Latest Engineering Articles

This post explains the cryptographic infrastructure behind Advanced Browsing Protection (ABP) in Messenger, which detects malicious links without exposing user query data to the server.

Security & Privacy

Google Cloud

04 min read

Security•2026-03-09

Google named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: U.S. State and Local Government Professional Security Services 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Google has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: U.S.

UNC4899 Breached Crypto Firm After Developer AirDropped Trojanized File to Work Device

Google Cloud's H1 2026 report details how North Korean threat actor UNC4899 (also known as Jade Sleet, TraderTraitor) breached a cryptocurrency firm by chaining social engineering with cloud-native attack techniques.

CSS-Tricks

01 min read

Frontend•2026-03-09

The Value of z-index

This article explores a systematic approach to managing z-index values in CSS, addressing the common "arms race" of arbitrary magic numbers in large projects.

Active defense: introducing a stateful vulnerability scanner for APIs

Cloudflare introduces a stateful Web and API Vulnerability Scanner in beta, starting with detection of Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) vulnerabilities.

Fixing request smuggling vulnerabilities in Pingora OSS deployments

This post explains three HTTP/1.x request smuggling vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-2833, CVE-2026-2835, CVE-2026-2836) found in the Pingora open source proxy framework, patched in version 0.8.0.

From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact

This post reflects on the 10th anniversary of AlphaGo's historic victory over Go world champion Lee Sae Dol and its lasting impact on AI and science.

The Hacker News

01 min read

Security•2026-03-09

⚡ Weekly Recap: Qualcomm 0-Day, iOS Exploit Chains, AirSnitch Attack & Vibe-Coded Malware

This weekly cybersecurity recap covers major threats, takedowns, and vulnerabilities from the week of March 9, 2026.

The Hacker News

01 min read

Security•2026-03-09

Can the Security Platform Finally Deliver for the Mid-Market?

This article promotes a Bitdefender webinar focused on whether security platforms can meet the needs of mid-market organizations with limited budgets and small IT teams.

Smashing Magazine

01 min read

Product•2026-03-09

Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later

This article revisits persuasive design a decade later, reframing it as behavioral design grounded in psychology and systems thinking.

The Hacker News

01 min read

Security•2026-03-09

Chrome Extension Turns Malicious After Ownership Transfer, Enabling Code Injection and Data Theft

This article reports on Chrome extensions that turned malicious following ownership transfers, enabling code injection, data theft, and host-level compromise.