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Microsoft working on fix for ongoing Outlook email issues

​Microsoft is working to resolve an Exchange Online issue causing email access problems for Outlook mobile users who use Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA). HMA is a Microsoft Exchange Server feature that allows users to access on-premises mailboxes using authorization tokens from the cloud. Tracked under EX1137017 in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, this known issue is caused by a recent service change, designed to improve the efficiency of mailbox syncs, which is triggering 12-hour sync delay

New Android malware poses as antivirus from Russian intelligence agency

A new Android malware posing as an antivirus tool software created by Russia's Federal Security Services agency (FSB) is being used to target executives of Russian businesses. In a new report from Russian mobile security firm Dr. Web, researchers track the new spyware as 'Android.Backdoor.916.origin,' finding no links to known malware families. Among its various capabilities, the malware can snoop on conversations, stream from the phone's camera, log user input with a keylogger, or exfiltrate

Why most AI projects flop - and how your business can beat the odds

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Only 5% of AI projects deliver. It comes down to the ability to customize. With partnerships in place, AI success odds double. Ask the right questions before deciding between building or buying. There's a tremendous gap between AI aspirations and actual successful projects -- this was shown in the recent MIT study that found only 5 percent of generative AI projects have delivered measur

Quick Share for iPhones is still in the works, and here’s proof (APK teardown)

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A teardown of the latest Google Play Services app has revealed evidence that Google is still working on Quick Share for iPhones. We were also able to view a screen confirming that you need to sign in to share with iPhones. This comes almost a year after we first learned Google might be working on Quick Share for iOS and MacOS. We first heard late last year that Google could be working on Quick Share for iOS and MacOS. This would be a welcome addition, al

Xero vs. QuickBooks: Which accounting platform is better?

Allison Murray/ZDNET If you're trying to select an accounting platform that will grow with your business while managing costs effectively, both Xero and QuickBooks offer competing products starting at $29 per month. However, they're each good at different things. Also: The best budgeting apps of 2025 Xero stands out for its user-friendly interface and flexible pricing structure that includes unlimited users across all plans. The platform excels in international business support with multicurr

Agent-C: a 4KB AI agent

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This new Pixel 10 feature makes weather reports even more personal, but not for everyone

The Pixel 10 series features Magic Cue , a type of personal assistant that pulls information from other apps. Thanks to Magic Cue, the Pixel 10, 10 Pro, and 10 Pro XL now have a new weather-related feature that makes weather reports even more personal, but sadly, not for everyone. The three new Pixel flagships now support personal weather insights in the Pixel Weather app. These insights deliver tailored weather details and preparation tips based on events and plans saved in your Google account

We put a coding agent in a while loop

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Iterative DFS with stack-based graph traversal (2024)

Depth-first search (DFS) on a graph (binary tree or otherwise) is most often implemented recursively, but there are occasions where it may be desirable to consider an iterative approach instead. Such as when we may be worried about overflowing the call stack. In such cases it makes sense to rely on implementing DFS with our own stack instead of relying on our program's implicit call stack. But doing so can lead to some problems if we are not careful. Specifically, as noted in another blog post,

Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras

clearcam Turn your RTSP enabled camera or old iPhone into a state of the art AI Security Camera Now on the Apple App Store https://apps.apple.com/app/clearcam/id6743237694 video demo: https://x.com/RoryClear/status/1959249250811785405 install and run NVR + inference with homebrew brew tap roryclear/tap brew install clearcam clearcam (optional) enter your Clearam premium userID (viewable in iOS app) to receive streams and notifications open localhost:8080 in your browser run NVR + inferen

My ZIP isn't your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers

ZIP is one of the most popular archive formats. It is used not only as archive files, but also as the container for other file formats, including office documents, Android applications, Java archives, and many more. Despite its ubiquity, the ZIP file format specification is imprecisely specified, posing the risk of semantic gaps between implementations that can be exploited by attackers. While prior research has reported individual such vulnerabilities, there is a lack of systematic studies for

The two versions of Parquet

A few days ago, the creators of DuckDB wrote the article: Query Engines: Gatekeepers of the Parquet File Format, which explained how the engines that process Parquet files as SQL tables are blocking the evolution of the format. This is because those engines are not fully supporting the latest specification, and without this support, the rest of the ecosystem has no incentive to adopt it. In my experience, this issue is not limited to Query Engines but extends to the tools within the ecosystem.

Time is running out for SpaceX to make a splash with second-gen Starship

STARBASE, Texas—A beehive of aerospace technicians, construction workers, and spaceflight fans descended on South Texas this weekend in advance of the next test flight of SpaceX's gigantic Starship rocket, the largest vehicle of its kind ever built. Towering 404 feet (123.1 meters) tall, the rocket will lift off during a one-hour launch window beginning at 6:30 pm CDT (7:30 pm EDT; 23:30 UTC) Sunday. The main concern for Sunday's launch attempt will be weather conditions at Starbase, located a

Notion’s offline mode might just make me ditch Obsidian

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Notion is one of my favorite tools. From databases to to-do lists, tracking restaurants I wanted to check out, and so much more, I’ve dabbled in it for years until I finally made the switch to Obsidian. That’s mostly because of Notion’s one fatal flaw. The moment you lose internet, the app effectively becomes useless. The moment you lose internet, the app effectively becomes useless. I’ve learned that the hard way on flights, cafes with rocky Wi-Fi, even when

Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI Object Detection to Your IP CCTV Cameras in a Minute

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The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence systems that can beat us in chess, analyze huge reams of text, and compose sonnets. This has been one of the great surprises of the modern era: physical tasks that are easy for humans turn out to be very difficult for robots, while algorithms are increasingly able to mimic our intellect. Another surprise that has long p

DeepCode: Open Agentic Coding

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Rolling the dice with CSS random()

Random functions in programming languages are amazing. You can use them to generate variations, to make things feel spontaneous and fresh. Until now there was no way to create a random number in CSS. Now, the random() function is on its way. You’ll be able to create a random animation delay, layout content at a random place on the screen, create a random color, or anything you want — all without any JavaScript. The Basics This new function has three arguments in this pattern: random(min, max,

Hacker and physicist – a tale of "common sense"

I'm what you might call a "Stone Age" programmer. Not because I code with rocks and sticks, but because my toolkit is filled with ancient relics like LISP and OCaml - functional programming languages that are about as popular in today's enterprise world as flip phones at a tech conference. I spent three glorious years in the industry writing functional code, and let me tell you, it was like being a minimalist artist in a world of reality TV. Those languages taught me to appreciate the elegance

Optimizing our way through Metroid

Will Wilson CEO Optimizing our way through Metroid Games People ask me: “why do you let your employees spend so much time playing Nintendo games?” People think we do it for the marketing. People think we do it to have cool demos. People think our blog series on learning autonomous testing concepts via how they come up in games is a pedagogical gimmick and nothing more. People are totally wrong. The honest truth, the underlying reality beneath the hype, is that this is actually how we figured

Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker

Static Sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker My preferred deployment stack for Python-built static sites. I’ve largely switched to uv at this point and it’s been pretty great. I use it for everything I can, from little scripts with uv run , to libraries, to applications. It’s so fast it does actually matter, the workflow side of things works well enough for me, and—perhaps most valuably—it manages Python executables for me beautifully. As we’re all familiar with by now, I’m a static site a

Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave

The Earth is constantly receiving space signals that contain vital information about extremely energetic phenomena. Among the most peculiar are brief pulses of extremely high-energy radio waves, known as fast radio bursts (FRB). Astronomers compare them to a powerful lighthouse that shines for milliseconds in the middle of a rough, distant sea. Detecting one of these signals is an achievement in itself, but identifying its origin and understanding the nature of its source remains one of the grea

Bluesky blocks Mississippi due to its new age verification law

Users with Mississippi IP addresses can no longer access the Bluesky app. The decentralized social media network has explained in a post that Mississippi's new age verification law for social networks "would fundamentally change" how it operates, and it wouldn't be possible to comply with its small team and limited resources. Bluesky says that while it does follow the UK's Online Safety Act, it works very differently from Mississippi's approach to age verification. In the UK, it's only required

Assassin's Creed Mirage will get fresh content later this year and it'll be completely free

The Assassin's Creed fanbase may be waiting for the first DLC for Assassin's Creed Shadows, but Ubisoft instead confirmed new content for its previous title, Assassin's Creed Mirage. The studio announced on the official Assassin's Creed X account that there will be a new story chapter and missions for protagonist Basim, who will venture into ninth-century alUla. More importantly, the DLC will be free. According to the post, Ubisoft will bring gameplay improvements to both the new content and th

You can't grow cool-climate plants in hot climates

Since moving to Deep South Texas 4 years ago I've come to realize that many plants I used to love growing in the cool mild maritime climate of the SF bay area are impossible to grow where I live. This is not just because of the high daytime heat. It's not as simple as that. Specifically, it is the high heat during the night (and those warm nights are a direct result of the humidity) that causes cool-climate and cool-season plants to eventually die here. That's a bummer for somebody who loves pla

Scientists Propose a Smarter Way to Hunt for Alien Radio Signals

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research suggests refining our search parameters by using our own broadcasts into deep space as a helpful guide. Research published earlier this week in Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests we search for alien signals by studying how we beam strong, directed transmissions during two-way communication with our de

An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle actions that produce it. A patient has to physically attempt to speak to make these implants work, which is tiresome for severely paralyzed people. To go around it, researchers at the Stanford University built a BCI that could decode inner speech—the kind we engage in silent reading and use for al

Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory

When Donald Trump recently claimed, during what was supposed to be a press conference about a European Union trade deal, that wind turbines were a "con job" that drive whales "loco," kill birds and even people, he wasn’t just repeating old myths. He was tapping into a global pattern of conspiracy theories around renewable energy—particularly wind farms. (Trump calls them “windmills”—a climate denier trope.) Like 19th century fears that telephones would spread diseases, wind farm conspiracy theo

Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you’ll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the lightning really is responding to the ships, or rather the tiny particles they emit. Using data from a global lightning detection network, my colleagues and I have been studying how exhaust plumes from ships are associated with an increase in the frequency of lightning. For decades, ship emissions steadil