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Microsoft begins cleaning legacy drivers from Windows Update

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-09-04 05:48:00

Forward-looking: Microsoft has traditionally maintained strong backward compatibility with older hardware and software. However, the company is now working to phase out as many legacy drivers as possible in an effort to streamline the Windows Update process and reduce its overall complexity. According to a recent post addressing partners in the Windows Hardware Program, Microsoft is working to remove legacy drivers from the Windows Update system. The company says the goal is to reduce security

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Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-04 05:04:22

Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger, with the largest one yet, measured at 7.3 terabits per second, being reported Friday by Internet security and performance provider Cloudflare. The 7.3Tbps attack amounted to 37.4 terabytes of junk traffic that hit the target in just 45 seconds. That's an almost incomprehensible amount of data, equivalent to more than 9,300 full-length HD movies or 7,500 hours of H

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Billions of login credentials have been leaked online

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 08:37:14

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers at cybersecurity outlet Cybernews say that billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving criminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day. According to a report published this week, Cybernews researchers have recently discovered 30 exposed datasets that each contain a vast amount of login information — amounting to a total of 16 billion compromised credentials. That includes user passwords for a range of p

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Show HN: SecureBuild – Zero-CVE Images That Pay OSS Projects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 11:04:31

Revenue Sharing We share subscription revenue with your project maintainers or foundation, creating a sustainable funding source for your open source work. 70% of revenue goes to maintainers, while 30% goes to SecureBuild.

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16 billion passwords leaked from Apple, Google, more: Here are the facts and how to protect yourself

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-09-04 17:32:00

Moor Studio/Getty With so much news about data breaches, you have to be careful not to panic each time you hear of a new one. Take the latest report of a major breach. In the headline for a recent story published by Cybernews, the cybersecurity media outlet said that 16 billion passwords were exposed in a record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable. Sounds scary, right? But reading the story itself paints a different picture. Also:

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A Python-first data lakehouse

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 23:22:03

“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible”. Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things. Data and ML scientists - A life in the middle Despite AI eating the world and data becoming one of the most important things for every company on the planet, but getting models from prototype to production is still pretty problematic. According to HBR , fewer than 1 in 5 models ever make it into prod

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Cloudflare blocks record 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack against hosting provider

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-04 21:54:10

Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in May 2025 that peaked at 7.3 Tbps, targeting a hosting provider. DDoS attacks flood targets with massive amounts of traffic with the sole aim to overwhelm servers and create service slowdowns, disruptions, or outages. This new attack, which is 12% larger than the previous record, delivered a massive data volume of 37.4 TB in just 45 seconds. This is the equivalent of about 7,500 hours of HD streaming o

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Are 16 billion compromised passwords really part of a newly discovered data breach?

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-09-05 01:26:00

A hot potato: Researchers have reportedly discovered a massive, unprecedented archive containing billions upon billions of compromised user credentials. Dubbed the "Mother of All Breaches," the archive has sparked debate among experts about the true significance of this newly uncovered trove. According to UN sources, the world population surpassed eight billion people in 2022. Now, Cybernews reporters claim they have uncovered a new record-breaking data breach exposing 16 billion passwords link

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Cursed New Dating App Matches You Based on the Most Deranged Thing We Can Imagine

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-05 00:09:58

A newly-developed dating app matches potential lovers based on their entire internet browsing histories — and we're not quite sure how we feel about it. As Wired reports, the new service is straightforwardly-named "Browser Dating," and is the brainchild of Belgian artiste provocateur Dries Depoorter. After years creating one-off projects like "Shirt," a top that increases one euro each time it's purchased, Depoorter took a different route with his new app that invites lonely users to upload th

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Amazon improves Kindle accessibility with new text spacing adjustments

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-05 01:07:35

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. Amazon released a new software update for several recent Kindle models last week. The company’s release notes only mention “performance improvements, bug fixes, and other general enhancements,” but the update includes notable upgrades when it comes to adjusting text and line spacing, improving legibility and accessibility for many users, as spott

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Microsoft to remove legacy drivers from Windows Update for security boost

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-05 05:05:43

Microsoft has announced plans to periodically remove legacy drivers from the Windows Update catalog to mitigate security and compatibility risks. "The rationale behind this initiative is to ensure that we have the optimal set of drivers on Windows Update that cater to a variety of hardware devices across the windows ecosystem, while making sure that Microsoft Windows security posture is not compromised," Microsoft said. "This initiative involves periodic cleanup of drivers from Windows Update,

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How to clear your Android phone cache (and why you should do it before installing Android 16)

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-09-05 09:30:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Google recently released Android 16 to Pixel devices and select OEMs, bringing performance improvements, new Material You changes, and more upgrades. If you want to try this update but are hesitant because you've noticed your Android phone or tablet already feels too sluggish, clearing app and browser caches can give it a fresh boost and free up some storage space. Over time, cached data can accumulate, become corrupted, or simply get outdated, which may slow down

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Do you use mobile data while connected to Wi-Fi? It’s complicated.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-05 18:00:23

Robert Triggs / Android Authority When it comes to smartphones, the common sentiment is that your Wi-Fi network will always take precedence over your mobile connection. In other words, those with data caps generally don’t have to worry about mobile data being consumed during lengthy Wi-Fi sessions. But is this always true? Generally, yes, but the situation is slightly more complicated than you might think. There are indeed a few reasons your phone could end up using mobile data even when connec

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Your TV's USB port has an underutilized benefit that can revitalize an old system

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-05 15:00:14

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Recently, I wrote about the various uses of the USB ports that come standard on the back or side of any smart TV. In this article, I'm focusing on one particular important use: installing firmware updates using a USB device. Also: How to disable ACR on your TV (and why doing so makes such a big difference) Updates are essential because they ensure your TV has the latest software, features, and security patches. Most smart TVs are designed to automatically check for and install

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184 million passwords for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and more leaked in massive data breach

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-05 17:52:00

JuSun/Getty Images Yet another data breach has exposed passwords and other sensitive information – but this one is a whopper. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler revealed his discovery of a massive online database containing more than 184 million unique account credentials, in a report published late last month. Usernames, passwords, emails, and URLs for a host of applications and websites, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, among others, were stored in

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RaptorCast: Designing a Messaging Layer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 10:57:44

RaptorCast: Designing a Messaging Layer ‍ In Proof of Stake blockchains, a pre-determined leader typically proposes a block of transactions at each round. The propagation of this block to all validators is one of the most challenging and time-consuming steps in the consensus protocol. In this blog post, we examine RaptorCast, a solution designed to address the following considerations: Performance - a block proposal needs to be sent quickly to the rest of the network Security - each recipien

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No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-06 05:51:41

News broke today of a "mother of all breaches," sparking wide media coverage filled with warnings and fear-mongering. However, it appears to be a compilation of previously leaked credentials stolen by infostealers, exposed in data breaches, and via credential stuffing attacks. To be clear, this is not a new data breach, or a breach at all, and the websites involved were not recently compromised to steal these credentials. Instead, these stolen credentials were likely circulating for some time,

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Security may not be exciting, but AWS proves it's essential

techspot.com Bob O'Donnell 2025-09-07 01:26:00

Editor's take: If I'm being totally honest, it's difficult to get excited about improved security capabilities in the tech world. I know they're incredibly important and absolutely essential to keep everything functional in today's cyberthreat-filled world. But it's kind of like thinking about insurance – not much fun. On top of that, by necessity, security updates need to be released at a rate that's as fast (or even faster) than the latest technological innovations in order to keep bad actors

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Finding Dead Websites

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 12:03:01

As some of the work planned for Marginalia Search this year has been progressing a bit faster than anticipated, there was time to implement an unplanned change. This post details the implementation of a system for detecting when servers are online, to avoid serving dead links and improve data quality, and for detecting when websites have significant changes including ownership transfers and parking. Table Of Contents Feature Rationale Availability detection is useful not just for filtering o

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In-Memory C++ Leap in Blockchain Analysis

news.ycombinator.com Nate Tuganov 2025-09-07 01:40:45

Real-Time, Court-Admissible Crypto Intelligence at 1/400th the Cost of Inferior Legacy Systems The explosion of blockchain data isn’t just a challenge; it’s a crisis for conventional analytics. Financial institutions, investigators, and law enforcement agencies are hamstrung by tools that are too slow, expensive, and built on legacy database technologies incapable of keeping pace. Critical insights are missed, opportunities vanish, and illicit activities remain obscured by systems that offer on

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Android 16 for Pixels brings too many bugs for a ‘stable’ update, but at least one is getting fixed

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-08 01:01:12

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 is causing a very annoying bug where Pixel phones take too long to wake up. Google is aware of the issue and is working on a fix, and temporary workarounds are also available. This is one of several bugs reported by users after the Android 16 update, but there are many more, including freezing lock screens and unresponsive gestures. Android 16 is the flavor of the season, and Pixel owners are already enjoying the latest Baklava update. Granted,

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A staggering 16 billion logins exposed in epic data breach, including Apple accounts

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-08 02:06:56

Security researchers have discovered what they describe as “one of the largest data breaches in history,” comprising a staggering 16 billion logins, which include Apple accounts (formerly known as Apple IDs). The researchers said that the stolen data gives cybercriminals “unprecedented access to personal credentials that can be used for account takeover, identity theft, and highly targeted phishing” … You may recall a report last month that Apple login credentials were among a massive database

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Krispy Kreme says November data breach impacts over 160,000 people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-08 00:59:49

U.S. doughnut chain Krispy Kreme confirmed that attackers stole the personal information of over 160,000 individuals in a November 2024 cyberattack. The American multinational coffeehouse chain employed 22,800 people in 40 countries as of December 2023 and operates 1,521 shops and 15,800 points of access. It also manages four "Doughnut Factories" in the United States and 37 others internationally, and it partners with McDonald's to have its products sold in thousands of McDonald's locations wo

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Everything You Should Know About Enhanced Visual Search on Your iPhone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 01:00:04

Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9 that the next version of the iPhone operating system is called iOS 26. The tech giant said iOS 26 will bring a transparent glass design to icons and menus, the Camera and Photos apps will get redesigned interfaces and much more to iPhones. But when Apple released iOS 18 in September 2024, it included a feature called Enhanced Visual Search, and some people online have voiced privacy concerns about the feature. Read more: Everythin

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Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights

news.ycombinator.com Author Notes 2025-09-05 11:25:22

The Nachtlichter app was developed within a project called Nachtlicht-BüHNE (Citizen-Helmholtz Network for research on night light phenomena)5, using a co-design process in which academic and citizen scientists met regularly over a several year period. Our co-design process, app methodology, site selection, systematic variability of the observations, data pre-processing and data structure have already been described in detail5. This section therefore briefly covers the data and validation and fo

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T-Mobile Data Breach Settlement Checks Are Arriving: Here's the Scoop

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 07:39:00

Check your bank account lately? Is there an unexpected deposit from a company you don't recognize? It could be the money you're due from T-Mobile's 2022 class-action settlement. Those who qualify were told to expect settlement checks in April, but then that was moved to May. And now, in mid-June, as cited by Android Authority, Reddit users are saying they are seeing money in their bank accounts. Some are saying they received $56, but others are reporting amounts as high as $375. The account the

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Smart TV OS owners face “constant conflict” between privacy, advertiser demands

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-08 13:36:24

StreamTV Insider provided flights from New York City to Denver and two nights of accommodation so Ars could attend its StreamTV Show. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. DENVER—Most smart TV operating system (OS) owners are in the ad sales business now. Software providers for budget and premium TVs are honing their ad skills, which requires advancing their ability to collect user data. This is creating an “inherent conflict” within the industry, Takashi Nakano, VP of content and program

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Spatializing 6k years of global urbanization from 3700 BC to AD 2000

news.ycombinator.com Reba 2025-09-05 08:53:25

Transcription Chandler’s book includes population data from 2250 BC to AD 1975 in various charts and tables. The book contains 656 9×5.5 inch pages and is divided into multiple sections, including Sources and Methods, Continental Tables and Maps (highlighting locations of major cities as illustrated in Fig. 4), Data Sheets for Ancient Cities (the main tables of the book shown in Fig. 1), Tables of the World’s Largest Cities, and Whereabouts of Unfamiliar Cities. Each page in the Data Sheets for

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Wyze adds major security update to its security cameras after numerous security lapses

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-09 01:17:35

Wyze, the Seattle-based tech company that specializes in smart home products and wireless cameras, has released a major security update that it hopes will rebuild some lost trust. The company has been plagued by numerous security failures over the past few years, most notably when an AWS outage led to thousands of users gaining access to recorded videos from other people’s homes. That incident, paired with the company’s history of lackluster responses to security flaws, even led The New York Tim

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OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-09 01:16:21

OpenAI is phasing out its work with Scale AI and cutting ties with the data provider following Meta’s deal with the startup, an OpenAI spokesperson told Bloomberg on Wednesday. Sarah Friar, the chief financial officer of OpenAI, previously suggested the company would continue its work with Scale AI. Now, it appears OpenAI has changed its tone. OpenAI said it was already winding down its work with Scale AI ahead of Meta’s announcement last week that it was investing billions of dollars in the s

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Latest Tech News

Microsoft begins cleaning legacy drivers from Windows Update

Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic

Billions of login credentials have been leaked online

Show HN: SecureBuild – Zero-CVE Images That Pay OSS Projects

16 billion passwords leaked from Apple, Google, more: Here are the facts and how to protect yourself

A Python-first data lakehouse

Cloudflare blocks record 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack against hosting provider

Are 16 billion compromised passwords really part of a newly discovered data breach?

Cursed New Dating App Matches You Based on the Most Deranged Thing We Can Imagine

Amazon improves Kindle accessibility with new text spacing adjustments

Microsoft to remove legacy drivers from Windows Update for security boost

How to clear your Android phone cache (and why you should do it before installing Android 16)

Do you use mobile data while connected to Wi-Fi? It’s complicated.

Your TV's USB port has an underutilized benefit that can revitalize an old system

184 million passwords for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and more leaked in massive data breach

RaptorCast: Designing a Messaging Layer

No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach

Security may not be exciting, but AWS proves it's essential

Finding Dead Websites

In-Memory C++ Leap in Blockchain Analysis

Android 16 for Pixels brings too many bugs for a ‘stable’ update, but at least one is getting fixed

A staggering 16 billion logins exposed in epic data breach, including Apple accounts

Krispy Kreme says November data breach impacts over 160,000 people

Everything You Should Know About Enhanced Visual Search on Your iPhone

Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights

T-Mobile Data Breach Settlement Checks Are Arriving: Here's the Scoop

Smart TV OS owners face “constant conflict” between privacy, advertiser demands

Spatializing 6k years of global urbanization from 3700 BC to AD 2000

Wyze adds major security update to its security cameras after numerous security lapses

OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal

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