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Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 17:26:07

WhatsApp’s former head of cybersecurity filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that parent company Meta disregarded internal flaws in the app’s digital defenses and exposed billions of its users. He says the company systematically violated cybersecurity regulations and retaliated against him for reporting the failures. Attaullah Baig, who served as head of security for WhatsApp from 2021 to 2025, claims that approximately 1,500 engineers had unrestricted access to user data without proper oversight

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Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 16:35:46

Not too long ago, AWS dropped something new: S3 Vectors. It’s their first attempt at a vector storage solution, letting you store and query vector embeddings for semantic search right inside Amazon S3. At a glance, it looks like a lightweight vector database running on top of low-cost object storage—at a price point that is clearly attractive compared to many dedicated vector database solutions. amazon s3 vectors.png Naturally, this sparked a lot of hot takes. I’ve seen folks on social media

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Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-04 21:26:02

Over the past year, Meta has blanketed TV screens around the world with commercials touting the privacy of Whatsapp, its encrypted messenger with a monthly user base of 3 billion people. “It’s private,” one ad campaign featuring the former cast of the Modern Family TV show says. “On Whatsapp, no one can see or hear your personal messages … not even us,” a different series of ads declares. “Serious risks to user data” On Monday, the former head of security for the Meta-owed messaging app filed

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America is in a serious jobs slump

news.ycombinator.com Alicia Wallace 2025-10-04 23:48:15

Job market See all topics Follow Employment gains were so weak in the July jobs report that President Donald Trump fired the head of the bureau charged with collecting the data, baselessly claiming it was rigged. But fresh figures out Wednesday show that those meager job totals weren’t an anomaly: For the first time in more than four years, there are fewer open jobs than there are job seekers. “This is a turning point for the labor market,” Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit

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Lovesac confirms data breach after ransomware attack claims

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-05 05:24:25

American furniture brand Lovesac is warning that it suffered a data breach impacting an undisclosed number of individuals, stating their personal data was exposed in a cybersecurity incident. Lovesac is a furniture designer, manufacturer, and retailer, operating 267 showrooms across the United States, and having annual net sales of $750 million. They are best known for their modular couch systems called 'sactionals,' as well as their bean bags called 'sacs.' According to the notices sent to i

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Pinecone founder Edo Liberty discusses why the next big AI breakthrough starts with search at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-05 05:35:00

AI needs a better brain — and Edo Liberty is building it. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Pinecone founder and CEO Edo Liberty will explain why the next wave of AI-native apps won’t be driven by bigger models, but by smarter search. With 10,000+ startup and VC leaders expected in San Francisco from October 27–29, this fireside chat and presentation is a must-attend moment. The future of AI isn’t more data — it’s better retrieval As AI beco

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VC giant Insight Partners notifies staff and limited partners after data breach

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-05 05:56:04

Venture capital firm Insight Partners says it has completed notifying a number of individuals, including the firm’s limited partners, whose personal information was stolen by hackers in a January data breach. In a statement late last week, the company said it completed its review in August following the data breach, which it described as a “social engineering attack” without further explanation. According to its earlier notice, the stolen data included information about certain Insight Partner

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Will Amazon S3 Vectors Kill Vector Databases–Or Save Them?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 12:35:46

Not too long ago, AWS dropped something new: S3 Vectors. It’s their first attempt at a vector storage solution, letting you store and query vector embeddings for semantic search right inside Amazon S3. At a glance, it looks like a lightweight vector database running on top of low-cost object storage—at a price point that is clearly attractive compared to many dedicated vector database solutions. amazon s3 vectors.png Naturally, this sparked a lot of hot takes. I’ve seen folks on social media

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Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 13:24:33

September 8, 2025 Have you heard of 996? It’s the demanding work schedule that calls for working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week. Apparently, it’s the new thing in the San Francisco tech scene, and it’s all anyone can talk about (search Twitter). So far, this has been a story based on vibes, not data. But I looked at Ramp transaction data and found 996 is real. San Francisco-based employees are increasingly working on Saturdays, and it’s already showing up in spend trends. The chart above

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Salesloft: March GitHub repo breach led to Salesforce data theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-05 17:43:30

Salesloft says attackers first breached its GitHub account in March, leading to the theft of Drift OAuth tokens later used in widespread Salesforce data theft attacks in August. Salesloft is a widely used sales engagement platform that helps companies manage outreach and customer communications. Its Drift platform is a conversational marketing tool that integrates chatbots and automation into sales pipelines, including integrations with platforms like Salesforce. The two have been at the cente

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Databricks confirms new $100B valuation on $4B ARR

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-05 17:33:26

In Brief Just nine months after raising a whopping $10 billion (plus $5 billion in debt) in January, Databricks has confirmed another $1 billion raise at a $100 billion valuation. When rumors of the raise first broke last month, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi told TechCrunch that the company is using the funds to invest in its Supabase-competitor database for AI agents. “A year ago, we saw in the data that 30% of the databases were not created by humans,” said Ghodsi. “For the first time, they wer

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2025 Innovator of the Year: Sneha Goenka for developing an ultra-fast sequencing technology

technologyreview.com Helen Thomson 2025-10-06 13:30:00

Goenka saw a better way: Build a real-time system that could “stream” the sequencing data, analyzing it as it was being generated, like streaming a film on Netflix rather than downloading it to watch later. To do this, she designed a cloud computing architecture to pull in more processing power. Goenka’s first challenge was to increase the speed at which her team could upload the raw data for processing, by streamlining the requests between the sequencer and the cloud to avoid unnecessary “chat

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I Hate My AI Friend

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-10-06 13:30:00

Schiffmann seems to be doing well, compared to the last times either of us spoke to him. When he first announced the Friend, he talked about how he had come up with the idea for an AI buddy while traveling alone and yearning for companionship. Schiffmann posits himself as older now, wiser, more experienced than he was when he first debuted the Friend necklace. (He is 22.) He has grown out his hair and cultivated a beard, and he seems to have more real-life personal connections than when he first

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Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 02:16:30

Keeping Secrets Out of Logs tl;dr: There's no silver bullet, but if we put some "lead" bullets in the right places, we have a good shot at keeping sensitive data out of logs. "This is the blog version of a talk I gave at LocoMocoSec 2024. It’s mostly a lightly edited transcript with some screenshots, so if you’d prefer, you can watch the "This is the blog version of a talk I gave at LocoMocoSec 2024. It’s mostly a lightly edited transcript with some screenshots, so if you’d prefer, you can wat

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Czech cyber agency warns against Chinese tech in critical infrastructure

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-06 03:09:19

The Czech Republic's National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NUKIB) is instructing critical infrastructure organizations in the country to avoid using Chinese technology or transferring user data to servers located in China. The agency warned that these actions constitute a significant cybersecurity threat and should be entirely avoided unless there's a reasonable justification for continuing the practice. The NUKIB states that it has re-evaluated its risk estimate of significant disru

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Electric bill may be paying for big data centers' energy use

news.ycombinator.com Ari Peskoe 2025-10-06 07:50:03

In the race to develop artificial intelligence, large technology companies such as Google and Meta are trying to secure massive amounts of electricity to power new data centers. Electric utilities see the prospect of earning large profits by providing electricity to these power-hungry facilities and are competing for their business by offering discounts not available to average consumers. In our paper Extracting Profits from the Public, we explain how utilities are forcing regular ratepayers to

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The race to build a distributed GPU runtime

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 09:18:47

For a decade, GPUs have delivered breathtaking data processing speedups. However, data is growing far beyond the capacity of a single GPU server. When your work drifts beyond GPU local memory or VRAM (e.g., HBM and GDDR), hidden costs of inefficiencies show up: spilling to host, shuffling over networks, and idling accelerators. Before jumping straight into the latest distributed computing effort underway at NVIDIA and AMD, let’s quickly level set on what distributed computing is, how it works, a

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Tech Tanks in Latest Jobs Report As New States Try to Attract Them

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-06 02:20:00

Last week’s disappointing jobs report showed U.S. job growth stalled significantly in August, with just 22,000 new jobs added, and an unemployment rate that has risen to 4.3%. It was the worst August report since the pandemic and the market treated it accordingly, welcoming it for the potential rate cuts it may herald but wary of the slower growth it may portend. “The labor market is showing signs of cracking,” Heather Long, Navy Federal Credit Union senior economist, wrote in a note to invest

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Tech Tanks in Latest Jobs Report As Most States Struggle to Keep Them

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-06 07:20:00

Last week’s disappointing jobs report showed U.S. job growth stalled significantly in August, with just 22,000 new jobs added, and an unemployment rate that has risen to 4.3%. It was the worst August report since the pandemic and the market treated it accordingly, welcoming it for the potential rate cuts it may herald but wary of the slower growth it may portend. “The labor market is showing signs of cracking,” Heather Long, Navy Federal Credit Union senior economist, wrote in a note to invest

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SQLite's File Format

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 20:36:03

This document describes and defines the on-disk database file format used by all releases of SQLite since version 3.0.0 (2004-06-18). 1. The Database File The complete state of an SQLite database is usually contained in a single file on disk called the "main database file". During a transaction, SQLite stores additional information in a second file called the "rollback journal", or if SQLite is in WAL mode, a write-ahead log file. 1.1. Hot Journals If the application or host computer crashe

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Researchers Discover 18 Popular VPNs Are Connected: Why This Matters

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 13:27:11

Virtual private networks are popular ways to keep your online activity private and hide your physical location from your internet service provider and apps. But it's obviously important to choose a safe and secure VPN. Three university researchers have discovered that 18 of the most widely used VPNs have shared infrastructures with serious security flaws that could expose customers' browsing activity and leave their systems vulnerable to corrupted data. These VPNs are among the top 100 most pop

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Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-07 01:27:47

Dot, an AI companion app that aimed to be a friend and confidante, is shutting down, the company announced on Friday. On a message published on its website, the startup behind Dot, New Computer, said that the product will remain operational until October 5, giving users time to download their data. Launched in 2024 by co-founders Sam Whitmore and former Apple designer Jason Yuan, Dot waded into what’s now become a more controversial area for AI chatbots. The app they created was described as an

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Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 07:14:51

Apertus Table of Contents Model Summary Apertus is a 70B and 8B parameter language model designed to push the boundaries of fully-open multilingual and transparent models. The model supports over 1000 languages and long context, it uses only fully compliant and open training data, and achieves comparable performance to models trained behind closed doors. The model is a decoder-only transformer, pretrained on 15T tokens with a staged curriculum of web, code and math data. The model uses a new

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Data modeling guide for real-time analytics with ClickHouse

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 04:51:27

This article was written as part of my services Querying billions of weather records and getting results in under 200 milliseconds isn’t theory; it’s what real-time analytics solutions provide. Processing streaming IoT data from thousands of sensors while delivering real-time dashboards with no lag is what certain business domains need. That’s what you’ll learn at the end of this guide through building a ClickHouse-modeled analytics use case. You’ll learn how to land data in ClickHouse that is

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Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 07:25:10

I’ve spent a good deal of my professional life arguing against using protobuffers. They’re clearly written by amateurs, unbelievably ad-hoc, mired in gotchas, tricky to compile, and solve a problem that nobody but Google really has. If these problems of protobuffers remained quarantined in serialization abstractions, my complaints would end there. But unfortunately, the bad design of protobuffers is so persuasive that these problems manage to leak their way into your code as well. Ad-Hoc and Bu

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Financial services firm Wealthsimple discloses data breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 17:36:48

Wealthsimple, a leading Canadian online investment management service, has disclosed a data breach after attackers stole the personal data of an undisclosed number of customers in a recent incident. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toronto, the financial services firm holds over CAD$84.5 billion in assets (approximately $61 billion). It offers a wide range of financial products targeting investments, trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending, and savings to over 3 million Canadians. We

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Scale AI’s former CTO launches AI agent that could solve big data’s biggest problem

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-07 17:00:00

Isotopes AI came out of stealth on Thursday with a healthy $20 million seed round. It offers an AI agent to solve a problem that data analytics products have struggled with for decades: The people who know how to run the big data infrastructure are not the ones who actually need to use the data. With LLMs, business managers can ask questions of their data in natural language. Isotopes’ agent, Aidnn, can provide answers and draft complex planning documents, gathering data from wherever it’s sto

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Data Modeling Guide for Real-Time Analytics with ClickHouse

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 00:51:27

This article was written as part of my services Querying billions of weather records and getting results in under 200 milliseconds isn’t theory; it’s what real-time analytics solutions provide. Processing streaming IoT data from thousands of sensors while delivering real-time dashboards with no lag is what certain business domains need. That’s what you’ll learn at the end of this guide through building a ClickHouse-modeled analytics use case. You’ll learn how to land data in ClickHouse that is

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ChatGPT Glossary: 56 AI Terms Everyone Should Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 00:23:03

AI is rapidly changing the world around us. It's eliminating jobs and flooding the internet with slop. Thanks to the massive popularity of ChatGPT to Google cramming AI summaries at the top of its search results, AI is completely taking over the internet. With AI, you can get instant answers to pretty much any question. It can feel like talking to someone who has a doctoral degree in everything. But that aspect of AI chatbots is only one part of the AI landscape. Sure, having ChatGPT help do yo

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SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

news.ycombinator.com Lindsay Clark 2025-10-08 12:13:25

SAP says it will pump €20 billion into expanding sovereign cloud infrastructure in Europe over the next ten years, pitching itself as a secure and compliant alternative to American cloud giants. The Germany-based enterprise software biz is looking to provide sovereign infrastructure for the public sector and regulated environments, said Thomas Saueressig, board member for customer services and delivery. Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty READ MORE "With our expanded SAP S

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Latest Tech News

Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users

Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?

Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult”

America is in a serious jobs slump

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Pinecone founder Edo Liberty discusses why the next big AI breakthrough starts with search at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

VC giant Insight Partners notifies staff and limited partners after data breach

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Salesloft: March GitHub repo breach led to Salesforce data theft attacks

Databricks confirms new $100B valuation on $4B ARR

2025 Innovator of the Year: Sneha Goenka for developing an ultra-fast sequencing technology

I Hate My AI Friend

Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)

Czech cyber agency warns against Chinese tech in critical infrastructure

Electric bill may be paying for big data centers' energy use

The race to build a distributed GPU runtime

Tech Tanks in Latest Jobs Report As New States Try to Attract Them

Tech Tanks in Latest Jobs Report As Most States Struggle to Keep Them

SQLite's File Format

Researchers Discover 18 Popular VPNs Are Connected: Why This Matters

Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down

Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS

Data modeling guide for real-time analytics with ClickHouse

Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)

Financial services firm Wealthsimple discloses data breach

Scale AI’s former CTO launches AI agent that could solve big data’s biggest problem

Data Modeling Guide for Real-Time Analytics with ClickHouse

ChatGPT Glossary: 56 AI Terms Everyone Should Know

SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

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