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Before you head out for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Chinese state hackers used Anthropic to automate cyber intrusions,
--UK MoD knew of Excel's security risks before Afghan data leak,
--NHS investigates Clop's attack claims,
--ASUS patches DSL router critical flaws,
--DoorDash reveals October security incident,
--US feds warn of Akira's expanded encryption …

Chinese state hackers used Anthropic to automate cyber intrusions
UK MoD knew of Excel's security risks before Afghan data leak, NHS investigates Clop's attack claims, ASUS patches DSL router critical flaws, DoorDash reveals October security incident, US feds warn of Akira's expanded encryption capabilities, Kraken is testing how fast it can encrypt, much more

Never have I seen a more pointed example of "generative AI is very good at cliché"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/an-ai-generated-band-got-1m-plays-on-spotify-now-m…

Cowboys should be paying attention to Trey Hendrickson health status https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-should-be-paying-attention-trey-hendr…

(Adaptive) Scaled gradient methods beyond locally Holder smoothness: Lyapunov analysis, convergence rate and complexity
Susan Ghaderi, Morteza Rahimi, Yves Moreau, Masoud Ahookhosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10425 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10425 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10425
arXiv:2511.10425v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper addresses the unconstrained minimization of smooth convex functions whose gradients are locally Holder continuous. Building on these results, we analyze the Scaled Gradient Algorithm (SGA) under local smoothness assumptions, proving its global convergence and iteration complexity. Furthermore, under local strong convexity and the Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz (KL) inequality, we establish linear convergence rates and provide explicit complexity bounds. In particular, we show that when the gradient is locally Lipschitz continuous, SGA attains linear convergence for any KL exponent. We then introduce and analyze an adaptive variant of SGA (AdaSGA), which automatically adjusts the scaling and step-size parameters. For this method, we show global convergence, and derive local linear rates under strong convexity.
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Oh this really was fun, Scalar's interactive API docs on a FastAPI deployment is making me wonder if we should just use this for the workshop rather than trying to switch people over to use the Postman collection I made (also it's an Enterprise audience, and I already know that some of my attendees are not allowed to use Postman).

Blogbastelei
Nachdem mein letzter Versuch mit dem ActivityPub Plugin und der Erweiterung für Bluesky (Bridge) nicht funktioniert hat habe ich den ganze Kram aus dem Blog rausgeworfen. Stattdessen nutze nun das Plugin Mastodon Autopost um die Beiträge automatisch ins Fediverse zu bringen.
Damit die Beiträge auch auf Bluesky landen nutze ich das Plugin Atproto Share.
Bei beiden Pl

Blogbastelei
Schon wieder? Ja, schon wieder. Ich möchte es mal wieder mit dem ActivityPub Plugin probieren, inkl. einer kleinen Erweiterung für Bluesky. Also genau dem womit es schon des öfteren nicht geklappt hat, warum auch immer. Wenn alles funktioniert sollte der Blog im Fediverse unter @rausgerufen@rausgerufen.de erreichbar sein und auf Bluesky unter @rausgerufen.rausgerufen.de.ap.brid.gy Bedeutet, die Beiträge [...]

Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test

Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages
Amazon is introducing an AI tool that will automatically translate books into other languages. This should be useful for authors who self publish.

⚙️ Automatic model selection: haiku for trivial, sonnet for standard, opus for critical planning
🐳 Flexible isolation: #Docker containers, #git worktrees, or direct execution
💾 Built-in crash recovery via #SQLite

SentinelLabs' Dakota Cary linked Yu Yang and Qiu Daibing, two alleged members of the Chinese state hacking group, to participants of the 2012 Cisco Networking Academy Cup.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/11/salt_typhoon_cisco_training/

Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme
: Skills gained later fed Beijing's cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expert

Only one day left in the first work week of 2026, so don't miss today's Metacurity for a concise run-down of the top infosec developments you should know, including
--Salt Typhoon infiltrated US House China Committee, other committees, sources,
--TX court enjoins Samsung from using or selling consumer data,
--FCC exempts some Chinese tech at Pentagon's request,
--Man accused of stealing Snapchat access codes for 600 women for university coach,
--Ni8ma…

Salt Typhoon infiltrated US House China Committee, other committees, sources
TX court enjoins Samsung from using or selling consumer data, FCC exempts some Chinese tech at Pentagon's request, Man accused of stealing Snapchat access codes for 600 women for Northeastern Univ. coach, Ni8mare flaw allows takeover of N8N workflow automation platform, much more