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US lawmakers call for federal probe into OnePlus

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-26 06:00:28

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Two US lawmakers have asked the Commerce Department to investigate OnePlus phones for potential security risks. Their concern is based on an analysis shared by an unnamed firm suggesting that OnePlus may be collecting and sending sensitive user data to servers in China without user consent. US lawmakers have reportedly requested the Commerce Department to investigate whether OnePlus phones sold in the country pose security risks. The request reportedly co

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I never thought I'd praise a kickstand power bank - until I tried this one

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-02-26 08:00:14

'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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My AC system isn't blowing cold air - 5 easy and quick fixes that experts recommend

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-02-26 08:45:13

fhm/Getty Images It always happens during a heatwave. That moment of sinking dread when your AC unit kicks on, but instead of a refreshing blast of arctic air, you're met with a weak, lukewarm breeze. Then panic sets in. Is the AC dead? Is this going to cost a fortune? How will I get to sleep tonight in this stifling heat and humidity? While a truly broken AC unit can indeed be a headache and an expense, the good news is that it's not always a catastrophic failure. The reason your system isn't

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Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Ward Agius 2026-02-25 22:23:09

Across Africa, cancer medications have been found to be substandard or counterfeit. That means people are being given medicine that may not work, or that could even cause them harm. An alarming number of people across Africa may be taking cancer drugs that don't contain the vital ingredients needed to contain or reduce their disease. It's a concerning finding with roots in a complex problem: how to regulate a range of therapeutics across the continent. A US and pan-African research group publ

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Louvre shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism

news.ycombinator.com Thomas Adamson 2026-02-26 08:24:54

PARIS — The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, has withstood war, terror, and pandemic — but on Monday, it was brought to a halt by its own striking staff, who say the institution is crumbling under the weight of mass tourism . It was an almost unthinkable sight: the home to works by Leonardo da Vinci and millennia of civilization’s greatest treasures — paralyzed by the very people tasked with welcoming the world to its galleries. Thousand

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Building untrusted container images safely at scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 02:22:05

Many SaaS platforms need to run customer code securely and fast. Rather than building container infrastructure from scratch, you can use Depot's API to handle the heavy lifting. Here's how to build Go tooling that creates isolated projects, manages builds, and tracks metrics for your customer workloads. A lot of our customers run into the same problem: they need to run code on behalf of their customers. Whether you're hosting user-generated Python scripts, processing custom containers, or runni

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Anticheat Update Tracking

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-25 20:06:57

A few years ago when I was into reverse engineering and binary analysis (and game modding), I did a lot of research into anticheats work. I was curious about tracking their updates, since that would allow me to: Know when a new version is released Understand what changes were made Use older versions for research purposes So I ended up researching different ways on how to track updates of various anticheats. Some of them are already very well documented, while others haven't been explored muc

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Amber insect fossils reveal "zombie" fungi likely lived alongside dinosaurs

news.ycombinator.com Katie Hunt 2026-02-22 05:25:45

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head. The insect, along with a second specimen of a young ant infected with a similar fungus, are two of the oldest examples of a bizarre natural phenomenon that involves fungal p

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Jane Austen's Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood

news.ycombinator.com Lauren Groff 2026-02-23 12:54:29

Another aunt, a parsimonious busybody, married a Reverend Norris, and Fanny’s own mother rather too hastily married one Price, a lieutenant of marines, who has become an out-of-work heavy drinker by the time we meet him. To her great misfortune, soon after her marriage, Mrs. Price has nine children in 11 years, with not nearly enough money to support them, and in desperation she agitates for a rapprochement among the sisters, and the rich Bertram family at last deigns to help. Thus, the oldest P

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Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-25 21:30:27

Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry's rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica reports, the Google-backed startup didn't just crib from millions of copyrighted books, a practice that's ethically and legally fraught on its own. No — it cut the book pages out from their bindings, scanned them to make digital files, then threw away all those millions of pages of the original te

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Scientists Detect Deep, Rhythmic Pulse Coming From Inside the Earth

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-25 23:00:30

"This has profound implications..." DJ Earth Scientists have discovered a heartbeat-like pulse emanating from inside the Earth beneath the continent of Africa, which they believe will one day rip the continent into pieces. In a new study published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team of European and African scientists explain how they used chemical signatures to examine this inner-Earth heartbeat, explaining that molten chunks of mantle — the rocky layer found between the Earth's su

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Identity theft hits 1.1M reports — and authentication fatigue is only getting worse

venturebeat.com Anurag Dodeja 2026-02-25 22:15:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more From passwords to passkeys to a veritable alphabet soup of other options — second-factor authentication (2FA)/one-time passwords (OTP), multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), silent network authentication (SNA) — when it comes to a preeminent or even preferred type of identity authentication, there is little consensus amo

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Trump claims a 'very wealthy' group will buy TikTok without revealing who

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-25 22:51:26

The U.S. president said in an interview that he would reveal the buyer in two weeks. The unending saga between President Donald Trump and TikTok may finally get some closure. In an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, the US president announced that there's a buyer secured for TikTok. "We have a buyer for TikTok by the way," Trump said in the interview. "I think I'll need probably China approval and I think President Xi [Jinping] will probably do it." When asked to identify the buyer, Tru

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China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-26 02:43:50

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Revisiting Knuth's "Premature Optimization" Paper

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 23:17:12

The most famous quote from Knuth’s paper “Structured Programming with go to Statements” is this: There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization

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4-10x faster in-process pub/sub for Go

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-25 18:19:19

Fast, In-Process Event Dispatcher This package offers a high-performance, in-process event dispatcher for Go, ideal for decoupling modules and enabling asynchronous event handling. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous processing, focusing on speed and simplicity. High Performance: Processes millions of events per second, about 4x to 10x faster than channels. Processes millions of events per second, about than channels. Generic: Works with any type implementing the Event interface

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‘Resident Evil: Requiem’ Will Refocus On the Series’ Past

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-02-26 00:15:24

After the series explored new, undead ground in the last two main games, Resident Evil: Requiem is going back to narrative threads from the franchise’s past. In a recent PlayStation Blog interview, producer Masato Kumazawa talked about Requiem’s timing as a game for the series’ 30th anniversary. Where Ethan Winters’ two games “explored [the series’] broader world, Capcom wanted to “return to a story that continues the overarching narrative rooted in Raccoon City and the secret machinations of t

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IPv6 reaches majority use in 21 countries as Starlink and other providers modernize global connectivity

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-02-25 22:52:00

What just happened? The number of countries where more than half of internet connections use the IPv6 protocol has surged from 13 to 21 over the past year. This rapid progress, tracked by measurements from organizations such as Akamai, APNIC, Facebook, and Google, highlights both evolution and the growing influence of new connectivity providers, most notably Starlink. The most dramatic transformation has occurred in Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation with a population under 10,000. Until early 202

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Scientists Playing God are Building Human DNA From the Ground Up

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-25 22:45:21

Image by Getty / Futurism Studies Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are now tackling the next logical — yet inherently controversial — step: fabricating human DNA from the ground up. Details are a bit vague, but a team of scientists in the United Kingdom have embarked on a new project to construct what they describe in a statement as the "first synthetic human chromosome." The scientists hope that the five

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Amazon Prime Day 2025: The best early deals to shop now, dates and everything else you need to know

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-26 00:01:27

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Prime Day is coming back (again) this year; here's what we know so far, plus early deals. Amazon Prime Day has been a summer mainstay for years at this point and this year is no exception. Prime Day will return on July 8 to July 11 this year, marking the first time the shopping event

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Why Go Rocks for Building a Lua Interpreter

news.ycombinator.com Roxy Light 2026-02-21 22:28:01

By Roxy Light I recently needed to build a custom Lua interpreter in Go. The exact reasons aren’t important for this blog post, but neither the reference implementation — which I will be referring to as “C Lua” throughout this article — nor the other open source Go Lua intepreters I could find were a good fit for my needs. Building a Lua interpreter ended up being a rather enjoyable months-long side quest. I’ve had a number of folks ask me to write about the experience since these sorts of proj

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What LLMs Know About Their Users

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 09:49:43

We need to talk about data integrity. Narrowly, the term refers to ensuring that data isn’t tampered with, either in transit or in storage. Manipulating account balances in bank databases, removing entries from criminal records, and murder by removing notations about allergies from medical records are all integrity attacks. More broadly, integrity refers to ensuring that data is correct and accurate from the point it is collected, through all the ways it is used, modified, transformed, and eve

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Implementing fast TCP fingerprinting with eBPF

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-25 18:59:26

In this article I want to document my journey implementing fast TCP fingerprinting in a golang webserver, using eBPF. Just to provide some background, TCP fingerprinting is one of the many techniques that can be used to detect unusual or identifying informations about a web request when implementing an anti-bot solution. This has been a hot topic lately, caused by the rising need to scrape the internet for human content to feeed to the LLMs. Implementing such a system offers interesting techn

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Scientists Retrace 30k-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log

news.ycombinator.com Franz Lidz 2026-02-21 14:29:29

In 1947, against the best navigational advice, the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members set sail from Peru on a balsa wood raft to test his theory that ancient South American cultures could have reached Polynesia. The frail vessel, called Kon-Tiki, crossed several thousand nautical miles of the Pacific in 103 days and showed that his anthropological hunch was at least feasible. In 2019, in much the same spirit, a research team led by Yousuke Kaifu, an anthropologist at the Un

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The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System [pdf]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-25 23:45:10

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Amazon Is Going Nuts, Mac Mini Rival (Windows 11 Pro, 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM) Now Costs Peanuts

gizmodo.com Unknown 2026-02-25 21:10:22

Amazon has begun Prime Day early this year and the best news is that these deals are accessible to everyone (not just Prime members). One of the best deals currently on sale is on the GMKtec mini PC (i7, 1TB SSD, 32GB DDR4 RAM, Windows 11 Pro) which is a diminutive desktop with XL performance and a price that’s hard to believe. If you’re looking for a powerful desktop computer but don’t want to spend $2,000 on a high-end model, this is a smart pick. Now, the GMKtec mini PC featuring Intel Core

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Jon Watts Left ‘Fantastic Four’ to Get His Groove Back

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-02-25 23:30:24

Before Matt Shakman took over directing duties for the MCU’s first Fantastic Four movie, Jon Watts was in charge. The director of the Spider-Man: Home trilogy dropped out in 2022, and his reasons for leaving are completely valid: he had to take a much-needed break. During a recent storytelling class at the Mediterrane Film Festival, Watts revealed he was basically “out of gas” by the time he was wrapping Spider-Man: No Way Home, which was shot in the early days of the pandemic. Following the nu

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Best Internet Providers in Indiana

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-25 12:10:00

What's the best internet provider in Indiana? AT&T is CNET's pick of the best internet service provider in Indiana.The provider's fast speeds, free equipment, unlimited data and high customer satisfaction ratings make it our top recommendation. If you want a reliable internet experience with good value and support, you can't go wrong with AT&T. If you're outside the coverage area of AT&T, we recommend Frontier Fiber. It offers high speeds, one of the highest in the state, reaching up to 5,000Mb

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Best Internet Providers in Greenville, South Carolina

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-25 18:17:00

What is the best internet provider in Greenville, South Carolina? CNET recommends AT&T Fiber as the best overall internet provider in Greenville thanks to its fast, symmetrical speeds, solid pricing and high customer satisfaction. Plans start at $55 a month and go up to $245 for the speedy 5-gig plan. If fiber isn’t available at your address, Spectrum is a strong backup, which also offers the cheapest plan in the area. You’ll also find options like Verizon 5G Home, T-Mobile Home Internet and sa

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9 Things to Do During a Blackout to Keep Your Family Cool and Safe

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-25 22:30:00

According to Climate Central, the US experienced 60% more power outages during the summer seasons between 2014 and 2023 than it did from 2000 to 2009. This can be due to the increased use of electricity for air conditioners, wildfires, severe weather and downed power lines. Being prepared for a potential summer blackout is important because, according to the US Energy Information Administration, the average blackout lasts longer than five hours. Over five hours without air conditioning can lead

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Latest Tech News

US lawmakers call for federal probe into OnePlus

I never thought I'd praise a kickstand power bank - until I tried this one

My AC system isn't blowing cold air - 5 easy and quick fixes that experts recommend

Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations

Louvre shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism

Building untrusted container images safely at scale

Anticheat Update Tracking

Amber insect fossils reveal "zombie" fungi likely lived alongside dinosaurs

Jane Austen's Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood

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Scientists Detect Deep, Rhythmic Pulse Coming From Inside the Earth

Identity theft hits 1.1M reports — and authentication fatigue is only getting worse

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China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide

Revisiting Knuth's "Premature Optimization" Paper

4-10x faster in-process pub/sub for Go

‘Resident Evil: Requiem’ Will Refocus On the Series’ Past

IPv6 reaches majority use in 21 countries as Starlink and other providers modernize global connectivity

Scientists Playing God are Building Human DNA From the Ground Up

Amazon Prime Day 2025: The best early deals to shop now, dates and everything else you need to know

Why Go Rocks for Building a Lua Interpreter

What LLMs Know About Their Users

Implementing fast TCP fingerprinting with eBPF

Scientists Retrace 30k-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log

The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System [pdf]

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Jon Watts Left ‘Fantastic Four’ to Get His Groove Back

Best Internet Providers in Indiana

Best Internet Providers in Greenville, South Carolina

9 Things to Do During a Blackout to Keep Your Family Cool and Safe

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