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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 14h

This one's a wild/messy one: Cyber giant F5, which serves most of the Fortune 500, said unknown government hackers had 'long term' access to its network:

• stole source code, some customer data
• accessed undisclosed vulns in BIG-IP
• DOJ allowed F5 to delay public notice citing national security

Cyber giant F5 Networks says government hackers had 'long-term' access to its systems, stole code and customer data | TechCrunch

The company, which provides cybersecurity defenses to most of the Fortune 500, said the DOJ allowed it to delay notifying the public on national security grounds.

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PJ 🇨🇦 🧬🔬📡💻 🥃 @pj47596176.bsky.social · 9h

a cartoon badger is standing in a grassy field with the word badger written on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon badger is standing in a grassy field with the word badger written on the bottom

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Mushroom in the Wild Playing Keyboard

YouTube video by BionicandtheWires

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Philippe Lagassé @plagasse.bsky.social · 18h

New at Debating Canadian Defence:

How many defence ministers does Canada have?

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AI is now training on articles written by AI.

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Whisky & Watches @whiskyandchampagne.bsky.social · 18h

Eden Mill opens distillery in St Andrews for visitors and released a single malt NAS #whisky. A first-fill Oloroso Sherry Hogshead from October 2016. Limited to 279 bottles.
#EdenMill
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Steve Rush @thewhiskywire.bsky.social · 20h

Cutty Sark launches new 17 Year Old Blended Whisky: thewhiskywire.com/2025/10/15/c... #Scotch #Whisky #News

Cutty Sark launches new 17 Year Old Blended Whisky

Cutty Sark Blended Scotch Whisky – which has remained true to its pioneering spirit for over a century – has announced the launch of a new 17 Year Old expression. Bottled at 42.3% ABV, Cutty Sark 1…

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 2d

Our public money to support research at our universities is mandated by our Congress.

It is not the personal slush fund of the president, to withhold at will or dole out as largesse, rewarding those who please him.

Those who seek reform of universities can use laws, not arbitrary extortion.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 2d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 1d

During the GWOT, there was at least the pretense of legality based on covert action findings or the updating of old findings known as MoNs. The legal reasoning was secret and was often credibly accused of being Calvinball-like, but it existed. Now there isn’t the barest patina of law.

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Finland adopts an all-society model to build national defence

YouTube video by euronews

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Will Ottawa let us build Trucks?

YouTube video by Edison Motors

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Experts say the strongest scientific studies identify three compounds that fight disease and inflammation

Many Pills and Powders Claim to Suppress Inflammation and Disease. Three Actually Can

Experts say the strongest scientific studies identify three compounds that fight disease and inflammation

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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 2d

According to Dutch newspaper NRC, Nexperia itself raised the alarm about the ‘mismanagement’ by Wingtech’s Zhang Xuezheng. NRC sources speak of the risk of Chinese persons being appointed to strategic positions. Events supposedly not related to the recent US and Chinese export control measures.

Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 2d

NRC: „Nexperia trok zelf aan de bel over het wanbestuur van [Zhang], maar wat hij precies verkeerd deed, wil het bedrijf niet zeggen. Volgens ingewijden die NRC sprak, is een van risico’s de benoeming van Chinese personen op strategische plekken. […] Een andere optie: […] belangenverstrengeling”

Waarom schoof Nederland de Chinese topman van chipmaker Nexperia opzij?

Voor het eerst grijpt de overheid in met de Wet beschikbaarheid goederen in de chipsector. Waarom is de Chinese topman van Nexperia aan de kant geschoven?

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 1d

Canuckle 1249 4/6

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🤯 #CanucklePhenom

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Canuckle - A daily Canadian word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 1d

“They assumed that no one was ever going to check and scan all these satellites and see what was out there. That was their method of security…They just really didn't think anyone would look up.”

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#incompetence

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...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 2d

Just finished my research security training required by the US Govt. Lists Freedom Of Inquiry as a core value of academic research and "core tenet of integrity; scientists decide line of investigation and project. Researchers are experts; freedom to conduct work without interference" 🧪🧑‍🔬

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Alex Finley @alexzfinley.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like a good time to re-up my post about Covenant Eyes alexzfinley.substack.com/p/this-week-...

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CIA Shadows @dukieboy2.bsky.social · 3d

OSINT’s become a game-changer for CIA spies and analysts alike. What once took months of covert ops can now be pieced together from open data and digital breadcrumbs. The modern spy’s toolkit starts online.
#OSINT #SpyCraft #Intelligence #cia #spies #USA portswigger.net/daily-swig/o...

OSINT: What is open source intelligence and how is it used?

Long favored by spooks and spies, OSINT is also a powerful weapon in the security pro’s armory

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Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @admiralstav.bsky.social · 3d

Russia and China are scrambling to dominate the high north. Shipping lanes, oil, gas, vast territorial sees. NATO needs to step up its game in the Arctic, led by the United States and Canada. www.wsj.com/world/inside...

Inside the West’s Race to Defend the Arctic

Sailors scanned for icebergs on a nine-day journey to the U.S.’s northernmost military installation this summer—part of an effort to erode Russia’s vast advantage in the region.

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Frankenstein’s Monster's Wild Spurs 🏆 @markscrivens.bsky.social · 3d

How ‘bout them Blue Jays?

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 3d

A new book argues that when easy money ran out, Silicon Valley’s billionaires looked for someone to keep the good times rolling. They found him in Donald Trump.

What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right

In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.

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PJ 🇨🇦 🧬🔬📡💻 🥃 @pj47596176.bsky.social · 3d

Stop paying the executive branch.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

Vice President JD Vance on Sunday said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands who are already furloughed without pay amid the stalemate in Congress.

Vance warns 'deeper' cuts ahead for federal workers as shutdown enters 12th day

Vice President JD Vance is warning of deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on.

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PJ 🇨🇦 🧬🔬📡💻 🥃 @pj47596176.bsky.social · 3d

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The China Spy Scandal

The government deliberately collapsed the trial of two men who spied on MPs for China, then Ministers lied to Parliament about it.

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