The Wire
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Fake CAPTCHA Pages Fuel IRSF Toll Fraud and 120 Keitaro-Driven Crypto Scams
Researchers have linked a sprawling fraud operation that uses fake CAPTCHA challenges to drive International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF), tricking victims into t
Fast16: Lua-powered sabotage framework predates Stuxnet by five years
SentinelLABS has identified fast16, a previously undocumented sabotage framework compiled in 2005 that selectively patches high-precision calculation software i
Forty years after Chernobyl: wildlife thrives, but the science remains contested
Four decades after the 1986 reactor explosion, the 60km exclusion zone around Chernobyl has become an unlikely wildlife refuge. Wolves, bears, lynx, bison, deer
Friendster sold for $30k — buyer plans to revive the dormant social brand
A buyer has acquired the Friendster brand and domain for $30,000 and is publicly outlining plans to bring the dormant social network back in some form. Friendst
GoDaddy hands 27-year-old domain to stranger, ignores 32 support calls
A Lancaster IT firm watched a client's domain of 27 years vanish from a GoDaddy account on a Saturday afternoon despite dual two-factor authentication and the r
How Apple's MacBook Neo and Porsche's 968 Club Sport turned cheap into cool
Apple's MacBook Neo is reportedly outselling expectations, drawing both first-time Mac buyers and existing owners who would normally upgrade to an Air or Pro. T
Itron confirms intruder breached internal IT network at US utility tech giant
Itron, the Washington-based utility technology vendor whose hardware and software underpin electricity, water, and gas networks for 7,700 customers across 100 c
Magic: The Gathering as a Japanese fluency engine past the N2 plateau
A language learner recounts how playing Magic: The Gathering in Japanese became the bridge from intermediate (N2) competence to genuine fluency. The plateau bet
Markdown comments drive auto-captured screenshots in Rails help docs
A developer building Jelly solved the chronic problem of stale documentation screenshots by embedding capture instructions directly into Markdown source files.
Molyneux's Legacy burned players for $54M in crypto, funded his next game
Peter Molyneux's 2023 game Legacy extracted roughly $54 million from players who pre-purchased NFTs on promises of a sophisticated economic simulation and play-
Niri 26.04 Wayland compositor lands long-awaited background blur
Niri, the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that arranges windows in columns along an infinite horizontal strip, has shipped version 26.04 with background bl
OpenAI retires SWE-bench Verified as a frontier coding benchmark
OpenAI says SWE-bench Verified has saturated as a measure of frontier coding ability. Top models now cluster near the ceiling, leaving little headroom to distin