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Don't miss today's Metacurity which is jam-packed with a host of intense cybersecurity developments, including
--Texas AG sues TP-Link, saying it allowed the CCP to hack routers,
--A hacker gained access to a French national bank database with 1.2m accounts,
--Microsoft 365 Copilot bug summarized confidential emails,
--DEF CON bans Epstein's hacking associates,
--Deutsche Bahn operations disrupted by cyberattack,
--Polish army bans Chinese cars,…

Texas AG sues TP-Link, saying it allowed the CCP to hack routers
A hacker gained access to a French national bank database with 1.2m accounts, Microsoft 365 Copilot bug summarized confidential emails, DEF CON bans Epstein's hacking associates, Deutsche Bahn operations disrupted by cyberattack, Polish army bans Chinese cars, much more

I'm trying to understand why these graphs do not match:
#fediverse #mastodon

Curtis Yarvin has befriended Alexander Soros, son of George Soros and chair of the Open Society Foundation, at a fancy conference in southern Bavaria.
It’s a strange sight—the son of the man long credited as liberalism’s greatest patron, arm in arm with one of today’s leading architects of neofascism.
But Yarvin has always had a talent for cultivating men with more money than sense. More on that in a moment
A new profile of Yarvin in the German publication Die Zeit captur…

Curtis Yarvin Compares Africans to Cattle, Cuddles A Soros
Curtis Yarvin, the Dark Enlightenment guru beloved by Peter Thiel and JD Vance, compares Africans to cattle and befriends a Soros

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Gaetano Donizetti, Joyce El-Khoury, Michael Spyres, Brindey Sherratt, Opera Rara Chorus, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Mark Elder:
🎵 Les Martyrs, Act 2, Scenes 2-4: "Mon seul tresor....oui j'irai"
https://open.spotify.com/track/19PL0Jcyc3ARNjM8cNCtVC

DOJ files show how Epstein courted media to launder his image by easily exploiting some digital media figures, but also the impact of accountability journalism (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/08/2026/new-emai…

Exclusive: New emails show how Epstein used the media to rehab his reputation
Most of the revelations in the files have not revealed journalistic sins, but have highlighted uncomfortably close relationships.

Started creating browser-based calculators for quickly computing a bunch of recurring things in darkroom processing, so far:
Scale amount by area:
Given reference dimensions and amount, compute scaled amount needed for new target dimensions.
Example: Compute drops of emulsion needed for a new print size
Two-part solution ratio:
For a total volume of a two-part solution with a A:B target mix ratio, compute how many units are needed of both A and B.
Example: For…

I remember one of my jobs where we had a company building an internal system for us and I kept sending emails to the team telling them ways I could break their software...
And they got annoyed...
And my boss told me to cool it, and "give them a chance!"
But my thought was since they gave (some of) us a system to test, should they not be informed of all the ways it could break?
(And no, there was no bug reporting system.)

Three members of Congress say
the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr,
lied during his Senate confirmation hearings
in response to newly revealed emails that undermine his testimony that a trip he took to Samoa ahead of a deadly measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines”.
The governor of Hawaii,
a medical doctor who responded to the crisis, also spoke out
– saying that the disclosure of the emails by the Guardian and the Associated Press show …

Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds #geolocation

Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds
404 Media has obtained a cache of internal police emails showing at least two agencies have bought access to GeoSpy, an AI tool that analyzes architecture, soil, and other features to near instantly geolocate photos.

Short 35 second video summary of a kallitype test print development from last night, showing the many different color changes a print undergoes before one can actually fully check the final result. With a trained eye, you can already make a determination quite early on, but in general each of the stages has potential to throw your expectations, sometimes tones even shift in the 24h-48h after initial drying...
Btw. This print hasn't been fully cleared by purpose and the emulsion is …