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Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

news.ycombinator.com Nikita Mazurov 2025-09-26 10:20:36

The company behind the Proton Mail email service, Proton, describes itself as a “neutral and safe haven for your personal data, committed to defending your freedom.” But last month, Proton disabled email accounts belonging to journalists reporting on security breaches of various South Korean government computer systems following a complaint by an unspecified cybersecurity agency. After a public outcry, and multiple weeks, the journalists’ accounts were eventually reinstated — but the reporters

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 13, #1547

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 09:00:03

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. I'm just going to say it. Today's Wordle puzzle is a real streak-breaker. It's an unusual word, and it's tough to put the letters together. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, re

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Wysiwid: What you see is what it does

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Jackson 2025-09-22 20:54:09

Full paper Dividing labor with LLMs. As LLMs get better at writing code, it seems inevitable that there will be less work for human programmers. Thomas Dohmke is right that low-level coding skills will matter less and that “the future belongs to developers who can model systems, anticipate edge cases, and translate ambiguity into structure—skills that AI can’t automate.” Dohmke says “We need to teach abstraction, decomposition, and specification not just as pre-coding steps, but as the new cod

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How FOSS Projects Handle Legal Takedown Requests

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 21:22:38

When a legal takedown request arrives, whether it’s about copyright, censorship, privacy, or something more vague, how a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project responds can make all the difference. Handled well, a takedown request can be a manageable administrative step. Handled poorly, it can cause panic, disrupt infrastructure, or even put contributors at legal risk. As part of our legal resilience research, we spoke with a range of legal experts, software freedom advocates, and mainta

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Video Games Weekly: It's weird that esports is segregated by gender

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-26 12:35:19

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (Or, I dunno, Thursday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week.

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New FAA program will let eVTOL startups test some operations before full certification

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-09-27 06:33:06

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced a new pilot program that will let electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) startups test some operations before they receive full regulatory certification. It’s a potentially big change for these companies, as they’ve spent the last few years performing limited test flights of their aircraft while working toward FAA approval. But the program has its limits. Companies will have to partner with state, local, tribal, or territorial gove

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New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-27 10:09:00

Lots of people are excited about the idea of using plants to help us draw down some of the excess carbon dioxide we've been pumping into the atmosphere. It would be nice to think that we could reforest our way out of the mess we're creating, but recent studies have indicated there's simply not enough productive land for this to work out. One alternative might be to get plants to take up carbon dioxide more efficiently. Unfortunately, the enzyme that incorporates carbon dioxide into photosynthes

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Mastodon rolls out quote posts with protections to prevent ‘dunking’

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-27 10:38:53

Mastodon, an open source, decentralized alternative to X, is rolling out a somewhat controversial feature by adding quote posts, which will launch next week. The feature, which allows a user to quote someone else’s post and re-share it with their own response or commentary, has contributed to a culture of “dunking” on X, where users often deride other people by responding with snark or insulting humor. To address this concern, Mastodon says it’s implementing quote posts with safety controls. T

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Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-27 18:07:59

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Mastodon is officially rolling out quote posts. Starting next week, you’ll see an option to quote another user by selecting the repost — or “boost” — button, allowing you to add your thoughts to someone else’s post. The decentralized platform initially planned

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Powerbeats Pro 2 adding Apple Fitness support, better heart rate monitoring, more with iOS 26

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-09-27 22:25:22

AirPods Pro 3 debuted this week with new heart rate monitoring features. This follows the debut of Powerbeats Pro 2, which launched in February as Apple’s first pair of earbuds with heart monitoring capabilities. Now, Beats has confirmed that the implementation of heart rate tracking on Powerbeats Pro 2 is getting a big upgrade to mirror the functionality offered by AirPods Pro 3. When the Powerbeats Pro 2 were released in February, there were a few limitations surrounding heart rate monitorin

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Microsoft escapes EU antitrust fine after unbundling Teams

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-27 22:30:52

Microsoft is no longer in trouble with the European Commission, at least when it comes to Teams. The commission has accepted the changes and commitments the company made in response to its concerns related to Microsoft's bundling of its Teams collaboration platform with its other apps. This particular antitrust saga started years ago when Slack filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft, claiming that it illegally bundled its work chat competitor with the popular Office suite. The commission

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AI 'friend' chatbots probed over child protection

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-28 06:36:53

AI 'friend' chatbots probed over child protection The seven companies - Alphabet, OpenAI, Character.ai, Snap, XAI, Meta and its subsidiary Instagram - have been approached for comment. The impacts of AI chatbots to children is a hot topic, with concerns that younger people are particularly vulnerable due to the AI being able to mimic human conversations and emotions, often presenting themselves as friends or companions. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is requesting information on how the c

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Microsoft sidesteps hefty EU fine with Teams unbundling deal

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-09-28 05:13:31

The Microsoft Teams app on a laptop arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. The European Union on Friday said it has accepted commitments from Microsoft to unbundle its Teams workplace communication platform from its popular productivity apps. The decision essentially exempts Microsoft from receiving a potentially hefty antitrust fine after the company was last year accused by the European Commission — the executive body of the EU — of breaching competition rules with the "abusive

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Samsung patches actively exploited zero-day reported by WhatsApp

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-28 05:48:30

Samsung has patched a remote code execution vulnerability that was exploited in zero-day attacks targeting its Android devices. Tracked as CVE-2025-21043, this critical security flaw affects Samsung devices running Android 13 or later and was reported by the security teams of Meta and WhatsApp on August 13. As Samsung explains in a recently updated advisory, this vulnerability was discovered in libimagecodec.quram.so (a closed-source image parsing library developed by Quramsoft that implements

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FTC to AI Companies: Tell Us How You Protect Teens and Kids Who Use AI Companions

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 05:08:36

The Federal Trade Commission is launching an investigation into AI chatbots from seven companies, including Alphabet, Meta and OpenAI, over their use as companions. The inquiry involves finding how the companies test, monitor and measure the potential harm to children and teens. A Common Sense Media survey of 1,060 teens in April and May found that over 70% used AI companions and that more than 50% used them consistently -- a few times or more per month. Experts have been warning for some time

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Performance-focused forks of styled-components

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 08:00:52

Your React app might be 40% slower on first render than it needs to be. Not because you wrote bad code. Not because React is slow. But because styled-components never implemented React 18's useInsertionEffect hook: a feature specifically designed to solve CSS-in-JS performance problems. While React 18 shipped in March 2022 with this optimization path, styled-components remained on React 17 patterns, injecting styles during render instead of between render and layout. This creates a performanc

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DOJ and states ask court to compel Apple to hand over documents in antitrust case

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-28 06:15:42

Apple is being accused of dragging its feet to produce important documents related to its antitrust case. Here are the details. A bit of background The DOJ brought its case against Apple in 2024, accusing it of antitrust behavior regarding multiple app categories, such as super apps, messaging apps, and cloud streaming gaming, as well as related to third-party smartwatches and third-party digital wallets. Apple, for its part, has attempted to dismiss the lawsuit, and as recently as last July,

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The music industry is broken: OpenWav’s new app aims to change that

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-28 08:07:23

Grammy Award-winning musician, composer, and producer Wyclef Jean says the music industry is broken, which is why he’s now involved with a startup, OpenWav, that’s looking to give the power back to the artists. Through the OpenWav app, launched over the summer, artists can drop new music and exclusives; connect directly with fans; sell merch; host concerts, pop-ups, and listening parties; and more. Later, the startup plans to offer more assistance to artists using AI tools. Speaking at the For

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Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 14:41:43

FartScrollLid 💨 A hilarious macOS app that plays fart sounds as you open and close your MacBook lid - inspired by the classic "fart scroll" browser extension! Features 🎵 Dynamic Fart Sounds - Pitch changes based on lid angle (deep bass when closed, high squeaks when open) - Pitch changes based on lid angle (deep bass when closed, high squeaks when open) 🎯 Motion-Activated - Only farts when you're actively moving the lid - Only farts when you're actively moving the lid 📊 Real-Time Monitoring

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Smartwatch deals: The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8, 8 Classic, and Ultra are on sale!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-28 18:21:59

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority These offers are all available from Amazon. The discounts apply to every color option available, regardless of which version you pick. Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 40mm Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 40mm Brighter display, better battery life The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 offers a new 'squircle' look, with new band attachments, backed by new software, a 50% brighter display over last year's model, and a slightly larger battery. The watch is available i

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 12, #1546

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 17:00:03

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle has only one vowel, so if you often guess AUDIO or ADIEU as your first word, change it up. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hint

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 12, #354

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 17:00:04

Looking for the most recent regular 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 and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is a fun mix. When I saw "inside-the-park," I figured that could only mean one category, but some of the others were trickier. If you're stuck but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Ath

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Anthropic’s Claude AI can now automatically ‘remember’ past chats

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-28 18:43:46

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic will now let its Claude AI chatbot “remember” the details of previous conversations without prompting. The feature is only rolling out for Team and Enterprise users for now, allowing Claude to automatically incorporate someone’s preferences, the contex

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The music industry is broken. OpenWav’s new app aims to change that

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-28 18:07:23

Grammy Award-winning musician, composer, and producer Wyclef Jean says the music industry is broken, which is why he’s now involved with a startup, OpenWav, that’s looking to give the power back to the artists. Through the OpenWav app, launched over the summer, artists can drop new music and exclusives, connect directly with fans, sell merch, host concerts, pop-ups, and listening parties, and more. Later, the startup plans to offer more assistance to artists using AI tools. Speaking at the For

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How to Inspire K-12 Students to Study in Computing Disciplines in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Byte-A-Dynamo Workshops

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-09-28 21:15:55

Software engineering shouldn’t be gatekept to people who can afford an expensive degree. Recently, one group has been working hard to expand artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science teaching to students (ages 10-16) from low-income families in Maryland who have no or minimal computing backgrounds. Computing isn’t just for the elite; it’s for anyone with curiosity and creativity. But resources and training aren’t always widely accessible. That’s why a series of free workshops was introd

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IDC: Apple gained wearables market share, but sales lagged behind competitors during Q2

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-28 22:03:11

IDC’s report on worldwide “wrist-worn” devices for the second quarter of 2025 is out, and it shows mixed results for the Apple Watch. Here is the breakdown. Xiaomi leads in growth, while Samsung lags behind During the second quarter last year, IDC determined that Apple had shipped 5.7 million Apple Watch units, falling closely behind Xiaomi’s 5.9 million shipped units and further behind Huawei’s 8.9 million. That difference was mirrored in market share as well, with Huawei taking the top spot

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Randomly selecting points inside a triangle

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 21:29:33

If you have a triangle with vertices A, B, and C, how would you generate random points inside the triangle ABC? Barycentric coordinates One idea would be to use barycentric coordinates. Generate random numbers α, β, and γ from the interval [0, 1]. Normalize the points to have sum 1 by dividing each by their sum. Return αA + βB + γC. This generates points inside the triangle, but not uniformly. Accept-reject Another idea is to use an accept-reject method. Draw a rectangle around the triangl

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NASA Says This Martian Rock Holds Potential Signs of Life. Here’s What Must Happen Next

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-28 22:25:20

For four years, NASA’s Perseverance rover has searched for possible signs of ancient life on the surface of Mars. It has found myriad interesting features in its travels, including a rock with strange spots, discovered inside Mars’ Jezero Crater. Dubbed “Cheyava Falls,” the 2024 discovery immediately caught the attention of scientists on Earth, as its spots indicated it may hold a potential biosignature—a sign of life. The rover went to work. The bot analyzed the rock’s composition and surface

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Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 02:06:32

Hi HN, we're Jesse and Gautham. We're building Ghostship ( https://tryghostship.dev/ ). Ghostship lets you find bugs in your web app by entering in your URL and describing a user journey. Here's a video of Ghostship in action: https://www.loom.com/share/dec264ae32f94d50adb141c9246837c3?.... For over half our lives, we've been developers and we've done tons of user-facing projects like a coding competition I built called CerealCodes or freelancing projects on Upwork. The biggest problem we fac

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FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions from Meta, OpenAI, and others

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-09-29 01:06:15

The FTC announced on Thursday that it is launching an inquiry into seven tech companies that make AI chatbot companion products for minors: Alphabet, CharacterAI, Instagram, Meta, OpenAI, Snap, and xAI. The federal regulator seeks to learn how these companies are evaluating the safety and monetization of chatbot companions, how they try to limit negative impacts on children and teens, and if parents are made aware of potential risks. This technology has proven controversial for its poor outcom

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