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Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

news.ycombinator.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-11-23 21:30:57

As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for medical marijuana cards have had to share particularly personal health data to qualify. For some patients in Ohio who use medical weed, a recent data exposure could impact their sensitive information. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database in mid-July that appeare

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The new geography of stolen goods

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 08:29:13

Britain | Grand Theft Global Inc The new geography of stolen goods Cars, phones, tractors: how high-end products are increasingly stolen to serve distant markets T he MSC Ruby is almost ready to leave Felixstowe. Seven remote-controlled gantry cranes are still at work, stacking containers in the ship’s bays. Some 11,000 containers pass through this port each day, making it Britain’s primary conduit to the arteries of global trade. The Ruby’s next call is Gran Canaria—then, the long run down th

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Researchers Find Strange Link Between Marathon Running and Cancer

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-23 22:50:30

Some of the most physically fit people in the world may have a unique health risk. New research uncovers a possible link between marathon running and colorectal cancer. Oncologists at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Virginia conducted the study, which examined the colons of relatively young people who had run several long-distance races. They found these runners had a much higher rate of having potentially dangerous adenomas (a type of polyp) than would be expected for their age. Though the

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Battlestar Galactica might finally get the video game adaption it deserves

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-24 03:00:32

In the 16 years since Ronald D. Moore's take on Battlestar Galactica ended its official TV run in 2009, the most surprising thing about the series is that it hasn't inspired many great games. Sure, more than a few releases have carried the Battlestar Galactica name, but none of those have managed to capture what made the 2003 miniseries and later 2004 show so special. That might change early next year when Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes arrives. Ahead of today's announcement of the game,

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Giving people money helped less than I thought it would

news.ycombinator.com Kelsey Piper 2025-11-23 23:13:15

U.S. singer Eartha Kitt is seen at the end of the Poor People March, on June 19, 1968, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by ARNOLD SACHS/AFP via Getty Images) Just give people money. It's the simple, brute-force solution to so many problems. In low-income countries, charities are sometimes measured against whether their interventions are better than simply giving people cash. Even in high-income countries like the U.S., when disaster strikes, often the best thing you can do is get money into the hands

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AnduinOS

news.ycombinator.com Anduin Xue 2025-11-24 03:42:25

What kind of applications can I run on AnduinOS? AnduinOS is based on Ubuntu's package base. Any software that runs on Ubuntu that can run on AnduinOS. You can run a variety of applications, including but not limited to: Linux apps, web apps, and even Windows apps using Wine. AnduinOS uses Flatpak to manage graphical applications. Flatpak is a software utility for software deployment, application virtualization, and package management. It allows you to run applications in a sandboxed environ

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The West Texas measles outbreak has ended

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-24 03:30:52

A large measles outbreak in Texas that has affected 762 people has now ended, according to an announcement Monday by the Texas Department of State Health Services. The agency says it has been more than 42 days since a new case was reported in any of the counties that previously showed evidence of ongoing transmission. The outbreak has contributed to the worst year for measles cases in the United States in more than 30 years. As of August 5, the most recent update from the Centers for Disease Co

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PNY’s Overclocked RTX 5070 Ti Is Finally Selling at Retail

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-11-24 03:17:18

If you've been hunting for a new GPU, you already know that getting one for its suggested retail price isn't guaranteed. High demand, low supply, and a constantly shifting economic space have caused the new 50 Series graphics cards to hit the market well above the expected price, at least at launch. Thankfully, the situation seems to be stabilizing a bit, as indicated by this deal on PNY's overclocked example of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, which is available on Amazon for its MSRP of $750. Even be

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CRLite: Certificate Revocation Checking in Firefox

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow 2025-11-24 06:18:27

Firefox is now the first and the only browser to deploy fast and comprehensive certificate revocation checking that does not reveal your browsing activity to anyone (not even to Mozilla). Tens of millions of TLS server certificates are issued each day to secure communications between browsers and websites. These certificates are the cornerstones of ubiquitous encryption and a key part of our vision for the web. While a certificate can be valid for up to 398 days, it can also be revoked at any p

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A renovation project in Turkey led to the discovery of a lost city (2023)

news.ycombinator.com April White 2025-11-24 05:34:55

We live cheek by jowl with undiscovered worlds. Sometimes the barriers that separate us are thick, sometimes they’re thin, and sometimes they’re breached. That’s when a wardrobe turns into a portal to Narnia, a rabbit hole leads to Wonderland, and a Raquel Welch poster is all that separates a prison cell from the tunnel to freedom. A Fateful Swing of the Hammer Those are all fictional examples. But in 1963, that barrier was breached for real. Taking a sledgehammer to a wall in his basement, a

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Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-11-24 08:15:29

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children. As of late last month, the investigation—led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia—had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees and 18 involving children. The accounts of abuse span facilities in 25 states and include Pu

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CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in 4 years

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 12:16:22

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Billie Piper Wanted to Go American for ‘Wednesday’ Because She’s Tired of Playing Brits

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-24 12:00:00

The iconic Bad Wolf from Doctor Who has been playing a mysterious werewolf music teacher in Wednesday season two, and viewers have been left wondering what Billie Piper has up her flowy sleeves on the show. She, alongside whoever Lady Gaga will be playing when the Netflix show returns, remains another intriguing new addition to the show’s stacked ensemble. Piper’s turn as Isadora Capri marks a departure for the actress, whom director Tim Burton cast as a former child prodigy not too unlike Wedn

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New York City Is Stuck With a $45 Million EV Fleet That’s Glitchy as Hell

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-24 12:50:14

There’s going green for the sake of the planet, and then there’s going green as part of a policy initiative that winds up buying a bunch of glitch-plagued electric vehicles from a company that went bankrupt and can no longer service them. The latter is the exact story of a New York-based company called American Lease, which has spent around $45 million for 2,800 cars from Fisker, a now-dead EV startup that only made 11,000 of that model in its short life anyway, and is now using them as part of

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Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-11-24 12:14:22

As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for medical marijuana cards have had to share particularly personal health data to qualify. For some patients in Ohio who use medical weed, a recent data exposure could impact their sensitive information. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database in mid-July that appeare

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Launch HN: Parachute (YC S25) – Guardrails for Clinical AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 16:53:11

Hi HN, Aria and Tony here, co-founders of Parachute ( https://www.parachute-ai.com/ ). We’re building governance infrastructure that lets hospitals safely evaluate and monitor clinical AI at scale. Hospitals are racing to adopt AI. More than 2,000 clinical AI tools hit the U.S. market last year - from ambient scribes to imaging models. But new regulations (HTI-1, Colorado AI Act, California SB 3030, White House AI Action Plan) require auditable proof that these models are safe, fair, and contin

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Possible Local Malaria Case Found in New Jersey. Here’s What to Know

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-24 17:10:15

A once-vanquished disease spread by mosquitoes may be making inroads into the United States. New Jersey officials are now investigating whether a resident’s malaria infection was locally acquired. The New Jersey Departments of Health (NJDOH) and Environmental Protection reported on the case Monday. The resident hadn’t recently traveled, suggesting they likely caught it from homegrown mosquitoes. If so, this would be the first locally acquired malaria case seen in the state in over three decades

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How to clear your iPhone cache (and why you should do it before the iOS 26 update)

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-11-24 22:25:24

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Clearing your iPhone cache effectively refreshes the system memory. It's recommended to do so regularly, but you especially should when your phone feels sluggish. There are steps you can take to clear cache from Safari, Chrome, and other browsers. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. You might not be thinking about it every day, but clearing your iPhone's browsing cache can greatly

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This $200 Android phone with a paper-like display made my Pixel look overbearing

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-11-24 22:25:28

TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G ZDNET's key takeaways TCL's 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G is on sale on Amazon for $222. It has a unique display, and a feature set that promotes minimalism and digital well-being. I just wish the camera system and general performance were better. $249.99 at Amazon Being glued to your smartphone's screen all day can do a number on your eyes, and I definitely can feel it. TCL's Nxtpaper technology offers a paper-like screen that's made for tired eyes like mine. The TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper

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Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 23:49:51

Todays candles have been optimized for millenia not to flicker. But it turns out when we bundle three of them together, we can undo all of these optimizations and the resulting triplet will start to naturally oscillate. A fascinating fact is that the oscillation frequency is rather stable at ~9.9Hz as it mainly depends on gravity and diameter of the flame. We use a rather unusual approach based on a wire suspended in the flame, that can sense capacitance changes caused by the ionized gases in t

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Forecasters Warn of 100-Foot Waves as Hurricane Erin Brushes the East Coast

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-24 22:45:06

The National Hurricane Center expects Hurricane Erin to grow in size as it creeps up the Eastern Seaboard this week, hammering coastal communities with potentially deadly storm surge and rip currents. Erin, one of the fastest rapidly intensifying Atlantic storms on record, is a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour (175 kilometers per hour) as of 8:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, August 19, according to the NHC. Forecasters don’t expect Erin to make landfall in the U.S.

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Apple now fully supports DIY device repairs in Canada

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-25 03:55:12

If you prefer to do your own repairs of Apple devices or to use independent shops, then it’s now easier to do so in Canada. Apple has today brought its self-service repair and genuine parts distributor programs to the country … DIY Apple device repairs Apple spent many years fighting right-to-repair legislation, spending money to lobby against it at both state and federal levels, either trying to block it altogether or – if it couldn’t manage that – to weaken the legislation as much as possib

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Critical Cache Poisoning Vulnerability in Dnsmasq

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 02:56:47

[Dnsmasq-discuss] [Security Report] Critical Cache Poisoning Vulnerability in Dnsmasq Dear Dnsmasq Security Team, We would like to responsibly disclose a critical cache poisoning vulnerability affecting the Dnsmasq DNS software. The issue allows attackers to inject arbitrary malicious DNS resource records and poison domain names without requiring advanced techniques, only by leveraging a single special character. Report Summary Vulnerability Type: Logic flaw in cache poisoning defense Affected

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Wireless Power Banks Recalled Over Fires and Explosions—Check the List ASAP

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-25 03:40:36

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Wireless power banks have been recalled for exploding and causing fires. This time, it’s the ESR HaloLock wireless power banks distributed by Waymeet in Hong Kong. The power banks were sold online at Amazon, Home Depot’s website, and Esrtech.com from September 2023 to July 2025, according to a press release from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. “The firm has received nine reports of the lithium-ion battery catching fire and exploding, result

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The POCO Carnival 2025 brings fun games, social media challenges, and massive discounts

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-25 08:46:38

Starting as an independent brand under the Xiaomi Corporation in 2018, POCO quickly made a name for itself as a key player in the smartphone world, now reaching over 98 countries worldwide. One of the main reasons for its rapid success is POCO’s focus on appealing to a younger audience of smartphone enthusiasts. With its vibrant, eye-catching, and cool designs that truly stand out among the usual boring slabs, POCO offers a wide range of gaming, entertainment, and performance-focused phones, al

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iPhone 17 Pro case line may have new leather alternative after flawed FineWoven

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-25 08:12:43

It’s been a while since Apple dropped leather and replaced it with FineWoven — only to mostly drop FineWoven over customer feedback. Now leaker Majin Bu says Apple has yet another leather alternative ready to go for the iPhone 17 case lineup. To recap, Apple stopped selling all leather products, including iPhone cases and Apple Watch bands, in an effort to be more eco-friendly and achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. The direct replacement for iPhone cases, Apple Watch bands, and even AirTag hold

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Is the Camera Control button one of the biggest iPhone flops? [Poll]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-25 08:17:55

A random report from an account with zero track-record for anything claims that the iPhone 18 will drop the Camera Control button as too few people are using it. The claim is entirely meaningless, but I strongly suspect that it’s right in one respect: that hardly anyone is using the feature … The Camera Control button was introduced in the two iPhone 16 Pro models a little under a year ago, and Apple made a pretty big deal of it at the time. A hardware control was something I’d wished for pri

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NY Business Council discloses data breach affecting 47,000 people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-25 08:04:08

The Business Council of New York State (BCNYS) has revealed that attackers who breached its network in February stole the personal, financial, and health information of over 47,000 individuals. As the state's largest statewide employer association, BCNYS represents over 3,000 member organizations, including chambers of commerce, professional and trade associations, and other local and regional business organizations, as well as some of the largest corporations worldwide, which employ more than

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An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 06:48:35

After 25 years, I still love Undernet, and I still chat there every day. Most of the friends I made back in the 90s aren't around anymore, but I still get to meet new and interesting people all the time, and I love the group of amazing friends I have there today. And it was one of them who suggested this project... Now, I grew up in a rural area of the southern US, and I had never been out of the South, but on Undernet, I met people in other states, other countries, even other continents! I mad

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‘Skibidi,’ ‘Tradwife,’ and 6,000 Other New Words Are in the Dictionary Now

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-25 08:45:07

Before you roll your eyes at the Gen Alpha in your life for using made-up words, you might want to check the latest update to the dictionary. Cambridge University announced that its most recent revisions to the Cambridge Dictionary add 6,000 new words, including a slew of internet-pilled ones like skibidi, tradwife, and delulu. “It’s not every day you get to see words like skibidi and delulu make their way into the Cambridge Dictionary. We only add words where we think they’ll have staying powe

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Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

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