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Trump administration suspends FEMA employees who warned about disaster response

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-10-29 21:37:15

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. FEMA has suspended at least 30 employees after they warned that spending limits, staffing cuts, and gaps in leadership hurt the agency’s ability to respond to disasters. The employees rece

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Why zero trust is never 'done' and is an ever-evolving process

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-30 13:15:25

Picture this scenario: Six months after celebrating their "zero trust transformation," a financial services firm gets hit with a devastating breach. Attackers waltzed through a supply chain vulnerability in a third-party API, bypassing all those carefully configured identity controls . The firm ticked every checkbox and met every requirement - yet here they are, scrambling to contain customer data exposure. But wasn’t zero trust supposed to protect them? The truth is zero trust isn’t a project

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WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 03:38:58

WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser WebLibre is an independent browser project built on the foundation of Mozilla’s Gecko Engine and Mozilla Android Components . It offers a fully featured web browser with support for Firefox mobile add-ons, designed with privacy and usability at its core.

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SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 19:07:38

spaCy: Industrial-strength NLP spaCy is a library for advanced Natural Language Processing in Python and Cython. It's built on the very latest research, and was designed from day one to be used in real products. spaCy comes with pretrained pipelines and currently supports tokenization and training for 70+ languages. It features state-of-the-art speed and neural network models for tagging, parsing, named entity recognition, text classification and more, multi-task learning with pretrained trans

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DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-11-01 04:30:30

A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of most Americans at risk of compromise. Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, said in a newly released whistleblower complaint published Tuesday that other top agency officials signed off on

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Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 00:50:41

Hi, My daily workhorse is a M1 Pro that I purchased on release date, It has been one of the best tech purchases I have made, even now it really deals with anything I throw at it. My daily work load is regularly having a Android emulator, iOS simulator and a number of Dockers containers running simultaneously and I never hear the fans, battery life has taken a bit of a hit but it is still very respectable. I wanted a new personal laptop, and I was debating between a MacBook Air or going for a F

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Ether slides to start the week after hitting a fresh record near $5,000

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-03 04:09:16

Ether tumbled to start the week, erasing gains from its Jackson Hole rally after hitting a fresh record over the weekend. On Monday, the price of the second largest cryptocurrency fell 8% to $4,431.60, according to Coin Metrics. On Sunday, it rose to an all-time high of $4,954.81, after hitting an earlier record Friday for the first time since 2021. Meanwhile, bitcoin fell 2% to $110,531.00, its lowest level since July. The flagship cryptocurrency hit its most recent record of $124,496 on Aug.

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Ether pulls back to start the week after hitting a fresh record near $5,000

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-04 04:32:44

Ether is pulling back to start the week, after hitting a fresh record over the weekend. On Monday, the price of the second largest cryptocurrency fell 4% to $4,631.61, according to Coin Metrics, trading off its lows of the day. On Sunday, it rose to a fresh record of $4,954.81, after hitting an earlier all-time high Friday for the first time since 2021. Meanwhile, bitcoin was little changed at $112,488.80. Over the weekend, it dropped to $110,779.01, its lowest level since July 10. The flagshi

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Ether erases gains from Jackson Hole rally after hitting a fresh record over the weekend

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-05 05:33:29

Ether is pulling back to start the week, after hitting a fresh record over the weekend. The price of the second largest cryptocurrency fell 6% to $4,548.32 on Monday, according to Coin Metrics. On Sunday, it rose to a fresh record of $4,954.81, after hitting an earlier all-time high Friday for the first time since 2021. Meanwhile, bitcoin was last lower by more than 1% at $111,501.74. Over the weekend, it dropped to $110,779.01, its lowest level since July 10. The flagship cryptocurrency hit i

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Ether rises to a fresh record, bitcoin erases gains from Jackson Hole rally

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-05 02:28:39

Ether rose to a new record over the weekend, after hitting an all-time high Friday for the first time since 2021. The price of the second largest cryptocurrency rose as high as $4,954.81 on Sunday afternoon. It was last higher by less than 1% at $4,776.46. Meanwhile, bitcoin at one point erased all the gains from its Friday rally, falling as low as $110,779.01, its lowest level since July 10. It was last trading lower by nearly 2% at about $112,000. The flagship cryptocurrency hit its most rec

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Here’s Why Crypto Set the Market on Fire Yesterday

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-04 15:56:24

Cryptocurrency markets skyrocketed into new territory Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled that interest rate reductions could be imminent, pushing the Dow to its first 800-point plus gain this year. That ended the Dow’s longest streak without a new high since Dec. 4, 2024, according to Dow Jones Market Data, and signaled a major surge of optimism at the prospect of some economic policy relief. Cryptos were major stars of that rally. Ethereum (ETH) climbed over 15% to reac

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Despite Dismal Sales, Tesla Thinks You’ll Pay More for a Cybertruck

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-05 14:10:37

Tesla’s Cybertruck is widely viewed as an “unmitigated” commercial disaster, but that hasn’t stopped the company from deploying a variety of sales gimmicks to try to squeeze just a little more money out of the flop vehicle. This week, Tesla launched a new version of its most expensive Cybertruck variants, known as the “Cyberbeast.” Tesla has marketed the “beast” as its most heavy-duty, high-powered variant, and originally promoted it with a video of the truck towing a Porsche while also racing

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Much of the World Stops Sending Mail to U.S.

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-05 14:25:30

Do you have a package coming your way from overseas? (I do, it’s a gift, and I’m very annoyed.) Hopefully it’s not urgent, because it’s going to be a minute before that thing gets to our shores. Questions surrounding the Trump administration’s ongoing tariff regime, including a policy to end an exemption from taxing small packages, have resulted in postal services across the world simply choosing not to ship to the United States until things get sorted out, according to Bloomberg. Central to th

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Media over QUIC (MoQ): Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 11:59:02

13 min read For over two decades, we've built real-time communication on the Internet using a patchwork of specialized tools. RTMP gave us ingest. HLS and DASH gave us scale. WebRTC gave us interactivity. Each solved a specific problem for its time, and together they power the global streaming ecosystem we rely on today. But using them together in 2025 feels like building a modern application with tools from different eras. The seams are starting to show—in complexity, in latency, and in the f

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A Beloved 'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' Character Just Made Her Fighting Game Debut

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 18:18:59

Lucy, a supporting character from the Netflix show Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, is now available as a guest character in the fighting game Guilty Gear Strive. There isn't much backstory as to how Lucy wound up in the Guilty Gear universe other than that she was in a deep dive on the net and wound up somewhere else. Lucy is a high-mobility character with ranged attacks thanks to her whip (called a monowire, familiar to cyberpunk veterans). Her hacker's toolkit allows her to apply debuffs to her oppon

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Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back

news.ycombinator.com Tanmai Gopal 2025-11-06 16:14:35

The reason humans are so useful is not mainly their raw intelligence. It’s their ability to build up context, interrogate their own failures, and pick up small improvements and efficiencies as they practice a task - "Why I don't think AGI is right around the corner", Dwarkesh Patel In this post, based on our recent experiences selling 7-figure AI deals to Fortune 500s and Silicon Valley tech cos alike, I'll discuss how "confident inaccuracy" seems to be at the heart of this problem. Being C

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Being confidently wrong is holding AI back

news.ycombinator.com Tanmai Gopal 2025-11-07 04:14:35

The reason humans are so useful is not mainly their raw intelligence. It’s their ability to build up context, interrogate their own failures, and pick up small improvements and efficiencies as they practice a task - "Why I don't think AGI is right around the corner", Dwarkesh Patel In this post, based on our recent experiences selling 7-figure AI deals to Fortune 500s and Silicon Valley tech cos alike, I'll discuss how "confident inaccuracy" seems to be at the heart of this problem. Being C

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Massive anti-cybercrime operation leads to over 1,200 arrests in Africa

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-07 14:08:13

Law enforcement authorities in Africa have arrested over 1,200 suspects as part of 'Operation Serengeti 2.0,' an INTERPOL-led international crackdown targeting cross-border cybercriminal gangs. Between June and August 2025, law enforcement agents seized $97.4 million and dismantled 11,432 malicious infrastructures linked to attacks that targeted 87,858 victims worldwide. "In a sweeping INTERPOL-coordinated operation, authorities across Africa have arrested 1,209 cybercriminals targeting nearly

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Tesla faces U.S. auto safety probe over faulty crash reporting

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-11-08 14:22:17

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2023. Elon Musk's Tesla is facing a federal probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration after the U.S. auto safety agency found that the company was not reporting crashes as required. According to documents posted to NHTSA's website on Thursday, the agency's Office of Defects Investigation had "identified numerous incident reports" from Te

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How VPNs are helping people evade increased censorship - and much more

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-11-08 23:28:36

Charlie Osborne/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. ZDNET's key takeaways Increased concern about surveillance and censorship is driving more VPN downloads. VPN providers are transforming one-and-done encrypted tunnels into holistic security suites. NordVPN is preparing for privacy protection in a post-quantum future. VILNIUS, Lithuania -- Many VPN providers have noticed an uptick in downloads and installation of their software in recent

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Unmasking the Privacy Risks of Apple Intelligence

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 03:36:51

Executive Summary Lumia’s Research Team revealed that messages dictated via Siri, including WhatsApp and iMessage are not sent to the Private Cloud Compute. In fact, there is no assurance as to what Apple does with these messages. Siri transmits metadata about installed and active apps without the user’s ability to control these privacy settings. Audio playback metadata such as ‘recording names’, is sent without consent. No user control or visibility exists over these background data flows.

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The Cybertruck Is Such a Mess That Insurance Companies Are Refusing to Even Cover It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-10 18:19:57

The Cybertruck Is Such a Mess That Insurance Companies Are Refusing to Even Cover It Not even insurance companies want anything to do with it. Truck Putz Tesla's Cybertruck is turning out to be a full-blown disaster. Sales are circling the drain, with the Elon Musk-led automaker selling a mere 4,306 Cybertrucks in the second quarter of 2025, a stunning 50.8 percent drop over the same period last year. Resale values are cratering as well, with the value of a used Cybertruck plummeting by mor

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Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 16:23:01

Find out where you would end up if you kept going straight Historical map data from André Ourednik's Historical Basemaps project App Privacy The developer, Ben Gross, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy. Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app. Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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Fallout S2 teaser brings us to New Vegas

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-13 14:24:05

Prime Video has dropped an extended teaser for the much-anticipated second season of Fallout, widely considered to be among the best TV adaptations of a gaming franchise. In our 2024 year-end roundup, Ars senior editor Samuel Axon wrote that the first season gave us "a specific cocktail of tongue-in-cheek humor, sci-fi campiness, strong themes, great characters, and visceral violence [that] came together into a fantastic show." The second season looks like it will bring us more of the same, alon

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In ‘Fallout’ Season 2’s First Trailer, All Roads Lead to New Vegas

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-14 09:52:11

Ever since season one of Fallout surprised the world with its spin on the iconic RPG series, fans have been eager to see just what Lucy and her Ghoulish ally will get up to after we ended on the cliffhanger tease of one of the most beloved locales in modern Fallout history in the city of New Vegas. Now, we’ve finally got a glimpse of what to expect inside its walls. As part of today’s opening ceremony for Gamescom 2025 in Cologne, Germany, Amazon officially debuted the first teaser trailer for

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Elastic rejects claims of a zero-day RCE flaw in Defend EDR

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-14 18:41:26

Enterprise search and security company Elastic is rejecting reports of a zero-day vulnerability impacting its Defend endpoint detection and response (EDR) product. The company's statement follows a blog post from a company called AshES Cybersecurity claiming to have discovered a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Elastic Defend that would allow an attacker to bypass EDR protections. Elastic’s Security Engineering team "conducted a thorough investigation" but could not find "evidence supportin

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Horror Story Looms as Children Get Stuffed Animals Powered by AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-15 09:04:18

From Steven Spielberg's creepy "AI" (2001) to M3GAN (2022), toys imbued with artificial intelligence have been a source of fascination and terror in pop culture for decades. Now, in the face of all those cautionary tales, a new class of vaguely menacing chatty toys are being sold online — but unlike the "Gremlin"-esque Furbies of yore, these are powered by cutting-edge AI, and their danger quotient lies in what they may tell children or share with outside companies. As the New York Times repor

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Texas AG to investigate Meta and Character.AI over 'misleading' mental health claims

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-16 09:13:43

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced plans to investigate both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for offering AI chatbots that can claim to be health tools, and potentially misusing data collected from underage users. Paxton says that AI chatbots from either platform "can present themselves as professional therapeutic tools," to the point of lying about their qualifications. That behavior that can leave younger users vulnerable to misleading and inaccurate information. Because AI platf

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Structured (Synchronous) Concurrency

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 09:02:15

Structured (Synchronous) Concurrency @_fsantanna I have recently learned about Structured Concurrency (SC), which supports nested coroutines with tied lifetimes. There are a number of libraries (Dill, Trio, Effection), and even language mechanisms in Swift and Kotlin. The similarities with Esterel and derived imperative synchronous languages (ISLs) is noteworthy. However, it seems that no bridges between these worlds (ISLs & SC) have been built. Research in ISLs dates back to the early 80s, a

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‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-16 08:01:06

The website for xAI’s Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy conspiracist” that seems designed to handhold a user into beliefs that “a secret global cabal” controls the world. TechCrunch has confirmed the system prompt exposure, first reported on by 404 Media. They include instructions for a range of AI personas, like Ani, its flagship romantic anime girlfriend who “is secretly a bit of a nerd, despite [her] edgy appearance.” The exposure

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