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Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 02:41:54

Beginning very soon, you'll need to have the JavaScript runtime Deno installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its built-in JavaScript "interpreter" to solve the JavaScript challenges that are required for YouTube downloads. But due to recent changes on YouTube's end, the built-in JS interpreter will soon be insufficient for this purpose. The changes are so drastic that yt-dlp will need to leverage a proper JavaScript runtime in order

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What Is YouTube Premium Lite—and Should You Subscribe to It?

wired.com David Nield 2025-10-10 03:00:00

YouTube doesn't charge a cent for hosting all of your uploaded videos, showing them to the wider world, or letting you spend all day streaming content made by others. What it does do is show you a whole lot of advertising in an attempt to make back some of its data storage costs—which, based on the flood of ads we all have to endure, are presumably astronomical. By subscribing to YouTube Premium and now YouTube Premium Lite, you can remove those ads for good, across all your devices. As the che

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I turned Gemini into a smarter Daily Hub alternative, and you can too

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 12:00:31

Joe Maring / Android Authority Of all the features that the Google Pixel 10 series brought, Daily Hub was the one that intrigued me the most. I love the idea of my phone greeting me with immediately relevant information before I start my day. And, as it’s made by Google, I could expect all the relevant content from my many Google apps and services to be included, right? Not quite. The early version of Daily Hub was as useful as a wet piece of toast. As a result, the company quickly yanked it to

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Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-10-10 12:48:31

U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered Spider, a prolific cybercrime group blamed for extorting at least $115 million in ransom payments from victims. The charges came as Jubair and an alleged co-conspirator appeared in a London court to face accusations of hacking into and extorting several large U.K. retailers, the London transit system, and healthcare providers in the United Stat

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YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content

news.ycombinator.com Lara O'Reilly 2025-10-10 12:16:47

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. A roster of high-profile conservative voices could soon return to YouTube. YouTube's parent company, Alphabet, said in a letter published Tuesday that it intends to "provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform" whose accounts had been terminated over repeated violations of its COVID-19 and election integrity policies. The letter, written by Alphabet lawyer Daniel Do

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How much RAM does your Linux PC really need in 2025? I did the math so you don't have to

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-11 02:09:00

davidf/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways RAM is a crucial component for a smooth PC experience. Linux doesn't require as much RAM as Windows. More is always better. I'm not going to start this with a "back in the day" because it's too easy and obvious. Besides, it's time to live in the now, and today's rules and needs are not the same as they were 10, 20, or 30 years ago. Modern Linux is powerful, flexible, stable, and secure. With th

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YouTube Will Let Users Booted for Violations of COVID, Elections Policies Rejoin

news.ycombinator.com Dillon B 2025-10-11 03:16:47

YouTube creators kicked off the platform for “repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies” will have an opportunity to “rejoin” in line with revised policies that allow “a wider range of content” on those subjects, its parent Alphabet told the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. Issued in response to committee subpoenas in February 2023 and March 2025, the letter from Alphabet’s law firm insists its commitment to free expression is “unwavering and will not bend to political

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YouTube to allow creators banned for Covid-19, election misinformation to apply for reinstatement

cnbc.com Zach Vallese 2025-10-11 07:04:40

Google-owned YouTube on Tuesday said it will soon allow previously banned accounts to apply for reinstatement, rolling back a policy that had treated violations as permanent. The change applies to channels removed for posting Covid-19 or election-related misinformation, according to a letter from Alphabet lawyer Daniel Donovan to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. Previously those types of offenses carried lifetime bans. "Today, YouTube's Community Guidelines allow for a wider range of

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YouTube may reinstate channels banned for spreading covid and election misinformation

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-11 07:02:58

Channels once banned by YouTube for spreading false information regarding the COVID-19 pandemic or the 2020 election may soon have the opportunity to get their channels back, in a decision transparently courting "conservative voices." Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, has sent a letter via counsel to the House Judiciary Committee in which it alleges the company was pressured by the Biden administration to take down misinformation on YouTube related to the COVID-19 pandemic tha

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YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-11 08:04:53

It's not exactly hard to find politically conservative content on YouTube, but the platform may soon skew even further to the right. YouTube parent Alphabet has confirmed that it will restore channels that were banned in recent years for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and elections. Alphabet says it values free expression and political debate, placing the blame for its previous moderation decisions on the Biden administration. Alphabet made this announcement via a lengthy letter to Rep

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How to cancel your Disney+ subscription

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-11 11:36:43

The inevitable has happened and Disney+ has once again announced that prices will be going up for its streaming service. Whether it's because of the ever-increasing costs or because of the company's recent teetering toward censorship or because you simply aren't using it, you may decide it's time to take a break. Here's everything you need to know about canceling your Disney+ subscription. How to cancel via web or mobile The simplest way to end your Disney+ service is if you're being billed di

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Show HN: FlyCode – Recover Stripe payments by automatically using backup cards

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 18:50:10

We built FlyCode after seeing subscription businesses lose ~35% of recurring revenue each year to failed payments — even when customers had other valid cards on file. *The problem:* When a customer's primary card fails, Stripe retries a few times then cancels the subscription. If that customer has a backup card, it isn’t tried. At least 20% of active customers have more than one card on file, which means a lot of preventable churn. *Our solution:* FlyCode automatically identifies if a customer

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Why One VC Thinks Quantum Is a Bigger Unlock Than AGI

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-10-11 19:00:00

Alexa von Tobel is fully aware that her big bet on quantum computing may never pay off. “The risk of being too early is a real risk,” she says. She’s speaking to me via Zoom from the New York City office of Inspired Capital, the early-stage venture capital firm she runs with former US commerce secretary Penny Pritzker. In addition to personally investing in blue-chip brands like Uber and Airtable, von Tobel has backed a number of AI startups through Inspired Capital, including BrightAI (a platf

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Scientists Confirm Massive Underground Tunnels on Venus

futurism.com Victor Tangermann 2025-10-12 03:03:31

We’ve known for quite some time that molten rock gouged enormous tunnels into the surface of the Earth, the Moon, and Mars. In fact, scientists have proposed that the vast lava tubes under the surface of the Moon and Mars could one day serve as homes for space colonists that provide shelter from space radiation and micrometeorite strikes. Now, as New Scientist reports, researchers have confirmed that lava tubes also exist on Venus, our closest — and hellishly hot — planetary neighbor. Surpris

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YouTube wants you to go live

theverge.com David Pierce 2025-10-12 07:39:47

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. YouTube is the most powerful platform in entertainment, and as such it has outsize influence on what kind of entertainment people make and watch. When YouTube adds a mid-video ad break, videos get longer to accommodate it. When YouTube tells podcaster

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GitHub tightens npm security with mandatory 2FA, access tokens

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-12 11:05:37

GitHub is introducing a set of defenses against supply-chain attacks on the platform that led to multiple large-scale incidents recently. Notable cyberattacks that started from compromising GitHub repositories and then spread to NPM include the "s1ngularity" attack in late August, the "GhostAction" campaign in early September, and the worm-style campaign dubbed "Shai-Hulud" from last week. The attacks led to the compromise of thousands of accounts and private repositories, the theft of sensiti

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Uber Revs Up New Discounts With Prepaid Ride Passes, Uber Eats Meal Deals

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 11:07:00

Alas, those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are over. Autumn is here, and many of us are back to our routines -- commuting to work and school and a lot more lunches in the office and the cafeteria. Uber and Uber Eats are introducing several new features to take some of the economic sting out of all that eating and riding, including meal deals, prepaid passes and price-locked rides. "As fall routines take shape, daily life shouldn't feel like a daily battle," said Amit Fulay, head of rider pro

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Google begins its battle for the ‘unofficial currency of the internet’

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-10-12 11:30:00

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Google has spent a decade sharpening its “weapons” in an industry that helps sustain large swaths of the open internet, the Justice Department argued before a federal judge Monday. After years of operating an illegal monopoly in two ad tech markets and unlawfully tying its products

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Uber launches prepaid passes for frequent routes

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-12 20:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Uber is still trying to chip away at the perception that its ridehailing service is too expensive by launching a new feature aimed at helping customers save money on frequently traveled routes. Today, the company is launching prepaid p

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ChatGPT’s $4.5 subscription is expanding to more countries

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-12 20:52:45

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority TL;DR ChatGPT Go is expanding to one more market. While a wider release is still not in sight, OpenAI notes that the subscription has been very successful since it launched a month ago. OpenAI maintains that it is working to expand access to ChatGPT Go to additional countries and regions. OpenAI is expanding access to ChatGPT Go, its low-cost subscription service to the AI chatbot that costs less than $5. Since its launch, ChatGPT Go has been restricted to t

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How to Watch ‘Bluey’ Without a Streaming Service

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-12 23:45:51

No matter what is happening in the world, the state of entertainment within the digital landscape has locked consumers into dependence on streaming services to access their favorite shows and movies, rather than owning anything outright. For instance, Bluey dominates as the Australian indie animation studio phenomenon that could. In the United States it’s one of the most watched television shows… and happens to be distributed by Disney. When a public boycott against Disney emerged over the susp

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The Trump Admin Is Suing Amazon for Tricking People Into Prime Subscriptions. Here’s How That Might Affect You

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-13 00:10:09

The Federal Trade Commission is taking Amazon to court this week over the tech giant’s moneymaker Prime subscription program. In a trial set to last for the next month, FTC is claiming that Amazon tricked millions of customers into signing up for a Prime membership and then made it very tough to cancel said subscription. “Millions of consumers accidentally enrolled in Prime without knowledge or consent, but Amazon refused to fix this known problem, described internally by employees as an ‘unsp

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AI-generated “workslop” is destroying productivity?

news.ycombinator.com Kate Niederhoffer 2025-10-13 09:07:13

A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates to embrace the technology, few are seeing it create real value. Consider, for instance, that the number of companies with fully AI-led processes nearly doubled last year, while AI use has likewise doubled at work since 2023. Yet a recent report from the MIT Media Lab found that 95% of organizations see no measurable return on their investment in these technologies. So m

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What's new in the Ubuntu 25.10 beta release could surprise some users

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-13 19:17:27

Screenshot by Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Ubuntu 25.10 is almost ready for the market. Although an interim release, the beta includes plenty of new features. The biggest change is Dracut replacing initramfs-tools. With Ubuntu 25.10 on the horizon, you might be curious about what will be included. Although a good number of features were added during the alpha phase of the development process, the just-released beta adds a f

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A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy

news.ycombinator.com Freedom Dumlao 2025-10-14 03:25:35

First - I want to apologize, genuinely, to people who have felt fear, confusion, outrage, and any of the other hundreds of possible emotions a person might feel after reading some of what others have shared. I often go out of my way to avoid making people feel bad, and so to be part of what's caused so much chaos lately has really been awful. People are asking for some kind of statement from the Ruby Central board, but this is a small group of volunteers spread out all over the globe. We are so

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LastPass: Fake password managers infect Mac users with malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-14 07:36:15

LastPass is warning users of a campaign that targets macOS users with malicious software impersonating popular products delivered through fraudulent GitHub repositories. The fake apps deliver the Atomic (AMOS) info-stealing malware in ClickFix attacks, and are promoted through search engine optimization (SEO) tactics on Google and Bing. AMOS is a malware-as-a-service operation available for $1,000/month that typically targets data on infected machines. Recently, the developers of the malware

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Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 11:34:11

ENOSUCHBLOG Programming, philosophy, pedaling. Sep 22, 2025 Tags: programming, rant TL;DR: for a very long time, GitHub Actions lacked support for YAML anchors. This was a good thing. YAML anchors in GitHub Actions are (1) redundant with existing functionality, (2) introduce a complication to the data model that makes CI/CD human and machine comprehension harder, and (3) are not even uniquely useful because GitHub has chosen not to support the one feature (merge keys) that lacks a semantic e

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Record labels claim AI generator Suno illegally ripped their songs from YouTube

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-14 11:11:04

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Major record labels have escalated their lawsuit against Suno, alleging that the AI startup knowingly pirated songs from YouTube to train its generative AI music models. In the amended complaint filed on September 19th, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) accuses Suno of unlawfully “stream ripping” tracks on YouTube — a practice that involves turning content captured from streaming platforms

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A history of the Internet, part 3: The rise of the user

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 15:41:41

Welcome to the final article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven’t already, catch up with part one and part two. As a refresher, here’s the story so far: The ARPANET was a project started by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Project Agency in 1969 to network different mainframe computers together across the country. It later evolved into the Internet, connecting multiple global networks together using a common TCP/IP protocol. By the late 1980s, a small

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Gizmodo Science Fair: An Observatory That Captures the Universe Like Never Before

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-15 04:00:09

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for producing unprecedented views of the universe using a powerful camera—with its immense field of view—and combining it with depth and speed to detect extremely faint objects. The question Can an observatory create a comprehensive survey of the night skies consistently over 10 years, enabling previously impossible discoveries related to dark matter, dark energy, supernovae, and near-Earth asteroids? The results Near

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