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UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-19 08:36:46

A 26-year old in the UK who claimed to have hacked thousands of websites was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year. Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky of Rotherham, UK, was arrested in 2022 based on information received from U.S. law enforcement and charged for stealing log in details of millions of Facebook users, and hacking websites belonging to the government in Yemen, an Israeli news outlet, and organizations in the U.S. and Canada. Al-Mashriky pleaded guilty to the

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Image Fulgurator (2011)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 10:26:08

The flash projects the image on the slide through the lens and onto the object. This action is triggered by a built-in sensor that recognises flashes from nearby cameras. That way, the projection can automatically be synchronised with the moment of exposure of any nearby camera using a flash. The Image Fulgurator is housed in a regular single reflex camera case since most of the camera’s elements were re-used for the construction of the Image Fulgurator. This makes it possible to unnoticeab

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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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Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-19 12:39:42

A recent ruling from Germany’s Federal Supreme Court (BGH) has revived a legal battle over whether browser-based ad blockers infringe copyright, raising fears about a potential ban of the tools in the country. The case stems from online media company Axel Springer’s lawsuit against Eyeo - the maker of the popular Adblock Plus browser extension. Axel Springer says that ad blockers threaten its revenue generation model and frames website execution inside web browsers as a copyright violation. T

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You can delete sent text messages on Android now - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-19 12:04:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Google Messages now lets you delete a sent text message. A deleted message disappears for the other person immediately. The feature is available now for almost all Android users. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Android users finally have an undo option. A long-awaited feature that lets you delete a sent text message is widely rolling out to most Android devices --

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The weirdest tool I own is also one of the most useful (and it's $10 on Amazon)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-19 12:35:00

The device has a 1080p HD camera with LED lights at the tip. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I have a number of inspection cameras, and they're fantastic for getting eyes into places that you normally can't get to. But they're typically large and bulky, designed for mechanics and HVAC engineers, which limits their usability when it comes to inspecting device ports or probing around cracks and crevices looking for a lost fastener. Also: I replaced my MacBook charger with this compact wall unit - a

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The Mandarin Strikes In Hasbro’s Newest Marvel Legends Reveal

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-19 12:00:48

The Mandarin is one of Iron Man’s oldest foes, with a history in the comics as long as it is fraught. But while the character has been adapted multiple times over the course of the MCU—first more controversially with Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery character in Iron Man 3, then as Tony Leung’s Xu Wenwu in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings—and earned himself a few action figures from Hasbro inspired by those appearances along the way, the toymaker has yet to bring a comics version of the v

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Show HN: A Minimal Hacker News Reader for Apple Watch Built with SwiftUI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 17:22:48

HackerNewsWatch (watchOS) A minimal Hacker News reader for Apple Watch built with SwiftUI. Scrollable top stories feed with title, points, and comments count Tap a story to view comments in a simple tree-style view "Open Article" link at the top opens the article in the watch browser HN-like styling (orange accent) Requirements Xcode 15 or newer macOS with command line tools Homebrew (for XcodeGen) or install XcodeGen manually Generate the Xcode project ./scripts/generate.sh This wil

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FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 16:39:53

Welcome to the FFmpeg School of Assembly Language. You have taken the first step on the most interesting, challenging, and rewarding journey in programming. These lessons will give you a grounding in the way assembly language is written in FFmpeg and open your eyes to what's actually going on in your computer. Required Knowledge Knowledge of C, in particular pointers. If you don't know C, work through The C Programming Language book High School Mathematics (scalar vs vector, addition, multipl

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Grammarly says its AI agent can predict an A paper

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-19 16:00:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Grammarly is launching several new AI agents for specific writing challenges, from educators trying to detect plagiarism and AI-generated text to students looking to gauge reader reaction to their paper, needing help with citations, and even seeing their predicted grade. The specialized AI agents are available in docs — which is Grammarly’s new “AI-native writing surface,” according to the company’s press re

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Grammarly's new AI agents can detect AI text and find citations for you - automatically

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-19 22:00:18

Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Grammarly's new AI agents are designed to provide assistance without prompting. They're geared toward students and professional development. Grammarly says agents will become a major focus for the company. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Professional writers have long relied on literary agents to help with the publication and sale of their wor

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A question for the ages: Is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall a good game?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-19 22:25:35

C:\ArsGames We love games here at the Ars Orbiting HQ, from modern to ancient and all points in between. With that in mind, we've partnered with the folks at GOG.com to create a store page featuring a hand-curated list of some of our favorites from GOG's catalog. At the end of every month, we'll rotate a couple of titles off the list and add a few new ones; all together, we have a list of about 50 games to set in front of you. Twice a month, we'll publish a personal retrospective like this one,

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Grammarly gets a design overhaul, multiple AI features

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-19 22:00:00

Grammarly now has a new document-based interface, built on the back of Coda, the productivity startup it acquired last year. The interface also sports an AI assistant, as well as a few AI tools meant for students and professionals, including an AI grader, proofreader and citation finder. The new interface adopts a block-first approach, letting you insert tables, columns, separators, lists and headers. You can also add rich text blocks to highlight information, add tips, or alerts. A sidebar ho

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Google Photos is getting Tinder’s swipe mechanic (wait, what?)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-19 22:06:39

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is letting some users clean up their cloud storage with a Tinder-style interface. Users can swipe left to delete large files and blurry photos or swipe right to keep them. This seems to be a limited release for now, and there’s seemingly no way to activate it. Google Photos offers a few ways to claw back cloud storage. One option available in the app is the ability to review and delete blurry photos and large files. Now, it looks like G

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This could be my new PDF scanner app once Microsoft Lens is taken away

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 03:09:53

Andy Walker / Android Authority If Microsoft Lens were a coin, I’d likely find it lurking between the couch cushions. It’s one of those apps that I forgot was installed on my device, but I was always glad to see it whenever I needed to scan receipts, invoices, menus, random documents, or business cards, extract their text, and convert the result into my preferred file type. Unfortunately, we can’t have nice things. So, as it was one of Redmond’s most functional and reliable Android apps, Lens

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LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare

news.ycombinator.com Gary Marcus 2025-11-20 02:04:34

Last October, I wrote an essay called “When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese — and that’s going to cause huge problems” warning that “The more people use LLMs, the more trouble we are going to be in”. Until last week, when I went to Black Hat Las Vegas, I had no earthly idea how serious the problems were. There, I got to know Nathan Hamiel, a Senior Director of Research at Kudelski Security and the AI, ML, and Data Science track lead for Black Hat, and also sat in on a talk by tw

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Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

technologyreview.com Ben Crair 2025-11-20 12:00:00

People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by authors like Isaac Asimov or thought experiments like the Turing test. But an equally important, if surprising and less appreciated, forerunner is Skinner’s research with pigeons in the middle of the 20th century. Skinner believed that association—learning, through trial and error, to link an action with a punishment or reward—was the building block of every behavior, not just in pigeons but in all living

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Last-minute Google leak reveals brand-new 67W charger, cheaper Pixelsnap stand, and pricier cases

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 11:00:31

Evan Blass TL;DR A last-minute retailer leak reveals that Google has a new 67W dual-port power adapter coming. It also appears the new “Pixelsnap” charger and stand combo will be cheaper than the old Pixel Stand 2. The new cases with embedded magnets are getting a slight price increase. The Google Pixel 10, Pixel Watch 4, and more will be unveiled this week, and we know almost everything there is to know about them thanks to numerous leaks. While that’s nothing new, it happens every year, so

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After using the Galaxy Watch 8, there’s one feature I hope Google steals for the Pixel Watch 4

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 11:00:50

Joe Maring / Android Authority It’s a damn good time right now to be a smartwatch fan. Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 series recently launched, the Pixel Watch 4 is right around the corner, Wear OS 6 is chock-full of impressive changes, and Gemini has finally replaced Google Assistant on our wrists. The Pixel Watch 4 is expected to arrive on August 20, and it’s shaping up quite nicely. We’ve seen leaks teasing a bigger battery, brighter display, and faster charging (with a funky new charging mechani

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LLMs and Coding Agents = Security Nightmare

news.ycombinator.com Gary Marcus 2025-11-20 14:04:34

Last October, I wrote an essay called “When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese — and that’s going to cause huge problems” warning that “The more people use LLMs, the more trouble we are going to be in”. Until last week, when I went to Black Hat Las Vegas, I had no earthly idea how serious the problems were. There, I got to know Nathan Hamiel, a Senior Director of Research at Kudelski Security and the AI, ML, and Data Science track lead for Black Hat, and also sat in on a talk by tw

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WIRED Takes You Back to School

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-11-20 12:00:00

Young people entering classrooms this fall need a totally different tool set than the generations before them.

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The Best Tech for Back to School

wired.com Gear Team 2025-11-20 12:00:00

This is our favorite budget scooter—it typically sells for right around $400—making it one of our top picks for students. Just know that the Segway E2 Pro isn't going to get you very far. I (Julian) traveled less than 10 miles on a single charge; most people weigh less than I do and can get better range, but 10 miles is probably enough to get you across campus and back. It's heavier than it looks, at 41 pounds, but it's quick to fold down and easy to carry by the stem. I've had no problem cruis

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The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin

news.ycombinator.com Louis Menand 2025-11-20 04:53:21

An interviewer once asked James Baldwin if he’d ever write something without a message. “No writer who ever lived,” Baldwin said, “could have written a line without a message.” This is true. People write because they have something to say. Baldwin had something to say, and he spent his life saying it. But many who thought they got his message didn’t get it at all. Baldwin was high-strung and emotionally labile. He wasn’t exactly charismatic—there was a strangeness about him which he did nothing

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PG Auto Upgrade – Docker (and K8s) container to auto upgrade your database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 17:10:30

pgautoupgrade This is a PostgreSQL Docker image to automatically upgrade your database. Its whole purpose in life is to automatically detect the version of PostgreSQL used in the existing PostgreSQL data directory, then automatically upgrade it (if needed) to the required version of PostgreSQL using pg_upgrade with the --link option. After this, the PostgreSQL server starts and runs as per normal. The old cluster data will be removed. The reason this Docker image is needed, is because the of

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Why Nim?

news.ycombinator.com Basil Ajith 2025-11-19 23:28:29

You might have heard of the line, "one ring to rule them all" from the book the Lord of the Rings. Though, this ring is an evil object created by the evil Sauron, the idea of just one thing existing to manage or control a lot of things at the same time, is something we all long for. We all need that one app which can manage all our tasks. We need that one card that can hold or manage all our credit and debit card information. How we long for a single language for the whole world (by the way thi

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‘Stranger Things’ creators may be leaving Netflix

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-20 08:07:35

Netflix could soon lose the creative team behind one of its biggest hits. Earlier this week, Variety and other Hollywood publications reported that Matt and Ross Duffer, the brothers who created “Stranger Things” (and wrote and directed many episodes), were in talks to sign an exclusive deal with Paramount (now under the ownership of David Ellison’s Skydance). Then on Friday evening, Puck’s Matthew Belloni posted that the Duffers had in fact “made their choice” and were going to Paramount. The

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Car Company Charges Monthly Fee for Its EVs to Drive Faster

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-20 02:30:42

Cars aren't just cars, these days. They have to be stuffed with smartphone-like tech. Maybe it was inevitable, then, that they'd start using the subscription model of a phone app. As Electrek reports, drivers of several Volkswagen EV models will have to pay a monthly fee to unlock the full horsepower of their cars — at least in the UK, though we wouldn't rule out the scheme expanding to other markets. The affected models are the Volkswagen ID.3 and ID.4, which start at 201 horsepower. But if

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ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-20 04:30:42

"I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF." Mass Text US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents accidentally added a random person to a mass group text in which officers from multiple federal law enforcement agencies discussed extremely sensitive information about arrests, targets, and strategy. As 404 Media reports, the group text was titled "Mass Text" and included an unredacted ICE document titled "Field Operations Worksheet." The document included "detaile

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5 password managers you should use instead of LastPass

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 02:00:30

Joe Hindy / Android Authority There was a time when LastPass was THE password manager everyone should be using. That statement still stands, but with one small twist: LastPass is now the number one password manager everyone should stay far away from. The reason for this? Multiple rounds of leaks and a series of security vulnerabilities. Give LastPass a hard pass, because there are so many better options available — ones that are both more secure and convenient — you’ll wonder why you didn’t sw

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Google is adding "Projects" feature to Gemini to run research tasks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-20 06:38:29

Google's Gemini is now testing a new feature called "Projects." This will be similar to OpenAI's Project Feature for ChatGPT. With Projects, you can add files, documents or your code. Then, you can ask Gemini to reference those files in project conversations. Google describes this as a feature where you "start by adding files to the project. Gemini can reference these files in project conversations and use them to generate new documents and code." With Projects, you can group similar tasks to

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UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison

Image Fulgurator (2011)

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

Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

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Grammarly gets a design overhaul, multiple AI features

Google Photos is getting Tinder’s swipe mechanic (wait, what?)

This could be my new PDF scanner app once Microsoft Lens is taken away

LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare

Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

Last-minute Google leak reveals brand-new 67W charger, cheaper Pixelsnap stand, and pricier cases

After using the Galaxy Watch 8, there’s one feature I hope Google steals for the Pixel Watch 4

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