Euro banks block billions in rogue PayPal direct debits after fraud glitch
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/euro_banks_block_paypal_direct_debits/
Palo Alto Networks launches Cortex AgentiX, AI agents that can be deployed across various security vendor platforms to automate cybersecurity actions (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/palo-alto-networks-debuts-new-tk-agent-to-fight-…
Just re-read the first chapter of a book I am probably not gonna finish writing.
11 years have passed, and oddly some of it feels more topical now.
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/avocado-katz-and-the-battle-for-mars/
#MinCup25 QF4 Personally, I enjoy the six-member silicate ring structure of dioptase. Both images credit mindat.
"The Civil War still turned states to ash, and killed hundreds of thousands of Andrew Jackson’s generation’s kids and grand-kids. Bad compromises are bad because they don’t meaningfully or persistently solve anything."
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/tyrants-fall/
🔓 A breach every month raises doubts about South Korea’s digital defenses
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/a-breach-every-month-raises-doubts-about-south-koreas-digital-defenses/
STM32MP2 update: I have logging on the A35 cores via the UART on the M33!
It took a bit of work to get the IPC channels up and running (using the IPCC to handshake a buffer in SRAM2) but now you can just log by invoking g_log("foo") like you could anywhere else in my platform and it a) goes to the right place and b) is tagged with the core ID.
US progressives are embracing debate shows long used by conservatives, seeing the format as a more authentic alternative to "spoon-fed" political talking points (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/bus…
"Because there are many things the simulacrum (the simulation or reproduction) of things do not have that the _actual_ things do have. People still flock to see the Mona Lisa despite reproductions, even very high quality and faithful reproductions."
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/being-hu