A little ingenuity paired with changes to ReCaptcha’s audio challenge allowed this hacker to create a Python ‘robot’ that defeats the ‘not a robot’ test with 90% accuracy. The approach is brilliant: Navigate to Google’s ReCaptcha Demo site Navigate to audio challenge for ReCaptcha Download audio challenge Submit audio challenge to Speech To Text Parse response and type answer Press submit and check if successful The code is small enough to grok in 5-10 minutes. Love it!

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Peter Bright writes for Ars Technica: Microsoft adopting Chromium puts the Web in a perilous place. […] With Microsoft’s decision to end development of its own Web rendering engine and switch to Chromium, control over the Web has functionally been ceded to Google. That’s a worrying turn of events, given the company’s past behavior. This post was mentioned in Slack by James Lovato about a former Microsoft Edge intern claiming Google callously broke rival web browsers. Then, Nick Nisi chimed in to mention this post by Jeremy Noring as “an interesting rebuttal/defense of what they’re doing.”

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