Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/01/friday-squid-blogging-giant-squid-from-newfoundland-in-the-1800s.html
Interesting article, with photographs.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/01/friday-squid-blogging-new-species-of-pygmy-squid-discovered.html
They’re Ryukyuan pygmy squid (Idiosepius kijimuna) and Hannan’s pygmy squid (Kodama jujutsu). The second one represents an entire new genus.
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And, yes, this is the eighteenth anniversary of Friday Squid Blogging. The first squid post is from January 6, 2006, and I have been posting them weekly since then. Never did I believe there would be so much to write about squid—but the links never seem to end.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/friday-squid-blogging-sqids.html
They’re short unique strings:
Sqids (pronounced “squids”) is an open-source library that lets you generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers. These IDs are short, can be generated from a custom alphabet and are guaranteed to be collision-free.
I haven’t dug into the details enough to know how they can be guaranteed to be collision-free.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/friday-squid-blogging-squid-parts-into-fertilizer.html
It’s squid parts from college dissections, so it’s not a volume operation.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/friday-squid-blogging-underwater-sculptures-use-squid-ink-for-coloring.html
The Molinière Underwater Sculpture Park has pieces that are colored in part with squid ink.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/friday-squid-blogging-influencer-accidentally-posts-restaurant-table-qr-ordering-code.html
Another rare security + squid story:
The woman—who has only been identified by her surname, Wang—was having a meal with friends at a hotpot restaurant in Kunming, a city in southwest China. When everyone’s selections arrived at the table, she posted a photo of the spread on the Chinese social media platform WeChat. What she didn’t notice was that she’d included the QR code on her table, which the restaurant’s customers use to place their orders.
Even though the photo was only shared with her WeChat friends list and not the entire social network, someone—or a lot of someones—used that QR code to add a ridiculous amount of food to her order. Wang was absolutely shocked to learn that “her” meal soon included 1,850 orders of duck blood, 2,580 orders of squid, and an absolutely bonkers 9,990 orders of shrimp paste.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/friday-squid-blogging-strawberry-squid-in-the-galapagos.html
Scientists have found Strawberry Squid, “whose mismatched eyes help them simultaneously search for prey above and below them,” among the coral reefs in the Galápagos Islands.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/11/friday-squid-blogging-squid-nebula.html
Pretty photograph.
The Squid Nebula is shown in blue, indicating doubly ionized oxygen—which is when you ionize your oxygen once and then ionize it again just to make sure. (In all seriousness, it likely indicates a low-mass star nearing the end of its life).
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/11/friday-squid-blogging-unpatched-vulnerabilities-in-the-squid-caching-proxy.html
In a rare squid/security post, here’s an article about unpatched vulnerabilities in the Squid caching proxy.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/11/friday-squid-blogging-the-history-and-morality-of-us-squid-consumption.html
Really interesting article.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/11/friday-squid-blogging-eating-dancing-squid.html
It’s not actually alive, but it twitches in response to soy sauce.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/friday-squid-blogging-on-the-ugliness-of-squid-fishing.html
And seafood in general:
A squid ship is a bustling, bright, messy place. The scene on deck looks like a mechanic’s garage where an oil change has gone terribly wrong. Scores of fishing lines extend into the water, each bearing specialized hooks operated by automated reels. When they pull a squid on board, it squirts warm, viscous ink, which coats the walls and floors. Deep-sea squid have high levels of ammonia, which they use for buoyancy, and a smell hangs in the air. The hardest labor generally happens at night, from 5 P.M. until 7 A.M. Hundreds of bowling-ball-size light bulbs hang on racks on both sides of the vessel, enticing the squid up from the depths. The blinding glow of the bulbs, visible more than a hundred miles away, makes the surrounding blackness feel otherworldly.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/friday-squid-blogging-why-there-are-no-giant-squid-in-aquariums.html
They’re too big and we can’t recreate their habitat.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/friday-squid-blogging-on-squid-intelligence.html
Article about squid intelligence.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/09/friday-squid-blogging-protecting-cephalopods-in-medical-research.html
From Nature:
Cephalopods such as octopuses and squid could soon receive the same legal protection as mice and monkeys do when they are used in research. On 7 September, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) asked for feedback on proposed guidelines that, for the first time in the United States, would require research projects involving cephalopods to be approved by an ethics board before receiving federal funding.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/09/friday-squid-blogging-new-squid-species-2.html
An ancient squid:
New research on fossils has revealed that a vampire-like ancient squid haunted Earth’s oceans 165 million years ago. The study, published in June edition of the journal Papers in Palaeontology, says the creature had a bullet-shaped body with luminous organs, eight arms and sucker attachments. The discovery was made by scientists in France, who used modern imaging technique to analyse the previously discovered fossils. The ancient squid has been named Vampyrofugiens atramentum, which stands for the “fleeing vampire”. The researchers said that these features have never been recorded before.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/09/friday-squid-blogging-cleaning-squid.html
Two links on how to properly clean squid.
I learned a few years ago, in Spain, and got pretty good at it.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/09/friday-squid-blogging-glass-squid-video.html
Here’s a fantastic video of Taonius Borealis, a glass squid, from NOAA.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/09/friday-squid-blogging-were-genetically-engineering-squid-now.html
Is this a good idea?
The transparent squid is a genetically altered version of the hummingbird bobtail squid, a species usually found in the tropical waters from Indonesia to China and Japan. It’s typically smaller than a thumb and shaped like a dumpling. And like other cephalopods, it has a relatively large and sophisticated brain.
The see-through version is made possible by a gene editing technology called CRISPR, which became popular nearly a decade ago.
Albertin and Rosenthal thought they might be able to use CRISPR to create a special squid for research. They focused on the hummingbird bobtail squid because it is small, a prodigious breeder, and thrives in lab aquariums, including one at the lab in Woods Hole.
Is this far behind?
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/friday-squid-blogging-chinas-squid-fishing-ban-ineffective.html
China imposed a “pilot program banning fishing in parts of the south-west Atlantic Ocean from July to October, and parts of the eastern Pacific Ocean from September to December.” However, the conservation group Oceana analyzed the data and figured out that the Chinese weren’t fishing in those areas in those months, anyway.
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“Ending squid fishing in areas where there is no fishing does nothing to protect squid,” said Oceana’s campaign director, Max Valentine.
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