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Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors

news.ycombinator.com Iain Thomson 2025-10-06 06:48:01

Europe, long seen as a bastion of privacy and digital rights, will debate this week whether to enforce surveillance on citizens' devices. Representatives from member states will meet on Friday to consider legislation critics call Chat Control, aka "laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse," which seeks to require ISPs or messaging app providers to scan user content or backdoor encryption so that intelligence agencies can do it themselves. It's the latest attempt in a three-yea

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GrapheneOS and Forensic Extraction of Data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 07:46:27

Matthai Hi, I am writing an article and I am sharing a draft with you. I will be glad if you share your thoughts and suggestions with me. GrapheneOS is an Android-based, open source, privacy and security-focused mobile operating system for mobile phones. It is one of the most secure and privacy protecting operating systems (and yes, it does this task comparable and in some scenarios even better than iOS, but we will come to that later). However, in the beginning of May, someone started an at

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Now Paywalled: Here's One Way to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 04:00:03

The New York Times Mini Crossword is a fun and simple younger sibling to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. The Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) usually has only about six across-clues and six down-clues, and you can finish it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players were met with a paywall. Going forward, anyone who doesn't pay fo

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Microsoft 365 Copilot bundles sales, service, and finance Copilots in October

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-06 07:22:06

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I exclusively reported last week that Microsoft was about to shake up its Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing, and now the company has officially revealed that its sales, service, and finance Copilots are being bundled into Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft currently offers business Copilot acces

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PgEdge Goes Open Source

news.ycombinator.com Dave Page 2025-10-06 13:01:57

In November last year after nearly two decades at my previous gig, I came to the conclusion that I didn’t want to work at what seemed to be rapidly becoming an AI-focused company and moved to pgEdge where the focus is well and truly on distributed PostgreSQL and Postgres generally. Distributed databases (and particularly Postgres of course) have always been a passion of mine – even being a key topic of my master’s dissertation many years ago. Moving to pgEdge was a breath of fresh air. Not only

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DDoS defender targeted in 1.5 Bpps denial-of-service attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-06 23:09:41

A DDoS mitigation service provider in Europe was targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that reached 1.5 billion packets per second. The attack originated from thousands of IoTs and MikroTik routers, and it was mitigated by FastNetMon, a company that offers protection against service disruptions. “The attack reached 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps) — one of the largest packet-rate floods publicly disclosed,” FastNetMon says in a press release. “The malicious traff

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After Ukrainian testing, drone detection radar doubles range with simple software patch

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-07 03:16:51

As part of its unprovoked invasion, Russia has been firing massed waves of drones and missiles into Ukraine for years, though the tempo has been raised dramatically in recent months. Barrages of 700-plus drones now regularly attack Ukraine during overnight raids. Russia also appears to have upped the ante dramatically by sending at least 19 drones into Poland last night, some of which were shot down by NATO forces. Many of these drones are Shahed/Geran types built with technology imported from

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While US stalls, Australia and Anduril move to put XL undersea vehicle into service

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-07 01:12:11

With Anduril’s help, Australia has done what the U.S. Navy has struggled to accomplish: transition an extra-large undersea drone from white board to under contract in just three years. Anduril announced Tuesday that a fleet of its XL uncrewed undersea vehicle (XLUUV) “Ghost Shark” will begin operations in Australian waters next year under a massive AUS$1.7 billion (US$1.1 billion) contract. The five-year award structure is the defense-startup holy grail; it’s a program of record that essential

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Android 16 QPR1’s source code is nowhere to be found, but Google swears it’s coming

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-07 08:29:04

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google has delayed releasing the source code for Android 16 QPR1, worrying custom ROM developers who rely on timely AOSP (Android Open Source Project) updates. While Google typically publishes source code within 48 hours of a new release, it has been a week, breaking a long-standing precedent for the community. Google confirmed the code is coming “in the coming weeks,” but the situation has reignited concerns about the company’s commitment to open-sour

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Senator blasts Microsoft for making default Windows vulnerable to “Kerberoasting”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-07 11:38:13

A prominent US Senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for “gross cybersecurity negligence,” citing the company’s continued use of an obsolete and vulnerable form of encryption that Windows uses by default. In a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Sen. Ron Wyden (D–Ore.) said an investigation his office conducted into the 2024 ransomware breach of the health care giant Ascension found that default use of the RC4 encryption cipher was a direct cause. The b

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While U.S. stalls, Australia and Anduril move to put XL undersea vehicle into service

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-07 11:12:11

With Anduril’s help, Australia has done what the U.S. Navy has struggled to accomplish: transition an extra-large undersea drone from white board to under contract in just three years. Anduril announced Tuesday that a fleet of its XL uncrewed undersea vehicle (XLUUV) “Ghost Shark” will begin operations in Australian waters next year under a massive AUS$1.7 billion (US$1.1 billion) contract. The five-year award structure is the defense-startup holy grail; it’s a program of record that essential

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Microsoft waives fees for Windows devs publishing to Microsoft Store

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 15:21:30

Microsoft announced that, starting today, individual Windows developers will no longer have to pay for publishing their applications on the Microsoft Store. The company said that developers can now submit Win32 (including .NET WPF and WinForms), UWP, PWA, .NET MAUI, or Electron apps to the Microsoft Store without paying any registration fees. Redmond will also handle each app's hosting and signing, eliminating the need for developers to pay for these services. "Package your app as an MSIX and

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TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 18:08:39

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself. Where earlier media relied on polished narratives (films with arcs, shows with seasons), TikTok turned culture into a never-ending feedb

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iPhone 17 Pro Hands-On: The Most Un-Jony Ive iPhones Apple Has Ever Made

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-10-07 19:34:03

I felt a sense of déjà vu as I picked up the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max—in Cosmic Orange, of course—at the “Awe Dropping” Apple Event and tried to pin down what about these new Apple smartphones felt so familiar. Then it hit me as I left the Steve Jobs Theater in a tired daze last night: the iPhone 17 Pros remind me of the MacBook Pros with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. Like those first “pro” MacBooks, the iPhone 17 Pros are actually built for pros. It’s not just “pro” for marketing. The iPhone 17

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Windows developers can now publish apps to Microsoft’s store without fees

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-07 19:38:54

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is allowing developers to submit apps to its Windows store without having to pay any onboarding fees. Individual developers in nearly 200 countries can now sign up to publish apps on the Microsoft Store with just a personal Microsoft account, and no more one-time fees. Microsoft

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Spotify Lossless ‘rolling out gradually’ four years after Apple Music upgraded entire library

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-07 23:54:12

In the four years since Apple Music upgraded its entire music catalog to lossless overnight, Spotify has been just around the corner from catching up. Starting today, Spotify is taking the very first steps toward making that actually happen. Premium subscribers will receive a push notification from the Spotify app when lossless support becomes available. So what took so long? Here’s what Spotify says. “The wait is finally over; we’re so excited lossless sound is rolling out to Premium subscrib

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2025 Edition

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-10-07 04:21:14

Microsoft Corp. today issued security updates to fix more than 80 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and software. There are no known “zero-day” or actively exploited vulnerabilities in this month’s bundle from Redmond, which nevertheless includes patches for 13 flaws that earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” label. Meanwhile, both Apple and Google recently released updates to fix zero-day bugs in their devices. Microsoft assigns security flaws a “critical” rating when malware

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Microsoft said these 400 readers couldn't upgrade to Windows 11. They did it anyway

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-10-07 23:25:49

IgorNelson/iStock / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Hundreds of readers have completed upgrades using ZDNET's help. In general, they report the upgrade is easy, with few issues. For those who had problems, there were typically simple fixes. Microsoft's warnings about the end of support for Windows 10 are becoming more strident as the October deadline approaches. For anyone who owns a PC that's more than five years old, those mes

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Microsoft taps Anthropic for AI in Word and Excel, signaling distance from OpenAI

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-07 23:26:00

Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft will pay Anthropic for access to its AI models. They'll go toward new features in Office 365 platforms. Microsoft and OpenAI are distancing themselves from one another. Microsoft will slacken its dependence on OpenAI through a new partnership with Anthropic, The Information reported on Tuesday. The deal will enable Microsoft to embed Anthropic's AI systems into Microsoft 365 (fo

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TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 23:08:39

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself. Where earlier media relied on polished narratives (films with arcs, shows with seasons), TikTok turned culture into a never-ending feedb

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I swapped my favorite Linux desktop for System76's COSMIC alpha - and I have zero regrets

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-08 03:17:34

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways System76's COSMIC desktop will soon be in beta. Even as an alpha release, COSMIC is impressive. COSMIC is as fast as any Linux desktop I've experienced. Alpha releases aren't to be used for any reason other than testing. Right? That's the common opinion, and yet here I am, working on System76's COSMIC desktop as if it's in stable status. It's not... and it shows. Yes, I

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Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 03:41:42

Microsoft's Office 365 suite will soon incorporate AI models from Anthropic alongside existing OpenAI technology, The Information reported, ending years of exclusive reliance on OpenAI for generative AI features across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The shift reportedly follows internal testing that revealed Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 model excels at specific Office tasks where OpenAI's models fall short, particularly in visual design and spreadsheet automation, according to sources fam

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Midjourney Is in Major Trouble

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-07 07:19:19

AI image generator Midjourney is in major trouble after being accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement. According to documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery is suing the startup for "brazenly" infringing on its intellectual property by letting its users create AI-generated images and videos of its copyrighted characters — which, due to Warner Bros' immense catalog, include everything from the Batman franchise to Scooby-Doo to Bu

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Show HN: Ark v0.5.0 – A Minimal, High-Performance Entity Component System for Go

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 07:33:57

Features Installation To use Ark in a Go project, run: go get github.com/mlange-42/ark Usage Below is the classical Position/Velocity example that every ECS shows in the docs. See the User Guide, API docs and examples for details. package main import ( "math/rand/v2" "github.com/mlange-42/ark/ecs" ) // Position component type Position struct { X float64 Y float64 } // Velocity component type Velocity struct { X float64 Y float64 } func main () { // Create a new World world := ecs . NewWor

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Lossless Audio Finally Arrives for Spotify Premium Subscribers. Here's How to Enable It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 06:51:50

Lossless audio, a format that Spotify says has been much-requested by subscribers over the years, is finally arriving on the streaming service. In a post, the company says that 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC audio will now be an option for premium subscribers in select markets "across nearly every song available in Spotify." Subscribers will have the option to adjust music quality as Low, Normal, High, Very High and now Lossless, with the option to see how much data each tier requires. In addition to wo

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DJI’s next modular tiny action camera revealed in leaked images

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-08 07:04:54

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. There’s been no official announcement from DJI yet, but leaked images appear to confirm a follow-up to the company’s modular and compact Action 2 camera that debuted in 2021, as spotted by Notebookcheck. The new DJI Osmo Nano takes a similar approach with acc

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Apple just added two surprise iOS 26 features that I absolutely love

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-08 11:56:20

iOS 26 launches to all users next week, and despite months of beta testing already, Apple saved a couple surprise features for the wide launch that have become instant favorites: app icons can now auto-tint based on your iPhone’s color or its case color. App icons can now be tinted to match your iPhone color or case in iOS 26 Last year in iOS 18, Apple unlocked a bunch of new customization options for iPhone users. But two last-minute additions to iOS 26 could steal the show as some of the mo

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Spotify lossless streaming is finally here and it's included with a Premium plan

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 11:10:09

Stop me if you've heard this one before: over a half-decade of rumors, infrequent teases and affirmations that something is on the way, only for fans to impatiently bide their time and the thing to eventually arrive with very little advance warning. No, I'm not talking about Hollow Knight: Silksong this time. Spotify is finally rolling out a lossless option that offers higher-quality music streaming. Best of all, the company is offering it to Premium members at no extra charge. You'll get a not

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Spotify's long-awaited lossless music is finally here - how to enable it today

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-08 11:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Lossless audio is coming to Spotify. Lossless audio offers a more accurate and dynamic sound. The feature is slowly rolling out to all users with a paid plan. In 2021, Spotify teased the idea of a high-fidelity tier (hi-fi tier) that would offer lossless audio quality. Unfortunately, licensing issues caused the plan to be put on the back burner. Also: This new Spotify feature almost ma

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Kerberoasting

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Green 2025-10-08 10:01:30

I learn about cryptographic vulnerabilities all the time, and they generally fill me with some combination of jealousy (“oh, why didn’t I think of that”) or else they impress me with the brilliance of their inventors. But there’s also another class of vulnerabilities: these are the ones that can’t possibly exist in important production software, because there’s no way anyone could still do that in 2025. Today I want to talk about one of those ridiculous ones, something Microsoft calls “low tech

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Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors

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Microsoft 365 Copilot bundles sales, service, and finance Copilots in October

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DDoS defender targeted in 1.5 Bpps denial-of-service attack

After Ukrainian testing, drone detection radar doubles range with simple software patch

While US stalls, Australia and Anduril move to put XL undersea vehicle into service

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TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

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Windows developers can now publish apps to Microsoft’s store without fees

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Apple just added two surprise iOS 26 features that I absolutely love

Spotify lossless streaming is finally here and it's included with a Premium plan

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