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Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government

news.ycombinator.com Makena Kelly 2025-12-15 12:44:49

President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically expanded its work with Palantir, elevating the company cofounded by Trump ally Peter Thiel as the government’s go-to software developer. Following massive contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power. Palantir has become one

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PayPal and Venmo outage hit users Friday morning - what we know

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-17 04:24:15

SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways PayPal and Venmo experienced an outage Friday morning. Affected accounts couldn't send or receive payments. PayPal has acknowledged the problem and said a fix is in the works. Did you have trouble with PayPal or Venmo this morning? You weren't alone. The problem has been resolved, but millions of people were scrambling to find a fix. Also: PayPal's AI-powered scam alert system might intercept your transactions now - here's why

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Are PayPal and Venmo down for you? What we know - and alternatives to use

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-17 14:14:00

SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty Images ZDNET's key Takeaways PayPal and Venmo experienced an outage Friday morning. Affected accounts couldn't send or receive payments. PayPal has acknowledged the problem and said a fix is in the works. Are you having trouble with PayPal or Venmo this morning? You're not alone. Also: PayPal's AI-powered scam alert system might intercept your transactions now - here's why Shortly before 9 a.m. ET, users began reporting that both platforms were down. They

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Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-12-18 09:30:00

President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically expanded its work with Palantir, elevating the company cofounded by Trump ally Peter Thiel as the government’s go-to software developer. Following massive contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power. Palantir has become one

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YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children after all

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-22 18:17:07

YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children under 16, as reported by Bloomberg . The country's Labor government said that the site will be subject to the same rules as other leading platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X when the legislation goes into effect this December. Australia had planned to exempt YouTube from the forthcoming social media ban, on the grounds that it's an educational tool. This irked other platforms, with Meta and TikTok urging the coun

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Google says it never received a UK demand for encryption backdoor, unlike Apple

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-23 03:22:00

A hot potato: Google says that unlike rival Apple, it has not received a demand from the UK government to build a backdoor in its encrypted services. The tech giant had refused to answer a US Senator's question on the matter, but it has since confirmed it is not subject to a similar order as Apple. In a letter to the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, Senator Ron Wyden, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote about the UK's "reported secret surveillance demands of

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NMDA Receptor Antagonists: Slightly More Than You Wanted to Know

news.ycombinator.com Siggi Prendergast 2025-12-23 03:55:25

Long time no post! I got hired to do some writing and editing for a nootropics startup, but i’m finally back! I’m sticking to my theme of writing about the NMDA Receptor, this time explaining why NMDAR Antagonists can anesthetize you, treat your alzheimers, or cure your depression A Brief Technical Image The process of teasing out functions of the NMDA Receptor feels a lot like progressing through this “flowchart” (I ask that you ignore the logic of the image, just scan the vibe). Using drugs

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Spain to expand antitrust investigation into App Store pricing rules

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-24 00:49:57

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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Josh Hawley Wants to Send Out Rebate Checks So Americans Can ‘Benefit’ From Trump’s Tariffs

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-26 04:05:54

President Trump’s tariffs have generated around 20 billion dollars in revenue for the U.S. government, although it’s worth noting that a vast majority of this wealth has been derived from import duties on American businesses. In other words, Americans are paying the federal government (many critics have noted that tariffs are just taxes by another name) for the pleasure of doing business with foreign exporters. For the fiscally confused, the New York Times recently wrote an explainer on tariffs

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Trump’s cybersecurity cuts putting nation at risk, warns New York cyber chief

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-25 23:53:34

During the first few months of the new Trump administration, the White House slashed cybersecurity budgets, staff, and initiatives. And some, including cybersecurity experts and legislators, are not happy about it. One of them is Colin Ahern, the chief cyber officer for the state of New York. In a recent interview with TechCrunch, Ahern said that both he and New York Governor Kathy Hochul are worried that the Trump administration’s cuts to cybersecurity are putting the country at risk. “We wor

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How much pollution does AI create? Mistral breaks it down

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-27 23:55:00

What just happened? Mistral AI, a Paris-based venture focused on developing open-weight, open-source large language models, is now contributing to the AI discourse with a comprehensive lifecycle analysis of one of its models – guided by the same principles of openness that define its work. Mistral recently published an analysis of the environmental impact of one of its large language models. As chatbots and other AI-powered technologies become increasingly embedded in the global economy, Mistra

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New York state cyber chief calls out Trump for cybersecurity cuts

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-27 23:53:34

During the first few months of the new Trump administration, the White House slashed cybersecurity budgets, staff, and initiatives. And some, including cybersecurity experts and legislators, are not happy about it. One of them is Colin Ahern, the chief cyber officer for the state of New York. In a recent interview with TechCrunch, Ahern said that both he and New York Governor Kathy Hochul are worried that the Trump administration’s cuts to cybersecurity are putting the country at risk. “We wor

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Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-12-24 11:00:00

On November 2, 2022, I attended a Google AI event in New York City. One of the themes was responsible AI. As I listened to executives talk about how they aligned their technology with human values, I realized that the malleability of AI models was a double-edged sword. Models could be tweaked to, say, minimize biases, but also to enforce a specific point of view. Governments could demand manipulation to censor unwelcome facts and promote propaganda. I envisioned this as something that an authori

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Internet Archive is now a US federal depository library

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-28 14:19:31

The Internet Archive has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other U.S. government documents. U.S. Senator Alex Padilla designated it as such in a July 24 letter to the Superintendent of Documents at the Government Publishing Office, which oversees the Federal Depository Library Program that coordinates a network of over 1,150 such libraries. "Through its Democracy

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Bonkers NASA Mission Aims to Drop Six Helicopters Onto Mars From Space

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-28 23:30:57

Defense tech company AeroVironment and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have shown off a wild concept for deploying six helicopters above the surface of Mars to scout for water and possible human landing sites. The concept, dubbed "Skyfall," builds on NASA's extremely successful and revolutionary Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which became the first manmade object to achieve powered flight on another planet in 2021. It flew a whopping 72 times over three years, vastly exceeding expectations. AeroV

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Microsoft to stop using China-based teams to support Department of Defense

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 23:00:21

Last week, Microsoft announced that it would no longer use China-based engineering teams to support the Defense Department’s cloud computing systems, following ProPublica’s investigation of the practice, which cybersecurity experts said could expose the government to hacking and espionage. But it turns out the Pentagon was not the only part of the government facing such a threat. For years, Microsoft has also used its global workforce, including China-based personnel, to maintain the cloud syst

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Mistral’s new “environmental audit” shows how much AI is hurting the planet

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-30 14:11:50

Despite concerns over the environmental impacts of AI models, it's surprisingly hard to find precise, reliable data on the CO 2 emissions and water use for many major large language models. French model-maker Mistral is seeking to fix that this week, releasing details from what it calls a first-of-its-kind environmental audit "to quantify the environmental impacts of our LLMs." The results, which are broadly in line with estimates from previous scholarly work, suggest the environmental harm of

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Internet Archive is now an official US government document library

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-31 14:30:36

The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library network that gives the public access to government documents, KQED reported. The designation was made official in a letter from California Senator Alex Padilla to the Government Publishing Office that oversees the network. "The Archive's digital-first approach makes it the perfect fit for a modern federal depository library, expanding access to federal government publications a

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Anthropic unveils ‘auditing agents’ to test for AI misalignment

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2026-01-01 03:15:53

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now When models attempt to get their way or become overly accommodating to the user, it can mean trouble for enterprises. That is why it’s essential that, in addition to performance evaluations, organizations conduct alignment testing. However, alignment audits often present two major challenges: scalability and validation. Alignment testing r

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Trump says he won't 'destroy' Musk's companies by taking away subsidies

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-02 14:14:28

Elon Musk receives a golden key from U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 30, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard President Donald Trump on Thursday denied claims that he wants to wreck Elon Musk's companies and their work with the U.S. government. "Everyone is stating that I will destroy Elon's companies by taking away some, if not all, of the large scale subsidies he receives from the U.S. Government," he said in a post to Truth Social. "Th

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The VTuber world is in crisis over ‘owed’ donations

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2026-01-02 23:35:05

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. On July 21st, 6,669-year-old demon queen Ironmouse, posted an 11-minute video explaining that she is leaving her talent management agency, VShojo. Ironmouse is a VTuber, or “virtual YouTuber” — a type of a streamer who doesn’t typically show their human face, instead creating elaborate digital personas to create content. “I

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Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 20:09:31

At Mistral AI, our mission is to bring artificial intelligence in everyone’s hands. For this purpose, we have consistently advocated for openness in AI, with a unique focus on empowering organizations that want to own their AI future. Today, as AI becomes increasingly integrated into every layer of our economy, it is crucial for developers, policymakers, enterprises, governments and citizens to better understand the environmental footprint of this transformative technology. At Mistral AI, we be

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New UK law would ban ransomware payments by publicly funded orgs

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-07 04:08:51

The British government has announced plans to move forward with a law that would bar public organizations from paying off ransomware attackers. The proposed legislation would add schools, town councils, National Health Service (NHS) hospitals and critical infrastructure managers to a ban which already applies to the national government. The logic behind banning payments is simple. If cybercriminals know a ransomware attack against a UK school or hospital won't get them paid, they'll look somewh

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NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 09:16:18

NonRAID - unRAID storage array compatible kernel driver NonRAID is an fork of the unRAID system's open-source md_unraid kernel driver for supported kernels, but targeting primarily Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, enabling UnRAID-style storage arrays with parity protection outside of the commercial UnRAID system. Unlike in UnRAID, where the driver replaces kernels standard md driver, the NonRAID driver has been separated into it's own kernel module ( md_nonraid ). This allows it to be easily added as a DKMS

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UK government wants ransomware victims to report breaches so it can carry out ‘targeted disruptions’ against hackers

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-07 10:36:20

The U.K. government wants to require victims of ransomware to report if they were breached with the goal of providing law enforcement with information that could help target the cybercriminals responsible. On Tuesday, the U.K.’s interior ministry, the Home Office, published a proposal with the aim of changing the British government’s strategy to counter ransomware. Among the three key proposals is a reporting requirement, which would aid authorities in identifying and disrupting hacking operati

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$16.5B Apple tax windfall will pay for new electricity and water infrastructure in Ireland

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-07 23:00:00

With the last remaining part of the Apple tax windfall paid to the Irish government recently, we are today learning what the country plans to do with the €14.25B ($16.5B). The country’s prime minister has promised “unprecedented” investment in the country’s ailing infrastructure, with Apple’s money to be spent mostly on electricity and water projects … Irish government receives €14.25B ($16.5B) You can read a summary of the nine-year saga over whether or not Apple owed the Irish government bi

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UK government wants ransomware victims to report cyberattacks so it can disrupt the hackers

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-07 22:36:20

The U.K. government wants to require victims of ransomware to report if they were breached with the goal of providing law enforcement with information that could help target the cybercriminals responsible. On Tuesday, the U.K.’s interior ministry, the Home Office, published a proposal with the aim of changing the British government’s strategy to counter ransomware. Among the three key proposals is a reporting requirement, which would aid authorities in identifying and disrupting hacking operati

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After Fight With Musk, Trump Reportedly Ordered Review of Government SpaceX Contracts

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-08 08:15:31

Now that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and president Donald Trump are no longer seeing eye to eye, it sounds like the White House is working to undercut the richest man in the world's revenue from Washington. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Trump aides initiated a review of SpaceX contracts with the federal government to identify potential waste — pointed scrutiny not unlike the so-called Department of Government Efficiency helmed by Musk himself prior to his ousting from the Trump administration.

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UK to ban public sector orgs from paying ransomware gangs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-08 18:01:02

The United Kingdom's government is planning to ban public sector and critical infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms after ransomware attacks. The list of entities that would have to follow the new proposed legislation includes local councils, schools, and the publicly funded National Health Service (NHS). "Ransomware is estimated to cost the UK economy millions of pounds each year, with recent high-profile ransomware attacks highlighting the severe operational, financial, and even l

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OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-09 06:35:01

OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services 3 hours ago Share Save Mitchell Labiak & Imran Rahman-Jones Business & technology reporters Share Save Getty Images OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, has signed a deal to use artificial intelligence (AI) to increase productivity in the UK's public services, the government has announced. The agreement signed by the firm and the science department could give OpenAI access to government data and see its software used in education, defence, secu

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Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government

PayPal and Venmo outage hit users Friday morning - what we know

Are PayPal and Venmo down for you? What we know - and alternatives to use

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government

YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children after all

Google says it never received a UK demand for encryption backdoor, unlike Apple

NMDA Receptor Antagonists: Slightly More Than You Wanted to Know

Spain to expand antitrust investigation into App Store pricing rules

Josh Hawley Wants to Send Out Rebate Checks So Americans Can ‘Benefit’ From Trump’s Tariffs

Trump’s cybersecurity cuts putting nation at risk, warns New York cyber chief

How much pollution does AI create? Mistral breaks it down

New York state cyber chief calls out Trump for cybersecurity cuts

Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

Internet Archive is now a US federal depository library

Bonkers NASA Mission Aims to Drop Six Helicopters Onto Mars From Space

Microsoft to stop using China-based teams to support Department of Defense

Mistral’s new “environmental audit” shows how much AI is hurting the planet

Internet Archive is now an official US government document library

Anthropic unveils ‘auditing agents’ to test for AI misalignment

Trump says he won't 'destroy' Musk's companies by taking away subsidies

The VTuber world is in crisis over ‘owed’ donations

Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs

New UK law would ban ransomware payments by publicly funded orgs

NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

UK government wants ransomware victims to report breaches so it can carry out ‘targeted disruptions’ against hackers

$16.5B Apple tax windfall will pay for new electricity and water infrastructure in Ireland

UK government wants ransomware victims to report cyberattacks so it can disrupt the hackers

After Fight With Musk, Trump Reportedly Ordered Review of Government SpaceX Contracts

UK to ban public sector orgs from paying ransomware gangs

OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services

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