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Credit Bureau TransUnion Hit With Data Breach Affecting 4.4 Million People

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 02:29:00

The TransUnion data breach exposed the data of up to 4.4 million customers. CNET Major credit bureau TransUnion has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive information belonging to 4.4 million customers, including names and Social Security numbers. The data breach took place on July 28, meaning the sensitive information could have been sold and distributed throughout the dark web already. TransUnion is notifying people who may have been affected that their information could be exposed an

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Incogni deletes your family’s private info from the internet – here’s why that matters

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-10-28 07:30:00

In today’s world, everyone needs to have dozens, if not hundreds of different online accounts to keep up with their everyday life. That’s a lot of potentially sensitive data in the hands of tons of different companies – and it’s easy to not think about that. You and your family’s data is incredibly valuable to data brokers, but it isn’t too difficult to put a stop to it – and protect the online privacy of your family. Protecting your online privacy It can be hard to take control of your online

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Performance Speed Limits (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Travis Downs 2025-10-24 12:06:10

How fast can it go? Sometimes you just want to know how fast your code can go, without benchmarking it. Sometimes you have benchmarked it and want to know how close you are to the maximum speed. Often you just need to know what the current limiting factor is, to guide your optimization decisions. Well this post is about that determining that speed limit. It’s not a comprehensive performance evaluation methodology, but for many small pieces of code it will work very well. Table of Contents Th

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RFC 8594: The Sunset HTTP Header Field (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 05:35:22

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) E. Wilde Request for Comments: 8594 May 2019 Category: Informational ISSN: 2070-1721 The Sunset HTTP Header Field Abstract This specification defines the Sunset HTTP response header field, which indicates that a URI is likely to become unresponsive at a specified point in the future. It also defines a sunset link relation type that allows linking to resources providing information about an upcoming resource or service sunset. Status of This Memo This docume

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 29, #810

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 06:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle wasn't terribly tough. Need help finding the answers? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program

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Video player looks like a 1-inch TV from the ’60s and is wondrous, pointless fun

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 07:29:47

If a family of anthropomorphic mice were to meet around a TV, I imagine they'd gather around something like TinyCircuits’ TinyTV 2. The gadget sits on four slender, angled legs with its dials and classic, brown shell beckoning viewers toward its warm, bright stories. The TinyTV’s screen is only 1.14 inches diagonally, but the device exudes vintage energy. TinyTV 2 Specs Display Size: 1.14-inch Resolution: 216×135 Panel Type: IPS Dimensions: 1.9×1.4×1 inches (47.6×36.6×25.9mm) Ports: 1x USB

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Watch Our Livestream Replay: Back to School in the Age of AI

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-10-28 07:28:46

Everyone has a stake in how tech is shaping education today. From the tech moguls and venture capitalists who are starting “microschools” and building ed-tech tools to policymakers who are writing bills to safeguard kids online and teachers who are getting creative about using AI for school. WIRED explored all this and more in our recent back-to-school digital edition, which was the topic of our subscriber-only livestream on Thursday, August 28, 2025. Hosted by WIRED's features director, Reyhan

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Buypass discontinues issuance of TLS/SSL certificates

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 21:28:18

Existing TLS/SSL certificates will remain valid and functional until they expire or are revoked. Revocation services, certificate status services (CRL and OCSP), and other necessary support functions will operate as normal for all certificates within their validity period. Notification of the expiry date for existing certificates will be sent as per the standard procedure. More details on how the discontinuation affects certificates ordered in Buypass ID Manager, as well as the discontinuation

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In Search of AI Psychosis

news.ycombinator.com Scott Alexander 2025-10-26 05:30:50

AI psychosis (NYT, PsychologyToday) is an apparent phenomenon where people go crazy after talking to chatbots too much. There are some high-profile anecdotes, but still many unanswered questions. For example, how common is it really? Are the chatbots really driving people crazy, or just catching the attention of people who were crazy already? Isn’t psychosis supposed to be a biological disease? Wouldn’t that make chatbot-induced psychosis the same kind of category error as chatbot-induced diabet

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RFC 8594: The Sunset HTTP Header Field

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 10:35:22

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) E. Wilde Request for Comments: 8594 May 2019 Category: Informational ISSN: 2070-1721 The Sunset HTTP Header Field Abstract This specification defines the Sunset HTTP response header field, which indicates that a URI is likely to become unresponsive at a specified point in the future. It also defines a sunset link relation type that allows linking to resources providing information about an upcoming resource or service sunset. Status of This Memo This docume

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10 Creepy-Cool Items You Can Buy From Guillermo del Toro’s Collection

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-28 11:00:59

Guillermo del Toro isn’t just an Oscar-winning filmmaker—he’s a diehard fan of all things horror, especially monsters. He famously has an entire dwelling, dubbed Bleak House, to contain his wonderfully grim collection of art, artifacts, props, and other covetable items, but even someone with del Toro’s generous resources understands the importance of downsizing from time to time. An upcoming auction will serve to give some of his treasures new homes. In a Heritage Auctions press release (with a

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Kobo ereaders are swapping out Pocket for Instapaper

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 15:06:15

Rakuten and Instapaper have announced a new integration that lets you access saved articles on Kobo ereaders. The new feature replaces a similar one Rakuten used to offer for Pocket users, which it was forced to replace after Mozilla decided to shut down the read-it-later service in May 2025. Instapaper on Kobo devices works nearly identically to the way Pocket did previously. With your Instapaper account linked, you can access any article you've saved to your library. Articles can be downloade

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Torrent app unavailable at AltStore PAL following apparent notarization revocation by Apple [Update: Apple statement]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-28 00:28:21

Update, August 28, 11:19 a.m. PT: In a statement to 9to5Mac, an Apple spokesperson said: “Notarization for this app was removed in order to comply with government sanctions-related rules in various jurisdictions. We have communicated this to the developer.” When Apple was compelled to allow alternative iOS app stores in the EU, it adopted the notarization model familiar to Mac developers. This means that if Apple revokes the notarization of a certain app, its distribution and use get blocked, e

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Google shares workarounds for auth failures on ChromeOS devices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 19:30:07

Google is working to resolve authentication issues affecting some ChromeOS devices, which are preventing affected users from signing into their Clever and ClassLink accounts. As the company explains in a recently updated incident report on the Google Workspace Status Dashboard, these authentication failures impact devices running version 16328.55.0 with Chrome browser version 139.0.7258.137. These issues are disrupting Single Sign-On access to Clever and ClassLink educational partner platforms

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Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 17:31:23

NPR > Education Classes began this week for students at the University at Buffalo, a public research university in western New York, but there were about 750 fewer international students on campus than expected. The new students who did make it gathered for a welcome from the school's dean of students. "We know you have had to overcome hurdles to be here – especially this summer, with visas," Tomás Aguirre told the assembled students, representing more than 100 countries. "And I just wanted yo

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The Genetic Trick That Helped Humans Ride Horses

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-28 19:00:55

Roughly 4,500 years ago, humans forged a bond that would shape the history of our species. The domestication of horses led to significant advancements in transportation, hunting, and warfare, literally carrying human society into the modern era. Despite how influential horses have been for humans, scientists still have many fundamental questions about their domestication. New research published Thursday, August 28, in the journal Science, offers new insight into the genetic shifts that helped t

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I Tried Netflix's Zodiac Hub and Found a Fun New Show That Matched My Astrological Sign

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 19:00:03

Earlier this week, I received an email from the communications team at Netflix announcing the debut of a new astrology hub on the streaming platform. According to the release, these curated playlists include show and movie recommendations that "reflect the character traits and themes most associated with that sign." They don't include this week's horoscope. At least for now. Lots of people feel strongly about their zodiac sign and how it affects their lives. While I don't normally give much tho

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High-severity vulnerability in Passwordstate credential manager. Patch now.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 19:46:43

The maker of Passwordstate, an enterprise-grade password manager for storing companies’ most privileged credentials, is urging them to promptly install an update fixing a high-severity vulnerability that hackers can exploit to gain administrative access to their vaults. The authentication bypass allows hackers to create a URL that accesses an emergency access page for Passwordstate. From there, an attacker could pivot to the administrative section of the password manager. A CVE identifier isn’t

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Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 23:00:28

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default. The company is currently testing this new feature with the help of Microsoft 365 Insiders in the Beta Channel, who will get it after upgrading to Word for Windows Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000) or later, which was released on Monday. Microsoft will also roll out this functionality to Excel for Windows and PowerPoint for Windows users later this year. "We are moder

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OpenAI gives its voice agent superpowers to developers - look for more apps soon

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-28 23:01:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI's Realtime API is now optimized and generally available. You can try its latest speech-to-speech model, gpt-realtime. The upgrades improve OpenAI's voice offerings for developers. This year, AI agents that can carry out tasks on behalf of users have been a major focus, with companies constantly developing offerings that reduce the user's workload. To make these interactions as

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Show HN: Grammit – Local-only AI grammar checker (Chrome extension)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 21:38:07

Check your grammar and refine your writing with local AI. ✦ AI-Powered Corrections Grammit's AI is great at correcting spelling and grammar mistakes. But it also catches other errors. Did you accidentally write "The theory of evolution was developed by Charles Dickens"? No worries, Grammit will correct that to "Charles Darwin". ✦ AI Rephrasing and Drafting You can ask Grammit to help you with your writing tasks. Just ask it to rephrase your writing to make it more professional and it will do th

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The Lobster Programming Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 01:42:17

The Lobster Programming Language Lobster is a programming language that tries to combine the advantages of static typing and compile-time memory management with a very lightweight, friendly and terse syntax, by doing most of the heavy lifting for you. While it is a general purpose language, its current implementation is biased towards games and other graphical things, with plenty of “batteries included” functionality. Lobster is Open Source (Apache v2 license) and can be found on github. Onli

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Police seize VerifTools fake ID marketplace servers, domains

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-29 03:00:35

The FBI and the Dutch Police have shut down the VerifTools marketplace for fraudulent identity documents after seizing servers in Amsterdam that hosted the online operation. VerifTools was a prominent platform that produced and intermediated the purchase of fake documents (e.g. driver's licenses, passports) that were used to bypass various identity verification systems or to assume an identity, either stolen or fabricated. The police note that such sites are used in bank fraud, phishing, helpd

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Group Borrowing: Zero-cost memory safety with fewer restrictions

news.ycombinator.com Evan Ovadia 2025-10-28 23:29:15

Child groups That's a useful rule, and it can get us pretty far. But let's make it even more specific, so we can prove more programs memory-safe. For example, look at this snippet: rs ref hp_ref = d.hp # Ref to contents damage = a.calculate_damage(d) a_energy_cost = a.calculate_attack_cost(d) d_energy_cost = d.calculate_defend_cost(a) a.use_energy(a_energy_cost) d.use_energy(d_energy_cost) d.damage(damage) print(hp_ref) # Valid! The previous (invalid) program had a ring_ref referring to an ele

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Teams Grow Organically

news.ycombinator.com Frederick Vanbrabant 2025-10-26 00:00:15

I’ve been working a lot with service line architecture recently. If you’re not familiar with that; it’s how business units such as IT, HR, or Sales bring services to clients, both internal and external. These structures often mirror team organization. Think of it as a hierarchy: IT at level one, Software Development and Ops at level two, and then individual teams, like: Software Team X or Ops Team Y, at level three. What’s surprising is how rarely these structures reflect reality. In practice,

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Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

news.ycombinator.com Simon Späti 2025-10-29 01:40:58

Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency. There are so many (hype/boring) posts about AI coming out every day. It’s OK to use it, and everyone does it, but still learn your craft, and try to think. Similar to what DHH said: It’s also more fun to be competent in something than constantly waiting for an AI to complete. The probability that AI will make us unhappy is very high IMO. Use it, yes, but not for every task. For discovering, creating a historical overview, or creating di

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PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 03:05:13

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The Cast of ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Is Revealed as Production Begins

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-29 03:11:14

Lucasfilm just announced the cast of Star Wars: Starfighter, directed by Shawn Levy, which is now in production. Ryan Gosling stars, and he’ll be joined by Flynn Gray, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams. “I feel a profound sense of excitement and honor as we begin production on Star Wars: Starfighter,” Levy said on the official Star Wars website. “From the day Kathy Kennedy called me up, inviting me to develop an original adventure in this

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At Least 2 People Died of ‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacteria After Eating Tainted Oysters

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-29 03:20:22

“Flesh-eating” bacteria are continuing to claim lives this summer. Louisiana health officials reported this week that two more people have died from Vibrio infections this month, potentially caused by eating tainted oysters. The Louisiana Department of Health announced the latest deaths during a meeting of the Louisiana Oyster Task Force held Tuesday. Both deaths are linked to oysters harvested in the state, but the oysters were eaten at separate restaurants in Louisiana and Florida. Louisiana

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Rumored PS6 Handheld Could Steal the Switch 2’s Best Features

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-29 03:38:32

There’s something so intoxicatingly convenient about a game handheld. Despite the fact the Nintendo Switch 2’s design hasn’t changed from its 8-year-old prequel, it’s still the epitome of gaming thanks to the dock that connects it to your TV. Sony’s PlayStation brand seems to be hedging on the same bet Nintendo made nearly a decade ago. The latest rumors and leaks suggest Sony’s rumored PlayStation 6 handheld could also dock with a TV and offer even better performance than both the Switch 2 and

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Credit Bureau TransUnion Hit With Data Breach Affecting 4.4 Million People

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Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins

The Genetic Trick That Helped Humans Ride Horses

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