I find it satisfying to do a word puzzle (or three) each day. Wordle is great, but it’s not really exciting anymore. Crosswords are fun if you have the time (I love an NYT Thursday puzzle) but I don’t always bother. My sweet spot, lately, are games like Minute Cryptic and Parseword—which are entry points into the incredibly bizarre world of British “cryptic” crossword clues. What is a cryptic puzzle?Cryptics are a type of word puzzle unlike anything else. There exist whole crosswords full of them, but the daily puzzles I’m writing about are just one clue per day, so you…
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Dealing with an older car’s infotainment system is incredibly frustrating. Whether it’s an ancient, basic stereo from the era of CDs or an early touchscreen setup, the lack of Android Auto severely limits what you can do with it. So, you’re probably thinking about upgrading to an aftermarket head unit, but you’ve heard mixed things about their quality and reliability. At the same time, you might not be able to justify spending hundreds of dollars on a brand-name Sony, Pioneer, or Kenwood unit. I had the same doubts, but after upgrading to a $100 Android model, it turned out to…
Threat actors with ties to Iran successfully broke into the personal email account of Kash Patel, the director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and leaked a cache of photos and other documents to the internet. Handala Hack Team, which carried out the breach, said on its website that Patel “will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims.” In a statement shared with Reuters, the FBI confirmed Patel’s emails had been targeted, and noted necessary steps have been taken to “mitigate potential risks associated with this activity.” The agency also said the published data…
Tails 7.6 is out, and for users operating on networks that block Tor, the most consequential addition is built-in bridge retrieval. The Tor Connection assistant can now detect when a direct connection to Tor is restricted and automatically request bridges suited to the user’s region. The request goes through the Tor Project’s Moat API, and the connection to that API is disguised via domain fronting, making it appear as traffic to an ordinary website. Previously, users on censored networks had to obtain bridges manually and enter them by hand. The feature closes a long-standing gap in Tails’ censorship-circumvention capability. Users…
Heidi Sturrock, a paid search consultant with 24 years of industry experience, joined me on a recent episode of PPC Live The Podcast. The episode covers a broad match mistake with an unexpected silver lining, and Heidi’s experience testing AI Max across 50+ accounts. The broad match mistake — and the unexpected silver lining Early in her career, Heidi ran a competitor conquest campaign for a high-spending B2B SaaS client using broad match — without adding negative keywords — and launched it on a Friday with a large daily budget. Over the weekend, the client’s call centre was flooded with…
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A new info-stealing malware named Infinity Stealer is targeting macOS systems with a Python payload packaged as an executable using the open-source Nuitka compiler. The attack uses the ClickFix technique, presenting a fake CAPTCHA that mimics Cloudflare’s human verification check to trick users into executing malicious code. Researchers at Malwarebytes say this is the first documented macOS campaign combining ClickFix delivery with a Python-based infostealer compiled using Nuitka. Because Nuitka produces a native binary by compiling the Python script into C code, the resulting executable is more resistant to static analysis. Compared to PyInstaller, which bundles Python with bytecode, it’s…
Spring is here, which means a whole lot of compelling earbud deals for shoppers on a budget. For example, Amazon has chopped 30% off the price of the CMF Buds 2 Plus for its Big Spring Sale, bringing the price of the buds down to just $55.Like many of Nothing’s devices, these earbuds boast a sleek, minimal overall look, without sacrificing on important details like audio quality or adaptive noise cancellation. They also have an IP55 ingress protection rating, making them suitable for exercise and outdoor use, along with ambient noise modes for staying attuned to your surroundings when out…
TP-Link has released patches for four high-severity vulnerabilities in Archer NX router models that could be exploited to fully compromise devices. The bugs, tracked as CVE-2025-15517, CVE-2025-15518, CVE-2025-15519, and CVE-2025-15605, were resolved in fresh firmware releases for the Archer NX200, NX210, NX500, and NX600 router models. The first of the flaws, CVE-2025-15517, allows attackers to bypass authentication and perform actions such as firmware uploads or configuration operations, TP-Link notes in its advisory. CVE-2026-15518 and CVE-2026-15519 are command injection bugs that require administrative privileges for successful exploitation, while CVE-2025-15605 exists because a hardcoded cryptographic key is used for configuration file encryption…
This is Part 2 in a five-part series on optimizing websites for the agentic web. Part 1 covered the evolution from SEO to AAIO and why the shift matters. This article gets practical: how AI systems actually select content, and what you can do about it. AI Doesn’t Rank Pages. It Selects Fragments. Traditional search ranks whole pages. AI search does something fundamentally different. Microsoft’s Krishna Madhavan, principal product manager on the Bing team, described the shift in October 2025: AI assistants “break content down, a process called parsing, into smaller, structured pieces that can be evaluated for authority and…