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Big Brother at the Border Is Searching for a ‘Hidden Language’ in People’s Text Messages

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-12 09:20:00

United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a bad snooping habit, and it’s looking for a little help to get its fix. According to a report from Wired, the agency is currently asking tech companies to pitch it ideas for a digital forensics tool that would allow it to process and analyze data from seized phones and computers and potentially uncover “hidden” patterns. In a federal registry listing from June, CBP said it is seeking a tool that can scan text messages, pictures, videos, con

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‘Stranger Things’ Hellfire Club Catch-Up: Season One

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-08-13 12:13:36

Welcome to io9’s summer cram session for Stranger Things, the Duffer Brothers’ Netflix phenomenon, which will return this November to Netflix for its final season. To honor the Hawkins gang’s late, great, guitar-shredding Dungeon Master Eddie (Joseph Quinn), this rewatch shall be coined the Hellfire Club Catch-Up. With part one of season 5 a few months out, it seems fitting to get started now. Read on for io9’s guide to everything you need to remember from the show’s 2016 debut. Season one of S

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The Person in Charge of Testing Tech for US Spies Has Resigned

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-08-13 21:50:33

The head of the US government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is leaving the unit this month to take a job with a quantum computing company, WIRED has learned. Rick Muller’s pending departure from IARPA comes amid broader efforts to downsize the United States intelligence community, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which oversees IARPA. A person familiar with Muller’s plans confirmed to WIRED his departure from IARPA. Born during

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Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology

news.ycombinator.com Alan Stapelberg 2025-08-14 09:36:13

Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance. Open sourcing these powerful cryptographic tools will make it much easier for private and public sector developers to build their own privacy-enhancing applications and digital ID solutions, meeting an urgent need. In layperson’s terms, ZKP makes it possible for people to prove that something about them is true without exchanging any

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NASA Reveals First-Ever Full Image of Peanut-Shaped Asteroid Donaldjohanson

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-08-14 12:57:11

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s April 20 encounter with Donaldjohanson, an asteroid in our solar system’s main asteroid belt. And it’s, uh, as peanut-shaped as we first saw it. Earlier this year, Lucy’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager snapped an image of Donaldjohansson while quickly swooping past it, at a distance of about 600 miles (960 kilometers), with the smallest visible features measuring around 13

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Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-15 01:39:40

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR For the EU’s new energy label program, smartphones advertise a rated number of charge cycles. We’ve complied a list of those cycle counts for popular phone and tablet brands and models. Samsung finds itself at the head of the pack, with many devices boasting batteries that will endure 2,000 cycles. With Google just announcing the start of its Battery Performance Program for the Pixel 6a, set to get underway next week, battery health is very much on ou

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AT&T rolls out Wireless Account Lock protection to curb the SIM-swap scourge

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-16 09:28:27

AT&T is rolling out a protection that prevents unauthorized changes to mobile accounts as the carrier attempts to fight a costly form of account hijacking that occurs when a scammer swaps out the SIM card belonging to the account holder. The technique, known as SIM swapping or port-out fraud, has been a scourge that has vexed wireless carriers and their millions of subscribers for years. An indictment filed last year by federal prosecutors alleged that a single SIM swap scheme netted $400 milli

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Show HN: HackerNewt – Breadth-first exploring HN client for iOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 12:57:23

Don't get lost in big Hacker News discussions! HackerNewt is a Hacker News client that uses an alternative way of displaying comment tree. Advantages over traditional interfaces: - Comment width doesn't get narrower no matter how deep in the tree you are - You always see the parent of the comment you're currently reading - Swiping allows you to move in and out of subtrees with animated transitions that you fully control - You can easily skip subtrees that don't interest you by simply scrolling A

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Apple’s satellite SOS feature helps rescue injured climber in Colorado

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-18 12:04:19

A climber stranded at nearly 11,000 feet in the Colorado wilderness was rescued this week thanks to Apple’s Emergency SOS satellite messaging feature. Here’s what happened. Glissading gone wrong As reported by KDVR (via Reddit), a 53-year-old man had just summited Snowmass Mountain on Sunday, before beginning his descent using a glissading technique (which is essentially sliding down the snow-covered slope). That’s when he injured his wrist and realized he couldn’t make it out on his own. Wit

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Apple Watch satellite SOS feature helps rescue injured climber in Colorado

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-18 17:04:19

A climber stranded at nearly 11,000 feet in the Colorado wilderness was rescued this week thanks to Apple’s Emergency SOS satellite messaging feature. Here’s what happened. Glissading gone wrong As reported by KDVR (via Reddit), a 53-year-old man had just summited Snowmass Mountain on Sunday, before beginning his descent using a glissading technique (which is essentially sliding down the snow-covered slope). That’s when he injured his wrist and realized he couldn’t make it out on his own. Wit

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Show HN: HackerNewt - Breadth-first exploring HN client for iOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-19 04:57:23

Don't get lost in big Hacker News discussions! HackerNewt is a Hacker News client that uses an alternative way of displaying comment tree. Advantages over traditional interfaces: - Comment width doesn't get narrower no matter how deep in the tree you are - You always see the parent of the comment you're currently reading - Swiping allows you to move in and out of subtrees with animated transitions that you fully control - You can easily skip subtrees that don't interest you by simply scrolling A

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Benchmarking Postgres

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-19 05:31:02

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal, Vitess, horizontal sharding, or Enterprise options? Benchmarking Postgres By Benjamin Dicken | July 1, 2025 Today we launched PlanetScale for Postgres. For the past several months, we've been laser focused on building the best Postgres experience on the planet, performance included. To ensure we met our high standard for database performance, we needed a way to measure and compare other options with a standardized, repeatable, and fair method

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How I upgraded my home Wi-Fi with a VPN-ready router (and why it makes such a big difference)

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-08-20 03:15:12

ZDNET's key takeaways The Privacy Hero 2, a $189 router available on FlashRouters, supports NordVPN and Surfshark alongside various VPN protocols. It comes with one year of access to Privacy Hero Wireguard VPN and, with a current promotion, one year of NordVPN. The company should improve the build quality and be more generous with the Ethernet cable's length. View now at Flashrouters Right now, you can buy the Privacy Hero 2 VPN router for $189 ($60 off retail price), a fantastic deal on a we

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Netflix teams up with NASA to show live rocket launches and spacewalks

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-08-21 01:29:38

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Since it launched in November 2023, you could catch everything from rocket launches to documentaries about space on the NASA Plus streaming service. Starting this Summer, NASA Plus’ live programming will also be available on Netflix, and continue to be ad-free. NASA Plus’ live programming also includes “astronaut spacewalks, mission coverage, an

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NASA will start livestreaming content on Netflix later this summer

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-21 05:43:14

This should be a convenient way to watch rocket launches and spacewalks. NASA is bringing live NASA+ programming to Netflix. For the uninitiated, NASA+ is the space agency's very own streaming platform. Content will begin showing up later this summer. This will be reserved for live events, with NASA saying it'll be used to stream "rocket launches, astronaut spacewalks, mission coverage and breathtaking live views of Earth from the International Space Station." NASA+ also streams original docum

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How and Where to Recycle Your Old Computers and Printers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-21 13:15:48

Everyone's got old, unused devices sitting around their homes. It can be weirdly difficult to get rid of your old laptop, desktop or printer -- even when it's been over a decade since you last switched it on. But recycling old tech can free up a lot of space in your home. A recent CNET survey found that 31% of US adults are still holding onto unused old devices, including laptops, because they're unsure of what to do with them. The survey also found that 19% of respondents just toss old devices

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Show HN: Open-Source International Space Station Tracker ESP32/Arduino for $20

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-19 01:34:53

International Space Station Tracker SpaceStationTracker is an application that displays the current position of the International Space Station on a 2D world map. It runs on a ESP32-2432S028R ILI9341 device with a 2.8" screen, commonly known as the CYD "Cheap Yellow Display", which costs $20 or less. The code was written using Arduino IDE / ESP32 development environment in c++. I used this project to learn programming for ESP32/Arduino/CYD. It includes topics such as graphics using LVGL, wifi

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Europol helps disrupt $540 million crypto investment fraud ring

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-22 01:20:58

Spanish authorities have arrested five individuals in Madrid and the Canary Islands, suspected of laundering $540 million (€460 million) from illegal cryptocurrency investment schemes and defrauding more than 5,000 victims. The law enforcement operation was supported and coordinated by Europol and investigators from Estonia, France, and the U.S. (Homeland Security Investigations – HSI). The investigation into the fraud ring started in 2023 On the day of the arrests a cryptocurrency expert was

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Best VPN for iPhone 2025: Privacy Protection on the Go

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-22 01:00:00

Downloading a VPN app, creating an account, choosing a plan and connecting to your VPN shouldn't take longer than a minute or so. Nelson Aguilar/CNET With so many iPhone VPN apps available, it can be difficult to choose the right one. Based on our extensive research and hands-on testing of VPNs over the years, these are the factors to look out for when choosing the best VPN for iPhone: Privacy The most important factor to consider with any VPN is privacy. You should never use a VPN provider i

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This stuff is way better than super glue (and it's less messy)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-22 09:00:13

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Whether due to being dropped, misused, or aged, broken plastics are a fact of life these days. My weapon of choice in the war against waste and sending things to the landfill has been cyanoacrylate adhesive -- this stuff goes by many names, such as Krazy Glue, instant glue, power glue, or superglue -- and on the whole, it's very good stuff. But it's far from perfect. Also: The $8 accessory you're not using enough for screen repairs and fi

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NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-22 03:01:43

Privacy and security NovaCustom respects your privacy and focuses on security. We are switching to Dasharo coreboot firmware for our laptops, which is open-source and security-focused. You can find the Dasharo coreboot models here. We do not use Google Analytics. We use Signal and you can reach us via Protonmail. You can buy your laptop with Linux preinstalled. We setup your operating system with the most privacy-friendly settings. Even if we install Windows! Customisation We build your laptop

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Scientists Intrigued by Comet With Jets Blasting From Its Interior

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-22 05:15:31

What can a comet tell us about the Universe? Vomit Comet Astronomers have detected a gigantic comet — possibly the largest ever discovered — and it's spewing gases from its nucleus as it shoots through our cosmic neighborhood. Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is 85 miles in diameter, far bigger than the six-mile asteroid that ended the age of the dinosaurs, according to a new study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. But thankfully, it's pretty far away — in the vicinity of Nept

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History of Cycling Maps

news.ycombinator.com Richard Harries 2025-08-22 04:32:43

Hi there, map-lovers! Available on this site is a complete history of cycling maps, including well over a hundred carefully-selected and restored extracts from the main providers of such maps. It has been created specifically and wholly for that purpose for the general public with an interest in such matters. it was first published in 2021 and is now much expanded. Included as individual pages are Introduction Development of Cycling individual pages on the various map publishers Sources and refe

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ICE Rolls Facial Recognition Tools Out to Officers' Phones

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-08-22 05:30:00

WIRED published a shocking investigation this week based on records, including audio recordings, of hundreds of emergency calls from United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers. The calls—which include reports of incidents of staff sexual assaults, suicide attempts, and head injuries—indicate a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. In a 6-3 decision on Friday, the US Supreme Court upheld a Texas porn ID law, finding th

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How vulnerable is critical infrastructure to cyberattack in the US?

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-08-22 13:31:35

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Our water, health, and energy systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack. Now, when tensions escalate — like when the US bombed nuclear facilities in Iran this month — the safety of these systems becomes of paramount concern. If conflict erupts, we can expect it to be

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Show HN: Shouldiuse.dev – Software dependency health checker

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-22 15:42:21

New Remote MCP Server Empower LLMs to score a dependency before using them

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As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-22 21:59:19

Silicon Valley has opined on the promise of generative AI to forge new career paths and economic opportunities – like the newly coveted solo unicorn startup. Banks and analysts have touted AI’s potential to boost GDP. But those gains are unlikely to be distributed equally in the face of what many expect to be widespread AI-related job loss. Amid this backdrop, Anthropic on Friday launched its Economic Futures Program, a new initiative to support research on AI’s impacts on the labor market and

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Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-23 09:02:17

There are secret messages flying all around you all the time, being transmitted via, most of the time, electromagnetic waves going from antenna to antenna. ELOs “Secret Messages” is a song about posting conspiracy theories via WiFi. But what if you need to get a few bytes from device A to device B (one of the hard problems in computer science!) and you don’t feel like making sure they’re both connected to the same network? Well, fortunately, another channel is available to us - sound, or for a

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DOGE Gets the Green Light to Slash Gun Regulations at ATF

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-23 09:30:33

Elon Musk may be out of the picture, but the Department of Government Efficiency is still around and being deployed to terrorize the public servants at agencies across the federal government. The latest target: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, where DOGE will be tasked with slashing gun restrictions, according to the Washington Post. DOGE staff (those who are left, at least, seeing as high-profile figures like Big Balls have tapped out of the operation) are reportedly be

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NASA Is in Full Meltdown

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-23 10:08:58

Career NASA officials were seen looking mighty freaked out during a recent town hall event about the agency's dicey future. As Ars Technica's Stephen Clark reports based on a livestream of the town hall — which was not advertised and has since been taken down — acting NASA administrator and career agency official Janet Petro looked like a hostage as she answered questions from staff about the agency's dire standing under president Donald Trump. The hostage-taker in this scenario appears to be

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