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Resurrecting a dead #torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html

Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/warming-triggers-unprecedented-carbon-loss-from-tropical-soils-study-finds/

Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds
Climate warming could cause much greater soil carbon losses in the tropics than previously predicted, with potentially dire consequences for the global climate, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Tropical forests store around a third of the world’s soil carbon and exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other land biome. […]

A US federal jury gives five Nevada men varying prison sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming services (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/five-sentenced-for-running-piracy-streaming-site

5 Nevada men sentenced to prison for running Jetflicks pirated content site
The Justice Department said it ended “the largest internet privacy case… ever to go to trial as well as the first illegal streaming case ever to go to trial.”

Electronics manufacturer Data I/O reports ransomware attack to SEC
https://therecord.media/electronics-manufacturer-dataio-ransomware

Electronics manufacturer Data I/O reports ransomware attack to SEC
The tech manufacturer Data I/O reported a ransomware attack to federal regulators, writing that the incident has taken down critical operational systems.

Tracker Installations Are Not Created Equal: Understanding Tracker Configuration of Form Data Collection
Julia B. Kieserman, Athanasios Andreou, Chris Geeng, Tobias Lauinger, Damon McCoy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16891

Tracker Installations Are Not Created Equal: Understanding Tracker Configuration of Form Data Collection
Targeted advertising is fueled by the comprehensive tracking of users' online activity. As a result, advertising companies, such as Google and Meta, encourage website administrators to not only install tracking scripts on their websites but configure them to automatically collect users' Personally Identifying Information (PII). In this study, we aim to characterize how Google and Meta's trackers can be configured to collect PII data from web forms. We first perform a qualitative analysis of how…

2025 NFL Free Agency Tracker: Raiders Add 3-Time Pro Bowler Jamal Adams https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-free-agency-tracker-signings-updates-best-players-available

NFL roster cuts tracker 2025: Players released by all 32 teams ahead of 53-man roster deadline

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-ros

Chinese national who sabotaged Ohio company’s systems handed four-year jail stint
https://therecord.media/chinese-national-sentenced-prison

Chinese national who sabotaged Ohio company’s systems handed four-year jail stint
A Houston resident was sentenced to four years in prison for intentionally installing malicious code on his employer's computer systems, which he activated when his role was terminated.

Bitcoin-treasury company Strive, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, will acquire Semler Scientific, a medical device company that has a bitcoin treasury, for $1.34B (Ateev Bhandari/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona