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What was once a futuristic concept is quickly becoming a more concrete reality, even at a time when Web2 still dominates. Six out of ten Fortune 500 companies are exploring blockchain-based solutions, most taking a hybrid approach that combines traditional Web2 business models and infrastructure with the decentralized technologies and principles of Web3. Popular use […]
Jan 07, 2026The Hacker NewsThreat Detection / Endpoint Security Security teams are still catching malware. The problem is what they’re not catching. More attacks today don’t arrive as files. They don’t drop binaries. They don’t trigger classic alerts. Instead, they run quietly through tools that already exist inside the environment — scripts, remote access, browsers, […]
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One of the big use cases for LLMs and AI agents is customer service. Many of those interactions happen by phone, which means your customer service bots need to understand voice interactions. If you’ve ever answered a phone on behalf of an organization, you know that those voice interactions are messy—hostile, interrupted, full of background […]
Jan 07, 2026Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Financial Fraud Threat actors engaging in phishing attacks are exploiting routing scenarios and misconfigured spoof protections to impersonate organizations’ domains and distribute emails that appear as if they have been sent internally. “Threat actors have leveraged this vector to deliver a wide variety of phishing messages related to various […]
Building a Production-Ready Rate Limiter with Redis in NestJS (Part 2: Workspace-Aware Business Logic) In Part 1, we built the core Redis rate limiter with atomic Lua scripts. Now we’ll add the intelligence that makes it production-ready for a multi-tenant SaaS application. What we’re building: Workspace-isolated rate limiting (Slack-style) Plan-based limits (Free, Pro, Enterprise) Security-focused […]
Lenovo is updating its expansive productivity laptop lineup at CES 2026, including both its famed ThinkPad business notebooks and its consumer and creative-oriented Yogas. While Lenovo is aligning itself with all three big processor companies, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm, its top-end systems all have one thing in common: Intel’s new Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther […]
On paper, the U.S. national debt is a number so big it stops feeling real. Trillions do that to your brain. So let’s bring it back down to human size for a second. If you spread today’s federal debt across U.S. households, you land at roughly $285,000 per household, depending on the day you do […]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new malicious extensions on the Chrome Web Store that are designed to exfiltrate OpenAI ChatGPT and DeepSeek conversations alongside browsing data to servers under the attackers’ control. The names of the extensions, which collectively have over 900,000 users, are below – Chat GPT for Chrome with GPT-5, Claude Sonnet & […]
As a data scientist, I’ve worked on different projects across analytics, machine learning, and system design. One area that continues to stand out to me for its real-world impact is fraud detection in the financial sector. Fraud detection is not just a technical problem—it’s a business, trust, and risk-management problem. In this post, I’ll share […]
