Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/friday-squid-blogging-flying-neon-squid-found-on-israeli-beach.html
A meter-long flying neon squid (Ommastrephes bartramii) was found dead on an Israeli beach. The species is rare in the Mediterranean.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/friday-squid-blogging-new-squid-sneaker.html
I did not know Adidas sold a sneaker called “Squid.”
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/friday-squid-blogging-pilot-whales-eat-a-lot-of-squid.html
Short-finned pilot wales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) eat at lot of squid:
To figure out a short-finned pilot whale’s caloric intake, Gough says, the team had to combine data from a variety of sources, including movement data from short-lasting tags, daily feeding rates from satellite tags, body measurements collected via aerial drones, and sifting through the stomachs of unfortunate whales that ended up stranded on land.
Once the team pulled all this data together, they estimated that a typical whale will eat between 82 and 202 squid a day. To meet their energy needs, a whale will have to consume an average of 140 squid a day. Annually, that’s about 74,000 squid per whale. For all the whales in the area, that amounts to about 88,000 tons of squid eaten every year.
Research paper.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/friday-squid-blogging-squid-game-the-challenge-season-two.html
The second season of the Netflix reality competition show Squid Game: The Challenge has dropped. (Too many links to pick a few—search for it.)
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/friday-squid-blogging-giant-squid-at-the-smithsonian.html
I can’t believe that I haven’t yet posted this picture of a giant squid at the Smithsonian.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/friday-squid-blogging-el-pulpo-the-squid.html
There is a new cigar named “El Pulpo The Squid.” Yes, that means “The Octopus The Squid.”
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/friday-squid-blogging-squid-inks-philippines-fisherman.html
Good video.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/friday-squid-blogging-sperm-whale-eating-a-giant-squid.html
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/friday-squid-blogging-jigging-for-squid.html
A nice story.
Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/friday-squid-blogging-giant-squid-vs-blue-whale.html
A comparison aimed at kids.
Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/assessing-the-quality-of-dried-squid.html
Nondestructive detection of multiple dried squid qualities by hyperspectral imaging combined with 1D-KAN-CNN
Abstract: Given that dried squid is a highly regarded marine product in Oriental countries, the global food industry requires a swift and noninvasive quality assessment of this product. The current study therefore uses visiblenear-infrared (VIS-NIR) hyperspectral imaging and deep learning (DL) methodologies. We acquired and preprocessed VIS-NIR (4001000 nm) hyperspectral reflectance images of 93 dried squid samples. Important wavelengths were selected using competitive adaptive reweighted sampling, principal component analysis, and the successive projections algorithm. Based on a Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN), we introduce a one-dimensional, KAN convolutional neural network (1D-KAN-CNN) for nondestructive measurements of fat, protein, and total volatile basic nitrogen….
Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/friday-squid-blogging-the-origin-and-propagation-of-squid.html
New research (paywalled):
Editor’s summary:
Cephalopods are one of the most successful marine invertebrates in modern oceans, and they have a 500-million-year-old history. However, we know very little about their evolution because soft-bodied animals rarely fossilize. Ikegami et al. developed an approach to reveal squid fossils, focusing on their beaks, the sole hard component of their bodies. They found that squids radiated rapidly after shedding their shells, reaching high levels of diversity by 100 million years ago. This finding shows both that squid body forms led to early success and that their radiation was not due to the end-Cretaceous extinction event.
Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/friday-squid-blogging-catching-humboldt-squid.html
First-person account of someone accidentally catching several Humboldt squid on a fishing line. No photos, though.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/friday-squid-blogging-bobtail-squid.html
Nice short article on the bobtail squid.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/friday-squid-blogging-squid-shaped-ufo-spotted-over-texas.html
Here’s the story. The commenters on X (formerly Twitter) are unimpressed.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/friday-squid-blogging-new-vulnerability-in-squid-http-proxy-server.html
In a rare squid/security combined post, a new vulnerability was discovered in the Squid HTTP proxy server.
Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/friday-squid-blogging-a-case-of-squid-fossil-misidentification.html
What scientists thought were squid fossils were actually arrow worms.
Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/friday-squid-blogging-stable-quasi-isodynamic-designs.html
Yet another SQUID acronym: “Stable Quasi-Isodynamic Design.” It’s a stellarator for a fusion nuclear power plant.
Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/friday-squid-blogging-the-giant-squid-nebula.html
Beautiful photo.
Difficult to capture, this mysterious, squid-shaped interstellar cloud spans nearly three full moons in planet Earth’s sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula’s bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently surrounded by the reddish hydrogen emission region Sh2-129, the true distance and nature of the Squid Nebula have been difficult to determine. Still, one investigation suggests Ou4 really does lie within Sh2-129 some 2,300 light-years away. Consistent with that scenario, the cosmic squid would represent a spectacular outflow of material driven by a triple system of hot, massive stars, cataloged as HR8119, seen near the center of the nebula. If so, this truly giant squid nebula would physically be over 50 light-years across.