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Microsoft to enforce MFA for Azure resource management in October

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-25 22:56:47

Starting in October, Microsoft will enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all Azure resource management actions to protect Azure clients from unauthorized access attempts. This change is part of the company's Secure Future Initiative (SFI), will be applied gradually across tenants worldwide, and it requires users to enable MFA on Azure CLI, PowerShell, SDKs, and APIs to ensure that their accounts are protected against attacks. To avoid compatibility issues, users are also advised to up

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Anthropic Settles With Authors Over Pirated Material: What Does That Mean for Other AI Lawsuits?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 21:05:02

Anthropic agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of authors alleging that the AI company illegally pirated their copyrighted books to use in training its Claude AI models. On Tuesday, the parties in the lawsuit filed a motion indicating their agreement with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. We don't yet know the terms of the settlement, but we could know more as soon as next week. Justin Nelson, lawyer for the authors, told CNET via email that more information will be announced soon.

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AirTag deal: Get a four-pack of Apple's Bluetooth trackers for $70 for Labor Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-26 06:16:26

Labor Day sales include a decent number of Apple devices this year, from big to small. AirTags are among the latter; you can pick up a four-pack of the Bluetooth trackers for only $70 right now. That's only about $5 more than the pack's record-low price, and it's one of the best prices we've seen all year. For Apple users, AirTags offer some large advantages over rival trackers. The ultra-wideband functionality offers precise tracking with iPhones less than five years old, so you can narrow you

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Show HN: Sosumi.ai – Convert Apple Developer docs to AI-readable Markdown

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 06:30:16

Disclaimer: This is an unofficial, independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc. “Apple”, “Xcode”, and related marks are trademarks of Apple Inc. This service is an accessibility-first, on‑demand renderer. It converts a single Apple Developer page to Markdown only when requested by a user. It does not crawl, spider, or bulk download; it does not attempt to bypass authentication or security; and it implements rate limiting to avoid imposing unreasonable load. Content

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Microsoft Word will soon save documents to the cloud by default

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-10-25 10:46:00

In brief: OneDrive, Microsoft's answer to iCloud and Google Drive, is deeply embedded in Windows 11. The operating system doesn't display prompts for opting out of the program, and Microsoft is preparing to introduce more obstacles for users who wish to save files locally. The change will begin with Microsoft Word before coming to other apps. Microsoft 365 Insiders should soon begin seeing Microsoft Word automatically save files to the company's OneDrive cloud by default. Users can toggle the f

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How to screenshot on Windows

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-26 10:00:24

Windows offers several built-in ways to take screenshots. Sure, you can just hit the Prt Scrn button on your keyboard to capture your entire screen, but if you want to screenshot a portion of your screen, a particular window, or you have multiple monitors there are other ways you can use Windows to achieve this. Whether you're using Windows 11 or a recent update to Windows 10, the tools remain largely consistent and reliable. This guide walks you through the most useful native screenshot method

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My top 6 productivity apps for Linux that are lesser known - but shouldn't be

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-26 10:30:00

JuSun/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has tons of productivity tools waiting to help. There are both GUI and command-line apps available. All of the tools listed are free to use. When you think of productivity, I'm sure the usual suspects come to mind: Office suite Groupware PDF creators/editors Image editors File managers Content Management Systems (CMS) To-do lists Project management tools To assume those

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If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 19:39:26

Anthropic sent out an email, saying they will train on personal data. They made it sound like you have to opt in, but when I click the privacy link it defaults to on. If you don’t want your data trained on, you better manually turn it off. Email: Hello, We're writing to inform you about important updates to our Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy. These changes will take effect on September 28, 2025, or you can choose to accept the updated terms before this date when you log in to Claude.ai. T

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We Asked Dentists: What's the Best Whitening Toothpaste of 2025?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-26 15:32:00

Why we like it: Colgate Optic White Pro Series toothpaste is one whitening toothpaste that Dr. Fatima Khan, a dentist in Houston, Texas, recommends. Some of her reasons for recommending it include its trusted brand name and its 5% hydrogen peroxide whitening agent. Unlike other whitening agents that work by removing stains on the surface of the tooth, hydrogen peroxide can get inside the tooth so it whitens intrinsically as well as extrinsically. Sachar also recommends this toothpaste, saying,

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Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 19:55:14

Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie This article brought to you by LWN subscribers Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. After more than two years of development, the Debian Project has released its new stable version, Debian 13 ("trixie"). The release comes with the usual bounty of upgraded packages and more than 14,000 new packages; it also debu

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You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 00:49:34

You no longer need JavaScript So much of the web these days is ruined by the bloat that is modern JavaScript frameworks. React apps that take several seconds to load. NextJS sites that throw random hydration errors. The node_modules folder that takes up gigabytes on your hard drive. It’s awful. And you don’t need it. Name Status Type Size Time app 200 document 153.8 kB 51 ms 6920616d20612066 -s.p.6f6e7421 .woff2 200 font 31.5 kB 32 ms 686579206d652074 -s.p.6f6f2121 .woff2 200 font 28.5 kB 116

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Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-27 00:43:12

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories of our own. But first, what’s changing: Previously, Anthropic didn’t use consumer chat data for model training. Now, the company wants to train its AI systems on user conversations

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Meet Freddy Fazbear and Friends at Halloween Horror Nights’ ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ House

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-27 06:30:01

Take a look inside the Five Nights at Freddy’s house at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights. It looks like a real Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza location right out of the mind of game creator Scott Cawthon and Emma Tammi’s cinematic adaptation. io9 was invited to a behind-the-scenes walkthrough of the Hollywood attraction based on the video game and Blumhouse film franchise, opening at HHN ahead of December’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. Creative director John Murdy took us through to highlight th

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Anthropic Wants to Use Your Chats With Claude for AI Training: Here's How to Opt Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-27 05:51:00

Anthropic will soon begin using your chat transcripts to train its popular chatbot, Claude. The announcement came on Thursday as an update to the company's Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy. New users will see an option to "Help improve Claude" that can be toggled on or off as part of the sign-up flow, where existing users will begin to see a notification explaining the change. Users have until Sep 28 to opt out of the new change, as it will be enabled by default. You can still turn the option

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Threads is testing long-form posts with support for formatted text

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-27 10:29:29

While Threads already allows up to 500 characters per post (which is more than enough for casual users used to the microblogging format), it is now testing support for long-form posts through “text attachments”. Here’s how it works. Meta has confirmed the test, but has no ETA for the feature As spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu (via TechCrunch), Threads is testing a new “text attachment” feature on iOS, which could replace the common practice of stringing together multiple posts that blow

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OpenAI increases ChatGPT user protections following wrongful death lawsuit

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-27 10:05:00

Yifei Fang/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI is giving ChatGPT new safeguards. A teen recently used ChatGPT to learn how to take his life. OpenAI may add further parental controls for young users. ChatGPT doesn't have a good track record of intervening when a user is in emotional distress, but several updates from OpenAI aim to change that. The company is building on how its chatbot responds to distressed users by st

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Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your data for AI training

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-27 10:43:12

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories of our own. But first, what’s changing: previously, Anthropic didn’t use consumer chat data for model training. Now, the company wants to train its AI systems on user conversations

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People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-27 17:05:39

Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT's propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it's scanning users' conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening. "When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our usage policies and who are authorized to take action, inc

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Google shares workarounds for auth failures on ChromeOS devices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-27 18:30:07

Google is working to resolve authentication issues affecting some ChromeOS devices, which are preventing affected users from signing into their Clever and ClassLink accounts. As the company explains in a recently updated incident report on the Google Workspace Status Dashboard, these authentication failures impact devices running version 16328.55.0 with Chrome browser version 139.0.7258.137. These issues are disrupting Single Sign-On access to Clever and ClassLink educational partner platforms

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Mosh Mobile Shell

news.ycombinator.com Keith Winstein 2025-10-27 14:59:14

Remote-shell protocols traditionally work by conveying a byte-stream from the server to the client, to be interpreted by the client's terminal. (This includes TELNET, RLOGIN, and SSH.) Mosh works differently and at a different layer. With Mosh, the server and client both maintain a snapshot of the current screen state. The problem becomes one of state-synchronization: getting the client to the most recent server-side screen as efficiently as possible. This is accomplished using a new protocol c

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Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 20:59:11

Today, we're rolling out updates to our Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy that will help us deliver even more capable, useful AI models. We're now giving users the choice to allow their data to be used to improve Claude and strengthen our safeguards against harmful usage like scams and abuse. Adjusting your preferences is easy and can be done at any time. These updates apply to users on our Claude Free, Pro, and Max plans, including when they use Claude Code from accounts associated with those

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Threads tests a way to share long-form text on the platform

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-27 22:01:29

Threads is testing a new feature that makes it easy to share long-form text on the social network, Meta confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The feature lets users attach a block of text to a post instead of creating a thread of several different posts when looking to share more in-depth thoughts and ideas. App researcher Radu Oncescu first spotted the new “text attachment” feature on iOS and shared a screenshot of it. According to the app’s description of the new feature, it’s designed to allo

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Police seize VerifTools fake ID marketplace servers, domains

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 02:00:35

The FBI and the Dutch Police have shut down the VerifTools marketplace for fraudulent identity documents after seizing servers in Amsterdam that hosted the online operation. VerifTools was a prominent platform that produced and intermediated the purchase of fake documents (e.g. driver's licenses, passports) that were used to bypass various identity verification systems or to assume an identity, either stolen or fabricated. The police note that such sites are used in bank fraud, phishing, helpd

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Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 02:43:05

Indonesia is currently in chaos. Earlier today, the government blocked access to Twitter & Discord knowing news spread mainly through those channels. Usually we can use Cloudflare's WARP to avoid it, but just today they blocked the access as well. What alternative should we use?

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Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-28 02:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless users choose to opt out. It’s also extending its data retention policy to five years — again, for users that don’t choose to

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Mosh (Mobile Shell)

news.ycombinator.com Keith Winstein 2025-10-28 05:59:14

Remote-shell protocols traditionally work by conveying a byte-stream from the server to the client, to be interpreted by the client's terminal. (This includes TELNET, RLOGIN, and SSH.) Mosh works differently and at a different layer. With Mosh, the server and client both maintain a snapshot of the current screen state. The problem becomes one of state-synchronization: getting the client to the most recent server-side screen as efficiently as possible. This is accomplished using a new protocol c

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Unpacking Passkeys Pwned: Possibly the most specious research in decades

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 09:00:10

Don’t believe everything you read—especially when it’s part of a marketing pitch designed to sell security services. The latest example of the runaway hype that can come from such pitches is research published today by SquareX, a startup selling services for securing browsers and other client-side applications. It claims, without basis, to have found a “major passkey vulnerability” that undermines the lofty security promises made by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and thousands of other companies tha

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AI firm says its technology weaponised by hackers

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-28 12:40:27

AI firm says its technology weaponised by hackers 3 hours ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images US artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic says its technology has been "weaponised" by hackers to carry out sophisticated cyber attacks. Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, says its tools were used by hackers "to commit large-scale theft and extortion of personal data". The firm said its AI was used to help write code which carried out cyber-at

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That boolean should probably be something else

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 13:31:15

Monday, June 30, 2025 One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean logic underpins much of modern computing. And yet, it's one of the types we should probably be using a lot less of. In almost every single instance when you use a boolean, it should be something else. The trick is figuring out what "something else" is. Doing this is worth the effort. It tells you a lot about your system, and it will improve your design (even if you end up usi

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Hackers used AI to 'to commit large-scale theft', says Anthropic

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-28 17:40:27

Hackers used AI to 'to commit large-scale theft', says Anthropic 1 hour ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images US artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic says its technology has been "weaponised" by hackers to carry out sophisticated cyber attacks. Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, says its tools were used by hackers "to commit large-scale theft and extortion of personal data". The firm said its AI was used to help write code which carrie

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