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Microsoft Promises Windows 10 Users Free Security Updates for a Year – but There Are Strings Attached

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 17:00:09

Microsoft is ready to leave Windows 10 behind, and security support is due to end in October. If you aren't ready to upgrade to Windows 11, all isn't lost. You can snag a one-year extended security update for $30, but there's also a free option you may not have heard about. All you need to do is enable cloud backup, and connect it with your OneDrive account. The ability to get free updates on Windows 10 is a pretty big deal because it is still the most widely used Windows OS, accounting for jus

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Signal’s first paid feature adds encrypted media and message backups

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-07 17:59:40

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Signal is launching its first paid feature: the ability to make secure, end-to-end encrypted backups of your media history older than 45 days and of your text message history for $1.99 per month. “Media requires a lot of storage, and storing and transferring large amounts of data is e

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Signal Secure Backups

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 01:43:39

In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains why the most common feature request has been backups; a way for people to get Signal messages back even if their phone is lost or damaged. After careful design and development, we are now starting to roll

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Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 14:16:30

Keeping Secrets Out of Logs tl;dr: There's no silver bullet, but if we put some "lead" bullets in the right places, we have a good shot at keeping sensitive data out of logs. "This is the blog version of a talk I gave at LocoMocoSec 2024. It’s mostly a lightly edited transcript with some screenshots, so if you’d prefer, you can watch the "This is the blog version of a talk I gave at LocoMocoSec 2024. It’s mostly a lightly edited transcript with some screenshots, so if you’d prefer, you can wat

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Security Bite: How browsers use a psychological trick to protect millions from phishing every day

9to5mac.com Arin Waichulis 2025-10-08 21:21:31

9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening & Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Appl

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Porsche’s insanely clever hybrid engine comes to the 911 Turbo S

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 19:00:58

Today, Porsche debuted a new 911 variant at the IAA Mobility show in Munich, Germany. It's the most powerful 911 to date, excluding some limited-run models, and may well be the quickest to 60 mph from a standing start, dispatching that dash in just 2.4 seconds. And it's all thanks to one of the most interesting hybrid powertrains on sale today. Rather than just bolting an electric motor to an existing 911, Porsche designed an entirely new 3.6 L flat-six engine, taking the opportunity to ditch t

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A robot walks on water thanks to evolution's solution

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 18:52:22

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these tiny bots can glide across rushing streams because of the robotization of an evolutionary adaptation. Rhagovelia (as opposed to other species of water striders) ha

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AI-powered malware hit 2,180 GitHub accounts in “s1ngularity” attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-08 11:11:21

Investigations into the Nx "s1ngularity" NPM supply chain attack have unveiled a massive fallout, with thousands of account tokens and repository secrets leaked. According to a post-incident evaluation by Wiz researchers, the Nx compromise has resulted in the exposure of 2,180 accounts and 7,200 repositories across three distinct phases. Wiz also stressed that the incident's scope of impact remains significant, as many of the leaked secrets remain valid, and so the effect is still unfolding.

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The Apple Smart Home Is Almost Here: 4 Rumored Devices Could Show Up This Month

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 13:00:04

It's a matter of when, not if. Apple's smart home is coming, with multiple reports saying the tech giant is ready to release its own line of smart devices and home security products. While it's a little early, Apple's important "awe dropping event" on Sept. 9 could showcase the first of its big home expansion. We already expect to see the new iPhone 17, a new Apple Watch and an AirPod announcement. Here's what could happen if there's a surprise home tech release, too, from table robots to home

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Reolink's New Security Cams Are Packed With AI Features, and We Can't Wait to Test

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 14:00:00

Home security companies are currently in an arms race to equip their security cameras with the latest AI features, like automatic searching through video or customizable object detection. Reolink's turn at IFA (Innovation for All) in Berlin showed just how far the security brand has come with its own AI, now called ReoNeura and sporting several important advances. I've been testing security cam AI features for a few years now and ReoNeura has several familiar features that act as huge upgrades

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Best Wireless Home Security Cameras of 2025: Battery-Powered Protection

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 20:00:00

This Arlo Pro 5-camera system includes wall mounting and screws, rechargable batteries and a base station with built-in siren. It's expected to be available at a 38% discount now through July 16 at 11:59PM Pacific. Arlo via Amazon Does it work with smart home platforms? If so, do the smart features work well together? Nowadays, home security cameras are expected to work with at least one major smart home platform. Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple HomeKit are the main ones you need to l

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Debugging Rustler on Illumos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 03:42:43

Welcome to SYSTEM•ILLUMINATION! This is the first illumination I have written and the one that prompted me to start this space. This first session tackles several topics as you join me on the journey I took to debug Rustler misbehaving on OmniOS. I'm a beginner with illumos. This page serves a twofold purpose: to help me document and clarify my learnings as I delve into the illumos/Solaris world. And to shine a bit of light into a system that is fairly obscure and hard to get good info on. Howe

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Critical SAP S/4HANA vulnerability now exploited in attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-10 13:36:35

A critical SAP S/4HANA code injection vulnerability is being leveraged in attacks in the wild to breach exposed servers, researchers warn. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-42957, is an ABAP code injection problem in an RFC-exposed function module of SAP S/4HANA, allowing low-privileged authentication users to inject arbitrary code, bypass authorization, and fully take over SAP. The vendor fixed the vulnerability on August 11, 2025, rating it critical (CVSS score: 9.9). However, several systems h

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Vetinari's Clock (2011)

news.ycombinator.com Simon Inns 2025-10-06 20:29:09

Contents In the excellent Discworld series the character Lord Vetinari has a clock in his waiting room which is designed to tick irregularly in order to make his visitor feel ill at ease. Inspired by a post featured on Hackaday I decided to build my own version of this clock with a simple and easy to make design. Vetinari’s Clock Akafugu.jp have released a kit version of this clock based on the ATtiny25 complete with open-source and open-hardware documentation, so if you want to get you

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Updating restrictions of sales to unsupported regions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 00:20:43

Anthropic's Terms of Service prohibit use of our services in certain regions due to legal, regulatory, and security risks. However, companies from these restricted regions—including adversarial nations like China—continue accessing our services in various ways, such as through subsidiaries incorporated in other countries. Companies subject to control from authoritarian regions like China face legal requirements that can compel them to share data, cooperate with intelligence services, or take ot

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Netflix's animated Tomb Raider series is ending with its second season

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-11 21:35:03

Netflix has shared a pair of updates about its animated Tomb Raider show. The second season of Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft will air on the streaming service on December 11. However, that second season will also be the final one for the project. Legendary Television is behind the show, which premiered in October 2024 on Netflix and stars Hayley Atwell of MCU fame as the titular Tomb Raider. If you simply can't get enough of Lara and her adventures in archeology, you have other options

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State Department Agents Are Now Working With ICE on Immigration

wired.com Vittoria Elliott 2025-10-12 08:51:23

As the Trump administration expands its crackdown on immigration, it’s pulling more and more agencies into the effort. The State Department’s law enforcement arm, the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), is now working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on immigration. DSS agents are taking part in immigration enforcement in the US, and, according to emails viewed by WIRED, are now being asked to log time they are spending on immigration enforcement. DSS’s remit is limited in scope to

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6 browser-based attacks all security teams should be ready for in 2025

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-12 12:01:11

What security teams need to know about the browser-based attack techniques that are the leading cause of breaches in 2025. “The browser is the new battleground.” “The browser is the new endpoint”. These are statements you’ll run into time and again as you read articles on websites like this one. But what does this actually mean from a security perspective? In this article, we’ll explore what security teams are trying to stop attackers from doing in the browser, breaking down what a “browser-b

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State Department Agents Are Now Working with ICE on Immigration

wired.com Vittoria Elliott 2025-10-12 13:51:23

As the Trump administration expands its crackdown on immigration, it’s pulling more and more agencies into the effort. The State Department’s law enforcement arm, the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), is now working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on immigration. DSS agents are taking part in immigration enforcement in the US, and, according to emails viewed by WIRED, are now being asked to log time they are spending on immigration enforcement. DSS’s remit is limited in scope to

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Israeli Startups Cato, Aim Ink Deal as Nations Clamor for More AI

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-12 21:40:02

Israeli startup Cato Networks, a leader in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) cybersecurity, has made its first buy for an undisclosed price in AI-focused startup Aim Security. The deal is the latest move by an Israeli firm to add cybersecurity and artificial intelligence to its toolbox, while finding major financial backers to take it the next steps strategically. “AI transformation is by far the biggest tsunami that I’ve seen in terms of impact on the enterprise, in terms of velocity and in t

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Is Apple Coming for Our Homes? All the Rumored Smart Home Products Ahead of This Month's Event

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 20:00:00

For the past year, reports have made it clear that Apple is planning to release its own line of devices for smart home and home security. The only question is when. With Apple's big "awe-dropping" fall event only days away, it's time to start hoping. On Sept. 9, we'll see the new iPhone 17, a new Apple Watch and probably new AirPods, too. But Apple may also make a surprise announcement about a security camera, smart display and more home tech. Could it be too early for the rumors to come true?

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Hue's Secure video doorbell can turn on Hue lights when someone comes to the door

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 09:00:17

Hue is best known for its smart lights, but recently the company ventured into home security with its Secure lineup of cameras. Now, parent Signify is releasing its first video doorbell, the Hue Secure, with several unique features it hopes will make it stand out against formidable competition from Nest and Amazon's Ring. To start with, the Hue doorbell comes with a 2K fisheye camera, more resolution than Nest and some of Ring's doorbell products, potentially offering more detailed video. Hue i

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All-New Philips Hue Smart Home Products Apparently Leak on Amazon

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 21:15:08

Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home Security For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in smart home tech to craft how-to guides, explainers, and recommendations for technology of all kinds. From using his home in beautiful Bend, OR as a testing zone for the latest security products to digging into the nuts and bolts of the best data privacy guidelines, Tyler has experience in all aspects of protecting your home and belongings. With a BA in Writing from George Fox and certification in Technic

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Addigy teams up with SentinelOne for new Apple security suite with real time compliance and zero trust

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-15 05:00:00

Addigy has long been known for its Apple device management service, but its new Security Suite aims to offer additional solutions for IT teams and managed service providers. By combining Addigy’s device management service platform with SentinelOne EDR and MDR, IT teams can have a single console for compliance, endpoint protection, and 24/7 threat defense for their macOS fleets. Some of my favorite gear eufyCam 2C Upgrade your home security with wireless cameras that includes HomeKit compatibili

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Is It Legal to Record Audio or Video on a Home Security Camera? Here Are the Rules

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-15 08:00:00

The core purpose of a security camera is to keep eyes on your home -- but how do privacy laws affect their use? You should know if you could get in trouble before getting a security camera that could watch anyone from joggers on the street to babysitters in your home. The good news is that your security monitoring should be fine in most cases, especially with a little common sense. But there are rules everyone should know before using live views or downloading video clips. Let's start with the

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Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan

news.ycombinator.com Giannis Tziakouris 2025-10-15 15:18:07

The rapid deployment of large language models (LLMs) has introduced significant security vulnerabilities due to misconfigurations and inadequate access controls. This paper presents a systematic approach to identifying publicly exposed LLM servers, focusing on instances running the Ollama framework. Utilizing Shodan, a search engine for internet-connected devices, we developed a Python-based tool to detect unsecured LLM endpoints. Our study uncovered over 1,100 exposed Ollama servers, with appro

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A robot walks on water thanks to evolution’s solution

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-16 08:53:41

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these tiny bots can glide across rushing streams because of the robotization of an evolutionary adaptation. Rhagovelia (as opposed to other species of water striders) ha

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That Supposed 'Gmail Hack': Google Says It's False, but Watch Out for Phishing Anyway

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 12:32:00

Gmail is a hugely popular email service, with over 2.5 billion users. So when rumors start to swirl about Gmail problems, people pay attention. On Monday, Google made an unusual statement, formally denying that it had issued a broad warning about a major Gmail security issue. "Gmail's protections are strong and effective, and claims of a major Gmail security warning are false," the post read. "While it's always the case that phishers are looking for ways to infiltrate inboxes, our protections c

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Robotic bug literally walks on water

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-16 13:53:41

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these tiny bots can glide across rushing streams because of the robotization of an evolutionary adaptation. Rhagovelia (as opposed to other species of water striders) ha

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Google did not warn 2.5B Gmail users to reset passwords

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 21:29:57

Google has disputed a widely reported story about the company warning all Gmail users to reset their passwords due to a recent data breach that also affected some Workspace accounts. This claim was covered by numerous news outlets, as well as cybersecurity firms, which published stories about the so-called "urgent warning" asking 2.5 billion Gmail users worldwide to enable two-step authentication and reset their passwords. However, as the company explained on a Monday blog post addressing thes

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Microsoft Promises Windows 10 Users Free Security Updates for a Year – but There Are Strings Attached

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State Department Agents Are Now Working with ICE on Immigration

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Robotic bug literally walks on water

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