The infosec news machine is blinking tilt and it's only Wednesday, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical developments you should know, including
--DOGE engineer stole hundreds of millions of US taxpayers' data, whistleblower, 1/6
www.metacurity.com/doge-enginee...
there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it
this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive
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….the biscuits!
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Dutch intelligence agencies issue a warning about Russian-backed hackers launching a global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts of officials, military personnel and journalists.
www.defensie.nl/documenten/20...
ICYMI: Transport for London says 2024 breach affected 7M customers, not 5,000
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
Does anyone know of any recent studies around the effectiveness of different extrinsic (e.g. financial) vs intrinsic (e.g. community altruism) motivators for open source contributors?
Asking for me, a friend, and also the rest of the OSS community.
Reported this two weeks ago
This shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being taken and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded in front of our eyes.
I also saw @ofalafel.bsky.social in Bristol and highly recommend!
OpenAI research hub a ‘vote of confidence’ in UK, says Kendall.
Science secretary hails tech giant’s choice of London for largest office outside the US.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-i...
Four new national compute resources (NCRs) will help solve some of society’s biggest challenges, from healthcare to climate change.
The NCRs aim to drive economic growth and keep the UK at the cutting edge of science.
The more I hear about inverse proportion, the less I like it.
One of the many reasons it's important to have the BBC, our own national public service broadcaster, independent of tech giants, advertisers, proprietors, government, dedicated to providing factual news, fact-checking, and accountable to licence fee payers. #Russia #disinformation #AI #propaganda
A small black robot with two robotic arms at the front and a camera mounted on top.
Here's a photo of one of Icarus Robotics' semi-autonomous teleoperated robots — an important milestone as they build towards fully autonomous systems.
Find out more by listening to Episode 146 of Robot Talk - available on all major podcast providers: linktr.ee/robottalkpod #Robotics
There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.
Today the NCSC has issued a warning highlighting Pro-Russian Hacktivist groups are targeting sectors across the UK.
All organisations are urged to act now by reviewing and implementing our free guidance to protect against DoS attacks.
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Best of British: UK's infosec envoys include Cisco, Palo Alto, and Accenture
Minister unwraps ambassadors of the Software Security Code of Practice
Britain's digital economy minister has sent forth a raft of companies as "ambassadors" to help organizations across the land embrac…
#hackernews #news
So, like a kind of quantum AI?
Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost
⚠️ Kubernetes ingress-nginx retires March 2026.
Key statements:
• No security patches after retirement.
• Ingress-nginx powers ~50% of environments.
• Migration to Gateway API is recommended.
• There are no direct drop-in replacements.
Read more: kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01...
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive Open Source SecurityCon
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Open Source SecurityCon returns at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU to talk policy, supply chain, & security challenges.
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A milestone for the Kubernetes inference ecosystem, shared by @terrytangyuan.xyz (Yuan Tang):
WG Serving has completed its mission and is transitioning ongoing work forward. Thank you to everyone who contributed, and to the teams carrying the work forward!
#Kubernetes #CloudNative #AI
"The data reveals a troubling disconnect: while AI coding tools deliver remarkable productivity gains, Veracode research shows that 45% of AI-generated code samples fail security tests, introducing OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities into production systems."
www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/vib...
AI coding platform's flaws allow BBC reporter (me) to be hacked. The BBC has been shown a significant - and unfixed - cyber-security risk in popular AI coding platform Orchids. The case highlights the potential risks of the ongoing vibe-coding gold rush. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
