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Massive Allianz Life data breach impacts 1.1 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-17 20:17:57

Hackers have stolen the personal information of 1.1 million individuals in a Salesforce data theft attack, which impacted U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life in July. Allianz Life has nearly 2,000 employees in the United States and is a subsidiary of Allianz SE, which has over 128 million customers worldwide and ranks as the world's 82nd largest company based on revenue. As the company disclosed last month, information belonging to the "majority" of its 1.4 million customers was stolen by attack

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How to free up and automatically manage disk space for WSL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 00:15:25

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you run a Linux environment directly on Windows. This is particularly useful for web development where you can develop and test applications in a Linux environment without leaving Windows. You can even run freeCodeCamp locally with it! But managing disk space can be a quite a challenge, as WSL uses virtual hard disks that do not automatically free up unused space. This tutorial will guide you through the process of manually compacting your WSL virtual har

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Free up space (effortlessly) on WSL2

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 06:15:25

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you run a Linux environment directly on Windows. This is particularly useful for web development where you can develop and test applications in a Linux environment without leaving Windows. You can even run freeCodeCamp locally with it! But managing disk space can be a quite a challenge, as WSL uses virtual hard disks that do not automatically free up unused space. This tutorial will guide you through the process of manually compacting your WSL virtual har

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Intel is getting a $2 billion investment from SoftBank

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-11-17 22:50:22

Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks during the company's annual general meeting in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, June 27, 2025. Intel and SoftBank announced on Monday that the Japanese conglomerate will make a $2 billion investment in the embattled chipmaker. SoftBank will pay $23 per share for Intel's common stock, which closed on Monday at $23.66. The shares rose about 6% in extended trading to $25. The investment makes SoftBank the fifth-biggest I

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Another Crypto IPO Hits the Market and Most People Still Have No Idea What Crypto Is

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-17 22:50:36

Blockchain-based lender Figure Technology Solutions has officially filed for an initial public offering, marking another move by crypto-related firms seeking a slice of the trillion-dollar machine of public markets. Both crypto bros and the banks that love them are already celebrating the move to go public, which they say marks a significant milestone in the evolving intersection of cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and mainstream finance. Analysts posit that this signals a broader shif

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Nobody Likes Zuckerberg’s Glitchy AI App

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-18 03:16:26

Clearly, throwing billions of dollars at a problem can’t solve everything. Nearly six months after its debut, Meta’s consumer-facing AI app still struggles with inconsistencies and persistent shortcomings, casting doubt on the company’s lofty ambitions for artificial intelligence. It has been a rough learning curve for Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to join the AI race after lagging behind an already-crowded field and spending tens of billions of dollars on catching up. So far, the most Meta has to

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TeraWulf stock gains more than 4% as Google boosts stake in data center operator

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-18 12:01:29

TeraWulf stock rallied more than 4% after Google hiked its stake in the bitcoin miner and data center operator as it funds an expansion of its Lake Mariner, New York, facility. Earlier in the session, shares had jumped over 10%. As part of the deal, Google will offer up to $1.4 billion in additional backstop, bringing its total to about $3.2 billion. It hikes Google's stake in TeraWulf to 14% from 8% and enables the tech giant to buy about 32.5 million shares of the company's stock. TeraWulf

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Palo Alto Networks reports earnings beat, says founder Nir Zuk retiring from company

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-18 12:47:14

Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, looks on during the closing bell at the Nasdaq Market in New York City on March 25, 2025. Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected quarterly results and issued upbeat guidance for the current period. The cybersecurity software vendor said Nir Zuk, who founded the company in 2005, is retiring from his role as chief technology officer. The stock rose about 6% in extended trading. Here's how the company did compared to LSEG estimates: Earnings: 9

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Rey’s Climatic ‘Star Wars’ Showdowns Get a Beautiful Poster Set

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-18 12:15:49

Bottleneck Gallery and artist Kevin Wilson will soon release a truly beautiful set of Star Wars posters that feature Rey’s three unforgettable Sith showdowns in all their glory. There’s her first battle with Kylo Ren at the end of The Force Awakens, the start of her showdown with Snoke in The Last Jedi, and the final encounter with her dear old pappy Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker. Each is prettier than the last, and they make us think back to a simpler time. Before we get to that, though,

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HR Giant Workday Got Hacked

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-18 17:25:40

Workday, a company that provides human resources technology to over 11,000 corporations and 70 million users worldwide, announced in a classic Friday news dump that it suffered a data breach. The company did not disclose how much information was stolen by the hackers, but did reveal that information—including the names, email addresses, and phone numbers—of some users was compromised. The company said the breach hit some of its third-party customer relationship databases. If any other data was

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Workday says hackers used social engineering to access personal data during a breach

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 22:34:51

Human resources technology company Workday has confirmed that a data breach has affected its third-party CRM platform. In a blog post announcing the breach, the company said that a social engineering campaign had targeted its employees, with threat actors posing as IT or HR in order to trick employees into sharing account access or personal information. The company says that while the threat actors were able to access some information from the CRM, there is no indication of any access to custom

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TeraWulf stock jumps more than 10% as Google boosts stake in data center operator

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-19 03:51:18

TeraWulf stock rallied more than 10% after Google hiked its stake in the bitcoin miner and data center operator as it funds an expansion of its Lake Mariner, New York, facility. As part of the deal, Google will offer up to $1.4 billion in additional backstop, bringing its total to about $3.2 billion. It hikes Google's stake in TeraWulf to 14% from 8% and enables the tech giant to buy about 32.5 million shares of the company's stock. TeraWulf CEO Paul Prager said in a release that the agreement

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GPT-5 is supposed to be nicer now

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-18 03:08:21

In Brief OpenAI announced late Friday that it’s updating its latest model to be “warmer and friendlier.” The company recently launched the much-anticipated GPT-5 in a process that CEO Sam Altman admitted was “a little more bumpy than we’d hoped for,” with some users complaining that they preferred the previous model, GPT-4o. OpenAI is trying to address some of those complaints with this update, with changes that it says are “subtle” but will make GPT-5 “more approachable now.” “You’ll notice

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How web scraping actually works - and why AI changes everything

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-19 08:00:18

Getty/panithan pholpanichrassamee ZDNET's key takeaways Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler blocks. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. In the world of industrial web scraping, there are a few major players. Oh, you did not know there was a world of industrial

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AI Is About to Radically Alter Military Command Structures That Date Back to Napoleon

gizmodo.com Benjamin Jensen 2025-11-19 08:30:45

Benjamin Jensen, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Marine Corps University School of Advanced Warfighting; Scholar-in-Residence, American University School of International Service This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Despite two centuries of evolution, the structure of a modern military staff would be recognizable to Napoleon. At the same time, military organizations have struggled to incorporate new technologies as

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Fujifilm is raising the prices of its cameras again

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-19 08:42:41

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Just two weeks after raising the prices of its cameras by up to $800, Fujifilm is warning customers about another increase for US customers. In a statement provided to DPReview, the Japanese company says it will “further adjust prices” as it contends with “volat

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TeraWulf stock jumps more than 10% as Google boosts stake in datacenter operator

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-19 12:14:36

TeraWulf stock rallied more than 10% after Google hiked its stake in the bitcoin miner and datacenter operator as it funds an expansion of its Lake Mariner, New York, facility. As part of the deal, Google will offer up to $1.4 billion in additional backstop, bringing its total to about $3.2 billion. It hikes Google's stake in TeraWulf to 14% from 8% and enables the company to buy about 32.5 million shares of the company's stock. CEO Paul Prager said in a release that the agreement solidifies t

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How much RAM does your PC really need in 2025? I did the math for Windows and Mac users

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-11-19 12:41:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. I used to struggle when shopping for a new computer. Over time, I learned to narrow things down to what I call the "performance trifecta" -- three main components you should be mindful of when buying a laptop or desktop: processor, storage drive, and RAM. The first two are pretty easy to figure out. A good processor ensures that a computer performs well, and a lot of loca

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95% of AI Pilots Failing

news.ycombinator.com Sheryl Estrada 2025-11-19 17:36:03

Good morning. Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line. The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat. Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the vast majority stall, delivering little to

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Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 16:47:38

Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations toggle caption Source: Otter A federal lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Otter.ai of "deceptively and surreptitiously" recording private conversations that the tech company uses to train its popular transcription service without permission from the people using it. The company's AI-powered transcription service called Otter Notebook, which can do real-time transcriptions of Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft

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OpenAI's Sam Altman sees AI bubble forming as industry spending surges

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-11-20 14:09:30

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks the artificial intelligence market is in a bubble, according to a report from The Verge published Friday. "When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth," Altman told a small group of reporters last week. "Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes. Is AI the most important thing to happen in a very long time? My opinion is also yes," he was quoted as saying. Altman appeared to compare this

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Google will pay Australia $36 million over anticompetitive search deal with mobile carriers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-20 14:09:56

Google has agreed to pay a fine of $55 million AUD ($36 million USD) for anticompetitive practices, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced. It stems from deals Google undertook with Australian telecommunications companies Telstra and Optus to only pre-install Google Search. The key there is that these companies couldn't install any other search engine. Telstra and Optus then got a share of Google's ad revenue from customers using Google search on their respective An

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BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM

news.ycombinator.com Chris Garrett 2025-11-19 17:08:44

ARM-based chips are found in nearly 60 percent of the world’s mobile devices Introducing the “Beeb” – the inventors of the ARM architecture used these machines to simulate and develop chip designs. Those chips are now in every home and business. This particular machine is my BBC Master, plus 5 1/4″ floppy disk drive, and three-button mouse. Isn’t she a beauty? Like many microcomputers of the 1980s, the BBC Micro ran on a 6502 series microchip. Unlike most of the competition, however, the BBC

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Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 09:54:55

The ACCC has today commenced Federal Court proceedings against Google Asia Pacific over anti-competitive understandings that Google admits it reached in the past with Telstra and Optus regarding the pre-installation of Google Search on Android mobile phones. Google has co-operated with the ACCC, admitted liability and agreed to jointly submit to the Court that Google should pay a total penalty of $55 million. It is a matter for the Court to determine whether the penalty and other orders are app

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BBC Micro, the ancestor to ARM

news.ycombinator.com Chris Garrett 2025-11-19 23:08:44

ARM-based chips are found in nearly 60 percent of the world’s mobile devices Introducing the “Beeb” – the inventors of the ARM architecture used these machines to simulate and develop chip designs. Those chips are now in every home and business. This particular machine is my BBC Master, plus 5 1/4″ floppy disk drive, and three-button mouse. Isn’t she a beauty? Like many microcomputers of the 1980s, the BBC Micro ran on a 6502 series microchip. Unlike most of the competition, however, the BBC

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Bill Gates meets Willy Wonka: How Epic's 82-year-old billionaire CEO, Judy Faulkner, built her software factory

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-11-19 03:58:36

Judy Faulkner, founder and chief executive officer of Epic Systems Corp., during the Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York, Dec. 5, 2023. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Do not go public. Do not acquire or be acquired. Software must work. These are the first three of the 10 commandments splashed across bathrooms and breakrooms at Epic Systems' sprawling 1,670-acre campus in Verona, Wisconsin, just southwest of Madison. It's not the wackiest part of working at the health-care software gi

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BBC Micro: The Ancestor to a Device You Are Guaranteed to Own

news.ycombinator.com Chris Garrett 2025-11-20 05:08:44

ARM-based chips are found in nearly 60 percent of the world’s mobile devices Introducing the “Beeb” – the inventors of the ARM architecture used these machines to simulate and develop chip designs. Those chips are now in every home and business. This particular machine is my BBC Master, plus 5 1/4″ floppy disk drive, and three-button mouse. Isn’t she a beauty? Like many microcomputers of the 1980s, the BBC Micro ran on a 6502 series microchip. Unlike most of the competition, however, the BBC

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Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-20 09:34:17

In Brief While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn was loudly criticized this year after declaring that Duolingo would become an “AI-first company,” he suggested in a new interview the real issue was that he “did not give enough context.” “Internally, this was not controversial,” von Ahn told The New York Times. “Externally, as a publicly traded company some people assume that it’s just for profit. Or that we’re trying to lay off humans. And that was not the intent at all.” On the contrary, von Ahn sai

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Princeton NuEnergy's battery recycling tech recovers 97% of lithium-ion material

news.ycombinator.com Rosemary Potter 2025-11-19 14:49:49

IN A NUTSHELL 🔋 Princeton NuEnergy launched the first U.S. commercial-scale battery recycling facility in Chester, South Carolina, achieving a recycling yield of over 97% . . 💡 The facility, fully compliant with regulatory standards, is set to expand its capacity to 15,000 tons per annum by 2026 . tons per annum by . 🌱 PNE’s low-temperature plasma-assisted separation process reduces costs by 38% and has a 69% lower environmental footprint compared to conventional methods. and has a lower envi

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Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 23:04:29

Dev Compass Discover your programming philosophy through this compass that maps your preferences along two key dimensions: Abstract Style ↔ Concrete Style and Easy for Humans ↕ Easy for Computers. Answer 20 questions about your coding preferences and see where you fall on the developer compass.

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