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Scammers Exploit Microsoft's Account Notification Address to Blast Phishing Emails

Spammers have spent months abusing msonlineservicesteam@microsoftonline.com — the internal address Microsoft uses to deliver 2FA codes and account alerts — to p

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cybersecurityprivacy

Trump Mobile confirms customer data was exposed via third-party provider

Trump Mobile has acknowledged that customer information — including names, email and mailing addresses, phone numbers, and order IDs — was publicly accessible o

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open-sourcetech-culture

Turning an old laptop into a distraction-free writerdeck with Debian and tmux

A writer repurposes an aging System76 Galago Pro into a dedicated writing machine by stripping away the modern desktop entirely. Instead of running a window man

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tech-culture

A desk split in two: separating digital work from analog thinking

A developer describes reworking his home office around two changes. First, he rotated the desk to face the room rather than the wall after noticing every histor

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aitech-culture

A One-Page Site Asks the Question Nobody Wants Answered: Is AI Profitable?

A minimalist single-page site, isaiprofitable.com, poses a pointed question without offering an answer beyond its title. The framing alone has resonated on Hack

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aitech-culture

Anna's Archive courts LLMs with bulk-download pitch and donation ask

Anna's Archive, the shadow library that mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and other preservation projects, has published an llms.txt file directly addressing AI

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aicybersecurity

Anthropic's Project Glasswing finds 10,000+ critical bugs in core software

Anthropic's Project Glasswing, launched a month ago with roughly 50 partners, has used the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model to surface more than 10,000 hi

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open-sourcedevops

C# 16 Redesigns `unsafe` Into a Reviewable Contract, Borrowing from Rust

Microsoft is reworking C#'s `unsafe` keyword from a syntactic marker for pointer features into a propagation-oriented safety contract, closer to how Rust and Sw

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cybersecuritypolicy

CISA Scrambles to Rotate Keys After Contractor Leaks Secrets on Public GitHub

A CISA contractor with admin access to the agency's code platform published AWS GovCloud keys and dozens of internal credentials to a public GitHub profile call

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aitech-culture

Cringely Returns After Three-Year Hiatus, Teases AI Architecture Patent

Veteran tech columnist Robert X. Cringely has resumed writing after going silent since 2022. He spent the intervening years co-founding 2Brains, an AI startup w

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aitech-culture

DeepSeek Locks In 75% Price Cut on V4 Pro API After Promo Ends

DeepSeek is converting what had been a temporary 75% discount on its V4 Pro model API into the permanent list price. When the promotion ends on May 31, 2026, th

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devopsopen-source

Deno 2.8 ships audit fix, deno ci, deno pack, and drops the npm: prefix

Deno 2.8 lands a batch of new subcommands aimed at making the runtime a more credible drop-in for the npm toolchain. The headline addition for security-consciou

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