Hacker News13h ago55 pointscooling
China's public QR codes are being hijacked to redirect users to porn and scams
Criminals are hijacking China's public QR codes, redirecting users to porn and scams, often by exploiting expired domains and invalid codes on streetlights and buses.
Read the full story atsixthtone.comWhy this is in the Signal
LAXIMA AI Signal curates the highest-velocity stories across Hacker News, GitHub trending, and new Hugging Face / Replicate model releases — quality-filtered, deduplicated, and refreshed every four hours. This item surfaced from Hacker News with 55 points (by whiteblossom). We link straight to the original source above — see the full live feed.
More AI Signal briefs
- HNQuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
- HNPunk, or why I don't stream anymore
- HNWrite code like a human will maintain it
- HNIn Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service
- HNLate Bronze Age Collapse
- HNGood Tools Are Invisible
- HNEU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
- HNAI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region