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Now that the weekend is over, check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you might have missed, including
--Suspected Chinese hackers breach top telco law firm,
--13 Romanians busted for phishing attacks on UK revenue & customs office,
--Hacker shares racist and antisemitic posts on Elmo's X account,
--Flaw can trigger train emergency break,
--DoJ tries to recoup Trump boosters' stolen crypto,
--Google Gemini for Workspace…

Suspected Chinese hackers breach top telco law firm
13 Romanians busted for phishing UK revenue & customs office, Hacker shares racist & antisemitic posts on Elmo's X account, Flaw can trigger train emergency break, DoJ tries to recoup Trump boosters' stolen crypto, Google Gemini for Workspace flaw enables malicious instructions, much more

Romanian police arrest 13 scammers targeting UK’s tax authority https://therecord.media/romania-arrests-tax-fraud-ring-britain-hmrc

My largest remaining NSF grant, which was awarded by a competitive process on the recommendation of national experts, was terminated yesterday. The money would have paid for PhD students to invent better AI systems for everyday people who need programs written for them but can't or won't write them themselves. I'm sad that the rate of progress we make will slow down significantly, because all our progress is made public for everyone to benefit from. That's what

NFL analyst misses mark on Dallas Cowboys' biggest remaining need https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/nfl-analyst-misses-mark-dallas-cowboys-biggest-remaining-need

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
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Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for a ton of critical infosec developments you should know, including
--UK to spend $1.1 billion relocating Afghan helpers following data breach
--DOGE worker published the private key for four dozen-plus LLMs,
--US gov't IT contractor to pay $14.75m fine for overstated cyber services,
--Italian cops arrest Romanian behind 'Diskstation' ransomware gang,
--OMB readies post-quantum standard,
--MSFT'…

UK to spend $1.1 billion relocating Afghan helpers following data breach
DOGE worker published the private key for four dozen-plus LLMs, US gov't IT contractor to pay $14.75m fine for overstated cyber services, Italian cops arrest Romanian behind 'Diskstation' ransomware gang, OMB readies post-quantum standard, MSFT's 'digital escorts' leave DoD vulnerable, much more

News Corp authorizes a $1B stock repurchase program; the total authorization now stands at $1.3B as ~$303M is remaining under the September 2021 buyback plan (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/news-corp-announces-new-1-…

The perils of observing a Total #SolarEclipse from the stratosphere: how the Romanian 2012 flight over Australia - https://www.astrofoto.ro/wp/?p=880 - had ended; the tree had to be cut in the end ... for AUD 200. No plans to repeat that effort. 17/n

Back to harmonic mappings of compact Riemannian manifolds
Sergey Stepanov, Irina Tsyganok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08105 https://ar…

Back to harmonic mappings of compact Riemannian manifolds
In this paper, we address several interconnected problems in the theory of harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds. First, we present necessary background and establish one of the main results of the paper: a criterion characterizing when a smooth submersion or diffeomorphism between Riemannian manifolds is harmonic. This result provides a useful analytic condition for verifying the harmonicity of geometric mappings. Second, we investigate the L2-orthogonal decomposition of the pullback metr…

NFL analyst misses mark on Dallas Cowboys' biggest remaining need https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/nfl-analyst-misses-mark-dallas-cowboys-biggest-remaining-need