Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers by letting them in and using generative AI to create junk content for them to devour in what Cloudflare has termed an “AI Labyrinth.”
Cloudflare builds an AI to make life hell for other AIs
: Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet
Duck[.]ai is DuckDuckGo’s latest AI feature, letting users chat with multiple AI models while keeping their interactions private. Duck[.]ai does not track, log, or store conversations.
TechRadar
What is Duck.ai? Everything we know about DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused AI chatbot
Anyone who worries about ChatGPT
The Linux Foundation's executive director has proposed developing a decentralized trust system to help users assess the trustworthiness of open-source projects based on factors like contributor verification and project history.
ZDNET
trust scorecard
How do you tell the difference between trustworthy open-source developers and hackers? Here's one idea.
In iOS 18, Apple spun off its Keychain password management tool into a standalone app called Passwords. A serious HTTP bug left Passwords users vulnerable to phishing attacks for nearly three months.
9to5Mac
Apple's Passwords app was vulnerable to phishing attacks for nearly three months after launch - 9to5Mac
In iOS 18, Apple spun off its Keychain password management tool—previously only tucked away in Settings—into a standalone app called...
Every day, Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp use end-to-end encryption by default to keep data private. But despite the technology’s mainstream rise, long-standing threats to weaken encryption keep piling up.
WIRED
A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat Up
The UK, France, Sweden, and EU have made fresh attacks on end-to-end encryption. Some of the attacks are more “crude” than those in recent year...
Recent data from Surfshark uncovered that Google Gemini is the most data-intensive AI chatbot app. DeepSeek, however, comes in fifth out of the 10 most popular applications.
ZDNET
Worried about DeepSeek? Turns out, Gemini is the biggest data offender
It's an AI privacy showdown. How much data does your favorite chatbot collect?
Tor Browser users on versions older than 13.5.11 legacy should update to the latest available version for their OS, currently 14.0.7 stable or 13.5.13 legacy, to avoid the sudden disabling of the built-in NoScript extension tomorrow.
Older Tor Browsers Breaking, Update Now! | Tor Project
The expiration on March 14 2025 of a root certificate can cause breakages Tor Browser version 13.0 and below. Users should updgrade immediately.
Enterprises understand the value of passkeys for workforce sign-ins. 87% of decision makers report deploying passkeys at their companies. Of these, 47% report rolling out a mix of device-bound passkeys and synced passkeys.
Help Net Security
Goodbye passwords? Enterprises ramping up passkey adoption - Help Net Security
Enterprise passkey adoption rises as businesses move away from passwords to enhance security, combat AI-driven threats.
A native Android Linux Terminal app is now widely available for Pixel users running the March 2025 update. The Debian-based environment allows users to carry a fully fledged Linux instance with them.
Android Authority
Android's Linux Terminal app is now widely available on Pixels, and here's how to get it
The Linux Terminal app is now available for Pixel devices on the latest Android 15 update. The app lets users run Debian on their devices.
In non-SBR news, ChatGPT on macOS is about to become more useful for coding. ChatGPT can now edit code directly within an IDE — no need to copy and paste. Find the full list of supported IDEs on OpenAI's website.
Engadget
ChatGPT for macOS can now directly edit Xcode projects
OpenAI has begun rolling out an update for ChatGPT on macOS that adds integration for IDE apps.