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Websites Can Now Spy on You Through Your Hard Drive

Over the decades, there has been no shortage of sites using clever techniques to covertly track visitors’ browsing histories, device fingerprints, and keystrokes and mouse movements in real time. Even Meta and Yandex were recently caught joining in the privacy-invasive free-for-all. Now sites have a new way to spy on their visitors: by measuring subtle interactions with their solid-state drives.

Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?

> UPDATE: As of June 3rd 7:45 CEST, Meta/Facebook Pixel script is no longer sending any packets or requests to localhost. The code responsible for sending the _fbp cookie has been almost completely removed. Yandex has also stopped the practice we describe below.

Ahrefs vs SEMrush: Which SEO Tool Should You Use?

SEMrush and Ahrefs are among the most popular tools in the SEO industry. Both companies have been in business for years and have thousands of customers per month. If you're a professional SEO or trying to do digital marketing on your own, at some point you'll likely consider using a tool to help with your efforts.

Gated Bidirectional Linear Attention for Generative Retrieval

arXiv:2606.07317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recommender systems, generative retrieval typically uses an encoder-decoder setup: an encoder processes a user interaction history, and an autoregressive decoder then generates recommended items. In large-scale streaming services, active users accumulate very long histories over time.

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity

Gated Bidirectional Linear Attention for Generative Retrieval

arXiv:2606.07317v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In recommender systems, generative retrieval typically uses an encoder-decoder setup: an encoder processes a user interaction history, and an autoregressive decoder then generates recommended items. In large-scale streaming services, active users accumulate very long histories over time.

Norks blast 250+ fake job offers to developers over 6 weeks to try and snarf creds and crypto

There's another likely North Korean-linked scam hitting developers and their employers, while snarfing up credentials and cryptocurrency - and this one doesn't even involve embedding IT workers at high-profile tech giants. A previously unseen phishing crew, suspected to have DPRK ties, sent more than 250 emails to people working in almost 100 organizations, mostly based in the US, over six weeks in April and May. According to security sleuths, it is yet another digital-heist attempt designed...

Uncensored AI: The chatbot spreading conspiracies about Europe

As more people turn to AI to help them verify information, an "alternative" AI chatbot is actively being used by conservative influencers to spread disinformation. More and more of us are using AI chatbots in our daily lives, whether it's to ask for advice, help us with work, or conduct research. But what happens when these chatbots start pushing disinformation and conspiracy theories?