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Tantalizer 124: Missing links (enigmaticcode.wordpress.com)

INTERPOL Operation Jackal IV Arrests 58, Identifies 263 in Global Cyber Fraud Crackdown (thehackernews.com)

Newly SLEEPWALKER Backdoor Waits for One Crafted Packet, Then Runs Its Own Bytecode (thehackernews.com)

Critical Gitea RCE Actively Exploited as Reported Attack Drops Miner-Like Payload (thehackernews.com)

I2I not AI (thefinanser.com)

Fake Apple Support AI Calls Target Stolen-Device Owners for Passcodes and 2FA Codes (thehackernews.com)

Things worth reading: 26th August 2026 (thefinanser.com)

ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10068, (Wed, Aug 26th) (isc.sans.edu)

Well, FUCK. (idiotking.org)

Nitter is shutting down after a cease and desist letter from X (manualdousuario.net)

I Blame Hollywood (idiotking.org)

CVE-2026-72898: Critical Metabase SQL Injection Is Being Actively Exploited, Allowing Unauthenticated Admin Takeover (thecybersecguru.com)

U.S. Sanctions Iran-Linked Hackers Behind Critical Infrastructure Breaches (thehackernews.com)

Before Cyberleek: The Mystery Behind the stayonthegrindd Account and the Early GTA 6 Leak Trail (thecybersecguru.com)

Pacific Block, an image and video blocker for Safari, now supports Shortcuts (manualdousuario.net)

Weird Fish Decoy "Thing" made of metal. Help identify? (dulltooldimbulb.blogspot.com)

Alleged PhonePe Database Published on Cybercrime Forum, But Breach Remains Unverified (thecybersecguru.com)

Tuesday links: connecting the dots (abnormalreturns.com)

PlayStation India Reportedly Blacklists Media Outlets Over Coverage of Physical Disc Shutdown (thecybersecguru.com)

Quantum Computing Failure Now Obvious (backreaction.blogspot.com)

Discord Says It Has Not Been Served With Take-Two’s GTA 6 Leak Subpoena (thecybersecguru.com)

Mac mini M6 Price in India Starts at Rs 99,900 (www.cyberkendra.com)

Obfuscating IP Addresses as Hostnames, (Tue, Aug 25th) (isc.sans.edu)

Subsea Capacity Report: Kenya (subseacables.blogspot.com)

Research links: judgment and accountability (abnormalreturns.com)

A Malicious Webpage Could Poison Your Local AI Model Behind NVIDIA NemoClaw (thehackernews.com)

2000 Great Songs #1433: The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure (www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com)

Another Tool In Your Network Belt: SEA-H2X (subseacables.blogspot.com)

WhatsApp Adds Multiple Passkeys for Phishing-Resistant Sign-Ins Across iOS and Android (thehackernews.com)

United States Invests in Industry Partnerships for Ph.D. Training (spectrum.ieee.org)

IBM Built the Cold War’s Most Powerful Code Breaker for the NSA (spectrum.ieee.org)

Tech (or political?) choices (manualdousuario.net)

Marimo Notebook Flaw Could Run MCP Commands Before Cells Execute in Edit Mode (thehackernews.com)

CPU Shack – IBM PowerPC 615 x86 and PPC (cpushack.com) (www.cpushack.com)

Bond Market Blows Off Treasury Bond Buyback; Gold and Bitcoin Soar (economistwritingeveryday.com)

Mirage2FA Surge Hits 4,500 US and EU Companies, Abusing Microsoft 365 Login Flows (thehackernews.com)

24 npm Packages Abuse unpkg Mirrors to Host Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA Pages (thehackernews.com)

E4del and PINHOLE RATs Turn FTP Banners Into Dead Drops for Malware Commands (thehackernews.com)

Frontier AI: Vulnerability Management's Systemic Revolution (thehackernews.com)

Subsea Cable Class of 2029: AUG East (subseacables.blogspot.com)

Tracking a Sanctioned Russian Vessel’s West African Odyssey (www.bellingcat.com)

Attackers Target miniOrange SAML Flaws That Can Grant WordPress Admin Access (thehackernews.com)

Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization (stackoverflow.blog)

Why Were 90s RPGs Harder in the US Than Japan? (playstationcouch.com) (playstationcouch.com)

The SWOT of AI in banking (thefinanser.com)

Actively Exploited Oracle WebLogic Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Access Critical Data (thehackernews.com)

ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, August 25th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10066, (Tue, Aug 25th) (isc.sans.edu)

Vintage AI before it got awkward (archive.org) (blog.archive.org)

How I use AI (82mhz.net)

When “Old” Technology Is Better (www.geekinheels.com)

Progress On My Final Album? (carlkingdom.com)

MetaRoCE: A New RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet (engineering.fb.com)

MTIA 300: Meta’s First Training Chip with Built-in NICs and Communication-Offloading Engines (engineering.fb.com)

Shipping More AI Code Than You Can Secure? Watch How to Control Remediation Debt (thehackernews.com)

Weedhack Malware Spreads via Fake Minecraft Clients and SEO Poisoning (thehackernews.com)

Monday links: everybody hates bonds (abnormalreturns.com)

Iran-Linked Hackers Shut Down UK Power Generator for Four Days in First Reported Attack of Its Kind (thecybersecguru.com)

Self-Driving Cars Could Someday Take Requests (spectrum.ieee.org)

Newly discovered real photo postcard of Daniel Rose Whimsical Miniture folk art carvings Collection Jim Linderman (dulltooldimbulb.blogspot.com)

Indiscreet(1958) (classicfilmandtvcorner.wordpress.com)

Journal Crisis at Games and Economic Behavior (economistwritingeveryday.com)

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered PLC Attacks, GitLab Attacks, Stripe Key Leaks and More (thehackernews.com)

Tata’s B2B platform returned OTPs in API responses (eaton-works.com)

Earworm of the Week (idiotking.org)

Home Again (idiotking.org)

2000 Great Songs #1432: Waldo P. Emerson Jones (www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com)

What It Takes to Be an Adaptable Engineer (spectrum.ieee.org)

Responsible AI adoption needs developer workflow design (stackoverflow.blog)

Adviser links: doing more and more (abnormalreturns.com)

DOS Zone (manualdousuario.net)

Folky Clay Head unfired? (dulltooldimbulb.blogspot.com)

OSX360- Mac OS X on the Xbox 360 (github.com) (github.com)

Homebrew 68k machine with a PCI bus (hackaday.com) (hackaday.com)

clicky: A clickwheel iPod emulator (github.com) (github.com)

WordlistLoader Delivers Amatera via ClickFix, SynkLoader Phishes Windows Passwords (thehackernews.com)

A tiny “rainbow on a chip” could help supercharge 6G networks (www.sciencedaily.com)

Critical Keycloak Password Reset Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Take Over Any Account (thehackernews.com)

Operation QUICSILVER Targets Myanmar Government and IT with QUICAgent Backdoor (thehackernews.com)

Day 5: The Mathematical Core – IPv4 Addressing & Subnetting (thecybersecguru.com)

The Outsized Shadow: Why 5% of AI Users Are Your Biggest Security Risk (thehackernews.com)

The Welsh Servant (strangeco.blogspot.com)

The Subsea Cable Class of 2028: Candle (subseacables.blogspot.com)

The Bear’s Lair: Deflating the Financial Engineering Bubble (www.tbwns.com)