief war's cyber conflicts, M&S resumes click and collect orders, GPT-5 was a disaster and easy to hack, Hacker breached dealership portal and could hack customers' cars, Korea's Yes24 ransomwared again, much more

Newsom condemns 'reprehensible' Charlie Kirk shooting (Julia Mueller/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5496656-newsom-kirk-shooting-reprehensible-violence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p128#a250911p128

Find the best contrast between one color and a list of options, e.g. for labels in geom_tile: {prismatic::best_contrast()} https://emilhvitfeldt.github.io/prismatic/reference/best_contrast.html

Open-sci-ref-0.01: open and reproducible reference baselines for language model and dataset comparison
Marianna Nezhurina, Taishi Nakamura, Timur Carstensen, Niccol\`o Ajroldi, Ville Komulainen, David Salinas, Jenia Jitsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09009

Open-sci-ref-0.01: open and reproducible reference baselines for language model and dataset comparison
We introduce open-sci-ref, a family of dense transformer models trained as research baselines across multiple model (0.13B to 1.7B parameters) and token scales (up to 1T) on 8 recent open reference datasets. Evaluating the models on various standardized benchmarks, our training runs set establishes reference points that enable researchers to assess the sanity and quality of alternative training approaches across scales and datasets. Intermediate checkpoints allow comparison and studying of the …

Brass of the BBC to point to polls, when they've given disproportionate attention to Farage personally for a decade.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/12/bbc-under-fresh-pressure-over-extent-of-reform-uk-nigel…

Zelensky signals major cabinet reshuffle, calls for defense reforms: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/zelensky-signals-major-cabinet-reshuffle.html

ReferSplat: Referring Segmentation in 3D Gaussian Splatting
Shuting He, Guangquan Jie, Changshuo Wang, Yun Zhou, Shuming Hu, Guanbin Li, Henghui Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08252

ReferSplat: Referring Segmentation in 3D Gaussian Splatting
We introduce Referring 3D Gaussian Splatting Segmentation (R3DGS), a new task that aims to segment target objects in a 3D Gaussian scene based on natural language descriptions, which often contain spatial relationships or object attributes. This task requires the model to identify newly described objects that may be occluded or not directly visible in a novel view, posing a significant challenge for 3D multi-modal understanding. Developing this capability is crucial for advancing embodied AI. T…

from my link log —
The key to understanding “Dynamic Programming” is that it’s not referring to “computer programming”.
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1172
saved 2025-07-21

Trump's Cabinet of Incompetents (Maureen Dowd/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/opinion/trump-cabinet-hegseth-bondi.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08.YUSF.cqVqVob5sARy&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p32#a250712p32

Trump Pleads With Followers to Back Bondi in Dispute Over Epstein Inquiry (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/us/politics/trump-bondi-epstein-bongino.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WE8.RFDy.jjKymSGwUuDS&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p60#a250712p60