The rise of ChatGPT-enabled GitHub spam(mastodon.social)

96 points by luu 3 years ago | 64 comments

Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)(aus.social)

70 points by rapnie 3 years ago | 64 comments

“It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself”(sfba.social)

356 points by mmastrac 3 years ago | 209 comments

A Mastodon post showing a Firefox network console screenshot of Twitter's web client flooding its own servers with repeated requests, effectively self-DDoSing.

A large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux(fosstodon.org)

179 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 72 comments

A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team(mastodon.social)

841 points by luu 3 years ago | 491 comments

A Mastodon post listing recent controversial moves by Google's Chrome team, such as Manifest v3, JPEG XL removal, and Web Environment Integrity, urging users to switch browsers.

Passkeys will be importable, exportable, cross-device, and across managers(hachyderm.io)

67 points by latexr 3 years ago | 42 comments

Twitter now requires an account to view tweets(techcrunch.com)

1123 points by celsoazevedo 3 years ago | 867 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Twitter now requires users to log in to an account to view tweets.

“It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself”(sfba.social)

356 points by mmastrac 3 years ago | 209 comments

A Mastodon post showing a Firefox network console screenshot of Twitter's web client flooding its own servers with repeated requests, effectively self-DDoSing.

Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users(ctrl.blog)

664 points by extr0pian 3 years ago | 388 comments

Ctrl.blog post by Daniel Aleksandersen arguing that Microsoft still forces Edge on Windows 11 users through system components that ignore the default browser.

New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros(bleepingcomputer.com)

336 points by smig0 1 year ago | 227 comments

BleepingComputer news article about a udisks vulnerability that lets attackers gain root privileges on major Linux distributions.

Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses(bleepingcomputer.com)

464 points by speckx 11 months ago | 291 comments

News report that Microsoft Azure mitigated a record 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack from the Aisuru botnet using about 500,000 IP addresses.

Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network(nine.ch)

19 points by nine_ch 28 days ago | 16 comments

Blog post from Swiss cloud provider Nine describing a three-day DDoS attack in August and what it revealed about weaknesses in their network.