Spyhide stalkerware is spying on tens of thousands of phones
A phone surveillance app called Spyhide is stealthily collecting private phone data from tens of thousands of Android devices around the world, new data shows. Spyhide is a widely-used stalkerware (or spouseware) app that is planted on a victim’s phone, often by someone with knowledge of their passcode. The app
Read MoreHow I Built an Autonomous AI Agent for Online Research
GPT Researcher: the future of comprehensive online researchContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read MoreSoftBank and Symbotic team to offer automated warehouses as a service
When it comes to retail, it’s Amazon versus the world. That’s been true for a long time and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. Plenty of factors have contributed to the company’s position as a seemingly unstoppable juggernaut. Among them is Amazon’s canny decision to buy and
Read MoreSony WF-1000XM5 earbuds review
I have two stock answers whenever someone asks me which earbuds to buy. The first answers the question with another question: Who made your phone? Like flagship smartphones, fully wireless earbuds are pretty good across the board — and the category managed to get there in record time. Headphones often
Read MoreTime for tech’s report card
A lot of the world is busy digesting Twitter being rebranded to “X,” but more serious things are happening in the world of tech: Worldcoin is here! I kid. What actually matters today is that we are embarking on another earnings cycle, which means we can study tech’s largest and
Read MoreWhen AI Finally Writes All the Code, What Will Us Developers Do?
My views on how large language models mean big changes for timeless software engineering challengesContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read MoreNorth Korean hackers targeting JumpCloud mistakenly exposed their IP addresses, researchers say
Security researchers say they have high confidence that North Korean hackers were behind a recent intrusion at enterprise software company JumpCloud because of a mistake the hackers made. Mandiant, which is assisting one of JumpCloud’s affected customers, attributed the breach to hackers working for North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau, or
Read MoreThe Return of Dynamic Typing: Is It Possible?
Or was static typing the right paradigm all along?Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read MoreElon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg should cage fight over whose rebrand is worse
Elon Musk is the best thing that could have ever happened to Mark Zuckerberg. As Musk begins to change Twitter’s branding to X, Facebook’s rebrand to Meta doesn’t seem all that bad. Zuckerberg might be good at lifting weights these days, but he still needs to pull Meta out from
Read MoreGraphic Design for Software Engineers and Architects
It’s no secret that engineers have a certain “style” for their graphic designs, including technical diagramsIf you work in software engineering or within technology, you might have seen a diagram that looks like this:You might be the author of such a diagram and see nothing wrong. It’s all there — the services, arrows,
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