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Sri Lanka discloses another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5M from its finance ministry (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-29 | by Zack Whittaker | get Cybersecurity Anti-Phishing Kit → | tags: sri lanka, hackers, business email compromise

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China-Backed Hackers Are Industrializing Botnets (darkreading.com)

2026-04-23 | get Botnet Detection Software → | tags: china, botnets, hackers

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Hacker stole £700,000 from UK energy company by redirecting payment (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-09 | by Zack Whittaker | get Cybersecurity USB Data Block → | tags: zephyr energy, business email compromise, london stock exchange

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Hacker stole £700,000 from U.K. energy company by redirecting payment (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-09 | by Zack Whittaker | get Cybersecurity USB Data Block → | tags: zephyr energy, business email compromise, bank account hijacking

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FBI: Americans lost a record $21 billion to cybercrime last year (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-04-07 | get Cybersecurity Anti-Phishing Kit → | tags: fbi, cybercrime, investment scams

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You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except sometimes you can) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-07 | get Promise Cancellation Toolkit → | tags: javascript, promise, cancel

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Polymarket Bar Opens, Sucks (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-21 | get Polymarket Merchandise T-Shirt → | tags: polymarket, bar, screens

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Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-11 | by Jason Williams | get Chrono → | tags: tc39, javascript, promiseallsettled

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Temporal: A nine-year journey to fix time in JavaScript (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-11 | by Jason Williams | get Timezone → | tags: tc39, javascript, promiseallsettled

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Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-11 | by Jason Williams | get Chrono → | tags: tc39, javascript, promiseallsettled

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‘Rick and Morty’ Returns This May, Promises ‘Grade A Organic Slop’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-11 | get Worms → | tags: adult, adult swim, ai just

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Nothing Headphone A Review: A Little More Colorful and a Little Less Good (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-05 | get Colorful Earbuds → | tags: compromises, compromises consider, consider

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Samsung Upcycle Promise (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-23 | get Smartphone → | tags: upcycle promise, rust, iphone 16

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Chris Hemsworth Has High Hopes for Thor’s MCU Future (gizmodo.com)

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Ford's upcoming $30,000 EV truck leans on efficiency instead of a massive battery pack (techspot.com)

2026-02-18 | get Electric Vehicle → | tags: abandons, abandons compromises, advanced

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Dangerous new spyware can take full control of iPhone and Android devices (techspot.com)

2026-02-11 | get Smartwatch → | tags: according company, android, android ios

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AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-09 | by Aruna Ranganathan | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: ai promise, ai reducing, allowing

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‘Overwatch 2’ Rebrands, and Its Messy Arc Is Complete (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-04 | get Game → | tags: blizzard, blizzard infinity, compromised

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Jacob Elordi’s Mom Told Him to Never Work With Guillermo del Toro for a Very Mom Reason (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-04 | get Film → | tags: broken, broken promise, career

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Chinese Hackers Hijack Notepad++ Updates for 6 Months (darkreading.com)

2026-02-02 | get NotepadPlusPlus → | tags: actors, actors compromised, code

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Notepad++ Compromised By State Actor (slashdot.org)

2026-02-02 | by Posted | get Notepad → | tags: compromise, level, malicious

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PSA: Update Notepad++ to version 8.9.1 after security incident (techspot.com)

2026-02-02 | get Notebook Plus → | tags: app update, attackers, attackers compromised

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Customers go ‘Back to Starbucks’ as company posts first U.S. growth in 2 years (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-28 | get Coffee maker → | tags: brian, brian niccol, centric

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Critical sandbox escape flaw found in popular vm2 NodeJS library (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-01-27 | get Node.js library → | tags: code, escape, exploit

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Critical sandbox escape flaw discovered in popular vm2 NodeJS library (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-01-27 | get Node.js library → | tags: code, escape, exploit

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DPRK's Konni Targets Blockchain Developers With AI-Generated Backdoor (darkreading.com)

2026-01-26 | get Blockchain → | tags: according researchers, backdoor, backdoor compromise

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Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages (slashdot.org)

2026-01-13 | get Blockchain → | tags: accessed, attack, betterment

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Trump Mobile’s golden phone delayed despite promises (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-06 | get iPhone → | tags: business promised, ces las, continues

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How generative AI accelerates identity attacks against Active Directory (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-01-06 | get Identity → | tags: active directory, attacks, compromised

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Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-14 | get GitHub → | tags: attacker, compromised, engineer