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NSW Fair Trading – Dark Patterns

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 02:17:35

What to look out for when shopping online Hidden costs Hidden costs are extra costs you only find out about towards the end of your purchase, or which are made less obvious. They include pre-selected extras you may not want and add-ons presented so you feel you have to buy them. Some hidden costs are even sneakier, such as a pre-selected free trial period for a service that renews automatically if you don’t cancel before it ends - charging your card for an ongoing membership. Trick questions

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Ursa: A Leaderless, Object Storage–Based Alternative to Kafka

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 04:01:08

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Ofcom investigates 34 porn sites over age checks

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-15 04:12:49

Ofcom investigates 34 porn sites over age checks 2 hours ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Ofcom is investigating four companies, operating a total of 34 porn sites, over whether they are complying with its new age check requirements. The regulator said on Friday more than 6,000 sites allowing pornography and other adult content would start using "highly effective" tools to verify or estimate whether users were over or under the age of 18. But Ofcom says s

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The HTML Hobbyist (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 14:03:54

This is an extremely streamlined path to show you how easy it can be to build a website for the World Wide Web. I suggest reading the rest of the site before attempting to follow the One Page Starter instructions. I give more details about coding HTML and building websites — and more details and options about domain names, hosting, and uploading than we just went through in the One Page Starter. There are some other hosting options that you could take advantage of that are free but with some res

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Scammers unleash flood of online gaming sites

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 21:52:51

Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable traits of this sprawling network of more than 1,200 scam sites. The scam begins with deceptive ads posted on social media that claim the wagering sites are working in partnership with

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Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-12-16 09:46:34

Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable traits of this sprawling network of more than 1,200 scam sites. The scam begins with deceptive ads posted on social media that claim the wagering sites are working in partnership with

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Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 09:52:51

Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable traits of this sprawling network of more than 1,200 scam sites. The scam begins with deceptive ads posted on social media that claim the wagering sites are working in partnership with

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I Watched AI Agents Try to Hack My Vibe-Coded Website

wired.com Will Knight 2025-12-16 09:00:00

A few weeks ago, I watched a small team of artificial intelligence agents spend roughly 10 minutes trying to hack into my brand new vibe-coded website. The AI agents, developed by startup RunSybil, worked together to probe my poor site to identify weak spots. An orchestrator agent, called Sybil, oversees several more specialized agents all powered by a combination of custom language models and off-the-shelf APIs. Whereas conventional vulnerability scanners probe for specific known problems, Sy

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The HTML Hobbyist

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 08:03:54

This is an extremely streamlined path to show you how easy it can be to build a website for the World Wide Web. I suggest reading the rest of the site before attempting to follow the One Page Starter instructions. I give more details about coding HTML and building websites — and more details and options about domain names, hosting, and uploading than we just went through in the One Page Starter. There are some other hosting options that you could take advantage of that are free but with some res

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How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy

news.ycombinator.com Jim Nielsen 2025-12-21 10:41:41

Some lessons I’ve learned from experience. 1. Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm Become totally dependent on others, that’s why they call them “dependencies” after all! Lean in to it. Once your dependencies break — and they will, time breaks all things — then you can spend lots of time and energy (which was your goal from the beginning) ripping out those dependencies and replacing them with new dependencies that will break later. Why rip them out? Because you can’t fix them. You don’t e

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Internet age verification begins rollout, and Apple is set to be dragged into it

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-23 15:52:04

The UK has become the first major country to introduce a legal requirement for internet age verification, but it affects all websites and apps worldwide. Additionally, the US has recently revived a bill very similar to the British legislation. While the law was presented as a way to prevent children accessing adult websites, the reality is very different, and we’re already seeing the privacy risks of good intentions being turned into bad legislation – with iMessage and FaceTime in the firing li

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‘Solar Opposites’ Creators on Crafting the Show’s Final Season

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-23 03:00:33

A lively crowd turned up for what may be Solar Opposites‘ last San Diego Comic-Con panel—the animated Hulu sci-fi series will end after its sixth and final season drops October 13. But executive producers Mike McMahan and Josh Bycel told fans they’ll walk away satisfied, even if they also feel like they still want more. “We were starting to write this season when we found out that it was most likely going to be the end,” McMahan said. “And then we were scrambling around panicking, trying to mak

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The Rise of Shippable Microfactories

news.ycombinator.com Nick Durham 2025-12-23 02:08:44

A shippable microfactory from AUAR Nick Durham is a General Partner at Shadow Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on investing in frontier technologies for the built world. Traditionally, prefabricated construction has meant large fixed factories churning out modules or panels that get shipped to building sites. The siren song is industrial-esque economies of scale in an industry that’s long evaded affordability and efficiency. But those centralized models, made infamous by companies like

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‘Solar Opposites’ Returns One Last Time This October

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-24 18:00:27

It’s very sad bidding farewell to Solar Opposites, but at least we get one more 10-episode season to enjoy before it wraps up its entertainingly bizarre mix of sci-fi antics, surreal subplots, crass jokes, wacky t-shirts, holiday specials, and sweet lessons about found family. And we won’t have to wait too long: season six hits Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ starting October 13. There’s an official description of the new season as well as a teaser, neither of which tell us much: “Once their alien di

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CRISPR can stop malaria spread by editing a single gene in mosquitos

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-25 09:30:10

CRISPR gene-editing therapy has shown great potential to treat and even cure diseases, but scientists are now discovering how it can be used to prevent them as well. A team of researchers found a way to edit a single gene in a mosquito that prevented it from transmitting malaria, according to a paper published in Nature. These genetically modified mosquitos could eventually be released into the wild, helping prevent some of the 600,000 malaria deaths that occur each year. Mosquitos infect up to

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My website is one binary (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 05:47:07

my website is one binary 2022-04-06 ---------------------------- a.k.a. this one weird trick that inspires me to program creatively i have struggled for years to figure out a website framework that feels good to me. i tried all of the classics, including but limited to: - ghost - hugo - jekyll - sr.ht + tarball - manual html editing i have very high and unusual standards, and none of the above felt correct to me. more importantly, none of the above excited me. i have uncovered the secret. i have

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The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-12-25 00:00:00

Beginning today, millions of adults trying to access pornography in the United Kingdom will be required to prove that they are over the age of 18. Under sweeping new online child safety laws coming into force, self-reporting checkboxes that allow anyone to claim adulthood on porn websites will be replaced by age-estimating face scans, ID document uploads, credit card checks, and more. Some of the biggest porn websites—including Pornhub and YouPorn—have said that they will comply with the new rul

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BlackSuit ransomware extortion sites seized in Operation Checkmate

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-26 02:34:13

Law enforcement has seized the dark web extortion sites of the BlackSuit ransomware operation, which has targeted and breached the networks of hundreds of organizations worldwide over the past several years. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed the takedown in an email earlier today, saying the authorities involved in the action executed a court-authorized seizure of the BlackSuit domains. Earlier today, the websites on the BlackSuit .onion domains were replaced with seizure banners announ

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Elon Musk’s X Says ‘Nope’ to French Authorities Trying to Access Its Algorithm

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-02 23:55:20

Onlookers have long suspected that Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) has a right-wing bias embedded in its digital DNA, and, in January of this year, cybercrime authorities in France took it upon themselves to uncover whether this was true or not. The investigation has sought to determine whether the site is guilty of algorithmically manipulating the visibility of content on its website. NBC reports that, earlier this month, the probe was transferred to a “key unit of France’s national police.” N

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Polymarket Says It’s Coming Back to the U.S.

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-03 21:55:31

In 2022, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission accused Polymarket of having offered illegal trading services. Since then, as part of its settlement with the government, the site hasn’t operated inside the United States. However, the platform—which lets web users earn or burn cash via bets on anything and everything (from political races to farts)—now appears to be headed back to America, thanks in part to a recent business deal. In a press release published Monday, Polymarket announced tha

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Polymarket Says Its Coming Back to the U.S.

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-04 09:55:31

In 2022, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission accused Polymarket of having offered illegal trading services. Since then, as part of its settlement with the government, the site hasn’t operated inside the United States. However, the platform—which lets web users earn or burn cash via bets on anything and everything (from political races to farts)—now appears to be headed back to America, thanks in part to a recent business deal. In a press release published Monday, Polymarket announced tha

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Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

news.ycombinator.com Italo Vignoli 2026-01-05 11:22:45

Thank you for visiting our website and your interest in our services and products. As the protection of your personal data is an important concern for us, please click on the "More information" link to access our Privacy Policy page - which will open in a separate browser tab - where we explain what information we collect during your visit to our website, how it is processed, and whether or how it may be used. Once you have carefully read our Privacy Policy page, close the browser tab to return

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CoCo1 composite video

news.ycombinator.com Leaded Solder 2026-01-03 11:05:59

When I got the CoCo, one of the big problems was the super-smeary, snowy video on the RF-out. Even though composite video is generated internally by the video circuitry of the computer, Tandy didn’t end up breaking it out to an actual port. Lots of other 8-bit machines of the era are in the same boat. Luckily, adding a composite video port to the CoCo is very straightforward! So straightforward, in fact, that I did it twice. Theory As I said just now, the Motorola 6847 VDG already generates a

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My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 17:04:53

TLDR: my bank sent out emails with websites which looked a lot like phishing mails, so much so that this similarity could potentially be used against them legally by potential phishing victims – Discussion at hackernews (soon) Chapter 1: You’ve got mail# As I was writing my first post some weeks ago, I got an email from my bank in my inbox: Here the English translation of the email: Dear …, The big Wero Win Weeks are starting! Take part now and secure your chance every week to win 7 prizes o

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My Bank Keeps on Undermining Anti-Phishing Education

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 23:04:53

TLDR: my bank sent out emails with websites which looked a lot like phishing mails, so much so that this similarity could potentially be used against them legally by potential phishing victims – Discussion at hackernews (soon) Chapter 1: You’ve got mail# As I was writing my first post some weeks ago, I got an email from my bank in my inbox: Here the English translation of the email: Dear …, The big Wero Win Weeks are starting! Take part now and secure your chance every week to win 7 prizes o

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Squarespace Promo Codes: 50% Off | July 2025

wired.com Molly Higgins 2026-01-11 09:00:00

Squarespace helps small businesses and regular Joe Schmoes to get software help to build their own websites (for both personal and business), even including the commerce side of things with point of sale, inventory, and customer data features (both online or in person). In the age where literally everything is digitized and accessed through the World Wide Web, having an online presence is the most important thing you can do for your business or brand’s growth. Creating a website can be difficult

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It’s not just you: a Cloudflare issue is breaking websites for some users [U]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-17 03:44:54

Update 7:57 p.m. ET: The issue has been solved, and Cloudflare’s status page says that all systems are operational. If you’ve noticed some internet slowdowns or trouble reaching websites tonight, you’re not alone. Cloudflare has confirmed an issue affecting its popular 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver, which many people rely on for fast and private internet browsing. What’s going on? The company first acknowledged the problem at 22:13 UTC, and began rolling out a fix just minutes later. According

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It’s not just you: a Cloudflare issue is breaking websites for some users

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-17 09:44:54

If you’ve noticed some internet slowdowns or trouble reaching websites tonight, you’re not alone. Cloudflare has confirmed an issue affecting its popular 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver, which many people rely on for fast and private internet browsing. What’s going on? The company first acknowledged the problem at 22:13 UTC, and began rolling out a fix just minutes later. According to Cloudflare, the issue only affects users relying on 1.1.1.1. Their Gateway and Authoritative DNS services are stil

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DEWLine Museum – The Distant Early Warning Radar Line

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-17 09:28:08

Typical DEWLine Stations There were two types of stations, Main and Auxiliary. The sites were placed approximately 100 miles (160 KM) apart, along the 69th parallel about 200 miles inside the Arctic circle. Originally, there was a third type of station called an Intermediate site (I-Site), located midway between each of the Main and Aux sites, and would have been home for about 5-people. The 28 I-Sites proved ineffective and were abandoned in 1963.

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Apple Maps is hiding iOS 26’s most useful new feature

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2026-01-18 18:17:47

Apple Maps is full of updates as part of iOS 26, including a new Liquid Glass design and Preferred Routes proactive feature. Another notable new feature is Visited Places. Here’s how it works… Apple Maps Visited Places in iOS 26 Apple describes Visited Places as a way to “help users remember the places they’ve been.” The feature is completely opt-in. When you open Apple Maps for the first time after installing iOS 26, you can choose to enable Visited Places. All data collected as part of the

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