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Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 11:55:35

Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode file over HTTP. Quickstart Create a file called social.org . M-x find-file RET social.org RET Edit the file and add your basic information: #+TITLE: Bob's journal #+NICK: Bob #+DESCRIPTION: I'm a software developer and I love open source. #+AVATAR: https://my-awesome-website.com/avatar.jpg #+LINK: https://my-awesome-website.com #+FOLLOW: foo http://foo.org/social.org #+FOLLOW: jane https://jane.com/social.org * Posts ** :

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Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-22 09:35:41

Instagram is working on a feature called “Picks” that aims to help users find common interests. The Meta-owned social network confirmed to TechCrunch that Picks is an internal prototype and isn’t being tested externally. The feature was first spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who often finds unreleased features while they’re still under development. According to screenshots shared by Paluzzi, people select their favorite movies, books, TV shows, games, and music, or their “Picks.

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Comcast Debuts World Soccer Ticket Streaming Package

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 23:00:06

Major League Soccer and the UEFA Super Cup games are afoot, and Comcast is aiming to score with its new World Soccer Ticket streaming package. The service, which is specifically for Xfinity customers, goes all-in on soccer and offers access to over 1,500 matches from the biggest leagues worldwide. It comes with a price tag of $85 a month, and customers can sign up now, the company announced on Wednesday. So, what comes with World Soccer Ticket? You can expect close to 60 channels (which include

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Researchers Made a Social Media Platform Where Every User Was AI. The Bots Ended Up at War

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-24 18:05:57

Social platforms like Facebook and X exacerbate the problem of political and social polarization, but they don’t create it. A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands put AI chatbots in a simple social media structure to see how they interacted with each other and found that, even without the invisible hand of the algorithm, they tend to organize themselves based on their pre-assigned affiliations and self-sort into echo chambers. The study, a prep

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Teen Influencer Stranded in Antarctica After Controversial Plane Landing

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-24 23:00:23

An American teenager is currently stuck in Antarctica after illegally landing his single-engine airplane in Chilean territory. 19-year-old Ethan Guo, who was in the midst of navigating a trip around the world when he landed at the world’s southernmost pole, has been stuck in the icy region since June, according to the Associated Press. Upon landing, local officials charged Guo with providing them with “false flight plan information” and landing without authorization. Since then, he has been sta

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HMRC using AI to scour suspected tax cheats' social media

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-25 14:11:48

HMRC using AI to scour suspected tax cheats' social media 50 minutes ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images HMRC has confirmed it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor social media posts as part of criminal investigations into suspected tax cheats. It said the tech would not replace "human decision-making" and was subject to legal oversight. "Greater use of AI will enable our staff to spend less time on admin and more time helping taxpayers, as well as be

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The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus

wired.com Seth Harp 2025-11-26 15:00:00

The 2020s are shaping up to be one of the most violent decades in modern history, with American-sponsored proxy conflicts and shadow wars smoldering all over the world, from Ukraine to Yemen to Gaza. The United States enables and prolongs these wars not by sending troops to fight in them, but by trafficking arms to the belligerents, providing intelligence to its favored proxies, and using covert operations, especially assassinations, to shape geopolitical conditions. At the forefront of these cl

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Basic Social Skills Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 09:19:01

The basic guide covers the core concepts of social interaction. It contains three sections made up of seventeen in-depth lessons, and it's 100% free. If you find the basic guide helpful, please share it with your friends or your favorite social skills forum. Also, don't forget to check out the member's guide once you finish reading the basic guide. Good luck, and enjoy improving your social skills! Think of Foundations as the introduction to the guide. It explains how to get the most out of th

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60 malicious Ruby gems downloaded 275,000 times steal credentials

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-28 16:11:21

Sixty malicious Ruby gems containing credential-stealing code have been downloaded over 275,000 times since March 2023, targeting developer accounts. The malicious Ruby gems were discovered by Socket, which reports they targeted primarily South Korean users of automation tools for Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X, Telegram, Naver, WordPress, and Kakao. RubyGems is the official package manager for the Ruby programming language, enabling the distribution, installation, and management of Ruby librari

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James Gunn Doesn’t Want You to Trust Anything About ‘The Batman Part II’ Until It Comes From Him

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-11-29 18:30:44

The Hollywood rumor mill is nothing new, especially when it comes to high-profile projects, but social media can encourage speculation to spiral out of control. While DC’s James Gunn is no stranger to chaos, one recent rumor prompted him to take to social media to warn against believing things that don’t come through verified channels—a position Gunn can take, being the rare studio head who’s terminally online enough to nip disinformation in the bud. Gunn put his foot down regarding the specula

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Two teens charged in attack on former DOGE official Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-01 02:45:20

In Brief Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the 19-year-old software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to reports citing local authorities, Coristine — who left DOGE in June but quickly returned to federal service at the Social Security Administration to help improve the agency’s website

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Fake WhatsApp developer libraries hide destructive data-wiping code

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-02 09:42:30

Two malicious NPM packages posing as WhatsApp development tools have been discovered deploying destructive data-wiping code that recursively deletes files on a developer's computers. Two malicious NPM packages currently available in the registry target WhatsApp developers with destructive data-wiping code. The packages, discovered by researchers at Socket, masquerade as WhatsApp socket libraries and were downloaded over 1,100 times since their publication last month. Despite Socket having fil

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Trump's Truth Social launches AI search powered by Perplexity

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-03 14:22:50

Truth Social, President Trump's social media platform, is beta testing an AI search feature powered by Perplexity . Truth Search AI is launching first on the web version of Truth Social, with plans to begin a public beta for the feature on iOS and Android in the near future. "We're excited to partner with Truth Social to bring powerful AI to an audience with important questions," said Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity. The controversial AI company has found itself embroile

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Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-03 18:18:23

AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s social media platform. The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the web version of Truth Social, with public Beta testing on its iOS and Android apps planned for “the near future.” Trump Media said in a press release that Perplexity’s tech provides “direct, contextually accurate answers with transparent citations” which will help Truth Social “exponentially incre

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Trump Media Is Testing an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-04 14:35:09

President Donald Trump's media company, Trump Media, is beta-testing a new AI search feature, Truth Search AI, on the Truth Social platform. The Florida-based company announced the news on Wednesday in a press release. Trump Media and Technology Group is perhaps best known for its social-media program Truth Social. The company is separate from the New York-based Trump Organization. "We're proud to partner with Perplexity to launch our public Beta testing of Truth Social AI, which will make Tru

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Under the Hood of AFD.sys Part 1: Investigating Undocumented Interfaces

news.ycombinator.com Mateusz Lewczak 2025-12-05 05:06:47

A quick look at how I used WinDbg and NtCreateFile to craft a raw TCP socket via AFD.sys on Windows 11, completely skipping Winsock. Under the Hood of AFD.sys Part 1: Investigating Undocumented Interfaces Introduction This is the first post in a series about my deep-dive into the AFD.sys driver on Windows 11. The idea is that both this write-up and the library that comes out of it will be a one-stop doc set - and a launchpad - for poking at other drivers that don’t ship with an official spec.

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Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 08:22:00

Supported Hardware Please note that we list not only the camera model, but also its SoC, image sensor, Wi-Fi module, and flash chip size. These must match to be supported by the firmware. We have found that some manufacturers change the hardware in different batches of the same module without notice. Indoor IP Cameras Bulb IP Cameras Outdoor IP Cameras IPC Modules Web Cameras Development Boards Teacup T31X Conditionally Supported Hardware Some brands protect their cameras by writing a

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One of the biggest newsletter platforms now syndicates to Bluesky and Mastodon

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-11 14:17:52

is a news editor 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. Newsletter platform Ghost now lets publishers syndicate their posts across social web platforms like Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon. With Ghost’s free social web syndication feature, which is built on top of the ActivityPub protocol, “just as people can visit your Ghost website in any bro

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Character.AI is adding a social feed to its app

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-12 09:00:00

Given the fact that social media apps these days are full of AI-generated videos, AI-native apps seem keen to cash in on the trend. The latest to jump on that bandwagon is Character.AI, which said on Monday that it is adding a social feed to its mobile apps that allow users to create AI characters and chat with them. The social feed, which first came to the company’s web platform in June, lets users share images, videos as well as their chatbots with other users. Users can also share snippets o

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Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation

news.ycombinator.com Bret Devereaux 2025-12-10 22:39:42

This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever lived. Last week, we looked at death, examining the brutal mortality regime of pre-modern societies, typified by extremely high (c. 50%) infant and child mortality, very high maternal mortality and often high male military mortality, which kept life ex

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Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 17:13:12

Hi HN, we’re Patrick and James! Artificial Societies ( https://societies.io ) lets you simulate your target audience so you can test marketing, messaging and content before you launch them. Here’s a quick product demo: https://www.loom.com/share/c0ce8ab860c044c586c13a24b6c9b391?... Marketers always say that half their spend will be wasted - they just don’t know which half. Real-world experiments help, but they’re too slow and expensive to run at scale. So, we’re building simulations that let y

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Twitter’s former Trust and Safety head details the challenges facing decentralized social platforms

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-16 04:24:40

Yoel Roth, previously the head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety, now at Match, is sharing his concerns about the future of the open social web and its ability to combat misinformation, spam, and other illegal content, like child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a recent interview, Roth worried about the lack of moderation tools available to the fediverse — the open social web that includes apps like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, and others, as well as other open platforms like Bluesky. He also remi

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Hackers stole Social Security numbers during Allianz Life cyberattack

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-19 09:00:08

Hackers who breached U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life earlier this month stole reams of customer Social Security numbers, according to notifications filed with several U.S. states and seen by TechCrunch. Allianz Life disclosed the July 16 breach this past weekend, confirming to TechCrunch the unidentified hackers stole the personally identifiable information belonging to the “majority” of its 1.4 million customers, as well as financial professionals and some Allianz Life employees. The compan

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Making Libcurl Work in WebAssembly

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 09:09:27

29 Jul, 2025 TLDR: we explain how to make libcurl based applications work in webassembly without changes by tunneling all traffic over a websocket proxy. For a quick demo, check out https://github.com/r-wasm/ws-proxy Porting R to WebAssembly Webr is a port of the R language and its package ecosystem to WebAssembly. Many R packages rely on well-known C/C++ libraries to do the heavy lifting, and fortunately most of these libraries can be built with emscripten without too much trouble. However

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I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 09:15:35

I think I'm officially a side project collector. I've had it all: A SaaS for freelancers... that I never had time to finish because I'm a freelancer. A revolutionary AI tool that I abandoned as soon as GPT-4 came out. And the famous "anti-social media social network" (spoiler: it was just me). I buy a domain name → I code for 3 all-nighters → I lose interest → I start again. My Google Domains look like a graveyard of unfinished dreams. But honestly, I've never learned so much, nor enjoyed

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YouTube to be included in Australia's teen social media ban

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-21 00:24:49

YouTube to be included in Australia's teen social media ban YouTube - owned by Google - had argued it shouldn't be blocked for children as the platform "offers benefit and value to younger Australians": "It's not social media," it said in statement on Wednesday. Under the ban, teenagers will still be able to view YouTube videos but will not be permitted to have an account, which is required for uploading content or interacting on the platform. The video sharing site was set to be excluded fro

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Meta, YouTube, TikTok fight back as Australia's social media restrictions for teens draw closer

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-23 04:51:00

In brief: After approving plans to ban those aged under 16 from using social media last year, the Australian government is now considering which of the platforms should be included in the new law. In response, the companies are looking for ways to avoid being added to the ban list, with methods ranging from pleas and security promises to thinly veiled legal threats. Social media platforms have long criticized Australia's ban on under-16s holding accounts. The law comes into effect this December

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Spotify hits 696M users, but returned to making a loss

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-23 09:11:44

Spotify has posted its latest earnings report, stating that both paid and free users were up more than 10% year-on-year, but the company returned to making a loss … Spotify announced solid growth in both subscribers and revenue: Subscribers climbed 12% Y/Y to 276 million. climbed 12% Y/Y to 276 million. Monthly Active Users grew 11% Y/Y to 696 million. grew 11% Y/Y to 696 million. Total Revenue increased 10% Y/Y to €4.2 billion. increased 10% Y/Y to €4.2 billion. Gross Margin improved by 22

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Open source repositories are seeing a rash of supply-chain attacks

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-27 23:50:37

It has been a busy week for supply-chain attacks targeting open source software available in public repositories, with successful breaches of multiple developer accounts that resulted in malicious packages being pushed to unsuspecting users. The latest target, according to security firm Socket, is JavaScript code available on repository npm. A total of 10 packages available from the npm page belonging to global talent agency Toptal contained malware and were downloaded by roughly 5,000 users be

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Wyze's New Lamp Socket Can Smarten Up Your Outdoor Lighting. Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 12:18:06

Looking for a way to smarten up your outdoor lighting? The Wyze Lamp Socket v2 is now available and it has some upgrades over its predecessor. Wyze released the first version of the lamp socket in 2021 but a lot has changed since then and the socket may no longer be compatible with all of your upgraded smart home tech. Wyze has made a few changes that may be welcome upgrades, such as higher bulb wattage and improved quality. So what's new with the Wyze Lamp Socket v2? Here's what we found and

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Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode

Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests

Comcast Debuts World Soccer Ticket Streaming Package

Researchers Made a Social Media Platform Where Every User Was AI. The Bots Ended Up at War

Teen Influencer Stranded in Antarctica After Controversial Plane Landing

HMRC using AI to scour suspected tax cheats' social media

The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus

Basic Social Skills Guide

60 malicious Ruby gems downloaded 275,000 times steal credentials

James Gunn Doesn’t Want You to Trust Anything About ‘The Batman Part II’ Until It Comes From Him

Two teens charged in attack on former DOGE official Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine

Fake WhatsApp developer libraries hide destructive data-wiping code

Trump's Truth Social launches AI search powered by Perplexity

Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources

Trump Media Is Testing an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

Under the Hood of AFD.sys Part 1: Investigating Undocumented Interfaces

Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras

One of the biggest newsletter platforms now syndicates to Bluesky and Mastodon

Character.AI is adding a social feed to its app

Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation

Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

Twitter’s former Trust and Safety head details the challenges facing decentralized social platforms

Hackers stole Social Security numbers during Allianz Life cyberattack

Making Libcurl Work in WebAssembly

I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

YouTube to be included in Australia's teen social media ban

Meta, YouTube, TikTok fight back as Australia's social media restrictions for teens draw closer

Spotify hits 696M users, but returned to making a loss

Open source repositories are seeing a rash of supply-chain attacks

Wyze's New Lamp Socket Can Smarten Up Your Outdoor Lighting. Here's How It Works

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