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Wegen Handyverbots: Schulen schaffen 2-Faktor-Authentifizierung ab
81 Schulen in Oregon schalten bei den Google-Konten ihrer 44.000 Schüler die 2-Faktor-Authentifizierung ab. Denn die dürfen ja kein Handy nutzen.

CloudX, which uses Anthropic's Claude to automate mobile ad pricing and inventory optimization for publishers, raised a $30M Series A led by Addition (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/adtech-founders-raise-30-million…

Adtech Founders Raise $30 Million to Automate Mobile Ads for Publishers
CloudX enlists AI agents for ad pricing and optimizing inventory.

⛐ Iran to attend World Cup draw after reversing its planned boycott
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/dec/04/iran-to-attend-world-cup-draw-after-reversing-its-planned-boycott

Iran to attend World Cup draw after reversing its planned boycott
Iran has reversed its boycott of the World Cup draw, with team representatives due to attend the event in Washington DC

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.
So far it’s been working!
Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.
Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.
And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.
They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

CloudX, which uses Anthropic's Claude to automate mobile ad pricing and inventory optimization for publishers, raised a $30M Series A led by Addition (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/adtech-founders-raise-30-million…

Adtech Founders Raise $30 Million to Automate Mobile Ads for Publishers
CloudX enlists AI agents for ad pricing and optimizing inventory.

Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa apologizes for calling out teammates' meeting attendance: 'I made a mistake' https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-qb-tua-tagovailoa-apologizes-for-calling-out-teammates-meeting-attendan…

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

Deconstructing Attention: Investigating Design Principles for Effective Language Modeling
Huiyin Xue, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Nikolaos Aletras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11602 htt…

Deconstructing Attention: Investigating Design Principles for Effective Language Modeling
The success of Transformer language models is widely credited to their dot-product attention mechanism, which interweaves a set of key design principles: mixing information across positions (enabling multi-token interactions), sequence-dependent activations (where attention weights adapt to each input), a specific mathematical form (dot-product similarities plus softmax weighting), and coupling of queries and keys to evolving hidden states (grounding attention in the current layer). However, th…

Trump Says He Might Attend Supreme Court Hearing on Tariffs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-15/trump-says-he-might-attend-supreme-court-hearing-on-tariffs-mgshbu48
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p147#a251015p147

🦾 Robots you can wear like clothes: Automatic weaving of 'fabric muscle' brings commercialization closer
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-robots-automatic-fabric-muscle-commercialization.html

Robots you can wear like clothes: Automatic weaving of 'fabric muscle' brings commercialization closer
The commercialization of clothing-type wearable robots has taken a significant step forward with the development of equipment that can continuously and automatically weave ultra-thin shape memory alloy coil yarn—thinner than a human hair—into lightweight and flexible "fabric muscle" suitable for large-scale production.