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Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

news.ycombinator.com Rudy Fraser 2025-12-08 22:47:10

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

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Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

news.ycombinator.com Rudy Fraser 2025-12-09 16:47:10

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

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Perplexity Will Share Revenue From AI Searches With Publishers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-09 16:35:00

Artificial intelligence systems need content to produce results, and they've been criticized for not paying the people who wrote and edited that content. Now, Perplexity AI, the AI-powered search engine, is introducing Comet Plus. This new subscription tier will distribute revenue to publishing partners whenever readers use AI to glean or deliver journalistic content, the company said in a blog post on Monday. In the AI age, high-quality information is key, and Perplexity contends that publishe

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Perplexity's Comet AI Web Browser Had a Major Security Vulnerability

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-09 17:22:06

Comet, Perplexity's new AI-powered web browser, recently suffered from a significant security vulnerability, according to a blog post last week from Brave, a competing web browser company. The vulnerability has since been fixed, but it points to the challenges of incorporating large language models into web browsers. Unlike traditional web browsers, Comet has an AI assistant built in. This assistant can scan the page you're looking at, summarize its contents or perform tasks for you. The proble

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Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-09 22:42:55

Perplexity is launching a new revenue-sharing plan for publishers that will pay them every time its AI assistants use an article to answer a question, The Wall Street Journal reports. Perplexity is launching the plan (and partially paying for it) with a new Comet Plus subscription that gives subscribers access "to premium content from a group of trusted publishers and journalists." Comet Plus costs $5 per month, and based on Perplexity's description, it's primarily designed to account for the a

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How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com Marty Haught 2025-12-09 20:02:51

by Marty Haught Recently, Socket.dev published research highlighting malicious gems designed to steal social media credentials. We wanted to use this as an opportunity to share more about how RubyGems.org security operates, how we proactively handled this incident (and others), and the work our team is doing each day to keep the ecosystem safe. How We Detect Malicious Gems RubyGems.org security uses a proactive and multi-layered approach: 1. Automated detection: Every gem upload is analyzed

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Critical Docker Desktop flaw lets attackers hijack Windows hosts

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-10 22:11:51

A critical vulnerability in Docker Desktop for Windows and macOS allows compromising the host by running a malicious container, even if the Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) protection is active. The security issue is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) now identified as CVE-2025-9074, and it received a critical severity rating of 9.3. “A malicious container running on Docker Desktop could access the Docker Engine and launch additional containers without requiring the Docker socket to be mou

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Yottar wants to help energy users find capacity on the electrical grid

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-12-11 03:27:08

From AI to EVs, the world’s demand for power is soaring, and the electrical grid is feeling the squeeze. Enter Yottar, a startup that maps electrical grid capacity to help companies figure out where they can plug in new data centers, EV charging stations, and other power-hungry equipment. “The electrification super cycle is colliding with the AI data center boom. That’s making the grid operators really struggle to deal with the backlog,” Peter Clutton-Brock, Yottar’s co-founder and CEO, told T

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This smart display is the best home security companion I've ever used

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-11 08:35:00

Eufy Security E10 Smart Display ZDNET's key takeaways The Eufy Security E10 Smart Display is available for $200. This smart display shows you the history and current status of your security system and works as a control panel with real-time alerts. The E10 Smart Display only works with Eufy Security devices, so it's not compatible with other security cameras or meant to be a smart home hub. View now at Amazon View now at Eufy more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on G

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Virgins Are Reality TV’s Latest Darlings. Their Reasons for Abstaining Are Complicated

wired.com Kat Tenbarge 2025-12-11 04:30:00

“No one believes I’m a virgin” is a common refrain during the premiere of Hulu’s new dating competition series, Are You My First? The reality show centers on “the largest group of eligible virgins ever assembled,” the hosts claim—apart from a high school cafeteria, one might assume—to follow the tried-and-true format that defines shows like Love Island and Too Hot to Handle. A perfectly staged villa’s worth of conventionally attractive people in their twenties and early thirties are sequestered

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25 Best Power Banks (2025), I've Tested Countless to Find Them

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-12-11 08:00:00

What Features Should I Look for in Power Banks? AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron There are a few things worth thinking about when you’re shopping for a portable charger. The capacity of a power bank is measured in milliampere-hours (mAh), but this can be a little misleading because the amount of power you get out depends on the cable you use, the device you're charging, and the charging method (Qi wireless charging is less efficient). You will never get the maximum capacity. We try to p

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FTC warns tech giants not to bow to foreign pressure on encryption

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-09 06:21:32

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning major U.S. tech companies against yielding to foreign government demands that weaken data security, compromise encryption, or impose censorship on their platforms. FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson signed the letter sent to large American companies like Akamai, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Cloudflare, Discord, GoDaddy, Meta, Microsoft, Signal, Snap, Slack, and X (Twitter). Ferguson stresses that weakening data security at the request of foreign

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New Android malware poses as antivirus from Russian intelligence agency

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-10 10:08:18

A new Android malware posing as an antivirus tool software created by Russia's Federal Security Services agency (FSB) is being used to target executives of Russian businesses. In a new report from Russian mobile security firm Dr. Web, researchers track the new spyware as 'Android.Backdoor.916.origin,' finding no links to known malware families. Among its various capabilities, the malware can snoop on conversations, stream from the phone's camera, log user input with a keylogger, or exfiltrate

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Waymo Gets First Driverless Car Permit in NYC

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-12-11 18:19:06

Waymo has become the first autonomous vehicle operator to secure a permit to test self-driving cars on the streets of New York City, the state’s department of transportation said in announcing the news. The New York City Department of Motor Vehicles approved Waymo’s application, allowing the company to conduct limited testing of its autonomous vehicles within certain city zones. The permit comes after years of regulatory negotiations and signals a potential shift toward broader deployment of d

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The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

wired.com Webb Wright 2025-12-11 12:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence systems that can beat us in chess, analyze huge reams of text, and compose sonnets. This has been one of the great surprises of the modern era: physical tasks that are easy for humans turn out to be very difficult for robots, while algorithms are increasingly able to mimic our intellect. Another surprise that has long p

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Is It Ever Legal—or Ethical—to Remove DRM?

wired.com Justin Pot 2025-12-11 17:30:00

Whatever you think about Digital Rights Management software, it's hard to argue with the fact that it's annoying. Such technology exists, in theory, to protect the intellectual property of the companies that create music, movies, and games, but it can also get in the way of you enjoying books, music, and videos the way you want to. Say, for example, that you bought a bunch of books on the Amazon Kindle platform but later decided you wanted to switch to a Kobo device (or vice versa). The DRM sys

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What if every city had a London Overground?

news.ycombinator.com Jessica Furseth 2025-12-08 09:11:37

An underground train network is the pinnacle of public transport—right now, in New York and Chicago, Paris and Berlin, Tokyo and Beijing, people are being whisked through a network of tunnels, deep below the bustling city. In London, which has the oldest rapid transit system in the world, the Tube isn’t just public transportation—it’s famous as the beating heart of the city, assisting up to five million passenger journeys a day. Formally known as the London Underground, the Tube’s logo is soon r

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Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 14:52:08

This is the first post in a series about security and privacy challenges in agentic browsers. This vulnerability research was conducted by Artem Chaikin (Senior Mobile Security Engineer), and was written by Artem and Shivan Kaul Sahib (VP, Privacy and Security). The threat of instruction injection At Brave, we’re developing the ability for our in-browser AI assistant Leo to browse the Web on your behalf, acting as your agent. Instead of just asking “Summarize what this page says about London f

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Hacker and physicist – a tale of "common sense"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 02:54:44

I'm what you might call a "Stone Age" programmer. Not because I code with rocks and sticks, but because my toolkit is filled with ancient relics like LISP and OCaml - functional programming languages that are about as popular in today's enterprise world as flip phones at a tech conference. I spent three glorious years in the industry writing functional code, and let me tell you, it was like being a minimalist artist in a world of reality TV. Those languages taught me to appreciate the elegance

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Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-11 12:00:15

Waymo can now test its self-driving cars in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has announced. Local authorities have granted the company the permit needed to be able to test autonomous vehicles in parts of Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. It's the first-ever permit for the "testing deployment" of AVs the city has granted. Waymo will be able to deploy a fleet with up to eight vehicles in the city until late September 2025. For now, though, the permit only allows Waymo to test its AVs with drivers be

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Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You

wired.com Dylan Scott 2025-12-11 08:00:00

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units to the massive AC towers that serve the tightly packed apartment buildings in major cities. And while they bring the relief of cool air, these contraptions also create the conditions for dangerous bacteria to multiply and spread. One particularly nasty bacteria-borne illness is currently spreading in New York City using t

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Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 15:20:09

NAGOYA - A central Japan city said Thursday it will seek to pass an ordinance recommending all residents limit smartphone use to two hours a day outside of work and school amid concerns over the impact of excessive technology exposure, though there will be no penalties proposed. The ordinance drafted by the city of Toyoake in Aichi Prefecture is likely to be the first such municipal regulation in Japan that targets a limit on the use of smartphones and other electronic devices, according to the

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Four big enterprise lessons from Walmart’s AI security: agentic risks, identity reboot, velocity with governance, and AI vs. AI defense

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-12-10 22:28:06

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now VentureBeat recently sat down (virtually) with Jerry R. Geisler III, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Walmart Inc., to gain insights into the cybersecurity challenges the world’s largest retailer faces as AI becomes increasingly autonomous. We talked about securing agentic AI systems, modernizing identity

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A Beloved 'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' Character Just Made Her Fighting Game Debut

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-12 12:18:59

Lucy, a supporting character from the Netflix show Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, is now available as a guest character in the fighting game Guilty Gear Strive. There isn't much backstory as to how Lucy wound up in the Guilty Gear universe other than that she was in a deep dive on the net and wound up somewhere else. Lucy is a high-mobility character with ranged attacks thanks to her whip (called a monowire, familiar to cyberpunk veterans). Her hacker's toolkit allows her to apply debuffs to her oppon

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Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City

news.ycombinator.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-12 22:02:48

Waymo is getting one step closer to rides in New York City. The Alphabet autonomous vehicle subsidiary received its first permit from the New York Department of Transportation on Friday to start testing in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday. The rollout is the city's first autonomous vehicle testing launch. Waymo will start testing up to eight vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn through late September with the potential to extend the program. New York state law requires t

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Autonomous Vehicles to Hit the Streets of NYC for the First Time

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-12 22:50:20

As if New York’s taxi drivers didn’t get squeezed enough by the Ubers and Lyfts of the world, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday that the New York Department of Transportation has granted Google’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary, Waymo, a permit to test its self-driving cars in the city. It’ll be the first fully self-driving car to operate within the city. Waymo will roll out eight vehicles in New York City starting in September, and they will operate in Manhattan and Downtown Bro

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TikTok Shifts to AI Moderation With Mass Layoffs

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-12-12 22:52:11

Social media giant TikTok made a major symbolic move today by canning hundreds of UK and Asian moderators as it attempts to integrate artificial intelligence into more processes throughout the company. The Chinese tech giant said that workers displaced in the move will have priority in hiring if they meet unspecified criteria. The company did not disclose the exact number of people laid off from its 2,500 in the UK, the Wall Street Journal reports. The BBC reports that the move was immediately

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4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 02:02:21

Some American politicians - particularly the Trump administration, its allies and officials - have pushed back against what they regard as overreach in the regulation of US tech firms by the UK and EU. A perceived impact of the Online Safety Act on free speech has been a particular concern, but other laws have also been the source of disagreement. On 19 August, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the UK had withdrawn its controversial demand for a "backdoor" in an Apple dat

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Waymo approved to start autonomous vehicle testing in New York City

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-13 12:19:05

Waymo has been granted a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in New York City, the first such approval granted by the city. The company told TechCrunch it plans to start testing “immediately.” The company is allowed to deploy up to eight of its Jaguar I-Pace SUVs in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn through late September. Waymo’s vehicles must have a trained safety operator in the driver’s seat, with at least one hand on the wheel at all times. The company cannot pick up passengers (since it

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Waymo granted first permit to begin testing autonomous vehicles in New York City

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-13 17:28:35

Waymo is getting one step closer to rides in New York City. The Alphabet autonomous vehicle subsidiary received its first permit from the New York Department of Transportation on Friday to start testing in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday. The rollout is the city's first autonomous vehicle testing launch. Waymo will start testing eight vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn through late September with the potential to extend the program. New York state law requires the com

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