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14-year prison term sought over theft of trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process [U]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-05 10:33:23

Six people have been arrested after Apple chipmaker TSMC said that several then-employees tried to steal trade secrets relating to the company’s most advanced chip process. TSMC fired the individuals concerned and is now taking legal action against them. Update: Three of the six have now been indicted, and prosecutors are seeking a 14-year prison sentence for one of them – see the update at the end … The report relates to the company’s 2-nanometer chip process, which is expected to be used for

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Alphabet's Verily closes its medical device division and lays off staff

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-05 10:00:09

Alphabet's Verily was one of the company's star "moonshot" businesses, with its research delving into areas ranging from connected diabetes therapies to robot surgery. Now, Verily has shuttered its medical device division and laid off staff, the company announced in a memo seen by Business Insider. The number of employees who lost their jobs was not revealed. "We have made the difficult decision to discontinue manufacturing medical devices and will no longer be supporting them going forward," a

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Ember (YC F24) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 10:00:18

AI RCM. A/R Analysis in 3 days or less. Reduce claim denials by 55%. Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. At Ember, we’re building the future of healthcare operations. Behind every provider is a mountain of administrative complexity — from billing to revenue cycle management — and these inefficiencies directly impact care, cost, and outcomes. At Ember, we’re simplifying the back office of healthcare through intelligent automation, helping providers focus on what matt

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Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 10:18:47

At least 1.4k people are learning today that they have a new repository prefixed by s1ngularity-repository in their GitHub account. This repository was created by a malicious post-install command discovered in the popular nx build kit. That malware steals wallets and API keys (`.npmrc`, env variables, etc.) and pushes them in that repository in the results.b64 file. Interestingly, the malware checks for the presence of Claude Code CLI or Gemini CLI on the system to offload much of the fingerprin

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Microsoft Locks Down Building After Protesters Breach President’s Office

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-05 10:45:30

People inside and outside of Microsoft have been agitating for the software giant to cut ties with the Israeli government. As the war and slaughter in Gaza drag on, activists have increasingly sought to expose and condemn the software giant. This week, it appears that the company had to temporarily lock down its headquarters, as protesting workers entered the office of company president Brad Smith to conduct a sit-in. The protest efforts that took place on Tuesday were also streamed live on Twi

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OpenAI says it plans ChatGPT changes after lawsuit blamed chatbot for teen's suicide

cnbc.com Salvador Rodriguez Lora Kolodny 2025-12-05 06:18:20

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Federal Reserve's Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 22, 2025. OpenAI is detailing its plans to address ChatGPT's shortcomings when handling "sensitive situations" following a lawsuit from a family who blamed the chatbot for their teenage son's death by suicide. "We will keep improving, guided by experts and grounded in responsibility to the people who use our tools — and we hope others

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India is still working on sewer robots

technologyreview.com Hamaad Habibullah 2025-12-05 20:00:00

More than 220 Bandicoot robots have been deployed in India, says Vipin Govind, head of marketing and communications at Genrobotics. The company’s reach, he says, enables “even resource-constrained municipalities” to deploy the technology effectively. Despite these technological options, a 2021 report by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment found that there are still more than 58,000 manual scavengers across India. Independent observers say the numbers are even higher. The machine that J

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Tired of Google Photos filling up your cloud? A new backup setting could help (Updated: Screenshot)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-05 18:44:49

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos could soon introduce a new feature allowing users to back up only their favorite photos and videos. This feature could provide a middle ground between full auto-backup and manual selection, saving storage space. Update, August 27, 2025 (05:44 AM ET): While we’re still waiting on the feature to go live, we managed to activate the toggle for it for an early look: AssembleDebug / Android Authority Original article, July 30, 2025 (05:16 AM

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Google Play Store preps a small but welcome UI change (Updated: Rolling out)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-05 20:18:22

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Play Store is preparing a redesigned account switcher. A prominent “Switch account” row appears below a greeting and your profile picture. The feature is enabled by flags in v46.8.29-31, mirroring recent rollouts in other Google apps. Update, August 27, 2025 (06:18 AM ET): The redesigned account switcher on the Google Play Store has started rolling out to some users, as reported by X user Joe Lenington. Original article, June 30 10, 2025 (11:5

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We compared the best tablets by Apple, Samsung, and others in our lab - here's the battery champ

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-12-05 17:00:21

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When looking to buy a tablet, there are a few factors to keep in mind, such as what you'll be using the tablet for (entertainment, drawing, work, etc.), your price point, display size, operating system, and more. At ZDNET, we considered all of these factors when choosing the best tablets you can buy, but we were able to test one important factor that can truly make or break your tablet experience: battery life. Also:

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This tiny ratchet beats any multitool or Swiss Army Knife I've ever tested - and it's only $25

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-05 18:15:18

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I'm always on the lookout for a now toy -- ahem, I mean tool -- to add to my everyday carry (EDC) gear. New multitools, flashlights, and other cool tools are always on my radar. A few weeks ago, I happened to come across something that, the moment I saw it, I just had to have it. It was one of those gambles: "it might be good, it might be on the way back to Amazon by the end of the day". Also: 10 tiny tools I carry with me everywhere - how they work It turned out

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5 upgrades I want to see in the next Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses coming Sep 17

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-12-05 20:59:43

Jason Hiner/ZDNET The hype continues to build around the arrival of Meta's futuristic Hypernova (a.k.a. Celeste) smart glasses, which will reportedly add a small heads-up display in one eye and a neural wristband (Ceres) to control the interface. These will reportedly cost around $800 and will be announced at Meta Connect on September 17. Some have even started calling these the next version of the current Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. However, both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Boswor

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Internet Access Providers Aren't Bound by DMCA Unmasking Subpoenas–In Re Cox

news.ycombinator.com Eric Goldman 2025-12-02 16:20:46

The DMCA online safe harbor is a notice-and-takedown scheme. Web hosts aren’t liable for copyright-infringing third-party uploads unless and until the copyright owner submits a proper takedown notice to the host, at which point the web host can remain legally protected by expeditiously removing the targeted item. By taking web hosts out of the liability chain, the DMCA nominally keeps any infringement disputes being between the uploader and the copyright owner. To help copyright owners sue anon

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WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 17:38:58

WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser WebLibre is an independent browser project built on the foundation of Mozilla’s Gecko Engine and Mozilla Android Components . It offers a fully featured web browser with support for Firefox mobile add-ons, designed with privacy and usability at its core.

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AI Is Crushing the Early Career Job Market, Stanford Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-05 21:47:25

If you suspected that AI is taking jobs away from young workers, there is now data to back this up. Three economists at Stanford University’s Digital Economy Lab —professor Erik Brynjolfsson, research scientist Ruyu Chen, and postdoctoral fellow Bharat Chandar— published a paper on Tuesday that found early-career workers aged 22 to 25 in the most AI-exposed jobs “have experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment.” “In contrast, employment for workers in less exposed fields and more

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What It's Like to Work at a Body Farm

wired.com Jess Thomson 2025-12-05 21:00:00

Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies. These corpses have been strategically laid out in rows, naked as the day they were born, and left to the mercy of the elements until all that’s left of them are bones. It sounds like a scene out of a horror film, but these places are real. They’re called taphonomic research facilities, or sometimes “body farms”—sites where forensic scientists study how the human body decomposes. (Don’t worry,

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Video Games Weekly: Climbing games are so hot right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-05 15:07:48

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week. The climbing genre is n

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SpaceX's Starship deploys its payload for the first time

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-05 17:50:30

SpaceX has successfully launched the Starship for its 10th test flight after it was delayed a couple of times due to weather conditions and other issues. This time, the company was able to achieve its objectives without the vehicle and its booster exploding mid-test. One of those objectives was deploying Starship's payload for the first time ever. If you'll recall, Starship exploded during its ascent stage in the company's seventh and eighth test flights. The vehicle made it to space for its nin

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Retry Loop Retry

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 11:00:34

Retry Loop Retry Some time ago I lamented that I don’t know how to write a retry loop such that: it is syntactically obvious that the amount of retries is bounded, there’s no spurious extra sleep after the last attempt, the original error is reported if retrying fails, there’s no code duplication in the loop. https://matklad.github.io/2023/12/21/retry-loop.html To recap, we have fn action () E ! T { ... } fn is_transient_error (err: E) bool { ... } and we need to write fn action_with_r

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Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers

news.ycombinator.com Geoff Brumfiel 2025-12-05 20:50:24

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers toggle caption Wesley Lapointe/The Washington Post/Getty Images A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud. That private cloud environment is accessible by other former DOGE employees at the SSA and is lacking adequate security, the whi

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Show HN: Regolith – Regex library that prevents ReDoS CVEs in TypeScript

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 16:54:07

Regolith A server-side TypeScript and JavaScript library immune to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks by using Rust and linear Regex under the hood. Regolith has a linear worst case time complexity, compared to the default RegExp found in TypeScript and JavaScript, which has an exponential worst case. Motivation: I wanted a Regex library for TypeScript and JavaScript where I didn't have to worry about ReDoS attacks. Important Regolith is still early in development! We need h

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 27, #1530

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 14:45:00

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle was a bit of a relief after a few days of solidly tough ones, I thought. It's not a "gimme," but it's certainly guessable. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answe

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 27, #808

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 14:51:00

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a mix. I saw the yellow category right away, and was so proud of myself, but the others weren't as simple. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 27 #542

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 15:00:00

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle isn't too tough, though there are a whopping seven answers to find in the grid. They're all pretty simple words to unscramble though, and the theme is an easy one. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 27, #338

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 15:12:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition features a lot of names, and I tend to do terribly on those puzzles. I do even worse when the puzzle editors change a letter in a bunch of names, as they did today. So I did terribly. But you can still solve the puzzle! Read on for hints and the answers. Co

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Verily is closing its medical device program as Alphabet shifts more resources to AI

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-05 14:14:19

In Brief Alphabet’s life sciences arm Verily laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program Monday. CEO Stephen Gillett announced the “difficult decision” to wind down the program in a staff memo, according to Business Insider. “Over the years, Verily has built a legacy in developing world-class, innovative medical devices,” Gillett wrote, noting that the “path forward requires difficult decisions” as Verily refocuses on AI and data infrastructure. The move continues Alphabet’s agg

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How procedural memory can cut the cost and complexity of AI agents

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-12-05 18:37:23

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new technique from Zhejiang University and Alibaba Group gives large language model (LLM) agents a dynamic memory, making them more efficient and effective at complex tasks. The technique, called Memp, provides agents with a “procedural memory” that is continuously updated as they gain experience, much like how humans learn from practice.

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Eyecam

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 02:12:31

More info about the project, or request for more media? Contact me at [email protected] . You can download the HD pictures ( mirror ) and the HD video (without captions: link ). Interested in building one ? Eyecam is Open-Source ! What is Eyecam? Eye contact. Human eyes are crucial for communication. Through the look, we can perceive happiness, anger, boredom or fatigue. The eyes move around when someone is curious and took straight to maintain focus. We are familiar with these interact

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Microsoft headquarters go into lockdown after activists take over Brad Smith’s office

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-05 18:32:17

Protesters stormed Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters on Monday and made it into president Brad Smith’s office in Building 34, forcing a temporary lockdown. The “No Azure for Apartheid” group reportedly live-streamed their sit-in on Twitch, hoisting banners, chanting ‘Brad Smith, you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide!’ and posting a mock legal summons charging Smith with “crimes against humanity.” TechCrunch has reached out to Microsoft for more information. According to The Verge, the prot

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Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome in limited beta, but prompt injection attacks remain a major concern

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-05 23:22:13

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic has begun testing a Chrome browser extension that allows its Claude AI assistant to take control of users’ web browsers, marking the company’s entry into an increasingly crowded and potentially risky arena where artificial intelligence systems can directly manipulate computer interfaces. The San Francisco-based AI company announc

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14-year prison term sought over theft of trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process [U]

Alphabet's Verily closes its medical device division and lays off staff

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Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem

Microsoft Locks Down Building After Protesters Breach President’s Office

OpenAI says it plans ChatGPT changes after lawsuit blamed chatbot for teen's suicide

India is still working on sewer robots

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Internet Access Providers Aren't Bound by DMCA Unmasking Subpoenas–In Re Cox

WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser

AI Is Crushing the Early Career Job Market, Stanford Study Finds

What It's Like to Work at a Body Farm

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Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers

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Verily is closing its medical device program as Alphabet shifts more resources to AI

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Eyecam

Microsoft headquarters go into lockdown after activists take over Brad Smith’s office

Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome in limited beta, but prompt injection attacks remain a major concern

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