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Expo + Supabase GitHub Auth Broke 3 Times — Here's the Fix
10+ hour, 26+ min ago (891+ words) TL;DR: GitHub login in my Expo app broke three separate times. A deep link that went nowhere. A PKCE flow I wired backwards. A redirect URL with a typo. Each fix is copy-pasteable below. Total auth code is under…...
🔐 A WireGuard GitHub Action That Actually Tells You When the Tunnel Is Dead
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (513+ words) Your CI job needs to reach something private — a staging database in a VPC, an internal registry, a deploy target behind a firewall. The usual answers are bad: whitelist GitHub's entire runner IP range, or run a self-hosted runner just…...
I Mailed Microsoft an Internet Idea in 1998. Here???s What Happened
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1706+ words) I built a push-indexing prototype in rural Russia. Microsoft said no. Two decades later, the industry built it. In October 1998, an envelope from Redmond, Washington, landed in my mailbox in Velikiye Luki. Inside was a five-line letter: "Although your submission…...
Microsoft releases Windows 11 update that makes Bing and Store suggestions optional in Search
1+ week, 4+ day ago (353+ words) Microsoft is no stranger to self-promotion, and there have been multiple instances of Windows 11 being used as a vehicle to advertise or promote other products and services made by the company. The built-in search tool is an example, with many…...
Fake OpenAI and Anthropic Crawlers Scan Websites for Cloud Keys and Passwords
1+ week, 4+ day ago (423+ words) Threat actors are impersonating web crawlers associated with OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Amazon, and other major brands to probe websites for exposed credentials, cloud keys, and private configuration files. GreyNoise researchers observed the automated scanning activity between late July and…...
Microsoft Finally Lets Windows 11 Users Remove Bing From Search
1+ week, 5+ day ago (329+ words) Microsoft is rolling out a redesigned Windows 11 Search experience that allows users to remove Bing web results and Microsoft Store suggestions. New controls under Settings > Privacy & security > Search allow users to disable web results while retaining Microsoft Store recommendations, or…...
Microsoft's New Windows App Wants to Switch Chrome and Firefox to Bing
1+ week, 5+ day ago (781+ words) Microsoft has built a Windows app for something that sounds almost too trivial to need an app: asking whether you want Bing to become your default search engine. The catch is in how that question is presented. The option to…...
Windows 11 is finally rolling out the option to kick Bing out of Search
1+ week, 5+ day ago (445+ words) Microsoft has spent the past few months testing a much cleaner version of Windows Search, and it is finally starting to reach regular Windows 11 PCs. According to Windows Latest, the redesigned Search experience is included in the August 2026 optional update,…...
Windows 11's faster, Bing-free Search released, enable it using these steps
1+ week, 6+ day ago (809+ words) The August optional update brought some of the most requested changes Windows 11 has ever shipped, and the new Search, without Bing and Copilot results, is my favorite of the bunch. However, for most users, it will not turn on immediately....
Explaining bingbot
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (409+ words) Bingbot is Microsoft's web crawler for Bing, Copilot, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo: user agent strings, crawl-delay support, IP verification, and where it is disputed. Discovery runs on three inputs: links on known pages, XML sitemaps, and direct submission. Before fetching, bingbot…...