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FBI says China’s Salt Typhoon hacked at least 200 US companies

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-30 23:39:40

A Chinese-backed hacking campaign that previously hacked into nine U.S. telecommunication and internet providers is now confirmed to have hacked at least 200 American companies, according to the FBI’s top cyber chief. FBI Assistant Director Brett Leatherman told The Washington Post that the hackers, dubbed Salt Typhoon, also broke into companies in 80 countries, revealing for the first time the global scale of the Chinese spying campaign. Leatherman didn’t name the hacked companies. AT&T, Veri

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Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year, exec says

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-31 03:29:49

Google has eliminated more than one-third of its managers overseeing small teams, an executive told employees last week, as the company continues its focus on efficiencies across the organization. "Right now, we have 35% fewer managers, with fewer direct reports" than at this time a year ago, said Brian Welle, vice president of people analytics and performance, according to audio of an all-hands meeting reviewed by CNBC. "So a lot of fast progress there." At the meeting, employees asked Welle

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How much RAM do you actually need in 2025? I broke it down for Windows and Mac users

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-10-31 07:53:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways RAM is an important hardware resource that allows a computer to perform optimally and at fast speeds. Escalating computing demands have made 16GB of RAM the new standard for PCs and laptops if they are to continue performing at their best. Even then, 16GB of memory may not be enough for certain users, so it's important to know when to upgrade. I used to struggle when shopping for a new computer. Ove

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Meta’s Already Bleeding AI Talent Two Months Into Hiring Spree

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-31 07:45:09

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to be the first to achieve AI superintelligence, a type of artificial intelligence that is smarter than the average human, and a concept that some experts are still highly skeptical. To do so, Zuckerberg announced the formation of Meta Superintelligence Labs in late June, a team dedicated to helping AI catch up to and beat its peers in the AI race. With that, he sparked a multi-million dollar hiring frenzy. Meta began poaching talent from competitors, the main ta

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Online Age Verification Rules Are Popping Up Everywhere. Here's What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 05:43:44

The internet is full of perils -- this we know. Among the rich trove of content we have at our fingertips is a combination of legal material, illegal material and material that falls into a gray area -- often referred to in vague terms as "harmful." This is the kind of content that might be appropriate for anyone with a fully developed prefrontal cortex to view but that you wouldn't necessarily want your kids stumbling across. In the past, accessing such content has been easy, regardless of ag

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The Boring Company is finally testing Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ in its Las Vegas tunnels

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-31 07:40:38

In Brief Elon Musk’s The Boring Company is finally testing Full Self-Driving (Supervised), the advanced driver assistance system created by Tesla, in the tunnels that connect Las Vegas’ Convention Center to a few nearby hotels, according to Fortune. Steve Hill, the CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, told the outlet that The Boring Company has been doing tests of the software for a few months now in Tesla vehicles with only safety drivers onboard. But any widespread use of

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Nvidia reports second-quarter earnings after the bell

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-31 11:00:01

Nvidia reports fiscal second-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the bell. Here's how Nvidia is expected to do versus LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share : $1.01, adjusted : $1.01, adjusted Revenue: $46.02 billion That would represent 53% year-over-year revenue growth for Nvidia, which carries a market cap of more than $4 trillion and is already the most valuable company in the world. That type of growth would add to a streak of explosive growth for the chipmaker, which has been on

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Gusto agrees to buy retirement plan provider Guideline

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-31 11:10:01

Gusto, a startup with payroll and human resources software, said Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Guideline, a startup specializing in corporate retirement plans. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, Gusto is among the world's most valuable companies backed by venture capitalists, with a $9.3 billion valuation. Gusto originally was named ZenPayroll and provided software that clients could use to run payroll for their employees. In 2015, the co

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Was it just a mistake? Nothing speaks out on the Phone 3’s stock photo controversy

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-31 06:37:57

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis has provided a detailed explanation for the stock photos found on Nothing Phone 3 demo units. The company uses placeholder content, including stock images, in demo units for testing purposes before mass production. Nothing says it was an “unfortunate oversight” that the placeholder content was not swapped out with actual photo samples. The company is working to update all demo units and prevent similar incidents in the

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The revived Acclaim will reveal its 2026 lineup in a September 10 showcase

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-31 11:32:06

Acclaim Entertainment, a big name in licensed games in the '90s, is "returning." (Although, much like the new Atari, this is technically a different company that bought the old trademark.) The new Acclaim will focus on publishing indie games and reviving classic franchises. We don't know much beyond that, but we'll learn more on September 10 in the Play Acclaim Showcase. The company's March announcement of its revival hinted at the resurrection of old franchises. But it's unclear which of its c

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Show HN: React Web Camera – Fix <input type=file> single-photo limit

news.ycombinator.com Shivantra Solutions Private Limited 2025-10-31 14:42:14

React Web Camera Default camera inputs only allow one photo, making multi-image capture frustrating. React web camera is a lightweight, headless React component for capturing multiple images in one session. It’s flexible, PWA-friendly, and gives you full control over UI and styling.

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New Fossils Reveal Ankylosaur With Armor Unlike Any Other Animal, Living or Dead

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-31 15:00:05

Ankylosaurs were squat and thick four-legged dinosaurs with club tails and tough body armor. In other words, invincible Pokémon. A new fossil discovery, however, has revealed that the earliest ankylosaurs were several orders of magnitude more badass than their descendants. In a study published today in the journal Nature, researchers describe the partial skeleton of a Spicomellus, a genus of early ankylosaurs, unearthed in Morocco and dating to around 165 million years ago. The finding includes

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US sanctions fraud network used by North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ to seek jobs and steal money

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-31 19:43:04

The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned an international fraud network used by North Korea to infiltrate U.S. companies with hackers posing as legitimate job seekers, agency officials announced Wednesday. The sanctions are the latest action taken by the U.S. Treasury in recent months aimed at combating North Korean government workers from seeking employment at American companies using fake identities and documents to apply for jobs. Once employed, the hackers earn a wage from the company, but also ste

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MongoDB stock surges 30% after earnings as company touts customer growth boom

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-31 23:44:27

MongoDB shares skyrocketed more than 30% on Wednesday after the database software company posted better-than-expected fiscal results and gave an upbeat forecast. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $1.00 adjusted vs. 66 cents expected $1.00 adjusted vs. 66 cents expected Revenue: $591 million vs. $556 million expected MongoDB's revenue increased 24% from a year ago in the fiscal second quarter that ended July 31. The company had a net loss of $47

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New Chipolo Loop and Card trackers offer Find My compatibility and 400-foot range

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-31 23:44:33

The Chipolo POP proved a popular AirTag competitor when it launched earlier this year, and the company has now added two further Find My compatible trackers. The new models are the Loop and a new version of the Card, with the former essentially a Pop with an integrated silicon loop for even easier attachment to bags, keys, and so on … One of the reasons the Pop proved so popular was all of the colours available, and this is continued with the Loop. Meet LOOP – a rechargeable tracking tag desi

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Plaud upgrades its card-sized AI note-taker with better range

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-31 23:00:00

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Plaud, the company behind an AI wearable that actually works, is launching an upgraded version of its credit card-sized note-taking device. Just like its Plaud Note predecessor, the Plaud Note Pro uses AI to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations,

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14-year prison term sought over theft of trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process [U]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-01 03:33:23

Six people have been arrested after Apple chipmaker TSMC said that several then-employees tried to steal trade secrets relating to the company’s most advanced chip process. TSMC fired the individuals concerned and is now taking legal action against them. Update: Three of the six have now been indicted, and prosecutors are seeking a 14-year prison sentence for one of them – see the update at the end … The report relates to the company’s 2-nanometer chip process, which is expected to be used for

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Alphabet's Verily closes its medical device division and lays off staff

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-01 03:00:09

Alphabet's Verily was one of the company's star "moonshot" businesses, with its research delving into areas ranging from connected diabetes therapies to robot surgery. Now, Verily has shuttered its medical device division and laid off staff, the company announced in a memo seen by Business Insider. The number of employees who lost their jobs was not revealed. "We have made the difficult decision to discontinue manufacturing medical devices and will no longer be supporting them going forward," a

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Microsoft Locks Down Building After Protesters Breach President’s Office

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-01 03:45:30

People inside and outside of Microsoft have been agitating for the software giant to cut ties with the Israeli government. As the war and slaughter in Gaza drag on, activists have increasingly sought to expose and condemn the software giant. This week, it appears that the company had to temporarily lock down its headquarters, as protesting workers entered the office of company president Brad Smith to conduct a sit-in. The protest efforts that took place on Tuesday were also streamed live on Twi

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WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 09:38:58

WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser WebLibre is an independent browser project built on the foundation of Mozilla’s Gecko Engine and Mozilla Android Components . It offers a fully featured web browser with support for Firefox mobile add-ons, designed with privacy and usability at its core.

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This Visiting Interstellar Comet Just Keeps Getting Weirder

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-01 10:00:32

Ever since interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS whizzed into our cosmic neighborhood in July, astronomers have been racing to uncover its characteristics. Now that the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has taken a good look at this icy interloper, it seems to be weirder than anyone imagined. A preprint submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters for peer review on Monday, August 25, describes the first results from JWST’s survey of 3I/ATLAS. A team of astronomers observed the comet with the telesc

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What It's Like to Work at a Body Farm

wired.com Jess Thomson 2025-11-01 12:00:00

Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies. These corpses have been strategically laid out in rows, naked as the day they were born, and left to the mercy of the elements until all that’s left of them are bones. It sounds like a scene out of a horror film, but these places are real. They’re called taphonomic research facilities, or sometimes “body farms”—sites where forensic scientists study how the human body decomposes. (Don’t worry,

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SpaceX's Starship deploys its payload for the first time

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-01 09:50:30

SpaceX has successfully launched the Starship for its 10th test flight after it was delayed a couple of times due to weather conditions and other issues. This time, the company was able to achieve its objectives without the vehicle and its booster exploding mid-test. One of those objectives was deploying Starship's payload for the first time ever. If you'll recall, Starship exploded during its ascent stage in the company's seventh and eighth test flights. The vehicle made it to space for its nin

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Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome in limited beta, but prompt injection attacks remain a major concern

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-01 14:22:13

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 Anthropic has begun testing a Chrome browser extension that allows its Claude AI assistant to take control of users’ web browsers, marking the company’s entry into an increasingly crowded and potentially risky arena where artificial intelligence systems can directly manipulate computer interfaces. The San Francisco-based AI company announc

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SpaceX Suddenly Seems Pretty Terrified to Launch Starship After Long String of Super Expensive Explosions

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-01 17:46:44

For years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been stridently glib when his rockets explode during tests, quipping that the blasts were "just a scratch," a "minor setback," or a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." He's still deploying these jokey ripostes, but there's reason to believe the walls may be starting to close in for SpaceX's efforts on Starship, as more and more of the ultra-expensive spacecraft fail in spectacular public view. The issue is that he's bet the future of the company on the massive

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Anthropic reaches a settlement over authors' class-action piracy lawsuit

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-01 18:03:38

Anthropic has settled a class-action lawsuit brought by a group of authors for an undisclosed sum. The move means the company will avoid a potentially more costly ruling if the case regarding its use of copyright materials to train artificial intelligence tools had moved forward. In June, Judge William Alsup handed down a mixed result in the case, ruling that Anthropic's move to train LLMs on copyrighted materials constituted fair use. However the company's illegal and unpaid acquisition of tho

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When to Stream 'South Park' Season 27, Episode 4

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-01 13:47:00

Comedy Central Predicting what will happen in a South Park episode is hard, but anticipating when a new installment will stream might be even tougher. The hit satirical series had its season 27 premiere date pushed by two weeks and then announced its second installment would drop two weeks after the first. Since then, it's become customary for new episodes to air every other week. While we don't have additional details on what the next South Park will entail, another aspect of the show is mor

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EchoStar stock skyrockets 70% on AT&T deal to buy wireless spectrum for $23 billion

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-11-01 22:20:45

EchoStar stock roared more than 70% higher on Tuesday after AT&T said it agreed to purchase certain wireless spectrum licenses from the telecom company for about $23 billion in an all-cash deal. The sale will add about 50 megahertz of mid-band and low-band spectrum to AT&T's network, with the licenses covering more than 400 markets across the U.S., AT&T said. The deal is expected to close in mid-2026, pending regulatory approval. EchoStar said in a regulatory filing that the transaction is par

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IBM and AMD to work on quantum-centric supercomputing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 20:53:03

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. and AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced plans to develop next-generation computing architectures based on the combination of quantum computers and high-performance computing, known as quantum-centric supercomputing. AMD and IBM are collaborating to develop scalable, open-source platforms that could redefine the future of computing, leveraging IBM's leadership in developing the world's most performant quantum c

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Mysterious ‘Nano-Banana’ Project Revealed to Be Google’s Latest Image Editor

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-01 22:35:11

Google just upgraded its AI image model, and it actually looks to be a pretty significant step up. The company rolled out Gemini 2.5 Flash Image today, a major refresh that promises smarter and more flexible image generation. The upgraded model allows users to issue natural language prompts to not only generate images but also merge existing photos and make more precise edits without creating weird distortions. It also taps into Gemini’s “world knowledge” to better understand what it’s generati

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Latest Tech News

FBI says China’s Salt Typhoon hacked at least 200 US companies

Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year, exec says

How much RAM do you actually need in 2025? I broke it down for Windows and Mac users

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Online Age Verification Rules Are Popping Up Everywhere. Here's What You Need to Know

The Boring Company is finally testing Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ in its Las Vegas tunnels

Nvidia reports second-quarter earnings after the bell

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The revived Acclaim will reveal its 2026 lineup in a September 10 showcase

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New Fossils Reveal Ankylosaur With Armor Unlike Any Other Animal, Living or Dead

US sanctions fraud network used by North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ to seek jobs and steal money

MongoDB stock surges 30% after earnings as company touts customer growth boom

New Chipolo Loop and Card trackers offer Find My compatibility and 400-foot range

Plaud upgrades its card-sized AI note-taker with better range

14-year prison term sought over theft of trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process [U]

Alphabet's Verily closes its medical device division and lays off staff

Microsoft Locks Down Building After Protesters Breach President’s Office

WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser

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What It's Like to Work at a Body Farm

SpaceX's Starship deploys its payload for the first time

Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome in limited beta, but prompt injection attacks remain a major concern

SpaceX Suddenly Seems Pretty Terrified to Launch Starship After Long String of Super Expensive Explosions

Anthropic reaches a settlement over authors' class-action piracy lawsuit

When to Stream 'South Park' Season 27, Episode 4

EchoStar stock skyrockets 70% on AT&T deal to buy wireless spectrum for $23 billion

IBM and AMD to work on quantum-centric supercomputing

Mysterious ‘Nano-Banana’ Project Revealed to Be Google’s Latest Image Editor

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