After declaring Google a monopoly there are now considerations to force it to break up - isn't that what the whole Alphabet thing was about? In the last act of Crowdstrike coverage here, they released a deep analysis of the outage they caused and their exec accepted the ‘Most Epic Fail’ award in person, a bit like actors celebrating their Razzies.
In other security news, about 2.7 billion data records with social security numbers were leaked last week in in one of the largest data breaches ever. A good reminder what can happen when credentials are left in public places or why allowing 0.0.0.0 as an IP is a bad plan. Apple is fixing an 18-year-old Safari loophole and there is a great Frontend Security Checklist to consult when reviewing your products. The History of HTTPS Usage explains how we got securer over time.
In AI news, Mozilla is funding 0Din: A GenAI Bug Bounty Program and it seems that only unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls use LLM prompt injection. The EU AI act is here, there is a surprising answer to where Facebook's AI slop comes from and in worrying news, ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing.
For the scribes among you, there is information how to write good documentation and copywriting hacks backed by science. For more, check the video section here!
And to end on a nostalgic note, WordStar 7 for DOS is now free and Doom and Doom II have new accessibility features.
