An international law enforcement action led by the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has identified over 20,000 victims of cryptocurrency fraud across Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Dubbed “Operation Atlantic,” this joint action took place last month, and it involved the NCA, the U.S. Secret Service, the Ontario Provincial Police, the Ontario Securities Commission, and multiple private industry partners. “The NCA hosted law enforcement agencies at their London HQ and through real time intelligence sharing, technical capabilities and victim outreach, multiple fraud networks were disrupted across the world,” the NCA said. “City of London Police, Financial Conduct…
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Google Translate has been a staple in my life for many years, as I’m quite close with people from all over the world. And while they all speak English to varying degrees, I often try to help by speaking to them in a language they’re more familiar with. Google Translate helps to some degree, but having to open the app, copy the text, and paste it into a separate app is a clunky way to go about it.Fortunately, Google has integrated its Translate capabilities across other apps and features in Android, making it easier to access these features where they’re…
Google announced this week the first stable version of Chrome 147, which includes patches for 60 vulnerabilities, including two that have been rated critical. The critical vulnerabilities both impact Chrome’s WebML component, which is designed for running machine learning models directly in the browser. The security holes, reported by anonymous researchers, have been described as a heap buffer overflow (CVE-2026-5858) and an integer overflow (CVE-2026-5859). The reporting researchers each earned $43,000 for their findings. The significant bug bounty rewards coupled with the severity rating suggest that the vulnerabilities can be exploited for sandbox escapes and/or remote code execution. Of the…
We’re being pushed harder than ever — expected to hit bigger revenue targets with the same or smaller PPC budgets. Even with flat budgets, rising platform costs mean we’re effectively facing a budget cut. Average CPCs have risen by as much as 40%, with an average of 3.74%, per Wordstream. Certain periods, such as Black Friday, see much higher increases. Teams are experiencing budget cuts, with average marketing budgets flatlining at 7.7%, according to Gartner. Our own account audits show that 20-30% of most accounts’ spend is quietly underperforming. This is the reality of paid media in 2026. But it…
Marketing is one thing, but reality is quite another. Like many of us, I won’t forget the claimed “durable” microtwill of FineWoven, the shaky initial launch of Apple Maps, or the infamous butterfly keyboard that was supposedly four times more stable. Remember the promise of AirPower? Of course you don’t.It’s worth celebrating when the real-world experience does actually live up to the hype, then. And that’s the case with Apple’s Ceramic Shield 2, the tech giant’s latest and unquestionably greatest iPhone glass.At the iPhone 17 series launch last year, Apple claimed its strongest glass to date offers three times better…
With the US and Iran having reached a fragile ceasefire this week, security researchers and executives are left wondering whether there will be a commensurate pause in the cyberwarfare that has ramped up around the war.The day after the temporary truce was announced, Iran’s most high-profile false-flag hacktivist operation, Handala, offered that it would participate in a temporary pause in hostilities. But even if one takes that group at its word, history suggests that ceasefires rarely stop or slow cyberactivity surrounding kinetic wars. In fact, in the absence of more effective ways of fighting, cyberattacks tend to flare significantly.”Historical data…
Public relations (PR) tools help businesses reach out to journalists, distribute press releases, and track the results of these efforts to manage brand perception.If you’re looking to enhance your PR operations, I’ve rounded up 10 of the best PR tools to consider using. Where possible, I tested these tools personally to assess their capabilities, limitations, and best use cases. I’ve organized them into three categories: outreach, press release distribution, and media monitoring.These tools are: PR Tool for Outreach Best for Pricing AI PR Toolkit Enhancing media outreach with AI Base ($149/month) and Pro ($279/month) Muck Rack Sending pitches that comply…
For years, desktop Linux has felt like a trade-off machine to me. One distro nails performance but stumbles on polish. Another looks great until it asks me to solve some weird packaging problem at the worst possible time. A third promises flexibility, only to turn basic maintenance into a weekend project I never asked for. SteamOS is the first one in a long time to make me stop thinking of Linux as a project and start using it like a finished product. Related I turned my Steam Deck into a home server, and it’s as crazy as it sounds If…
Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc. The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after the two firms merged in July 2023, according to a report published by the Citizen Lab. Penlink, founded in 1986, is a provider of “mission-critical communications and digital evidence collection and analysis software” to law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and across the world. U.S. customers of the Webloc include Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the…
Meal planning has always been one of those tasks that I dreaded. I either end up scrambling at the last minute, ordering takeout more often than I’d like, or wasting time scrolling through recipes trying to figure out what’s feasible with the ingredients I already have. Recently, I decided to experiment with NotebookLM to see if it could help me plan a week of meals, and to my surprise, it did more than I expected. Related I paired NotebookLM with YouTube and learned faster than I ever did with note-taking apps This unlikely duo upgraded my learning routine Why I…