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Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a run-down of the best long-form infosec-related reads that I couldn't get to in the daily news crush.
This week's selection is one for the record books and covers
--Don't threaten noted cybersecurity researchers,
--Romance scammers use AI to exploit victims,
--Drug cartels embrace crypto,
--Chinese hackers exploited insecure VPNs,
--Chinese bot traffic is flooding the web,
--Isra…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 2/14/26
Don't threaten noted cybersecurity researchers, Romance scammers are using AI to exploit victims, Drug cartels are embracing crypto, Chinese hackers exploited insecure VPNs, Chinese bot traffic is flooding the web, Israel gains an edge on automotive spying, A fake DPRK IT worker tells all, more

GNU Parallel is such a nice program. It has a bunch of features that, sure, you could cobble together with a program or shell script, but that with Parallel are just a flag away.
Like, “read 1MB chunks from stdin, adjust chunk boundaries so they always start with a specified delimiter, then run N copies of this command where each copy gets a subset of chunks on stdin”.
It’s just --pipe --round-robin --recstart 'some delimiter'.
Last night I used this to search a Li…

As Taiwanese chipmakers push localization to secure supply chains, suppliers to the steel, plastics, and display industries are moving into Taiwan's chip sector (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Taiwan's push for supply chain security produces unexpected winners
Smaller local suppliers seize rare chance to serve chipmakers like TSMC and UMC

PBF with a banger again
(Original title: Artist)
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/artist/

Artist
The Perry Bible Fellowship

Greening school playgrounds can improve quality of life in cities and help deal with climate change https://phys.org/news/2026-01-greening-school-playgrounds-quality-life.html

Greening school playgrounds can improve quality of life in cities and help deal with climate change
Adapting urban spaces to tackle climate change through nature-based solutions, especially in school playgrounds and environments, benefits both children and society as a whole. This is one of the main findings of a three-year study conducted by a group of experts at European universities and research centers under the leadership of a team of researchers at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—BarcelonaTech (UPC). The study is an interdisciplinary…

Bryce Young comes up clutch again as Panthers take control of NFC South race https://www.nfl.com/news/bryce-young-comes-up-clutch-again-as-panthers-take-control-of-nfc-south-race

Cowboys Made Drastic Change to Starting Lineup in Week 16 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-smith-drastic-change-starting-lineup-week-16/

TikTok says ByteDance sold a majority stake in the app's US operations to a group of non-Chinese investors, including Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/tiktok-deal-oracle-bytedance-china-us…

TikTok Strikes Deal to Split Off an American Version, Ending Long Legal Saga
The Chinese parent company for the popular video app said it had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new American TikTok to avoid a ban in the United States.

Rams plan to propose NFL rule change that would have nullified Seahawks' controversial 2-point conversion

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-propose-nfl-rule-change…