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