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Polymarket has built an entire business on predicting the future. So how did it manage to spectacularly fail to predict its own hack? Plus, the Google engineer with a million-dollar ...

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You can minimize the degree to which your browser spies on you, but potential hackers can use your own SSD against you and learn your internet habits.

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Following the largest-ever Google Chrome security fix, a new update is now available, and one vulnerability stands out: a zero-day already exploited in the wild.