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FTC warns tech giants not to bow to foreign pressure on encryption

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-04 06:21:32

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning major U.S. tech companies against yielding to foreign government demands that weaken data security, compromise encryption, or impose censorship on their platforms. FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson signed the letter sent to large American companies like Akamai, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Cloudflare, Discord, GoDaddy, Meta, Microsoft, Signal, Snap, Slack, and X (Twitter). Ferguson stresses that weakening data security at the request of foreign

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New Android malware poses as antivirus from Russian intelligence agency

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-05 10:08:18

A new Android malware posing as an antivirus tool software created by Russia's Federal Security Services agency (FSB) is being used to target executives of Russian businesses. In a new report from Russian mobile security firm Dr. Web, researchers track the new spyware as 'Android.Backdoor.916.origin,' finding no links to known malware families. Among its various capabilities, the malware can snoop on conversations, stream from the phone's camera, log user input with a keylogger, or exfiltrate

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Ether erases gains from Jackson Hole rally after hitting a fresh record over the weekend

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-06 23:33:29

Ether is pulling back to start the week, after hitting a fresh record over the weekend. The price of the second largest cryptocurrency fell 6% to $4,548.32 on Monday, according to Coin Metrics. On Sunday, it rose to a fresh record of $4,954.81, after hitting an earlier all-time high Friday for the first time since 2021. Meanwhile, bitcoin was last lower by more than 1% at $111,501.74. Over the weekend, it dropped to $110,779.01, its lowest level since July 10. The flagship cryptocurrency hit i

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The best air purifier for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 21:01:28

The air in our homes can be five times more polluted than outdoor air. Energy-efficient homes are designed to be tightly sealed, too, so they trap more pollutants inside. Cooking emissions, cleaning chemicals and fragrances all contribute to less-than-healthy air. Pets, smoke and off-gassing furniture do their part as well. If the air quality outside is good, the best thing to do is open up your windows for at least 15 minutes a day. But if wildfires, car pollution, or high pollen counts prevent

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Google tests QR code verification for text messages

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 23:43:57

Google is changing the way you confirm if contacts are legit. The company has begun rolling out a QR code to verify that the person you're communicating with is, in fact, who they say they are, 9to5Google reports. The feature is currently available in beta. An end-to-end encryption card isn't anything new, but verifying the encryption meant seeing an 80-digit code you could compare. Now, you'll still go Google Messages, tap their name and then go to their details page. But, instead, there will

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Changing these 6 settings on my iPad greatly extended its battery life by hours

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-06 22:00:21

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET As an avid iPad user, I'm all too familiar with the internal struggles that course through me when the battery is about to die. I love using either the iPad 11 or iPad Air to write and work, but I also use it to stream content, play games, and browse the internet after work. This makes me appreciate the iPad's long battery life, yet my anxiety grows when I start getting 'low battery' alerts without a charger nearby. Also: How you're charging your tablet is slowly killing

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IBM and NASA Develop a Digital Twin of the Sun to Predict Future Solar Storms

wired.com Fernanda González 2025-11-06 21:00:00

The Sun’s most complex mysteries could soon be solved thanks to artificial intelligence. On August 20, IBM and NASA announced the launch of Surya, a foundation model for the sun. Having been trained on large datasets of solar activity, this AI tool aims to deepen humanity’s understanding of solar weather and accurately predict solar flares—bursts of electromagnetic radiation emitted by our star that threaten both astronauts in orbit and communications infrastructure on Earth. Surya was trained

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Apple’s refurbished store might seem like a good deal, but is that actually the case?

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-06 16:27:54

Apple has long offered a refurbished store on its website, where it sells recent generation products at a pretty sizable discount. Unlike other refurbished offerings, Apple guarantees a replaced outer shell, battery, and glass – ensuring no wear and tear. You also get a 1 year Apple warranty and the ability to add AppleCare if you’d like. That sounds great, but is it actually worth it? Well, it depends. We’ll be delving into Apple refurbished listings, and comparing it to other offerings on the

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Buypass Discontinues Issuance of TLS/SSL Certificates

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 23:28:18

Existing TLS/SSL certificates will remain valid and functional until they expire or are revoked. Revocation services, certificate status services (CRL and OCSP), and other necessary support functions will operate as normal for all certificates within their validity period. Notification of the expiry date for existing certificates will be sent as per the standard procedure. More details on how the discontinuation affects certificates ordered in Buypass ID Manager, as well as the discontinuation

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Aug. 25

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 21:38:35

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-06 04:00:35

In Brief Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source,” Musk wrote on X. He added that Grok 3 “will be made open source in about 6 months.” AI engineer Tim Kellogg described the Grok license as “custom with some anti-competitive terms.” Grok, which is prominently featured on X (which i

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Ether rises to a fresh record, bitcoin erases gains from Jackson Hole rally

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-06 20:28:39

Ether rose to a new record over the weekend, after hitting an all-time high Friday for the first time since 2021. The price of the second largest cryptocurrency rose as high as $4,954.81 on Sunday afternoon. It was last higher by less than 1% at $4,776.46. Meanwhile, bitcoin at one point erased all the gains from its Friday rally, falling as low as $110,779.01, its lowest level since July 10. It was last trading lower by nearly 2% at about $112,000. The flagship cryptocurrency hit its most rec

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Burner Phone 101

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 02:25:58

Hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library, this Burner Phone 101 workshop introduced participants to phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone options, and when to leave phones behind entirely. In August 2025, I hosted a Burner Phone 101 Workshop at the Brooklyn Public Library. Below is a summary of the workshop with key points in bold and additional resources that participants helped crowdsource. Secret Goals Before the workshop began

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 25, #1528

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 17:00:02

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don't Exist

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-06 14:15:14

If you're trying to find out what a restaurant has to offer, you might look up its menu, or go to its Facebook page. Hell, you could call and ask. But that's all démodé. Why not query an AI chatbot, a piece of software notorious for inventing facts out of the tokenized ether of the internet, and treat its answer like the word of God? Here's why: because you'd annoy the hell out of the restaurant. Just ask the beleaguered owners of the Montana eatery Stefanina's Wentzville, who are begging thei

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Google’s rollout of Bluetooth audio sharing on Pixels has been a mess

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 16:00:13

TL;DR Google’s new Pixel Buds 2a lack Bluetooth audio sharing, highlighting a confusing and inconsistent implementation of the Auracast feature across Pixel devices. The feature is mysteriously disabled on the Pixel Buds Pro 2 when paired with a Pixel phone and artificially blocked on budget A-series phones. This haphazard approach hinders the adoption of the universal Auracast standard, which could solve audio sharing issues for all consumers. Google’s newly announced Pixel Buds 2a are a big

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You likely shouldn’t hold your breath for a new pair of AirPods Max: report

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-06 14:56:08

AirPods Max have had a bit of a disappointing history. After much anticipation, they finally released at the tail end of 2020. Some fans were disappointed with the high price tag and rather heavy aluminum and steel design, and have been looking forward to a revamp ever since. Despite being refreshed last year, it was merely just a USB-C port swap and new colors. The headphones still lack in features compared to Apple’s newer AirPods Pro 2, and that likely won’t be changing. Per Mark Gurman’s P

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You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 18:47:35

Unhinged as Grok may be, it's now open source. xAI's CEO, Elon Musk, posted on X that the company made the older Grok 2.5 model available to the public and will do the same with the upcoming Grok 3. For now, anyone can download, run and even tweak Grok, whose source code was uploaded to the Hugging Face platform. However, there are restrictions to xAI's open-source license, which doesn't let people use Grok to train, create or improve other AI models. It's not the first time xAI has made its mo

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Dynamically patch a Python function's source code at runtime

news.ycombinator.com Eric J. Ma 2025-11-06 14:28:52

written by Eric J. Ma on | tags: In this blog post, I share how I discovered a powerful Python trick: dynamically changing a function's source code at runtime using the compile and exec functions. This technique enabled me to build more flexible AI bots, like ToolBot, that can generate and execute code with access to the current environment. While this opens up exciting possibilities for LLM-powered agents and generative UIs, it also raises serious security concerns. Curious how this hack can s

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Can't Get Your Baby to Calm Down? Try This Hidden iPhone Feature

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 11:00:03

Comforting a crying baby can be difficult, especially if you aren't getting enough sleep. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, playing calming sounds via a white noise machine can help soothe your baby and get them to settle down -- and give you a moment of respite. But instead of buying a white noise machine, you could save money and use your iPhone instead. When Apple released iOS 15 in 2021, the operating system brought a hidden feature to your iPhone called Background Sounds. It

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5 Galaxy AI features that actually make my life easier on a Samsung phone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 17:00:03

Prakhar Khanna / Android Authority I’ve been using the Galaxy Z Fold 7 since its launch and recently switched to the Flip 7. Apart from the Good Lock features and One UI 8 customizations, there’s another Samsung feature that has stood out for me in recent times. To my surprise, I have grown used to certain Galaxy AI features. I am not heavily reliant on them, but they do make my life easier… sometimes. In fact, I miss parts of Galaxy AI when I put my SIM in other phones for testing. From regul

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Are portable wind generators legit? I tested one at home - here's my buying advice

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-06 15:54:18

Shine Turbine Kit ZDNET's key takeaways The Shine Turbine kit is on sale for $279, while the Essentials Kit is on sale for $342. The kit includes everything you need to turn wind into electrical energy, and the turbine features a 12,000 mAh battery. There are limitations, which include the weight of the kit and the 40W of power it taps out at. View now at Shineturbine Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I cover a lot of solar generators here, and they are all the rage. I've

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'Peacemaker' Season 2 Release Schedule: Here's When You Can Watch Episode 2

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 14:00:06

John Cena may be on the verge of wrestling retirement, but that doesn't mean the man hasn't stayed busy. Case in point: Peacemaker has returned for new episodes. James Gunn's inaugural DC Universe original series first hit streaming in 2022, and season 2 is now upon us. Who says good things don't come to those who wait? Season 2 picks up where the DCU series left Cena's flawed hero: He's still working out his toxic past and trying to figure out where he fits in the present. Needless to say, it

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What Is the Magnetic Constant and Why Does It Matter?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-11-06 17:30:00

This means these three values can’t be independent; if you know two of them, you can derive the third. How do physicists deal with this? We define the speed of light as exactly 299,792,458 meters per second. (How do we know it’s exact? Because we define a meter as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second.) Then we measure the magnetic constant (μ 0 ) and use that value along with the speed of light to calculate the electric constant (ε 0 ). Maybe that seems like cheating, but to

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Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 14:52:08

This is the first post in a series about security and privacy challenges in agentic browsers. This vulnerability research was conducted by Artem Chaikin (Senior Mobile Security Engineer), and was written by Artem and Shivan Kaul Sahib (VP, Privacy and Security). The threat of instruction injection At Brave, we’re developing the ability for our in-browser AI assistant Leo to browse the Web on your behalf, acting as your agent. Instead of just asking “Summarize what this page says about London f

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Aug. 24

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 16:05:42

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Hacker and physicist – a tale of "common sense"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 02:54:44

I'm what you might call a "Stone Age" programmer. Not because I code with rocks and sticks, but because my toolkit is filled with ancient relics like LISP and OCaml - functional programming languages that are about as popular in today's enterprise world as flip phones at a tech conference. I spent three glorious years in the industry writing functional code, and let me tell you, it was like being a minimalist artist in a world of reality TV. Those languages taught me to appreciate the elegance

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Line scan camera image processing for train photography

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Lawrence Lu 2025-11-06 08:09:21

I use my line scan camera to take cool pictures of trains and other stuff. But there’s a lot that goes into properly processing the images. FIGURE 2 A cool train, the Renfe AVE Class 102, nicknamed Pato because of its duck bill-like appearance. FIGURE 4 Nice CRH6A intercity electric multiple unit. 1 Principle of operation The way it works is that the camera has a single column of pixels (or in this case, two columns), that scans at a super high speed. The camaera is stationary, but as a tra

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How can AI ID a cat?

news.ycombinator.com Ben Brubaker 2025-11-02 20:36:28

Look at a picture of a cat, and you’ll instantly recognize it as a cat. But try to program a computer to recognize cat photos, and you’ll quickly realize that it’s far from straightforward. You’d need to write code to pinpoint the quintessential quality shared by countless cats in photos with distinctive backgrounds and taken from different camera angles. Where would you even begin? These days, computers can easily recognize photos of cats, but that’s not because a clever programmer discovered

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OpenAI warns against SPVs and other ‘unauthorized’ investments

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-06 12:26:46

In Brief In a new blog post, OpenAI warns against “unauthorized opportunities to gain exposure to OpenAI through a variety of means,” including special purpose vehicles, known as SPVs. “We urge you to be careful if you are contacted by a firm that purports to have access to OpenAI, including through the sale of an SPV interest with exposure to OpenAI equity,” the company writes. The blog post acknowledges that “not every offer of OpenAI equity […] is problematic” but says firms may be “attempt

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