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The New Math of Quantum Cryptography

wired.com Ben Brubaker 2025-10-13 17:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them will doom most forms of cryptography. Several years ago, researchers found a radically new approach to encryption that lacks this potential weak spot. The approach exploits the peculiar features of quantum physics. But unlike earlier qua

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Forget Search, these 2 Google services desperately need Preferred Sources instead

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 20:00:56

Andy Walker / Android Authority It seems like everyone celebrated the announcement of Preferred Sources for Google Search. Don’t get me wrong; it’s a good idea. Giving consumers more control over their internet experience is definitely the way to go. However, I find it a somewhat pointless addition to a tool I use to find a variety of sources and not merely highlight my favorites. Beyond Search, I argue that two other Google products would benefit from Preferred Sources: News and Discover. I’v

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Apple TV+ sees early Emmys success with wins for Severance and The Studio

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-10-13 20:33:36

The 77th Emmy Awards ceremony officially takes place next Sunday, where the biggest industry TV awards will be given out. But, the Emmys actually has so many awards they reveal some of the winners a week early. Based on these preliminary results, Apple TV+ is set for success. In total, the service amassed 15 wins, thanks to its powerhouse players this season of comedy The Studio and sci-fi drama Severance. The Studio has been the frontrunner to win the prestigious Outstanding Comedy Series awa

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X-COM creator Julian Gollop discusses his most important games (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Alex Wiltshire 2025-10-11 06:08:23

Julian Gollop's PC Gamer columns Did you know Julian Gollop has written four columns for us, including subjects like the creation of the deck builder genre? Find them all here. This article was originally published in issue 313 of Edge, an extremely good magazine about computer games. Subscribe here in print or digital. Of a generation of early British game creators, only a handful are still making games today. Still fewer have threaded their careers through so many of the tectonic shifts and

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Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 11:57:59

The use of effective sunscreen can reduce the harm caused to the skin by ultraviolet rays (UV) and slow down skin aging. The Consumer Council tested 30 models of sunscreen for daily use and over 80% of them were found to perform below their respective labelled efficacy. The measured sunscreen efficacy of 4 models were below SPF15, of which 2 were sunscreen products with very high protection i.e. labelled with SPF50+. Among the 23 models using the “PA System” which is commonly adopted by Asian co

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Being good isn't enough

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 12:01:35

Being good isn’t enough 06 Sep, 2025 Giving good career advice is hard. Maybe it’s because careers can look more alike than they really are. Two people can have the same title but what helps one could be rubbish for another. Or maybe it’s that “good advice” itself is fuzzy. It depends entirely on the person receiving it. For some people it means finding work they love. For others it’s about meaning. For many it’s just getting promoted. Still, here’s what I usually say. You have to be good at

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How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 11:14:26

Contents: Part I: Technical Analysis Part II: Goals Analysis Part III: Threat Intelligence Report Executive Summary A rare and revealing breach attributed to a North Korean-affiliated actor, known only as “Kim” as named by the hackers who dumped the data, has delivered a new insight into Kimsuky (APT43) tactics, techniques, and infrastructure. This actor’s operational profile showcases credential-focused intrusions targeting South Korean and Taiwanese networks, with a blending of Chinese-la

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Apple now selling certified refurbished Apple Pencil Pro for nearly 20% off

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-13 18:40:00

Recently, Apple begun stocking its latest Apple Pencil Pro on its certified refurbished store – allowing customers to pick up a like-new Apple Pencil Pro for their compatible iPad model at a lower price. Apple Pencil Pro has been on the market for well over a year now. For the first time, customers can now buy an Apple certified refurbished model for $109 – nearly 20% off from its typical $129 MSRP. Apple Pencil Pro is compatible with Apple’s most recent iPad models, excluding iPad (A16). If y

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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-10-13 00:23:35

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google’s CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed media reports accusing Gmail of disproportionately flagging messages from the GOP fundraising platform WinRed and sending them to the spam folder. But according to experts who track daily spam volumes worldwide, WinRed’s messages are getting b

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Matmul on Blackwell: Part 2 – Using Hardware Features to Optimize Matmul

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 15:16:18

In the first blog post in this series we explained Nvidia's Blackwell GPU architecture and concluded with a 4 line kernel that was a bit worse than cuBLAS. In fact, the performance was a lot worse coming in at 0.3% of cuBLAS and leaving 1758 TFLops on the table. In this post we are going to continue our journey and improve our performance by more than 50x our initial kernel benchmark. Along the way we are going to explain more GPU programming concepts and leverage novel Blackwell features. Note

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How the "Kim" dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 16:14:26

Contents: Part I: Technical Analysis Part II: Goals Analysis Part III: Threat Intelligence Report Executive Summary A rare and revealing breach attributed to a North Korean-affiliated actor, known only as “Kim” as named by the hackers who dumped the data, has delivered a new insight into Kimsuky (APT43) tactics, techniques, and infrastructure. This actor’s operational profile showcases credential-focused intrusions targeting South Korean and Taiwanese networks, with a blending of Chinese-la

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Google’s plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 14:00:38

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority Last week, Google dropped a bombshell: The company plans to verify the identity of all developers who distribute apps for Android, even those outside the Play Store. Starting next year, if a developer chooses not to verify their identity, Android will prevent their apps from being installed on certified devices (ie. devices with Google Mobile Services). This news sent shockwaves through the enthusiast community, with many criticizing Google for transforming An

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Are rechargeable batteries still worth buying in 2025? These USB-C ones say yes

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-13 11:00:20

Paleblue rechargable lithium ion batteries ZDNET's key takeaways These batteries are a perfect replacement for alkaline batteries in pretty much every situation I like that can be recharged from a USB port and don't need a specific charger The USB-A connector in the end of the 4-way charge cable does feel a bit dated View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. It's almost 2026, and yes, we still need batteries. But it no longer makes financial or ecological sense

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Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 08:28:08

Speeding up the Unreal Editor launch by … not spawning 38000 tooltips? If there is one thing the Unreal Engine doesn’t suffer from, it is it’s lack of features. Over the past years it has been transformed from “just” a game engine into an ‘everything machine’. Games, Movies, Live-Content, VFX, Previz, even virtual fashion shows – it’s a behemoth of an editor with a multitude of tools, most of which are barely used or even known by many of its users. This multitude of features comes with some d

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RFK Jr Is Suddenly in Real Trouble

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 13:07:17

Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has weathered ample family tragedy, drug and alcohol addiction, infection from an alleged brain worm, and a few sex scandals both minor and major — and now he's weathering condemnation from his own political allies that could presage a genuine crash out. Amid his single-minded quest against vaccines, the 71-year-old health secretary seems to have made a serious miscalculation when he chose to fire Centers for Disease Control and Prevent

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Samsung's new flagship Galaxy tablets are the iPad Pro for Android fans - but something's missing

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-13 19:00:17

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Museum of Color

news.ycombinator.com Stephanie Krzywonos 2025-10-10 12:05:27

Listen to this Story Narrated by Stephanie Krzywonos Contributor Bios Writer Stephanie Krzywonos is a Xicana nonfiction writer. Her forthcoming debut book is Ice Folx, an intersectional memoir set in the Antarctic underworld. She has written about her experiences on “the Ice” for Sierra Magazine, Ofrenda Magazine, The Willowherb Review, Kosmos Journal, The Dark Mountain Project, The Behemoth, and The Antarctic Sun. Artist Studio Airport, founded by Bram Broerse and Maurits Wouters, is an interdi

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Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning 38000 tooltips

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 18:28:08

Speeding up the Unreal Editor launch by … not spawning 38000 tooltips? If there is one thing the Unreal Engine doesn’t suffer from, it is it’s lack of features. Over the past years it has been transformed from “just” a game engine into an ‘everything machine’. Games, Movies, Live-Content, VFX, Previz, even virtual fashion shows – it’s a behemoth of an editor with a multitude of tools, most of which are barely used or even known by many of its users. This multitude of features comes with some d

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GOP Cries Censorship over Spam Filters That Work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 20:32:01

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google’s CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed media reports accusing Gmail of disproportionately flagging messages from the GOP fundraising platform WinRed and sending them to the spam folder. But according to experts who track daily spam volumes worldwide, WinRed’s messages are getting b

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5 Things We Loved, 3 Things We Didn’t About ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Part 2

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-13 21:15:54

Season 2 of Wednesday is finally available to watch in its entirety on Netflix. And while the first half introduced a solid return, the second half almost holds up before a messy to-be-continued conclusion. Tim Burton puts his whole Burtonesque business on full display with a third-act antagonist reveal that both works and doesn’t. The Addams family being at the mechanical heart of another mystery creates a lot of fun lore for Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) to discover about her parents. This time Mo

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The best Switch emulator just got a big update, with support for Silksong

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 11:30:10

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR The official stable release 0.0.3 of the Switch emulator Eden is now available. It adds performance updates, driver downloads, UI improvements, and bug fixes. The update also adds support for Hollow Knight: Silksong, which released just yesterday. It’s been just over a month since the Nintendo Switch emulator Eden dropped the release candidate for version 0.0.3, but after a few rounds of revisions, it’s finally ready for a stable release. The Yuzu for

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Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 01:20:39

As fall approaches and COVID cases tick up, you might be thinking about getting this season's COVID-19 vaccine. The annually updated shots have previously been easily accessible to anyone over 6 months of age. Most people could get them at no cost by simply walking into their neighborhood pharmacy—and that's what most people did. However, the situation is much different this year with an ardent anti-vaccine activist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the country's top health official. Since taking the

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Galaxy S26 Edge renders show the iPhone 17-like design, corroborate Qi2 magnets [Gallery]

9to5mac.com Ben Schoon 2025-10-13 21:14:40

Following an early leak yesterday, a new set of renders has essentially confirmed that the Galaxy S26 Edge will look a lot like Apple’s next iPhone, while apparently also adding Qi2 magnets. Images created by @OnLeaks for Android Headlines show what the Galaxy S26 Edge will look like, based on CAD files used for making accessories for the device. The renders show a device with a drastically different design that includes a full-width camera module, but only two cameras mounted on the far left s

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Trump’s New Labor Stats Guy is a Jan 6 ‘Bystander’ Accused of Unhinged Posts

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-14 05:05:16

President Trump recently fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, accusing her of having “rigged” job reports. In her place, Trump has selected E.J. Antoni, a former Heritage Foundation economist who was photographed at the January 6th debacle (but who claims he was just a “bystander” to the chaos) and who, according to reports from CNN and Wired, formerly ran a Twitter account that posted all sorts of gnarly stuff. Earlier this month, Wired reported that a since-dele

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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-10-14 13:14:28

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement, an estimated $3,000 per work. In a court motion on Friday, the plaintiffs emphasized that the terms of the settlement are “critical victories” and that going to trial would have been an “enormous” risk. This is the first class action settlement centered on AI and copyright in the United States, and the outcome may shape how regulators and creative industries

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Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Edge might look like an iPhone 17 Pro

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-14 09:52:29

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The rumor mill just churned up a purported render of Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Edge, and it only adds to speculation that the super-slim phone will look like the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro. The renders, shared with Android Headlines by reliable leaker OnLeaks, show a dev

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How to watch Flame Fatales 2025 speedrunning event

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 16:05:15

Games Done Quick’s all-women and femmes speedrunning event Flame Fatales kicks off on September 7 and goes until September 14. You can watch the marathon on the GDQ Twitch channel starting at 11:30AM ET. This is a week-long event, so the official schedule is packed with cool games. All told, there will be more than 50 speedruns . These will include recent hits like Blue Prince and Hades 2, in addition to classics like The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. There's also going to be a one-handed

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I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they apparently burn GBs a day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 13:40:08

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How big are our embeddings now and why?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 15:45:46

Sep 1 2025 #embeddings #openai #anthropic #huggingface #dimensionality A few years ago, I wrote a paper on embeddings. At the time, I wrote that 200-300 dimension embeddings were fairly common in industry, and that adding more dimensions during training would create diminishing returns for the effectiveness of your downstream tasks (classification, recommendation, semantic search, topic modeling, etc.) I wrote the paper to be resilient to changes in the industry since it focuses on fundamenta

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Meta Reimagines Facebook's Poke Feature to Gamify Gen Z Flirting

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 20:06:00

When was the last time you were poked on Facebook? The feature, which has endured since the early days of the social-media platform, is still clinging to life and in fact being pushed again by Meta as a way to maintain connections with friends. Originally intended as a way to reach out to other users without actually sending a message or any meaningful content, it has been the focus of soft relaunches in 2017 and 2024. Meta has now started promoting poking all over again, according to TechCrun

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Latest Tech News

The New Math of Quantum Cryptography

Forget Search, these 2 Google services desperately need Preferred Sources instead

Apple TV+ sees early Emmys success with wins for Severance and The Studio

X-COM creator Julian Gollop discusses his most important games (2019)

Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)

Being good isn't enough

How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook

Apple now selling certified refurbished Apple Pencil Pro for nearly 20% off

GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work

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How the "Kim" dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook

Google’s plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

Are rechargeable batteries still worth buying in 2025? These USB-C ones say yes

Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips

RFK Jr Is Suddenly in Real Trouble

Samsung's new flagship Galaxy tablets are the iPad Pro for Android fans - but something's missing

Museum of Color

Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning 38000 tooltips

GOP Cries Censorship over Spam Filters That Work

5 Things We Loved, 3 Things We Didn’t About ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Part 2

The best Switch emulator just got a big update, with support for Silksong

Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated.

Galaxy S26 Edge renders show the iPhone 17-like design, corroborate Qi2 magnets [Gallery]

Trump’s New Labor Stats Guy is a Jan 6 ‘Bystander’ Accused of Unhinged Posts

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How to watch Flame Fatales 2025 speedrunning event

I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they apparently burn GBs a day

How big are our embeddings now and why?

Meta Reimagines Facebook's Poke Feature to Gamify Gen Z Flirting

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