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Senator blasts Microsoft for making default Windows vulnerable to “Kerberoasting”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 12:38:13

A prominent US Senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for “gross cybersecurity negligence,” citing the company’s continued use of an obsolete and vulnerable form of encryption that Windows uses by default. In a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Sen. Ron Wyden (D–Ore.) said an investigation his office conducted into the 2024 ransomware breach of the health care giant Ascension found that default use of the RC4 encryption cipher was a direct cause. The b

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Klarna’s IPO pops, raising $1.4B, with Sequoia as the biggest winner

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-08 12:11:44

It’s been a long road for the 20-year-old fintech Klarna to make it to an IPO. But on Wednesday, the company successfully landed on the New York Stock Exchange, having raised $1.4 billion, largely for its existing investors, rather than itself. The fintech giant sold shares at $40, above its announced range of $35 to $37, and came out of the gate with a $15 billion valuation. Shares popped, opening at $52, though quickly settling down to around $46 mid-day. Of the 34.3 million shares Klarna so

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Anti-AGI Protester Now on Day Nine of Hunger Strike in Front of Anthropic Headquarters

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-08 14:23:08

Artificial general intelligence, the prospect of a synthetic entity meeting or exceeding the cognitive power of a human, is a polarizing topic. For some, like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, it's a mission statement — the lodestar guiding the company's $300 billion operations. For others, like activist and organizer Guido Reichstadter, it's an existential threat to be resisted at any cost. Reichstader is now on day nine of a grueling anti-AGI hunger strike in front of the San Francisco headquarters of

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Grammarly's AI writing assistance tools now work in five new languages

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 16:04:32

Since its debut in 2009, Grammarly has only been available in one language: English. Sure, you could switch between dialects, including Canadian and Indian English, but if you wrote in any other language, you were out of luck. That's changing today with Grammarly rolling out beta support for five additional languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The update is available to all Grammarly customers — whether you live in a country that speaks the language you want to write in o

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Lyft launches autonomous fleet with May Mobility in Atlanta

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 16:49:42

Lyft and May Mobility have teamed up to launch a fleet of autonomous vehicles in Atlanta. It's a pilot program, so it's currently only available to Lyft riders in the area of midtown Atlanta. The companies promise a "measured, safety-first approach" with this rollout. The fleet consists of hybrid-electric Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS vehicles equipped with May Mobility’s self-driving technology. Lyft and May Mobility announced this partnership last year, but Atlanta is the first city to get a flee

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CPU Utilization is Wrong (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 06:06:39

The metric we all use for CPU utilization is deeply misleading, and getting worse every year. What is CPU utilization? How busy your processors are? No, that's not what it measures. Yes, I'm talking about the "%CPU" metric used everywhere, by everyone. In every performance monitoring product. In top(1). What you may think 90% CPU utilization means: What it might really mean: Stalled means the processor was not making forward progress with instructions, and usually happens because it is waitin

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Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

news.ycombinator.com Horace He In Collaboration With Others At Thinking Machines 2025-10-08 15:26:08

Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the same question multiple times provides different results. This by itself is not surprising, since getting a result from a language model involves “sampling”, a process that converts the language model’s output into a probability distribution and probabilistically selects a token. What might be mor

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Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an 'Illusion'

wired.com Will Knight 2025-10-08 16:04:13

Mustafa Suleyman is not your average big tech executive. He dropped out of Oxford university as an undergrad to create the Muslim Youth Helpline, before teaming up with friends to cofound DeepMind, a company that blazed a trail in building game-playing AI systems before being acquired by Google in 2014. Suleyman left Google in 2022 to commercialize large language models (LLMs) and build empathetic chatbot assistants with a startup called Inflection. He then joined Microsoft as its first CEO of

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Bluesky will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-08 14:12:14

After blocking its service in Mississippi over its new age-assurance law, the social networking startup is taking a different approach to comply with laws in South Dakota and Wyoming. Instead of requiring Bluesky to restrict access to all unverified users, users in South Dakota and Wyoming can verify their ages through the Kids Web Services’ (KWS) solution. The service allows users to choose from multiple methods to verify their ages, which may include payment cards, an identity document, an an

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Klarna opens at $52 per share in NYSE debut after pricing IPO above range

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-08 20:13:24

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, chief executive officer and co-founder of Klarna Holding AB, center, and Michael Moritz, chairman of Klarna Bank AB, center right, during the company's initial public offering (IPO) at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Klarna shares popped 30% in their New York Stock Exchange debut Wednesday, opening at $52, after the Swedish online lender priced its IPO above its expected range. The company, known for its popular buy now

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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in South Dakota and Wyoming

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 19:57:53

Bluesky is expanding its age verification features stateside. The service will require users in South Dakota and Wyoming to verify their ages in order to access direct messaging and adult content on the site. The update comes after both states have enacted laws requiring online platforms that host "harmful" content to verify the ages of their users. Bluesky's approach will mirror its actions in the UK, which also requires age checks following the passage of its Online Safety Act. The company ha

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Cursor AI editor lets repos “autorun” malicious code on devices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-08 18:46:24

A weakness in the Cursor code editor exposes developers to the risk of automatically executing tasks in a malicious repository as soon as it’s opened. Threat actors can exploit the flaw to drop malware, hijack developer environments, or steal credentials and API tokens, without developers having to execute any commands. Cursor is an AI-powered Integrated Development Environment (IDE) built as a fork of Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that has deep integration of mainstream AI assistants like GPT-

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Elon Musk Was Just Unseated as the World’s Richest Person

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-08 18:18:01

Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison is having a good morning. Oracle’s stock is up more than 42% on Wednesday, thanks to an earnings call on Tuesday that left investors stunned. The company missed earnings and revenue estimates, but the forward looking guidance alone was apparently good enough to get investors to rally around it. A bulk of that reaction had to do with the revenue that AI computing demand was expected to bring to Oracle’s cloud infrastructure service. The shares skyrocketed in respo

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Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-08 20:40:32

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it? According to CloudFlare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic is now bots. Most of those bots, you won’t ever directly interact with, as they are crawling the web and indexing websites or performing specific tasks—or, increasingly, collecting data to train AI models. But it’s the bots that you can see that have people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others questioning (albeit

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The Apple Watch Ultra 3 Delivers on a Long-Awaited Upgrade

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 19:30:00

If you're more comfortable hiking mountain trails or gliding under water, or you just prefer a chunky smartwatch with days of battery life, your patience over the last couple of years has paid off. At Tuesday's big fall event, Apple officially announced the Apple Watch Ultra 3, the next generation of Apple's high-performance smartwatch. The Ultra 3 adds a brighter, larger display, 5G cellular communication, satellite connectivity, a battery life increase of up to 42 hours and the ability to det

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Bluesky brings age verification to South Dakota and Wyoming

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-08 20:40:36

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. Bluesky will now check the ages of users located in South Dakota and Wyoming to comply with local online safety laws. The platform announced on Wednesday that users in both states will be able to prove their age using an ID, payment card, face scan, or other met

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PlayStation launches new app for parental controls

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-08 20:43:34

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. PlayStation is launching a new PlayStation Family app for iOS and Android to help parents manage their child’s playtime on PS5 and PS4. Parents can already set parental control features directly on a console, but this app gives parents another way to set limits and keep track of what t

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Sony rolls out new ‘PlayStation Family’ parental controls app

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-08 20:20:04

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a dedicated parental controls app called “PlayStation Family” on iOS and Android. The new app features a series of new tools that allow parents to manage their children’s activity on the console, including an activity report, greater visibility into what their children are playing, and the ability to approve extra playtime requests. While Sony has long offered parental controls, the new app brings all of these tools into

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Meta adds new features to Community Notes fact checks, including alerts for corrected posts

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-08 20:33:21

Meta is introducing a few new features for its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, launched in the U.S. earlier this year. Now, users will be notified when they’ve interacted with a post on Facebook, Instagram, or Threads that receives a Community Note. Plus, anyone can now request a note or rate a note if it’s been helpful to them. We’re testing new Community Notes features at Meta: Anyone can now request a note or rate if a note is helpful – Users get notified when posts th

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IEEE Software Receives 2025 Award for Publication Excellence from APEX

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-10-08 22:00:10

IEEE Software has won another Publication Excellence award from APEX, a leading annual competition for communication and publishers. The IEEE team is incredibly honored and excited to continue our mission of keeping IEEE members informed on major trends and developments in technology, engineering, and science. The distinguished 2025 APEX Awards were in the Magazines, Journals & Tabloids category for the issue “Well-being for Resilience — Developers Thrive!” (Jul.-Aug. 2024). As a previous APEX

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If the AI Industry Fails, It Could Take the Rest of Us Down With It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-08 23:12:33

Don't let AI critics tell you it's good for nothing: the amount of money being spent on AI infrastructure is so enormous that it’s literally propping up the US economy. The drawback, of course, is that if the AI industry fails, it could drag the rest of the economy down with it. In 2024, the S&P 500 grew by an incredible 24 percent — what the investment firm Charles Schwab understatedly called a "very good year." Since 2023, nearly half the growth was clustered in just a handful of tech stocks

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Spotify Lossless ‘rolling out gradually’ four years after Apple Music upgraded entire library

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-09 00:54:12

In the four years since Apple Music upgraded its entire music catalog to lossless overnight, Spotify has been just around the corner from catching up. Starting today, Spotify is taking the very first steps toward making that actually happen. Premium subscribers will receive a push notification from the Spotify app when lossless support becomes available. So what took so long? Here’s what Spotify says. “The wait is finally over; we’re so excited lossless sound is rolling out to Premium subscrib

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Rode's Wireless Go III wireless microphone is cheaper than ever

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-09 00:22:31

The Rode Wireless Go III wireless microphone is down to $199 via Amazon . This is a record-low price and represents a discount of 30 percent, as it typically costs $285. The deal applies to all 13 colorways. This one made our list of the best mobile microphones . It strikes a good balance between features and value, which is especially true right now. The mic offers great sound, onboard storage, 32-bit float and universal compatibility with iPhones, Android, cameras and PCs. The various colorw

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Microsoft taps Anthropic for AI in Word and Excel, signaling distance from OpenAI

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-09 00:26:00

Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft will pay Anthropic for access to its AI models. They'll go toward new features in Office 365 platforms. Microsoft and OpenAI are distancing themselves from one another. Microsoft will slacken its dependence on OpenAI through a new partnership with Anthropic, The Information reported on Tuesday. The deal will enable Microsoft to embed Anthropic's AI systems into Microsoft 365 (fo

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On ‘Alien: Earth,’ Spit’s About to Hit the Fan

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-09 00:20:55

After an exciting, revealing week away from the main storyline, Alien: Earth was back in Neverland for its latest episode. So many stories were left lingering, and with only three episodes to go this season, it’s time to kick them into high gear. Stories like Wendy being able to communicate with a xenomorph, Nibs becoming violent because she thinks she’s pregnant, and Slightly being blackmailed by Morrow into sneaking an alien embryo off the island. Each story, and more, took a big leap ahead th

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Perseverance Rover Finds Potential Sign of Ancient Life in Martian Rock

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-09 00:37:21

Today, NASA officials unveiled intriguing new findings from “Sapphire Canyon,” the 25th geological sample collected by the Perseverance Mars rover. This rock core has captivated scientists ever since Perseverance extracted it in July 2024, as it may help them determine if microbial life ever existed on the Red Planet. Now, NASA has revealed that the initial analysis of the Sapphire Canyon sample could not rule out a biological origin for its distinctive features. “This very well could be the cl

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Here’s What to Know About Poland Shooting Down Russian Drones

wired.com Riccardo Piccolo 2025-10-08 21:58:37

Early Wednesday morning, Poland shot down several Russian drones that had violated its airspace during a massive strike against western Ukraine. The Polish military operation, confirmed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk through a social media message in the early morning hours, marks a turning point in Warsaw's involvement in the conflict that has affected the region for more than two and a half years. The Polish defense agency reported the presence of more than 10 objects coming from Ukrainian airs

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Replit hits $3B valuation on $150 million annualized revenue

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-09 00:54:48

Replit has raised a $250 million round, valuing the company at $3 billion. Unlike other fast-growing vibe coders, Replit has not been running to VCs every few months, though we’ll see if that changes. Its last raise was in 2023 when it raised about $100 million that valued the company at $1.16 billion post-money. Replit has now raised a total of about $478 million, PitchBook estimates. The company, founded in 2016 by programmers Amjad Masad (pictured), Faris Masad, and designer Haya Odeh, says

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Tesla's Market Share Has Fallen So Badly That It's Back to 2017 Levels

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-09 03:15:02

Ten years ago, it was rare to see a Tesla on the road. The Model S, despite being the world's best-selling EV at the time, sold just over 50,000 units worldwide, making it rarer to see on the road than the exceedingly rare Porsche Macan. In the following years, Tesla rocketed to the top of the sales charts, cementing its Model Y as the best-selling vehicle of 2023. Now, Tesla's once dominant empire has shriveled to a shell of its former self. Though the EV company once commanded a whopping 80

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Nothing OS 4.0 is coming, and Phone 1 users might also get a surprise

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 03:53:28

TL;DR Nothing has begun teasing the launch of Nothing OS 4.0, its Android 16-based update. The new update is scheduled to be released this month, in line with the company’s promise. Even though the Nothing Phone 1 has reached the end of its platform update lifecycle, Nothing CEO Carl Pei has teased a new “program” for Phone 1 users. Android 16‘s rollout has not been impressive outside of Google Pixel devices. Even though Samsung has begun rolling it out for more phones, it took its own sweet

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Senator blasts Microsoft for making default Windows vulnerable to “Kerberoasting”

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Elon Musk Was Just Unseated as the World’s Richest Person

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Replit hits $3B valuation on $150 million annualized revenue

Tesla's Market Share Has Fallen So Badly That It's Back to 2017 Levels

Nothing OS 4.0 is coming, and Phone 1 users might also get a surprise

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