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Google says Gmail security is “strong and effective” as it denies major breach

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 02:39:44

The sky is falling, and Gmail has supposedly been hacked to bits by malicious parties unknown. Or has it? Reports circulated last week claiming that Gmail was the subject of a major data breach, citing a series of warnings Google has distributed and increasing reports of phishing attacks. The hysteria was short-lived, though. In a brief post on its official blog, Google says that Gmail's security is "strong and effective," and reports to the contrary are mistaken. This story seems to have devel

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'2.5 billion Gmail users at risk'? Entirely false, says Google

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-21 22:55:54

SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google did not issue a warning about a major security breach. But hackers have been targeting Salesforce data in the cloud. Always be alert for phishing and vishing attacks. Worried about reports that a major security breach has impacted your Gmail account? Well, apparently, those claims are much ado about nothing. Also: How to encrypt any email - in Outlook, Gmail, and o

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Google debunks claims of major Gmail security alert

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-23 06:36:13

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google says reports of a mass Gmail security warning are false. Some outlets reporting on phishing data last week framed it as a mass Gmail security alert. The company insists Gmail protections remain strong, but advises using passkeys and learning to spot phishing emails. Online threats are scary enough without false or overhyped alarms adding to the confusion. Last week, several outlets claimed that Gmail had issued a major warning to all 2.5 billi

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Notes on Managing ADHD

news.ycombinator.com Fernando Borretti 2025-10-24 12:49:01

The pleasure is in foreseeing it, not in bringing it to term. — Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions This post is about managing ADHD. It is divided into two sections: “Strategies” describes the high-level control system, “Tactics” is a list of micro-level improvements (really it should be called “stratagems”, since most are essentially about tricking yourself). Contents Strategies High-level advice, control systems. Chemistry First ADHD has a biological cause and drugs are the first-l

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Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 06:05:09

When designing software systems, do the simplest thing that could possibly work. It’s surprising how far you can take this piece of advice. I genuinely think you can do this all the time. You can follow this approach for fixing bugs, for maintaining existing systems, and for architecting new ones. A lot of engineers design by trying to think of the “ideal” system: something well-factored, near-infinitely scalable, elegantly distributed, and so on. I think this is entirely the wrong way to go a

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Best Washing Machines for Your Home in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 12:48:00

It's not always about the features that you most regularly use, but about having features available that you might sometimes need to use. If available features are driving your comparative shopping experience for washing machines, GE offers a top-tier, front-loading model with consistent customer satisfaction and just about every available add-on. While it is more expensive than the models listed above, it's less expensive than other models that offer as many features as it does. This washing m

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Yorgos Lanthimos’ New Film Puts Emma Stone at the Center of an Alien Environmentalist Conspiracy

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-28 06:36:00

Director Yorgos Lanthimos has made a habit of collaborating with Emma Stone specifically on dark comedy dramas with light sci-fi themes, such as 2023’s Poor Things and 2024’s Kinds of Kindness. And the trailer for their latest team-up, Bugonia, contains much of the same eclecticism, setting up a paranoia thriller that’s equal parts about environmentalism and extraterrestrials. Bugonia, inspired by Korean director Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 sci-fi film, Save The Green Planet!, follows high-powered CE

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This ‘Training Day’ Meme Is Getting Me Through the Collapse of American Democracy

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-30 17:20:13

The U.S. isn’t doing very well right now. The nation’s capital is under military occupation, the president is pursuing a campaign of retribution against his political enemies, and the wealthiest people in the country have suddenly embraced government ownership of their companies if it means they don’t have to pay more in taxes. But through it all, we still have our memes, the true opiate of the masses. And the latest meme that I can’t get enough of involves audio from an old movie, cute dogs, a

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Infinite Threads

technologyreview.com Sarah Foote 2025-10-31 17:00:00

Textiles account for 5% of landfill space—and clothing made with polyester can take up to 200 years to decompose. Massachusetts tackled the problem by banning disposal of clothing and fabrics in 2022. And Infinite Threads, a spinoff of the Undergraduate Association Sustainability Committee, is addressing it by collecting lightly used clothing from the MIT community and selling it for $2 to $6 per item at popup sales held several times each semester. “Our goal is simple: We want to keep clothing

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Mob Programming (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Woody Z. 2025-10-31 18:45:13

By Woody Zuill {NOTE: This is a draft of a work in progress. It is likely to change over time as I flesh out the examples given here. It is likely there are spelling, grammar, and other errors throughout. Please read past the mistakes. I’ll try to get things cleaned up over time.] Fading Problems I’d like to introduce a concept I am calling “Fading Problems”. After doing Mob Programming for a while we started noticing that many of the problems we previously faced were no longer affecting us.

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I made a floppy disk from scratch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 12:32:43

I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch Polymatt decided he was going to make a 3.5” floppy disk from scratch — and actually did. I’m not sure how many of you have actually cracked one of these things open and taken a look inside, but it’s actually a little bit more complex than I expected. Recreating a shell isn’t going to be the tough part. It’s actually this: recreating the media itself with some PET film and a bunch of chemicals. These disks are incredibly thin, and the magnetic film itself is m

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I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 18:32:43

I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch Polymatt decided he was going to make a 3.5” floppy disk from scratch — and actually did. I’m not sure how many of you have actually cracked one of these things open and taken a look inside, but it’s actually a little bit more complex than I expected. Recreating a shell isn’t going to be the tough part. It’s actually this: recreating the media itself with some PET film and a bunch of chemicals. These disks are incredibly thin, and the magnetic film itself is m

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Why is this hard?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 01:47:06

Every decision we make as developers is a tradeoff. We choose to do it because we believe that it holds benefit for what we are trying to accomplish. However, it is generally also a liability. The new code we are adding will need to be maintained, following new processes takes time, keeping infrastructure up-to-date and secure requires regular effort, etc. We are in an eternal battle to build what we need to build without being overwhelmed by these forces. If we're going to stave off that inevit

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AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally

news.ycombinator.com Vp Of Product 2025-11-10 16:03:37

AI is making Google Search radically more helpful, so you can ask any question on your mind and get things done. Starting today, we’re bringing more advanced agentic and personalized capabilities to AI Mode so you can make progress on your tasks and get more tailored information based on your interests. We’re also bringing AI Mode to even more people around the world. Read on for more. Get things done with agentic capabilities in AI Mode New agentic capabilities in AI Mode can help you get thi

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Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 15:06:05

I don’t think we have any actually good programming languages, and I don’t think I’m alone in believing this. Programming is hard, and language design is harder. We’re still learning. But I think they’re all failing us in a shockingly fundamental way. The root of the trouble is a distinction I’d like to draw between data and objects. Let me know if you think there are better terms to use. Programming languages give us tools to represent things. Sometimes these things are values: the integer 1.

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AI website builder Lovable increasingly abused for malicious activity

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-11 00:11:05

Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing the AI-powered Lovable website creation and hosting platform to generate phishing pages, malware-dropping portals, and various fraudulent websites. The malicious sites created through the platform impersonate large and recognizable brands, and feature traffic filtering systems like CAPTCHA to keep bots out. While Lovable has taken steps to better protect its platform from abuse, as AI-powered site generators increase in number, the barrier to entering cy

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Hackers steal Microsoft logins using legitimate ADFS redirects

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-12 10:33:54

Hackers are using a novel technique that combines legitimate office.com links with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to redirect users to a phishing page that steals Microsoft 365 logins. The method lets attackers bypass traditional URL-based detection and the multi-factor authentication process by leveraging a trusted domain on Microsoft's infrastructure for the initial redirect. Legitimacy of a trusted redirect Researchers at Push Security, a company that provides protection solut

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Phrack 72

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 08:43:22

Title : Introduction Author : Phrack Staff ==Phrack Inc.== Volume 0x10, Issue 0x48, Phile #0x01 of 0x12 |=-----------------------------------------------------------------------=| |=-------------------------=[ Introduction ]=----------------------------=| |=-----------------------------------------------------------------------=| |=----------------------=[ Phrack Staff ]=-------------------------=| |=-----------------------=[ [email protected] ]=--------------------------=| |=-----------------

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Why Nim?

news.ycombinator.com Basil Ajith 2025-11-18 11:28:29

You might have heard of the line, "one ring to rule them all" from the book the Lord of the Rings. Though, this ring is an evil object created by the evil Sauron, the idea of just one thing existing to manage or control a lot of things at the same time, is something we all long for. We all need that one app which can manage all our tasks. We need that one card that can hold or manage all our credit and debit card information. How we long for a single language for the whole world (by the way thi

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The Enterprise Experience

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 15:53:03

The Enterprise Experience It's the 18th of August. Today is a special day for me, as it marks my one-year anniversary of working at $ENTERPRISE. Before this I had been a professional software developer for the best part of a decade, but entirely in startups and SMEs. This time last year I made the decision to sell out and hit the big leagues for fun and financial profit. After my interview the only feedback I received was that I didn't have much exposure to enterprise software development, whi

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‘Stranger Things’ creators may be leaving Netflix

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-18 20:07:35

Netflix could soon lose the creative team behind one of its biggest hits. Earlier this week, Variety and other Hollywood publications reported that Matt and Ross Duffer, the brothers who created “Stranger Things” (and wrote and directed many episodes), were in talks to sign an exclusive deal with Paramount (now under the ownership of David Ellison’s Skydance). Then on Friday evening, Puck’s Matthew Belloni posted that the Duffers had in fact “made their choice” and were going to Paramount. The

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Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good

wired.com Craig Grannell 2025-11-18 04:00:00

For years, Apple treated the idea of windows on the iPad as sacrilege. But with iPadOS 26 installed, today’s iPads are doing macOS cosplay, becoming touchscreen Macs in all but name. And here’s the thing: It’s actually pretty good. So how did we get here? When did this fundamental shift occur that killed off Steve Jobs’ vision of the iPad? When Jobs first revealed the iPad in 2010, it was pitched as a “third category” of device—something between a phone and a laptop. For that category to justif

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Mobile Phishers Target Brokerage Accounts in ‘Ramp and Dump’ Cashout Scheme

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-11-19 08:27:05

Cybercriminal groups peddling sophisticated phishing kits that convert stolen card data into mobile wallets have recently shifted their focus to targeting customers of brokerage services, new research shows. Undeterred by security controls at these trading platforms that block users from wiring funds directly out of accounts, the phishers have pivoted to using multiple compromised brokerage accounts in unison to manipulate the prices of foreign stocks. This so-called ‘ramp and dump‘ scheme borr

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Airbrush art of the 80s (2015)

news.ycombinator.com The Toy Box 2025-11-19 10:53:12

The 80’s was a decade of many things — excess, greed, and big hair, to name a few — but it was also the heyday for airbrush art. As a teenager in the late 80’s, I desperately wanted an airbrush so I could paint my favorite band logos on the back of my jean jacket, and maybe make some money on the side painting t-shirts and license plates. I thought those guys on the boardwalk selling custom shirts were gods — how could they produce such amazing works of art in just minutes? My graduation gift f

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Booking.com phishing campaign uses sneaky 'ん' character to trick you

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-21 10:23:45

Threat actors are leveraging a Unicode character to make phishing links appear like legitimate Booking.com links in a new campaign distributing malware. The attack makes use of the Japanese hiragana character, ん, which can, on some systems, appear as a forward slash and make a phishing URL appear realistic to a person at a casual glance. BleepingComputer has further come across an Intuit phishing campaign using a lookalike domain using the letter L instead of 'i' in Intuit. Booking.com phishi

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Airbrush art of the 80s was Chrome-tastic (2015)

news.ycombinator.com The Toy Box 2025-11-21 22:53:12

The 80’s was a decade of many things — excess, greed, and big hair, to name a few — but it was also the heyday for airbrush art. As a teenager in the late 80’s, I desperately wanted an airbrush so I could paint my favorite band logos on the back of my jean jacket, and maybe make some money on the side painting t-shirts and license plates. I thought those guys on the boardwalk selling custom shirts were gods — how could they produce such amazing works of art in just minutes? My graduation gift f

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New downgrade attack can bypass FIDO auth in Microsoft Entra ID

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-24 23:14:23

Security researchers have created a new FIDO downgrade attack against Microsoft Entra ID that tricks users into authenticating with weaker login methods, making them susceptible to phishing and session hijacking. These weaker login channels are vulnerable to adversary-in-the-middle phishing attacks that employ tools like Evilginx, enabling attackers to snatch valid session cookies and hijack the accounts. Although the attack doesn't prove a vulnerability in FIDO itself, it shows that the syste

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New downgrade attack can bypass FIDO auth in Microsoft Entra ID

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 23:26:02

Security researchers have created a new FIDO downgrade attack against Microsoft Entra ID that tricks users into authenticating with weaker login methods, making them susceptible to phishing and session hijacking. These weaker login channels are vulnerable to adversary-in-the-middle phishing attacks that employ tools like Evilginx, enabling attackers to snatch valid session cookies and hijack the accounts. Although the attack doesn't prove a vulnerability in FIDO itself, it shows that the syste

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How to Wash a Heated Blanket Safely

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 14:08:00

Crawling into a warm bed after a long, hard day is hard to beat, but it isn't always a given. As we work our way towards the fall, you're probably already looking forward to getting your electric heated blanket out of the closet. And if you don't already own one, now is the time to start shopping for one. But like other blankets, they do need some upkeep -- and things get more complicated when there is electricity involved. One obvious question has probably already sprung to mind. Whether you'r

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A default TV setting is ruining your viewing experience - here's the quick fix that experts recommend

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-30 23:36:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET For many people, motion smoothing on TVs is only appropriate for gaming and watching live sports; enthusiasts typically prefer turning off the feature to watch anything else because it can detract from the filmmaker's original intent, making on-screen images seem artificial or hyper-realistic. This is what's called the "soap opera effect." Also: How to turn off ACR on your TV (and why you shouldn't wait to do it) It's a perfectly descriptive metaphor that probably requires no

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Latest Tech News

Google says Gmail security is “strong and effective” as it denies major breach

'2.5 billion Gmail users at risk'? Entirely false, says Google

Google debunks claims of major Gmail security alert

Notes on Managing ADHD

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

Best Washing Machines for Your Home in 2025

Yorgos Lanthimos’ New Film Puts Emma Stone at the Center of an Alien Environmentalist Conspiracy

This ‘Training Day’ Meme Is Getting Me Through the Collapse of American Democracy

Infinite Threads

Mob Programming (2018)

I made a floppy disk from scratch

I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch

Why is this hard?

AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally

Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)

AI website builder Lovable increasingly abused for malicious activity

Hackers steal Microsoft logins using legitimate ADFS redirects

Phrack 72

Why Nim?

The Enterprise Experience

‘Stranger Things’ creators may be leaving Netflix

Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good

Mobile Phishers Target Brokerage Accounts in ‘Ramp and Dump’ Cashout Scheme

Airbrush art of the 80s (2015)

Booking.com phishing campaign uses sneaky 'ん' character to trick you

Airbrush art of the 80s was Chrome-tastic (2015)

New downgrade attack can bypass FIDO auth in Microsoft Entra ID

New downgrade attack can bypass FIDO auth in Microsoft Entra ID

How to Wash a Heated Blanket Safely

A default TV setting is ruining your viewing experience - here's the quick fix that experts recommend

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