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The “Calendar Screenshot” Scam: How Booking Phishing Emails Target Web Agencies
Getting an unsolicited lead for a major website redesign, SEO, and “the works” is usually cause for celebration. Lately, though, it might be a trap. A booking scam is making the rounds, specifically designed to compromise web agencies and freelancers during standard discovery calls.
There’s no software exploit here. No malware attachment. Just deceptive workflow manipulation. By looking at how this fake client inquiry phishing pattern (a booking link phishing attack) works, we can see how it manages to
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If you're looking for freelance development work on Reddit, LinkedIn, Upwork, or similar platforms, be careful. Scammers are increasingly disguising malware as coding assessments and technical interviews. What appears to be a simple GitHub repository for a 30-minute coding test may actually be an attempt to get you to execute malicious code on your own machine.
The setup looks completely legitimate. A recruiter or startup founder reaches out with what appears to be a freelance opportunity. The interview
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No, AI Did Not Secretly Build Its Own Society
Separating AI Experiments From AGI Myths
Recently, a viral post claimed that 32,000 AI bots built their own social network, recognized that humans were watching them, and began organizing and talking about us - proof, it said, that AGI and the Singularity are already here.
That claim is not accurate.
While it’s based on a real type of AI experiment, the conclusions being drawn are exaggerated and misleading. Here’s what the experiment shows - and what it
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Does clicking on the "Test Live URL" on Google Search Console after using the "Request Indexing" link make Google index your page sooner? Or was it just a coincidence?
“Ask David” answer: The short answer is no, if you experienced Google indexing your page soon after testing the Live URL, it was just a coincidence. Clicking
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