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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

Testing for LLM response differences: the case of a composite null consisting of semantically irrelevant query perturbations
Aranyak Acharyya, Carey E. Priebe, Hayden S. Helm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10963

Testing for LLM response differences: the case of a composite null consisting of semantically irrelevant query perturbations
Given an input query, generative models such as large language models produce a random response drawn from a response distribution. Given two input queries, it is natural to ask if their response distributions are the same. While traditional statistical hypothesis testing is designed to address this question, the response distribution induced by an input query is often sensitive to semantically irrelevant perturbations to the query, so much so that a traditional test of equality might indicate …

Worked on some more #Gentoo global #jobserver goodies today.
Firstly, Portage jobserver support patch: #PyTest jobs will also be counted towards total job count.
Again, it's not a perfect solution, but it works reasonably. The plugin still starts -n jobs as specified by the arguments, but it acquired job tokens prior to executing every test, therefore delaying actual testing until tokens are available. It doesn't seem to cause noticeable overhead either.

❄️🌨️ Was sollte man bei #Winterwanderungen im #Schnee beachten? Spätestens bei außen vereisten und innen klitschnassen Jeans merkt man, dass man eventuell einen klitzekleinen Fehler gemacht hat. Heiße Tipps unter dem Link. Stehen bei Euch

Gut gerüstet für Winterwanderungen im Schnee: Tipps für Bekleidung, Ausrüstung und mehr
Sicher und warm durch den Winter wandern: Tipps zur richtigen Bekleidung, Ausrüstung und Verpflegung bei Winterwanderungen.

State Field Coverage: A Metric for Oracle Quality
Facundo Molina, Nazareno Aguirre, Alessandra Gorla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03071 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

State Field Coverage: A Metric for Oracle Quality
The effectiveness of testing in uncovering software defects depends not only on the characteristics of the test inputs and how thoroughly they exercise the software, but also on the quality of the oracles used to determine whether the software behaves as expected. Therefore, assessing the quality of oracles is crucial to improve the overall effectiveness of the testing process. Existing metrics have been used for this purpose, but they either fail to provide a comprehensive basis for guiding or…

The US navy knew of potentially dangerous levels of airborne plutonium in San Francisco
for almost a year
before it alerted city officials
after it carried out testing that detected radioactive material in November last year, public health advocates allege.
The plutonium levels exceeded the federal action threshold
at the navy’s highly contaminated, 866-acre Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
It was detected in an area adjacent to a residential neighborhood fil…

Scale AI signed a $100M ceiling contract with the DOD to provide end-to-end services, including its data engine for data preparation and AI model testing (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/17/scale-ai-deal-pentagon

Exclusive: Scale AI strikes deal with Pentagon
The deal will allow DOD to acquire AI capabilities and deploy them on top secret networks using Scale AI's end-to-end products.

Wide Receiver Room Elevates: Jacksonville Jaguars Trade for WR Jakobi Meyers https://www.jaguars.com/news/k000469-wide-receiver-room-elevates-jacksonville-jaguars-trade-for-wr-jakobi-meyers