Bluesky, the decentralized microblogging social media platform, reported service outages last week due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aimed at its systems. The DDoS attack appears to have started late on April 15 (Pacific Time) and continued into the next day. The company described it as a sophisticated attack that caused intermittent app outages. “The attack is impacting our application, with users experiencing intermittent interruptions in service for their feeds, notifications, threads and search,” Bluesky said. “We have not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private user data,” it added. The company did not say who was behind…
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Google updated its snippet documentation today with a new section on “Read more” deep links in Search results. The section outlines three best practices for increasing the likelihood that a page appears with these deep links. What A Read More Deep Link Is Google defines the feature as “a link within a snippet that leads users to a specific section on that page.” The examples in the documentation show the link appearing inside the snippet area of a standard Search result. Screenshot from: developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/snippet, April 2026. The Three Best Practices Google lists three best practices that can increase the likelihood…
Ravie LakshmananApr 20, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical “by design” weakness in the Model Context Protocol’s (MCP) architecture that could pave the way for remote code execution and have a cascading effect on the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain. “This flaw enables Arbitrary Command Execution (RCE) on any system running a vulnerable MCP implementation, granting attackers direct access to sensitive user data, internal databases, API keys, and chat histories,” OX Security researchers Moshe Siman Tov Bustan, Mustafa Naamnih, Nir Zadok, and Roni Bar said in an analysis published last week. The cybersecurity company said the…
For years, EFF has pushed technology companies to make real human rights commitments—and to live up to them. In response to growing evidence that Palantir’s tools help power abusive immigration enforcement by ICE, we sent the company a detailed letter asking how the promises in its own human rights framework extends to that work. This post explains what we asked, how Palantir responded, and why we believe those responses fall short. EFF is not alone in raising alarms about Palantir; immigrants’ rights groups, human rights organizations, journalists, and former employees have raised similar concerns based on reports of the company’s…
An employee using a consumer app was breached after granting too many permissions.
Every digital PR (DPR) team’s been there: New data drops and the team huddles while someone stares at a blank Google doc spiraling over angles and journalist targets. Eventually, a pitch limps out the door just in time to hit “Send” before end of day. The pitch then lands in a top-tier publication, everyone celebrates, and the next month the whole team does the exact same thing over again, like it never happened. But here’s the thing nobody talks about: That winning pitch is a valuable asset, and most teams will just leave it sitting in their sent folder collecting…
Summary Linux fix gives kernel context to avoid evicting active game’s VRAM, keeping foreground app data on GPU. On a 4GB RX 6500 XT, most games saw little change, but titles like Alan Wake II jumped from ~14 to ~41 FPS. Not a universal fix: playable games see minor boosts, but badly performing titles can become playable. A little while ago, we saw one of Valve’s contractors, Natalie Vock, release a new tool that prevents Linux from stealing your VRAM. Beforehand, when Linux had to free up room on your GPU’s VRAM and move stuff to the RAM, it had…
State-sponsored North Korean hackers are likely behind the $290 million crypto-heist that impacted the KelpDAO DeFi project on Saturday. The attack reportedly also impacted the lending protocols Compound, Euler, and Aave, with the latter announcing a freeze and blocking new deposits or borrowing using rsETH as collateral. KelpDAO is a decentralized finance (DeFi) project built around liquid restaking on the Ethereum network. It accepts user ETH deposits, restakes them, and returns a liquid token named ‘rsETH,’ that represents the restaked position. The rsETH token is meant to help users keep earning restaking yield, while it stays usable across DeFi, including…
Earlier this year, preliminary leaks and rumors pointed at the world’s most-used messaging app experimenting with something we haven’t seen in its almost two-decade-long history. The messaging app I’m talking about is WhatsApp, and early leaks indicated that it was experimenting with a paid subscription. Related WhatsApp will soon join the premium subscription club More features for power users Turns out those ‘early’ leaks we got last month weren’t all that early, as WhatsApp has already started rolling out ‘WhatsApp Plus’ to some users. The development was highlighted by the folks over at WABetaInfo and by user elly-hacen on Reddit.…