Tag: browser

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/the-rule-of-2/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Chromium Docs: The Rule Of 2 Feedly Summary: Chromium Docs: The Rule Of 2 Alex Russell pointed me to this principle in the Chromium security documentation as similar to my description of the lethal trifecta. First added in 2019, the Chromium guideline states: When you write code…

Slashdot: $1M Stolen in ‘Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft’ Using AI-Generated Code

Aug 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/0037258/1m-stolen-in-industrial-scale-crypto-theft-using-ai-generated-code?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: $1M Stolen in ‘Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft’ Using AI-Generated Code Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a sophisticated cybercrime operation, GreedyBear, which utilizes a highly coordinated strategy, weaponizing browser extensions and phishing sites to facilitate industrial-scale crypto theft. The group’s innovative techniques, including the modification…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-user-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent Feedly Summary: I was exploring how ChatGPT agent works today. I learned some interesting things about how it exposes its identity through HTTP headers, then made a huge blunder in thinking it was leaking its URLs to Bingbot and Yandex… but it turned out…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex Feedly Summary: ChatGPT agent is the recently released (and confusingly named) ChatGPT feature that provides browser automation combined with terminal access as a feature of ChatGPT – replacing their previous Operator research preview which is scheduled for deprecation on…

Cloud Blog: How Cake, Vietnam’s leading digital bank, found the right mix of simplicity and security with ChromeOS and Chrome Enterprise

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/chrome-enterprise/how-cake-vietnams-leading-digital-bank-found-the-right-mix-of-simplicity-and-security-with-chromeos-and-chrome-enterprise/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Cake, Vietnam’s leading digital bank, found the right mix of simplicity and security with ChromeOS and Chrome Enterprise Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Hiển Từ Thế (Jay), Chief Technology Officer for Cake Digital Bank, a prominent digital-only bank in Vietnam offering a comprehensive suite…

The Cloudflare Blog: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Feedly Summary: Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

Tomasz Tunguz: The AI Revenue Rocket Ship – What 5x Growth in Six Months Means for Everyone

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Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/ai-revenue-rocket-ship/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: The AI Revenue Rocket Ship – What 5x Growth in Six Months Means for Everyone Feedly Summary: The AI industry just posted numbers that would make even the most aggressive growth hackers dizzy. How do you grow revenue 5x in six months when you’re already at billion-dollar scale?…

Slashdot: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/1459240/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives-cloudflare-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights ethical concerns regarding the web crawling practices of the AI startup Perplexity. By using undetected methods to bypass website restrictions on automated access, this behavior…

The Register: Mozilla flags phishing wave aimed at hijacking trusted Firefox add-ons

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