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UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/uk-sentences-serial-hacker-of-3-000-sites-to-20-months-in-prison/

UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison
A 26-year old in the UK who claimed to have hacked thousands of websites was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year.

Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two years' probation and a $34K fine for stealing trade secrets and sharing them with his new employer Microsoft (Maxine Bernstein/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/0

Former Intel engineer sentenced for stealing trade secrets for Microsoft
Varun Gupta, now 45, apologized to Intel and Microsoft, as well as the government for the time and resources it has spent “because of my bad decision.”

Dead Amstrad ALT-286 becomes something new #Amstrad

Dead Amstrad Becomes Something New
When you run into old hardware you cannot restore, what do you do? Toss it? Sell it for parts? If you’re [TME Retro], you hide a high-end mini PC inside an Amstrad-shaped sleeper build. The d…

I am hearing the ticking away of the hours and days before our country breaks into violent reaction against the FFOTUS gestapo.
"DOJ seeks one-day sentence for officer in raid that killed Breonna Taylor"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nat…

DOJ seeks one-day sentence for officer in raid that killed Breonna Taylor
In November, a federal jury found officer Brett Hankison guilty of violating Taylor’s civil rights during a March 2020 police raid in which she was fatally shot.

This brings me back to the mid/late 1980s... I remember doing an interview (by mail) with Eric from Life Sentence for my first zine. (He had a tragic ending in 2016, glad we still have the music.)
https://lifesentence.bandcamp.com/album/life-sentence-remastered …

Sources: Chiefs star Rice gets 30 days jail time https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45762942/chiefs-rashee-rice-sentenced-30-days-jail-sources-say

AdaptiSent: Context-Aware Adaptive Attention for Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
S M Rafiuddin, Sadia Kamal, Mohammed Rakib, Arunkumar Bagavathi, Atriya Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12695

AdaptiSent: Context-Aware Adaptive Attention for Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
We introduce AdaptiSent, a new framework for Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (MABSA) that uses adaptive cross-modal attention mechanisms to improve sentiment classification and aspect term extraction from both text and images. Our model integrates dynamic modality weighting and context-adaptive attention, enhancing the extraction of sentiment and aspect-related information by focusing on how textual cues and visual context interact. We tested our approach against several baselines, i…

Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/justice-department-brett-hankison-sentence-breonna-taylor.html

DOJ seeks a single-day prison sentence for an officer convicted in the Breonna Taylor raid (Cameron Peters/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/420214/breonna-taylor-brett-hankison-sentencing-doj-police-reform
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p151#a250717p151

As the week's cyber news continues to heat up, check out today's Metacurity before you fall behind on the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Operation Deep Sentinel took down infamous darknet drug marketplace Archetyp Market,
--Minnesota political assassin used online data brokers to find victims,
--Scattered Spider's latest target is insurance sector,
--Thai cops arrest ransomware actors targeting China,
--$10m reward for Cybe…

Operation Deep Sentinel took down infamous darknet drug marketplace Archetyp Market
Minnesota political assassin used online data brokers to find victims, Scattered Spider's latest target is insurance sector, Thai cops arrest ransomware actors targeting China, $10m reward for CyberAv3ngers hackers, WhatsApp ads worry privacy experts, Yes24 apologizes for attack, much more