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A browser SSD timing trick can fingerprint your browsing, and cookies won't stop it
Graz researchers built FROST, a browser side-channel that times SSD activity to guess which sites and apps you're running. Here's how it works and what helps.
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Google said people love AI search. DuckDuckGo's installs jumped 30% the next week.
DuckDuckGo's US downloads climbed about 30% and its no-AI search page saw 28% more visits the week after Google's I/O push. The backlash is now measurable.
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Cloudflare rebuilt Browser Run on its own Containers. Concurrency went from 30 to 120.
Cloudflare moved Browser Run off shared isolation infrastructure on May 13. The agentic-coding crowd gets four times the headless-Chrome ceiling and half the latency.
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Waymo paused service in four cities after a robotaxi drove into an Atlanta flood and got stuck for an hour.
Waymo halted operations in Atlanta, San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston on May 21 after an unoccupied vehicle stopped in floodwater. The cars rely on NWS alerts that came too late.
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First-gen Chromecasts are vanishing from streaming apps. Google won't say if it's a fix or a quiet EOL.
YouTube, HBO Max, and others stopped listing the 2013 Chromecast as a cast target. Google EOL'd the hardware in 2023 and isn't commenting.
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Atlassian laid off the engineer who built its edge. He published the blueprints.
Vasilios Syrakis spent eight years building Atlassian's Envoy control plane. After the March cuts, he posted a 40-minute walkthrough that hit 1.1M views.
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GitLab is cutting staff and killing its CREDIT values. The CEO calls it 'Act 2.'
CEO Bill Staples announced a restructuring he frames around agentic AI, retiring GitLab's six core values for three new operating principles. Exact layoff numbers come June 2.
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Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs on its best earnings day. Revenue grew 34% and the stock dropped 18%.
Cloudflare laid off 20% of its workforce on May 7 while reporting record Q1 revenue of $639.8M. The stock dropped 18% after hours.
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Threads finally added DMs on the web. Group chats and most countries still aren't on the list.
Meta is rolling out one-to-one Threads DMs on desktop web for users 18 and over. Group chats come later, regional availability is staged, and the new sidebar surfaces analytics.
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Reddit started blocking logged-in mobile web users. The popup can't be dismissed.
Reddit is rolling out an undismissible 'get the app' banner on mobile web for a slice of frequent users. Old.reddit.com doesn't fully escape it.
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VS Code shipped 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' on every commit by default. Microsoft is reverting it.
A two-line PR flipped the AI co-author flag from off to all in April. Hand-typed commits started getting Copilot attribution. The maintainer apologized and promised a fix in 1.119.
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Cloudflare shipped Dynamic Workflows. Multi-tenant agent platforms finally get durable per-tenant code.
A 300-line MIT library lets one Worker route durable execution to every tenant's own workflow. The piece Cloudflare's Agents Week was missing.
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Google just moved 'Q-Day' to 2029. Here's what that changes for your crypto stack
Google's security team says cryptographically-relevant quantum computers could arrive by 2029, six years before the NSA's 2031 deadline. What to migrate, and in what order.