THE DAILY PRAETORIAN: Cybersecurity Trends – 7/1/25

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“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

-Mark Twain

Squid-Inspired Camouflage May Help Soldiers Evade Sight and Sensors
Remember Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak? Turns out Mother Nature patented it first: squid skin. UC Irvine and the Marine Biological Laboratory copied the long-fin inshore squid’s disco-ball “iridophores” to make a stretchy, mood-ring fabric that flips colors and hides heat signatures—so future soldiers can play intergalactic hide-and-seek with both eyeballs and thermal cameras. Funded by DARPA (which apparently watched too much Finding Nemo), the proto-poncho works while flexing, sweating, or doing burpees, meaning you could soon rock cephalopod couture that changes camouflage faster than you can say “calamari.” Click here to read more.

Can the music industry make AI the next Napster?
AI-generated music could be headed for its own Napster moment: armed with decades of iron-clad case law on sampling, a tight licensing regime, and just a few powerhouse labels, the record industry is suing song-making startups Suno and Udio for training their models on copyrighted tracks without permission—arguing that the practice robs artists of licensing revenue, floods Spotify-style platforms with low-grade “background” noise, and threatens the everyday musicians who score ads, YouTube videos, and chill-beats playlists; with courts already hinting that unlicensed training and sound-alike outputs can’t hide behind fair-use, and some AI firms quietly inking pricey music deals while others scramble, the fight may decide whether generative-AI companies pay up or go the way of Napster…click here to read more.

Messianic Jews in Jerusalem Return to Worship Together After Weeks of Iranian Missiles
After a tense 12-day stretch spent sheltering from Iranian missiles, Jerusalem’s King of Kings Community joyfully reopened its doors on July 1, gathering Messianic Jews and Gentile believers (plus worshippers from 17 nations online) to thank God for the ceasefire, salute the IDF, pray for traumatized civilians, persecuted Iranian Christians, hostages still in Gaza, and a coming “great Aliyah,” while vowing to shine as “lights” amid uncertainty—and even reviving plans for a mid-July kids’ camp so young hearts can swap sirens for songs of hope. Click here to read more.

US Storms 29 Laptop Farms in Crackdown on North Korean IT Worker Schemes
The US Department of Justice just mounted a coast-to-coast sweep against North Korean “laptop farms,” raiding 29 sites in 16 states, freezing 29 money-laundering accounts and 21 websites, and unsealing indictments that link $88 million in illicit earnings—and even stolen US defense tech—to remote IT contractors posing as Americans; one New Jersey man, Danny Wang, allegedly raked in $5 million for Pyongyang via 80 stolen identities, while separate charges say North Korean coders pocketed $900 k in crypto from a Georgia blockchain firm before washing it through Tornado Cash, underscoring how fake résumés, AI masks, and unwitting US facilitators have turned Fortune 500 payrolls into a secret funding stream for the DPRK. Click here to read more.

Huckabee thanks God at Western Wall for ‘miracles granted’ to Israel during Iran war
On July 1 2025, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited Jerusalem’s Western Wall to offer a prayer of thanks for what he called the “miracles granted” to Israel during Operation Rising Lion, meeting privately with Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz and Western Wall Heritage Foundation director Mordechai Eliav to express America’s steadfast support; Huckabee also delivered a personal letter of appreciation for President Donald Trump and extended an invitation for the president to visit the sacred site, before touring the Western Wall Tunnels and reflecting on the enduring historical and spiritual bonds that unite the United States and Israel—click here to read more.