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A Recap on May/June Stability at Neon

news.ycombinator.com Nikita Shamgunov 2025-07-24 08:22:57

Details of incidents and what we did to prevent more in the future Starting in May, we had a series of feature launches with agentic AI partners that gained far more momentum than we predicted. In two short timespans, the rate of new database creation increased more than 5x, and the rate of branch creation increased more than 50x. While we were humbled by the uptick, the significant burst in operational load caused a lot of strain in the Neon platform, manifesting as more incidents over the cou

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New Research Shows Data Breaches Keep Coming. Here's How to Protect Yourself

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 11:50:00

The personal data of Americans continues to be under threat from cybercriminals looking to steal it for their own financial gain, according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center. The nonprofit group, which focuses on helping victims of identity theft, said Wednesday that 1,732 data compromises were reported for the first six months of this year, resulting in 165.7 million victim notifications. The number of reported compromises represents an 11% increase from the same period

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Louis Vuitton says regional data breaches tied to same cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-24 17:26:18

Luxury fashion giant Louis Vuitton confirmed that breaches impacting customers in the UK, South Korea, and Turkey stem from the same security incident, which is believed to be linked to the ShinyHunters extortion group. Since last week, the retailer has been notifying customers that their info was exposed in a data breach, first in South Korea, then in Turkey, and on Friday in the United Kingdom. "Despite all security measures in place, on July 2, 2025, we became aware of a personal data breac

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Scale AI lays off 14% of staff, largely in data-labeling business

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-07-24 17:26:47

In Brief Data-labeling startup Scale AI is laying off 200 employees, roughly 14% of its staff, and cutting ties with 500 of its global contractors, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The cuts come just a month after Meta hired Scale AI’s CEO in a $14.3 billion deal. In a memo obtained by Bloomberg, interim CEO Jason Droege told staff that Scale AI had too quickly scaled its core data-labeling business — in which the startup supplied AI labs with labeled, structured data to train AI models. Droeg

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Cyberpunk 2077's latest update brings VRR to consoles and introduces an autodrive mode

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-24 21:19:33

There's another big update for Cyberpunk 2077 coming our way. Update 2.3 brings some notable new features to PC and consoles. CD Projekt Red (CDPR) is adding official in-game support for VRR on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. This should help with screen tearing when the frame rate drops and is of particular use when running the game in performance mode. There's also an official AutoDrive feature, which is something that has long-existed in the modding community. This is available in all cars and moto

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Reddit is back online after a brief outage

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-25 01:24:26

If you were having trouble viewing Reddit today, you weren't alone. Downdetector showed a spike in outages and problems at the site. Reddit acknowledged the problem on Wednesday. At 12:38PM ET, it said the situation had been resolved. Reddit told Engadget that an update was the culprit. "An update we made caused some instability," a company spokesperson said. "We reverted and are seeing Reddit ramp back up." As to what that update was, we don't yet know, but it was probably a standard tweak to

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Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-24 17:15:28

Active-active Replication Extension for PostgreSQL (pgactive) pgactive is a PostgreSQL replication extension for creating an active-active database. Overview Database replication is a method that copies changes between databases instances, and is a key component for use cases like high availability, reducing latency between an application and its source data, moving data between systems such as production and test, infrastructure migration, and others. Relational databases such as PostgreSQL

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DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-07-25 01:30:00

United States Senator Ron Wyden is pressing the United States departments of Homeland Security and Justice to explain how and why they are collecting DNA from immigrants, including children, on a massive scale. Wyden confronted the agencies with demands this week to explain the scope, legality, and oversight of the government’s DNA collection. In letters to DOJ and DHS, the Oregon Democrat also criticized what he described as a “chilling expansion” of a sprawling and opaque system, accusing Tru

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Scale AI lays off 200 employees: ‘We ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly’

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-07-25 01:02:01

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Scale AI, the AI industry’s chief data dealer, will lay off 14 percent of its workforce, or about 200 employees, just one month after Meta took a multibillion-dollar stake in the company and hired its CEO and other staff. The layoffs include 500 of its global contractors, Scale spokesperson Joe Osborne told The Verge, adding th

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Cyberpunk 2077’s next update adds ‘AutoDrive’ and VRR for consoles

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-07-25 05:36:04

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Cyberpunk 2077’s Update 2.3, set to launch on Thursday for Mac, PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X / S, will add a bunch of new features focused around vehicles and proper VRR support on consoles. The new AutoDrive feature, available in all cars and motorcycles, lets you drive from place to place automatically. You can set where you want to go on the game’s map, including d

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5 entry-level tech jobs AI is already augmenting, according to Amazon

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-07-25 09:00:18

Amazon / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Amazon today published a blog post by Michelle Vaz, managing director, AWS Training and Certification, that contains some fascinating insights about how AI is changing the landscape for people early in their careers. To understand this dynamic, Amazon partnered with Draup, a "data intelligence firm specializing in workforce planning and talent analytics." Together, the two companies conducted a study entitled, "The Evolution of Early-Career Technical Roles

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How long until Severance season 3? Apple TV+ exec gives update

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-07-25 12:57:42

Emmy nominations arrived yesterday, and Apple TV+ had it biggest year ever. Leading the pack was Severance, which scored the most nominations of any show, from any streamer. On the heels of the announcement, Apple TV+ programming head Matt Cherniss gave an update to Variety on the progress of Severance season 3’s development. Michael Schneider writes at Variety: Asked whether Season 3 was on track, Cherniss said…“I know they’re going as quickly as they can. When you have the success that a sho

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AWS open-sourced Postgres active-active replication extension

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-25 13:15:28

Active-active Replication Extension for PostgreSQL (pgactive) pgactive is a PostgreSQL replication extension for creating an active-active database. Overview Database replication is a method that copies changes between databases instances, and is a key component for use cases like high availability, reducing latency between an application and its source data, moving data between systems such as production and test, infrastructure migration, and others. Relational databases such as PostgreSQL

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What Is the Best Smart Ring for Health Tracking? I Tested 3 Popular Options to Find Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-25 16:30:00

The Oura ring was my favorite smart ring because its app was easy to understand and I liked some of the newer features from its latest software update. At the steep price of $299, this smart ring is made up of aerospace-grade titanium – one of the strongest materials on earth -- according to the site. Before I received my Oura ring, I was sent a ring sizer to figure out my ring size. Other smart rings did the same since sizing varies per brand. Once I received the Oura ring, I downloaded the Ou

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UK retail giant Co-op confirms hackers stole all 6.5 million customer records

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-07-25 17:20:33

The chief executive of U.K. retail conglomerate the Co-op on Wednesday said that hackers had stolen the personal data of all of the company’s customers during an April cyberattack. Co-op Group CEO Shirine Khoury-Haq told BBC News that the hackers copied the company’s member list of 6.5 million members, but that the Co-op shut down its network before the hackers could lock up its systems with ransomware. The members’ data includes names, addresses, and contact information. The retailer’s netwo

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Show HN: DataRamen, a Fast SQL Explorer with Automatic Joins and Data Navigation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-25 20:42:17

🔧 Install Node.js DataRamen runs locally using Node.js. If you don’t have it yet, download the latest version (v22 or above) from the NodeJS website.

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Co-op boss confirms all 6.5m members had data stolen

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-26 04:26:18

Co-op boss confirms all 6.5m members had data stolen 3 hours ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Watch: Co-op boss says immediate action was taken when the data breach was discovered The chief executive of Co-op has confirmed that all 6.5 million of its members had their data stolen in a cyber-attack on the retailer in April. "I'm devastated that information was taken. I'm also devastated by the impact that it took o

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Co-op boss says sorry to 6.5m people who had data stolen in hack

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-26 07:46:18

Co-op boss says sorry to 6.5m people who had data stolen in hack 15 minutes ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images The chief executive of Co-op has confirmed all 6.5 million of its members had their data stolen in a cyber-attack on the retailer in April. "I'm devastated that information was taken. I'm also devastated by the impact that it took on our colleagues as well as they tried to contain all of this,"

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Nextflow: System for creating scalable, portable, reproducible workflows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 05:30:52

"Dataflow variables are spectacularly expressive in concurrent programming" Henri E. Bal , Jennifer G. Steiner , Andrew S. Tanenbaum Nextflow is a workflow system for creating scalable, portable, and reproducible workflows. It is based on the dataflow programming model, which greatly simplifies the writing of parallel and distributed pipelines, allowing you to focus on the flow of data and computation. Nextflow can deploy workflows on a variety of execution platforms, including your local mach

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Claude for Financial Services

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 13:03:50

Today, we're introducing a comprehensive solution for financial analysis that transforms how finance professionals analyze markets, conduct research, and make investment decisions with Claude. The Financial Analysis Solution unifies your financial data—from market feeds to internal data stored in platforms like Databricks and Snowflake—into a single interface. Access your critical data sources with direct hyperlinks to source materials for instant verification, all in one platform with expanded

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Data Centers Are 'AI Factories.' Google and Meta Are Spending Big Bucks to Build Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 13:19:20

Tech giants Google and Meta have a lot riding on the growth and success of AI, and to support those efforts, they're also committing significant sums of money to build the data centers they're going to need to run that power-hungry technology. On Tuesday, Google announced that it plans to invest $25 billion in data centers and other AI infrastructure tied to the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electric grid in the US. The PJM Interconnection reaches across 13 states in the eastern half of the

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Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-26 17:44:05

The drives are based on Seagate's Mosaic 3+ platform, which "incorporates Seagate’s unique implementation of HAMR to deliver mass-capacity storage at unprecedented areal densities of 3TB per disk and beyond." Seagate's press release is focused mostly on the large drives' suitability for AI-related data storage—"AI" is mentioned in the body text 21 times, and it's not a long release. But obviously, they'll be useful for any kind of storage where you need as many TB as possible to fit into as sma

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I replaced my Apple Watch with the Oura Ring 4 for sleep tracking (and it did some things better)

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-07-27 01:46:01

ZDNET's key takeaways The Oura Ring 4 is Oura's latest generation smart ring, with a starting price of $350 The ring emphasizes a comfortable build with flatter and smarter sensors, more sizes, upgraded software, and an alleged eight-day battery life. The eight-day battery life is actually more like five and a half days. $395.01 at Amazon $399 at Best Buy more buying choices While Oura was quiet these past few years, in between the release of its Ring 3 in 2021 and the development of its Ring

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Hierarchical Modeling (H-Nets)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-27 01:35:15

The best AI architectures in use today treat all inputs equally. They process each input with the same amount of compute, without explicitly grouping related inputs into higher level concepts. While these architectures have achieved impressive results across domains, this lack of hierarchy has some fundamental limitations. Models have difficulty learning from high resolution, raw data, requiring inputs to be pre-processed into meaningful tokens for strong performance. The use of hand-crafted p

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The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

wired.com Dhruv Mehrotra 2025-07-27 01:40:27

Newly uncovered metadata reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The video was released last week as part of the Trump administration’s commitment to fully investigate Epstein’s 2019 death but instead has raised new questions about how the footage was edited and a

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Windows KB5064489 emergency update fixes Azure VM launch issues

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-27 05:47:07

Microsoft has released an emergency update to fix a bug that prevents Azure virtual machines from launching when the Trusted Launch setting is disabled and Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) is enabled. The bug impacted Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 24H2 and was introduced during the July Patch Tuesday security updates. "This update addresses an issue that prevented some virtual machines (VMs) from starting when Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) was enabled," explains Microsoft. "It a

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Meta announces new data centers, gobble up millions of gallons of water per day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-27 05:31:56

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans on investing "hundreds of billions of dollars" to power AI. Meta is building several gigawatt-sized data centers to power AI, as reported by Bloomberg . CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will spend "hundreds of billions of dollars" to accomplish this feat, with an aim of creating "superintelligence." The term typically refers to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which describes AI systems that boast human-level intelligence across multiple dom

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Lucid Motors will roll out hands-free highway driving this month

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-07-27 13:34:00

Lucid Motors is set to roll out a software update on July 30 that will enable hands-free highway driving on its Air sedans, a major step forward for the company’s advanced driver assistance system. The rollout will put Lucid Motors on a short list of companies that have made hands-free driving possible in the United States. Ford has a system called BlueCruise, General Motors has Super Cruise, and Mercedes-Benz has Drive Pilot, although it’s not as widely available. In the right conditions and i

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Want to keep using Microsoft 365 in Windows 10 after October? You can - with caveats

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-07-27 17:21:49

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Microsoft is due to cut off support for Windows 10 in October. That means no more security patches, bug fixes, or technical help for the OS (unless you pay for extended security updates or can make the free options work for you). But what does that entail for Microsoft 365? In a recent online support article, Microsoft revealed the status of its popular office suite once Windows 10 becomes persona non grata. First off, Microsoft would rather all Microsoft 365 users

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Coreweave stock pops after company announces $6 billion AI data center in Pennsylvania

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-07-27 20:56:06

CoreWeave Inc. signage in Times Square in New York, US, on Friday, May 9, 2025. Coreweave stock climbed more than 9% on Tuesday after the company announced a $6 billion artificial intelligence data center project in Pennsylvania. The commitment includes an initial 100 megawatt data center built in Lancaster, a city about 70 miles west of Philadelphia. The data center will be able to expand to 300 MW. "The demand for high-performance AI compute is relentless," said CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrat

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Latest Tech News

A Recap on May/June Stability at Neon

New Research Shows Data Breaches Keep Coming. Here's How to Protect Yourself

Louis Vuitton says regional data breaches tied to same cyberattack

Scale AI lays off 14% of staff, largely in data-labeling business

Cyberpunk 2077's latest update brings VRR to consoles and introduces an autodrive mode

Reddit is back online after a brief outage

Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension

DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children

Scale AI lays off 200 employees: ‘We ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly’

Cyberpunk 2077’s next update adds ‘AutoDrive’ and VRR for consoles

5 entry-level tech jobs AI is already augmenting, according to Amazon

How long until Severance season 3? Apple TV+ exec gives update

AWS open-sourced Postgres active-active replication extension

What Is the Best Smart Ring for Health Tracking? I Tested 3 Popular Options to Find Out

UK retail giant Co-op confirms hackers stole all 6.5 million customer records

Show HN: DataRamen, a Fast SQL Explorer with Automatic Joins and Data Navigation

Co-op boss confirms all 6.5m members had data stolen

Co-op boss says sorry to 6.5m people who had data stolen in hack

Nextflow: System for creating scalable, portable, reproducible workflows

Claude for Financial Services

Data Centers Are 'AI Factories.' Google and Meta Are Spending Big Bucks to Build Them

Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy

I replaced my Apple Watch with the Oura Ring 4 for sleep tracking (and it did some things better)

Hierarchical Modeling (H-Nets)

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

Windows KB5064489 emergency update fixes Azure VM launch issues

Meta announces new data centers, gobble up millions of gallons of water per day

Lucid Motors will roll out hands-free highway driving this month

Want to keep using Microsoft 365 in Windows 10 after October? You can - with caveats

Coreweave stock pops after company announces $6 billion AI data center in Pennsylvania

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