Weekend Reading #46

Weekend Reading is a Digest where we share a selection of the most interesting tech articles from different companies found during the week.

Disclosure: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

This investigation reveals a privacy risk on Android devices, where apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and Yandex silently listen on local network ports. When you visit a website with embedded tracking scripts, these apps capture your web cookies or device IDs, bypassing browser privacy mechanisms like incognito mode, and thus allow them to track you even when browsing privately.

Why Traditional EA Collapses at Scale—and What EA 4.0 Does

Jesper Lowgren explains why standard enterprise architecture fails in dynamic, AI-driven environments and introduces “EA 4.0,” which treats architecture as a living, adaptive system. 

Load Testing with Impulse at Airbnb

Airbnb developed a self-service, context-aware load testing framework called Impulse, which enables teams to simulate real-world scenarios with dependency mocking and traffic collection. 

JUDE: LLM-Based Representation Learning for LinkedIn Job Recommendations

LinkedIn’s JUDE platform utilizes fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) to generate rich job and profile embeddings in real-time, enhancing recommendation accuracy while maintaining efficiency at scale.