Year: 2026

Apple has made big strides in iOS 26 security, but leaked hacking tools still leave millions vulnerable to spyware attacks

Apple has made big strides in iOS 26 security, but leaked hacking tools still leave millions vulnerable to spyware attacks

🚀 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Apple,China,Coruna,cybersecurity,Darksword,Google,hackers,hacking,iOS,iverify,Lookout,russia,Spyware,Zero-days 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A common assumption among iPhone security experts was that finding vulnerabilities and developing exploits for iOS was difficult, requiring a lot of time, resources, and teams of skilled researchers to penetrate layers of security defenses. This meant that iPhone spyware and sub-zero vulnerabilities, which the software vendor did not know about before exploiting them, were rare and only used in limited, targeted attacks, as Apple itself says. But last month, cybersecurity researchers at Google, iVerify, and Lookout documented several large-scale hacking campaigns using tools known…
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OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha

OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Since OpenTelemetry first introduced Profiles, momentum has only grown towards building a unified industry standard for continuous production profiling, standing alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Today, the Profiling SIG is proud to announce that the Profiles signal has officially entered public Alpha, and we are ready for broader community use and feedback.Production profiling for allContinuously capturing low-overhead performance profiles in production is a technique that has been used for decades. It helps troubleshoot production incidents, improves user experience by making software faster and reduces…
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The two biggest dramas in Silicon Valley have crossed paths: LiteLLM and Delve

The two biggest dramas in Silicon Valley have crossed paths: LiteLLM and Delve

💥 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Startups,TC,Delve,malware,security compliance ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This is one of those real-life Silicon Valley episodes that appears to have been ripped from the HBO satirical show. This week, some truly heinous malware was discovered in an open source project developed by Y Combinator alumnus LiteLLM. LiteLLM gives developers easy access to hundreds of AI models and provides features such as spend management. It's a hack hit, being downloaded up to 3.4 million times a day, according to Snake, one of several security researchers monitoring the incident. The project had 40k…
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French e, è, é, ê, ë – what’s the difference?

French e, è, é, ê, ë – what’s the difference?

💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Pronunciation of the letter e in French is ambiguous. There are four ways to pronounce it: /e/ (as “e” in “hey”, called “closed e”), /ɛ/ (as “e” in “bet”, called “open e”), /ə/ (as “a” in the name “Tina”, called “schwa”), or it can remain silent; however, it may also form part of a larger group of letters where the pronunciation may be different. In this post, we shall learn some basic rules you have to know if you want to be…
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ByteDance’s new AI video creation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, is coming to CapCut

ByteDance’s new AI video creation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, is coming to CapCut

🚀 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,bytedance,capcut,seedance 2.0 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI may be stepping back from its efforts in the video creation market with the shutdown of its Sora app, but ByteDance confirmed Thursday that its new audio and video model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, is now rolling out to its editing platform, CapCut. ByteDance says the model allows creators to craft, edit and sync video and audio content using prompts, images or reference videos. The phased rollout will begin for CapCut users in Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, with more markets…
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Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A Walmart ads vehicle This week’s announcement shows Walmart further integrating Vizio and looking to more deeply leverage Vizio OS’s ads and tracking capabilities to fuel its $6.4 billion ads business. In Vizio’s final quarter as its own company, its ad business made a gross profit of $115.8 million, and its hardware business lost $6.7 million. Walmart doesn’t break out Vizio’s financials, but in a February call with investors, John David Rainey, CFO and EVP of Walmart, said Vizio “saw triple-digit growth in advertising” during Walmart’s…
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A major hacking tool has leaked online, putting millions of iPhones at risk. Here’s what you need to know

A major hacking tool has leaked online, putting millions of iPhones at risk. Here’s what you need to know

🚀 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Apple,Coruna,cybercrime,cybersecurity,Darksword,Google,hackers,hacking,iOS,iPhone,iverify,Lookout,russia,Zero-days 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Security researchers have uncovered a series of cyberattacks targeting Apple customers around the world. The tools used in these hacking campaigns have been dubbed Coruna and DarkSword, and have been used by government spies and cybercriminals to steal data from people's iPhones and iPads. It's rare to see large-scale hacks targeting iPhone and iPad users. In the past decade, the only precedents have been attacks against Uyghur Muslims in China, and against people in Hong Kong. Now, some of these powerful hacking tools have leaked…
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EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller – Paving the Way for Genuine Child Protection! – Patrick Breyer

EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller – Paving the Way for Genuine Child Protection! – Patrick Breyer

✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The controversial mass surveillance of private messages in Europe is coming to an end. After the European Parliament had already rejected the indiscriminate and blanket Chat Control by US tech companies on 13 March, conservative forces attempted a democratically highly questionable maneuver yesterday to force a repeat vote to extend the law anyway. However, in a true voting thriller today, the Parliament finally pulled the plug on this surveillance mania: With a razor-thin majority of just a single vote, the Parliament first rejected the automated…
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WhatsApp can now craft AI-generated responses based on your conversations

WhatsApp can now craft AI-generated responses based on your conversations

✨ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Social,social media,WhatsApp,AI ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WhatsApp is rolling out a slew of new features and updates, including one that generates AI-powered suggested replies based on your conversations. The Meta-owned messaging platform is also launching other features, including a new way to free up space, the ability to enhance photos with Meta AI, and more. But the most notable is the app’s update to the “Writing Assist” feature that helps users draft messages. The writing assistance service, which first launched last August, already helps users paraphrase, proofread or adjust…
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Landmark verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids

Landmark verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: After a grueling seven weeks of court proceedings and more than 40 hours of tense deliberations across nine days in one of the country’s most closely watched civil trials, jurors handed down a landmark decision in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday, finding Instagram and YouTube responsible for the suffering of a Chico, Calif., woman who charged the platforms were built to addict young users. Kaley G.M., the 20-year-old plaintiff, who testified in February, arrived in court just before 10 a.m. She remained stoic…
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