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«The phony Anthropic help site had swapped some of the Claude Code installation instructions for others, Foley pointed out. That included a line users could paste into their terminal to allegedly install the software on a Mac. The command included an obfuscated URL, hiding what its real destination was.»

I wonder if this is what the next escalation step in algorithmic sabotage should be. Beyond poisoning scrapers with nonsense, go even more in the offense.

https://www.404media.co/a-top-google-search-result-for-claude-plugins-was-planted-by-hackers/

A Top Google Search Result for Claude Plugins Was Planted by Hackers

Hackers paid to make a malicious link the top Google Search result.

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André Koot 1d ago

@fraca7 @linuxandyarn @anyia @raphaelmorgan @briankrebs Great to see my old graphic again. The orange one, posted on Twitter in December 2015. I created because of some 0-day vulnerabilities is one of the major firewalls.

André Koot 1d ago

LibreOffice 2d ago

Dear Europe: Germany has shown the way forward, by making the Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory within its sovereign digital infrastructure. Now it's time for other countries to do the same! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/23/dear-europe/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware #openstandards

André Koot 3d ago

David Ho 3d ago

The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/middle-east-iran-conflict-environment-climate