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16 billion passwords leaked across Apple, Google, more: What to know and how to protect yourself

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-09-03 21:30:01

Moor Studio/Getty With so much news about data breaches, you have to be careful not to panic each time you hear of a new one. Take the latest report of a major breach. In the headline for a recent story published by Cybernews, the cybersecurity media outlet said that 16 billion passwords were exposed in a record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable. Sounds scary, right? But reading the story itself paints a different picture. Also:

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Finally, a Makefile formatter (50 years overdue)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 14:06:13

🍞 mbake A Makefile formatter and linter. It only took 50 years! A Makefile formatter and linter. It only took 50 years! Table of Contents Features Configurable rules via ~/.bake.toml CI/CD integration with check mode Extensible plugin architecture Rich terminal output with progress indicators Syntax validation before and after formatting Smart .PHONY detection with automatic insertion Formatting Rules Indentation & Spacing Tabs for recipes : Recipe lines use tabs instead of spac

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Heard about the 16 billion passwords leak? Here are the facts and how to protect yourself

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-09-04 07:32:00

Moor Studio/Getty With so much news about data breaches, you have to be careful not to panic each time you hear of a new one. Take the latest report of a major breach. In the headline for a recent story published by Cybernews, the cybersecurity media outlet said that 16 billion passwords were exposed in a record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable. Sounds scary, right? But reading the story itself paints a different picture. Also:

Topics: breach data information online use

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16 billion passwords leaked from Apple, Google, more: Here are the facts and how to protect yourself

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-09-05 03:32:00

Moor Studio/Getty With so much news about data breaches, you have to be careful not to panic each time you hear of a new one. Take the latest report of a major breach. In the headline for a recent story published by Cybernews, the cybersecurity media outlet said that 16 billion passwords were exposed in a record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable. Sounds scary, right? But reading the story itself paints a different picture. Also:

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Krispy Kreme says November data breach impacts over 160,000 people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-08 10:59:49

U.S. doughnut chain Krispy Kreme confirmed that attackers stole the personal information of over 160,000 individuals in a November 2024 cyberattack. The American multinational coffeehouse chain employed 22,800 people in 40 countries as of December 2023 and operates 1,521 shops and 15,800 points of access. It also manages four "Doughnut Factories" in the United States and 37 others internationally, and it partners with McDonald's to have its products sold in thousands of McDonald's locations wo

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Writing documentation for AI: best practices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 19:23:46

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems like Kapa rely on your documentation to provide accurate, helpful information. When documentation serves both humans and machines well, it creates a self-reinforcing loop of content quality: clear documentation improves AI answers, and those answers help surface gaps that further improve the docs. This guide provides best practices for creating documentation that works effectively for both human readers and AI/LLM consumption in RAG systems. Many bes

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Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Ernie Smith 2025-09-11 15:51:10

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. For roughly three decades, the JPEG has been the World Wide Web’s primary image format. But it wasn’t the one the Web started with. In fact, the first mainstream graphical browser, NCSA Mosaic, didn’t initially support inline JPEG files—just inline GIFs, along with a couple of other formats forgotten to history. However, the JPEG had many advantages over the format it quickl

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Alleged Minnesota Shooter Used Data Brokers to Find Lawmakers’ Addresses

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-11 19:50:06

Vance Boelter, the man accused of assassinating a Democratic Minnesota state representative and shooting a state senator on Sunday, acquired the addresses of his victims and other alleged targets by using information collected by online data brokers, according to court documents obtained by Politico. According to the report, police found the names of 11 registered data brokers written in a notebook that was recovered from Boelter’s vehicle. He also allegedly wrote, “most property records in Ame

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Windows 10 EOL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-11 21:46:59

Blog Windows 10 EOL June 17th, 2025 (permalink) So Microsoft decided to produce tons of e-waste for no obvious reason. There's a lot of capable hardware out there, and it would be of software company's interest to support as much hardware as possible. Instead, they made some arbitrary reason to deprecate "old" hardware. At the same time they also turned all of windows VR headsets into garbage. We'll have to wait for the open source implementations to catch up for any hope of them being usable

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Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years

news.ycombinator.com Ernie Smith 2025-09-12 06:51:10

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. For roughly three decades, the JPEG has been the World Wide Web’s primary image format. But it wasn’t the one the Web started with. In fact, the first mainstream graphical browser, NCSA Mosaic, didn’t initially support inline JPEG files—just inline GIFs, along with a couple of other formats forgotten to history. However, the JPEG had many advantages over the format it quickl

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UK watchdog fines 23andMe for 'profoundly damaging' data breach

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-12 15:44:52

UK watchdog fines 23andMe for 'profoundly damaging' data breach 17 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images DNA testing firm 23andMe has been fined £2.31m by a UK watchdog over a data breach in 2023 which affected thousands of people. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the company - which has since filed for bankruptcy - failed to put adequate measures in place to secure sensitive user data prior to the incident. "This was a profoundly damag

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What I talk about when I talk about IRs

news.ycombinator.com Max Bernstein 2025-09-09 18:04:57

I have a lot of thoughts about the design of compiler intermediate representations (IRs). In this post I’m going to try and communicate some of those ideas and why I think they are important. The overarching idea is being able to make decisions with only local information. That comes in a couple of different flavors. We’ll assume that we’re compiling a method at a time, instead of a something more trace-like (tracing, tracelets, basic block versioning, etc). Control-flow graphs A function wi

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Google Adds Button to Generate Error-Laden AI Podcast About Your Search Results Instead of Just Reading Them Like a Functioning Member of Society

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-13 17:31:42

Google has released a baffling new AI feature that turns your web search into a podcast. Why anybody would want to enable the feature is unclear. Why be plagued by misleading and hallucinated AI Overviews search results when you can have a robotic voice read them out loud instead? Have we really lost the ability as a species to parse written information, nevermind original sources? The opt-in feature — which currently lives inside Google's experimental "Labs" section and has to be manually tur

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How to download your information from Facebook

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-15 03:14:04

Once upon a time Facebook was filled with posts about the minutiae of your day and album after album of photos of just about every experience you had. By now, a lot of this media is likely hidden with the "only me" setting. But, regardless of how much you use Facebook these days, it's probably home to a lot of memories you want to hold on to — or at least have the opportunity to laugh at later. The good news is that you can download your Facebook information. You can access things such as your

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LLM Chat via SSH

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-12 19:43:12

# Server name, optional, can be changed to your own domain SERVER_NAME = chat.aigc.ing # Whether it's a public server, required. If not configured, it defaults to private server and requires whitelist configuration PUBLIC_SERVER = false # Rate limiting settings, optional. TTL suffix is for time, LIMIT is for count. Strongly recommended for public servers RATE_LIMIT_TTL = 3600 RATE_LIMIT_LIMIT = 300 LOGIN_FAILED_TTL = 600 LOGIN_FAILED_LIMIT = 10 # Blacklist and whitelist, opt

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Social Media Replaced Zines. Now Zines Are Taking the Power Back

wired.com C. Brandon Ogbunu 2025-09-15 11:00:00

One sunny afternoon in May, a century-old power plant in Brooklyn was buzzing—not with electricity, but with hundreds of creatives congregating at the Black Zine Fair. Handmade booklets piled up on table after table, forming vast paper topographies of politics and activism and culture. Marginalized groups in skating! Fictional characters “that probably made me queer”! Someone else presented zines dedicated to all the TV shows they had recorded onto VHS. Still more tables hosted zine assembly. Ev

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The international standard for identifying postal items

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-13 13:02:23

The Universal Postal Union's S10 standard, in all its glory Have you ever received a parcel from overseas? I did recently, from Switzerland! Looking at the envelope, I realised the format of the tracking number ( UT038926726CH ) was in a very similar (if not identical) format to ones I'd used frequently here in the UK. I'd been receiving emails from Royal Mail about the parcel, so I just presumed that there was some data-sharing agreement in place with Swiss Post and Royal Mail had just given

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The International Standard for Identifying Postal Items

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-13 18:02:23

The Universal Postal Union's S10 standard, in all its glory Have you ever received a parcel from overseas? I did recently, from Switzerland! Looking at the envelope, I realised the format of the tracking number ( UT038926726CH ) was in a very similar (if not identical) format to ones I'd used frequently here in the UK. I'd been receiving emails from Royal Mail about the parcel, so I just presumed that there was some data-sharing agreement in place with Swiss Post and Royal Mail had just given

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The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-09-17 23:46:37

“What counties [sic] do younger women like older white men,” a public message from a user on Meta’s AI platform says. “I need details, I’m 66 and single. I’m from Iowa and open to moving to a new country if I can find a younger woman.” The chatbot responded enthusiastically: “You’re looking for a fresh start and love in a new place. That’s exciting!” before suggesting “Mediterranean countries like Spain or Italy, or even countries in Eastern Europe.” This is just one of many seemingly personal

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GCP Outage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 11:11:07

This page provides status information on the services that are part of Google Cloud. Check back here to view the current status of the services listed below. If you are experiencing an issue not listed here, please contact Support . Learn more about what's posted on the dashboard in this FAQ . For additional information on these services, please visit https://cloud.google.com/

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Why you should delete your personal data from the internet, and how to keep it from resurfacing

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-09-17 22:15:12

Image: Incogni Try searching your full name online right now and see what surfaces. Within a few clicks, you’re likely seeing your home address, phone number, age, and even details about family members. If that’s what a simple search turns up, just imagine what malicious actors can find when their business relies on exploiting your personal data. If there was a big red delete button, you’d set a new record for how fast you could smash it! The problem is there isn’t one, unless you know where

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Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

news.ycombinator.com Jacob Bogage 2025-06-04 16:39:20

The Trump White House and Treasury Department officials have agreed to prohibit the U.S. DOGE Service from accessing personal taxpayer data, according to two people familiar with the arrangement, heading off a brewing privacy crisis at the tax agency. Gavin Kliger, a software engineer with Elon Musk’s DOGE effort assigned to the IRS, will have read-only access to anonymized tax data, the same access granted to academic researchers and IT professionals who work on IRS systems, said the people, wh

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Latest Tech News

16 billion passwords leaked across Apple, Google, more: What to know and how to protect yourself

Finally, a Makefile formatter (50 years overdue)

Heard about the 16 billion passwords leak? Here are the facts and how to protect yourself

16 billion passwords leaked from Apple, Google, more: Here are the facts and how to protect yourself

Krispy Kreme says November data breach impacts over 160,000 people

Writing documentation for AI: best practices

Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)

Alleged Minnesota Shooter Used Data Brokers to Find Lawmakers’ Addresses

Windows 10 EOL

Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years

UK watchdog fines 23andMe for 'profoundly damaging' data breach

What I talk about when I talk about IRs

Google Adds Button to Generate Error-Laden AI Podcast About Your Search Results Instead of Just Reading Them Like a Functioning Member of Society

How to download your information from Facebook

LLM Chat via SSH

Social Media Replaced Zines. Now Zines Are Taking the Power Back

The international standard for identifying postal items

The International Standard for Identifying Postal Items

The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats

GCP Outage

Why you should delete your personal data from the internet, and how to keep it from resurfacing

Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

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