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ASUS Armoury Crate bug lets attackers get Windows admin privileges

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-17 22:08:29

A high-severity vulnerability in ASUS Armoury Crate software could allow threat actors to escalate their privileges to SYSTEM level on Windows machines. The security issue is tracked as CVE-2025-3464 and received a severity score of 8.8 out of 10. It could be exploited to bypass authorization and affects the AsIO3.sys of the Armoury Crate system management software. Armoury Crate is the official system control software for Windows from ASUS, providing a centralized interface to control RGB li

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Mortgage Rates and the Fed: Everything to Know Before This Week's Meeting

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-18 04:44:30

The Fed's interest rate decisions impact mortgages, but the relationship isn't straightforward. Tharon Green/CNET On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve is expected to extend a pause on interest rate cuts for a fourth consecutive time this year. Though mortgage rates could see some volatility, many economists expect them to stay somewhat flat until the economic picture drastically changes. Rates will stay in the 6.75% to 7.25% range unless the Fed signals multiple cuts soon and backs it up with dat

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How the first electric grid was built

news.ycombinator.com Alex Chalmers 2026-03-18 08:34:03

The Linear No Threshold model says that there is no safe level of radiation exposure. There is overwhelming evidence it is false, yet it inspires the ALARA principle, which makes nuclear power unaffordable worldwide. Read the lead article from Issue 19 of Works in Progress. We’re hosting a Stripe Press pop-up coffee shop and bookstore on Saturday, June 28, in Washington, DC. RSVP here if you can make it. In 1883, Sir Coutts Lindsay, owner of the Grosvenor Art Gallery in Bond Street, decided th

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As grocery shortages persist, UNFI says it’s recovering from cyberattack

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2026-03-18 09:15:49

Food distribution giant United Natural Foods (UNFI) said it is making “significant progress” in recovering from a cyberattack that occurred almost two weeks ago, as grocery stores across North America reliant on the distributor continue to report food shortages. UNFI said in an update on Sunday that it was restoring its electronic ordering systems, which its customers use to place orders for their grocery stores and supermarkets. The company, which provides more than 30,000 stores across the U

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No Fed Cut, No Rate Break: June Mortgage Forecast Stays Flat

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-18 21:00:07

As the Federal Reserve likely holds interest rates steady, mortgage rates are expected to stay in a narrow range. Tharon Green/CNET With each passing day, it seems like average 30-year mortgage rates could remain stuck near 6.8% for the rest of the year. Yet conflicting economic forces could push mortgage rates up or down in the coming months. Housing market experts say the same thing: The direction of mortgage rates depends on the economic impact of policies by the Trump administration and th

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Trump Touts China Trade Deal: Tariffs Back to Square One, Still Historically High

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-19 04:30:00

Greg Baker/Getty Images President Donald Trump last week took to Truth Social to tout a new tentative trade agreement with China, albeit one that only really takes things back to square one and leaves the tariff rate against Beijing at historically high levels. "WE ARE GETTING A TOTAL OF 55% TARIFFS, CHINA IS GETTING 10%," Trump's post to Truth Social read, with a later post adding, "President Xi [Jinping] and I are going to work closely together to open up China to American Trade. This would

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Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-17 12:23:55

Lisp-Stat is conceptually similar to R and will be familiar to most people from that ecosystem. It is suitable for both exploratory data analysis as well as front-line production deployments. Common Lisp is currently used at Google in several high-availability, high-volume transactional systems. Why Lisp? We had a few requirements when evaluating options. Specifically the system had to: Work well in the kind of exploratory environment conducive to analytics and AI Be robust enough to work in

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Taiwan places export controls on Huawei and SMIC

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-03-19 00:14:24

In Brief Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources needed to build AI chips, due to Taiwanese export controls. Bloomberg reports that Taiwan’s International Trade Administration placed the two companies and their subsidiaries on an updated list of entities designated as strategic high-tech commodities. That means Taiwanese businesses will need government approval before they can ship anything to either company. As a result, Huawei and SMIC will lose acces

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Tiny-diffusion: A minimal implementation of probabilistic diffusion models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-18 18:52:49

A minimal PyTorch implementation of probabilistic diffusion models for 2D datasets. Get started by running python ddpm.py -h to explore the available options for training. Forward process A visualization of the forward diffusion process being applied to a dataset of one thousand 2D points. Note that the dinosaur is not a single training example, it represents each 2D point in the dataset. Reverse process This illustration shows how the reverse process recovers the distribution of the trainin

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How easy is it for a developer to "sandbox" a program?

news.ycombinator.com In 2026-03-15 02:57:24

# source code sandboxing Sandboxing is when a developer limits available system resources to a program from within its own source code. A classic example is calling chroot(2) to change the root file-system to an empty directory so that the program cannot scribble into the root file-system. int main(void) { /* Program has full file-system access. */ chroot("/var/empty"); chdir("/"); /* File-system root re-rooted in /var/empty. */ int fd = open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY); /* Tried to open /var/empty

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Homebuyers Are Scoring 5% Mortgage Rates With These Simple Strategies

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-18 23:00:21

Tharon Green/CNET If you're looking to buy a home, you probably know that housing affordability is in the dumps. Record-high prices and high mortgage rates are serving a double whammy to prospective buyers everywhere. But mortgage rates aren't set in stone. Although current rates are hovering near 7%, more borrowers are finding creative ways to snag rates below what lenders advertise. Last year, nearly half of buyers purchased a home at a rate below 5%, according to Zillow. "With borrowing co

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Best Kamado Grill for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-18 23:00:00

Testing kamado grills is an intense experience for a griller. It requires playing with fire (literally) and high temperatures, although in a controlled, responsible way. The most critical element to kamado's performance is heat, specifically temperature control and how well a grill holds to one temperature. To smoke meat low and slow, that magic number is 225℉. Good smokers, kamados or otherwise, will stick to this temp for as long as 12, 15 or 20 hours. This means the temperature gauge is key a

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RFK Jr. Orders HHS to Give Undocumented Migrants’ Medicaid Data to DHS

wired.com Andy Greenberg 2026-03-18 11:30:00

With demonstrations ramping up against the Trump administration, this week was all about protests. With President Donald Trump taking the historic step to deploy US Marines and the National Guard to Los Angeles, we dove into the “long-term dangers” of sending troops to LA, as well as what those troops are permitted to do while they’re there. Of course, it’s not just the military getting involved in the LA protests against the heavy crackdowns by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). There’

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So... You Want to Become a Penetration Tester?

techspot.com David Matthews 2026-03-18 18:18:00

Cybersecurity is a rapidly growing and evolving field with a wide range of subfields and specializations. One of these is penetration testing, a discipline within what's known as "red teaming," which seeks to actively find and exploit vulnerabilities within computer systems (with permission, of course). It's an exciting and rewarding career, and I'll show you how to become a penetration tester. Before I continue, however, let me be transparent about my own experience. While I have about three

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So... You Want to Become a Penetration Tester?

techspot.com David Matthews 2026-03-18 18:18:00

Cybersecurity is a rapidly growing and evolving field with a wide range of subfields and specializations. One of these is penetration testing, a discipline within what's known as "red teaming," which seeks to actively find and exploit vulnerabilities within computer systems (with permission, of course). It's an exciting and rewarding career, and I'll show you how to become a penetration tester. Before I continue, however, let me be transparent about my own experience. While I have about three

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Neanderthals Spread Across Asia With Surprising Speed—and Now We Know How

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-03-18 18:00:29

Neanderthals and modern humans split from a common ancestor around 500,000 years ago, with Neanderthals leaving Africa for Europe and Asia long before modern humans joined them hundreds of thousands of years later. There, Neanderthals dispersed as far as Spain and Siberia. Our prehistoric cousins likely first reached Asia around 190,000 to 130,000 years ago, with another substantial migration to Central and Eastern Eurasia likely between 120,000 and 60,000 years ago. But how did they get there?

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Does Next Week's Fed Meeting Matter for Mortgage Rates? Yes and No

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-18 18:00:05

When interest rate cuts do come, it won't be a cure-all for today's unaffordable housing market. Saifulasmee Chede/Getty Images/CNET If you followed the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decisions last year, you might have been puzzled: The Fed's three interest rate cuts didn't translate into cheaper mortgages. In fact, the average rate for a 30-year fixed home loan has hovered around 6.8% since late fall. On Wednesday, the central bank is expected to extend a pause on interest rate cuts for a

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This New Coinbase Card Lets You Earn Up to 4% Back in Bitcoin. Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-18 19:00:00

Cheng Xin/Getty Images If you've been wanting a card that can fund your crypto portfolio, the latest credit card from Coinbase and Cardless might be the answer. The Coinbase One card offers up to 4% back in bitcoin for your purchases. However, the reward rate is based on how many assets you're holding with Coinbase and details aren't yet disclosed on the card's website. We've reached out to Coinbase for clarification and will update the story if we hear back. "Partnering with Cardless has let

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Clay secures a new round at a $3B valuation, sources say

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2026-03-19 09:37:09

Clay, a sales automation startup, has raised a Series C round at an approximate $3 billion valuation, led by Capital G, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal. Clay and Capital G didn’t respond to a request for comment. The new round comes just a month after the New York startup announced that it will allow most of its employees to sell some of their shares at a $1.5 billion valuation. That secondary deal, known as a tender offer, was led by Sequoia, which agreed to purchase up

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The case for embedding audit trails in AI systems before scaling

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2026-03-19 14:13:09

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Editor’s note: Emilia will lead an editorial roundtable on this topic at VB Transform this month. Register today. Orchestration frameworks for AI services serve multiple functions for enterprises. They not only set out how applications or agents flow together, but they should also let administrators manage workflows and agents and audit t

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Alaska, Where Only 2% of Homes Have AC, Just Issued Its First Heat Advisory Ever

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-19 14:37:42

Alaska just crossed a first off its bucket list with the first-ever heat advisory for Sunday, June 15. Temperatures in central Alaska are expected to reach 86 degrees Fahrenheit (that's 30 Celsius) through the weekend and into the week of June 16. It's not as if Alaska never gets hot in the summer. However, as Jason Laney, a warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fairbanks, Alaska, told CNET, "The frequency with which the heat is coming up is starting to be a bi

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Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-03-20 01:42:48

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. Google is rolling out a test that puts its AI-powered Audio Overviews on the first page of search results on mobile. The experiment, which you can enable in Labs, will let you generate an AI podcast-style discussion for certain queries. If you search for something like, “How do noise cancellation headphones work?”, Google will display a button bene

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Your iPhone’s alarm will gain new snooze options in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-03-20 10:45:38

Millions of people wake up to their iPhone’s alarm every day, and have learned to live with the built-in 9-minute snooze duration. But in iOS 26, you’ll finally be able to choose exactly how long you want to snooze alarms for. Alarms can have custom snooze durations in iOS 26 Apple’s built-in Clock app is where most iPhone users turn for setting their daily alarms. It’s the default method. But despite that, there’s been one glaring missing feature for years: the ability to set custom snooze d

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Nvidia to exclude China from its revenue and profit forecasts

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-03-20 10:34:03

In Brief Nvidia doesn’t think the U.S. will backpedal its chip export restrictions to China anytime soon. The chipmaker is so convinced of that fact that it’s not going to include the Chinese market in its revenue and profit forecasts, CEO Jensen Huang told CNN on Thursday. Huang said he’s not counting on the Trump administration reversing its chip export controls and that it would be a nice “bonus” if they did. The Trump administration introduced licensing requirements for Nvidia’s H20 chip

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I found a Linux distro that combines the best parts of other operating systems (and it works)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-03-20 13:22:00

Jack Wallen/ZDNET There are so many Linux distributions on the market, and they range from the command line only all the way to functioning works of art. The majority of distros fall somewhere in the middle, of course, and that's perfectly fine because most users prefer a blend of aesthetics and functionality. That's why the likes of Linux Mint, ZorinOS, elementaryOS, and Ubuntu are so popular. But every once in a while, a team releases an update to its distribution that reminds you that Linux

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Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-20 12:42:45

Throughout my career, I've received incredible kindness and inspiration from experienced people - professors, and strangers who invested time in me when I feel like I had little to offer in return. While I always express gratitude and try to pay it forward, I often feel there's still an imbalance. I feel like I owe something more direct to the specific people who shaped my life. How do you meaningfully give back to people who helped you early on (when you literally have nothing...haha)? What fo

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Trump administration throws wrench into $42 billion broadband rollout

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-03-21 06:15:00

The big picture: In a sudden policy shift, the Trump administration has thrown a wrench into the nation's largest broadband expansion effort, forcing states to overhaul plans to distribute $42 billion in federal funding aimed at closing the digital divide. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has put the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program on pause, unveiling sweeping new rules last week that require states to rethink how they allocate grants to Internet service providers. T

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Are Those Viral ‘Cooling Blankets’ for Real?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2026-03-21 06:00:00

If you spend much time on the internet, you will see the same things pop up again and again. For me, it's these “cooling blankets” that people talk about on social media. I mean, it sounds great for summer—just like a blanket that warms you up but in reverse. Sadly, these products don’t do what they claim. They might be breathable so they don’t make you as hot as an ordinary blanket would, but you’d still be cooler with no blanket at all. However, there is hope. Someone has created a real cooli

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SAG-AFTRA board approves agreement with game companies on AI and new contract

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-03-21 06:04:00

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) National Board approved the tentative agreement with the video game bargaining group. The contract on terms for the Interactive Media Agreement will now be submitted to the membership for ratification. The new contract accomplishes important guardrails and gains around AI, including the requirement of informed consent across various AI uses and the ability for performers to suspend informed consent for Digi

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Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-03-21 17:33:28

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. If you’ve been on social media lately, you might’ve seen the unsettling AI slop videos showing AI-generated people in wild scenarios or just speaking a bunch of nonsense. On Wednesday night, the betting platform Kalshi decided to take this trend outside the social sphere by putting a nonsensical AI-generated ad in front of the millions of viewers wa

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