Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger
Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43102284
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@prologic@twtxt.net Have you tried Google’s robots.txt report? https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062598?hl=en . I would expect Google to be pretty good about this sort of thing. If you have the energy to dig into it and, for example, post on support.google.com, I’d be curious to hear what you find out.
reviewing logs this morning and found i have been spammed hard by bots not respecting the robots.txt file. only noticed it because the OpenAI bot was hitting me with a lot of nonsensical requests. here is the list from last month:
- (810) bingbot
- (641) Googlebot
- (624) http://www.google.com/bot.html
- (545) DotBot
- (290) GPTBot
- (106) SemrushBot
- (84) AhrefsBot
- (62) MJ12bot
- (60) BLEXBot
- (55) wpbot
- (37) Amazonbot
- (28) YandexBot
- (22) ClaudeBot
- (19) AwarioBot
- (14) https://domainsbot.com/pandalytics
- (9) https://serpstatbot.com
- (6) t3versionsBot
- (6) archive.org_bot
- (6) Applebot
- (5) http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm
- (4) http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html
- (4) Googlebot-Mobile
- (4) DuckDuckGo-Favicons-Bot
- (3) https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html
- (3) YandexNews
- (3) ImagesiftBot
- (2) Qwantify-prod
- (1) http://www.google.com/adsbot.html
- (1) http://gais.cs.ccu.edu.tw/robot.php
- (1) YaK
- (1) WBSearchBot
- (1) DataForSeoBot
i have placed some middleware to reject these for now but it is not a full proof solution.
Digital transformation driven by community: Kubernetes as example
Member post by Angel Ramirez, Cuemby In a rapidly evolving technological landscape, Kubernetes emerges as a transformative force in open-source innovation. Originating from a Google project in 2014, it has grown into a global movement that… ⌘ Read more
Google Maps is run by cowards
Google, on its Google Maps naming policy, back in 2008: By saying “common”, we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming. In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage. Google, today, in 2025: Google has confirmed that Google Maps will soon … ⌘ Read more
PebbleOS becomes open source, new Pebble device announced
Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, the original smartwatch maker, made a major announcement today together with Google. Pebble was originally bought by Fitbit and in turn Fitbit was then bought by Google, but Migicovsky always wanted to to go back to his original idea and create a brand new smartwatch. PebbleOS took dozens of engineers working over 4 years to build, alongside our fantastic product and QA teams. Repro … ⌘ Read more
We’re bringing Pebble back
Thank you, Google. You didn’t have to, but you did. We (the Pebble team and community) are extraordinarily grateful.
I wrote a blog post about our plans to bring Pebble back, sustainably. https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back
We got our original start on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3827868), it’s a pleasure to be back.
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Cake Wallet adds XMR/WOW passphrase restore support
Cake Labs1 has released Cake Wallet v4.23.0-RC2 with support for Zano wallets, and passphase restore for Monero and Wownero:
The latest version of Cake Wallet is now live for public beta testing here on Github as well as on Google Play (testers channel) and Apple TestFlight. This release of Cake Wallet brings support for Zano, a privacy-preserving cryptocurrency with additional alias and token functionality to Cake Wal … ⌘ Read more
Introduction to GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS (written GOS from now on) is an Android based operating system that focuses security. It is only compatible with Google Pixel devices for multiple reasons: availability of hardware security components, long term support (series 8 and 9 are supported at least 7 years after release) and the hardware has a good quality / price ratio. The goal of GOS is to provide users a lot more control about what their smartphone is doing. A main profile is used by default (the owner … ⌘ Read more
Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to “better protect” Google Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam, and to improve the overall Google Search experience for users. The spokesperson noted that, with … ⌘ Read more
Ten Times Google Maps Solved the Case
In these ten cases, everything from Street View snapshots to Google Earth satellite imagery played a key role in uncovering crazy truths, finding missing persons, and piecing together unsolved mysteries. Some of these crimes are bizarre, some are tragic, and others are almost too coincidental to believe. But they all share one thing in common: […]
The post [Ten Times Google Maps Solved the Case](https://listverse.com/2025/01/18/ten-times-google-maps-solved … ⌘ Read more
Will The Linux Foundation Purchase Chrome?
The courts are primed to force Google to sell Chrome, & Google is preparing by setting up a “Chrome” organization within The Linux Foundation. ⌘ Read more
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz well even after doing the new fixes my invidious instance is still dead because google blocked my ip i think and i don’t have a proxy server so uhhhhhhhhhh. not much to watch unless i use videos on my server
Did you have disallow rule in robots.txt? (I think not because can google several twtxt.net posts)
Employees Speak Out: Google, Apple, Microsoft, & Intel Discriminate Against White Men
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10 Catastrophic Translation Fails in History
Translation seems like an easy task these days, with the help of technology such as Google at our fingertips, but it isn’t always so simple. Simple translation when trying to greet someone from another country is one thing, but interpreting major documents or treaties is another. Translators and interpreters are professionals with years of experience, […]
The post [10 Catastrophic Translation Fails in History](https://listverse.com/2024/12/28/1 … ⌘ Read more
Google Tells Courts How Google Should Be Punished (and Tried to Hide it)
Released Friday before Christmas – the ideal time to hide any announcement – in response to losing an antitrust suit, Google proposes no real changes to their company or search business. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Year in Review, Google Play Update
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as … ⌘ Read more
Google Drive? Can he give direct link? Idk about he but twtxt feed can he hosted in s3!
Google Accuses Microsoft of “Dark Patterns” with Edge Browser on Windows
To make this case, they’ve formed the “Browser Choice Alliance” with Opera & Vivaldi. ⌘ Read more
Firefox Has 9 Months of Income Left (Possibly Less)
Also: Will Google be forced to sell off Android (when they sell off Chrome)? We’ll know next August. ⌘ Read more
Unlock growth and talent: why maintainers should mentor with CNCF
By Nate Waddington, Head of Mentorship and Documentation, CNCF Open source projects rely on strong communities. Mentorship programs like LFX Mentorship and Google Summer of Code offer maintainers a chance to bring new contributors into their… ⌘ Read more
DOJ: Google Must Sell Off Chrome
And that’s only one impact of Google being officially ruled a monopoly. ⌘ Read more
Always has been. Web spec is too hard to implement your own web browser from scratch (nothing can, even Google and Apple, they forked KHTML). So if we not count forks we have only three browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further
Once you’ve trained your large language model on the entire written output of humanity, where do you go?
So we’re going to destroy the environment for AI slop that isn’t fit for purpose now and, if you believe the above post, never will be.
[WTS] [$665] Pixel 9 (Cheaper than Google & Brand-New)
Link: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/5Ve2/
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Kissimmee - Long run: 7.25 miles, 00:09:55 average pace, 01:11:52 duration
fun long run while we were at universal studios for a friends birthday. google maps thought there were some cut-throughs but was obviously wrong so just kind of winged it. was able to run around some of the “pioneer village” which was a good change in scenery.
#running
Mig, for sjov: Browseren er fremtidens OS!
Google: https://chromium.googlesource.com/linux-syscall-support/ ⌘ Read more
Mozilla Foundation Mass Layoffs, Axes Advocacy
With nosediving marketshare, upcoming loss of Google funding, & a shift to advertising… this was inevitable. ⌘ Read more
Get to know our new DEI Community Hub at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024
We are delighted to announce our new DEI Community Hub at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, sponsored by Google Cloud, a physical space to connect, learn, and celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion and accessibility! The DEI… ⌘ Read more
Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1
Big Tech’s war against “sideloading” continues. With Microsoft and Google not far behind. ⌘ Read more
25% of Google Code is AI Generated
Layoffs, lack of pay raises for engineers, but they’re not replacing programmers with Al. Wink wink. ⌘ Read more
Wayback Machine & Google Website Cache Go Offline Weeks Before 2024 Election
With a Presidential election days away, the biggest ways to record online statements are conspicuously broken. ⌘ Read more
I installed GrapheneOS for the first time on Wednesday last week on a used Pixel 7a, and I’m impressed. Installation was almost seamless, and I was able to do it from another Android phone. I’ve run into very few wrinkles, even using Google’s proprietary apps with GrapheneOS’s “sandboxed” version of Google Play Services. The main problems I’ve noticed: I can’t cast, and Google Timeline doesn’t seem to work (though I imagine the intersection between people keen to use GrapheneOS and keen to have Google log their location history is pretty small).
Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview
At GitHub Universe, we announced Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are coming to GitHub Copilot—bringing a new level of choice to every developer.
The post [Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview](https://github.blog/news-in … ⌘ Read more
Wikipedia’s War on Israel, USA, & Truth
Pro-Hamas and Pro-Iran editors flood Wikipedia (& Google) with false data, while Wiki Media Foundation earns hundreds of millions of dollars. ⌘ Read more
Google May be Broken Up as a Result of Lost Lawsuit
Google has been ruled to be a monopoly, with multiple remedies being proposed… ⌘ Read more
pluja launches experimental ‘AI-driven’ weekly Monero podcast
pluja1 has announced2 the launch of XMR.FAN 3, an AI-driven experimental weekly podcast that aims to deliver the latest insights and news from the world of Monero and privacy:
I’ve been experimenting with Google’s NotebookLM, voice generation (elevenlabs/piper), and other AI tools (SD, flux…). I discovered that these are really useful to produce very decent weekly news overviews, so I made this websi … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter (and Google Play Fun)
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as i … ⌘ Read more
Google AI Notebook Turns Documents into Fake Podcasts with Fake Hosts Having Fake Discussions
Just what the world needed! Fake podcasts! With fake laughing! Thanks Google! ⌘ Read more
Kubernetes turns 10: a ditty dedicated to a decade of container orchestration
Member post originally published on Fairwinds’ blog by Stevie Caldwell It’s hard to believe, but Kubernetes, our favorite container orchestration tool, turned ten this year! It feels like just yesterday when it was just an internal project at Google spinning… ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net I’m not sure what this update does, but
https://twtxt.net/external?uri=https://google.com&nick=lovetocode999
still exhibits the same problem, on your pod and on mine, after the latest update.
Is A.I. Programming Really the Future?
Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google & everyone else says Artificial Intelligence is the future. Is my anti-AI stance reasonable? ⌘ Read more
Time Traveler Causes of Death
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Is This The End of Mozilla? If So, Is That a Bad Thing?
What could a recent Google lawsuit ruling mean for the future of Firefox? ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter July 2024
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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of July 2024.
If you are interested to join the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until August 18th, 2024!.
XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024… ⌘ Read more
Join us as gRPConf returns this August 27!
Attention gRPC community! Mark your calendars for August 27th, 2024, as gRPConf returns to the Google Cloud Campus in Sunnyvale, California. The schedule is now live! This is your chance to dive deep into the world of gRPC, connect with fellow… ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June 2024
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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of June 2024.
The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again!
These XMPP projects have received a slot and have kicked-off with … ⌘ Read more
Have not tried any of them, but some of these seem to fit the bill: