Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
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🔥 75 zero-day exploits hit in 2024 | 44% aimed at enterprise tools.

While browser & mobile attacks fell sharply, threat actors shifted focus — hitting Ivanti, Palo Alto, Cisco & others.

📊 Top targets: Microsoft (26), Google (11), Ivanti (7), Apple (5)
🎯 20 zero-days hit security appliances
🕵️‍♂️ State hackers, spyware firms & cybercrime crews all involved

Read the full story → https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/google-reports-75-zero-days-exploited.html

Top Smartphone Cameras Ranked by DxOMark – April 2025
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/04/29/top-smartphone-cameras-ranked-by-dxomark-april-2025/

⚡ Your AI Copilot could leak your secrets — without you even knowing.

Microsoft 365 Copilot boosts productivity, but opens the door to massive data risks. Reco spots risky prompts, flags hidden attacks, and locks down your SaaS ecosystem.

Learn how: https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/product-walkthrough-securing-microsoft.html

Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 Revealed: Everything You Need to Know
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/04/29/snapdragon-8-elite-2-revealed-everything-you-need-to-know/

OPPO Reno 14 Series Revealed – First Look at the Design
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/04/29/oppo-reno-14-series-revealed-first-look-at-the-design/

Dimensity 9500 Leak Suggests MediaTek Isn’t Holding Back
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/04/29/dimensity-9500-leak-suggests-mediatek-isnt-holding-back/

Xiaomi Set to Launch Its Own Xring Processor
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/04/29/xiaomi-set-to-launch-its-own-xring-processor/

For the Kali Linux users in the house.

https://news.itsfoss.com/kali-linux-new-signing-key/

🚨 Cybersecurity firms are under attack!

🇨🇳 China’s PurpleHaze hackers targeted SentinelOne’s systems and high-value customers.

🎭 360+ fake North Korean IT workers tried to infiltrate the company.

🇷🇺 Russian ransomware gangs are buying real security products to beat defenses.

Read 👉https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/sentinelone-uncovers-chinese-espionage.html

Oppo Find X9 Pro To Bring Major Changes in the Camera Department
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/04/29/oppo-find-x9-pro-to-bring-major-changes-in-the-camera-department/

Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
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Codedex

Codédex is an interactive platform that teaches programming through a gamified experience, guiding users through languages like Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while they earn XP, unlock levels, and collect badges. It’s designed for learners of all levels and emphasizes a fun, self-paced approach to building coding skills.

🔗 Links:
- Website
- Source code
Developer: Sonny Li

❗️Friendly reminder:

If you find it useful, You may star the repo/app, donate to the developer, or perhaps you may also contribute to the development of this project.

🏷 Tags: #Website #Learning

Tiny8Bit

Chips is a collection of 8-bit chip and system emulators implemented as standalone, dependency-free C headers. It allows for the emulation of classic systems by wiring together chip emulators using a 'pin bit mask' approach, where each tick function processes a 64-bit input representing the chip's I/O pins.

🔗 Links:
- Try here
- Source code
Developer: Andre Weissflog

❗️Friendly reminder:

If you find it useful, You may star the repo/app, donate to the developer, or perhaps you may also contribute to the development of this project.

🏷 Tags: #Website #Emulator #8bit #RetroComputing

GNOME Papers looks like a worthy successor to Evince.

https://news.itsfoss.com/gnome-papers-hands-on/

Logseq journals and contents explained:

https://itsfoss.com/logseq-journals-contents/

🚨 New jailbreaks ("Inception", "Do-Not-Reply"), memory hacks, tool poisoning, unsafe model upgrades — CERT, METR, and others warn:

⚡ ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI can leak code, malware, data.
⚡ GPT-4.1 is 3X riskier than before.
⚡ MCP protocols, Chrome extensions now exploited.

The AI arms race is outpacing safety.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/new-reports-uncover-jailbreaks-unsafe.html

🔥 Privacy vs AI?

WhatsApp just dropped Private Processing—letting you use AI features like message summaries without Meta (or anyone) seeing your chats.

🛡️ Encrypted. Auditable. Anonymous.

— Confidential Virtual Machine
— Oblivious HTTP
— Forward Security

🔗 Learn how it works: https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/whatsapp-launches-private-processing-to.html

🚨 Proton Mail faces nationwide ban in India 🇮🇳

Karnataka High Court has ordered the gov’t to block the encrypted email provider after a legal complaint tied to AI deepfakes and obscene messages sent via the platform.

🔒 Still accessible—for now.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/indian-court-orders-action-to-block.html

🔥 Meta just dropped a firewall for AI.

LlamaFirewall is open-source—and built to stop jailbreaks, prompt injections, and insecure code in real time.

It’s modular. It’s fast. It’s made for the LLM era.

🛡️ Also out:
🔹 CyberSecEval 4 with AutoPatchBench to test AI-powered vuln fixes
🔹 Llama for Defenders to help fight scams, fraud & phishing
🔹 Private Processing to run AI features without leaking user data

🔗 Full details here: https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/meta-launches-llamafirewall-framework.html

🚨 RansomHub's empire just vanished.

After stealing data from 200+ victims, its dark web site mysteriously went offline on April 1, 2025—triggering panic among affiliates.

Qilin's leaks doubled. DragonForce claims a takeover.

🔗 Read More: https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/ransomhub-went-dark-april-1-affiliates.html