News Archive links

• 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% YoY https://www.techmonitor.ai/digital-economy/ai-and-automation/fortune-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
• ChatGPT is down for some, OpenAI is working on a fix
• The CEO of Zoom wants AI clones in meetings
• Instagram tests unskippable ads, draws criticism from users
• Hugging Face says it detected ‘unauthorized access’ to its AI model hosting platform
• Sony Pictures wants to use generative AI to cut movie production costs
• This article is OpenAI training data. AI is holding the internet hostage — and media is no exception.
• LLMs Aren’t Just “Trained On the Internet” Anymore
• China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft lands on far side of the moon to collect samples
• OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Edu for Universities
• How we blocked TikTok’s Bytespider bot and cut our bandwidth by 60%
• Anthropic’s Claude AI now autonomously interacts with external data and tools
• Misinformation works, and a handful of social ‘supersharers’ sent 80% of it in 2020
• Netflix CEO says AI won’t replace writers or ‘take your job’
• RansomHub group says it was behind Christie’s attack, threatens to release private data of half a million customers
• PayPal is planning an ad network built off your purchase history
• Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly
• New to the web platform in May
• Introducing Perplexity Pages
• Perplexity will research and write reports
• Despite buzz, generative AI tools such as ChatGPT see minimal daily use, survey finds
• Euro cops disrupt malware droppers, seize thousands of domains
• Data breach exposes details of 25,000 current and former BBC employees
• Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span
• ChatGPT Is Coming For Higher Education, Says OpenAI
• Mistral Unveils Codestral, an AI Code Assistant Trained on 80+ Programming Languages
• ‘World’s largest botnet’ knocked offline after raking in billions
• Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite: Know its significance
• ‘GODMODE GPT’: Hacker releases jailbroken version of ChatGPT
• Indexing all of Wikipedia, on a laptop
• Fireside Chat: One year to go – Preparing for the European Accessibility Act
• How to Identify and Remove VPN Applications That Contain 911 S5 Back Doors
• Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real
• Massive international police operation takes down ransomware networks, arrests 4 suspects
• 5 tips for adopting AI code assistance securely
• Is Your Computer Part of ‘The Largest Botnet Ever?’
• Exclusive: Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm says
• Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win
• The Threads API is finally here! - 121
• How React 19 (Almost) Made the Internet Slower - 121
• The US surgeon general wants tobacco-like warning labels on social media - 121
• TikTok ads may soon contain AI-generated avatars of your favorite creators - 121
• Rust Growing Fastest, But JavaScript Reigns Supreme - 121
• Data Centers & AI Are Sucking Up Huge Amounts Of Renewable Energy - 121
• What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment? - 121
• What a study of AI copilots for lawyers says about the future of AI for everyone - 121
• GitHub Copilot Workspace Review - 121
• Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent - 121
• Perplexity AI is susceptible to prompt injection - 121
• AWS Announces $230 Million Commitment for Generative AI Startups - 121
• Photographer wins AI-image contest with real picture, gets disqualified - 121
• Analysis of the State of HTML 2023 results - 122
• State of JS results - 122
• Polyfill.io supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites - 122
• Google puts Material Web Components in maintenance - 122
• Google’s donates of $5 million to non-for-profit organisations that are creating inclusive tools and educational programmes to improve digital accessibility for students - 122
• What is the Cara app, and why are artists deleting Instagram for it? - 120
• 96k Vercel bill - 120
• Attack Techniques: Trojaned Clipboard - 120
• Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes - 120
• The Smart, Cheap Fix for Slow, Dumb Traffic Lights - 120
• Call for action: Exploring vulnerabilities in Github Actions - 120
• Prerender pages in Chrome for instant page navigations - 120
• Playing with the Speculation Rules API in the Console - 120
• 3 new features to customize your performance workflows in DevTools - 120
• Should you self-host Google Fonts? - 120
• New York Times source code leaks on 4chan - 120
• How Deep is Your DOM? - 120
• OpenRecall is a free and open source alternative to Microsoft’s Recall feature - 120
• BUG REPORTING FOR THE WEB. - 120
• You should keep a developer’s journal - 120
• This very simple tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC’s activity snapshots. - 120
• How a single ChatGPT mistake cost us $10,000+ - 120
• The challenge with Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare, and so on - 120
• htmx: Simplicity in an Age of Complicated Solutions - 120
• Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered - 120
• Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in - 120
• Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest ‘Art Theft’ - 120
• AI quality: Garbage in, garbage out - 120
• Heuristics on the high seas: Mathematical optimization for cargo ships - 120
• Paw-Sitive Reception For Robot Guide Dog Could Lead To New Assistive Technology - 119
• Massive Ticketmaster, Santander data breaches linked to Snowflake cloud storage - 119
• OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance - 119
• Amazon’s Project PI AI looks for product defects before they ship - 119
• Netflix Paid Out Over $1 Million via Bug Bounty Program
• Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin - 119
• Leaked Google database reveals its secret privacy and security failures
• What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools
• Google seemingly scaled back AI Overviews after its rocky launch
• What would you do with a robotic third thumb?
• Robotic third thumb video
• The NSA advises you to turn your phone off and back on once a week - here’s why
• An even faster Microsoft Edge
• Google says it fixed the AI Overviews everyone has been roasting for weeks
• Ticketmaster Confirms Hack in SEC Filing
• Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
• Training is not the same as chatting: ChatGPT and other LLMs don’t remember everything you say
• Google will roll out Chrome’s new extension spec next week
• Understanding the Cost of Generative AI Models in Production
• What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part I)
• Google explains AI Overviews’ viral mistakes and updates, defends accuracy
• Google will disable classic extensions in Chrome in the coming months
• Understand errors and warnings better with Gemini
• Microsoft’s Team Copilot is a virtual team member that can run meetings and projects
• Test Driving ChatGPT-4o (Part 2)
• Kabosu, the dog behind the ‘doge’ internet meme, has died - 118
• ICQ is shutting down after almost 28 years - 118
• OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee - 118
• OpenAI’s new safety committee is made up of all insiders - 118
• EU data watchdogs tell OpenAI there’s more work to do on ChatGPT - 118
• Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team - 118
• OpenAI scraps controversial nondisparagement agreement with employees - 118
• OpenAI sends internal memo releasing former employees from controversial exit agreements - 118
• How the new Microsoft Recall feature fundamentally undermines Windows security - 118
• UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots - 118
• Microsoft’s recall is a privacy Nightmare - 118
• Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza - 118
• Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search - 118
• An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents - 118
• Internet Archive Hit With DDoS Attacks - 118
• A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why. - 118
• Avast Q1/2024 Threat Report - 118
• 2024 Attack Intelligence Report - 118
• Data Leak Exposes 500GB of Indian Police, Military Biometric Data - 118
• How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math - 118
• The Great AI Challenge: We Test Five Top Bots on Useful, Everyday Skills - 118
• Eleventy needs our support - 118
• Neuralink Compression Challenge - 118
• GPT-4o - 116
• Hello GPT-4o - 116
• Before launching, GPT-4o broke records on chatbot leaderboard under a secret name - 116
• Hello GPT-4o. OpenAI announced a new model today: GPT-4o, where the o stands for “omni” - 116
• Hello GPT-4o - 116
• What OpenAI did A new model opens up new possibilities - 116
• OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity - 116
• NodeJS next survey - 116
• Google built some of the first social apps for Android, including Twitter and others
• Microsoft Donates $1 Million to Rust Foundation - 116
• Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal - 116
• New AI search engine Upend emerges from stealth, powered by 100 LLMs - 116
• Ukraine unveils AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson
• How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?
• Washed Out’s new music video was created with AI. Is it a watershed moment for Sora?
• Elon Musk’s Plan For AI News
• Microsoft says April Windows updates break VPN connections
• Startups Go to Hollywood: AI Movies Aren’t Just a Gimmick Anymore
• LinkedIn now has games…
• OpenAI to Challenge Google with Its Own Search Engine in May: Report
• Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite for the first time
• Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher
• Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement
• Microsoft bans US police departments from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
• Gemini in Chrome
• Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!
• Dumbphones
• Inside Palantir’s AI Sales Secret Weapon: Software Boot Camp
• Gamers Are Renting Their Idle GPUs to Generate AI Porn
• GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs
• Interview with Senior JS Developer 2024
• Electron 30.0.0
• Did the makers of Devin AI lie about their capabilities?
• Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
• The End of an Era: Women Who Code Closing
• Sam Altman explains why OpenAI might steamroll your AI startup
• Debunking Devin: “First AI Software Engineer” Upwork lie exposed
• Who is winning the AI talent wars?
• New to the web platform 02/2024 - 106
• I worked exclusively in Vision Pro for a week—here’s how it went
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• jsDelivr May outage postmortem - 115
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• Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM’s quantum system - 112
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• Wangular - Google merges Angular and Wiz - 109
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• Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in European Union - 104
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• New MacOS Backdoor Written in Rust Shows Possible Link with Windows Ransomware Group
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• Research Suggests A Large Proportion Of Web Material In Languages Other Than English Is Machine Translations Of Poor Quality Texts
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• Vite 100M downloads
• Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion
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• Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source
• GitHub Availability Report: December 2023
• Introducing Learn Performance - 95
• Astro 4.0
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• Google I/O 2024: Here’s everything Google just announced
• Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down
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• Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes - 116
• Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content - 116
• UK’s fastest supercomputer Isambard-AI comes online
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• YouTube’s free games catalog ‘Playables’ rolls out to all users
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• Google reveals first subsea cable connecting Africa and Australia
• Atari just bought Intellivision, putting an end to the very first console war
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• Microsoft pushes emergency fix for Windows Server 2019 update errors
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• Google’s AI search results are already getting ads
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• Archie, the first search engine, has been resurrected
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• Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees
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• Google acquiring HubSpot would bolster bid to challenge Microsoft
• Microsoft and Khan Academy offer a free AI assistant to all US teachers
• OpenAI pulls its Scarlett Johansson-like voice for ChatGPT
• ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t
• Slack has been siphoning user data to train AI models without asking permission
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• replit lays off 20%
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• Microsoft’s AI Push Imperils Climate Goal as Carbon Emissions Jump 30%
• Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm
• Microsoft asks some employees in China to move to other countries
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• Scarlett Johansson says Altman insinuated that AI soundalike was intentional
• Google still hasn’t fixed Gemini’s biased image generator
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