News Archive links

• Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark - 145
• The Fight to Free JavaScript from Oracle’s Control - 145
• Is Aurora DSQL your next database? - 145
• Amazon Aurora DSQL - 145
• Over 50% of LinkedIn articles are AI generated - 145
• Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why? - 145
• State of React - 143
• State of JS - 143
• Will we care about frameworks in the future? - 143
• How to cope with technology FOMO - 143
• I don’t have time to learn react - 143
• React is a programming language, and its rules are syntax - 143
• State of HTML2024 - 143
• AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it - 143
• BlueSky Call for Developer Projects - 143
• Security plugin flaw in millions of WordPress sites gives admin access - 143
• One Year of Using LLMs for Application Security: What We Learned - 143
• How to cope with technology FOMO - 143
• This ‘AI Granny’ Bores Scammers to Tears - 143
• O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time - 143
• AI tool that sounds like a grandmother created to waste phone scammers’ time - 143
• Google’s live scam detection for phone calls is now out for Pixel devices - 143
• How WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill - 142
• Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation - 142
• Exploring the browser rendering process - 142
• FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly code - 142
• Clarifying the Relationship Between Popovers and Dialogs - 142
• The <details> and <summary> elements are getting an upgrade - 142
• Weird Lexical Syntax - 142
• Perplexity AI Offers to Help New York Times With Tech Union Strike - 141
• X now lets blocked users see your posts - 141
• Over 100 forks of deliberately vulnerable web applications and APIs. - 141
• Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines - 141
• If you don’t know about HTTP Archive’s Web Almanac yet, you should! - 141
• From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code - 141
• Google’s ‘Big Sleep’ AI Project Uncovers Real Software Vulnerabilities - 141
• Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted - 141
• Lottie Player npm package compromised for crypto wallet theft - 141
• Help us improve our alt text generation model - 141
• 6 months to the European Accessibility Act Deadline – What Do You Need to Do? - 141
• 25 Accessibility Tips to Celebrate 25 Years - 141
• Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer - 141
• Why AI coding assistants might not help devs much - 141
• What is the point of an online conference? - 141
• Former Nvidia engineer discovers 41-million-digit prime — largest prime number known to man was uncovered and verified with the help of GPUs - 141
• Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user’s mouse cursor - 140
• Microsoft introduces ‘AI employees’ that can handle client queries - 140
• Meta’s new “Movie Gen” AI system can deepfake video from a single photo - 140
• Linus Torvalds slams AI as ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ - 140
• How I write code using Cursor: A review - 140
• ChatGPT Jailbreak: Researchers Bypass AI Safeguards Using Hexadecimal Encoding and Emojis - 140
• Why Copilot is Making Programmers Worse at Programming - 140
• Should JavaScript be split into two languages? New Google-driven proposal divides opinion - 140
• Anthropic Computer Use Demo - 140
• OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects - 140
• Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview - 140
• GitHub Copilot moves beyond OpenAI models to support Claude 3.5, Gemini - 140
• GitHub Spark lets you build web apps in plain English - 140
• GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI - 140
• More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI - 140
• Notes on the new Claude analysis JavaScript code execution tool - 140
• WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use - 140
• Octoverse: AI leads Python to top language as the number of global developers surges - 140
• State of the front-end - 140
• State of cloud security - 140
• Welcome to STATE OF AI REPORT 2024. - 140
• State of CSS 2024 - 140
• State of CSS results - 140
• State of CSS 2024 Results - 140
• Going through the “State of CSS” results… - 140
• State of React - 140
• State of HTML 2024 - 140
• AI Environmental Impact Report - 140
• AI Environment - 140
• What’s new in Svelte 5 - 140
• Svelte 5 is alive - 140
• why I’m turning off Firefox ad tracking: the PPA paradox - 138
• Pixel’s Proactive Approach to Security: Addressing Vulnerabilities in Cellular Modems - 138
• Why GitHub Actually Won - 138
• Learning to Reason with LLMs - 138
• LLMs and search engines can co exist - 138
• World Wide Web Foundation closes so Tim Berners-Lee can spend more time with his protocol - 138
• Switch emulator Ryujinx shuts down development after “contact by Nintendo” - 138
• The goal isn’t to write less code - 138
• Web Scraping with your Web Browser: Why Not? - 138
• The Proliferation and Problem of the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Icon - 138
• Offline UX Patterns - 138
• OpenAI DevDay 2024 live blog - 137
• OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers - 137
• Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta’s Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers - 137
• Microsoft Is Discontinuing HoloLens 2, With No Replacement - 137
• OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in largest VC round ever - 137
• Microsoft starts paying publishers for content surfaced by Copilot - 137
• Microsoft gives Copilot a voice and vision in its biggest redesign yet - 137
• Apple removes nearly 60 additional VPNs from its Russian App Store - 137
• ProductHunt has over 1 million user signups. More than 60% of those are bots. - 137
• The messy WordPress drama, explained - 137
• Automattic demanded a cut of WP Engine’s revenue before starting WordPress battle / - 137
• WP Engine sues WordPress co-creator Mullenweg and Automattic, alleging abuse of power - 137
• The messy WordPress drama, explained - 137
• Mullenweg threatens corporate takeover of WP Engine - 137
• AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds - 137
• AI-written Code Banned from Codeforces: What’s Changing? - 137
• Why Copilot is Making Programmers Worse at Programming - 137
• Drowning in Slop A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage — and it’s only going to get worse. - 137
• Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants - 137
• The Human Cost Of Our AI-Driven Future - 137
• I am tired of AI - 137
• AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs - 137
• 2024 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results - 137
• Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill - 137
• New “fair source” movement aims to bridge the gap between open source and proprietary licensing - 137
• If AI is helping people code better, why aren’t products getting better? - 137
• Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops - 137
• Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript. - 136
• Evolving JavaScript with Douglas Crockford - 136
• The Great npm Garbage Patch - 136
• Behind The Scenes: The Making of VS Code - 136
• Generators Explained, But On A Senior-Level - 136
• Ecma TC39 JavaScript Decimal proposal - 136
• ECMAScript Safe Assignment Operator Proposal - 136
• Compile and run C in JavaScript - 136
• This Is Doom Running on a Diffusion Model - 135
• New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time - 135
• New AI model “learns” how to simulate Super Mario Bros. from video footage - 135
• Doom on a volumetric display - 135
• Doom on bacteria to the list of things that can run Doom - 135
• Doom in Zork - 135
• Doom on a toothbrush - 135
• Doom on a volumetric display blog post - 135
• The secret inside One Million Checkboxes - 135
• Facebook partner admits to eavesdropping on conversations via phone mics for ad targeting - 135
• Sam Altman indicated it’s impossible to create ChatGPT without copyrighted material, but a new study claims 57% of the content on the internet is AI-generated and is subtly killing quality search results - 135
• Bill Gates has a good feeling about AI - 135
• Here’s the Pitch Deck for ‘Active Listening’ Ad Targeting - 135
• Microsoft Rolled Out AI PCs That Can’t Play Top Games—and There’s No Quick Fix - 135
• Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads - 135
• Submit your proposals for Interop 2025 - 134
• Get Ready for Interop 2025: Your Chance to Shape the Web - 134
• Looking forward to an Interop 2025 that addresses your top needs - 134
• Discord end-to-end encryption rolling out today for audio and video calls - 134
• YouTube Communities are like mini Discords for creators - 134
• State of HTML - 134
• Crypto school catalogue - 134
• Changes to the OSCP - 134
• GitHub Actions Vulnerable to Typosquatting, Exposing Developers to Hidden Malicious Code - 134
• GitHub Actions Attack Diagram - 134
• Craigslist Founder Pledges $100 Million to Boost U.S. Cybersecurity - 134
• Police Hack Into ‘Ghost’, An Encrypted Platform for Criminals - 134
• Larry Ellison’s AI-Powered Surveillance Dystopia Is Already Here - 134
• OpenAI Says It’s Fixed Issue Where ChatGPT Appeared to Be Messaging Users Unprompted - 134
• URL validation bypass cheat sheet - 134
• Microsoft is building new Windows security features to prevent another CrowdStrike incident - 134
• Surveillance Video Summarizer: AI-Powered Video Analysis and Summarization - 134
• CrowdStrike ex-employees: ‘Quality control was not part of our process’ - 134
• Fake password manager coding test used to hack Python developers - 134
• Fake recruiter coding tests target devs with malicious Python packages - 134
• Meta scraped every Australian user’s account to train its AI - 134
• Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison - 134
• Copilot Chat in GitHub.com is now contextually aware of GitHub Advanced Security alerts - 134
• Web Security: shaping the secure Web - 134
• When monoculture leads to monofailure - 134
• GitHub rolls out AI-powered fixes for code vulnerabilities - 134
• Agent hijacking: The true impact of prompt injection attacks - 134
• What’s new in ECMAScript 2024 - 133
• Inside ECMAScript: JavaScript Standard Gets an Extra Stage - 133
• Brand New Performance Features in Chrome DevTools - 133
• AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling Training data may wind up in short supply as websites restrict crawler bots - 133
• The Dev Tools Performance Monitor Panel - 133
• 3 new Chrome AI features for even more helpful browsing - 133
• How the Wayback Machine is trying to solve the web’s growing linkrot problem - 133
• Many of the biggest websites have opted out of Apple Intelligence training - 133
• Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ - 133
• Brand New Performance Features in Chrome DevTools - 133
• Things to Do Before Asking “Is This Accessible?” - 133
• The Dying Web - 133
• Being on The Semantic Web is easy, and, frankly, well worth the bother - 133
• Navigating the European Accessibility Act (EAA) - 133
• The Humble Link - 133
• What RSS Needs - 133
• Developer tools are different than tools for any other profession - 133
• NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data
• The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
• X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun
• Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly
• Kim Dotcom is being Megauploaded to the US for trial
• US Feds Are Tapping a Half-Billion Encrypted Messaging Goldmine
• New research analyzes the misuse of multimodal generative AI today, in order to help build safer and more responsible technologies
• Here are the Hacker Tools a DEF CON Hotel is Hunting For
• Nvidia Sued for Scraping YouTube After 404 Media Investigation
• Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel
• Toyota Mirai Turned Into Hydrogen Bomb By Ukrainian Forces Explodes With The Force Of 400 Pounds Of TNT
• AI researchers introduce an LLM capable of generating text outputs of up to 10,000 words
• Google Pixel phones sold with security vulnerability, report finds
• Google’s upgraded AI image generator is now available
• Google, Harvard create the most detailed map of human brain
• Online publishers face a dilemma: Allow AI scraping from Google or lose search visibility
• Elon Musk’s X has a major advertising problem
• MIT unveils hair-thin battery to power tiny robots
• US appeals court revives Google privacy class action
• The Golden Age of Hackers in Vegas Is Over
• GM cuts 1,000 software jobs as it prioritizes quality and AI
• Google will update Pixel phones to remove Verizon’s unsafe demo app
• Exploiting HuggingFace’s Assistants to Extract Users’ Data
• DDos Attack Trends
• Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5 million in crypto: lawsuit
• You probably want to patch this critical GitHub Enterprise Server bug now
• DEF CON 32: What We Learned About Secrets Security at AppSec Village
• Inside Elon Musk’s 23 active lawsuits
• Google has to face a class action lawsuit over Chrome’s data collection
• Meta has 2 new sneaky bots scooping up free AI-training data from the web
• ‘Something has gone seriously wrong’: Microsoft’s update breaks Linux PCs
• Atlassian’s billionaire cofounder wants to send renewable power from Australia to Singapore via a 2,600-mile-long undersea cable
• Dating apps develop AI ‘wingmen’ to generate better chat-up lines - 132
• Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team - 132
• Welcome to Anthropic’s Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial - 132
• Bypassing airport security via SQL injection - 132
• This Is Doom Running on a Diffusion Model - 132
• Closure Library has been archived. We no longer see it as meeting the needs of modern JavaScript development, and we recommend that users look for alternative solutions. - 132
• Google increases Chrome bug bounty rewards up to $250,000 - 132
• 80% of corporate AI projects fail — twice the rate of other IT projects - 132
• The org behind the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion claims it has removed CSAM - 132
• Massive AI Dataset Back Online After Being ‘Cleaned’ of Child Sexual Abuse Material - 132
• Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress - 132
• New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time - 132
• Releasing Re-laion 5b: Transparent Iteration On Laion-5b With Additional Safety Fixes - 132
• Navigating the European Accessibility Act (EAA) - 132
• How Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing - 132
• Gartner 2024 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Highlights Developer Productivity, Total Experience, AI and Security - 132
• Artificial intelligence is losing hype - 132
• Microsoft, Amazon, and Google’s $1 trillion AI bet won’t pay off like other tech waves - 132
• Security Training & Awareness - 10 Essential Techniques - 132
• Google Play Bug Bounty Program Shutting Down - 132
• GenderPair, our proposed benchmark for assessing gender bias in LLMs - 132
• Google Chrome: security update fixes 38 issues, including one that is actively exploited - 132
• Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate - 132
• The Top Programming Languages 2024 Typescript and Rust are among the rising starsStephen Cass22 Aug 20243 min read - 131
• What can an 8-year-old build in 45 minutes with the assistance of AI? - 131
• Midjourney - 131
• Midjourney’s AI-image generator website is now officially open to everyone - for free - 131
• Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick - 131
• System Prompts - 131
• Amazon’s CEO says its AI tool has saved a crazy amount of time - 131
• Amazon Cloud CEO Predicts a Future Where Most Software Engineers Don’t Code — and AI Does It Instead - 131
• In a leaked recording, Amazon cloud chief tells employees that most developers could stop coding soon as AI takes over - 131
• Researchers Highlight How Poisoned LLMs Can Suggest Vulnerable Code - 131
• I’m Tired of Fixing Customers’ AI Generated Code - 131
• Code Execution Vulnerability Found in WPML Plugin Installed on 1M WordPress Sites - 131
• A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed. - 131
• Microsoft Patches Critical Copilot Studio Vulnerability Exposing Sensitive Data - 131
• Slack AI can be tricked into leaking data from private channels via prompt injection - 131
• Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection - 131
• Dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update - 131
• Are you smarter than a language model? - 131
• Inside the “3 Billion People” National Public Data Breach - 130
• Microsoft removes FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11 - 130
• Google’s AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die - 130
• Competing in search - 130
• Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’ - 130
• GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says the AI industry needs competition to thrive - 130
• Disney argues that signing up for Disney+ means you can never sue the company over anything—ever - 130
• Disney says man can’t sue over wife’s death because he agreed to Disney+ terms of service - 130
• Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here’s why - 130
• Brands should avoid this popular term. It’s turning off customers - 130
• macOS stealer posing as Loom is spreading via Google Ads - 130
• Vulnerability in Microsoft apps allowed hackers to spy on Mac users - 130
• Zoom can now handle one million simultaneous participants - 130
• Fortune 500 companies flag AI risks in annual reports, up 473.5% YoYfortune-500-companies-flag-ai-risks-in-annual-reports-up-473-5-year-on-year
• Justice Department considers Google breakup proposal—here’s what happens now - 129
• Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks IRL? Mostly unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls - 129
• Frontend Security Checklist - 129
• What’s the worst place to leave your secrets? – Research into what happens to AWS credentials that are left in public places - 129
• Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers - 129
• Hackers steal personal data of nearly 3 billion people in one of the largest data breaches ever - 129
• Crowdstrike analysis - 129
• CrowdStrike Exec Shows Up to Accept ‘Most Epic Fail’ Award in Person - 129
• 0.0.0.0 Day: Exploiting Localhost APIs From the Browser - 129
• History of HTTPS Usage - 129
• An 18-year-old Safari loophole exploited by hackers is finally being fixed by Apple - 129
• ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing - 129
• WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free - 129
• Where Facebook’s AI Slop Comes From - 129
• AI Act is Here - 129
• 0Din: A GenAI Bug Bounty Program – Securing Tomorrow’s AI Together - 129
• What makes documentation good - 129
• 8 Copywriting Hacks Backed By Science - 129
• Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub - 128
• GitHub introduces AI model playground for developers to test and compare LLMs - 128
• GitHub Models gives developers new power to experiment with Gen AI - 128
• Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI - 128
• The EU’s AI Act is now in effect. Here’s what you need to know - 128
• Gartner Predicts 30% of Generative AI Projects Will Be Abandoned After Proof of Concept By End of 2025 - 128
• Opinion: What’s behind the AI boom? Exploited humans - 128
• macOS Sequoia adds weekly permission prompt for screenshot and screen recording apps - 128

• Cookie banners show everything that’s wrong with the EU - 128

• Chrome’s Manifest V3, and its changes for ad blocking, are coming real soon - 128
• Usage of Google Fonts violates GDPR - 128
• Google Chrome will let you send money to your favourite website - 128
• Hotel to Search Rooms During DEF CON Hacking Conference - 128
• Google Monopolized Search Through Illegal Deals, Judge Rules - 128
• How the Google Antitrust Ruling May Influence Tech Competition - 128
• ‘Google Is a Monopolist,’ Judge Rules in Landmark Antitrust Case - 128
• ‘There’s no price’ Microsoft could pay Apple to use Bing: all the spiciest parts of the Google antitrust ruling - 128
• Google loses antitrust case over search - 128
• Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case - 128
• Google Monopolized Search Through Illegal Deals, Judge Rules - 128
• Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again - 128
• Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox web browser - 128
• Microsoft says OpenAI is now a competitor in AI and search - 128
• Developers want more, more, more: the 2024 results from Stack Overflow’s Annual Developer Survey - 127
• What’s New for JavaScript Developers in ECMAScript 2024 - 127
• State of React 2023 - 127
• New to the web platform in July - 127
• The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness - 127
• CrowdStrike sent its partners $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology for mass IT outage - 127
• Windows Security best practices for integrating and managing security tools - 127
• AI produces gibberish when trained on too much AI-generated data - 127
• Crooks Bypassed Google’s Email Verification to Create Workspace Accounts, Access 3rd-Party Services - 127
• Malicious Python Package Targets macOS Developers To Access Their GCP Accounts - 127
• Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub - 127
• Invisible Ghost: Alarming Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot - 127
• Forget security – Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit - 127
• GPT4o Captcha Bypass - This project is a CLI tool for testing various types of captchas including puzzle, text, complicated text, and reCAPTCHA using Python and Selenium. The tool also uses OpenAI GPT-4 to help solve the captchas. - 127
• Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source - 127
• YouTube’s server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users - 127
• Third-party cookies have got to go - 127
• Open-source AI narrows gap with proprietary leaders, new benchmark reveals - 127
• A Ranking & Evaluation Framework For LLM Hallucinations - 127
• Google apologizes after 15 million Chrome users lost access to their passwords Google Password Manager was borked for almost 18 hours - 127
• AI Startup Anthropic Faces Backlash for Excessive Web Scraping - 127
• YouTube’s war on ad blockers continues, now making ads truly unskippable - 127
• Alex Russel’s notes on the third party cookie w3c document - 127
• No, EU competition policy was not responsible for global IT chaos - 127
• The biggest-ever global outage: lessons for software engineers - 126
• Inside the 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines - 126
• Microsoft says EU rules made CrowdStrike outage possible - 126
• CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft - 126
• Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available - 126
• Google’s shortened links will stop working next year - 126
• Google Chrome is no longer ‘deprecating third-party cookies’ - 126
• Google’s plan to turn off third-party cookies in Chrome is dying - 126
• Demystifying cookies and tokens - 126
• After years of uncertainty, Google says it won’t be ‘deprecating third-party cookies’ in Chrome - 126
• Chrome removing third-party cookies or not? - 126
• Concerns about passkeys - 126
• Google is purging ‘low-quality’ Android apps next month - 126
• Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - 126
• Data Never Sleeps: AI Edition - 126
• AI is confusing — here’s your cheat sheet - 126
• OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole - 126
• China orders AI companies to align their models with socialist values - 126
• Japanese supermarket uses AI to track employees’ smiles and service - 126
• Secure Software Development Education 2024 Survey Understanding Current Need - 126
• Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks - 126
• View State, The unpatchable IIS forever day being actively exploited - 126
• Fake AWS Packages Ship Command and Control Malware In JPEG Files - 126
• Cloudflare reports almost 7% of internet traffic is malicious - 126
• Telegram’s user base climbs to 950M, plans to launch app store - 126
• Telegram Zero-Day Enabled Malware Delivery - 126
• Amazon’s paid Alexa is coming to fill a $25 billion hole dug by Echo devices - 126
• Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions - 126
• It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone - 126
• FBI used unreleased Israeli software to unlock Trump shooter’s phone - 126
• Leaked Docs Show What Phones Cellebrite Can (and Can’t) Unlock - 126
• FBI Used New Cellebrite Software to Crack Trump Shooter’s Phone - 126
• Complete recycle of solid-state batteries possible, thanks to polymer layers - 126
• FOSS funding vanishes from EU’s 2025 Horizon program plans - 126
• W3C Seeks Input on Collaboration Tools Accessibility User Requirements Draft Note - 126
• State of Text Rendering 2024 - 125
• Build Fast, Ship Faster with Studio - local wordpress - 125
• Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries - 125
• Gemini AI platform accused of scanning Google Drive files without user permission - 125
• Generative AI? Never Mind, Says Goldman Sachs - 125
• The UK politician accused of being AI is actually a real person - 125
• Bringing AI-powered answers and summaries to file previews on the web - 125
• FTC study finds ‘dark patterns’ used by a majority of subscription apps and websites - 125
• Updating from macOS Ventura to Sonoma silently enables iCloud Keychain - 125
• Google Pixel 6 series phones bricked after factory reset - 123
• Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App - 123
• Booting Linux off of Google Drive - 123
• Problematic second - 123
• New Web Development. Or, why Copilots and chatbots are particularly bad for modern web dev - 123
• New to the web platform in June - 123
• Figma pulls AI tool after criticism that it ripped off Apple’s design - 123
• Amazon Investigates Perplexity AI Over Potential Data-Scraping Violations - 123
• Chrome is adding window​.ai — a Gemini Nano AI model right inside your browser. - 123
• Figma turning off AI plagiarism concerns - 123
• Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple’s Weather app - 123
• Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly okay to steal content if it’s on the open web - 123
• Rust has a HUGE supply chain security problem
• Reverse Engineering TicketMaster’s Rotating Barcodes (SafeTix) - 124
• Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster’s ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets - 124
• Google gives access to devices - 124
• Study: nearly 60% of Google searches end with zero clicks - 124
• ‘RockYou2024’ leak: Nearly 10 billion passwords stolen by hackers
• The AI summer - 124
• Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone - 124
• Google and Microsoft are getting dirtier. They can’t help it, it’s AI! - 124
• AI industry needs to earn $600 billion per year to pay for massive hardware spend — fears of an AI bubble intensify in wake of Sequoia report - 124
• Generative AI is a climate disaster - 124
• UK’s Total Fitness exposed nearly 500K images of members, staff through unprotected database
• Security bug allows anyone to spoof Microsoft employee emails
• Attack Techniques: PayPal Invoice Scams
• Chrome sends AI history search data to Google
• Users ‘Jailbreak’ AI Video Generator to Make Porn
• In-Browser Code Execution for AI
• ‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS
• Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers
• Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist
• Exclusive: Leading chatbots are spreading Russian propaganda
• Adobe’s hidden cancellation fee is unlawful, FTC suit says
• NATO begins its €1 billion investment in AI, space, and robotics defence tech
• Meta releases Threads API for developers to build ‘unique integrations’
• YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers
• Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention
• Proton foundation
• Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent
• Bag of Tricks: Benchmarking of Jailbreak Attacks on LLMs
• Elon Musk reconsiders phone project after Apple Intelligence OpenAI integration
• AI chatbots are intruding into online communities where people are trying to connect with other humans
• AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once
• Announcing TypeScript 5.5 RC
• How a Single Vulnerability Can Bring Down the JavaScript Ecosystem
• Chinese company develops human-like robots that can display complex facial expressions, emotions
• [meta] Migrate from Mercurial to Git for Firefox Development
• Pure Storage says attackers broke into a Snowflake environment
• Getting started with AI: Advice from the experts at Vercel Ship
• OpenAI CTO dampens expectations of radically improved AI models in the near future
• Yahoo Mail rolls out new AI tools in ‘most significant’ update in 10 years
• The Cost Of Shutting Down The Internet
• How does Apple send your data to its cloud AI servers? Very carefully, it claims.
• Uncensor any LLM with abliteration
• Microsoft sends Copilot Pro’s GPT Builder to the digital dumpster
• Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion 3, its ‘most sophisticated image generation model yet’
• Google Engineer Says Sam Altman-Led OpenAI Set Back AI Research Progress By 5-10 Years: ‘LLMs Have Sucked The Oxygen Out Of The Room’
• Cognitive Load is what matters
• Lessons from starting, building, and exiting a devtools startup
• On being laid off & unplanned entrepreneurship
• Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest.
• Why Take Home Tests Suck: A Developer’s Perspective on Hiring Practices
• Gen AI will increase demand for software engineers
• Simple sabotage for software
• Phishing with Cloudflare Workers: Transparent Phishing and HTML Smuggling
• Sophisticated RAT Targeting Gulp Projects on npm
• Securing the Building Blocks: A Deep Dive into Dependency Security
• Practical resources for offensive CI/CD security research.
• Control-GIC
• Improved Techniques for Optimization-Based Jailbreaking on Large Language Models
• You’ll regret using natural keys
• Working as unexpected
• As China’s Internet Disappears We Lose Parts of Our Collective Memory
• How Youtube’S New Gaming Leak Culture Actually Works
• Businesses Have One Year to Prepare and Comply with the European Accessibility Act Deadline
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• OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance - 119
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• Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
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• Vite 100M downloads
• Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion
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• Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content - 116
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• YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers
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• Microsoft and G42 are building a $1 billion data center in Africa powered by geothermal energy
• Microsoft pushes emergency fix for Windows Server 2019 update errors
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• Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees
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