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A September 2024 ransomware attack on Business Systems House (BSH), ADP's Middle Eastern partner, resulted in the theft of Broadcom employee data. El Dorado/BlackLock claimed responsibility. Stolen data potentially included personal information, financial details, and employment records. ADP confirmed that only a small subset of clients in the Middle East countries were affected.
North American steel giant Nucor halted some production after hackers accessed its computer systems. The company is working with experts and police while restarting operations. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the financial impact is still unknown.
A security researcher from Tenable discovered that a new release of its Mac desktop client included an AssemblyAI API key. This API key could be retrieved from the Electron app to enumerate and download any user's private meeting transcript. The researcher notified Granite, whose CEO responded by removing the offending API key and notifying the researcher that the vulnerability had only affected a smaller group of TestFlight users.
The European Union's cyber agency ENISA launched the European Vulnerability Database (EUVD), a new vulnerability tracking system with a numbering format that includes CVE references. Experts debate whether this additional database will help create redundancy or further fragment the vulnerability tracking landscape.
Busywork generators are solutions that create a disproportionate amount of busywork compared to the security value they add. They can be introduced due to not fully understanding the root cause of a security issue, prioritizing the wrong solution, and lacking organization-wide mechanisms to enforce the solution. Security teams can avoid busywork generators by introducing security guardrails and adopting a reasonable threshold of acceptable alerts.
Microsoft discovered a vulnerability in macOS that allowed applications to escape the App Sandbox without user interaction while researching macro exploit detection for Microsoft Office in April 2024. Security-scoped bookmarks are a macOS mechanism that bypasses the App Sandbox using explicit, persistent user choices. Microsoft researchers discovered that the Keychain entry used for security-scoped bookmarks can be overwritten to sign new bookmarks.
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Greenmask is a powerful open-source utility designed for logical database backup dumping, anonymization, synthetic data generation, and restoration.
A proof-of-concept reverse shell that abuses Windows' ClickOnce feature.
The dfc tool helps you migrate your Dockerfiles to use Chainguard Images.
The FBI warns of an ongoing scam where criminals use AI-generated voice deepfakes to impersonate senior US officials. The scam has targeted government officials and their contacts since April 2025. The attackers establish rapport before sending malicious links. Officials advise verifying identities independently and watching for subtle imperfections in communications.
If passed, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would hold social media platforms accountable for protecting minors from various harms. Human rights groups fear censorship implications, while companies like Apple, Microsoft, and X support the legislation. Google and Meta remain opposed.
A Russian hacking group called Sednit is spying on Ukraine and its allies using email bugs and fake messages. It sends phishing emails that sneaks malware into webmail systems like RoundCube, Zimbra, and Horde.
Defendnot is a tool that deceives Windows into disabling Microsoft Defender by masquerading as a legitimate antivirus using a concealed Windows feature.
Hackers bribed Coinbase staff to steal personal data from some users, demanding $20 million, but Coinbase refused and instead offered the same amount for tips to arrest the criminals.
DevSecOps is transforming software delivery in the Department of Defense by enhancing agility, security, and effectiveness through software factories, continuous integration, and cultural changes.
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The internet's quality has declined due to Google prioritizing short-term ad revenue over long-term sustainability. Increased ad density, shifting algorithms, and revenue-driven tactics have harmed user experience and publishers. This led to a shrinking market for quality content, media consolidation, and dominance by a few large players. AI-generated answers often lack clear sourcing, while Google's control of data and preferential treatment of its own properties have sparked regulatory scrutiny and lawsuits. The ecosystem supporting diverse content is being increasingly strained.
Distinctive brand assets make digital ads 2.5X more effective in low-attention digital environments. A study of 20K views across 72 video ads found that 85% of digital ad inventory receives less than 2.5 seconds of attention. With strong branding, memory benefits can appear at just 1.5 seconds, compared to the usual 2.5-second threshold. Established brands saw a 17% lift in short-term ad strength with distinctive assets, while growth brands saw a 7% lift.
A recent test looked at whether including pricing on a SaaS landing page would affect lead quality and conversions. Two nearly identical demo request pages were used, one with pricing information and one without. The page with pricing saw 8.7% fewer leads but a 21.4% increase in lead-to-opportunity conversions, while average deal size and total pipeline impact stayed the same. The findings showed that sharing pricing helped attract more qualified buyers and discouraged casual browsers. Those who filled out the form were more likely to be ready to buy.
Docusign shifted from an e-signature tool to a full agreement management platform by launching Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM), which includes Maestro, eSignature, and Navigator. The team built a new user-based pricing model from scratch, using research and feedback to align pricing with how customers use the product. Over 10K customers adopted IAM within the first year, driven by upsells and new interest in contract automation and intelligence. Key lessons include using pricing to reflect platform evolution, involving customers early, and avoiding common growth traps like disjointed add-ons or bloated core products.
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Google is prioritizing Shopping over traditional search ads, investing heavily in AI-powered tools and testing new features such as a multi-row Shopping Ads carousel. As a result, traditional search ads are losing visibility, control, and relevance, particularly for ecommerce brands. Search results pages now display predominantly product-based content, reducing the prominence of text-based ads. While Search still has value for complex queries and brand protection, ecommerce marketers should prioritize Shopping campaigns.
Synthetic populations use AI to simulate human behavior by creating digital replicas of real-world demographics and layering in behavioral models and real-world calibration. McDonald's can now test how economic policies may affect customer behavior without conducting costly surveys. Use cases span corporate strategy, policy testing, healthcare, insurance, media, and even jury selection. One study showed AI-generated personas replicated 76% of results from real human studies.
Indie media subscriptions are not commodities to be compared by cost per journalist. They're investments in meaningful relationships between readers and creators. Readers pay not for volume but for connection, trust, and access to unique perspectives. While platforms like Substack take 10% of revenue and legacy media offers more content per dollar, those metrics miss the point. The value lies in supporting independent voices that reflect personal values, build community, and offer a direct stake in a more diverse media future.
BNPL options for everyday purposes like takeout and groceries are seen by many as a bad economic indicator.
26 ways to approach the creative process of working in social media.
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For the first time, _VS Code, Live!_ [5] is on-stage at Build, Microsoft's largest developer conference, hosted by Jason Lengstorf (CodeTV) & Burke Holland (VS Code).
In React, parent components render before children, but children's useEffect hooks run before their parents'. This happens because React uses a DFS algorithm during its commit phase, walking up the component tree from the deepest nodes to the shallowest. Understanding this can help avoid subtle bugs in complex component hierarchies, especially when effects in parent components might depend on changes made by child components.
The Explicit Resource Management proposal in JavaScript introduces deterministic resource management. It adds `using` and `await using` declarations for automatic disposal, using `Symbol.dispose` and `Symbol.asyncDispose` for cleanup. `DisposableStack` and `AsyncDisposableStack` are also introduced to manage multiple disposable resources in a coordinated manner.
Novices often create unnecessary problems for themselves due to inexperience and lack of foresight, while experts navigate challenges more directly. Novices require patient guidance and observation of experts, as experts often struggle to articulate their intuitive understanding.
Two rules of thumb for code optimization: "push ifs up" and "push fors down.” "Push ifs up" involves moving conditional logic to the caller function, centralizing control flow, and potentially eliminating redundant checks. "Push fors down" means operating on batches of objects instead of individual items within a loop, improving performance by amortizing startup costs and enabling vectorization.
The "Stream vs. Batch" dichotomy is misleading, as streaming systems often use batching for performance optimization. The real distinction is in "Pull vs. Push" semantics, where streaming systems proactively receive data updates, unlike batch systems that periodically query for new records.
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OpenAI has launched Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent powered by codex-1 available to ChatGPT Pro, Team, and Enterprise users. Codex can perform tasks like writing features, fixing bugs, and proposing pull requests within secure, isolated cloud environments. It is trained to avoid malicious software development.
BrowserBee is an open-source Chrome extension that acts as an in-browser AI assistant, allowing users to control their browser with natural language. It uses an LLM for instruction parsing and Playwright for browser automation. BrowserBee also has features like token tracking, memory for efficient task repetition, and user approval requests for sensitive actions.
Xtool is a cross-platform tool that aims to replicate Xcode functionality using open standards for building and deploying iOS apps with SwiftPM on Linux, Windows, and macOS. It lets users build SwiftPM packages into iOS apps, sign and install them, and interact with Apple Developer Services programmatically. The tool has a command-line interface with subcommands for configuration, development, and device management.
This dev coded using AR glasses, a folding keyboard, and a Pixel 8 Pro running Linux in a chroot environment. They found it surprisingly effective for outdoor work and travel. While setting up the Linux environment was challenging, the portability, sunlight visibility, and cellular connectivity was great.
This is a practical guide to integrating Rust and Java using JNI for better performance and functionality. It addresses challenges like managing memory, handling platform-specific libraries, unifying logs, calling Rust async functions from Java, and mapping Rust errors to Java exceptions.
A coding agent can be written in just 94 lines of Ruby. The agent shown uses an AI chat loop powered by the RubyLLM gem and three key tools: reading files, listing files, and editing files, allowing it to create and modify code. The agent also has the ability to execute shell commands with user confirmation, allowing it to test and refine its code.
Google's Material 3 Expressive design system prioritizes emotional connection, usability, and accessibility, which results in UIs that are more appealing, modern, and easier to use.
Unpkg is a fast and global content delivery network for everything on npm.
This developer built their own simple, secure, and customizable personal knowledge management system (PKMS) hosted on their own server to regain control over their data and workflow.
A Rails application experienced an unexpected database connection pool leak due to a background thread within the Semantic Logger holding onto a connection while trying to resolve a lazy-loaded ActiveRecord relation, which was resolved by logging only primitive values and monitoring connection pool stats.
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Despite significant investments in GenAI tooling, many engineering leaders still struggle to see the expected return on investment as developer adoption lags behind.