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WhatsApp Metadata Leak Hands Attackers a Free Reconnaissance Channel
WhatsApp is exposing user metadata in a way that lets attackers harvest information about accounts without ever sending a message or triggering a notification.
Blue Origin reuses New Glenn booster, but upper stage fails mid-mission
Blue Origin pulled off its first reflight of an orbital-class booster on Sunday, landing the New Glenn first stage Never Tell Me The Odds on an Atlantic recover
Claude Opus 4.7 system prompt: less verbose, tool-first, tighter child safety
Simon Willison diffed Anthropic's published system prompts between Claude Opus 4.6 (February 2026) and 4.7 (April 16, 2026), surfacing meaningful behavioral shi
Claude system prompts restructured into a git timeline for prompt archaeology
Simon Willison converted Anthropic's published Claude system prompt history—originally a single markdown page—into a git repository with per-model, per-family f
Edge Regression Breaks Right-Click Paste in Teams Desktop Chats
A recent Microsoft Edge update shipped a code regression that disables the right-click Paste option in Microsoft Teams desktop chats. Because Teams relies on Ed
Great whites' warm-blooded edge becomes liability as oceans heat up
Great white sharks and other mesothermic fish-species that maintain body temperatures above surrounding seawater-face a physiological squeeze as oceans warm, ac
Headless services resurge as personal AI agents favor APIs over GUIs
Matt Webb and others are betting that headless services - platforms exposed purely through APIs, MCP, and CLI rather than browser UIs - are poised for a resurge
Inside a Texas Petawatt shot day: stars in a vacuum chamber, then funding cuts
Two floors beneath the University of Texas at Austin sits the Texas Petawatt, one of the most powerful lasers in the country. From 2020 to 2024, the author led
Microsoft rolls back Teams update that bricked desktop client launches
Microsoft reverted a service-side update on Friday after a regression in the Teams desktop client build caching system left users stuck on the loading screen wi
Microsoft ships out-of-band patches after April updates crash Windows Server domain controllers
Microsoft pushed emergency updates across every supported Windows Server release after the April 2026 Patch Tuesday rollout broke core infrastructure. The prima
Nexcorium Mirai Variant Weaponizes TBK DVR Flaw CVE-2024-3721 for DDoS Swarm
A fresh Mirai descendant dubbed Nexcorium is actively enlisting TBK-branded digital video recorders into a DDoS botnet by abusing CVE-2024-3721, a command injec
NIST Drops Severity Scoring for Low-Priority CVEs as Submission Volume Overwhelms NVD
NIST is officially scaling back the National Vulnerability Database. As of April 15, only CVEs that hit specific thresholds — presence in CISA's Known Exploited