On February 20th, 2026 with 14 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive...
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On November 11th, 2024 with 16 comments
With iOS 18.2, Apple will allow you to share the location of a lost AirTag with other people and with more than 15 different airlines. The Verge reports: When...
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On October 4th, 2024 with 68 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Google said Friday it will stop linking to New Zealand news content and will reverse its support...
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On July 18th, 2024 with 39 comments
In 2018, Google replaced its URL shortener service, goo.gl, with Firebase Dynamic Links, citing "the changes we've seen in how people find content on the...
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On February 29th, 2024 with 17 comments
Hackers targeting individuals in the cryptocurrency sector are using a sophisticated phishing scheme that begins with a malicious link on Calendly. "The...
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On January 2nd, 2024 with 17 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Facebook recently rolled out a new "Link History" setting that creates a special repository of all the links...
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On April 20th, 2023 with 32 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A Montreal man spent years trying to hold Google accountable for search results linking to a defamatory...
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On August 19th, 2022 with 17 comments
Scammers are using invoices sent through PayPal.com to trick recipients into calling a number to dispute a pending charge. Krebs on Security reports: The...
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On July 28th, 2021 with 9 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A security update will be applied to Drive," Google's weird new email reads. If you visit...
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On June 24th, 2021 with 31 comments
In a blog post today, Google announced a series of new security enhancements that will make many publicly accessible Google Drive links no longer accessible....
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On May 10th, 2021 with 61 comments
Following Twitter's lead, Facebook is trying out a new feature designed to encourage users to read a link before sharing it. TechCrunch reports: The test will...
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On January 17th, 2020 with 70 comments
Kim Lyons, writing for The Verge: Google added tiny favicon icons to its search results this week for some reason, creating more clutter in what used to be a...
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On July 1st, 2019 with 25 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Facebook has been exploited to act as a distribution platform for a set of Remote Access Trojans (RATs) for...
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On May 2nd, 2018 with 85 comments
According to security company Sophos, scam websites have been using obfuscated Google Maps links to redirect users to dodgy websites. The Register reports: ...
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On March 31st, 2018 with 154 comments
Google is replacing its URL shortener service, goo.gl, with Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL) as of April 13th. These new smart URLs will let you send people to any...
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On March 16th, 2018 with 172 comments
Microsoft has revealed today that "we will begin testing a change where links clicked on within the Windows Mail app will open in Microsoft Edge." What this...
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On May 10th, 2017 with 95 comments
Facebook's New Feed algorithm is targeting links that send people to crappy websites filled with advertisements. According to their blog post, Facebook defines...
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On May 7th, 2017 with 247 comments
After our article about Richard Stallman's new video interview, Slashdot reader silverjacket shared this recent profile from Psychology Today that describes...
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On April 1st, 2017 with 24 comments
An anonymous reader writes: I wrote a CGI script that displays a random Slashdot story! Every time you refresh the page, it displays a different story from...
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On November 10th, 2016 with 4 comments
Instagram Stories will soon be receiving several big new features that will help users build "deeper connections" and "tell a richer story." An update rolling...
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On September 29th, 2016 with 103 comments
After recent bombings, the Federal Communications Commission has voted to update the four-year-old emergency smartphone alerts system, which is used by...
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On May 17th, 2016 with 91 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Twitter will stop counting photos and links as part of its 140-character limit for tweets in as soon as two weeks, according to a...
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On May 7th, 2016 with 32 comments
Earthquake Retrofit quotes this report from The Register:
More than four years since its previous issue, iconic hacker zine Phrack has published a new issue....
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On March 10th, 2015 with 113 comments
An anonymous reader tips news that six ISPs in the UK are now blocking sites that simply link to proxies for The Pirate Bay. This follows efforts from...
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On November 8th, 2003 with 314 comments
Corvus writes "Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research has written a paper proposing a system giving everyone a voucher which they could use...
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On May 24th, 2003 with 122 comments
poop writes "Most true Unix geeks will recognize just how nice LPD is as a distributed queueing mechanism for managing all jobs sent to the printer. But, what...
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On May 2nd, 2003 with 180 comments
The Ape With No Name writes "With Pattern Recognition now out, Gibson talks to the Guardian about blogging, which ones he's looking at and why he may have to...
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On November 10th, 1998 with 0 comments
Ranjit Mathew has sent a review of the second edition of The Essential Client/Server Survial Guide. This book, written by Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey and Jeri...
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