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Trump’s cybersecurity cuts putting nation at risk, warns New York cyber chief

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-26 23:53:34

During the first few months of the new Trump administration, the White House slashed cybersecurity budgets, staff, and initiatives. And some, including cybersecurity experts and legislators, are not happy about it. One of them is Colin Ahern, the chief cyber officer for the state of New York. In a recent interview with TechCrunch, Ahern said that both he and New York Governor Kathy Hochul are worried that the Trump administration’s cuts to cybersecurity are putting the country at risk. “We wor

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SAVE Student Loan Borrowers, Interest Restarts on Friday. Should You Move to IBR Now?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 17:30:00

Interest will restart for SAVE borrowers whose loans remain in a general forbearance on Aug. 1. Viva Tung/CNET If you're a student loan borrower enrolled in SAVE, you have until the end of the week before interest will begin accruing on your loans. The change doesn't mean you have to switch repayment plans yet, but it could be a good time to make a plan. Earlier this month, the Department of Education announced interest would resume for the nearly 8 million borrowers on the Saving on a Valuabl

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Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Sieff 2025-12-24 06:32:22

MUR-DE-BRETAGNE, France — After the world’s best cyclists charged up the final climb in Stage 7 of the Tour de France, passing a roaring crowd at the finish line, a group of officials in black polo shirts darted toward their bikes. The officials put red bracelets on the carbon frames. Their job was to conduct a little-known check in one of the world’s most scandal-stained sports: The bikes were being inspected for tiny motors. Eight bikes were wheeled to a black tent a few feet from the podium,

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Crytek finally explains why the jump from Far Cry to Crysis changed everything

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-28 14:03:00

In context: Crytek recently turned 25, and its new documentary revisits the origins of the legendary "But can it run Crysis?" meme. The studio reveals the game's staying power wasn't just brute tech – it came from a bold shift to mimicking real nature, setting a new bar for realism. Crytek is marking its 25th anniversary with a new documentary series that reexamines its legacy – starting with the creative leap between Far Cry and Crysis. For years, gamers assumed Crysis was simply the product o

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Internet Archive joins federal library system as official repository for government documents

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-28 17:22:00

What just happened? Non-profit organization Internet Archive was founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996, as a digital library conceived to provide free access to digital knowledge via the internet. Now, the IA is getting yet another noteworthy "upgrade" thanks to an official federal designation promoted by a US Senator. The Internet Archive was recently designated as an official "federal depository" library for the state of California. Senator Alex Padilla made the designation in a letter sent to Sc

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Tea app confirms data leak after 4Chan users discover unsecured cloud storage

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-28 20:16:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust What just happened? Tea, officially known as "Tea Dating Advice," is a dating safety app that allows women to anonymously share information about men and potential red flag behavior. Now the top free app in the App Store, Tea has been hacked. 4Chan users linked to a public storage bucket containing about 72,000 images, including 13,000 selfies and government-issued IDs used for gender verification.

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What was the first ransomware attack to demand payment in Bitcoin?

techspot.com Unknown 2025-12-28 21:50:00

Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. Correct Answer: CryptoLocker (2013) When Verizon bought AOL in 2015, how many people were still paying for dial-up Internet? In the world of cybersecurity, ransomware is a well-known menace, but its evolution into the era of cryptocurrencies marked a major turning point. The first ransomware attack to demand payment specifically in Bitcoin was CryptoLocker, which emerged in September 2013. CryptoLocker was a g

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How much pollution does AI create? Mistral breaks it down

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-28 23:55:00

What just happened? Mistral AI, a Paris-based venture focused on developing open-weight, open-source large language models, is now contributing to the AI discourse with a comprehensive lifecycle analysis of one of its models – guided by the same principles of openness that define its work. Mistral recently published an analysis of the environmental impact of one of its large language models. As chatbots and other AI-powered technologies become increasingly embedded in the global economy, Mistra

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Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship

news.ycombinator.com Patricia Hernandez 2025-12-28 22:53:52

In the wake of storefronts like Steam and itch.io curbing the sale of adult games, irate fans have started an organized campaign against the payment processors that they believe are responsible for the crackdown. While the movement is still in its early stages, people are mobilizing with an eye toward overwhelming communication lines at companies like Visa and Mastercard in a way that will make the concern impossible to ignore. On social media sites like Reddit and Bluesky, people are urging on

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New York state cyber chief calls out Trump for cybersecurity cuts

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-28 23:53:34

During the first few months of the new Trump administration, the White House slashed cybersecurity budgets, staff, and initiatives. And some, including cybersecurity experts and legislators, are not happy about it. One of them is Colin Ahern, the chief cyber officer for the state of New York. In a recent interview with TechCrunch, Ahern said that both he and New York Governor Kathy Hochul are worried that the Trump administration’s cuts to cybersecurity are putting the country at risk. “We wor

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Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-12-25 11:00:00

On November 2, 2022, I attended a Google AI event in New York City. One of the themes was responsible AI. As I listened to executives talk about how they aligned their technology with human values, I realized that the malleability of AI models was a double-edged sword. Models could be tweaked to, say, minimize biases, but also to enforce a specific point of view. Governments could demand manipulation to censor unwelcome facts and promote propaganda. I envisioned this as something that an authori

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Here’s how Samsung is speeding up software updates for Galaxy devices

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 14:13:53

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung managed to release its Android 16-based One UI 8 update so quickly by adopting Google’s new “Trunk Stable” development model. Instead of using separate branches for new versions, all development now happens on a single, stable codebase with features hidden behind flags until ready. This trunk-based approach avoids the time-consuming “merge conflicts” of the old model, enabling a much faster release schedule for Google and Samsung. While Google

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Free Autoswagger Tool Finds the API Flaws Attackers Hope You Miss

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-29 12:01:11

APIs: Still Easy Targets in 2025 APIs are the backbone of modern applications - and one of the most exposed parts of an organization’s infrastructure. This makes them a prime target for attackers. One of the highest-profile examples was the Optus breach in 2022, where attackers stole millions of customer records through an unauthenticated API endpoint - costing the telecom company $140 million AUD in fallout. Worryingly, vulnerabilities like this are so easy to exploit you could teach someone

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Internet Archive is now a US federal depository library

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-29 14:19:31

The Internet Archive has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other U.S. government documents. U.S. Senator Alex Padilla designated it as such in a July 24 letter to the Superintendent of Documents at the Government Publishing Office, which oversees the Federal Depository Library Program that coordinates a network of over 1,150 such libraries. "Through its Democracy

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Free Tool Autoswagger Finds The API Flaws Attackers Hope You Miss

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-29 18:01:11

APIs: Still Easy Targets in 2025 APIs are the backbone of modern applications - and one of the most exposed parts of an organization’s infrastructure. This makes them a prime target for attackers. One of the highest-profile examples was the Optus breach in 2022, where attackers stole millions of customer records through an unauthenticated API endpoint - costing the telecom company $140 million AUD in fallout. Worryingly, vulnerabilities like this are so easy to exploit you could teach someone

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Trump temporarily drops export controls to smooth negotiations with China

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 04:00:21

After previously saying that the US would block exports of key AI chips to China, Donald Trump's administration may have backtracked. The US will now temporarily block restriction on exports of chips and other technology to China, the Financial Times reported. The aim is to help Trump book a meeting with China President Xi Jinping later this year in order to strike a trade deal, according to people familiar with the matter. Export controls are dictated by the US Commerce Department, which was r

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Why does a fire truck cost $2m

news.ycombinator.com Katherine Laidlaw 2025-12-30 08:56:04

These firefighters just wanted to save lives. Private equity had other ideas This past Valentine’s Day, a firefighter behind the wheel of an enormous ladder truck felt his brakes give out. He was driving in the heart of Chicago, on a busy city street, about to lose control of a truck that was supposed to help him save people’s lives. He looked around, panicked. The 25-year-old truck — and the nightmare — picked up speed. He had three choices: drive into traffic, hit a local grammar school, or

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Itch.io is the latest marketplace to crack down on adult games

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-30 06:12:36

Indie video game marketplace Itch.io announced this week that it has “deindexed” adult and not-safe-for-work games, removing them from its browse and search pages. The move, the company said, was in response to a campaign by Collective Shout (an advocacy group that has previously criticized video games, rap music, and lingerie commercials) targeting both Itch.io and Steam for selling “No Mercy,” a game that depicts rape and incest. In an open letter addressed to executives at PayPal, Mastercar

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Steam is testing out a redesigned storefront that makes it easier to find games you'll like

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 10:52:16

You have to join the Steam Client Beta if you want to try out the streamlined design now. As if we needed more ways to grow our Steam libraries with games we'll never finish or even play. Now, Steam is experimenting with a redesigned storefront menu as part of its latest beta update to help sell more games. Instead of being overwhelmed with text links and cluttered menu buttons in the current version, Steam's store page remodel combines everything into a more polished and organized menu at the

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Best 3D Printing Filament and Which to Buy in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 04:00:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. There are plenty of great reasons to pick up a 3D printer, but it's important to find a filament that works for you. Choosing the wrong filament will lead to clogs, a stringy printing process and ultimately having to start all over again. Filament is the material used for FDM 3D printing, and there's certainly no shortage of opti

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Bonkers NASA Mission Aims to Drop Six Helicopters Onto Mars From Space

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-29 23:30:57

Defense tech company AeroVironment and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have shown off a wild concept for deploying six helicopters above the surface of Mars to scout for water and possible human landing sites. The concept, dubbed "Skyfall," builds on NASA's extremely successful and revolutionary Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which became the first manmade object to achieve powered flight on another planet in 2021. It flew a whopping 72 times over three years, vastly exceeding expectations. AeroV

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Inverted Indexes: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 10:53:20

Before we start with the implementation, let's talk about why would you actually need an inverted index in a real life. Why would anyone need inverted index at all Imagine you need to create a system that would quickly look up a document, given several words from it - something like a wiki search. Simplest option I can think of would be to scan through each document, marking ones that have all the necessary words. That might work at first, but such solution wouldn't scale,

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Microsoft to stop using China-based teams to support Department of Defense

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-29 23:00:21

Last week, Microsoft announced that it would no longer use China-based engineering teams to support the Defense Department’s cloud computing systems, following ProPublica’s investigation of the practice, which cybersecurity experts said could expose the government to hacking and espionage. But it turns out the Pentagon was not the only part of the government facing such a threat. For years, Microsoft has also used its global workforce, including China-based personnel, to maintain the cloud syst

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SAVE Student Loan Borrowers, You Have Only a Few Days Left Before Interest Restarts. Should You Move to IBR?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 00:30:03

Interest will restart for SAVE borrowers whose loans remain in a general forbearance on Aug. 1. Viva Tung/CNET If you're a student loan borrower enrolled in SAVE, you have about a week left to switch repayment plans before interest will begin accruing on your loans. But although interest payments will kick in, the change doesn't mean you have to switch repayment plans yet. Earlier this month, the Department of Education announced that on Aug. 1 interest would resume for the nearly 8 million bo

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Tea Is the Top Free App Right Now. What It Is and Why So Many Women Are Using It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 17:22:00

Ask any single woman right now, and they'd probably tell you how rough it is in the dating world. With ghosting and misleading bios, it can be challenging to know who you're really talking to on dating apps -- and whether they're telling you the truth. Tea is an app that allows women to anonymously review men and spill "the tea" on men they've dated. About 1 million women have started using the app in the past week. It's reminiscent of those Facebook "Are We Dating the Same Guy?" groups that ma

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Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data

news.ycombinator.com Price Per Token 2025-12-31 02:39:41

All pricing information comes from official provider sources: Disclaimer: Providers don't all count tokens in the same way, but generally a token is equivalent to 3-4 characters. Please refer to each provider's documentation for their specific tokenization methods.

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Dwm Commented

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 09:41:15

Do not use. Do not patch. This fork of dwm adds extra comments and is intended for educational uses only. If you try to patch this version of dwm then that will most likely fail, more so the relative comments will no longer apply or be misleading as the underlying code will have changed. If you are interested in dwm then get a fresh clone from the https://dwm.suckless.org/ site and use this as a reference rather than the basis for your build. This fork has 0 patches and also does not cover pa

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Mistral’s new “environmental audit” shows how much AI is hurting the planet

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-31 14:11:50

Despite concerns over the environmental impacts of AI models, it's surprisingly hard to find precise, reliable data on the CO 2 emissions and water use for many major large language models. French model-maker Mistral is seeking to fix that this week, releasing details from what it calls a first-of-its-kind environmental audit "to quantify the environmental impacts of our LLMs." The results, which are broadly in line with estimates from previous scholarly work, suggest the environmental harm of

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Show HN: A macOS clock that stays visible when coding or binging in fullscreen

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 18:02:23

Very nice I'm a minimalist by nature and typically keep both my menu bar and Dock hidden. That said, I still like having the clock visible at all times. I've tried various widgets in the past to solve this, but none really did the trick—until now. This app nails it. I can still see the clock and date exactly where I want them, and when I move the cursor to the menu bar, the app tucks neatly underneath, just as it should. The customization options are also thoughtfully designed. Bravo!

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 review: More screen, more battery but something's missing

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-01 04:00:22

Samsung’s annual foldable refresh includes a trio of devices this year. While the Z Fold 7 comes with a top-tier processor and cameras, the Z Flip 7 carries over many technical details from its predecessor. In fact, the most significant upgrade this year is a more expansive front display, or Flex Window, as the company prefers to call it. Samsung has also, somehow, added an even bigger battery to a slimmer foldable, which is technically impressive. However, the company made minimal software add

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