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Whistleblower claims DOGE uploaded Social Security data to unsecure cloud server

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-06 12:42:51

(Wesley Lapointe for The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer, Charles Borges, has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded a copy of a key Social Security database to an unsecured cloud environment in June, the New York Times reported. This may have exposed the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans. The complaint alleges that under the authority

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This new Pixel 10 battery feature is stirring up controversy - here's why

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-06 12:43:52

Joseph Maldonado/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Pixel 10 lineup has a controversial battery health feature. Users don't have the option to turn it off. The feature limits your phone's battery capacity over time. If you're a Google Pixel 10 series phone owner, a mandatory feature will limit your device's battery life. Whether that's a good thing or not depends on how you approach it. Earlier this year, Google introduced a Battery Healt

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Show HN: SecretMemoryLocker – File Encryption Without Static Passwords

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 05:39:42

💾 SecretMemoryLocker (SecretML v2.23) Your personal digital vault – protected by your memories. 💡 Upcoming Feature: SecretML-Seed (SML-Seed) — your personal recovery key, coming soon and fully functional! 🚀 What's New in v2.23 — MirageLoop (SML-ML) Secret Memory Locker v2.23 introduces the unique MirageLoop (SML-ML) feature. This is not just an update — it’s a new reality of protection. 🔐 How it works When a wrong answer to a security question is entered — MirageLoop activates. to a sec

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Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity—and It’s a Glimpse Into the Future

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-06 12:05:02

Scientists believe saltwater could become a reliable source of renewable energy through a process known as osmosis. Japan has now taken a major step in that direction. Earlier this month, Japan officially launched its first osmotic power plant in Fukuoka, a large city to the west of Tokyo. That makes Japan the second country in the world to bet on osmotic power, after Denmark. Fukuoka’s plant is expected to generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity each year, enough to supply approxi

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Kanye’s Crypto Journey Gets Significantly Weirder

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-06 12:58:17

Kanye West (or Ye, as he’s known now) last week announced his first foray into the cryptocurrency industry with what his X account said was a new memecoin, YZY. “The official Yeezy token just dropped,” said a bored-looking West in a video posted on his X account. This, in and of itself, was somewhat bizarre (West had previously sworn off memecoins) and some web users speculated that the video may have been AI-generated. The coin immediately skyrocketed in value, climbing—in the span of a few ho

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Verizon's Bringing Back That Landline Feeling With Its New Family Plan Feature

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-06 11:55:00

When we talk about a cellular "family plan," we mean a bundle of several individual phone lines for each person in a typical household. The plan usually includes features like high-speed data or a streaming video service that each family member can share. Now, Verizon has updated an add-on for its phone plans that's meant to bring the family closer together. The Verizon Family Plus perk, which offers features such as location check-ins and content filters, now includes Family Line, where up to

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Apple set to unveil next-gen iPhones and other devices on September 9

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-06 12:16:50

Apple is hosting its next product event on Tuesday, September 9, at 10 am Pacific and 1 pm Eastern, the company announced today. Though Apple's event announcements rarely indicate what the company plans to talk about, the company's September events for well over a decade have all revolved around the iPhone. The event will be available to stream from YouTube or from Apple's events website. Rumors about this year's iPhones point to a more significant redesign than in recent years, though Apple i

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31 Best Early Labor Day Sales on WIRED-Tested Gear (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-12-06 11:59:28

Labor Day is not until September 1, but retailers are already offering oodles of Labor Day deals. The unofficial end of summer, a celebration of the American worker's contribution to our national prosperity, brings with it bargains on WIRED-tested gear, including home office essentials and some of our favorite gadgets. For the next couple of weeks, we'll be cruising and perusing for the latest true discounts on the gear we recommend to our friends—and rounding them all up for you below. Check o

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Framework is working on a giant haptic touchpad, Trackpoint nub, and eGPU for its laptops

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-12-06 12:46:19

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. Today, Framework announced the second-gen Framework Laptop 16 with two industry firsts: the first Nvidia graphics card upgrade you can perform at home in just a couple minutes, and the first complete 240W laptop charging solution over a USB-C cable. Bu

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Libby’s library app adds an AI discovery feature, and not everyone is thrilled

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-06 12:15:26

Library e-book and audiobook app Libby is adding AI, much to the disappointment of some readers and librarians, who would prefer not to have AI inserted into their favorite apps. The new feature, “Inspire Me,” allows users to get book recommendations by using prompts or from their previously saved titles in Libby. To use the feature, readers tap on the “Inspire Me” options on Libby’s home page, where they can ask for fiction or nonfiction, then narrow down the suggestions by other factors, like

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Dyson's Labor Day sale includes the 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum for $500 off

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-06 17:27:59

Dyson is holding a Labor Day sale right now, with discounts on a bunch of products . The well-reviewed 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum is available for just $500 , which is a discount of 50 percent. That's a seriously great deal and the lowest price we've seen for this product. The Vis Nav made our list of the best robot vacuums , primarily based on the unit's superior suction power. This thing can pull up dirt like a beast. We said it had the strongest suction power of any robovac we've tested and ea

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Nevada closes state offices as cyberattack disrupts IT systems

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-06 17:33:20

Nevada remains two days into a cyberattack that began early Sunday, disrupting government websites, phone systems, and online platforms, and forcing all state offices to close on Monday. The impact of the attack was first felt on Sunday morning, with the Governor's Technology Office stating that a 'network issue' began around 1:52 AM PT, affecting the state's IT systems. The Governor's Technology Office warned that websites, online services, and phone lines could be slow or unavailable as team

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Anonymous structavaganza in Zig

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 15:35:35

Mon Aug 25 2025 When statements disappear, what remains of good semantics? Let’s see what side effects have been introduced! To start, observe this truly primordial ‘C code; struct A {}; struct B {}; void example ( struct A e ); int main (){ example (( struct B){}); } clang output: error: passing 'struct B' to parameter of incompatible type 'struct A' example((struct B ){}); ^~~~~~~~~~~~ THE TYPES ARE UNIQUE. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES! THE ARE NOMINALLY DIFFERENT. And such it is for all

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Interactive map of Paul's first century travels in Roman world

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 04:42:58

DIVE DEEPER INTO THE JOURNEYS OF PAUL We are attempting to visit every one of Paul's stops along his four journeys, with plans to complete it late 2026. Follow along on daily updates on our recently launched Instagram @ kingdoms.collide

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Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center

news.ycombinator.com Delaney Nolan 2025-12-06 14:10:42

On a quiet patch of former farmland in northeastern Louisiana, a fleet of excavators has leveled more than 2,000 acres of reddish clay earth. This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line. Enter Meta—the sixth-largest company in the world by market cap. The tech giant is keen on making Richland home to its wildest AI aspirations—courtesy of a trem

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Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant

news.ycombinator.com Ima Caldwell 2025-12-04 18:53:35

Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant, in the south-western city of Fukuoka. Only the second power plant of its type in the world, it is expected to generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity each year – enough to help power a desalination plant that supplies fresh water to the city and neighbouring areas. That’s the equivalent of powering about 220 Japanese households, according to Dr Ali Altaee from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), who specialises in the developm

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YouTube TV Subscribers Could Lose NFL and College Football Without a Deal by Tomorrow Night

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-06 16:55:00

As an Ohio native and a Buckeye fan since birth, I am filled with nerves and excitement at the start of every college football season. And I'm feeling all the feelings even more so this year with the defending champion Ohio State Buckeyes opening the season against the preseason No. 1 Texas Longhorns and with a quarterback making his first college start. I'll know a lot more about this year's team after Saturday's game -- if I'm able to watch it. Adding to my anxious feelings this week is the o

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DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-06 17:30:30

A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of most Americans at risk of compromise. Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, said in a newly released whistleblower complaint published Tuesday that other top agency officials signed off on

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Apple announces launch event on Sept. 9, iPhone 17 expected

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-06 22:18:56

Apple on Tuesday sent invites to the media and analysts for a launch event at its campus on September 9 at 10 A.M pacific time. The tagline on the invite is: "Awe dropping." Apple is expected to release new iPhones, as it usually does in September. This year's model would be the iPhone 17. It also often announces new Apple Watch models in September. While Apple's launch events used to be held live, with executives demonstrating features on stage, since 2020 they have been pre-recorded videos.

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The Download: America’s drone brothers, and an upside of AI doomerism

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-06 17:10:00

In 2024 alone, 350 known drone incursions were reported over a hundred different US military installations. A lack of coordination or even clarity from the White House, Pentagon or US intelligence community has led some in domestic law enforcement to turn to an unlikely source for help cracking the case of these mystery drones: two UFO hunters out on Long Island in New York called John and Gerald Tedesco. The twin brothers each spent about three decades in the private sector working in electr

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Galaxy S26 Ultra rumor hints at the return of a nostalgic design choice from 2021

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-06 22:03:45

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR The Galaxy S26 Ultra is rumored to get some major camera improvements. Those improvements could lead to Samsung bringing back the camera island. The design of the bump may be similar to the one we saw on the Galaxy S21 Ultra. For a few years now, Samsung has relied on nearly identical design language for its flagship Ultra phones. In fact, the Galaxy S24 Ultra and Galaxy S25 Ultra look so similar that you could easily confuse one for the other. But Samsun

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Why Apple is fighting legal battles in two countries over 12 cents per iPhone

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-06 22:55:27

Apple is engaged in legal battles in both the UK and the US over 4G patents used in its mobile devices. The company has applied for permission to appeal a UK verdict which would cost it an additional 12 cents per iPhone. While this might sound crazy, the company says that very much more is at stake, not just for its own business, but for companies of every size … Three quick pieces of jargon In order to make any mobile device, you need licenses to use a whole bunch of patents. These patents a

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That post-grad software job might be harder to get, thanks to AI

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-12-06 22:53:48

Carol Yepes/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Entry-level jobs in fields susceptible to AI automation are seeing a decline. Workers 25 and under are witnessing the greatest decline in employment. Jobs are steady or growing in fields where AI augments (not automates) work. Entry-level software workers are feeling the brunt of the AI boom, according to the latest findings from three Stanford economists. A new paper evaluating

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Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs: The Truth in Job Advertising and Accountability Act

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Liu 2025-12-06 22:27:51

When Eric Thompson lost his job in October 2024 and started looking for a new one, he began a drawn-out battle with something many job seekers have come to know too well: the dreaded ghost job. He became so fed up with the practice that he's put together a working group to propose the Truth in Job Advertising and Accountability Act, or federal legislation that would make the practice illegal. The first time Thompson, 53, heard the term "ghost job," it was 2023 and his friend was discussing apply

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Show HN: My OSS P2P file transfer tool for learning Next.js (as a C++ dev)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 21:53:22

Free Secure Online Clipboard & File Transfer Tool P2P transfers that pick up where you left off. Experience truly reliable, private, and unstoppable file and text sharing—no registration, no file size or speed limits, completely free.

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Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

news.ycombinator.com Jessica Mathews 2025-12-04 04:12:14

It was February 2024 when Noland Arbaugh, the first person to get Elon Musk’s experimental brain chip, rolled across the stage in a wheelchair during a Neuralink “all hands” meeting, revealing his identity for the first time. The room, filled with Neuralink employees, erupted in applause as Arbaugh—who dislocated two of his vertebrae in a swimming accident in 2016 and has since lost sensation and movement below his shoulders—smiled ear to ear in his chair, a red Texas A&M hat planted on his hea

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OOMProf: Profiling on the Brink

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 05:00:55

It was just a little while past the Sunset Strip They found the girl's body in an open pit Her mouth was sewn shut, but her eyes were still wide Gazing through the fog to the other side "Black River Killer" by Blitzen Trapper Introduction This one's personal! For 15 years working on DBMS systems the OOM killer has led to more than its fair share of debugging rabbit holes. Anyone who's been around the block in Linux systems programming has probably crossed paths with the Linux OOM killer. This

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One universal antiviral to rule them all?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 20:07:42

For a few dozen people in the world, the downside of living with a rare immune condition comes with a surprising superpower—the ability to fight off all viruses. Columbia immunologist Dusan Bogunovic discovered the individuals’ antiviral powers about 15 years ago, soon after he identified the genetic mutation that causes the condition. At first, the condition only seemed to increase vulnerability to some bacterial infections. But as more patients were identified, its unexpected antiviral benef

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OpenAI Makes a Play for Healthcare

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-06 22:14:34

OpenAI is going all in on healthcare AI. The company added two new leaders to its burgeoning healthcare AI team, Business Insider found, and is hiring for more researchers and engineers. Nate Gross, co-founder and former chief strategy officer of healthcare business networking tool Doximity, joined OpenAI in June, and according to Business Insider will lead the company’s go-to-market strategy in healthcare. One of the early goals of the team will reportedly be to co-create new healthcare tech

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Spotify Introduces In-App Messaging for Sharing Music Recommendations With Your Friends

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-06 21:55:00

The subscribers spoke, and Spotify listened. This week, the 19-year-old Swedish music streaming service will begin rolling out Messages within the Spotify app for subscribers to share recommendations about music, podcasts and audiobooks. Messages will be available to Free and Premium members 16 and older on mobile devices in certain markets. Spotify says it will "continue building and refining the experience for more Spotify users around the globe in the months ahead." The company stressed th

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