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U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 03:55:16

Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill in the Senate. The bipartisan proposal, backed by Senators Tillis, Coons, Blackburn, and Schiff, aims to create a new legal mechanism to combat foreign piracy websites. Block BEARD is similar to the previously introduced House bill "FADPA", but doesn't directly mention DNS resolvers. After a decade of focusing efforts overseas, the push for website blocking has landed back on

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I tried Servo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 22:56:21

"Everything is chrome in the future" was a line said by SpongeBob SquarePants in an episode from 1999, and it turned out to be a prophecy about web browsers. Google Chrome is the world's most popular browser, and most of its competitors are based on the same Chromium code: Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, and Arc, just to name a few. The main exceptions are Safari and Firefox. It wasn't always this way. At the start of the millennium, Internet Explorer used its own Trident engine on Windo

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GuliKit’s new budget-friendly controller can wake the Switch 2

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-21 04:10:44

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. The Elves 2 could also appeal to gamers who prefer a symmetrical joystick layout, similar to what the PlayStation’s controllers use, or those who still have a soft spot for the Sega Saturn gamepad. You’ll need to look real close to actually see inside the translucent black version of the Elves 2. Image: GuliKit It’s compatible with the original

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Inside a Real Clickfix Attack: How This Social Engineering Hack Unfolds

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-21 15:05:15

An inside look at a ClickFix campaign and a real-world attack, its next iteration (FileFix), and how to prevent it in its tracks, before device compromise. ClickFix: Silent Copying to Clipboard ClickFix, a deceptive social engineering tactic, is used by threat actors to manipulate unsuspecting users into unwittingly allowing a web page to silently populate the clipboard. Ultimately, the attacker is attempting to get a user to (unknowingly) execute malicious code, gathered from the browser and

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Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 05:58:12

Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering A very common side effect of working as a programmer is the constant frustration of not having source code access to all the software you use. Bugs, problems or missing features in your own work can be frustrating enough — you know you’ll have to address all those issues at some point. But it’s even worse when you experience an issue and don’t have the option to solve it. A recent example of this for me was playing the game

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The Verge’s favorite backpacks, totes, and other bags for 2025

theverge.com Verge Staff 2025-12-21 20:00:00

About two years ago, we ran an article in which Verge staffers talked about their favorite backpacks and other bags. It’s time for a new one, and so we asked the staff to tell us about their favorite travel packs, day-to-day bags, and other ways to carry stuff around. Here’s what they told us. Backpacks I like to travel light, but as a dad, that’s almost impossible. I bought a Tom Bihn Synik 30 a few years ago and found that there’s a reason it’s on almost every backpack list you’ll find. (Any

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Following Up on the Python JIT

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 12:23:19

Following up on the Python JIT Please consider subscribing to LWN Subscriptions are the lifeblood of LWN.net. If you appreciate this content and would like to see more of it, your subscription will help to ensure that LWN continues to thrive. Please visit this page to join up and keep LWN on the net. Performance of Python programs has been a major focus of development for the language over the last five years or so; the Faster CPython project has been a big part of that effort. One of its subp

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St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-21 05:47:37

Hacking attacks—many using ransomware—now hit US cities every few days. They are expensive to mitigate and extremely disruptive. Abilene, Texas, for instance, had 477 GB of data stolen this spring. The city refused to pay the requested ransom and instead decided to replace every server, desktop, laptop, desk telephone, and storage device. This has required a "temporary return to pen-and-paper systems" while the entire city network is rebuilt, but at least Abilene was insured against such an atta

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The two people shaping the future of OpenAI’s research

technologyreview.com Will Douglas Heaven 2025-12-22 09:06:48

OpenAI has kept up a run of new releases—putting out major updates to its GPT-4 series, launching a string of generative image and video models, and introducing the ability to talk to ChatGPT with your voice. Six months ago it kicked off a new wave of so-called reasoning models with its o1 release, soon followed by o3. And last week it released its browser-using agent Operator to the public. It now claims that more than 400 million people use its products every week and submit 2.5 billion prompt

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Finding the right image on Android just got a whole lot easier

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-22 08:50:28

TL;DR Google is bringing several new features to the Android Photo Picker tool. These features include the ability to change the photo grid view size, as well as a new way to choose multiple photos. These additions seem to be rolling out via the latest Android Canary release. Google introduced the Photo Picker tool in Android 13, allowing you to choose which photos an app can access. Now, this tool has received a few more quality-of-life additions. Authority Insights story on Android Authori

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 10:46:19

Maybe they should change the button to say, "I am a robot"? On Friday, OpenAI's new ChatGPT Agent, which can perform multistep tasks for users, proved it can pass through one of the Internet's most common security checkpoints by clicking Cloudflare's anti-bot verification—the same checkbox that's supposed to keep automated programs like itself at bay. ChatGPT Agent is a feature that allows OpenAI's AI assistant to control its own web browser, operating within a sandboxed environment with its o

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GOP’s Josh Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban

news.ycombinator.com Alan 2025-12-22 10:07:19

Washington — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri joined Democrats Wednesday to advance legislation that would ban members of Congress from buying, selling or owning individual stocks. In an 8-7 vote, Hawley and Senate Democrats on the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted the legislation out of committee, with all other Republicans on the committee voting against it. It's not yet clear if the legislation, which Hawley introduced, will receive a floor vote

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I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 10:56:21

"Everything is chrome in the future" was a line said by SpongeBob SquarePants in an episode from 1999, and it turned out to be a prophecy about web browsers. Google Chrome is the world's most popular browser, and most of its competitors are based on the same Chromium code: Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, and Arc, just to name a few. The main exceptions are Safari and Firefox. It wasn't always this way. At the start of the millennium, Internet Explorer used its own Trident engine on Windo

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Razer BlackShark V3 Pro Review: The Sweatiest Gamers Will Love This Headset

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-22 10:00:45

2025 “The best” of anything is already a misnomer, but throw “pro” into the mix, as so many gamer peripherals tend to, and we’re staring down the barrel of hyperbole. Which brings us to the Razer BlackShark V3 Pro, a gaming headset that Razer claims epitomizes low-latency sound for high-performance gaming, where hearing a footstep or missing your teammate’s callout is the difference between triumph and rage-inducing defeat. So when I say Razer’s BlackShark is “the best” of its class, you have t

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I found a cheap Android tablet worthy of replacing my iPad (and better in some ways)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-22 12:00:13

Blackview Mega 1 ZDNET's key takeaways The Blackview Mega 1 is available directly from Blackview and AliExpress, with prices starting at $330. The tablet has a big screen, a great display, fantastic sound output, and a lightweight design. However, the folio case feels flimsy, and there's nowhere to store the stylus. View now at Blackview If you think of a tablet, you probably think of an iPad. You should know that there are some fantastic Android tablets that you can buy for a fraction of the

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Aurora’s autonomous trucks are now driving at night. Its next big challenge is rain.

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-12-22 15:48:10

Over the next year, Aurora Innovation CEO Chris Urmson wants to “unlock” the Sunbelt of the United States, a southern route where its self-driving trucks will carry goods for companies like Uber Freight and Hirschbach Motor Lines. Aurora, which launched its driverless commercial self-driving truck service this spring, has already made some progress towards that goal. The company reported Wednesday in its second-quarter letter to shareholders that it now has three self-driving trucks operating c

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Substack accidentally sent push alerts promoting a Nazi publication

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-22 16:10:04

It was easy to view Substack's 2023 Nazi controversy as a kicked can that could turn up again. Well, white supremacist content led to another headache for the company this week. User Mag reported on Tuesday that the app sent a push alert to some users promoting a Nazi newsletter. The company told Engadget the notification was an "extremely offensive and disturbing" error. The Substack newsletter in question describes itself as "a National Socialist weekly newsletter." It includes "opinions and

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Trump Ends Tariff Exemption for Small Packages

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-12-22 20:17:11

US President Donald Trump just dealt another blow to the embattled ecommerce industry, which is still reeling from sweeping tariffs Trump announced in the spring. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order widening the impact of those tariffs and making it more expensive for Americans to buy foreign products on sites like eBay, Etsy, and Amazon. The order eliminates the so-called “de minimis” provision, a long-standing policy that allowed people in the US to import packages valued at less th

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Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-22 20:47:30

Echoing sentiments shared in his “superintelligence”-focused blog post this morning, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expanded on his bullish ideas that glasses will be the primary way users interact with AI in the years ahead. During Meta’s second quarter earnings call, the social networking exec told investors he believes people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future. “I continue to think that glasses are basically going to be the ideal form factor for AI, because you can let an A

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Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death

news.ycombinator.com Allison Bailes 2025-12-22 15:24:10

I usually focus on the building science of homes, HVAC, and indoor environmental quality. Today, though, I’m going to cover a topic of outdoor environmental quality. I’ve had mosquitoes in my backyard since we bought the house in 2019. This year, however, the yard is practically uninhabitable all the time because the constant rainfall has kept the yard wet and overpopulated with mosquitoes. That’s about to change because last week, I heard about the perfect solution: the Mosquito Bucket of Death

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ShinyHunters behind Salesforce data theft attacks at Qantas, Allianz Life, and LVMH

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-23 04:52:39

A wave of data breaches impacting companies like Qantas, Allianz Life, LVMH, and Adidas has been linked to the ShinyHunters extortion group, which has been using voice phishing attacks to steal data from Salesforce CRM instances. In June, Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) warned that threat actors tracked as UNC6040 were targeting Salesforce customers in social engineering attacks. In these attacks, the threat actors impersonated IT support staff in phone calls to targeted employees, a

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Traccar: an open source GPS tracking system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 03:30:48

Overview Traccar is an open source GPS tracking system. This repository contains Java-based back-end service. It supports more than 200 GPS protocols and more than 2000 models of GPS tracking devices. Traccar can be used with any major SQL database system. It also provides easy to use REST API. Other parts of Traccar solution include: There is also a set of mobile apps that you can use for tracking mobile devices: Features Some of the available features include: Real-time GPS tracking Dri

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Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-23 05:18:18

Google is fond of saying its mission is to "organize the world's information," but who gets to decide what information is worthy of organization? A San Francisco tech CEO has spent the past several years attempting to remove unflattering information about himself from Google's search index, and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation says he's still at it. Most recently, an unknown bad actor used a bug in one of Google's search tools to scrub the offending articles. The saga began in 2023

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Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-23 05:30:48

After Substack shocked an unknown number of users by sending a push notification on Monday to check out a Nazi blog featuring a swastika icon, the company quickly apologized for the "error," tech columnist Taylor Lorenz reported. "We discovered an error that caused some people to receive push notifications they should never have received," Substack's statement said. "In some cases, these notifications were extremely offensive or disturbing. This was a serious error, and we apologize for the dis

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St. Paul, MN was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-23 05:47:37

Hacking attacks—many using ransomware—now hit US cities every few days. They are expensive to mitigate and extremely disruptive. Abilene, Texas, for instance, had 477 GB of data stolen this spring. The city refused to pay the requested ransom and instead decided to replace every server, desktop, laptop, desk telephone, and storage device. This has required a "temporary return to pen-and-paper systems" while the entire city network is rebuilt, but at least Abilene was insured against such an atta

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Substack Sends Push Alert for Nazi Newsletter

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-23 10:10:34

Substack, the popular newsletter platform, recently sent out a push alert for a Nazi-themed newsletter. The publication in question, NatSocToday, describes itself as a “National Socialist weekly newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the National Socialist and White Nationalist Community.” The newsletter’s image header is a Nazi flag, and its latest post, as of Wednesday, was an article that includes the sentence: “We demand the return of all territory currently occupied by jews and

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Dropbox Passwords is shutting down, and you have to act fast

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-23 15:38:08

Dropbox has announced that its password manager, Dropbox Passwords, is shutting down soon. And you don’t have long to find a new solution. Dropbox Passwords shutdown will happen in three stages on accelerated timeline Dropbox Passwords is being discontinued, and users are encouraged to find a new password solution elsewhere. Why the shutdown? Per a support doc, it’s “part of our efforts to focus on enhancing other features in our core product.” Though web service shutdowns often come with ex

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‘House of the Dragon’ Casts Another Key Member of Team Black

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-23 14:20:42

The fight for the Iron Throne will continue in season three of House of the Dragon—just don’t ask George R.R. Martin for his thoughts about it—and the HBO series is adding another key cast member to reflect that. So far we’ve learned about new knights joining various sides of the war, including fan-favorite Northman “Roddy the Ruin.” And now we’ve got a new woman entering the male-dominated fray to throw her support behind Rhaenyra Targaryen: Alysanne Blackwood, to be played by Annie Shapero. A

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Hackers stole Social Security numbers during Allianz Life cyberattack

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-23 15:00:08

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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Mark Zuckerberg Looks Like He's Been Taken Hostage as He Explains Plan for Deploying AI Superintelligence

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-23 18:22:32

Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg is no stranger to bizarre videos. From the infamous clip where he declares his love for "Sweet Baby Ray's" barbecue sauce to the time he was recorded taking a Turing test, the tech founder has long found himself in awkward positions on camera. Still, none in recent memory can compare to a new video plugging Meta's so-called Superintelligence AI lab, which sees the newly dripped-out CEO stare directly into the camera — and, perhaps, through our souls — as he

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Latest Tech News

U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

I tried Servo

GuliKit’s new budget-friendly controller can wake the Switch 2

Inside a Real Clickfix Attack: How This Social Engineering Hack Unfolds

Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering

The Verge’s favorite backpacks, totes, and other bags for 2025

Following Up on the Python JIT

St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

The two people shaping the future of OpenAI’s research

Finding the right image on Android just got a whole lot easier

OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification

GOP’s Josh Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban

I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust

Razer BlackShark V3 Pro Review: The Sweatiest Gamers Will Love This Headset

I found a cheap Android tablet worthy of replacing my iPad (and better in some ways)

Aurora’s autonomous trucks are now driving at night. Its next big challenge is rain.

Substack accidentally sent push alerts promoting a Nazi publication

Trump Ends Tariff Exemption for Small Packages

Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future

Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death

ShinyHunters behind Salesforce data theft attacks at Qantas, Allianz Life, and LVMH

Traccar: an open source GPS tracking system

Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

St. Paul, MN was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

Substack Sends Push Alert for Nazi Newsletter

Dropbox Passwords is shutting down, and you have to act fast

‘House of the Dragon’ Casts Another Key Member of Team Black

Hackers stole Social Security numbers during Allianz Life cyberattack

Mark Zuckerberg Looks Like He's Been Taken Hostage as He Explains Plan for Deploying AI Superintelligence

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