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In brief Metaplanet has bought another 136 BTC for $15.2 million, bringing total holdings to 20,136 BTC. The firm achieved “BTC Yield of 487% YTD 2025” with an average purchase price of $103,196. The company is 20% toward its revised 2026 goal of 100,000 BTC, up from its original target of 21,000. Metaplanet Inc. announced on Monday that it has purchased an additional 136 BTC for approximately $15.2 million as it pushes toward its target of accumulating 30,000 BTC by the end of 2025 and 100,000 BTC by 2026.The Tokyo-listed investment firm paid an average of $111,666( ¥16.55 million) per…

Why? , but I don’t like it. Why? It fails to do anything more complicated than basic voice commands. I end up using it for three things: Get the current date or time Get weather information for today Turn on or off connected devices (e.g. TV, lights, robot vacuum) which are the only things that I can use it for reliably. Anything else, I get a polite and unhelpful “I can’t help with that”. Given the rise of LLM Agents and MCP servers, it’s become easier than ever to create personal assistants and chatbots. And I ask myself, “Why stop…

Czech cyber agency NUKIB flags Chinese espionage risks to critical infrastructure Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2025 Czech cybersecurity agency NUKIB warns of Chinese cyber threats to critical infrastructure, citing the cyberespionage group APT31 and risky devices. The Czech Republic’s National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NUKIB) warns of growing risks from Chinese-linked technologies in critical sectors like energy, healthcare, transport, and government. The agency warns of risks from Chinese-made devices (phones, cars, cameras, LLMs). “The penetration of these technologies and devices into critical industries (such as transport, energy, healthcare, public administration and others) is growing and will continue to grow…

Heard about the recent data breaches where attackers used the Salesloft Drift application to access Salesforce data? There’s now a major update. The company has provided new details about the recent security incident involving its Drift application, confirming that the breach has been contained and customer protections are in place. The company brought in Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant on August 28 to lead an investigation into the compromise. The scope of the engagement included identifying the root cause, assessing the damage, and validating that Salesloft’s core environment remained secure. GitHub Access Preceded the Breach Salesloft’s advisory detailing Mandiant’s findings published…

Identity security is becoming a core part of cybersecurity operations, but many organizations are falling behind. A new report from SailPoint shows that as AI-driven identities and machine accounts grow, most security teams are not prepared to manage them at scale. This gap creates new risks and makes identity security harder to deploy across global enterprises. Investments in IAM provide the highest perceived ROI when compared to all other security domains (Source: SailPoint) Most organizations are still at early maturity levels The study, based on a global survey of 375 identity and access management (IAM) leaders, found that the majority…

A recently patched SAP S/4HANA vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-42957 is being exploited in the wild, SAP security solutions provider SecurityBridge warned on Thursday. The vulnerability was fixed by SAP in its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in August, after being responsibly disclosed to the vendor by SecurityBridge in late June.  CVE-2025-42957 has been assigned a ‘critical’ severity rating and it can allow an attacker with low privileges to execute arbitrary code and take full control of the affected SAP system.  SecurityBridge is warning organizations about the exploitation of the vulnerability, but the security company’s director of research, Joris van de…

A patchwork of initiatives to boost the federal cyber workforce, already hobbled by a lack of data, face an uncertain future amid the Trump administration’s government downsizing efforts. In a new report, the Government Accountability Office writes that strengthening the cyber workforce is one of the government’s “most important challenges” given threats to federal IT networks. But GAO found most agencies have incomplete data on the size and cost of their cybersecurity workforces, limiting their ability to make strategic staffing decisions. “This is especially important during administration transitions when new leadership needs assurance that the federal government is prepared and…

Google plans to make it easier for users to access AI mode by allowing them to set it as the default, replacing the traditional blue links. AI mode is an advanced version of Google Search that uses large language models to summarise information from the web, so you can spend more time on Google than visiting websites. Google AI mode advanced analysis Source: BleepingComputer Google AI mode can answer complex answers, process images, summarize information on the web, create tables, graphs, charts, and even help you code. AI mode toggle on search Source: BleepingComputer Right now, AI mode is optional.…

Introduction used to focus on improving accuracy. They kept pushing the limit higher and higher until they eventually realized that the computational complexity of their models became more and more expensive. This was definitely a problem researchers needed to address because we want deep learning models to be able to work not only on high-end computers but also on small devices. To overcome this issue, Howard et al. back in 2017 proposed an extremely lightweight neural network model referred to as MobileNet which they introduced in a paper titled MobileNets: Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision Applications [1]. In…