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🍹 Herbs hit the sweet spot to extend shelf life of popular global drink
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Herbs hit the sweet spot to extend shelf life of popular global drink
A team of food scientists from Australia and Pakistan has discovered a natural way to significantly extend the shelf life of sugarcane juice, one of the world's most popular, but highly perishable, beverages.

DOGE is still slashing government contracts, with around $2.2 billion in cyber contracts cut through August 2025.
Check out today's Metacurity for more on which contracts have been cut and other top infosec developments you should know, including
--18 popular JavaScript code packages were compromised by malware,
--WhatsApp former security chief accuses Meta of security and privacy flaws,
--Treasury sanctions Myanmar and Cambodia scam businesses and people,
--IC…

DOGE has slashed government cyber contracts by $2.2 billion so far
18 popular JavaScript code packages compromised by malware, WhatsApp ex-security chief accuses Meta of security and privacy flaws, Treasury sanctions Myanmar & Cambodia scam workers and firms, ICE is spending $4m on facial to hunt for cop assaulters, Hacked Boris Johnson files leaked, much more

Somewhere out there in the multiverse, there's a version of earth where it wasn't John Mastodon who wrote the most popular activitypub-using social networking site, but rather some guy named Fred.
The frediverse is real popular over there, with almost half a billion people on fredi.

Aikido Security says attackers injected malware into 18 popular npm packages, including the debug package, with over 2.6B total weekly downloads (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata

Did you know that this president had sex, repeatedly, forcibly, with an underage girl who worked on his property?
That means he is known to have committed sex crimes, against a child, but it somehow doesn’t tarnish his popularity.
It was Thomas Jefferson, who else?
#USpol #epstein…

Will popular Cowboys rookie be active in Week 2? GM, coach noncommital https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/09/cowboys-rb-jaydon-blue-week-2-jerry-jones-brian-schottenheime…

»npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads Hacked in Major Attack:
Aikido Security flagged the largest npm attack ever recorded, with 18 packages like chalk, debug, and ansi-styles hacked to hijack crypto wallets via injected code.«
Good heavens! Another example of how "simple" and popular programming languages are misused to exploit users.
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npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads Hacked in Major Attack
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Camarades, je viens de publier un article sur la "communication en groupe pour l'activisme" :
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/xcli/blog/090925/communiquer-en-groupe-pour-lactivisime
À mettre dans tous les poings levés 💗 ✊
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Communiquer en groupe pour l'activisime
Dans ce billet, nous allons discuter de bonnes pratiques pour la communication sécurisée lors de la préparation et de réalisation d'actions militantes. En particulier, nous verrons pourquoi Signal, Whatsapp ou Telegram ne sont pas recommandés avant et pendant les actions militantes. Des solutions alternatives plus sûres seront proposées.

Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, says the app hit 1M downloads less than five days after its launch, even faster than ChatGPT did (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/09/openais-sora-downloads.html

OpenAI's Sora hit 1 million downloads in less than five days
Sora reached 1 million downloads even faster than ChatGPT, OpenAI's popular AI chatbot that supports 800 million weekly active users.