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GAO warns of privacy risks in using facial recognition in rental housing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 13:53:05

RENTAL HOUSING Use and Federal Oversight of Property Technology Report to Congressional Requesters July 2025 GAO-25-107196 United States Government Accountability Office Highlights For more information, contact Alicia Puente Cackley at [email protected]. Highlights of GAO-25-107196, a report to congressional requesters RENTAL HOUSING Use and Federal Oversight of Property Technology Why GAO Did This Study Some policymakers have raised questions about the use of property technology tool

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Spectrum – catching clojure.spec conform errors at compile time

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 14:28:14

spectrum A library for doing static analysis of Clojure code, catching clojure.spec conform errors at compile time. Wait what? It's like core.typed, but it relies on clojure.spec annotations. So it's an optional static type system? Kind-of. It finds errors at compile time, and predicates kind of look like types. So sure. Current Status Developer Preview, not yet ready for any kind of use. Current development is working towards making spectrum self-check. Goals usable pragmatic readab

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University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 15:20:32

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Anduril: Amusement Park for Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Adnan Esmail 2025-10-27 17:14:15

This article features first-ever photos taken from inside Anduril’s R&D facilities in Costa Mesa, California. All photos by Ryan Young. On a Saturday afternoon in April 2024, I was on the rooftop pool deck of a Marriott hotel, setting up radar equipment aimed above the Hollywood Hills in Burbank, California. My five-year-old son, still damp from swimming, darted around as I calibrated the system. “What are you doing?” he asked, touching the electronics with wet hands. “Tracking … flying o

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Can cheaper lasers handle short distances?

news.ycombinator.com Bryon Moyer 2025-10-24 14:28:55

Optical technology is well established for long-haul communications, but the distances it serves are shrinking — especially in the data center. Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) already drive short fiber links. But efforts are underway to further scale them down to provide more connections through waveguides than fiber can provide. “We have seen the transition from long haul to metro-to-local area networks and then into the data center,” said Suresh Jayaraman, senior director fo

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You Have to Feel It

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 12:38:33

August 30, 2025 You see a series of checkboxes checked. Schedules met. Requirements satisfied. Demos delivered. It's a good day. Good job, you, good job! A promotion is in sight. But you didn't feel it. You didn't feel it. We, as people, feel something with every interaction. Frustration, joy, relief, confidence. A feeling. A person interacts with our work. Our work evokes a feeling. The feeling matters. The feeling is part of the work. The desired feeling is part of the requirements. When y

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Are we decentralized yet?

news.ycombinator.com Robert Ricci 2025-10-27 17:26:29

This page measures the concentration of user data on the Fediverse and the Atmosphere according to the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI), an indicator from economics used to measure competition between firms in an industry. Mathematically, HHI is the sum of the squares of market shares of all servers. Values close to zero indicate perfectly competitive markets (eg. many servers, with users spread evenly), while values close to 10000 indicate highly concentrated monopolies (eg. most users on a si

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Verizon’s ‘software issue’ has disconnected many wireless customers across the US

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-10-27 19:54:13

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Verizon has confirmed to customers in stores and online that its network is having an issue on Saturday. Many people have been unable to connect and make or receive calls for hours, while DownDetector’s tracker peaked in the afternoon at around 3:30PM

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Apple @ Work: SAP updates Privileges with new tools for managing admin rights on macOS

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-27 16:00:00

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iPad vs iPad Air: With a $150 price gap, is the Air still worth the premium?

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-27 16:46:40

Apple has two great, affordable iPads that most people consider: the base iPad, and the iPad Air. Over time, these iPads have always been relatively similar, making it a rather interesting debate. With current deals, theres only $150 between these two iPads, which really begs the question: should you pay more for the iPad Air, or save some money with the base iPad? The case for iPad Air For $150 more, the iPad Air comes with a lot more tech at a sub-$500 price. To be exact, the iPad Air is cur

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Hitman on iOS, martial arts survival and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-27 14:00:54

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. One very well-known indie found its way to iOS devices this week, though there are other new releases worth highlighting and plenty of other upcoming games to tell you about. First, though, there was a (paywalled) story in Game File this week that caught my eye. It's about how Google's AI Overviews feature offers up false video game tips. That's a problem the developers of a game called Trash Goblin — a cosy shopkeeping gam

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The best Labor Day sales for 2025: Tech from Apple, Dyson, Sony and others is up to 50 percent off

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-27 18:05:35

Labor Day marks the unofficial end to summer as the weather starts to get crisper and students head back to school for the new semester. It also marks a good time to check out the tech deals available across the web. While seasonal holidays like Memorial Day and Labor Day are not the boon for tech sales that shopping events like Amazon Prime Day are, they can present good opportunities to save on things like laptops, tablets, smart home gear and more. Here, we've curated the best Labor Day sa

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My favorite affordable phone cases are BOGO free (including for the new Google Pixel 10 series)

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-10-27 19:58:10

The Casely Love Song Lavender Heart Case with the Lavender Heart Power Pod. Kayla Solino/ZDNET Labor Day weekend is here, and one of my favorite mobile accessory brands is celebrating the incoming fall season with serious savings on all their cases -- including the newest fall and Halloween cases. It's the perfect time to (pumpkin) spice up your smartphone during Casely's Labor Day sale. There are tons of designs to choose from. Also: The best Labor Day deals live now Prices start at $30 per

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Show HN: OpenAnimation – KMP app for exploring and editing Lottie animations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 16:18:53

OpenAnimation ✨ Check out the live web version: openanimation.web.app ✨ Discover and draw inspiration from a curated collection of beautiful Lottie animations, all powered by Kotlin Multiplatform. 🔥 New Features 🙏 Libraries Used Contributing Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request. License This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details. 🚀 Roadmap & TODO Features

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Why did dlclose not unload the library? (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 03:45:06

Recently, at work, we were debugging an issue where dlclose was not unloading the library . You might wonder why that even matters - if your library contains any global symbols, then their state will persist across a dlopen, dlclose sequence. In other words, your library isn’t starting from a clean state every time. In the case we were debugging, this issue manifested in the following fashion: We had two libraries libA and libB and libA dynamically depends on libB. When you dlopen libA, it also

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New interpretations suggest the "heat death" hypothesis might not hold (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 18:25:10

New interpretations of the laws of thermodynamics suggest the infamous “heat death” hypothesis, which foretells the end of all life and organization in the universe, might not hold. Credits Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist, a science journalist and the author of the book “The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness and Cosmic Complexity.” Perhaps the most depressing scientific idea that has ever been put forth is the infamous “heat death h

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AI models need a virtual machine

news.ycombinator.com Shraddha Barke 2025-10-27 16:25:39

AI Models Need a Virtual Machine Applications using AI embed the AI model in a framework that interfaces between the model and the rest of the system, providing needed services such as tool calling, context retrieval, etc. Software for early chatbots took user input, called the LLM, and returned the result to the user; essentially just a read-eval-print loop. But, as the capabilities of LLMs have evolved and extension mechanisms, such as MCP were defined, the complexities of the control softwar

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FBI Director’s Girlfriend Sues Podcaster Over Claim She’s a Spy for Israel

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-27 18:30:38

Alexis Wilkins, the country singer and girlfriend of FBI director Kash Patel, filed a lawsuit this week against conservative podcaster Kyle Seraphin over his claims that Wilkins worked for Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad. Social media users have claimed Wilkins was acting as a so-called “honeypot” to get information from Patel and it’s become a popular meme on X in recent weeks, but Wilkins has now filed suit against Seraphin, a former FBI agent. Wilkins first denied she was a spy working f

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WhatsApp Just Patched a ‘Zero Click’ Bug Being Used to Hack Apple Users

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-27 18:50:34

On Friday, WhatsApp announced that it had patched a software vulnerability that was being used by unknown hackers to target specific users of Apple products and hack them with spyware. WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, said in an advisory that the previously unknown bug “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific targeted users.” The vulnerability is officially dubbed CVE-2025-55177. TechCrunch notes that this week, WhatsApp fixed the bug while last week, Apple fixed an

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Your 2025 NFL Sunday Ticket Packages, Explained

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-27 14:00:06

Before the NFL season kicks off on Sept. 4, some of us cord-cutters may still need time to sort through sports packages. YouTube's NFL Sunday Ticket is enticing, but not every plan is the same; there are different prices, programming lineups and multiple ways to pay for it. Sunday Ticket is available bundled with a YouTube TV live TV streaming subscription or as a standalone offering purchased as a YouTube Primetime Channel. If you get YouTube TV's base plan so you can watch national and local

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Texas suit alleging anti-coal “cartel” of top Wall Street firms could reshape ESG

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-27 14:00:52

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Since 2022, Republican lawmakers in Congress and state attorneys general have sent letters to major banks, pension funds, asset managers, accounting firms, companies, nonprofits, and business alliances, putting them on notice for potential antitrust violations and seeking information as part of the Republican pu

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Antarctica Is Changing Rapidly. The Consequences Could Be Dire

wired.com Matt Simon 2025-10-27 14:00:00

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great sheet of ice set in contrast to the dark waters of the encircling Southern Ocean. Get closer, though, and you’ll find not a simple cap of frozen water, but an extraordinarily complex interplay between the ocean, sea ice, and ice sheets and shelves. That relationship is in serious peril. A new paper in the journal Nature catal

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Taco Bell is having second thoughts about relying on AI at the drive-through

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-27 19:50:00

In Brief Taco Bell’s chief digital officer says the company is having an “active conversation” about when to use and not to use AI. The company has apparently rolled out voice AI-powered ordering at more than 500 drive-throughs, leading to unflattering viral moments like someone ordering 18,000 water cups in order to “bypass” the AI and get connected to a human server. Chief Digital and Technology Officer Dane Matthews told The Wall Street Journal that even he has mixed experiences with techn

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The 5 Benefits and Risks of Sea Moss Gummies, and Who Should Try Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-27 16:34:00

Sea moss gummies have become a popular supplement, perhaps in part due to celebrities like Bella Hadid drinking sea moss gel every morning. Now, in addition to gels, you'll find countless brands selling the seaweed in gummy form, making it even more difficult to figure out what's fact or fiction, and if sea moss gummies are even right for you in the first place. To see if the potential benefits of sea moss gummies outweigh the risks, we reached out to experts to learn more about the seaweed in

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'AI may eat software,' but several tech names just wrapped a huge week

cnbc.com Ari Levy Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-10-27 15:18:22

A banner for Snowflake Inc. is displayed at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate the company's initial public offering on Sept. 16, 2020. MongoDB's stock just closed out its best week on record, leading a rally in enterprise technology companies that are seeing tailwinds from the artificial intelligence boom. In addition to MongoDB's 44% rally, Pure Storage soared 33%, its second-sharpest gain ever, while Snowflake jumped 21%. Autodesk rose 8.4%. Since generative AI started taking off in

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Software commands 40% of cybersecurity budgets as gen AI attacks execute in milliseconds

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-10-27 19:06:26

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 “With volatility now the norm, security and risk leaders need practical guidance on managing existing spending and new budgetary necessities,” states Forrester’s 2026 Budget Planning Guide, revealing a fundamental shift in how organizations allocate cybersecurity resources. Software now commands 40% of cybersecurity spending, exceeding har

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Meta will sell you refurbished Ray-Ban smart glasses for $76 off - how to find them

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-27 14:29:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Meta Ray-Bans have often been very difficult to find in stock at both retailers and online stores for the past two years -- and they rarely go on sale. But one of the best ways to not only get a 20% discount but also find some of the styles that have been discontinued or are rarely ever in stock is to use the little-known Meta Refurbished AI Glasses online store. I recently ordered a pair of Meta Ray-Bans in the Skylar style with the Shiny Caramel finish with Polar Brown lens

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I put my Shokz away within seconds of testing these bone conduction headphones

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-10-27 19:30:18

Suunto Wing 2 bone conduction headphones ZDNET's key takeaways The Suunto Wing 2 is available for $179 in black and coral orange. The fantastic audio quality, new voice prompts, and long battery life combine to make this a compelling headset. The lights are mounted on the top of the headset, so if you have long hair or wear a hat, they could be obscured. View now at Suunto I need music when I work out. Specifically, classic rock. It motivates me to keep going, so having a headset paired with

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Magic: The Gathering PAX Panel Previews Seriously Sinister Supervillains

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-27 17:30:03

Spider-Man is one of the most recognizable superheroes in the world, with decades of comics history, multiple movie franchises, animated shows and a long list of video games, including three recent titles on PS5 and PC. And now he's crawling his way into Magic: The Gathering with September's Spider-Man set. This is the third full Universes Beyond set -- Magic's name for products based on outside properties. While Universes Beyond has introduced myriad properties from Stranger Things to Spongebo

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MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 01:13:50

Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering critical Social Security data This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client Charles Borges and was originally published here. Within weeks of Donald Trump’s second inaugural, members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team showed up at the Social Security Administration and started demanding access to files. The efforts were not well received: Michelle King, in her capacity as the acting Social Securi

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Latest Tech News

GAO warns of privacy risks in using facial recognition in rental housing

Spectrum – catching clojure.spec conform errors at compile time

University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

Anduril: Amusement Park for Engineers

Can cheaper lasers handle short distances?

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Are we decentralized yet?

Verizon’s ‘software issue’ has disconnected many wireless customers across the US

Apple @ Work: SAP updates Privileges with new tools for managing admin rights on macOS

iPad vs iPad Air: With a $150 price gap, is the Air still worth the premium?

Hitman on iOS, martial arts survival and other new indie games worth checking out

The best Labor Day sales for 2025: Tech from Apple, Dyson, Sony and others is up to 50 percent off

My favorite affordable phone cases are BOGO free (including for the new Google Pixel 10 series)

Show HN: OpenAnimation – KMP app for exploring and editing Lottie animations

Why did dlclose not unload the library? (2023)

New interpretations suggest the "heat death" hypothesis might not hold (2023)

AI models need a virtual machine

FBI Director’s Girlfriend Sues Podcaster Over Claim She’s a Spy for Israel

WhatsApp Just Patched a ‘Zero Click’ Bug Being Used to Hack Apple Users

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Texas suit alleging anti-coal “cartel” of top Wall Street firms could reshape ESG

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I put my Shokz away within seconds of testing these bone conduction headphones

Magic: The Gathering PAX Panel Previews Seriously Sinister Supervillains

MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

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