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A new phishing operation called IronToll has researchers concerned. The campaign impersonates government agencies across multiple countries, offering phishing-as-a-service to bad actors who want ready-made infrastructure for credential theft. It's a reminder that the barrier to launching sophisticated scams keeps falling.
Shifting gears, OpenAI's Sam Altman made waves this week by calling permanent remote work one of the tech industry's worst mistakes in a long time. It's a striking comment from someone leading a company built on tools that made remote collaboration possible, and it lands as return-to-office pressure continues mounting across Silicon Valley.
And for developers who've ever stared at a terminal wondering whether a DNS change has actually propagated yet, a new open-source tool called DNSGlobe offers a cleaner answer. Built in Rust with a terminal interface, it lets you watch DNS records update in real time across servers around the world. Small tool, genuinely useful problem solved.
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