I buy my son $45 shirts. Grandma bought him 50-cent bubbles and the stains never washed out. Two more designer outfits died in her garden dirt. What now?

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An hour of walking a day does more for most people than running. Agree?

The guy behind me kicked my seat the whole movie. I turned around, he kicked harder. What would you have done?

Police seize servers of three malware networks and find over 6 million stolen logins

Police in nine countries, coordinated by Europol, have taken down the servers behind three malware families: the Gootloader loader, the CastleRAT remote access trojan and the StealC password stealer. According to Europol's 12 November announcement, 235 servers and 257 domains…

Staying married is the biggest money move most people will ever make. True?

Cancelling plans an hour before by text is now normal. Is it?

Which doctor do you take a child's sleep problem to?

Start with the paediatrician: the general picture first, the referral second. Then it branches. A neurologist if there's reason to suspect a neurological cause. An ENT for snoring, mouth breathing, pauses in breathing. A gastroenterologist if reflux is suspected. A sleep…

Latvian SMS provider exposed 125 million texts with login codes and bank alerts

The Latvian branch of CSCTelecom, a company that sends text messages on behalf of businesses, left a database of more than 125 million SMS messages open to anyone on the internet. Cybernews reported on 11 November that the messages date from October 2022 to September 2026 and…

With their father they fall asleep in twenty minutes. With me it takes two hours.

It is not that he is better at it, and not that I am doing something wrong. With their mother children stop holding themselves together - and that is exactly why bedtime with her runs longer. Part five, about what is happening in our house right now.

New car headlights are so bright that oncoming drivers can't see the road. Should they be made dimmer by law?

Reverse engineering your own gadgets with Codex or Claude now risks refusals and bans

People who used AI coding agents to take apart their own gadgets say the tools have started pushing back. 404 Media reported on 10 November that Claude Code users hit "safety checks" when they ask it to decompile programs, and that some Codex users received warnings or lost…

DeepMind's AI proved that Signal's encryption code keeps its key security promises

Google DeepMind says its AI agents have mathematically proven that the code behind Signal's encryption for one-to-one chats delivers its main security promises. The work, announced on November 10, used a new framework called AlphaProof Code and checked the compiled program…

A child's internal clock is set by light, not by willpower

Newborns barely have a circadian rhythm at all; it forms at around three to four months. After that the main tuner is light: bright daylight says awake, darkness lets melatonin through. So the routine that actually works is unglamorous and physical. Daylight and a walk in the…

He got vaccinated while his wife was pregnant, and the baby turned out not to be his. So the vaccine DOES change DNA?

I lent my friend my $300 dress. It came back with a red wine stain that won't come out. Should she pay for it?

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Hackers are exploiting the SSHole flaw in OpenSSH to break into Alpine Linux servers

Attackers are already using SSHole (CVE-2026-123158, severity 8.1 out of 10), a flaw in OpenSSH that lets them log in to some Linux servers with any password longer than 256 characters. It works on systems built on the musl C library, Alpine Linux first of all. Threat…

Should you ever wake a sleeping child? Usually not - but there are three exceptions

The default is simple: if they're asleep, they need it. The exceptions. A newborn who sleeps too long and eats too little, or isn't gaining weight - that's your doctor's call, not a guess. A nap that has grown so long or so late that it's eating into the night. And ordinary…

My boyfriend promised for a YEAR to put up the camera over our door. I paid a guy $90, he did it in 40 minutes. Now my boyfriend is sulking. Am I wrong?

In bed on time and awake for an hour: sometimes it is tomorrow, not the routine

An hour of lying awake, stomach aches or headaches with no fever, all of it worse on Sunday evening - that pattern is anxiety, not a schedule problem. "Don't think about it" does nothing. Emptying the head before bed does: a short talk at dinner, a list for tomorrow, the school…

Someone set up a chess set like checkers and left 1 star: "pieces are nice but they take up the whole board, no moves possible". Who's to blame?

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