Iran-Linked Hackers Target Israel with MURKYTOUR Malware via Fake Job Campaign

The Iran-nexus threat actor known as UNC2428 has been observed delivering a backdoor known as MURKYTOUR as part of a job-themed social engineering campaign aimed at Israel in October 2024. Google-owned Mandiant described UNC2428 as a threat actor aligned with Iran that engages in cyber espionage-related operations. The intrusion set is said to have distributed […]

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Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Cellular Automata

Contents This article is part of the Differentiable Self-organizing Systems Thread, an experimental format collecting invited short articles delving into differentiable self-organizing systems, interspersed with critical commentary from several experts in adjacent fields. Self-Organising Textures This article makes strong use of colors in figures and demos. Click here to adjust the color palette. In a […]

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RIP John Roberts’s Summer Vacation

from the supreme-court-cancel-culture dept At 1:15am early Saturday morning the Supreme Court, in just a few lines of text, did something that was both small and huge: It “directed” the government not to remove anyone detained in the Northern District of Texas (or, more specifically, “All noncitizens in custody in the Northern District of Texas […]

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Refreshed StaffEng.com and a few other sites

Ahead of announcing the title and publisher of my thus-far-untitled book on engineering strategy in the next week or two, I put together a website for its content. That site is pretty much the same format as this blog, but with some improvements like better mobile rendering on / than this blog has historically had. […]

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