Spyware, Wallpaper Woes & Code from Screenshots

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️ IN THE NEWS

• Absolute's "Persistence" spyware embedded in 600M devices. Remote control survives system wipes. Details
• Microsoft's Bing Wallpaper app accused of malware-like behavior. Auto-installs, runs at startup, hard to remove. Read more
• Sol-Ark allegedly remotely disabled all Deye inverters in US. Customers left powerless. Full story

TOOLS YOU'LL ACTUALLY USE

• screenshot-to-code: Convert screenshots to clean HTML/Tailwind/React/Vue code. Drop image, get working code.
• open-interpreter: Natural language interface for computers. Talk to your machine, get stuff done.
• FlareSolverr: Proxy server to bypass Cloudflare protection. When you absolutely, positively need to scrape that site.

Thanks for reading!

Andrew Pierno