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Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 00:16:41

At Morphik, we build RAG tools to provide developers accurate search over complex documents. In this article, we explain why we operate over "images" of pages instead of doing OCR/ parsing. If you’ve ever tried to extract information from a complex PDF: one with charts, diagrams, and tables mixed with text, you know the pain. That invoice with a nested table showing quarterly breakdowns? The research paper whose intricate figures actually contain the key findings? The technical manual where the

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Hackers exploiting SharePoint zero-day seen targeting government agencies

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-11 03:42:36

The hackers behind the initial wave of attacks exploiting a zero-day in Microsoft SharePoint servers have so far primarily targeted government organizations, according to researchers as well as news reports. Over the weekend U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA published an alert, warning that hackers were exploiting a previously unknown bug — known as a “zero-day” — in Microsoft’s enterprise data management product SharePoint. While it’s still early to draw definitive conclusions, it appears that th

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Comparison of MGR, SunView, OpenWindows and X11R6 (2022)

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2026-01-11 11:09:01

My general vintage computing projects, mostly microcomputers, 6502, PalmOS, 68K/Power Mac and Unix workstations, but that's not all you'll see. While over the decades I've written for publications likeand, these articles are all original and just for you. My promise: No AI-generated article text, ever. All em-dashes are intentional and inserted by hand. Be kind, REWIND and PLAY.Old VCR is advertisement- and donation-funded, and what I get goes to maintaining the hardware here at Floodgap. I don'

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PDFgear Scan is an AI-powered, feature-packed scanning app – and it’s completely free

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-11 17:00:40

We don’t talk enough about the amount of paperwork we come across every day. From essential bank documents, work contracts, tax notices, and bills to invoices, application forms, IDs, letters, and more, keeping everything organized can be a chore. And even more so if there’s a mix of physical and digital paperwork to deal with. Scanning your documents and organizing them digitally is a smart idea. But while there are plenty of scanner apps, any features you might need beyond basic scanning are

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SAVE Student Loan Borrowers Are Up Against an Aug. 1 Deadline. Here's What Experts Suggest

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-11 21:00:26

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, do you have to switch to a new repayment before interest payments restart in August? That's the question on millions of borrowers' minds, but the answer depends on your forgiveness options and financial situation. "It's crucial for borrowers to act based on their own personal situation," said Elaine Rubin, a student loan policy exper

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Spanish police arrest five over $542M crypto investment scheme

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 03:19:31

Spanish law enforcement arrested five people suspected of running an international cryptocurrency investment fraud scheme that laundered more than €460 million ($542 million) from over 5,000 victims worldwide, according to a statement from Europol. The suspects, based in Madrid and the Canary Islands, allegedly operated a global network of accomplices who collected money through cash deposits, wire transfers and cryptocurrency transactions. According to Spain’s Guardia Civil, the criminal ring

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UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 03:46:40

Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the Trump administration over the UK’s demand that Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times. The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including Vice President JD Vance. “Th

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UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-12 08:30:09

Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the Trump administration over the UK’s demand that Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times. The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including Vice President JD Vance. “Th

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British government set to back down on secret iCloud backdoor after US pressure

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-12 23:16:30

We learned earlier this year that the British government had secretly ordered Apple to create a backdoor into encrypted data for all iCloud users worldwide. Specifically, it wanted a way to see personal data protected by Apple’s introduction of Advanced Data Protection (ADP), which extended end-to-end encryption to almost all iCloud data, meaning not even the iPhone maker could access it. Apple has been fighting the secret order in secret court hearings, but it now appears that the US governmen

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UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2026-01-12 20:30:19

The UK government is reportedly set to back down from its battle with Apple to obtain back door access to secure user data protected by the company’s iCloud encryption. Victory hasn’t come through the courts, or government figures changing their minds on privacy matters, but thanks to ongoing pressure from the US during the two countries’ trade talks. Multiple unnamed UK officials told the Financial Times that the UK government is working on a way out. “The Home Office is basically going to hav

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Foldable phones are thin and light in 2025, so why are these brands bending the truth?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-13 00:00:19

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR A Twitter user has shown that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is thinner than the HONOR Magic V5. It turns out both HONOR and OPPO measure their foldables without the protective inner screen film. A closer look at product pages also reveals that some brands don’t include these layers when weighing their foldables. HONOR launched the Magic V5 in China earlier this month, and the company claimed that the white version was the world’s thinnest foldable phone at 8.8mm. H

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X-Men at 25 is more relevant than ever

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-12 12:01:15

Credit: 20th Century Studios There's much to love about this film, including plenty of memorable standout scenes; seven of our favorites are featured below. It's got stellar casting, snappy dialogue, and breaks up the action with quieter character moment that advance the story without slowing the pace. X-Men also takes pains to establish key relationships: Charles and Magneto, Rogue and Wolverine, and the romantic triangle of Jean, Cyclops, and Wolverine. We care about these characters: their i

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These are our favorite cyber books on hacking, espionage, crypto, surveillance, and more

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-11 00:00:00

In the last 30 years or so, cybersecurity has gone from being a niche specialty within the larger field of computer science, to an industry estimated to be worth more than $170 billion made of a globe-spanning community of hackers. In turn, the industry’s growth, and high-profile hacks such as the 2015 Sony breach, the 2016 U.S. election hack and leak operations, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, and a seemingly endless list of Chinese government hacks, have made cybersecurity and hacking

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Can Cortisol Supplements Really Lower Stress? I Asked the Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 14:00:00

Cortisol was discovered in the mid-20th century, but in the last year or so, this naturally occurring hormone has entered the limelight of social media. You can find videos on TikTok discussing "cortisol face" with millions of views. Unfortunately, trends are rarely as simple as they appear and may have people jumping into action before learning what cortisol supplements even are and how they react in the body. While cortisol supplements can be the right choice in some situations, it's essentia

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5 underrated Android features I use all the time, and you should too

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 14:00:59

Andy Walker / Android Authority Features like split-screen mode, Quick Share, and various battery optimizations are more or less common knowledge amongst Android users. But Google’s OS has so many features, it’s easy for some to fly under the radar — especially since they can be buried deep within the settings. A lot of the features I use regularly aren’t talked about as much as they should be, partly due to the fact not everyone is aware that they even exist. I want to change that by sharing

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Psychiatric Researchers Warn of Grim Psychological Risks for AI Users

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 10:15:54

Without even looking at medical data, it's pretty clear that "artificial intelligence" — a vast umbrella term for various technologies over the years, but currently dominated by the data-hungry neural networks powering chatbots and image generators — can have life-altering effects on the human brain. We're not even three years out from the release of the first commercially-available LLM, and AI users have already been driven to paranoid breaks from reality, religious mania, and even suicide. A

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Apple exempt from Corning’s EU antitrust probe deal

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-12 09:31:54

The European Commission has concluded an antitrust investigation into Corning’s glass supply deals. And for once, Apple just watched from the sidelines. Apple not part of the relevant market The European Commission has accepted a series of commitments from Corning, wrapping up an investigation over potentially anticompetitive practices involving the supply of its famous Gorilla Glass (officially called Alkali-aluminosilicate glass, or ‘Alkali-AS Glass’), used in the cover layer of smartphones,

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Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 08:07:41

Detect agentic coding environments and AI assistant tools. This library allows CLI tools and Node apps to detect when they're being executed by AI agents. This enables them to adapt by, for example, providing different output formats or logs. Installation Install as library: npm install am-i-vibing Run as CLI tool: npx am-i-vibing import { detectAgenticEnvironment } from "am-i-vibing" ; const result = detectAgenticEnvironment ( ) ; console . log ( `Detected: ${ result . name } ( ${ result

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Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 10:45:40

Under the hood of a huge amount of artificial intelligence is an immense amount of human labor. This can take many forms, but a particularly prominent one is "data labeling": the process of annotating material like written text, audio, or video, so that it can be used to train an algorithm. Fueling the multi-billion dollar AI industry is a vast army of remote contract workers, often from less wealthy countries like the Philippines, Pakistan, Kenya, and India. Most data labelers are typically o

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Mapping the Margins: The Internet's Invisible Hand in Reproductive Care

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 08:00:00

We don’t often think about the internet as being good for our health. In fact, “internet” and “health” are primarily related in a negative context in online spaces -- we’re getting too much screen time, we’re “chronically” online, etc. It may come as a surprise, but access to the internet is commonly recognized as a "super" determinant of health. Limited internet access has been linked to high mortality rates during the COVID-19 pandemic, and having the internet in easy reach means we can stay

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Why It’s Taking LA So Long to Rebuild After the Wildfires

wired.com Umair Irfan 2026-01-12 08:00:00

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January—some of the most expensive and destructive blazes in history—one of the first things California governor Gavin Newsom did was to sign an executive order suspending environmental rules around rebuilding. The idea was that by waiving permitting regulations and reviews under the California Coastal Act and the California Environmental Quality A

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EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm

news.ycombinator.com Lisa Friedman 2026-01-11 23:00:56

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so. The move underscores how the Trump administration is forging ahead with efforts to slash the federal work force and dismantle federal agencies after the Supreme Court allowed these plans to proceed while legal challenges unfold. Government scientists have b

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EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm

news.ycombinator.com Lisa Friedman 2026-01-12 17:00:56

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so. The move underscores how the Trump administration is forging ahead with efforts to slash the federal work force and dismantle federal agencies after the Supreme Court allowed these plans to proceed while legal challenges unfold. Government scientists have b

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Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

news.ycombinator.com Joshua Wolens 2026-01-12 14:54:46

It's Mastercard's world; we just live in it. That's my understanding based on a recent communiqué from Valve to PC Gamer, which confirmed that, yup, the company sure did recently remove a whole spate of adult games from its storefront because it made payment processors upset. "We were recently notified that certain games on Steam may violate the rules and standards set forth by our payment processors and their related card networks and banks," said Valve. "As a result, we are retiring those gam

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Microsoft stops relying on Chinese engineers for Pentagon cloud support

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-01-13 03:48:05

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (L) returns to the stage after a pre-recorded interview during the Microsoft Build conference opening keynote in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Microsoft on Friday revised its practices to ensure that engineers in China no longer provide technical support to U.S. defense clients using the company's cloud services. The company implemented the changes in an effort to reduce national security and cybersecurity risks stemming from

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Show HN: Molab, a cloud-hosted Marimo notebook workspace

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 23:40:30

Welcome to mo lab 🍃 molab lets you create, run, and share cloud-hosted marimo notebooks — rapidly experiment with Python and SQL in marimo, the next-generation programming environment designed for data and stored as Python.

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Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 03:21:50

Silence is a Commons by Ivan Illich Computers are doing to communication what fences did to pastures and cars did to streets. by Ivan Illich Minna-san, gladly I accept the honour of addressing this forum on Science and Man. The theme that Mr. Tsuru proposes, "The Computer-Managed Society," sounds an alarm. Clearly you foresee that machines which ape people are tending to encroach on every aspect of people's lives, and that such machines force people to behave like machines. The

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The 5 Best Multivitamins for Men in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 00:03:00

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recommends that men who are missing key vitamins from their diets, lack regular physical activity or adequate amounts of sleep take a multivitamin. Men specifically require a multivitamin that contains some of the following. Vitamin A Found in cantaloupe, carrots, eggs and milk, vitamin A (along with carotenoids, a version of vitamin A found in plant sources) is important for eye health. According to the CDC, only 10% of US adults meet the vegetable intak

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We Finally Know How Much Martin Shkreli’s Wu-Tang Album Cost

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-13 08:35:04

The saga of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album that Martin “pharma bro” Shkreli bought for approximately $2 million in 2015, continues. The album’s contents have always been a highly guarded secret, and it was seized by the U.S. government in 2018 after Shkreli was convicted of securities fraud. For years, it was reported that the government had sold the album directly to PleaserDAO, a crypto collective that specializes in NFTs. However, Bloomberg now reports that

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Americans Are Paying $78 Monthly for Internet on Average: Here’s What to Do if Your Bill Is Too High.

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 11:00:00

If you've been with the same internet provider for a while, it probably seems like it gets more expensive by the year. That's not wrong: 63% of adults are paying $195 more on average for internet than they did last year, and high prices are the no. 1 reason people choose not to have a home internet connection at all. I analyzed over 150 plans from the country's biggest internet providers to figure out what the typical cost of internet is in the US, and I found that the median price is $63 per m

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Latest Tech News

Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG

Hackers exploiting SharePoint zero-day seen targeting government agencies

Comparison of MGR, SunView, OpenWindows and X11R6 (2022)

PDFgear Scan is an AI-powered, feature-packed scanning app – and it’s completely free

SAVE Student Loan Borrowers Are Up Against an Aug. 1 Deadline. Here's What Experts Suggest

Spanish police arrest five over $542M crypto investment scheme

UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

British government set to back down on secret iCloud backdoor after US pressure

UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door

Foldable phones are thin and light in 2025, so why are these brands bending the truth?

X-Men at 25 is more relevant than ever

These are our favorite cyber books on hacking, espionage, crypto, surveillance, and more

Can Cortisol Supplements Really Lower Stress? I Asked the Experts

5 underrated Android features I use all the time, and you should too

Psychiatric Researchers Warn of Grim Psychological Risks for AI Users

Apple exempt from Corning’s EU antitrust probe deal

Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments

Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained

Mapping the Margins: The Internet's Invisible Hand in Reproductive Care

Why It’s Taking LA So Long to Rebuild After the Wildfires

EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm

EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm

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Microsoft stops relying on Chinese engineers for Pentagon cloud support

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Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)

The 5 Best Multivitamins for Men in 2025

We Finally Know How Much Martin Shkreli’s Wu-Tang Album Cost

Americans Are Paying $78 Monthly for Internet on Average: Here’s What to Do if Your Bill Is Too High.

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