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Why I Chose Scheduled SMS Alerts: Cancel Support, Status Polling, App-Owned Templates

Short answer: I chose an API with scheduled SMS cancellation and polling because health reminders can become wrong between scheduling and delivery; I kept template ownership in the application so every change remains reviewable. That decision is narrower than “which messaging vendor is best?” A vaccination reminder, a lab pickup notice, and a medication alert have different expiry rules. In our backend, the message body is a versioned template, while the delivery service owns transport, status,

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AI Voice-Cloning Scams: The Familiar Voice on the Phone Might Be Software

The call comes from a number you don’t recognise, but the voice you do. It’s your daughter, or your father, or your boss, and they’re in trouble — a crash, an arrest, a locked account — and they need money now, and please don’t tell anyone. Every instinct you have is built to respond to that voice. And increasingly, that voice is software. Answer first, because this is a topic where the useful information is simple and the panic is not. AI voice cloning has taken a very old confidence trick — th

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Architecting a Low-Power Geofencing Engine for Android

It happened during a Friday afternoon sermon. The mosque was silent, the imam was mid-sentence, and then, a familiar, high-pitched ringtone cut through the stillness like a knife. It was my phone. My face burned as I scrambled to silence it, realizing I had walked through the door completely forgetting that my phone was still in normal mode. That moment of shared, collective embarrassment—and the subsequent realization that I do this multiple times a week—is exactly why I started building Muffle

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A Practical Data Model for Safer Boiler Service Requests

Boiler repair often starts with a vague message: “It stopped working,” “the radiators are cold,” or “the pressure keeps changing.” Those descriptions are valid from a homeowner’s perspective, but they are not enough to route a request, estimate urgency, or prepare a technician. A small, human-readable data model can turn the first contact into a structured service record without asking the customer to diagnose the appliance. This article proposes a lightweight intake schema for heating-service t

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Uber beats Waymo as first to launch robotaxis in London

Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel. The launch is a milestone for Uber, which has been plotting a UK launch with Wayve for several years. In beating Waymo to the punch, it allows Uber to set the standard for the robotaxi experience for thousands of Londoners. It's also an early test of whether there's

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Impersonating IT support: how threat actors turn a remote session into enterprise-wide access

Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed a human-operated intrusion campaign that abuses Microsoft Teams external collaboration to impersonate IT support, gain remote access, and deploy a Node.js-based implant. Learn how attackers move from social engineering to lateral movement using legitimate tools, and how Microsoft Defender helps detect and disrupt the activity. The post Impersonating IT support: how threat actors turn a remote session into enterprise-wide access appeared first on Microsoft S

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