Daily Search Forum Recap: January 2, 2026

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Some new publishers are seeing big swings since the ...

Worrying WhatsApp attack can steal messages and even accounts - here's how to stay safe from "poisoned" attack

The malicious fork, named ‘lotusbail’ has all the same functionality as the legitimate project, but it also steals WhatsApp authentication tokens and session keys. Furthermore, it intercepts and ...
KSL

Get a message about a big financial windfall from a long-lost relative? It's an inheritance scam

If you've received a letter or message about a multi-million-dollar inheritance from a relative you didn't know about, it's ...
The Verge

Tell us how you really feel.

Meta wants Threads to be the app you open first thing in the morning, and it sounds like some of you feel about the same way I do about that idea. Get the day’s best comment and more in my free ...

Multiple Firefox add-ons infected with 'GhostPoster' malware — how to stay safe

A newly discovered malware infected multiple Firefox browser add-ons with more than 50,000 downloads combined.

Firefox security warning - multiple browser addons found to be riddled with malware, so be on your guard

More than a dozen Firefox extensions were found to be malicious, planting backdoors and keeping track of user browsing habits, experts have warned. This is according to security researchers from Koi ...
Slate

I’ve Seen the Way My Wife Acts During Our Threesomes. Uh, There’s Something She Needs to Tell Me.

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do it, My wife and I have regular threesomes with another woman. The thing is, I ...
Wall Street Journal

What the Twin Cities Tell Us About Fixing the Housing Crisis

ST. PAUL and MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Dueling approaches over how to fix America’s housing crisis are splitting Minnesota’s Twin Cities. In 2022, St. Paul enacted one of the strictest rent-control regimes ...
The New York Times

What We Know About the Deadly Shooting at Brown University

The authorities are still searching for the gunman who killed two people on the Rhode Island campus. By Yan Zhuang Mark Arsenault Mitch Smith Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Lauren McCarthy A gunman burst ...
9to5Mac

iOS 26.1 makes alarms use a slider, here’s how to get ‘Stop’ button back

iOS 26.1 recently introduced a big change for how you turn off alarms and timers, replacing the ‘Stop’ button with a new ‘Slide to stop’ action. Here’s how to get the button back. Apple lets you ...
Slate

My Friends Keep Trying to Set Me Up on Dates. I Don’t Know How to Tell Them I’ve Been Lying for Years.

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I am a 23-year-old asexual woman and am comfortable with my life. The ...