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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active web traffic hijacking campaign that has targeted NGINX installations and management panels in an attempt to route it through the attacker's infrastructure. https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/hackers-exploit-react2s…

The independent Android Workgroup has announced the launch of the Swift SDK for Android, so now Apple's Swift programming language can be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/10/27/android-develo…

Cloudflare has mitigated a DDoS attack that peaked at a record-breaking 22.2 Tbps and 10.6 Bpps. The attack lasted just 40 seconds and is by far the largest ever mitigated. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare…

Perplexity is in discussions with mobile device makers to pre-install its new Comet browser on smartphones. https://www.reuters.com/business/perplexity-talks-with-ph…

New data reveals Linux has achieved a new milestone in the United States, breaking the 5% barrier for desktop operating system market share for the first time. https://www.techspot.com/news/108701-linux-surpasses-5-ma…

Psylo, a new kind of private web browser, refers to tabs as "silos." It applies unique anti-fingerprinting measures per silo, such as canvas randomization, so a visit to the same site in two Psylo tabs appears like it comes from two different devices . https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/psylo_browser_priv…

The biggest recorded distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in history was recorded on Friday. Cloudflare says it stopped a 45-second-long DDoS attack that peaked at 7.3 terabits per second, translating to a total of roughly 37.4 terabytes of data. https://www.pcmag.com/news/cloudflare-world-record-73tbps…

Google says its Chrome browser will stop trusting certificates from two certificate authorities after “patterns of concerning behavior observed over the past year” diminished trust in their reliability. https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/chrome-boots-2-c…

Security researchers uncovered a series of phishing campaigns that use a rarely exploited method to steal login credentials, even when protected by encryption. The method relies on blob URIs, a browser feature designed to display temporary local content. https://www.techradar.com/pro/cybercriminals-have-found-a…

Privacy-focused Firefox is one of the few web browsers around that is not based on Chromium. Many have asked for improvements to its core functionality, and Firefox has finally delivered a long-requested Tab Groups feature. https://itsfoss.com/firefox-tab-groups/

In response to Mozilla's recent privacy changes, Zorin OS 17.3 replaces Firefox -- its previous default browser -- with Brave, albeit a customized version that hides features like Brave Rewards, Wallet, Leo AI, and more. https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/zorin_os_173/

Rumors of the ongoing death of software development — that it’s being slain by AI — are greatly exaggerated. The work of a software developer is much more than just writing lines of code. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/02/1114134/the-m…

Today, a nonprofit focused on bringing governance to open source projects announced the launch of a new security fund that will pay those who responsibly disclose security vulnerabilities that affect fediverse apps and services. https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/a-new-security-fund-ope…

Mozilla will soon unveil a new set of "professional" services designed to enhance the basic email management features of its free, open-source email client, Thunderbird. https://www.techspot.com/news/107366-thunderbird-email-cl…

Today, unless you go totally off-grid, you'll never have the privacy people took for granted at the end of the 20th century. https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/privacy_dead_opinion

Akamai announced a multi-year partnership with the Linux Kernel Organization to provide critical infrastructure support for the development & distribution of the Linux kernel, ensuring uninterrupted access for its global developer network. https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/akamai-becomes-the-…

Author, journalist, and long-time Internet freedom advocate Doc Searls wants us to stop asking for privacy from websites, services, and AI and start telling these things what we will and will not accept. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/doc-searls-myterm…

Unlike chatbots, AI agents operate outside of a chat window, navigating multiple applications to execute complex tasks in response to simple user commands. How much control are we willing to surrender? At what cost? https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/24/1113647/why-h…

Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers by letting them in and using generative AI to create junk content for them to devour in what Cloudflare has termed an “AI Labyrinth.” https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/21/cloudflare_ai_laby…

Duck[.]ai is DuckDuckGo’s latest AI feature, letting users chat with multiple AI models while keeping their interactions private. Duck[.]ai does not track, log, or store conversations. https://www.techradar.com/pro/what-is-duck-ai-everything-…