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Akira ransomware abuses CPU tuning tool to disable Microsoft Defender

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-11 09:15:57

Akira ransomware is abusing a legitimate Intel CPU tuning driver to turn off Microsoft Defender in attacks from security tools and EDRs running on target machines. The abused driver is 'rwdrv.sys' (used by ThrottleStop), which the threat actors register as a service to gain kernel-level access. This driver is likely used to load a second driver, 'hlpdrv.sys,' a malicious tool that manipulates Windows Defender to turn off its protections. This is a 'Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver' (BYOVD) at

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Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-11 14:19:41

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments Health practitioners are becoming increasingly uneasy about the medical community making widespread use of error-prone generative AI tools. The proliferation of the tech has repeatedly been hampered by rampant "hallucinations," a euphemistic term for the bots' made-up facts and convincingly-told lies. One glaring error proved so persuasive that it took over a year to be caught. In their May 2024 research paper introducing a healthcare AI model, dubbed Me

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Is Economics education fit for the 21st Century?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 14:16:30

The first quarter of the 21st century has seen seismic shifts in the politics, society, and economy of the United Kingdom. As economics thinkers and graduates, Rethinking Economics is concerned that economics education remains out of step with these shifts. What is taught in university classrooms informs how society perceives and will tackle these challenges, from engaging in climate science to the reality of Britain’s colonial past. This report assesses the extent to which university education

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Sections on habeas corpus and nobility titles were temporarily removed from Congress' US Constitution website

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-11 18:29:56

Key sections of the US Constitution were temporarily removed from Congress' website. Provisions including habeas corpus (due process) and the prohibition of nobility titles (like, say, King) vanished from the digital version of the document. They've since been restored. 404 Media first reported on the edits after users on Lemmy forums spotted them. There are many ways to read a copy of the US Constitution. But the Library of Congress' online version is one of the easiest to find. Alongside its

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Companies Find Potential Way to Avoid Trump Tariffs and Keep Prices Low

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-11 18:35:50

Donald Trump’s tariff regime has been scoffed at by business leaders and world economists (Larry Summers, for instance, called it both “crazy” and “dumb”), but the White House hasn’t backed down from its highly unconventional program. The tariffs, which are taxing American businesses on their imports, are reportedly generating billions of dollars in revenue for the federal government on a month-to-month basis. Many businesses aren’t happy about it, however, and now several lawsuits are threateni

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‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Is a Delightful Mix of Gothic Whimsy and Brutal Horror

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-11 23:30:36

Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) is back at Nevermore Academy with a new deadly mystery in Tim Burton’s Wednesday. Season two of the hit Netflix series raises the stakes with bolder teen angst, as well as a surprising body count. Showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar return with exactly what fans loved from season one, amplified by the addition of new creative voices that truly capture the essence of Wednesday Addams. That includes Ortega’s influence as executive producer, and her collaborati

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Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work

news.ycombinator.com Writing A Rust Gpu Kernel Driver 2026-01-12 04:00:54

This post is the second iteration of a series of posts that provide an in-depth look at the development of Tyr, a state-of-the-art Rust GPU driver for the Linux Kernel, supporting Arm Mali CSF-based GPUs. As promised in the first iteration, we will now explore how GPU drivers work in more detail by exploring an application known as VkCube . As the program name implies, this application uses the Vulkan API to render a rotating cube on the screen. Its simplicity makes it a prime candidate to be u

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NASA Approves Ted Cruz’s Plan to Move a Space Shuttle to Houston, Setting Up a Fight With the Smithsonian

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-12 04:40:56

NASA has selected a yet-to-be-named Space Shuttle to move to Houston, conceding to a long-running bid by Texas senators to house one of the iconic vehicles. If the chosen vehicle is Discovery—which it likely is—the Smithsonian, which houses the vehicle, may put up a fight. The Trump administration included the shuttle’s relocation in the budget reconciliation bill, signed it into law on July 4, and set aside $85 million for the move and construction of a new facility in Houston. At the time, Te

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OpenAI Announces Massive US Government Partnership

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2026-01-12 04:48:11

OpenAI is partnering with the US government to make its leading frontier models available to federal employees. Under the agreement, federal agencies can access OpenAI’s models for $1 for the next year, per a Wednesday announcement from the company and the General Services Administration (GSA). The partnership is the culmination of months of effort on the part of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other OpenAI executives, who have been cozying up to the Trump administration since before President Donald

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We shouldn't have needed lockfiles

news.ycombinator.com Nikita Prokopov 2026-01-12 09:33:37

We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa . You look up its current version, which is 1.2.3 , and add it to your dependencies: "libpupa": "1.2.3" In turn, the developer of libpupa , when writing its version 1.2.3 , needed another library: liblupa . So they did the same thing: they looked up the version, which was 0.7.8 at the time, and added it to the dependencies of libpupa 1.2.3 : "liblupa": "0.7.8" The version 0.7.8 of

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Welcome to The Stepback, a weekly breakdown of one essential story from across the tech world

theverge.com Marina Galperina 2026-01-12 09:46:23

is the Senior Tech Editor at The Verge. She previously covered tech, science, and art at Popular Science, Gizmodo, and other places. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I’m excited to announce The Stepback, a weekly subscriber-only newsletter that I’ll be editing for The Verge. We’ll be bringing you a new story each Sunday from a rotating cast of writers from every corner of the Verge extended universe. If you’re a regular reader, you know w

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Welcome to Regulator

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2026-01-12 09:46:31

You’ll often see tech policy reporting described as the intersection of technology and politics, and for years, that was a pretty accurate description: Silicon Valley existed independent of Washington politics, and every so often, they’d cross paths, discuss some regulatory concern, write a check, shake hands, and then go their separate ways. This is no longer the case. Tech and politics have violently crashed into each other, and the leaders from both sides are locked in an existential fight t

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Introducing Regulator and The Stepback, our new subscriber-exclusive newsletters

theverge.com Kara Verlaney 2026-01-12 09:48:26

is The Verge’s managing editor who oversees operations. An editor with 10 years of experience, she joined The Verge in 2016. Today, I’m excited to announce three newsletter offerings, exclusive to Verge subscribers, that will continue to deliver must-read stories about tech and beyond. First, we’re introducing Regulator by Tina Nguyen. Regulator is focused on the battles between Big Tech and Big Government — from the juicy palace intrigue to the devastating consequences of their political game

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Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-12 09:01:00

The director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism. On Wednesday, Ron Deibert will deliver a keynote at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, one of the largest gatherings of information security professionals of the year. Ahead of his talk, Deibert told TechCrunch that he plans to speak about what

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Disney+ will unhinge its jaw and swallow Hulu in 2026

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-12 14:44:58

It’s almost the end of the road for Hulu as a standalone app. Now that it fully owns Hulu , Disney will entirely integrate the streaming service into Disney+. It will roll out a new, unified app next year. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the price of a Disney+ subscription is going to skyrocket in 2026. A Disney spokesperson told Variety the company will still offer standalone plans for Disney+ and Hulu. Disney CEO Bob Igor said on an earnings call that having Disney+ and Hulu on the same t

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NASA explains how it keeps the Curiosity rover running, 13 years later

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-12 23:45:30

Thirteen years ago, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, inside Gale crater in particular. It was originally sent to the red planet for a two-year mission, but it was extended indefinitely just a few months into its operations. The rover has several goals, most of which are meant to help scientists determine whether Mars could ever have supported life in the past. And while it's still very much operational and doing science, NASA has had to make adjustments and give it new capabilities to ensure

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Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 10:59:47

Perhaps a more revealing aspect of the Manifesto was the claim that: “Before the Portuguese discovered Brazil, Brazil had discovered happiness.” This statement conferred a local imprimatur on a vision that applied, and perhaps still applies, in Europe and North America of far-off Brazil as a kind of natural and human paradise, a place not only abundant, tropical, and permissive, but also one where race has become unimportant — a fantasy, of course, but one worth holding on to. In the same year a

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Apple now offers a separate Xcode 26 beta build for Apple silicon Macs

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-14 04:25:27

With today’s developer beta 5 releases, Apple also rolled out a new version of Xcode 26 beta that brings a notable change: two distinct download options, one of them being Apple silicon-specific. Yet another step beyond the Intel Macs era With today’s release of Xcode 26 beta 5 (build 17A5295f), developers can now choose between a “Universal” version, which runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs, and one optimized specifically for Apple silicon Macs. According to Apple’s developer downloads pag

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Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time

news.ycombinator.com Aaron Wiener 2026-01-14 04:32:58

BERLIN — Germany: the land of beer, sausage and trains that run on time. Actually, make that the land where 56 percent of trains run on time. More precisely (or imprecisely, depending on how much of a rush you are in), the land where 56 percent of trains arrive within six minutes of the scheduled time — which is the cushion Deutsche Bahn, the national railroad company, allows itself for an “on-time” arrival. In Germany, punctuality is part of the national ethos. So to hear Germans talk about it

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Amazon's Starlink Alternative Is Coming to Australia Next Summer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-14 02:42:00

Why You Can Trust CNET Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. How we test ISPs

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Some Sonos Speakers Are Getting So Hot That the USB-C Port Melts

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-01-14 09:24:23

If you’re in the business of selling audio gear with a Sonos logo on it, you may be feeling a little more heat than usual. And if you’re a person who owns a Sonos speaker, you may be equally as hot, though potentially not in a figurative sense. According to a report from Bloomberg, Sonos has admitted that a small number of customers who bought its Roam Bluetooth speakers have experienced overheating problems that caused the speaker to partially melt (specifically the USB-C port). Per Bloomberg,

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Amazon’s Starlink Alternative Is Coming to Australia Next Summer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-14 08:42:00

Why You Can Trust CNET Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. How we test ISPs

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Verizon is offering a NFL Sunday Ticket subscription for free, if you qualify

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-15 04:42:22

Andrew Grush / Android Authority TL;DR Verizon is offering the NFL Sunday Ticket free ($480 value) to users adding a new line or switching to Verizon Home Internet. Customers not making these changes can still save over $200 on the NFL Sunday Ticket through Verizon. Verizon customers can also grab limited free NFL game tickets via the My Verizon app on August 7. erizon recently drew some negative attention for removing loyalty discounts alongside a few minor fee increases, but this time, Big

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If You Ask Google Why It Sucks Now, AI Overviews Will Viciously Bully Google and Itself

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-15 09:18:54

Google's notorious AI Overviews feature appears to have finally gotten it right — but for all the wrong reasons. As flagged on Bluesky, if you ask Google why its own search engine feels so useless lately, the company's AI feature will provide multiple and excoriating reasons — including brutal attacks against itself, Google's much-maligned AI Overviews. In that Bluesky post, Google responded broadly to the hilariously colloquial query of "why is google ass now" with a self-flagellating list of

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-15 08:57:00

Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released VIENNA, Austria – August 05, 2025 – Leading open-source server solutions provider Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH (henceforth "Proxmox"), celebrating its 20th year of innovation, today announced the release of Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0. Main highlight of this update is a modernized core built upon Debian 13 “Trixie”, ensuring a robust foundation for the platform. Proxmox VE 9.0 further introduces significant advancements in both

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Apple Music for Android gets redesigned with lyrics and translation

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-15 18:00:27

Apple has released the beta version of Apple Music version 5.0 for Android, and as 9to5Google reports, it doesn't feature a Liquid Glass redesign like its counterpart for iOS 26. Liquid Glass is what Apple calls its new visual language, so it's not quite clear whether the Android iteration of the app will ever get the same visual overhaul. It did get a handful of elements from the iOS 26 version, though, including new pill-shaped buttons for play, shuffle and repeat at the top of albums, playlis

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Projects evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 06:26:23

Where Projects are Evaluated To see if they're as free and open source as advertised The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth. This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.

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AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens

news.ycombinator.com Written 2026-01-16 11:44:58

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be the only fully-featured, independently operated sovereign cloud, backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances and legal protections. It will have no critical dependencies on non-EU infrastructure, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is operated only by personnel who are European Union (EU) residents located in the EU, subject to EU law. Based on evolving customer requirements for digital sovereignty in Europe, we are adding EU citizenship t

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Is It FOSS?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 12:26:23

Where Projects are Evaluated To see if they're as free and open source as advertised The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth. This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.

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Palantir is extending its reach even further into government

news.ycombinator.com Makena Kelly 2026-01-16 06:44:49

President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically expanded its work with Palantir, elevating the company cofounded by Trump ally Peter Thiel as the government’s go-to software developer. Following massive contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power. Palantir has become one

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Latest Tech News

Akira ransomware abuses CPU tuning tool to disable Microsoft Defender

Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans

Is Economics education fit for the 21st Century?

Sections on habeas corpus and nobility titles were temporarily removed from Congress' US Constitution website

Companies Find Potential Way to Avoid Trump Tariffs and Keep Prices Low

‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Is a Delightful Mix of Gothic Whimsy and Brutal Horror

Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work

NASA Approves Ted Cruz’s Plan to Move a Space Shuttle to Houston, Setting Up a Fight With the Smithsonian

OpenAI Announces Massive US Government Partnership

We shouldn't have needed lockfiles

Welcome to The Stepback, a weekly breakdown of one essential story from across the tech world

Welcome to Regulator

Introducing Regulator and The Stepback, our new subscriber-exclusive newsletters

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent

Disney+ will unhinge its jaw and swallow Hulu in 2026

NASA explains how it keeps the Curiosity rover running, 13 years later

Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

Apple now offers a separate Xcode 26 beta build for Apple silicon Macs

Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time

Amazon's Starlink Alternative Is Coming to Australia Next Summer

Some Sonos Speakers Are Getting So Hot That the USB-C Port Melts

Amazon’s Starlink Alternative Is Coming to Australia Next Summer

Verizon is offering a NFL Sunday Ticket subscription for free, if you qualify

If You Ask Google Why It Sucks Now, AI Overviews Will Viciously Bully Google and Itself

Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released

Apple Music for Android gets redesigned with lyrics and translation

Projects evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised

AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens

Is It FOSS?

Palantir is extending its reach even further into government

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