I’ll be honest with you. I’ve been using Lucidchart for all my flow charting, mapping, or diagram-related needs for quite some time now. It’s a simple, straightforward tool that has all the polish you’d expect, and it makes collaboration easy enough. But lately, I haven’t really needed the collaborative features, and with my move towards shifting all my most used productivity services to my server, I wanted something that would run on my own hardware. That’s what started my search for an alternative and led me to draw.io. The popular tool is now called diagrams.net, but if you’re in self-hosted…
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SmarterTools, the company behind the popular Microsoft Exchange alternative SmarterMail, has been breached by a ransomware-wielding group that leveraged a recently fixed vulnerability in that solution. How did the SmarterTools breach happen? Derek Curtis, the firm’s Chief Operating Officer, said that the breach happened on January 29, 2026. “Prior to the breach, we had approximately 30 servers/VMs with SmarterMail installed throughout our network. Unfortunately, we were unaware of one VM, set up by an employee, that was not being updated. As a result, that mail server was compromised, which led to the breach,” he shared last week. The attack ended…
March marketing is basically St. Patrick’s Day and March Madness, right? Wrong. In fact, there’s a national day in March for your erroneous thinking… But what a good thing to be wrong about, right? Read on for a full list of March awareness causes, holidays, and national days, over 60 creative March marketing ideas for posts, promotions, events, and more. Plus, get real examples from businesses across a range of verticals. Contents 🗓 Get year-round marketing Ideas, tips, and more with our free 2026 marketing calendar! March awareness causes There are many awareness causes that you can use for March blogging,…
Earbuds designed for sleep are an interesting niche, and the latest entry comes from newcomer NextSense. In addition to some unique functionality, the NextSense Smartbuds have an optional subscription which is one of the strangest we’ve seen. NextSense Smartbuds features Credit: NextSense Inside the earbuds are six clinical-grade electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors. These monitor your brain waves while you sleep, and the data is used for the earbuds to play special tuned pink noise to help the brain maintain its most restorative deep sleep state. Sleep tracking is also provided using an accelerometer, and data is presented in the Smartbuds app. The…
Passwords remain a persistent point of tension between usability and security. Controls designed to strengthen authentication often introduce complexity, which encourages users to rely on familiar patterns rather than genuinely unpredictable credentials. In practice, this frequently results in passwords derived from an organization’s own language. Attackers have long recognized this behavioral pattern and continue to exploit it. Rather than relying on artificial intelligence or sophisticated guessing algorithms, many credential attacks begin with something far simpler: harvesting contextual language and converting it into highly targeted password guesses. Tools such as Custom Word List generators (CeWL) make this process efficient and repeatable…
Generative engine optimization (GEO) represents a shift from optimizing for keyword-based ranking systems to optimizing for how generative search engines interpret and assemble information. While the inner workings of generative AI are famously complex, patents and research papers filed by major tech companies such as Google and Microsoft provide concrete insight into the technical mechanisms underlying generative search. By analyzing these primary sources, we can move beyond speculation and into strategic action. This article analyzes the most insightful patents to provide actionable lessons for three core pillars of GEO: query fan-out, large language model (LLM) readability, and brand context. Why…
Joe Maring / Android AuthorityTL;DR YouTube TV has started rolling out its long-awaited genre-based plans, letting you subscribe to categories like sports, news, or entertainment instead of everything. Prices for the announced packages start at $54.99 per month, with a discount for new subscribers. The main YouTube TV plan is still available, with the price unchanged. Everyone has their own personal viewing habits when it comes to streaming. Some people mainly want live sports, others just want to keep an eye on current affairs, and plenty of households are really paying for kids’ channels and familiar favorites. Forcing all those…
Mere data exfiltration is no longer a lucrative approach for ransomware groups, and threat actors may increasingly rely on encryption to regain leverage, Coveware notes in a new report. Following a series of highly successful data-exfiltration-only attacks conducted by known groups such as Cl0p, other ransomware groups adopted the trend, stealing victims’ data without encrypting it. The campaigns targeting MOVEit, Cleo, and Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) customers are proof that the approach no longer delivers return on investment, Coveware says. Cl0p, it explains, started this trend with a simple strategy: it acquired an exploit for a zero-day vulnerability in a…
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Credit: @riverinecollective, @courtneydubs, @ SpaceGhostPurrpVEVO – TikTok, YouTube Things seemed very quiet this week in the world of youth culture, so I asked my always-connected son what kids were talking about. “Dad, the Epstein files,” he said. “That’s all anyone is talking about.”I like to keep things light here, but it’s not possible at the moment; The Epstein files are the culture right now, no matter what age you are. Younger people are trying to figure out how to fit this massive thing into their idea of the world, just…
Most SEO teams believe they need more data to report success, but what they actually have is metric debt, at least that’s what I keep seeing. The accumulated cost of optimizing for key performance indicators that no longer reflect how growth happens. The environment has changed, mostly because economic pressure has shifted expectations. At the same time, AI search, zero-click results, and privacy limits have all weakened the connection between traditional SEO KPIs and business outcomes. Yet, it’s not unusual to see teams measuring success in ways that reflect how SEO used to work rather than how it works today.…