This Week In Techdirt History: January 4th – 10th

from the happy-new-year(s) dept Five Years Ago This week in 2021, 60 Minutes aired some pure misleading moral panic about Section 230, while Parler (remember Parler?) was desperately seeking attention by pretending it didn’t need Section 230, and Ajit Pai grew a last-minute backbone and refused to move forward with Trump’s 230 attack. Lawmakers were […]

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MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors

Jan 10, 2026Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic, maritime, financial, and telecom entities in the Middle East with a Rust-based implant codenamed RustyWater. “The campaign uses icon spoofing and malicious Word documents to deliver Rust based implants capable of asynchronous […]

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Setting Up Obsidian on Ubuntu and Syncing with Git & Android (Step-by-Step)

In this guide, I’ll walk you through: Installing Obsidian on Ubuntu Syncing your vault with GitHub (private repo) Making it work seamlessly on Android, even though mobile Git does not support SSH This setup is stable, version-controlled, and works offline. Why Obsidian + Git? Markdown-based, future-proof notes Full version history (unlike cloud sync tools) Private […]

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Treating your agents like microservices

December 5, 2025 Ryan is joined by Outshift by Cisco’s VP of Engineering Guillaume De Saint Marc to discuss the future of multi-agent architectures as microservices, the challenges and limitations of the infrastructure for these multi-agent systems, and the importance of communication protocols and interoperability in order to build decentralized and scalable architectures. Outshift is […]

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