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Elon Musk’s “thermonuclear” Media Matters lawsuit may be fizzling out

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-17 22:42:08

Media Matters for America (MMFA)—a nonprofit that Elon Musk accused of sparking a supposedly illegal ad boycott on X—won its bid to block a sweeping Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe that appeared to have rushed to silence Musk's foe without ever adequately explaining why the government needed to get involved. In her opinion granting MMFA's preliminary injunction, US District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan—a Joe Biden appointee—agreed that the FTC's probe was likely to be ruled as a retaliatory

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Israeli Cyber Official Arrested During Undercover Internet Crimes Against Children Sting

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-18 04:55:13

A high-ranking member of Israel’s cybersecurity directorate was recently arrested in Las Vegas as part of an undercover sting operation involving internet crimes against children, according to the State Department. A joint operation between city police and the FBI that targeted child sex predators resulted in the arrest of Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a man who, according to many news outlets, has been identified as a member of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, which operates out of Israeli Pri

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Substack writers can now direct US readers to (often cheaper) web-based subscriptions on iOS

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-18 09:16:50

Newsletter subscription platform Substack will begin taking advantage of an option on the U.S. App Store that allows users to make purchases outside of Apple’s in-app purchasing system. This functionality is permitted by a change to the App Store’s rules in May, as a result of Epic Games’ antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant. Since then, a number of top apps have moved to offer in-app purchase links that point to their own websites, including Spotify, Patreon, and the Amazon Kindle app, amo

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UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-18 14:36:46

A 26-year old in the UK who claimed to have hacked thousands of websites was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year. Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky of Rotherham, UK, was arrested in 2022 based on information received from U.S. law enforcement and charged for stealing log in details of millions of Facebook users, and hacking websites belonging to the government in Yemen, an Israeli news outlet, and organizations in the U.S. and Canada. Al-Mashriky pleaded guilty to the

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95% of AI Pilots Failing

news.ycombinator.com Sheryl Estrada 2025-11-18 23:36:03

Good morning. Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line. The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat. Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the vast majority stall, delivering little to

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Liver King Accused of Breaking Blood-Bound Contract He Insisted Upon

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-16 17:30:04

Liver King, the very red gentleman who receives what is perhaps the most liberal interpretation of the title “health and fitness influencer,” is in the middle of what can mostly be described as an extremely petty and deeply stupid lawsuit over a supplement. And while the case itself might not be super noteworthy simply because the guy has been in court a lot lately, it has produced this incredible detail: The Liver King had his partners sign a contract in blood. According to a complaint filed b

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Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 12:52:03

doxx 📄 Beautiful .docx viewing in your terminal — no Microsoft Word required doxx is a lightning-fast, terminal-native document viewer for Microsoft Word files. Built with Rust for performance and reliability, it brings Word documents to your command line with beautiful rendering, smart table support, and powerful export capabilities. ✨ Features Document viewing 🎨 Beautiful terminal rendering with syntax highlighting and formatting with syntax highlighting and formatting 📊 Professional tab

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ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-19 10:30:42

"I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF." Mass Text US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents accidentally added a random person to a mass group text in which officers from multiple federal law enforcement agencies discussed extremely sensitive information about arrests, targets, and strategy. As 404 Media reports, the group text was titled "Mass Text" and included an unredacted ICE document titled "Field Operations Worksheet." The document included "detaile

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Robin Lakoff, expert on language and gender, dead at 82

news.ycombinator.com Trip Gabriel 2025-11-19 14:42:20

Dr. Lakoff’s thesis that women are raised to accept a secondary role in the world, one enforced partly by the speech they are taught, sets off academic arguments to this day. Her 1973 paper “created a huge fuss,” the linguists Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet wrote in 2012. “Thus was launched the study of language and gender.” Dr. Lakoff observed that women’s speech was marked by hedging phrases (“like,” “y’know”), which convey that the speaker is uncertain; empty adjectives like “ado

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‘Superman’ and ‘Star Wars’ Actor Terence Stamp Dies at Age 87

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-19 14:45:51

English actor Terence Stamp, seen across a variety of film and TV over the decades, has passed away at 87 years old. In a statement to Reuters, the actor’s family revealed he passed on Sunday morning. Born July 22, 1938, he made his film debut with the 1962 adaptation of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd as the title character. The role earned him an Academy Award nomination and recognition that allowed him to star in films like 1965’s The Collector and 1967’s Poor Cow. Genre-wise, Terence Stamp fa

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What Is the Electric Constant and Why Should You Care?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-11-19 09:00:00

It's fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical universe. They include things like the speed of light, the gravitational constant, and Planck’s constant, and they’re “fundamental” in the sense that we can't derive them theoretically, we can only measure them. We use these in solving physics problems all the time, so it’s easy to take them for granted. But why are there such numbers in nature, and why do they just happen to

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FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 20:08:50

FFmpeg README FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata. Libraries libavcodec provides implementation of a wider range of codecs. provides implementation of a wider range of codecs. libavformat implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access. implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access. libavutil includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility fu

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Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

news.ycombinator.com Victor Wynne 2025-11-19 03:42:28

Apple’s latest addition to Xcode, the Processor Trace instrument, is one of those features that sounds pretty mundane until you actually try it. Then you realize it’s exactly what you’ve been needing for the performance mysteries that eat up hours upon hours of your development time. If you’ve been developing apps for a while, this story will sound very familiar. Your app runs fine in testing, but then users complain about performance issues or excessive battery drain. You fire up Instruments,

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Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 21:01:20

2025-08-14: Payment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire library to find certain kinds of content to remove. One of these responses drew more ire than the other, understandably. I

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Monday – A personality experiment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 23:46:32

Monday By ChatGPT A personality experiment. You may not like it. It may not like you.

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A brilliant puzzle-platformer, Enter the Gungeon on mobile and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 22:00:42

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. Quite a few intriguing games dropped this week and some high-profile ones have been ported to more platforms. Before we get to those, though, I'd like to tell you about one of my favorite games of the year so far. I struggle to fully engage with many RPGs. By and large, I'm not interested in spending lots of time optimizing my character, speccing out a skill tree or scouring for the very best equipment to match my playstyle

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Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 03:01:20

2025-08-14: Payment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire library to find certain kinds of content to remove. One of these responses drew more ire than the other, understandably. I

Topics: bank high itch payment risk

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Document.write

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 18:44:20

This is really cool: ...blah... <script>writeImage("dog.jpg", "my dog")</script> ... blah blah... Under the hood it works like this: function writeImage(url, title) { document.write(` <img src="${url}"><div class="caption">${title}</div> `); } And leads to: ...blah... <img src="dog.jpg"><div class="caption">My dog</div> ...blah blah... Whoa, HTML templating? It inserts the stuff directly where the function is called, and it just works? And it's been available in browsers forever? Stop the

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Lawyers File AI Slop in Murder Case

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-19 05:50:51

This is getting out of hand. Fool Me Twice Yet another team of lawyers was found leaving AI slop in court documents. It's the latest example of white-collar professionals outsourcing their work to confidently wrong AI tools — and this time, it's not just about any old frivolous lawsuit. As The Guardian reports, a pair of Australian lawyers named Rishi Nathwani and Amelia Beech, who are representing a 16-year-old defendant in a murder case, were caught using AI after documents they submitted t

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This Country Wants to Replace Its Corrupt Government With AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-19 10:50:15

With so much buzzy tech floating around these days, it's only natural for national governments to experiment as well. For the past few years, the country of El Salvador's been experimenting with Bitcoin as legal tender, a woefully ineffective system that's had he opposite of its stated effects. In the United States, president Donald Trump is experimenting with a $500 billion AI infrastructure project, a massive campaign that's sat dormant for half a year. And in Albania, which is home to 2.7 m

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TextKit 2 – The Promised Land

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 17:26:53

TextKit 2 (NSTextLayoutManager) API was announced publicly during WWDC21, which is over 4 years ago. Before that, it was in private development for a few years and gained widespread adoption in the macOS and iOS frameworks. Promised an easier, faster, overall better API and text layout engine that replaces the aged TextKit 1 (NSLayoutManager) engine. Over the years, I gained some level of expertise in TextKit 2 and macOS/iOS text processing, which resulted in STTextView - a re-implementation of

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dbrand’s Joy-Con grip nightmare is coming to an end as it starts shipping replacements

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-19 22:16:50

Oliver Cragg / Android Authority TL;DR Accessory maker dbrand has officially started shipping its Joy-Lock Grips. The replacement grips are designed so that Joy-Cons won’t detach from the Switch 2, even when 87% of the console’s weight is put on the magnetic hinge. The replacement kit also includes a set of Dock Adapter Friction Pads. Accessory maker dbrand is well-known for its high-quality products. However, the company recently found itself embroiled in controversy shortly after releasing

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Cisco patches critical security hole in Firewall Management Center - act now

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-11-20 03:52:05

Olemedia/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Cisco's Secure Firewall Management Center security hole is as bad as they get. There is no mitigation and no workaround. Patch immediately. So far, no confirmed active exploits have been confirmed. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Do you use Cisco's Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software? If your company operates a serious network usi

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iPhone 17 release is rumored for September: Here's what to know ahead of Apple's fall event

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-20 08:05:35

The Apple iPhone event is right around the corner, which means the huge tech company will finally reveal its iPhone 17 lineup. The latest iOS 26 features will come preinstalled on the new models, as well as any additional features Apple reveals at the launch event. But since we still have to wait a few weeks (presumably) until the iPhone event, we can at least speculate what the new phones will look like. As with most unreleased iPhone models, rumors and leaks have trickled in about the hardware

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Trump Admin Has Dropped a Third of All Investigations Into Big Tech, Advocates Say

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-20 08:15:41

Trump talked a big game during the election about taking the fight to Silicon Valley. But, since taking office, the former reality star seems to have done little to make good on that promise. In fact, a recent survey of his actions claims that Trump, whose political victory was partially propelled by gargantuan gobs of cash from tech firms and their executives, has dropped a third of all investigations and enforcement actions against tech companies since taking power. The report, published by t

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Trump wants to clean up the space industry’s red tape: Here’s who wins

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-20 08:09:09

During a press conference in late 2024, President Donald Trump vowed to “slash massive numbers of job-killing regulations” in his second term and pledged to eliminate 10 old rules for every new one. Now, he’s bringing that deregulation drive to commercial space, ordering federal agencies to streamline launch licensing, fast-track spaceport development, and clear out the Federal Aviation Administration’s industry advisory board. “Inefficient permitting processes discourage investment and innova

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Trump admin ranks companies on loyalty while handing out favors to Big Tech

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-20 12:12:24

The Trump administration has ended potential enforcement actions against dozens of tech firms and 165 corporations overall, delivering on promises to end the alleged "weaponization" of the federal government, a report by nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said. "In six months, the Trump administration has already withdrawn or halted enforcement actions against 165 corporations of all types—and one in four of the corporations benefiting from halted or dropped enforcement is from th

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Lamborghini’s new plug-in hybrid is the fastest car its ever built

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-11-20 12:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Lamborghini makes fast cars; this is an indisputable fact. So when the iconic Italian automaker says it’s new plug-in hybrid is both “the most powerful V12 every built” and “the fastest Lamborghini ever,” you should pay attention. At M

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Why on Earth would NASA build a nuclear reactor on the Moon?

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-20 22:37:42

"Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon" is not a headline I imagined reading before last week. Sure, as a sci-fi loving nerd, I could see a future where nuclear power played a role in permanent Moon settlements. But the idea of NASA building a 100-kilowatt microreactor there in the next five years seemed ridiculous. Not so, according to scientists. "I have no idea why this is getting so much play," Professor Bhavya Lal tells me over the phone, with a hint of exasperation in her voice. L

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ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes

news.ycombinator.com Le Zhang 2025-11-20 21:27:44

Conclusions Drug treatment for ADHD was associated with beneficial effects in reducing the risks of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, transport accidents, and criminality but not accidental injuries when considering first event rate. The risk reductions were more pronounced for recurrent events, with reduced rates for all five outcomes. This target trial emulation study using national register data provides evidence that is representative of patients in routine clinical settings. Results O

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Latest Tech News

Elon Musk’s “thermonuclear” Media Matters lawsuit may be fizzling out

Israeli Cyber Official Arrested During Undercover Internet Crimes Against Children Sting

Substack writers can now direct US readers to (often cheaper) web-based subscriptions on iOS

UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison

95% of AI Pilots Failing

Liver King Accused of Breaking Blood-Bound Contract He Insisted Upon

Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow

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Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

Monday – A personality experiment

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Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

Document.write

Lawyers File AI Slop in Murder Case

This Country Wants to Replace Its Corrupt Government With AI

TextKit 2 – The Promised Land

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Cisco patches critical security hole in Firewall Management Center - act now

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Lamborghini’s new plug-in hybrid is the fastest car its ever built

Why on Earth would NASA build a nuclear reactor on the Moon?

ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes

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