The founder ofsecurity-focusedmessenger Signal, Moxie Marlinspike,revealedtoday that he found and exploited vulnerabilities in software from Cellebrite, a company that specializes in digital forensics tools that have been used by authorities around the world to extract data from phones. Ina blog post, Marlinspike claimed that he found one of the company’s devices in a package that fell out of a truck — that’s some luck, huh?He added the Cellebrite device has multiple bugs that could be used to take over it....

How simple changes to city procurement can reduce CO2 emissions Collaboration Oslo, along with Amsterdam, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Lisbon, Trondheim, and Vienna, is part of the Zemcons group of the EU-funded Big Buyers for Climate and Environment. This is a success story of joint European collaboration in procurement to move towards climate neutrality. Most of all, projects such as the Olav V street renovation send a clear message to the industry: the demand for zero-emissions construction machinery is there....

In 1999, years before major traditional publishing outfits cared about making money online or knew their bottom lines would soon depend on it, a small Melbourne startup calledSitePointfigured out how to make money as the premiere destination for those looking to learn about building websites. I remember my visits to SitePoint as a teenager fondly. I had a head full of ideas on grand businesses that would make me rich, and all I needed to do was pick up the skills to build them — or so I thought....

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How Slack co-designed its biggest update yet with customers Assembling the team We put together a small team of designers, engineers, researchers and product managers to create rough, “throw-away” prototypes. In the beginning, we put aside our previous ideas about what was essential in Slack. Because Slack’s mission is to make work easier for people, our guiding principle was to limit the choices someone using Slack might have to make. This meant stripping away as much of the interface as possible, and reorganizing it piece by piece....