@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-08-17 15:24:26
Never a weekend slowdown in cybersecurity news, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed since Friday, including
--Alibaba’s Qwen races past Meta, Google with 3 billion AI model downloads,
--AI agent exploits Snowflake flaw introduced by Copilot,
--US tells allies to pick sides in AI race with China,
--China pushes to reshape the world’s AI training data,
--China’s Zhipu claims AI edge over Anthropic in cyber test,
--Pentagon scrambles to keep pace with AI’s military risks,
--France holds crisis meeting over massive tax agency hack,
--Iran targets Israeli journalists with phishing attacks,
--Election officials blast CISA over lack of cyber support,
--AI deepfake scams surge in Australia,
--SafePal breach exposes data of nearly 40k customers,
--Bits of Gold breach exposes customer data,
--Hackers exploit Mac flaw to mine cryptocurrency,
--Seven arrested over $35m German bank hack,
--Hong Kong university probes ransomware breach claims,
--Fake GitHub site spreads Mac infostealer,
--US courts to disclose government spyware use,
--Sogang University breach exposes 180k people,
--DDoS attacks hammer secure messaging service Threema,
--Hackers hawk millions of records stolen from Azure tenants,
--London police expose emails of Al Fayed accusers,
--Microsoft kills Windows tool long abused by malware,
--French court blocks social media ban for children,
--AI can’t seem to produce any tech heroes,
--AI makes data breaches even more expensive,
--Amazon used to sell books, not destroy them
https://www.metacurity.com/alibabas-qwen-races-past-meta-google-with-3-billion-ai-model-downloads/
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org2026-07-13 20:29:29
RE: https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/116913323912478183
I agree. It is frustrating because our society has been electing extremely corrupt people lately. But, while they will attempt to ignore the voices they are attempting to disenfranchise as m…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-24 22:09:33
A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections,
part of which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship when they register to vote.
The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston effectively converts a preliminary injunction she issued a year ago,
in which she temporarily blocked many of Trump’s efforts to overhaul elections, into a permanent ban…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-19 03:06:05
Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/source-elastic-…
@arXiv_condmatsoft_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-08-13 07:41:35
Spatially heterogeneous relaxational dynamics and the evolution of recoverable strain following flow cessation of a ductile nanocolloidal glass
Chloe W. Lindeman, James J. Griebler, Penelope Grace Kovakas, Miaoqi Chu, Qingteng Zhang, Suresh Narayanan, James L. Harden, Simon A. Rogers, Robert L. Leheny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11470 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11470 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11470
arXiv:2608.11470v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We report a combined rheology and x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) study of the structural and mechanical relaxation of a ductile, nanocolloidal glass following the cessation of shear flow. After the glass is sheared to 300% strain at various shear rates and then held at fixed strain, the stress undergoes a protracted, quasi-logarithmic decay with hold time that depends weakly on the initial strain rate. Recovery rheology measurements reveal that this stress relaxation is accompanied by a logarithmic decrease in the elastic component of the recoverable strain; hence, the rates of decrease of the stress and recoverable strain are proportional. XPCS measurements during the stress relaxation reveal dynamics dominated by a convection-like backflow that is divided into two dynamically distinct regions indicative of banded motion. In one region, the flow can be modeled by an affine strain, while in the other region the glass moves as a plug while undergoing slow, glassy relaxation. The rates of these dynamics approximately track the rate of loss of recoverable strain, indicating this motion is the predominant microscopic mechanism driving the conversion of recoverable to unrecoverable strain during stress relaxation. In contrast, XPCS measurements during strain recovery reveal purely affine flow with no evidence of heterogeneity and with strain rates that agree quantitatively with the rheometry measurements. Together, these results provide a unified microscopic picture connecting the evolving internal dynamics of a ductile glass to its macroscopic mechanical relaxation following flow cessation.
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@scott@carfree.city2026-05-21 03:06:53
"Palestine is a canary in the coal mine for an electoral approach that prioritizes popularity and political careerism over anti-imperialism and party-building."
I wish AOC were better and DSA could proudly endorse her, but as it stands, I unfortunately agree with Red Star's critiques and conclusion here.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-29 16:22:59
Rocket Lab is buying Iridium’s satellite network for $8 billion
to take on SpaceX
Rocket Lab
-- the space company best known for its small satellite launcher Electron,
-- has announced plans to acquire Iridium Communications for $8 billion.
The deal will combine Rocket Lab’s launch services and spacecraft manufacturing
with Iridium’s satellite-based communications network,
putting it in a better position to challenge SpaceX.
Iridium offers comm…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-30 12:10:41
Intercontinental Exchange agrees to acquire electronic fixed-income trading platform MarketAxess for ~$6B in cash, a 33% premium, set to close in H1 2027 (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.co…
@pre@boing.world2026-06-19 09:10:46
And the voters of Makerfield appear to agree with the assessment.
It was 55% Labour, 35% Reform. Even Restore and Reform put together couldn't beat him.
Not even a question of the Restore Vote splitting the right to let Andy in.
Just Burnham winning with 20% of the vote as his margin.
Wonder how long till the Leadership election. This could be the quickest an MP becomes leader ever 🤣
@pre@boing.world2026-05-22 10:11:29
Burnham is on the radio doing a launch speech.
He thinks the people of Makerfield are going to write the script for the whole UK.
Namechecks every local borough.
There's been forty years of policies that leave people struggling, that took away jobs, can't afford homes. [yep]
Namechecks some local companies and football teams and schools in a story about a football game. He lived here a long time and likes it.
It's unjust what Westminster has done to this place which makes him very angry.
So the election is a call for change, for these local people in particular, to the economy, education, transport, care, and politics.
More tech schools not concentrating only on university degrees.
He wants to get to the point where the council is building more homes than its losing. New cheap council homes.
Imagine some local person suddenly called to a job interview in the city, they have to pay 364 quid to get to the city. Re-nationalize rail to make rail fares sane.
His dad is in a care home. A local one. Its run for profit. Which needs to change so that it's provided on NHS terms with a social care system that supports the NHS.
We won't get those things without changing politics.
Manchester is the fastest growing city because of how he worked with business. He loves working with business too. Public "control" working with business over busses has been good in Manchester he recons [I think people generally agree, but I dunno]
Note, he says, how he's not been dissing the other parties. He doesn't want that. [Good actually]
He wants his own party to change too.
A vote for him is a vote to change Labour. To change it back to the one the people used to know. On the side of working class people and communities.
This is not a new journey, he has always been working to make the lives of local people better. Ever since his first day walking into the Labour club when the manager said "You're on, between the bingo and the turn, keep it short".
His three word slogan: I'm For Us.
Its a very good speech. He is very personable. Sounds like a normal person not remotely like a robot the way ministers tend to.
It does sounds a lot like what Starmer was saying when he was running for selection four years ago. He hasn't explained how he can do all that given the constraints Starmer thinks he is under. Which of those constraints are wrong.
That Andy Burnham will win this contest.
#UkPol #labour #makerField #andyBurnham