Links of the Day
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.
LinkedIn hidden code secretly searches your browser for installed extensions, Cyber Security News. The amount of information that can be extracted from installed extensions is quite high. The snooping only works on Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi). Firefox and Safari users are still being spied on, but not through this channel.
A secure chat app’s encryption is so bad it is “meaningless”, 404 Media. The app in question is called TeleGuard. Every now and then a new “super secure” messaging app pops up, and it’s always wise to be on high alert in such cases. In any case, Signal is here—free, secure, tested, and proven.
Google AI Edge Eloquent. New app from Google—for now, only for iOS. It’s a dictation app that leverages the company’s local AI, from the Gemma line. Google promises to clean up the “hmm”s in speech and, in the near future, an extra keyboard to use the feature across all system apps. Free.
Netflix Playground. A new gaming app for kids, featuring various cartoon characters available on the platform. Available in the US and a few more countries; global rollout on April 28th.
Blogosphere. Yet another directory of blogs — or rather, of posts. It’s kind of like Hacker News but with just posts from personal blogs.
list animals until failure. A little game where you have to list every animal you can remember. With each correct answer, you earn more time.