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SB 53, the landmark AI transparency bill, is now law in California

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-01 20:01:43

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Senate Bill 53, the landmark AI transparency bill that has divided AI companies and made headlines for months, is now officially law in California. On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the “Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act,” which was authored by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA). It’s the second draft of s

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A major Tile tracker security flaw could expose users to stalking risk

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-02 04:22:33

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Significant security flaws have been discovered in Tile’s trackers. Researchers found that the tags broadcast an unencrypted MAC address and unique ID that other Bluetooth devices and antennas can pick up and track. The trackers also send unencrypted data to Tile’s servers, which the company could use to track the tags of owners. When you use a Bluetooth tracker, like Tile, you’re typically concerned about locating misplaced items. But maybe you shoul

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Jax: Fast Combinations Calculation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 04:17:16

Combinadics A fast combinations calculation in jax. Idea of combinadic implementation is from https://jamesmccaffrey.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/generating-the-mth-lexicographical-element-of-a-combination-using-the-combinadic and some useful information can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_number_system. Below I copied and aggregated some of the details. Introduction The following code demostrates the combinations calculation in numpy and via combinadics: # setup n =

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How LastPass and the Password Industry Have Evolved

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-02 03:37:00

Password vaults are no longer enough. The new rules for good cybersecurity hygiene include understanding concepts like visibility, authentication and authorization. It takes more than a strong password to defend your digital life against increasingly sophisticated hackers. Over the last few years, LastPass has implemented the infrastructure both individuals and enterprises need to thrive in the shifting cybersecurity landscape. The company became fully independent in 2024, and has used the tran

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Sports piracy site Streameast returns after US government let domain expire

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-02 04:43:32

Popular piracy website Streameast is back to illegally streaming sporting events, just 13 months after Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized the domain. In August 2024, HSI seized several domains belonging to the Streameast piracy network, including some backup domains. After the seizure, trying to access those sites resulted in a pop-up from HSI stating, ‘THIS DOMAIN HAS BEEN SEIZED.” Seized Streameast websites show this notice. Seized Streameast websites show this notice. At the tim

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California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-02 04:57:03

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed SB 53, a first-in-the-nation bill that sets new transparency requirements on large AI companies. SB 53, which passed the state legislature two weeks ago, requires large AI labs – including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind – to be transparent about safety protocols. It also ensures whistleblower protections for employees at those companies. In addition, SB 53 creates a mechanism for AI companies and the public to report potential critical safe

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Nvidia Is Quaking in Its Boots

futurism.com Joe Wilkins 2025-10-02 08:48:25

The chip manufacturer Nvidia might be one of the most valuable companies in history for now, but that could change in a heartbeat. In a recent appearance on the podcast “BG2,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang agonized that China is now “nanoseconds behind” US chipmakers, the companies building the hardware undergirding the multi-billion dollar AI boom. Just weeks ago, China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced a ban on large Chinese tech firms purchasing Nvidia c

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Japan's largest brewer suspends operations due to cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-02 08:44:50

Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd (Asahi), the brewer of Japan’s top-selling beer, has disclosed a cyberattack that disrupted several of its operations. According to the company, the incident has affected its ordering and shipping activity, which have been completely suspended. Call center operations and customer service desk are currently unavailable to the public due to the cyberattack. Asahi is one of Japan’s largest breweries, holding roughly one-third of the domestic market share. It employs 30,0

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Write the damn code

news.ycombinator.com Anton Zhiyanov 2025-10-02 03:45:33

Write the damn code Here's some popular programming advice these days: Learn to decompose problems into smaller chunks, be specific about what you want, pick the right AI model for the task, and iterate on your prompts. Don't do this. I mean, "learn to decompose the problem" — sure. "Iterate on your prompts" — not so much. Write the actual code instead: Ask AI for an initial version and then refactor it to match your expectations. Write the initial version yourself and ask AI to review and

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California governor signs AI transparency bill into law

news.ycombinator.com State Of California 2025-10-02 08:33:14

California’s AI dominance California continues to dominate the AI sector. In addition to being the birthplace of AI, the state is home to 32 of the 50 top AI companies worldwide. California leads U.S. demand for AI talent. In 2024, 15.7% of all U.S. AI job postings were in California — #1 by state, well ahead of Texas (8.8% and New York (5.8%), per the 2025 Stanford AI Index. In 2024, more than half of global VC funding for AI and machine learning startups went to companies in the Bay Area. Cal

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AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-10-02 08:32:35

Job seekers in all fields can expect to soon be doing a lot more initial screening interviews. While that may sound like positive news, it doesn’t mean that there will suddenly be more open positions. Instead, recruiters, often bogged down with determining which applicants are qualified for the next round, will outsource the routine screening tasks — like checking backgrounds, salary needs, and availability— to (you guessed it) AI. Alex, a startup building an AI recruiter, says it’s already he

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Deal: I bought the Kreedom Phoenix Shield Gaming Glasses for just $8.99!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-02 12:53:57

I covered a hot clearance deal on the Kreedom Phoenix Shield Gaming Glasses just last week, and mentioned I would get my own. After looking around for a bit, I found out Best Buy had the same offer on a few models. I walked out of the store with the Kreedom Phoenix Shield Gaming Glasses. Buy the Kreedom Phoenix Shield Gaming Glasses for a mere $8.99 ($36 off) This offer is available only from Best Buy. It is a clearance deal, so you might want to get yours before the stock runs out! These glas

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Amazon owes Prime customers up to $51 each - how to get your share

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-02 11:33:00

Bloomberg/Contributor/Bloomberg via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A recent FTC ruling means Amazon must pay $2.5 billion. Amazon allegedly tricked customers into full Prime subscriptions. Customers can receive up to $51. If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, you might be able to take part in a new class action suit and claim your share of a $2.5 billion settlement. The FTC announced today that not only did Amazon trick millions of

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Weak Wi-Fi? How to get wired internet at home without running an Ethernet cable

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-10-02 12:00:00

Bryan Steffy / Moment / Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Wi-Fi is convenient but often unreliable for work and streaming. MoCA adapters turn coax outlets into high-speed wired connections. Using existing coax is cheaper than running new Ethernet cabling. Wireless internet connections are convenient, but they're also notoriously unreliable. Nothing proves that point more emphatically than a glitchy video conference call, especially if

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Tile trackers reportedly have a security flaw that can let stalkers track your location

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-02 16:39:49

Researchers have discovered major security flaws with Tile tracking tags, according to a report by Wired. These flaws could allow both the company itself and tech-savvy stalkers to track a user's location. The security issue could also let a malicious actor falsely frame a Tile owner for stalking, as the flaw can make it appear as if a particular tag is constantly in the vicinity of somebody else's tag. The issue pertains to how Tile tags transmit data during use. Tile tags transmit a lot of da

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You Got Your Phone OS in My Laptop! Here's How Android and ChromeOS Will Merge

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-02 15:30:02

Google's plans for its Android phone software have been clear: Grow the role of its Gemini AI assistant to handle more tasks and make it integral to most people's activities. The company's strategy for its lightweight ChromeOS for laptops and tablets is less clear, especially as Google teased earlier this year that it would be combined with Android. On the keynote stage at Snapdragon Summit 2025, executives Alex Katouzian from Qualcomm and Sameer Samat from Google finally gave us a window for w

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Waymo Says There’s a Perfect Reasonable Explanation for Its Car Roaming a Golf Course

futurism.com Victor Tangermann 2025-10-02 20:10:11

A video of one of Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing vehicles driving over the carefully groomed lawn of a golf course has gone viral on social media. “Waymo spotted on golf course, late for tee time?” a user wrote on subreddit dedicated to the company’s self-driving efforts. “Wonder what happened with this one.” While many interpreted the video as a particularly egregious instance of a driverless taxi getting confused, the company informed Futurism in an email that there was a perfectly reasonab

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Spotify is finally fixing one of its most frustrating shuffle problems

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-02 20:03:35

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify has been building new options for controlling randomness during shuffle playback. Listeners will have the option for random playback, irrespective of what was played before. They’ll also be able to reduce repeats, by taking recently played tracks out of the running. People have a problem with randomness. We don’t understand it, we have trouble recognizing it, and we often don’t even use the right words to describe it (no, your roommate’s frie

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Ransomware gang sought BBC reporter’s help in hacking media giant

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-02 20:31:59

Threat actors claiming to represent the Medusa ransomware gang tempted a BBC correspondent to become an insider threat by offering a significant amount of money. Cybersecurity correspondent Joe Tidy revealed in a story on the BBC that the hackers wanted to use his laptop to breach the British public-service broadcaster's network and then ask for a ransom. Once they got access to the BBC's internal systems, the threat actor planned to steal valuable data and hold the organization to ransom. At

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`std::flip`

news.ycombinator.com The Sparkelling Bedangler 2025-09-29 09:29:53

std::flip is a little-known utility from the C++ standard library header <functional> : it is a higher-order function that accepts a Callable and returns an equivalent Callable with the order of its parameters reversed (or “flipped”). To understand how it can be useful, let’s start with a simple example. Consider the following tree node class: struct node { int value ; node * parent = nullptr ; node * left_child = nullptr ; node * right_child = nullptr ; }; Let’s write a function that takes t

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Survey shows people are really eager for Gemini integration in Google Home

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-03 00:18:32

Adam Molina / Android Authority TL;DR A handful of major changes are coming to Google Home. An Android Authority survey showed users are most excited about Gemini integration. The Google Home ecosystem seems like it’s on the verge of a real glow-up. Google’s announced that Gemini will make its way to Google Home starting this week, and earlier this month, we brought you exclusive coverage of an upcoming overhaul to the Home app that should make it less of a slog to deal with. Google also teas

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UK govt backs JLR with £1.5 billion loan guarantee after cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-03 00:31:20

The UK Government is providing Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) with a £1.5 billion loan guarantee to restore its supply chain after a catastrophic cyberattack forced the automaker to halt production. The loan guarantee is provided through the UK Export Finance's Export Development Guarantee (EDG) program, which reduces the risk for lenders by covering the majority of a loan in the event of JLR defaulting on repayment. Under this program, the UK government is not directly giving JLR a loan, but instead

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How AI-driven automation is the key to unlocking your operational resilience

zdnet.com Derek Brink 2025-10-03 00:52:31

NanoStockk/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Greater operational resilience demands significant advances in automation. Manual processes are the enemy of efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Troubleshooting, communication, and mitigation will be handled by AI agents. From IT outages to global crises, modern organizations increasingly require rapid, reliable response and recovery capabilities to keep their d

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Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup

news.ycombinator.com Ram Iyer 2025-10-03 00:03:49

In Brief Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is closing the doors on her consumer software startup Sunshine, and is selling the company’s assets to her new AI startup, Dazzle. The news was first reported by Wired, which cited an email sent to Sunshine’s shareholders. Dazzle is setting out to build an AI personal assistant, the report cited anonymous sources as saying, and added that all of Sunshine’s employees will move to the new company. Almost all of Sunshine’s investors, who include Norwest Ve

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Write the Damn Code

news.ycombinator.com Anton Zhiyanov 2025-10-03 04:45:33

Write the damn code Here's some popular programming advice these days: Learn to decompose problems into smaller chunks, be specific about what you want, pick the right AI model for the task, and iterate on your prompts. Don't do this. I mean, "learn to decompose the problem" — sure. "Iterate on your prompts" — not so much. Write the actual code instead: Ask AI for an initial version and then refactor it to match your expectations. Write the initial version yourself and ask AI to review and

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No, Dedicated AI Buttons on Laptops Are Not Going to Sell More PCs

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-03 03:40:11

We’ll be waiting until next year for the first round of PCs sporting Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip, plus whatever Intel and AMD have in store for lightweight laptops. As a hint of what to expect, in stepped a company nobody had ever heard of, offering a laptop few people wanted. Humain (no, not that AI wearable company that bricked its wonky AI Pin and sold itself to HP for peanuts), a Saudi Arabian company, debuted a laptop at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii (full discl

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Alexa Plus is smarter — but it’s not yet smart enough

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-10-03 04:45:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. This week, Amazon will launch new Echo hardware designed to supercharge Alexa Plus, the AI-powered upgrade to its voice assistant. I’ve been using Alexa Plus for the last few months as part of its Early Access program, and while the n

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Harrods suffers new data breach exposing 430,000 customer records

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-03 08:19:43

UK retail giant Harrods has disclosed a new cybersecurity incident after hackers compromised a third-party supplier and stole 430,000 records with sensitive e-commerce customer information. In a statement for BleepingComputer, the luxury department store noted that the latest incident is not related to the May cyberattack, which was attributed to Scattered Spider. Harrods is a London-based luxury goods department store. It operates a full-featured e-commerce platform catering to international

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UK government bails out Jaguar Land Rover with £1.5B loan after hack disrupts vehicle production for weeks

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-03 08:00:02

The U.K. government has confirmed it will guarantee a commercial bank loan of £1.5 billion ($2bn) for carmaking giant Jaguar Land Rover after a hack forced the company to shut down its carmaking production lines and left downstream suppliers at risk of bankruptcy. In a statement on Sunday, U.K. ministers said that the government-backed loan will “bolster JLR’s cash reserves so it can support its supply chain which has been greatly impacted by the shutdown.” JLR will have five years to pay back

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EA confirms it will go private in $55 billion acquisition

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-03 12:38:41

Beleaguered video game giant Electronic Arts has agreed to a $55 billion acquisition that will take the company private. Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake and Affinity Partners have reached a deal to buy EA, the company said in a statement. Some details about the proposed arrangement surfaced over the weekend. The deal, the largest-ever leveraged buyout, according to Bloomberg, marks the end of EA's 35-year run as a publicly traded company. “Our creative and passionate team

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Latest Tech News

SB 53, the landmark AI transparency bill, is now law in California

A major Tile tracker security flaw could expose users to stalking risk

Jax: Fast Combinations Calculation

How LastPass and the Password Industry Have Evolved

Sports piracy site Streameast returns after US government let domain expire

California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53

Nvidia Is Quaking in Its Boots

Japan's largest brewer suspends operations due to cyberattack

Write the damn code

California governor signs AI transparency bill into law

AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews

Deal: I bought the Kreedom Phoenix Shield Gaming Glasses for just $8.99!

Amazon owes Prime customers up to $51 each - how to get your share

Weak Wi-Fi? How to get wired internet at home without running an Ethernet cable

Tile trackers reportedly have a security flaw that can let stalkers track your location

You Got Your Phone OS in My Laptop! Here's How Android and ChromeOS Will Merge

Waymo Says There’s a Perfect Reasonable Explanation for Its Car Roaming a Golf Course

Spotify is finally fixing one of its most frustrating shuffle problems

Ransomware gang sought BBC reporter’s help in hacking media giant

`std::flip`

Survey shows people are really eager for Gemini integration in Google Home

UK govt backs JLR with £1.5 billion loan guarantee after cyberattack

How AI-driven automation is the key to unlocking your operational resilience

Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup

Write the Damn Code

No, Dedicated AI Buttons on Laptops Are Not Going to Sell More PCs

Alexa Plus is smarter — but it’s not yet smart enough

Harrods suffers new data breach exposing 430,000 customer records

UK government bails out Jaguar Land Rover with £1.5B loan after hack disrupts vehicle production for weeks

EA confirms it will go private in $55 billion acquisition

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