Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by PCI Guru

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12h

The whole linear progress of time thing remains a challenge for MAGA.

A tweet by WeThePeople reads, “Jack Smith was hired months after the raid.” The post quotes a tweet by Aaron Rupar showing Eric Trump in a TV interview, saying, “Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father...” The screenshot shows Eric Trump speaking on a Fox News-style broadcast with a city skyline backdrop.

150 370 2.1K

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 13h

Great ideas on how to fix our broken political systems. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Fix the System, Not the Man

Why fighting Trump isn’t enough

substack.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 17h

Since decade-old protections expired two weeks ago, business leaders have been involving their legal teams more in discussions about sharing threat intelligence, slowing down the process, industry sources tell Axios. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Axios Future of Cybersecurity - Legal teams get involved in info sharing

www.axios.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 17h

Many, if not all, of these layoffs appear to be in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — which has already lost one-third of its workforce from voluntary buyouts and early retirements. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Axios Future of Cybersecurity - 1 big thing: Another round of layoffs hits cyber defense agency

www.axios.com

1

Reposted by PCI Guru

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19h

New achievement unlocked: a lawyer got caught using AI to do the filing where he explained why he used AI in another filing

www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

www.404media.co

2 16 67

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

“We’ll see what the definition of term limit is," Steve Bannon said. www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-...

Former Trump Adviser Says There Are 'Different Alternatives' To Get Trump Reelected In 2028

“We’ll see what the definition of term limit is," Steve Bannon said.

www.huffpost.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

Half a trillion dollars wiped from the market in the latest sell-off, with Trump’s own meme coin hitting a new all-time low. www.the-independent.com/tech/crypto-...

How Trump triggered the biggest crypto crash in history

Half a trillion dollars wiped from the market in the latest sell-off, with Trump’s own meme coin hitting a new all-time low

www.the-independent.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals

www.theguardian.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

A Silicon Valley chronicler on the increasingly radical politics of Elon Musk, David Sacks and Mark Zuckerberg. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘The Democrats Still May Not Understand What They're Dealing With’

A Silicon Valley chronicler on the increasingly radical politics of Elon Musk, David Sacks and Mark Zuckerberg.

www.politico.com

1 1

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

The government has written to chief executives across the country strongly recommending that they should have physical copies of their plans at the ready as a precaution. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Have plans on paper in case of cyber-attack, firms told

Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.

www.bbc.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

Researchers have long feared that if AI-made content online overwhelms human-created material, large language models could choke on their own exhaust and collapse. www.axios.com/2025/10/14/a...

Exclusive: The web is still mostly written by humans, study finds

New data shows AI-written content is plateauing — and doesn't perform well in search.

www.axios.com

1

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

Chinese state hackers remained undetected in a target environment for more than a year by turning a component in the ArcGIS geo-mapping tool into a web shell. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Chinese hackers abuse geo-mapping tool for year-long persistence

Chinese state hackers remained undetected in a target environment for more than a year by turning a component in the ArcGIS geo-mapping tool into a web shell.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

While the company has yet to share which regions are currently affected by this ongoing issue, it has been tagged as an incident in the admin center, a designation typically used for service issues with noticeable user impact. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

Microsoft investigates outage affecting Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing incident that is preventing some customers from accessing Microsoft 365 applications.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

The tech giant did not share too many technical details but said that the threat actor combined social engineering with an exploit in Chakra to gain remote code execution. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Microsoft restricts IE mode access in Edge after zero-day attacks

Microsoft is restricting access to Internet Explorer mode in Edge browser after learning that hackers are leveraging zero-day exploits in the Chakra JavaScript engine for access to target devices.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

OT and ICS systems indeed hold the crown jewels of critical infrastructure organizations, but unmonitored data sprawl is proving to be pure gold for increasingly brazen nation-state threat actors like Volt Typhoon, Pearce argues. www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks...

Critical infrastructure CISOs Can't Ignore Office Data

Unmonitored data sprawl is proving to be pure gold for increasingly brazen nation-state threat actors like Volt Typhoon, Pearce argues.

www.darkreading.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

Though agencies like the State Department have gathered millions of handles and monitored political discussions online, www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

The Trump Administration's Increased Use of Social Media Surveillance - Schneier on Security

This chilling paragraph is in a comprehensive Brookings report about the use of tech to deport people from the US: The administration has also adapted its methods of social media surveillance. Though ...

www.schneier.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

Think of it as the Model T of robots. The big difference from previous versions? This bad boy was designed from the ground up for mass production. No more hand-built prototypes that cost a gazillion dollars each. www.eweek.com/news/figure-...

Is Figure 03 the ‘Model T’ moment for robots?

Figure AI’s new humanoid robot, Figure 03, is designed for mass production, powered by AI, and capable of folding laundry, loading dishes, and learning from video.

www.eweek.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement

New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.

arstechnica.com

1

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

Lance is built on the idea that Parquet – widely used in AWS, Azure, and Google data lakes – shows its age when it comes to machine learning and AI, and an additional, complementary format better suits those requirements. www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/l...

Lance takes aim at Parquet in file format joust

: Challenger seeks to unseat incumbent for machine learning workloads

www.theregister.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

Tracked as CVE-2025-61884, this information disclosure flaw in the Runtime UI component affects EBS versions 12.2.3 to 12.2.14 and could allow unauthenticated threat actors to steal sensitive data remotely following successful exploitation. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Oracle releases emergency patch for new E-Business Suite flaw

Oracle has issued an emergency security update over the weekend to patch another E-Business Suite (EBS) vulnerability that can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

The Proofpoint Threat Research Team described the threat activity cluster as sophisticated, leveraging web injections and filtering checks as part of its attack chains. thehackernews.com/2025/10/rese...

Researchers Expose TA585’s MonsterV2 Malware Capabilities and Attack Chain

Researchers link TA585 to MonsterV2 RAT stealer delivered via IRS-themed phishing, JavaScript injects, and GitHub lures.

thehackernews.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

Enhancements will make the simple bot act more like an AI chatbot. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Slack Is Transforming Slackbot Into an AI Assistant

Enhancements will make the simple bot act more like an AI chatbot.

www.cnet.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 22h

Named Pixnapping, the attack has been demonstrated against Google and Samsung phones. Google has released one patch for the Android operating system and is working on an additional fix to protect devices against potential attacks. www.securityweek.com/pixnapping-a...

Pixnapping Attack Steals Data From Google, Samsung Android Phones

Researchers have identified a new attack method that can allow malicious applications to steal sensitive data from Android devices.

www.securityweek.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 23h

SAP ramped up efforts to move customers to its latest software in the cloud on a subscription model nearly five years ago and has shifted its sales teams' incentives to encourage sales of SAP Cloud ERP Private subscriptions. www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/s...

SAP private cloud users face 10% renewal hikes, says Gartner

: On-prem discounts drying up as ERP giant sends 'mixed signals' on pricing

www.theregister.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 23h

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com