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Scammers have found a troubling new foothold inside Microsoft's own infrastructure. According to TechCrunch, attackers are abusing a legitimate internal Microsoft account to send phishing and spam links to real users. Because the emails originate from Microsoft's own systems, they bypass the usual trust filters — a reminder that even the biggest platforms carry vulnerabilities from within.
Shifting to a story about data and trust, Oura — the Finnish company behind those popular health-tracking rings — has confirmed it receives government demands for user data. What's drawing attention isn't just that fact, but that the company has so far declined to say how many requests it has received or how often it complies. As wearables collect increasingly intimate health signals, the question of who else gets access is becoming harder to ignore.
And on the developer tools front, the JavaScript runtime Bun has quietly shipped a native image processing API called Bun dot Image. It lets developers decode, resize, and encode images directly in the runtime without reaching for external libraries. The Hacker News community has been digging into the details, and the early reaction suggests it could simplify a workflow that has long been patchwork in the JavaScript ecosystem.
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