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WhatsApp fixes ‘zero-click’ bug used to hack Apple users with spyware

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-11-30 09:15:55

WhatsApp said on Friday that it fixed a security bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used to stealthily hack into the Apple devices of “specific targeted users.” The Meta-owned messaging app giant said in its security advisory that it fixed the vulnerability, known officially as CVE-2025-55177, which was used alongside a separate flaw found in iOS and Macs, which Apple fixed last week and tracks as CVE-2025-43300. Apple said at the time that the flaw was used in an “extremely sophistica

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Tesla challenges $243 million verdict in Autopilot death trial

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-30 09:37:03

Tesla has asked a judge to nix the $243 million verdict lodged against the company in a lawsuit involving its Autopilot system, or to allow a new trial to occur, according to a new court filing. The company’s lawyers argue that the verdict, which a jury made earlier this month, “flies in the face of basic Florida tort law, the Due Process Clause, and common sense.” This latest filing by Tesla lawyers tries, once again, to rest all of the blame on the driver George McGee, who helped cause the cr

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Uber and Lyft drivers in California win a path to unionization

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-30 09:53:54

California lawmakers struck a deal with Uber and Lyft that will allow app-based drivers to form unions. The agreement is a win for gig workers who have long been classified as independent contractors, and thus, ineligible for certain protections that employees receive, like the right to collective bargaining. Gov. Gavin Newsom, alongside Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, announced Friday support for two pieces of legislation that form a pathway for app-ba

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Marvell stock slumps 16% after chipmaker's data center revenue, forecast disappoint

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-11-30 14:58:02

Shares of Marvell Technology plunged 15% on Friday after the artificial intelligence chipmaker's data center revenue fell short of estimates and it gave lackluster guidance for the current quarter. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share: 67 cents adjusted vs. 66 cents expected 67 cents adjusted vs. 66 cents expected Revenue: $2.01 billion vs. $2.01 billion expected Revenue jumped 58% from a year ago in the fiscal second quarter that ended A

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AirPods 3 are imminent, here’s why I’m upgrading

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-30 12:57:55

Apple’s “Awe dropping” event is officially set for September 9, and it’s likely to focus on the iPhone 17 and new Apple Watch models. Based on the latest reporting, however, the highly-anticipated AirPods Pro 3 might also make their debut at the event. AirPods Pro 3 are expected to offer a handful of notable upgrades, and they just might steal the show for me. On a recent episode of the Upgrade podcast, Myke and Jason answered the following question from a listener: “You arrive at the airport

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HoYoverse's Star Rail spinoff is Honkai: Nexus Anima

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-30 14:36:38

HoYoverse's next gacha game has shades of Teamfight Tactics and Pokémon. The developer describes Honkai: Nexus Anima as a "creature-collector adventure strategy game." HoYoverse first teased the title in May at the Honkai: Star Rail Concert 2025. In Honkai: Nexus Anima's game world, a sudden rupture has shattered the balance between opposing forces (Nexus). You'll explore the realm, forging bonds with the resulting creatures (Anima) scattered about. It sounds like gameplay will revolve around a

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Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators

news.ycombinator.com Anna Claire Vollers 2025-11-30 09:37:53

Cash Cow David vs. Goliath State Solutions Private equity companies have gobbled up group homes and other services for people with disabilities, attracting the attention of state and federal regulators across the nation and alarming advocates.People with intellectual or developmental disabilities have suffered abuse, neglect and even death while under the care of private equity-owned providers, according to a recent report from watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Project.“Private equity

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Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 12:49:34

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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Thunder Compute (YC S24) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 14:00:04

Company Thunder Compute is the cheapest, easiest GPU cloud for developers. We’re a 4-person, seed-funded team (approaching Series A) with 100%+ MoM growth. 100% in-person, 6 days per week in SF. Our virtualization stack exposes network-attached GPUs over TCP, letting us oversubscribe hardware and pass savings to users. Role Own DevRel end-to-end. You’ll build and grow our community, ship hands-on demos and templates, teach developers how to run real workloads on Thunder, and bring sharp produ

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Great Scott! ‘Back to the Future’ Is Getting a Snazzy Theatrical Re-Release

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-30 14:30:17

Forty years after its release, Back to the Future‘s pop-culture presence is as strong as ever thanks to theme parks, the tie-in musical, a missing-guitar mystery, and simply the enduring love for the movie itself. Starting October 31, fans can revisit the Robert Zemeckis-directed, Steven Spielberg-produced time-travel classic on the big screen. And we do mean big: this re-release is targeting premium, large-scale formats, including Dolby Cinema, 4DX, and D-Box—as well as IMAX. According to a Un

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Best Washing Machines for Your Home in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 11:48:00

It's not always about the features that you most regularly use, but about having features available that you might sometimes need to use. If available features are driving your comparative shopping experience for washing machines, GE offers a top-tier, front-loading model with consistent customer satisfaction and just about every available add-on. While it is more expensive than the models listed above, it's less expensive than other models that offer as many features as it does. This washing m

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Meta updates chatbot rules to avoid inappropriate topics with teen users

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-30 14:04:17

Meta says it’s changing the way it trains AI chatbots to prioritize teen safety, a spokesperson exclusively told TechCrunch, following an investigative report on the company’s lack of AI safeguards for minors. The company says it will now train chatbots to no longer engage with teenage users on self-harm, suicide, disordered eating, or potentially inappropriate romantic conversations. Meta says these are interim changes, and the company will release more robust, long-lasting safety updates for

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Samsung upgrades Family Care with health data, smarter alerts, and easier setup

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-30 18:11:38

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has updated SmartThings Family Care with a mix of new features and refinements. The service now offers easier setup, smarter activity alerts, and Samsung Health integration. Families can register key locations and set reminders to help keep loved ones safe and on track. Samsung’s SmartThings platform already connects many of its TVs, appliances, and phones, but last year, the company pushed it into new territory with Family Care. This service a

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Samsung’s take on Pixel Screenshots is finally available to global users

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-30 18:26:06

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Global Galaxy owners on One UI 6 or later can now try out the Collections app. This app was previously exclusive to users in China. The app stores information and allows you to easily search for it, sort it by app, and summarize it with AI. Google offers a handy app called Pixel Screenshots, which makes it easy to organize and recall information from screenshots and photos. If you didn’t know, Samsung has a similar, but different app called Collections.

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Why AirPods Pro 3 will be an instant upgrade for me

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-30 18:57:55

Apple’s “Awe dropping” event is officially set for September 9, and it’s likely to focus on the iPhone 17 and new Apple Watch models. Based on the latest reporting, however, the highly-anticipated AirPods Pro 3 might also make their debut at the event. AirPods Pro 3 are expected to offer a handful of notable upgrades, and they just might steal the show for me. On a recent episode of the Upgrade podcast, Myke and Jason answered the following question from a listener: “You arrive at the airport

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Everything we played at Gamescom 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-30 12:00:17

Europe’s biggest gameshow is a beast. Spanning the halls of Cologne Messe, and with E3 now out of the picture, Gamescom is a bigger deal than ever. The show also attracts thousands of public attendees, which gives the show a fairground twist in places. This year, Netflix dominated one of the halls with a faux One Piece ship, sports stadium, a Wednesday-themed cafe and a Stranger Things ice cream stall. Elsewhere, while Nintendo didn’t have anything new to show, it had plenty of Switch 2 console

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WhatsApp patches vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-30 18:31:23

WhatsApp has patched a security vulnerability in its iOS and macOS messaging clients that was exploited in targeted zero-day attacks. The company says this zero-click flaw (tracked as CVE-2025-55177) affects WhatsApp for iOS prior to version 2.25.21.73, WhatsApp Business for iOS v2.25.21.78, and WhatsApp for Mac v2.25.21.78. "Incomplete authorization of linked device synchronization messages in WhatsApp [..] could have allowed an unrelated user to trigger processing of content from an arbitrar

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Fixing an old .NET Core native library loading issue on Alpine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 02:59:37

In this post I describe an issue I ran into at work when we were trying to test an app using Microsoft.Data.SQLite on Alpine Linux, and were running into this error: Unhandled exception. System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load shared library 'e_sqlite3' or one of its dependencies . This post is primarily a walkthrough of the steps I took to solve the issue. I describe the problem itself, the environment in which it happened, the things we tried to isolate the issue, the eventual root cause,

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Bourbaki – A Secret Society of Mathematicians

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 18:24:14

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Why AI Isn't Ready to Be a Real Coder

news.ycombinator.com Rina Diane Caballar 2025-11-30 17:24:13

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the coding sphere, with AI coding tools completing source code, correcting syntax errors, creating inline documentation, and understanding and answering questions about a codebase. As the technology advances beyond automating programming tasks, the idea of full autonomy looms large. Is AI ready to be a real coder? A new paper says not yet—and maps out exactly why. Researchers from Cornell University, MIT CSAIL, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley hi

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This ‘Magical’ Material That Dissolves Like Candy Is Exactly What EVs Have Been Missing

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-30 18:40:05

The irony of eco-friendly electric vehicles is the mountainous load of electronic waste they produce. So far, most targeted efforts to recycle EV batteries have been expensive and chemically toxic—and they haven’t stuck. That could change soon, however, thanks to a promising breakthrough from MIT. In a Nature Chemistry paper published August 28, researchers describe a new type of self-assembling material that easily dissolves in organic solvents. It works reasonably well as the electrolyte in a

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Framework actually did it: I upgraded a laptop’s entire GPU in just three minutes

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-11-30 18:09:02

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On Tuesday, I told you how the modular computer company Framework was finally fulfilling its promise of the “holy grail for gamers” — a laptop with modular, swappable discrete graphics cards so easy to swap, practically anyone can do it at home. The fir

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Affirm stock surges 12% as CEO Levchin notes continued consumer strength

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-11-30 23:03:48

Affirm stock popped 12% Friday after the buy now, pay later firm beat Wall Street's expectations across the board in its fiscal fourth-quarter results. The stock was already up 31% this year heading into the report, outpacing the Nasdaq's 12% gain. CEO Max Levchin told CNBC on "Money Movers" Friday that the company is "firing on all pistons." Earnings came in at 20 cents a share and nearly doubled analyst expectations, with revenue also topping estimates at $876 million, up 33% from a year ear

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I took this MagSafe battery pack on vacation, but now it's an everyday carry

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-11-30 23:05:00

Benks ArmorGo 10K Qi2 Battery Pack ZDNET's key takeaways The Benks ArmorGo 10k battery pack is a Qi2 MagSafe charging option for $63. It features a 10K capacity battery, an Aramid fiber build, and comes in 2 colors. It's pretty chunky. View now at Benks I've tested dozens of MagSafe battery packs, and my biggest pet peeve is when they're too big. No one wants to be hoisting a brick to the back of their phone all day, but once you begin get to the 10,000 mAh capacity options, you might as well

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Fake accounts drove the DeepSeek AI hype and distorted markets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 22:36:40

From AI Darling to Disinformation Playbook: How Fake Accounts Managed a Market Frenzy and What DeepSeek’s Hype Teaches Leaders DeepSeek, a new Chinese AI model, stormed app charts and briefly sent shockwaves through global markets. However, our disinformation research team found that much of this excitement was artificial — driven by thousands of fake profiles working in tandem. Their behavior bore the hallmarks of state-linked bot networks, amplifying hype and distorting market perception.

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It’s Not Wrong that (for HN) “[facepalm emoji]”.length == 36

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 06:20:05

Hey! Unintentional clickbait! I am not talking about how a space character has length 36 in Hacker News! If you are coming here from HN the above 🤦🏼‍♂️ emoji have been replaced with a space! Edit: Success! HN has renamed my entry to It’s Not Wrong that (for HN) “[facepalm emoji]”.length == 36. At least better that the JS \u{HEX} one A couple of days I published a pretty innocent post to HN. The source article was talking about all the various escamotages techniques used to create new emojis.

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10 Sunglass Colors and How They Improve Your Vision and Eye Health

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 18:18:00

Summer days and outdoor adventures go hand in hand. You know what else goes alongside? A great pair of sunglasses to keep your eyes protected. A solid pair of sunglasses is just as important as high quality sunscreen. Prolonged exposure to UV rays can harm your eyes, and the tint of your lenses can make a much bigger difference than you might think. Different lens colors filter light in unique ways and can impact everything from eye health to depth perception. This means certain shades might be

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

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 22:05:02

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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Fox and Google Reach Agreement to Keep Fox Channels on YouTube TV

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 22:10:00

Fret not, football fans, Fox channels are staying on YouTube TV. Google and Fox reached an agreement to end their dispute that could have led to the removal of Fox channels from Google-owned YouTube TV. Google announced the deal last night in a YouTube blog post stating, "We're happy to share that we've reached an agreement with Fox to keep their content on YouTube TV, preserve the value of our service for our subscribers and offer more flexibility in the future. This means that Fox channels, i

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Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-30 23:10:47

Today's video game consoles are hundreds of dollars more expensive than you'd expect based on historic pricing trends. That's according to an Ars Technica analysis of decades of pricing data and price-cut timing across dozens of major US console releases. The overall direction of this trend has been apparent to industry watchers for a while now. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have failed to cut their console prices in recent years and have instead been increasing the nominal MSRP for many curren

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