Two Chrome Extensions Caught Secretly Stealing Credentials from Over 170 Sites

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Google Chrome extensions with the same name and published by the same developer that come with capabilities to intercept traffic and capture user credentials. The extensions are advertised as a “multi-location network speed test plug-in” for developers and foreign trade personnel. Both the browser add-ons are available for download […]

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What 4 Years on the Fast Track Taught Me About My Career: From Dropping Out to Leading a Production Application

Four years ago, I was living with my parents, working as an assistant at an optometry office, with zero clue what I was going to do for the rest of my life. This year, I have designed websites for large medical practices serving 40,000+ patients daily, led an architecture transformation that reduced system failures from […]

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Strengthening supply chain security: Preparing for the next malware campaign

The open source ecosystem continues to face organized, adaptive supply chain threats that spread through compromised credentials and malicious package lifecycle scripts. The most recent example is the multi-wave Shai-Hulud campaign. While individual incidents differ in their mechanics and speed, the pattern is consistent: Adversaries learn quickly, target maintainer workflows, and exploit trust boundaries in […]

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How Xerox and Stack Overflow partnered to preserve knowledge and power innovation

As a global technology leader, Xerox continues to evolve the way the world works. In an era defined by hybrid workplaces and rapid digital transformation, the company recognized a growing challenge: preserving the collective knowledge of engineers and partners spread across continents. To solve this, Xerox partnered with Stack Overflow to create a modern, centralized […]

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Cooking with Claude

Cooking with Claude 23rd December 2025 I’ve been having an absurd amount of fun recently using LLMs for cooking. I started out using them for basic recipes, but as I’ve grown more confident in their culinary abilities I’ve leaned into them for more advanced tasks. Today I tried something new: having Claude vibe-code up a […]

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US insurance giant Aflac says hackers stole personal and health data of 22.6 million

In June, U.S. insurance giant Aflac disclosed a data breach where hackers stole customers’ personal information, including Social Security numbers and health information, without saying how many victims were affected.  On Tuesday, the company confirmed it has begun notifying around 22.65 million people whose data was stolen during the cyberattack. In a filing with the […]

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Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas — Smashing Magazine

Turn scattered user research into AI-powered personas that give anyone consolidated multi-perspective feedback from a single question. In my previous article, I explored how AI can help us create functional personas more efficiently. We looked at building personas that focus on what users are trying to accomplish rather than demographic profiles that look good on […]

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