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US offers $10 million bounty for info on Russian FSB hackers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-19 15:01:46

The U.S. Department of State is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on three Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers involved in cyberattacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure organizations on behalf of the Russian government. The three individuals, Marat Valeryevich Tyukov, Mikhail Mikhailovich Gavrilov, and Pavel Aleksandrovich Akulov, are part of the FSB's Center 16 or Military Unit 71330, which is tracked as Berserk Bear, Blue Kraken, Crouching Yeti, Dragonfl

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You can finally scroll Instagram on your iPad - after 15 years

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-19 15:46:38

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Meta just announced a native app version of Instagram for iPadOS 15.1 and later. The app is free and available in the App Store now. It looks different than the mobile version, with some interesting ways to curate your feed. At long last, you can now scroll Instagram on your iPad. After years of requests by iPad users, it will be available in the App Store for iPadOS 15.1 and later starting Septem

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The first Gleam Conference – Gathering 2026

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 15:26:45

About the Gathering Welcome - you've found the information hub for the Gleam Gathering 2026. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to register their interest in the Gathering. The feedback we got was insightful and honest, and we will listen to it as much as possible going forward with the event. And due to the volume of responses, we can confirm that GLEAM GATHERING 2026 IS A GO! We will be gathering on Saturday 21 February 2026 in Bristol, UK! We are truly honoured to announce our fi

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A Case Study in AI Overstatement: Builder.ai

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-19 15:00:35

Back in May, Builder.ai, once a high-flying startup touted as a path-clearing AI-powered app builder, filed for bankruptcy in the U.S., culminating a spectacular fall that has become a cautionary tale in today’s AI frenzy. The filing followed a flurry of activity that saw creditors seize its accounts, the revelation that it may have been using engineers in India instead of AI, and a probe into how Builder.ai’s founder spent money leading up to its collapse. The collapse has sparked anger among

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Universal Reveals a Trailer for Its Behind the Scenes Theme Park Docuseries

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-19 15:30:43

Disney gets all the press, and Six Flags has all the dancing commercials, but Universal has always had a strong position in the theme park world. Starting with a simple tour of the Universal lot in Hollywood, the film studio evolved that into several parks across the globe, all of which showcase the big, popular film and TV shows created by the studio. Then, last year, that culminated with Universal opening its most advanced park yet, Epic Universe in Orlando. And while we’ve seen plenty of doc

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Instagram App Finally Appears on iPads, After 15 Years of Neglecting Apple's Tablet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 15:15:55

After rumors earlier in 2025, iPad users finally saw the Instagram app arrive on their devices on Wednesday, appearing in the App Store after 15 years of avoiding the iPad. Since its original release, Instagram has never been available as a download for Apple's larger screen. While it's not certain why Instagram took so long to appear on the iPad, we've tested out the app and found it ready to download and fully functional. However, Instagram has made a few changes that indicate its latest prio

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These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-19 15:32:12

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a pre-print study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently "convince" some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts. The size of the persuasion effects shown in "Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests" suggests

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Not using a Pixel or Galaxy? The wait for stable Android 16 just got longer

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 10:42:27

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Thanks to Google’s preponed release timeline, Android 16 has been out for Pixels since June. Samsung also launched phones with stable One UI 8 in July. The company has confirmed that more Galaxy devices will receive the stable update this month. Meanwhile, other Android manufacturers, such as OPPO, Xiaomi,vivo, and OnePlus, are now expected to announce their Android 16-based updates by October, which is far behind Google and Samsung’s rollout. Google laun

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Earbud sharing begone: Pixel phones now have proper support for Auracast

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 19:00:59

Supplied by Google TL;DR Google has announced that Auracast is now available on recent Pixel phones. This lets you broadcast Bluetooth audio or tune into Bluetooth broadcasts from others. It also comes months after Google introduced Auracast support on Pixels, but only for compatible hearing aids. Google announced Auracast support for the Pixel 9 series earlier this year, but this was initially restricted to compatible hearing aids. Now, the company has announced full-fledged Auracast suppor

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Hackers use new HexStrike-AI tool to rapidly exploit n-day flaws

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-19 19:03:42

Hackers are increasingly using a new AI-powered offensive security framework called HexStrike-AI in real attacks to exploit newly disclosed n-day flaws. This activity is reported by CheckPoint Research, which observed significant chatter on the dark web around HexStrike-AI, associated with the rapid weaponization of newly disclosed Citrix vulnerabilities, including CVE-2025-7775, CVE-2025-7776, and CVE-2025-8424. According to ShadowServer Foundation's data, nearly 8,000 endpoints remain vulner

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Your Android phone just got a big Bluetooth upgrade for free - what's new

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-19 19:00:21

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Auracast support rolls out to more smartphones and headphones. You can share your phone's audio with one or many friends. Your phone and headphones must support Auracast to access the feature. If you've been waiting for technology to evolve so you can easily share audio from one device to two headphones with fewer device ecosystem barriers, the day has come. Google's new update to Android expands Bl

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PFP: A Probabilistic Functional Programming Library for Haskell (2006)

news.ycombinator.com Martin Erwig 2025-10-16 02:02:47

A Probabilistic Functional Programming Library for Haskell Version: June 2006 Distributions can represent events, such as the roll of a die or the flip of a coin. For example, or example, the outcome of a die roll can be expressed as follows. die :: Dist Int die = uniform [1..6] die > die 1 16.7% 2 16.7% 3 16.7% 4 16.7% 5 16.7% 6 16.7% uniform uniform succOrId x = uniform [x, x+1] choose succOrId x = choose 0.5 x (x+1) droll = die >>= succOrId droll = do d <- die succOrId d To use t

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Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 12:07:16

中文阅读 We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework that generates world-consistent 3D point-cloud sequences from a single image with user-defined camera path. Voyager can generate 3D-consistent scene videos for world exploration following custom camera trajectories. It can also generate aligned depth and RGB video for efficient and direct 3D reconstruction. Sep 2, 2025: 👋 We release the code and model weights of HunyuanWorld-Voyager. Download. Join our Wechat and Discor

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Trump’s New History Exhibit Features Fake Quotes From AI-Generated Founding Fathers

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-19 19:25:03

The White House recently commissioned a new history exhibit in Washington, D.C. created by the far-right “education” group PragerU. The exhibit features 82 paintings and 40 AI videos, presenting a rather distorted view of America’s founding. The AI-generated videos even include fake quotes from the founding fathers, including one that seems like a joke. But the folks at PragerU are serious about their mission, even if the intention is to own the libs. What kind of quotes are we talking about?

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A PlayStation game is now the best-selling game on Xbox

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-19 18:52:37

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. If you ever doubted the “console wars” were over, here’s a new piece of data to consider: Helldivers 2, formerly console exclusive to Sony’s PS5, is currently the best-selling title on Xbox. In fact, it’s the first and third best-selling game, if you count its more premium edition, and it’s currently the ninth-most played game on the platfo

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Apple has survived Trump's tariffs so far. It might raise iPhone prices anyway

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-19 23:19:33

Apple CEO Tim Cook (R) shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on August 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. When Tim Cook gifted President Donald Trump a gold and glass plaque last month, the Apple CEO was hailed by Wall Street for his job managing the iPhone-maker's relationship with the White House. Cook, Wall Street commentators said, had largely navigated the threat of tariffs on Apple's business successfully by offering Trump an addition

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AYN Odin 3 full specs revealed, including a surprise Ultra model

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 23:14:58

TL;DR AYN shared the full Odin 3 specs, confirming Snapdragon 8 Elite and other core hardware. Configurations range from 8GB/128GB up to an Ultra model with 24GB RAM and 1TB storage. The Indiegogo page is live for sign-ups and early-bird discounts, but there’s no pricing or release date yet. It’s only been a couple of days since AYN confirmed the Odin 3 will be the first Android handheld powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. That alone will make it one of the most powerful handhe

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The largest illegal sports streaming service has been shut down after sting operation

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 23:35:37

The sports broadcasting piracy network Streameast has been shut down after it was investigated for a year by a US-based anti-piracy group. Streameast is the largest illegal sports streaming platform in the world, and while active it offered its users free access to 80 unauthorised domains. This allowed people to pirate live soccer matches from the Premier League and Champions League, as well as NFL, NBA and MLB games. According to ACE, annual traffic to the site topped 1.6 billion visits. The A

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This Page Is a Quine (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 15:52:26

Hi, I'm Pranav And this page is a quine. What is that? Well, a quine is a program that produces its source code as its output. About me I am a research enginer at Conjecture, where you can find me tinkering with LLMs. You can find my resume here I started exploring computers when I was 7, when I got my hands on a QBASIC manual. I have loved writing code and computers ever since. I was a Google Code-in 2018 Grand Prize winner for my contributions to KDE Community, and was invited to visit Go

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Svix (webhooks as a service) is hiring for a founding marketing lead

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 23:00:04

At Svix, we are looking for smart, high-energy and fast learning individuals that enjoy having developers as their users, and share our values. You will have a huge impact on the trajectory of the company and the product. You will be trusted to take ownership, have autonomy, and be a leader. You will get to solve interesting problems and technical challenges. We move fast, and speed of execution is one of our core values. We are obsessed with providing a great developer experience, and you will

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‘Unidentified Floating Object’ Causes Confusion off Swedish Coast

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-19 23:05:47

Well, here’s something you don’t find floating in the water every day: a giant piece of metal from an offshore wind turbine. The Swedish coast guard recently identified the so-called UFO—and it’s the second rogue object spotted within a month. Last week, the Swedish Coast Guard received a tip about a mysterious UFO, in this case an “unidentified floating object,” bobbing up and down near the country’s border with Norway. The Marine Corps and the Smögen Sea Rescue Company expressed their concern

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Mophie Made the Ultimate Charging Stand for All Your AirPods

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-10-19 23:20:44

IFA 2025 is chock full of RGB-bleeding gaming laptops, cassette tape Bluetooth boomboxes, Nvidia AI computing (gotta have that), and, of course, this Max Headphones Charging Stand from reputable accessory maker Mophie. Unlike the thousands of other charging stands available to buy from every brand under the sun, this one actually does something different that I’ve not seen before: it charges both a pair of AirPods Max and a pair of AirPods or AirPods Pro. Mophie says it’s the “first dedicated c

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Taylor Swift's Engagement Post Broke One Instagram Record and Is Still Climbing the Most-Liked List

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 23:00:00

Nobody is shaking this off: Pop superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram just over a week ago, and the likes exploded like pyrotechnics at a concert. The post broke Instagram's record for reposts (though to be fair, reposting just started on Instagram in August). Still, the post hit 1 million reposts in less than 6 hours and earned 14 million likes in the first hour. By Wednesday this week, it had topped 36 million likes, vault

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Court reinstates fired FTC Democrat, says Trump ignored Supreme Court precedent

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-19 23:05:00

A Democrat who was fired from the Federal Trade Commission by President Trump was reinstated to her position yesterday in an appeals court ruling. Trump's firing of Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter violated Supreme Court precedent, said yesterday's ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A District Court judge ruled the same way in July, but Slaughter couldn't get back to work because of an administrative stay that delayed the lower-court ruling from taking

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James Gunn’s Superman sequel is coming in 2027

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-10-19 23:31:50

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. James Gunn has been coy about his plans for a follow-up to this year’s excellent Superman movie, but the writer / director is finally sharing some concrete news about what’s next for the Man of Steel. Gunn announced in an Instagram post today that

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Mophie adds wireless charging to the AirPods Max with a clever new stand

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-19 23:33:29

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Mophie has announced a new wireless charger for Apple’s AirPods Max called the Max Headphones Charging Stand. The AirPods Max don’t support wireless charging, so Mophie’s new stand relies on a small dongle that stays connected to the headphones’ USB-C port at

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Why the US government is taking a stake in Intel

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-19 23:22:36

The Trump administration wants the United States to be the dominant force when it comes to artificial intelligence, and one way the administration hopes to achieve primacy is by bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. To help with that transition, President Donald Trump has introduced potential chip tariffs and policies in recent months meant to bring more semiconductor manufacturing stateside. In late August, the Trump administration took an unprecedented step toward that goal w

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Instagram launches official iPad app, now available on App Store

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-20 03:15:48

The day has finally arrived: Instagram for iPad is here. Though it seemed like it might never happen, the popular social media app now offers an official iPadOS version. Here are the details. Instagram for iPad rolling out to all users now Instagram’s iPad app is now rolling out to all users on the App Store. As you might expect, it includes access to your feed, stories, and most of the features you would expect. But Instagram has built its iPad app with a special emphasis on Reels. From th

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SaaS giant Workiva discloses data breach after Salesforce attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-20 03:40:44

Workiva, a leading cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) provider, notified its customers that attackers who gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) system stole some of their data. The company's cloud software helps collect, connect, and share data for financial reports, compliance, and audits. It had 6,305 customers at the end of last year and reported revenues of $739 million in 2024. Its customer list includes 85% of the Fortune 500 companies and high-profi

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Police disrupts Streameast, largest pirated sports streaming network

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-20 03:45:09

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and Egyptian authorities have shut down Streameast, the world's largest illegal live sports streaming network, and arrested two people allegedly associated with the operation. Streameast, operational since 2018, was a free streaming service supported by advertisements, providing access to HD streams from licensed broadcasters. Streameast reportedly operates 80 domains, which collectively receive 136 million monthly visits. In the past year, t

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