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Image: Solen Feyissa (Unsplash) Instagram users who opted for extra privacy in their DMs may want to start saving those conversations. Meta plans to shut down end-to-end encrypted messaging for Instagram direct messages beginning May 8, 2026. The company says users with encrypted conversations will receive in-app instructions on how to download messages and media before the feature disappears. The move removes an optional security layer that allowed Instagram users to send messages and make calls that only participants in a conversation could read or hear. While the feature was introduced as part of Meta’s push toward private messaging, the…
With the rapid adoption of generative AI, a new wave of threats is emerging across the industry with the aim of manipulating the AI systems themselves. One such emerging attack vector is indirect prompt injections. Unlike direct prompt injections, where an attacker directly inputs malicious commands into a prompt, indirect prompt injections involve hidden malicious instructions within external data sources. These may include emails, documents, or calendar invites that instruct AI to exfiltrate user data or execute other rogue actions. As more governments, businesses, and individuals adopt generative AI to get more done, this subtle yet potentially potent attack becomes…
Does it feel like there are more sustainability regulations than ever to contend with? You’re not imagining it. More than 2,000 new environmental regulations were introduced globally in 2025, according to Datamaran, a provider of risk and governance tools. The flood of proposed and implemented new policies is changing the way that sustainability teams operate. With that in mind, Trellis spoke with the team behind Datamaran’s annual ESG Regulations to Watch report to get their take on the forces behind the increase, and which U.S. and European regulations that sustainability professionals should be keeping an eye on. Growth in environmental…
tags. The recursive HTML-to-markdown converter hit a stack overflow. WTF, who writes HTML like that?! (Microsoft of course!) The solution was to flatten these ridiculous hierarchies iteratively instead of recursively. SwiftText now handles arbitrarily deep nesting without breaking a sweat. The Word Document Problem I wanted agents to produce editable documents that non-Apple people could actually use. HTML isn’t really editable, and PDFs are static printouts. But DOCX? That’s the lingua franca of the business world. Behind the scenes, DOCX is just a strict XML dialect in a ZIP archive — conceptually similar to HTML. So I implemented the conversion…
Pseudonymous Lithuanian maker “Atominis Sumuštinis” (“Atomic Sandwich”), hereafter simply “Atomic,” has built a “poor man’s Polaroid” — by combining a Raspberry Pi single-board computer and camera sensor with a thermal printer originally designed for receipts.”This is an instant camera that uses [a] thermal printer to print photos, the same one that prints your receipts at the store,” Atomic explains of the project. “Photos aren’t the same quality as the self-developing film that Polaroid uses, but they do have some, uhh, charm to them, I suppose. [The] title might be a bit misleading though: when I call it ‘poor man’s,’ I…
Whenever anyone asks me to share my current location, I open WhatsApp or Google Messages and go through the respective processes to send it to them. Although the process in both apps is quite straightforward, it involves plenty of steps. Fortunately, an upcoming Google Maps upgrade is going to make sharing locations a lot easier than before.Share locations directly from Google MapsNot sure about you guys, but I recently found out that I can share locations directly through Google Maps. For those unaware, you need to open the app, tap the blue icon on the map that indicates your location,…
It can be hard to make sense of James Fishback. The longshot Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate is the son of an immigrant and fiercely nativist, a self-proclaimed finance success story turned economic populist, and both pro-Trump and running against President Donald Trump’s chosen candidate. He’s also openly racist and antisemitic.But one thing is for sure: He’s getting a lot of attention.Fishback is “someone who I think typically couldn’t be elected for dog catcher. But he’s kind of catching on,” Will Sommer, a senior reporter at the Bulwark, told Today, Explained co-host Sean Rameswaram recently. “He’s gaining in the polls, and…
In August 2012, a single software deployment nearly destroyed one of the largest trading firms in the United States. Within just 45 minutes, Knight Capital lost $440 million after a malfunction in its automated trading system triggered millions of unintended stock orders. What started as a routine software update quickly escalated into a catastrophic failure that pushed the company to the brink of bankruptcy. While such incidents are rare and not representative of typical system behavior, they highlight how complex and sensitive enterprise software can become when it is difficult to maintain, upgrade, or monitor. This incident became one of…
Summary created by Smart Answers AIIn summary:Tech Advisor reports that Invincible Season 4 premieres March 18, 2026 on Prime Video, with Steven Yeun and J.K. Simmons returning alongside new addition Lee Pace as villain Thragg.Mark Grayson faces escalating threats from Viltrumites, Sequids preparing Earth invasion, and potential journey to Hell while seeking powerful weapons like the Infinity Ray.The eight-episode season releases weekly through April 22, 2026, promising intense battles as multiple alien forces converge on Earth for large-scale conflicts. The fourth instalment of the genre-bending superhero series is out – and Mark once again has his hands full battling aliens,…
The FCC’s coming auction of the upper C-band for 5G and 6G and possible direct-to-device (D2D) use cases will require incumbents to vacate that spectrum and pursue alternatives such as terrestrial fiber and Ku-band satellites. Those approaches have pros and cons, and there’s no one-size-fits-all approach, based on recent comments from major programmers, satellite operators and video infrastructure companies. The good news is that there’s still time to figure it all out. The FCC is moving ahead with rules to auction at least 100MHz of upper C-band spectrum (and up to a max of 180MHz), with a mandate to complete the…