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Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 10:36:57

Aug 9 2025 Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector One problem Nostr still has to deal with is the fact that web clients are "owned" by someone, because they rely so much on the domain name they're served from. Everything is fine with, say, https://coracle.social/, until npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn decides to shut it down or maybe he is threatened to include some malicious code in there, most Coracle users are going to fall for that and Nostr will feel

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Microsoft Probing Whether Israel Used Its Cloud to Build Palestinian Surveillance System

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-19 12:45:18

For the past two years, Microsoft has been dogged by accusations—both within and outside the company—that its technology is aiding the Israeli war effort. Microsoft’s own employees have protested the firm’s contracts with Israel, and protesters have disrupted the company’s various talks and conferences. Even the company’s 50th anniversary was ruined by shouts from one of its own employees, who reportedly yelled “Shame on you” while calling the company’s head of AI a “war profiteer” who was “usin

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Ozempic Users Can Now Workout With Apple Fitness Plus Through New Weight-Loss Partnership

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 12:00:00

If you're a FuturHealth member, you'll now have a free membership to Apple Fitness Plus as part of your program. It's Apple Fitness Plus’s first direct integration with a personalized GLP-1 weight-loss program. FuturHealth offers personalized weight-loss guidance and medications with the help of licensed dietitians and doctors. These include GLP-1 agonists such as semaglutide -- better known as Ozempic. It's partnered with Valisure, a tech company that provides independent quality assurance, to

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DJI Osmo 360 Review: A Strong Start

wired.com Sam Kieldsen 2025-11-19 11:00:00

Despite being DJI’s first entry to the 360 camera market, the Osmo 360 feels like the kind of debut you’d only get from a company that has spent a long time perfecting its craft elsewhere. DJI’s drones and action cameras have been impressing me for years, and its claims about the Osmo 360’s capabilities were bold, so I had high expectations. After two weeks of using the Osmo 360 in all sorts of conditions—sun, wind, low light, and on the edge of a downpour—it’s clear this is a serious challenge

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Acer Predator Helios 16S AI Review: Great Performance, Annoying Crashes

wired.com Christopher Null 2025-11-19 11:30:00

Keeping up with the intricacies of Acer’s Predator Helios gaming laptop line isn’t easy. The long-running series (dating back to 2017) now commands 12 different models, distinguished by screen size, the inclusion of AI acceleration (models with an “AI” suffix), and general affordability (denoted by the “Neo” suffix)—in every possible combination. Today, I’m reviewing the Predator Helios 16S AI, which boasts high-end specs and performance—especially in graphics-intensive tasks—but manages to kee

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YouTube Is Drowning in AI Slop Channels

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-19 14:00:58

YouTube is nothing without its advertisers. The beating heart of the video platform, big box companies have been locked in a historic game of Whac-a-Mole against low-quality YouTube content, which they say leads to a lowered perception of brands when paired with their ads. In the past, these high-risk videos took the form of right-wing conspiracy theorists, medical misinformation, and child exploitation. Now, in 2025, it's AI slop. Recent reporting by The Guardian details the staggering rise

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Laura Loomer and the limits of posting everything

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-11-19 02:36:49

For all the power she wields with the White House’s affairs, Laura Loomer does not have the traditional tools that her rivals in the MAGA influencer industrial complex have — the highest follower count, the most political power, the most internet platforms, etc. But the fact remains that she’s the influencer responsible for getting Donald Trump to fire over a dozen members of his administration (and counting) for the hazily-defined crime of being disloyal to MAGA. This is something that none of

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AI is different

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 22:49:42

antirez 2 days ago. 20374 views. Regardless of their flaws, AI systems continue to impress with their ability to replicate certain human skills. Even if imperfect, such systems were a few years ago science fiction. It was not even clear that we were so near to create machines that could understand the human language, write programs, and find bugs in a complex code base: bugs that escaped the code review of a competent programmer. Since LLMs and in general deep models are poorly understood, and

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2025 Edition

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-11-16 10:14:41

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. At least 13 of the bugs received Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating, meaning they could be abused by malware or malcontents to gain remote access to a Windows system with little or no help from users. August’s patch batch from Redmond includes an update for CVE-2025-53786, a vulnerability that allows an attacker to pivot from a compromised Microsoft Exchange Server dire

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This researcher turned OpenAI’s open weights model gpt-oss-20b into a non-reasoning ‘base’ model with less alignment, more freedom

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-11-20 15:19:07

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI’s new, powerful open weights AI large language model (LLM) family gpt-oss was released less than two weeks ago under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — the company’s first open weights model launch since GPT-2 in 2019 — but developers outside the company are already reshaping it. One of the most striking examples comes from Jack Morr

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Your iPhone battery can last longer with this new iOS 26 feature

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-20 15:41:56

Battery life is easily one of the iPhone’s most important features. Whether you’re planning to buy the ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air, the battery beast iPhone 17 Pro Max, or hold on to your current model, iOS 26 has a new feature coming that can make your iPhone’s battery last longer: Adaptive Power. Adaptive Power is a new iOS 26 setting to extend battery life If your iPhone battery is getting low, iOS has long offered Low Power Mode as a helpful tool. While I’ve heard of some users keeping Low P

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iOS 26 public beta 2 is now available to download: Everything to know about Apple's iPhone updates

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-20 20:48:05

At the iPhone event expected next month (here's what to expect), Apple will finally announce when we can download iOS 26 on our iPhones. Until then, you can download and install the newly released public beta 2 (or iOS 26 developer beta 6 for developers). I've been playing around with it for the past couple of weeks, and have found that taking screenshots is way better in the new operating system — Google and ChatGPT search options are now in the screenshots editor, for instance. You can see a m

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In a First, Scientists Capture Human Embryo Implantation in Real Time

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-20 20:00:40

A team of scientists has just gotten a closer peek into one of the earliest and most fundamental steps of creating a human life. Research out today highlights how they captured—for the first time—footage of human embryo implantation right as it’s happening. Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), in collaboration with Dexeus University Hospital, detailed their work in a study published Friday in Science Advances. Among other things, the footage shows that human embr

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Tiny, removable “mini SSD” could eventually be a big deal for gaming handhelds

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-20 20:13:47

Earlier this year, Nintendo helped popularize the microSD Express standard by requiring it for the new Switch 2 console. Created in 2019, the specification had languished in relative obscurity for years because the cheap, plentiful non-Express microSD cards were generally fast enough for the things that people were using them for, and because most hardware didn't support microSD Express cards in the first place. However, Nintendo's console needed performance closer to that of an internal SSD to

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HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 00:27:18

HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame James Kettle Director of Research @albinowax Published: 06 August 2025 at 22:20 UTC Updated: 12 August 2025 at 09:50 UTC Abstract Upstream HTTP/1.1 is inherently insecure and regularly exposes millions of websites to hostile takeover. Six years of attempted mitigations have hidden the issue, but failed to fix it. This paper introduces several novel classes of HTTP desync attack capable of mass compromise of user credentials. These techniques are demo

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EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 00:01:23

We want to ensure your safety and protect you from potential scams. Recently, there have been fraudulent recruitment initiatives online that impersonate our company. These scams aim to deceive unsuspecting applicants by offering nonexistent positions and requesting personal information or upfront fees. Remember that our company does not endorse any job postings outside our official channels. If you encounter a suspicious offer, report it through the job platform on which you found it or report

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Open-Sourced AI Models May Be More Costly in the Long Run, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-21 05:00:24

As more businesses adopt AI, picking which model to go with is a major decision. While open-sourced models may seem cheaper initially, a new study warns that those savings can evaporate fast, due to the extra computing power they require. In fact, open-source AI models burn through significantly more computing resources than their closed-source rivals when performing the same tasks, according to a study published Thursday by Nous Research. The researchers tested dozens of AI models, including

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The White House Keeps a ‘Loyalty’ Scorecard for Companies: Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-21 05:45:24

The White House has created a spreadsheet that rates hundreds of companies for their loyalty, according to a new report from Axios. And while that may not be entirely shocking news, given Donald Trump’s way of doing business, it’s worth stepping back and asking how news of a loyalty scorecard by a sitting president would’ve been received in the pre-Trump era. The rankings on the loyalty spreadsheet are currently determined by a given company’s perceived support of the so-called Big Beautiful Bi

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Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 08:04:21

Compilers aren't supposed to crash — especially not when compiling perfectly valid code like this: // SPDX-License-Identifier: UNLICENSED pragma solidity ^0.8.25; contract A { function a () public pure returns ( uint256 ) { return 1 ** 2 ; } } Yet running Solidity's compiler (solc) on this file on a standard Ubuntu 22.04 system (G++ 11.4, Boost 1.74) causes an immediate segmentation fault. At first, this seemed absurd. The code just returns 1 to the power of 2 — no memory tricks, unsafe casti

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Reminders in iOS 26 has a powerful new tool for organizing tasks

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-21 15:17:59

Apple’s Reminders app is one of many system apps getting new features in iOS 26. Among the handful of improvements coming to Reminders, there’s a powerful new tool for organizing your tasks. iOS 26’s Reminders app can now sort your tasks into sections automatically When it comes to task management, apps can sometimes get a little carried away with the number of features and settings they offer. Having a feature-rich app is great, but task managers can err in requiring too much time to organiz

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, Aug. 15

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-21 09:37:00

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's Mini Crossword has one of those two-part clues that I hate. 6-across and 8-across go together. I solved all the others, then let those fill in a bit before I saw the answers. Need help with the NYT Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guid

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Here’s Acura’s next all-electric RSX crossover

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-21 20:44:59

Acura's next RSX crossover has broken cover. The automaker has used this year's Monterey Car Week as a stage to show off a bright yellow prototype—the color is called Propulsion Yellow Pearl—ahead of the production car going on sale next year. And unlike the current generation (which Ars last tested back in 2019) RDX, this crossover will be fully electric. It will be built at the Honda Marysville Auto Plant that we checked out back in January. The 40-year old factory has been given a high-tech

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Death and What Comes Next (2002)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 16:01:01

The L-Space Web Death and What Comes Next A Discworld short story By Terry Pratchett Copyright © Terry Pratchett 2002 When Death met the philosopher, the philosopher said, rather excitedly: "At this point, you realise, I'm both dead and not dead." There was a sigh from Death. Oh dear, one of those, he thought. This is going to be about quantum again. He hated dealing with philosophers. They always tried to wriggle out of it. "You see," said the philosopher, while Death, motionless, watched

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Thank You Apple for Fixing the Camera Navigation in the Latest iOS 26 Beta

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 11:00:07

Apple released the third public beta of iOS 26 on Aug. 14. It brought new features, including Liquid Glass design and call screening, to developers' and beta testers' iPhones. Thankfully, it also reverted the way you switch between photo modes in your Camera app. With Apple's redesign of the Camera app in the iOS 26 beta, the company had initially inverted the way you navigate between camera modes. So, after years of swiping in one direction to get to a photo mode, imagine my surprise when I sw

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Here's How to Access Apple's Visual Intelligence on an iPhone 15 Pro

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 10:00:06

Apple will release iOS 26 this fall and that update will bring a new Liquid Glass design, the ability to screen incoming calls and more to your iPhone. But when Apple released iOS 18.4 in March, that update brought a handful of new controls to the iPhone Control Center, including one that brings Visual Intelligence to the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. When Apple released iOS 18 in September, that update remodeled the Control Center to give you more control over how the feature functions.

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Get Ready for All the New Ringtones in iOS 26

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 10:00:07

Apple released the third public beta of iOS 26 on Aug. 14. The beta brought a handful of new features, like a new Liquid Glass design and the ability to screen incoming calls, to the iPhones of developers and beta testers. It also gave developers and beta testers seven new ringtones they can try now. Many of the new ringtones are remixed versions of the Reflection ringtone. One version includes what sounds like woodwind instruments, while another sounds like a synthwave song you'd hear in Cyber

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Looking for More iPhone Battery Life? Adaptive Power in iOS 26 Should Provide a Boost

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 10:13:03

People who have installed the latest iOS 26 public beta or developer beta are discovering a simple switch that just might deliver long-term iPhone benefits -- and it's an Apple Intelligence feature of all things. Adaptive Power is an unobtrusive feature tucked a couple of layers deep into the Battery settings that uses AI to extend battery life when usage is higher than normal. See also: Adaptive Power in iOS 26 Could Save the iPhone 17 Air From This Major Pitfall Currently, the iPhone uses as

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We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 18:19:00

August 14, 2025 We just completed rewriting the Ghostty GTK application fully embracing the GObject type system from Zig and also verifying with Valgrind every step of the way. The result is a more feature rich, stable, and maintainable Ghostty on Linux and BSD. There are multiple interesting, technical topics from this process, but I want to focus in on two (1) interfacing with the GObject type system from Zig and (2) verifying a GTK application with Valgrind and reflecting on the memory issu

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We Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 00:19:00

August 14, 2025 We just completed rewriting the Ghostty GTK application fully embracing the GObject type system from Zig and also verifying with Valgrind every step of the way. The result is a more feature rich, stable, and maintainable Ghostty on Linux and BSD. There are multiple interesting, technical topics from this process, but I want to focus in on two (1) interfacing with the GObject type system from Zig and (2) verifying a GTK application with Valgrind and reflecting on the memory issu

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Apple's New Low-Cost iPad Could Come With the A18 Chip and Apple Intelligence, Report Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 02:55:00

Apple's rumored new low-cost iPad could come with two big changes that current devices can't touch. Rumor has it that Apple's low-cost iPad will come with an A18 chip, based on code references leaked on Wednesday. MacRumors reported the rumor on Thursday, just weeks ahead of Apple's rumored Sept. 9 event, where the iPhone 17 is expected to be revealed. Here's what we've gathered so far, but we won't know the details until Apple makes its official announcement. The big difference from the curre

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Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector

Microsoft Probing Whether Israel Used Its Cloud to Build Palestinian Surveillance System

Ozempic Users Can Now Workout With Apple Fitness Plus Through New Weight-Loss Partnership

DJI Osmo 360 Review: A Strong Start

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In a First, Scientists Capture Human Embryo Implantation in Real Time

Tiny, removable “mini SSD” could eventually be a big deal for gaming handhelds

HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame

EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

Open-Sourced AI Models May Be More Costly in the Long Run, Study Finds

The White House Keeps a ‘Loyalty’ Scorecard for Companies: Report

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Reminders in iOS 26 has a powerful new tool for organizing tasks

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Death and What Comes Next (2002)

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Looking for More iPhone Battery Life? Adaptive Power in iOS 26 Should Provide a Boost

We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application

We Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application

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