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"We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests
Developer felt "beaten up," with "no choice" but to shrink data center.
Chinese APT deploys new malware to keep access to hacked networks
A Chinese espionage group tracked as UNC5221 has been accessing Microsoft 365 environments using the Brickstorm backdoor and previously undocumented malware named Plenet and AgentPSD. [...]
IronWorm and New Miasma Worm Variant Hit npm in Supply Chain Attacks
Multiple software supply chain attacks have hit the npm ecosystem, with threat actors using both malicious and poisoned versions of over 50 legitimate packages to distribute a Rust-based information stealer and a self-spreading worm, respectively. According to JFrog, the information stealer "scrapes every secret it can find on a developer's machine, hides behind an eBPF kernel rootkit, and
Skills, Java 17, and Theme Accents
Last week was about Metal and the Skin Designer. This week, the headline items are about what a brand new project looks like when you generate it: the default JDK is Java 17, and every generated project ships with an AGENTS.md authoring skill that lets any modern AI agent work on the project intelligently. There are also some other things worth covering: a runtime accent palette on the new native themes, three Metal follow-ups (one of which introduces a new matrix-correct translate API), the JD
Dark web Nemesis Market vendor gets 26 years for selling drugs
A California man was sentenced to more than 26 years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl and methamphetamine through Nemesis Market, one of the world's largest dark web marketplaces. [...]
Building secure B2C applications with fine-grained access control using Amazon Cognito and Amazon Verified Permissions
Modern web applications require robust security controls to protect user data and application resources. Authentication and authorization are two fundamental pillars of application security that answer critical questions: Who are you? and What are you allowed to do? Implementing these controls correctly can be challenging for developers, especially when building data-intensive applications with frameworks like […]
Review: Spider-Noir recaptures the magic of a bygone era
Nicolas Cage was born to play 1930s PI Ben Reilly/The Spider: part Bogart, part Bugs Bunny, 100% Cage-y.
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