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T-Mobile's Starlink-powered satellite service T-Satellite is now generally available as a standalone subscription for US users, not just T-Mobile customers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712546/starlink-powered-t-sate…

Starlink-powered ‘T-Satellite’ service is now live on T-Mobile
T-Mobile is rolling out its Starlink-powered satellite service, T-Satellite, which will let customers with supported devices send text messages and share their location without cellular service.

This is some serious hardware.
And the best name of a Secret Service agent: Matt McCool
"Secret Service takes down network that could’ve crippled New York cell service"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/23/secret-service-new-y…

While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly,
the U.S. Secret Service quietly dismantled a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area
— a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable.
The cache,
made up of more than 300 SIM servers packed with over 100,000 SIM cards and clustered within 35 miles …

Secret Service dismantles threat around UN capable of crippling NYC cell service
The U.S. Secret Service has dismantled a massive hidden telecom network in New York. Investigators say the system could have crippled cell towers and jammed 911 calls. The cache included over 300 SIM servers with more than 100,000 SIM cards. It was located within 35 miles of the United Nations. The network could have blacked out cellular service, especially during the United Nations General Assembly. Officials have not uncovered a direct plot against the assembly. Forensic analysis is ongoing, …

Canada’s FinTech industry enters new era as Bank of Canada taps first payment service providers
https://betakit.com/canadas-fintech-industry-enters-new-era-as-bank-of-canada-taps-first-payment-service-providers/…

Dang, it's another blockbuster day in cybersecurity news, so don't miss today's Metacurity for our original analysis and smart round-up of the developments you should know, including
--Korea is an Asian hotspot for cyberattacks,
--The Secret Service seized equipment capable of shutting down cell service in the NY region
--ENISA confirms the attack on the airlines' check-in provider was ransomware,
--UK manufacturing sector slumps as JLR shutdown drags o…

Korea is an Asian hotspot for cyberattacks
The Secret Service seized equipment capable of shutting down cell service in the NY region, ENISA confirms the attack on airlines' check-in provider was ransomware, UK manufacturing sector slumps as JLR shutdown drags on, Pro-Kirk app leaked user personal data, much more

"Rund 3300 Rentnerinnen und Rentner kassieren ihre Rente noch in bar bei der Post. Ab 2026 ist damit Schluss."
Faktisch werden sie gezwungen, Gebühren für ein Konto zu zahlen, das sie bisher nicht brauchten.
https://www.fr.de/verbrau…

Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/bluesky-blocks-serv…

Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law | TechCrunch
In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn't have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law's broad scope and privacy implications.

Saluting Their Service: Contemporary Voices Of Bravery
Shares the real and powerful stories of Australia's Defence personnel, veterans, and their families...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/saluting-their-service/…

NFL Salute to Service gear just dropped, how to buy the 2025 jerseys, hats, t-shirts https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/shopping/2025/09/22/shop-2025-salute-to-service-apparel-nfl-team-gear-jersey…

The cache, made up of more than 300 SIM servers packed with over 100,000 SIM cards and clustered within 35 miles of the United Nations,
represents one of the most sweeping communications threats uncovered on U.S. soil.
Investigators warn the system could have blacked out cellular service in a city that relies on it not only for daily life but for emergency response and counterterrorism.
Coming as foreign leaders filled midtown hotels and motorcades clogged Manhattan,

Secret Service dismantles threat around UN capable of crippling NYC cell service
The U.S. Secret Service has dismantled a massive hidden telecom network in New York. Investigators say the system could have crippled cell towers and jammed 911 calls. The cache included over 300 SIM servers with more than 100,000 SIM cards. It was located within 35 miles of the United Nations. The network could have blacked out cellular service, especially during the United Nations General Assembly. Officials have not uncovered a direct plot against the assembly. Forensic analysis is ongoing, …

NFL Salute to Service gear just dropped, how to buy the 2025 jerseys, hats, t-shirts https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/shopping/2025/09/22/shop-2025-salute-to-service-apparel-nfl-team-gear-jersey…

Secret Service says it disrupted illicit cellular network threatening UN conference https://therecord.media/secret-service-cellular-network-disruption

OLG: Störerhaftung bleibt zulässig – Google muss Phishing-Anzeigen stoppen
Google stieß mit der Ansicht, der Digital Service Act (DSA) lasse keine Prüfungspflicht für ähnliche Markenverstöße zu, beim OLG Düsseldorf auf taube Ohren.

Amazon relaunches its game streaming service Luna, available at no additional cost for Prime subscribers, and adds new beginner-friendly multiplayer games (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/amazons-revamped-l…

Improving After-sales Service: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Time Slot Assignment with Commitments and Customer Preferences
Xiao Mao, Albert H. Schrotenboer, Guohua Wu, Willem van Jaarsveld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17870

Improving After-sales Service: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Time Slot Assignment with Commitments and Customer Preferences
Problem definition: For original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), high-tech maintenance is a strategic component in after-sales services, involving close coordination between customers and service engineers. Each customer suggests several time slots for their maintenance task, from which the OEM must select one. This decision needs to be made promptly to support customers' planning. At the end of each day, routes for service engineers are planned to fulfill the tasks scheduled for the following …

From Service-Oriented Computing to Metaverse Services: A Framework for Inclusive and Immersive Learning for Neurodivergent Students
Rachid Hamadi (School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW Sydney Australia), Abdelmounaam Rezgui (School of Information Technology Illinois State University Normal IL USA), Ali Darejeh (School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW Sydney Australia)

From Service-Oriented Computing to Metaverse Services: A Framework for Inclusive and Immersive Learning for Neurodivergent Students
The metaverse offers immersive and adaptive learning environments for neurodivergent students to thrive and reach their full potential. In this paper, we propose a generic framework that leverages metaverse services as an evolution beyond traditional service-oriented computing, enabling more interactive, personalized, and engaging educational experiences. By integrating AI-driven adaptability, multimodal interaction, and privacy-first service design, the framework ensures that learning remains …

Recuerden que hoy salió lo nuevo de Chino Moreno y compañía. He leído muy buenos comentarios de este disco de Deftones, así que ahora de ponerle oreja.
«private music»
https://album.link/s/1gmWnG5TeRj91Tdm2lpEvJ

Synthesis of Service Life Prediction for Bridges in Texas
Lu Gao, Yi-lung Mo, Shalaka Dhonde, Daisy Saldarriaga, Lingguang Song, Ahmed Senouci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16208 h…

Synthesis of Service Life Prediction for Bridges in Texas
Design-build bridge contracts often include long-term service life requirements, but there are no clear technical guidelines or standardized methods to achieve or verify these goals. While durability practices are commonly applied, they lack quantitative validation. With many aging bridges and limited financial resources, accurately estimating remaining service life is essential for prioritizing repair and rehabilitation needs. This research reviews current practices and recent advancements in …

And if you really want to push candidates left, you do what the Black Panthers did. You provide the service you want to see so the government is forced to play catch up. If you build the world you want to see, you force the state to follow you in order to remain relevant. You make enforcing unjust laws impossible while providing the service to believe should exist. THAT is direct action that wins.
Edit: and that is also shit that will get you killed. If you want to stop fascism, you have to do the real work. Voting can only matter if it's part of a larger strategy to force the system to do what you want. Otherwise you're just legitimizing the managed resistance.

Monday jam: Funkwrench Blues (featuring Anson Funderburg) | Bunky Flues! | #blues

Bunky Flues! by Funkwrench Blues, Anson Funderburgh
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🤔 So kann man sich täuschen!
https://www.swr3.de/aktuell/service/ekel-vor-fuessen-warum-100.html?at_medium=social&at_campaign=@swr3@ard.social#experte

From Monday onwards the Icelandic postal service will be severely limiting the types of parcels that can be sent to the US. The same goes for quite a few European countries. The reason is because of the way Trump's new tariffs are structured.
Evidently a lot of extra work is supposed to be carried out by the postal service in each country. I can't really describe what the problem is, mostly the new system seems confusing and is likely in breach of international agreements.

Bot farm busted
https://www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/u-s-secret-service-disrupts-telecom-network-threaten…

Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/bluesky-blocks-serv…

Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law | TechCrunch
In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn't have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law's broad scope and privacy implications.

Campus AI vs. Commercial AI: How Customizations Shape Trust and Usage of LLM as-a-Service Chatbots
Leon Hannig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Annika Bush (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Meltem Aksoy (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Steffen Becker (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany), Greta Ontrup (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
https://

Campus AI vs. Commercial AI: How Customizations Shape Trust and Usage of LLM as-a-Service Chatbots
As the use of LLM chatbots by students and researchers becomes more prevalent, universities are pressed to develop AI strategies. One strategy that many universities pursue is to customize pre-trained LLM as-a-service (LLMaaS). While most studies on LLMaaS chatbots prioritize technical adaptations, we focus on psychological effects of user-salient customizations, such as interface changes. We assume that such customizations influence users' perception of the system and are therefore important i…

“The anonymous communications network, which included more than 100K SIM cards & 300 servers, could interfere with emergency response services and could be used to conduct encrypted communication.”
Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N.

Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N.
The Secret Service discovered more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers, which could disable cellular towers or be used to conduct surveillance.

Happy with the day's work. I should've started this work 1-2 weeks earlier but it seems, tangled in stuff, I'd forgotten the joy in software engineering. But I'm glad to have it back, and, the joy is greater because this work is done as #service. 🙇‍♂️
Tomorrow might feel different but today is a #win. ☺️
#wipWednesday

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/service-offerings-from-mastodon/

Service offerings from Mastodon
We're offering hosting, support and moderation services, to establish a more sustainable financial base while we continue to build a better social web.

Hi, whenever this administration or any government agency controlled by it releases some pompous thing (like the Secret Service announcement today) it’s to distract from something bad or embarrassing they’re doing (like Trumps UN “talk” or the Epstein files).

#ThrashMetal 🤘
https://song.link/y/hxe2kEmt_eo

Legacy of Pain by Deathhammer
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Universe help us if someone invokes his name and claims a miracle occured...
Charlie Kirk Memorial Service Begins; Trump, JD Vance To Speak
https://deadline.com/2025/09/charlie-kirk-memorial-service-1236551834/

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Die Linksfraktion schreibt gerade jede Menge Stellen aus:
https://www.dielinkebt.de/service/ausschreibungen/

Expert-as-a-Service: Towards Efficient, Scalable, and Robust Large-scale MoE Serving
Ziming Liu, Boyu Tian, Guoteng Wang, Zhen Jiang, Peng Sun, Zhenhua Han, Tian Tang, Xiaohe Hu, Yanmin Jia, Yan Zhang, He Liu, Mingjun Zhang, Yiqi Zhang, Qiaoling Chen, Shenggan Cheng, Mingyu Gao, Yang You, Siyuan Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17863…

Expert-as-a-Service: Towards Efficient, Scalable, and Robust Large-scale MoE Serving
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models challenge serving infrastructures with dynamic, sparse expert utilization, causing instability on conventional systems designed for dense architectures. We propose EaaS, a novel serving system to enable efficient, scalable, and robust MoE deployment. Our system disaggregates MoE modules into independent, stateless services. This design enables fine-grained resource scaling and provides inherent fault tolerance by decoupling compute units. The architecture is powe…

High-precision strikes in Crimea, “Toloka” in the service of Ukraine, and a counterattack in Sumy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/23/highprecision-strikes-in-crimea-toloka.html

#Meta baut in #Louisiana ein riesiges #Rechenzentrum. Auf einer Fläche von etwa 50 Fußballfeldern werden ca. 2500 MW Energie benötigt. Das entspricht dem dreifachen Jahresverbrauch der Stadt New Orleans.

»Amazon Web #Service's — DNS-Problem legte zahlreiche #Online-Dienste lahm:
Wenn es einmal bei einem der großen #Cloud Service #Provider

Amazon Web Services: DNS-Problem legte zahlreiche Online-Dienste lahm
Aufgrund eines Problems bei der DNS-Auflösung bei AWS fielen einige Dienste temporär aus. Davon betroffen waren auch Snapchat und Fortnite.

Mastodon erhält neue Hosting- und Support-Angebote, die auf größere Organisationen und öffentliche Einrichtungen zugeschnitten sind. Diese ermöglichen es ihnen, ihre eigene soziale Identität auf ihrer eigenen Infrastruktur zu besitzen.
Ideal für Unis, Institute, Stiftungen oder NGOs um eine resiliente und kontrollierbare Kommunikation aufzubauen, unabhängig von BigTech.
Auch Schulen können eigene Instanzen für souveränes social media aufbauen.

Service offerings from Mastodon
We're offering hosting, support and moderation services, to establish a more sustainable financial base while we continue to build a better social web.

Transit riders are not taking Daniel Lurie's service cuts sitting down. 😤
Unless, that is, we are waiting at one of these 12 stops
https://sfist.com/2025/08/22/guerilla-bench-activists-back-a…

‘Guerilla Bench’ Activists Back At It, Install 12 More Lovely But Unauthorized Benches at Muni Stops
The team of anonymous transit activists who put benches at Muni stops that had no benches in June has struck again, adding 12 new benches to bench-less bus stops in the Lower Haight, Bayview-Hunters Point, and Potrero Hill.

Dear god I hate stateful services. Please, people, stop writing stateful service objects. You're just making more work for everyone.
#PHP

Schools service scoops heritage award for The National Archives https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/schools-service-scoops-heritage-award-for-the-national-archives/

Schools service scoops heritage award for The National Archives - The National Archives
Educators at The National Archives have won a prestigious prize for their history workshops. The team, all trained teachers, won The Sandford Award for Heritage Learning 2025. They bring alive history using maps, drawings, wills, censuses, illustrations and other records from around 26 million documents held at The National Archives in Kew. Sessions based on […]

«The Clearing». El cuarto disco de estudio de la banda britšnica Wolf Alice. Es parte de los lanzamientos de esta semana.
#WolfAlice

Something of a mix up with the automated announcements on this train.
"Welcome aboard this Avanti West Coast service to Edinburgh, calling at ... long pause ... see it, say it, sorted."

Today I've seen two men from the emergency gas service crouching near a box which emitted a loud hissing sound. Neither of them was smoking.
I guess this is the career that builds character.

Innerhalb weniger Tage im August 2025 haben #Waldbrände in #Spanien die höchsten jährlichen #Feueremissionen seit Beginn der

Good move by Volvo to make smart charging the standard.
Volvo's smart charging service works directly via the car (retrieving information, controlling charging) and is therefore compatible with any home charging point.
#SmartCharging #EV

Public service announcement for #HomeAssistant. I created @… to replace the dead @… group.
Please boost so the group can get some traction.

"Answer"
#Listen
on Tidal or wherever you like to this beautiful
#PianoImprov
dedicated to and inspired by my spouse

Stan Stewart - Answer (Jaydn, opus 26)
Listen to Answer (Jaydn, opus 26) on your streaming service

Whoa, fuck, that's incredible. Amtrak is great, but not cheap!
https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-8FfzJXktT-27awX2wtvXFQ:a:3807498986-/0

Metro-North to extend service to Albany, competing with Amtrak service
The MTA plans to extend Metro-North Railroad service north to the Albany area, offering a once-a-day round trip between Grand Central Terminal and …

Did run into an issue with `jellyfin` starting a bit too fast and somehow trying to read the metadata directory _before_ it's available. I added a delay to the `/etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service.d/jellyfin.service.conf` by adding a line to the `[Service]`:
```
[Service]
ExecStartPre=bash -c "while [ ! -d /opt/jellyfin/metadata ]; do sleep 1; done"
```
This fixes the issue and now the service comes up after reboot without restarting the service man…

Wow. Disney /Hulu announcing a rate hike right now, as a bunch of people are cancelling their service over the Jimmy Kimmel fiasco, is a fascinating decision on their part.

Did someone figure out how to configure the network for the Apple Container service bridge interface permanently? it's not what ```defaults write com.apple.container network.subnet ... ``` does ....

Taming VR Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration for Multi-Task Bimanual Table Service Manipulation
Weize Li, Zhengxiao Han, Lixin Xu, Xiangyu Chen, Harrison Bounds, Chenrui Zhang, Yifan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14542

Taming VR Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration for Multi-Task Bimanual Table Service Manipulation
This technical report presents the champion solution of the Table Service Track in the ICRA 2025 What Bimanuals Can Do (WBCD) competition. We tackled a series of demanding tasks under strict requirements for speed, precision, and reliability: unfolding a tablecloth (deformable-object manipulation), placing a pizza onto the table (pick-and-place), and opening and closing a food container with the lid. Our solution combines VR-based teleoperation and Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) to balance …

Trump administration could block student loan relief for some workers in public service (Mary Cunningham/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-loan-public-service-loan-forgiveness-trump-admin-rule/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p34#a250820p34

oh wow Youtube zieht die Daumenschrauben an:
Ad blockers violate YouTube's Terms of Service
It looks like you may be using an ad blocker. Video playback is blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled.
Ads allow YouTube to be used by billions worldwide.
You can go ad-free with YouTube Premium and creators can still get paid from your subscription.

hahah.. yes.. YES...
The #tech #conglomerates, having scoured all crumbs of the original #internet, how turn to each other and devour themselves.

Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI
Reddit is selling your posts to AI companies, and now it’s suing to stop the ones who won’t pay. Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get …

"Plastics: All around us and inside us"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Plastics: All around us and inside us
Plastic is one of the most remarkable materials ever created. It's cheap, lightweight and endlessly versatile. It can be shaped into anything from shopping bags to lifesaving tools in hospitals, and it's clean, safe and can be sterilized. Depending on its purpose, it can be used just once—for example, in medical settings where hygiene is critical—or kept in service for years.

#StephenMiller us telling us he's trying to redo the #Holocaust. He plagiarized #JosephGoebbels' eulogy of

'Scary as all hell': Onlookers horrified as Stephen Miller parrots Nazi speech
Stephen Miller delivered a venomous speech at right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's memorial service that bore a close resemblance to one given by a notorious Nazi leader at a similar event, according to reports.The White House deputy chief of staff and top adviser to President Donald Trump called on m...

We zijn aan het nadenken over nieuwe hosting voor diverse websites, o.m. @…. Niet puur managed WordPress-hosting, maar eerder enterprise server hosting, zeg maar. Met ervaring in hosting voor overheid en alle eisen vandien, met persoonlijke service. Geen kiloknaller, geen hosting-moloch.
Dus ik zoek eigenlijk namen van Nederlandse bedri…

Guess who Alec Baldwin had on his podcast.
Listen to the episode and hear YDS student Andrea Barton Reeves '26 M.A.R. discuss her work ensuring accessibility to services and support for thousands of Connecticut residents, and how she remains grounded in her values of transparency, integrity, and service to others. #WeAreCalled

Department of Social Services Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves on Connecticut’s Future
Podcast Episode · Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin · 10/21/2025 · 43m

Ricky's Hand by Ministry
https://song.link/i/1698161420

Ricky's Hand by Ministry
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Postal services of several European countries will suspend sending parcels to the USA from August 29th. The American customs service apparently doesn't have a system in place to deal with tariffs on individual postal parcels which are to be imposed from that date onwards.

Serval, which uses agentic AI models to automate IT service management for clients like Perplexity and Mercor, raised a $47M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/serval-raises-4…

Serval raises $47 million to bring AI agents to IT service management | TechCrunch
Serval is using agentic AI models to automate IT service management, but the company has a unique approach that takes advantage of agentic AI’s powers while avoiding many of its pitfalls.

Nah dran - aber im Zweifelsfall doch lieber Manowar. 😉
#HeavyMetal

Arrival of the Avenger by TRIUMPHER
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The international courier DHL on Friday joined other European mail carriers that have put temporary restrictions on sending packages to the United States
-- because of Trump’s executive order that eliminates an exemption on duties on cheap imported goods.
The temporary halt by DHL’s German parcel service, and its domestic mail service, Deutsche Post, covers commercial shipments originating in Germany to consumers in the United States.
The company will continue to send privat…

Fearing Customs Chaos, DHL Joins Others in Suspending U.S. Shipments
The halt by one of the world’s largest couriers comes after President Trump eliminated an exemption on tariffs levied on imported goods valued under $800.

John Fogerty regrabó algunos clšsicos de Creedence que acaban de ser publicados bajo el título «Legacy: the Creedence Clearwater Revival years (John's Version)». Aquí estš el resultado.
https://album.link/s/62BZmOGh09399g6m5FwiMe

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300 SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Amazon Web Services announces AWS RTB Fabric, a real-time bidding service for ad buyers and sellers, aiming to cut integration hours between ad tech partners (Seb Joseph/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/amazons-next-frontier-in-ad…

Amazon’s next frontier in advertising: the cloud infrastructure it runs on
The ad dollars are nice but the real prize for Amazon is the infrastructure itself -- the rails on which the entire system runs.

Covid-19 vaccines may help some cancer patients fight tumors | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/covid-19-vaccines-may-help-some-cancer-patients-fight-tumors/

So I assumed that DoorDash & GrubHub added some markup for deliveries on top of a delivery charge & tip, but I didn't really think about markup for pickup orders. By calling in our pickup order, the cost was $115 ($105 plus some tax).
DoorDash, just looking at their menu (so no additional service fees at checkout), would've cost $126.50 (20% markup; inconsistency meant some of the individual cheaper items had a 60% markup!)
GrubHub, just looking at their menu, wou…

SRY 🤷‍♂️
https://song.link/de/i/1561885819

Der Fluch des Kapt’n Iglo by NanowaR of Steel
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The U.S. Secret Service on Thursday discovered a suspicious hunting stand near Palm Beach International Airport
with a direct sight line to where Donald Trump exits Air Force One.
The FBI is now leading an investigation into the discovery, Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesperson for the Secret Service, said in a statement

Secret Service discovers hunting stand with direct sight line to Trump's Air Force One exit in Florida
The U.S. Secret Service on Thursday discovered a suspicious hunting stand near Palm Beach International Airport with a direct sight line to where President Donald Trump exits Air Force One, the agency confirmed to NBC News on Sunday

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

So I updated the two-paragraph summary of the Secret Service's take-down of a SIM farm in the New York region and posted a correction notice. Further elaboration of the take-down will appear in tomorrow's daily.

Wisconsin governor asks Trump to avert SNAP lapse amid shutdown | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/wisconsin-governor-asks-trump-to-avert-snap-lapse-amid-shutdown/

Michael Wolff sues Melania Trump in a NY court to try to stop her from suing him over his claims about Melania and Donald Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein (Josh Russell/Courthouse News Service)
https://courthousenews.com/michael-wol

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

Check out today's Metacurty for the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters claims dossiers on US officials including NSA employees
--EU cops bust up illegal SIM-box service,
--Russia's COLDRIVER uses two new backdoors,
--Korea preps financial consumer data protection bill,
--76K WatchGuard Firebox network security appliances are exposed on the web,
--Attackers target OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studi…

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters claims dossiers on US officials including NSA employees
EU cops bust up illegal SIM-box service, Russia's COLDRIVER uses two new backdoors, Korea preps financial consumer data protection bill, 76K WatchGuard Firebox network security appliances are exposed on the web, Attackers target OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio with GlassWorm malware, much more

El nuevo disco de Pancho Folk, salido hace unos pocos dias. Esto suena a Musica desde el alma.
«Ay Diosito Santo»
#PanchoFolk

Parents sue apartment complex over death of OpenAI whistleblower | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/parents-sue-apartment-complex-over-death-of-openai-whistleblower/

Sumble, which offers an AI sales intelligence service, emerges from stealth and raised a $30M Series A led by Canaan Partners and $8.5M seed led by Coatue (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/sumbl…

Sumble emerges from stealth with $38.5M to bring AI-powered context to sales intelligence | TechCrunch
The founders of machine learning community Kaggle are trying to upend the crowded sales prospecting market with AI. And they're making headway.

trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…

TikTok pushes merchants to use a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking to TikTok Shop rather than merchants' own sites, frustrating some merchants (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-shops-new-…

TikTok Shop’s New Ad Policy Risks Alienating Merchants
As TikTok readies itself for the expected sale of its U.S. business to a new venture controlled by American investors, the company is trying to boost its commerce business, TikTok Shop. But the measures it has taken risk alienating merchants who sell on the shopping service. TikTok Shop in ...

https://www.wired.com/story/sim-farm-new-york-threatened-us-infrastructure-feds-say/
“Despite speculation in some reporting about SIM farm operation that suggests it was created by a foreign state such as Russia or China and used for espionage…

‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say
The agency says it found a network of some 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards—enough to knock out cell service in the NYC area. Experts say it mirrors facilities typically used for cybercrime.

Federal judge extends order blocking National Guard deployment in Illinois | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-extends-order-blocking-national-guard-deployment-in-illinois/

Baidu and Swiss Post's PostBus plan to launch Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicle service in Switzerland, testing in December ahead of rollout by Q1 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/baidu-expands-robotaxi-push-swit…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/115253514107520318
Not sure why the Secret Service's YouTube is not showing up here but you can find it in the announcement.

CNN plans to launch its All Access streaming subscription tier on October 28 for $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year in the US (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/cnn-subscription-service-launch-1236588685/

CNN’s Subscription Service To Launch October 28 At $6.99 Per Month
CNN is making another go of it with a subscription service, announcing an Oct. 28 launch for its “all access” service at a price of $6.99 per month. Subscribers will have access to live and on demand content, as well as digital journalism.  “It’s an essential step in CNN’s evolution as we work to give […]

North Carolina tightens pretrial release rules after light rail killing | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/north-carolina-tightens-pretrial-release-rules-after-light-rail-killing/

Alibaba launches a free consumer-focused AI chatbot in its Quark app, powered by Qwen 3, and plans to open pre-sales for its $660 Quark AI Glasses on October 24 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/alibaba-launc…

Maine Senate candidate Platner says tattoo recognized as Nazi symbol has been covered | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/maine-senate-candidate-platner-says-tattoo-recognized-as-nazi-symbol-has-been-covered/

Starbridge, which helps businesses monitor public sector opportunities by consolidating fragmented data, raised a $42M Series A led by David Sacks' Craft (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/david…

David Sacks' Craft leads $42 million Series A in govtech startup Starbridge | TechCrunch
Starbridge raises $42M Series A led by Craft Ventures to help businesses better monitor public service opportunities.

ICYMI:
👍 👏 Ninth Circuit upholds nationwide block of Trump birthright citizenship order | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-upholds-nationwide-block-of-trump-birthright-citizenship-order/

TikTok pushes merchants to use a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking to TikTok Shop rather than merchants' own sites, frustrating some merchants (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-shops-new-…

TikTok Shop’s New Ad Policy Risks Alienating Merchants
As TikTok readies itself for the expected sale of its U.S. business to a new venture controlled by American investors, the company is trying to boost its commerce business, TikTok Shop. But the measures it has taken risk alienating merchants who sell on the shopping service. TikTok Shop in ...

Clinic harasser can't use a bullhorn
First Amendment doesn’t provide the right to be heard, Fourth Circuit finds | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/first-amendment-doesnt-provide-the-right-to-be-heard-fourth-circuit-finds/

Lawmaker Calls for Explanation of Inconsistent Forest Service Staffing Data — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/forest-service-wildland-firefighters-staffing

Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-14/salesforce-says-ai-customer-service-saves…

Salesforce Says AI Customer Service Saves $100 Million Annually
Salesforce Inc. said it’s saving about $100 million a year by using artificial intelligence tools in the software company’s customer service operations.