Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort? – Krebs on Security (krebsonsecurity.com)
Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort? – Krebs on Security (krebsonsecurity.com)
Mold 2.0 High Speed Linker Released: Moves From AGPL To MIT License (www.phoronix.com)
Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
Rust-based Realst Infostealer Targeting Apple macOS Users' Cryptocurrency Wallets (thehackernews.com)
New method of recycling colored plastics offers possible solution to 'huge environmental challenge' (phys.org)
Meta's Llama 2 is not open source (www.theregister.com)
Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web) (github.com)
Hey everyone, thank you for your patience, and thank you to everyone who engaged constructively. It is clear based on the feedback we’ve received that a bigger discussion needs to take place, and I’m not sure my personal repository is the best place to do that - we are looking for a better forum and will update when we have...
Influencers Starting To Realize How The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Will Do Real Damage (www.techdirt.com)
More “for the children” invasive bullshit. Less privacy and more government intrusion is not what voters want out of bipartisanship....
Google pushing web DRM into chromium (github.com)
Found on hacker news.
GitHub - expo/expo: An open-source platform for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web. (github.com)
Elon Musk’s Rebranded Twitter Cuts Ad Prices (www.wsj.com)
Meta subsidiaries ordered to pay $20 million to Australian government over 'misleading' ads for security app (www.abc.net.au)
The internet has become soulless and i hate it (tim.kicker.dev)
Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix (arstechnica.com)
The bug allows attackers to swipe data from a CPU’s registers. […] the exploit doesn’t require physical hardware access and can be triggered by loading JavaScript on a malicious website.
Threads is rolling out its Following feed (www.theverge.com)
Threads, Instagram’s messaging app, has added a new Following feed that shows posts only from accounts that a user follows. This was a highly requested feature from users. To access the Following feed, users tap the home icon or Threads logo at the top of the app. However, when reopening the app, it reverts back to the default...
Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed (httptoolkit.com)
Apple has deployed a system called Private Access Tokens that allows web servers to verify if a device is legitimate before granting access. This works by having the browser request a signed token from Apple proving the device is approved. While this currently has limited impact due to Safari’s market share, there are concerns...
The excellent Arc browser is now available for anyone to download (www.theverge.com)
Arc, a Mac and iOS browser from The Browser Company, has officially launched after being in testing for over two years. The browser’s version number jumped to 1.0, meaning anyone can now download it from arc.net. Arc aims to be more than just a place to view webpages by offering tools for note taking, collaborative workspaces,...
Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name (www.reuters.com)
The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor (arxiv.org)
A room-temperature superconductor would be the single biggest discovery since the transistor, so take this with a grain of salt until we get some independent reproductions. But, if true, this is world-changing.
Has anyone looked into the Nostr protocol at all? I wonder how it compares to ActivityPub? (nostr.com)
The excellent Arc browser is now available for anyone to download (www.theverge.com)
Archive.ph link
Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says (www.reuters.com)
Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API, [aka googles drm the web stuff from last week] (github.com)
Mozilla opposes this proposal because it contradicts our principles and vision for the Web....
The Fall of Stack Overflow (observablehq.com)
Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive....
