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Airbnb updated its Reasonable House Rules policy to prohibit hosts from requiring guests to perform tasks like washing dishes, stripping beds, or taking out trash before checkout, calling these cleaner-level chores. The company said exceptions remain for situational needs like water restrictions during drought or bear-proof trash containers. The new rules apply to reservations booked on or after November 20.
Airbnb has updated its platform rules so hosts can no longer require guests to perform specific chores such as washing dishes, taking out trash, or stripping bed sheets before checkout. Hosts can still request these tasks as courtesies, but cannot enforce them as mandatory House Rules. Several hosts have reacted angrily on social media, with some saying they'll raise cleaning fees to offset the change.
Minut has introduced Crowd Detect, a feature that uses passive signals from nearby iOS devices to estimate how many people are present in a rental property. Hosts can set an occupancy limit, and Minut sends an alert if that threshold is exceeded, letting them know when to check in or intervene.
Malwarebytes' ThreatDown researchers identified a new botnet, Carbonato, that scans for Docker hosts with unauthenticated APIs on port 2375 and hijacks them via privileged containers. The malware installs SSH backdoors, sets up multiple persistence mechanisms, and deploys the Hermes Agent AI framework under an agent named GH0ST to execute operator commands and exfiltrate credentials and API keys via Telegram. The findings came from an unauthenticated Docker registry containing nearly 60 repositories and 4.3GB of data spanning operations from October 2024 to August 2026.
CNET released its daily hints and full solutions for NYT's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle number 724, dated September 17. The four categories were team collectives (conference, division, group, league), recent Summer Olympics host cities (London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo), Missouri Valley Conference schools (Belmont, Bradley, Drake, Northern Iowa) and words paired with 'Giants' (Little, New York, San Francisco, Yomiuri).