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Critical Vulnerability in AI Vibe Coding platform Base44

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 00:12:32

One of the most profoundly transformed domains in the wake of the LLM revolution has been code generation, especially the rise of vibe coding, where natural language prompts replace traditional programming. This shift has empowered millions of users with little to no technical background to build fully functional applications with ease. Platforms like Loveable, Bolt, and Base44 are on the front of this movement - they have enabled the creation of millions of applications spanning from persona

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Next-Gen Xbox and PlayStation Might Not Bore Us In the Switch 2 Era

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-26 02:29:13

Let’s forget about the mudslinging that occurs when anyone brings up the two big console makers who don’t have a big “N” in their name. Instead, let’s ask a simple question: what do we actually want from a next-gen Xbox or PlayStation? The latest rumors suggest 2026 could be a big year for Microsoft and Sony, as both may pump out new consoles with PC-level graphics capabilities and handheld gaming platforms to compete with the Steam Deck and Switch 2. The only caveat that’s going to deflate our

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YouTube's Age-Estimation Tech Will Spot Kids Pretending to Be Adults. Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 22:43:00

If kids are lying about their age, YouTube will know about it. Or at least will try its best to find out. The streaming service announced Tuesday it's rolling out age-estimation technology that will use various data to determine if someone is under the age of 18, and then use that signal "to deliver our age-appropriate product experiences and protections." Basically -- assuming it works as it should -- kids will not be able to access what YouTube deems as age-restricted content. Google, YouTub

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iOS 18.6 has important security fixes, here are the full details

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-25 03:58:13

Apple has just released iOS 18.6, the latest iPhone update for users. Though anyone hoping for big new features will have to wait for iOS 26 this fall, today’s new iOS 18.6 release does provide a host of important security fixes. Here are the full details. We all have our own reasons for installing iOS updates. For some, it’s compelling new features we want to try. For others, the need to stop our iPhone from bugging us with pop-up alerts. Whatever your reason, iOS 18.6 is recommended for all

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Apple patches security flaw exploited in Chrome zero-day attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-26 06:10:42

Apple has released security updates to address a high-severity vulnerability that has been exploited in zero-day attacks targeting Google Chrome users. Tracked as CVE-2025-6558, the security bug is due to the incorrect validation of untrusted input in the ANGLE (Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine) open-source graphics abstraction layer, which processes GPU commands and translates OpenGL ES API calls to Direct3D, Metal, Vulkan, and OpenGL. The vulnerability enables remote attackers to execute

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Critical Vulnerability Discovered 11 Days After Wix Buys Base44

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 06:12:32

One of the most profoundly transformed domains in the wake of the LLM revolution has been code generation, especially the rise of vibe coding, where natural language prompts replace traditional programming. This shift has empowered millions of users with little to no technical background to build fully functional applications with ease. Platforms like Loveable, Bolt, and Base44 are on the front of this movement - they have enabled the creation of millions of applications spanning from persona

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Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-26 06:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. On July 25th, the UK became one of the first countries to widely implement age verification. Its Online Safety Act requires sites hosting porn and other content deemed “harmful” — including Reddit, Discord, Grindr, X, and Bluesky — to verify that users are over the age of 18. The early results have been chaotic. While many services have complied, so

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Ramp hits $22.5B valuation just 45 days after reaching $16B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-26 06:19:02

In Brief Eric Glyman, co-founder and CEO of expense management startup Ramp, announced on Wednesday a fresh $500 million raise at a whopping $22.5 billion post-money valuation. This new round, led by Iconiq Growth with participation from Founders Fund and D1 Capital Partners, comes just 45 days after Ramp’s last round. In June, Ramp raised $200 million at a $16 billion valuation, and that was a leap over the $13 billion valuation Ramp announced in March. In his blog post, Glyman laid out his

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The AI Hype Index: The White House’s war on “woke AI”

technologyreview.com The Editors 2025-12-26 11:37:10

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. The Trump administration recently declared war on so-called “woke AI,” issuing an executive order aimed at preventing companies whose models exhibit a liberal bias from landing federal contracts. Simultaneously, the Pentagon inked a deal with Elon Musk’s xAI just days after its chatbot, Grok, spout

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NordVPN joins the scam call fight on Android

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-26 11:24:52

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR NordVPN has launched a Scam Call Protection feature for Android users in the US. It flags suspicious numbers using metadata, without listening to or storing call content. The feature works on any Android device with the NordVPN app and Premium plan. Scam calls aren’t slowing down and are getting smarter in many cases. While most modern smartphones already do a decent job of flagging suspicious numbers, NordVPN thinks it can do better. The company has jus

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Ubuntu Linux lagging? Try my 10 go-to tricks to speed it up

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-26 11:44:09

Yuichiro Chino/Getty Unless you're using a computer from the '90s or early 2000s, typically speaking, Ubuntu runs very well on most machines. I've found it to be fairly predictable in that respect. However, nothing is perfect, and you might run into an instance where the open-source operating system doesn't perform up to your standards. So, what do you do? Do you hop to a different distribution? You certainly could, as there are plenty of Linux distributions that work perfectly on older hardwa

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Words about Arrays and Tables

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 11:15:30

July 30, 2025 2000 words about arrays and tables THEY'RE JUST FUNCTIONS I'm way too discombobulated from getting next month's release of Logic for Programmers ready, so I'm pulling a idea from the slush pile. Basically I wanted to come up with a mental model of arrays as a concept that explained APL-style multidimensional arrays and tables but also why there weren't multitables. So, arrays. In all languages they are basically the same: they map a sequence of numbers (I'll use 1..N ) to homog

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Even The Guy Who Makes ChatGPT Says You Probably Shouldn't Use Chatbots as Therapists

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 09:47:27

Maybe don't tell your deepest, darkest secrets to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT. You don't have to take my word for it. Take it from the guy behind the most popular generative AI model on the market. Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, raised the issue this week in an interview with host Theo Von on the This Past Weekend podcast. He suggested that your conversations with AI should have similar protections as those you have with your doctor or lawyer. At one point, Von said one reason he w

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Minnesota activates National Guard as cyberattack on Saint Paul disrupts public services

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-26 11:50:47

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has activated the state’s National Guard following a cyberattack on the state’s capital, Saint Paul. City officials have not yet disclosed the nature of the cyberattack, but the July 25 breach continues to disrupt city operations and some public services. Saint Paul is one of the largest cities in the U.S. with more than 300,000 residents, and is the latest in a list of major cities targeted by hackers and ransomware gangs in recent years. In a statement on Tuesday, Wal

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Opsqueue: Lightweight batch processing queue for heavy loads – now open-source

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 16:12:09

We are happy to announce the open-source release of opsqueue , our opinionated queueing system! Why would you want to use it? Lightweight: small codebase, written in Rust, minimal dependencies Optimized for batch processing: we prioritize throughput over latency Built to scale to billions of operations Built with reliable building blocks: Rust, SQLite, Object Storage (such as S3 or GCS) Operationally simple: single binary, embedded database, minimal configuration Scales horizontally: you

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Blog series on creating an OS in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Philipp Oppermann 2025-12-26 14:01:10

Writing an OS in Rust This blog series creates a small operating system in the Rust programming language. Each post is a small tutorial and includes all needed code, so you can follow along if you like. The source code is also available in the corresponding Github repository. Latest post: Async/Await Bare Bones Interrupts CPU Exceptions CPU exceptions occur in various erroneous situations, for example, when accessing an invalid memory address or when dividing by zero. To react to them, we ha

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US Senator Urges DHS to Probe Whether Agents Were Moved From Criminal Cases to Deportations

wired.com Caroline Haskins 2025-12-26 16:19:04

Since February, multiple news reports have alleged that a significant number of agents at Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)—the Department of Homeland Security’s investigative wing that focuses on transnational crimes like child exploitation, human trafficking, and drug cartels—have been pulled from child exploitation cases and reassigned to immigration enforcement and arrests. US senator Ron Wyden urged DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari on Tuesday to “promptly” launch an investigation

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AIR lands $23M to bring its eVTOLs to the US

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2025-12-26 15:15:00

The combined forces of escalating geopolitical tensions and rising defense budgets are spurring many electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) makers to take a two-pronged approach to building their aircraft: crewed vehicles for personal or commercial taxi use, and uncrewed vehicles meant for logistics and defense purposes. AIR, an Israel-based startup developing eVTOLs, thought it prudent to adopt a similar approach from the get-go, designing both its uncrewed and piloted aircraft with the

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Apple set to acquire yet another campus in the Bay Area

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-26 21:13:29

Apple’s real estate spree in Silicon Valley continues, as the company is reportedly in contract to make its third major Bay Area acquisition this year alone. Here are the details. $882 million in a little more than a month Citing sources familiar with the deal, the San Francisco Chronicle says that Apple has agreed to purchase the four-building Mathilda Campus at 505–599 North Mathilda Avenue and 605 West Maude Avenue for $365 million. As with the other two recent acquisitions, Apple already

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Nintendo’s next Switch 2 Direct is on July 31st

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-12-26 21:14:15

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. Now that the Switch 2 is out, and the console’s biggest exclusives — Mario Kart World, and Donkey Kong Bananza — are delighting fans, it’s time to see what else this thing can do. Nintendo’s hosting its next Direct presentation on Thursday July 31st bright and early at 9 AM ET. You can watch the direct on YouTube here and, o

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Psychedelic Therapy Crashed and Burned. MAHA Might Bring It Back

wired.com John Semley 2025-12-25 18:00:00

This was supposed to be the year of the MDMA revolution. About this time last year, prescription MDMA looked like a sure thing. After decades of clinical research, political wrangling, and aggressive promotion, the popular underground club drug was set to be tamed and medicalized, with a stamp of approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. Then, it wasn’t. In a stark change of course, the FDA rejected the MDMA therapy it had been considering by a 10-1 vote. The decision derailed psyched

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The best mobile microphones for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 10:00:38

There’s nothing more frustrating than shooting the perfect reel only to realize that the audio sounds like garbage. For budding creators, it’s a frustration; for those looking to make more professional content, it’s a dealbreaker. Fortunately, the world of mobile-specific (or phone-friendly) microphones has exploded with great options in the last few years. Whether you’ve been tasked with recording candid moments at a relative’s wedding, shooting a friend’s dance moves or are a journalist out in

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A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

news.ycombinator.com Eileen Guo 2025-12-27 10:59:09

Indeed, the curators of DataComp CommonPool were themselves aware it was likely that PII would appear in the data set and did take some measures to preserve privacy, including automatically detecting and blurring faces. But in their limited data set, Hong’s team found and validated over 800 faces that the algorithm had missed, and they estimated that overall, the algorithm had missed 102 million faces in the entire data set. On the other hand, they did not apply filters that could have recognize

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Missionaries Are Targeting Isolated Tribes in Brazil With Solar-Powered Audio Devices, Investigation Finds

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-27 12:00:40

If you thought the age of Christian missionaries traveling the world to spread the word of God and evangelize locals was over, think again—they’ve just gotten sneakier. A recent investigation by The Guardian and the Brazilian newspaper O Globo reveals that missionaries have left solar-powered audio devices in Brazil’s Javari valley, near the Peruvian border, in an attempt to evangelize isolated or recently contacted Indigenous Amazonian people. The devices play biblical readings in Portuguese a

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Your Pixel Watch could soon give you the same backup freedom as your Android phone (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 15:00:10

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority A man pressed the digital crown of his Google Pixel Watch 3. TL;DR Google could soon let Pixel Watch users manually trigger backups. We’ve found code evidence suggesting Pixel Watches could soon get a “Backup now” button in Settings, possibly removing the current requirement of having the watch connected to a charger during the backup process. The option is similar to the Backup now setting you find on Android phones. Google seems to be working towards maki

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Spain to expand antitrust investigation into App Store pricing rules

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-27 12:49:57

Just as Apple inches closer to winning EU approval for its latest App Store changes, Spain’s competition watchdog is expanding its own investigation, citing “new evidence” related to Apple’s developer pricing rules. Here are the details. Back in July 2024, the Spanish National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) launched a probe accusing Apple of “imposing unfair commercial conditions” on developers who distribute apps through the App Store. Now, as reported by EuroNews: “The CNMC sa

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This special Mail app toggle helps protect you from sketchy emails

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-27 21:39:54

9to5Mac is brought to you by Incogni: Protect your personal info from prying eyes. With Incogni, you can scrub your deeply sensitive information from data brokers across the web, including people search sites. Incogni limits your phone number, address, email, SSN, and more from circulating. Fight back against unwanted data brokers with a 30-day money back guarantee. A couple years ago, Apple introduced a new feature for Apple Mail users called Mail Privacy Protection. It isn’t on by default, th

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Nvidia AI chip challenger Groq said to be nearing new fundraising at $6B valuation

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-27 21:02:51

In Brief AI chip startup Groq is in talks to raise a fresh $600 million at a near $6 billion valuation, sources tell Bloomberg, although the deal isn’t yet final and terms could change. Groq raised $640 million at a $2.8 billion valuation in August 2024, making this double the valuation in about a year. Groq previously raised about $1 billion. The new round is led by Austin-based firm Disruptive, Bloomberg reports. The November round was led by BlackRock, with participation from Neuberger Ber

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Placing Functions

news.ycombinator.com Yoshua Wuyts 2025-12-25 17:36:24

placing functions — 2025-07-08 What are placing functions? About a year ago I observed that in-place construction seems surprisingly simple. By separating the creating of the place in memory from writing the value to memory, it’s not that hard to see how we can turn that into a language feature. So about six months ago, that’s what I went ahead and did and created the placing crate: a proc-macro-based prototype for “placing functions”. Placing functions are functions whose return type is con

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 30, #780

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 00:00:00

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. Oh man, today's NYT Connections puzzle is a true brain-buster. The blue and purple categories are tough, but I found the green group to be tough as well. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wo

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Critical Vulnerability in AI Vibe Coding platform Base44

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