A sad day for more than 120 #AssociatedPress employees as the organization announced that it is having to close down its newspaper-focused business, which represents only 10% of its revenue and is shrinking. More buyouts are expected.

The general public does not seem to value information quality, and at this point only governments will be able to sustain quality #journalism. https://apnews.com/article/news-industry-buyouts-ap-newspapers-dd790effc6a385514b3323560161ea4f

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years.

That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/

New, by me: An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across the country between 2019 and 2021. From the story:

UNKNOWN also gave an interview to Dmitry Smilyanets, a former malicious hacker hired by Recorded Future, wherein UNKNOWN described a rags-to-riches tale unencumbered by ethics and morals.

“As a child, I scrounged through the trash heaps and smoked cigarette butts,” UNKNOWN told Recorded Future. “I walked 10 km one way to the school. I wore the same clothes for six months. In my youth, in a communal apartment, I didn’t eat for two or even three days. Now I am a millionaire.”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/germany-doxes-unkn-head-of-ru-ransomware-gangs-revil-gandcrab/

@x41h Hopefully the fact that the DEA is heavily engaged in money laundering for the cartels and have resisted oversight until the OIG stopped paying attention after 2024 doesn't come as a surprise. Cartels are economic actors that respond to the environment, which, well, is created by American law enforcement. Also, there are things like: "In an AGEO that operated from October 2010 to April 2016, the DEA reported that it had seized over 115,000 kilos of cocaine. Yet, when we attempted to verify this, the DEA acknowledged that it misreported this figure by 100,000 kilos and attributed the mistake to a typographical error." which I don't know if it falls into the category of "hilarious incompetence" or "terrifying incompetence". Feel free to have a read: https://archive.org/details/a-20071-1/mode/2up

And the one drug that I think is pretty universally acknowledged as the worst drug to do can be found grown on the side of highways: Datura (Jimsonweed). It's a complete deliriant and you lose touch with reality for days if taken as is, but after processing it's where scopolamine (for motion sickness among other things) comes from. Nature sometimes does half the work and stops, but science is pretty neat and can do all sorts of added on shit to make other cool shit.