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Palo Alto Networks agrees to buy CyberArk for $25 billion

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-27 15:38:29

In Brief Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks announced on Wednesday its intent to acquire identity management and security company CyberArk for $25 billion. The deal, a mix of cash and stock, marks Palo Alto’s entrance into the identity security space, according to a company press release. Palo Alto has been on a shopping spree since Nikesh Arora took over as CEO and chairman of the company in 2018, according to the Financial Times, which estimated the company has spent more than $7 billion

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Critical Vulnerability in AI Vibe Coding platform Base44

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 18:12:32

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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Australia’s first orbital-class rocket stalled seconds after liftoff

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-27 20:13:28

Back-to-back engine failures doomed a privately developed Australian rocket moments after liftoff Tuesday, cutting short a long-shot attempt to reach orbit with the country's first homegrown launch vehicle. The 82-foot-tall (25-meter) Eris rocket ignited its four main engines and took off from its launch pad in northeastern Australia at 6:35 pm EDT (22:35 UTC) Tuesday. Liftoff occurred at 8:35 am local time Wednesday at Bowen Orbital Spaceport, the Eris rocket's launch site in the Australian st

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India safely launches a $1.5 billion satellite for NASA

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-27 20:18:10

After more than a decade of development, NASA's science leadership traveled to India this week for the launch of the world's most expensive Earth-observation satellite. The $1.5 billion synthetic aperture radar imaging satellite, a joint project between NASA and the Indian space agency ISRO, successfully launched into orbit on Wednesday aboard that nation's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, a medium-lift rocket. The mission, named NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), was subseque

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Everything You Wanted to Know About China’s Auto Industry Takeover

wired.com Jeremy White 2025-12-27 20:00:00

What is the future of cars? For one thing, after substantial government support and poaching of top Western talent, China’s car industry is about to dominate globally with charging rates, ranges, luxury design, technology, and sheer volumes. Moreover, it’s no longer content with serving its own enormous market as Chinese brands make serious inroads across Australia and Europe. In May, it was reported that, for the first time, Chinese automaker BYD sold more cars in Europe than Tesla in the prev

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Google Chrome is testing iOS-like page transitions on Android, and you can try it out now

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-28 00:24:33

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google Chrome is testing a predictive back feature that previews the previous page, preventing users from accidentally navigating away. Leveraging Android’s built-in functionality, the preview shows the prior page in your history, but a gray screen if it’s returning home. The feature is currently in A/B testing in Chrome’s stable version, but users can enable it manually via feature flags. Accidentally exiting an app can be frustrating, especially whe

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Hexatetrahedral Rails

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 05:56:32

Software is a creative endeavor and a craft. And like any creative endeavor and any craft, it is subject to fashions. About a decade ago, one of those fashions was Hexagonal Rails largely inspired by the DDD book, but also by the original Hexagonal Architecture work by Dr. Cockburn. Some of these applications are now up for their Rails upgrade and an “oil change,” and it’s interesting to see them in the wild and how they get perceived through the lens of the years that have gone by since then.

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Critical Vulnerability Discovered 11 Days After Wix Buys Base44

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 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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Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 00:11:58

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Australia’s First Rocket Crashes and Burns Seconds After Liftoff

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-28 00:25:00

The first Australian-made orbital rocket to launch from the land down under barely took off for its inaugural test flight, ending roughly 14 seconds after liftoff. Australian startup Gilmour Space launched its Eris rocket for the first time from the company’s Bowen Orbital Spaceport in northern Queensland at 6:35 p.m. ET on Tuesday (8:35 a.m. on Wednesday local time). The first orbital rocket designed and manufactured in Australia had a less-than-ideal first showing. Footage showed Eris struggl

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You can hide an AirTag in Skechers’ new kids’ shoes

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-28 00:18:38

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. If you’re a parent with kids in school or kids who are independently exploring their neighborhood for the first time, then there’s a good chance you’ve considered stashing a tracker somewhere on their person for added peace of mind. Skechers is making that a little easier with a new line of sneakers for kids that feature a hidden compartment in t

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Palo Alto Networks stock falls after announcing $25 billion Cyberark deal

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-28 05:45:40

Palo Alto Networks will take over Israeli identity security provider CyberArk in a deal valued at roughly $25 billion. The California-based cybersecurity company will pay shareholders $45 apiece for 2.2005 shares of CyberArk, representing a 26% premium to its share price Friday. The deal is expected to close during Palo Alto Networks' fiscal year 2026. Shares of Palo Alto fell 5% Wednesday, building on a 5% loss from Tuesday. CyberArk's stock whipsawed. Palo Alto CEO and chairman Nikesh Arora

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NordVPN joins the scam call fight on Android

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-28 05:24:52

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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Palo Alto Networks stock falls 7% after announcing $25 billion Cyberark deal

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-28 10:47:22

Palo Alto Networks will take over Israeli identity security provider CyberArk in a deal valued at roughly $25 billion. The California-based cybersecurity company will pay shareholders $45 apiece for 2.2005 shares of CyberArk, representing a 26% premium to its share price Friday. The deal is expected to close during Palo Alto Networks' fiscal year 2026. Shares of Palo Alto fell 7% Wednesday, building on a 5% loss from Tuesday. CyberArk's stock dipped about 1%. Palo Alto CEO and chairman Nikesh

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Google will sign EU's AI Code of Practice

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-28 10:07:41

Google says it will sign the European Union’s new AI Code of Practice, which provides a framework for compliance with the EU’s AI Act. The act itself was passed in 2024, but its many provisions will take months to years to come into effect. The non-binding Code of Practice is a voluntary measure intended to help ensure that companies generally meet the obligations laid out by the Act in the meantime. In a blog post announcing Google’s participation, the tech giant shared some skepticism about t

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Clj-coll: Clojure collections and sequences in Common Lisp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 15:58:49

CLJ-COLL: looks like Clojure, tastes like Common Lisp! This is a Common Lisp implementation of Clojure's APIs for collections, seqs, and lazy-seqs. It provides immutable Cons, Queue, PersistentList, capabilities as well as Vector, Set, and Map analogues built on FSet (but accessed entirely via Clojure APIs). CLJ-COLL is intended to give a "most naturally integrated" experience of Clojure APIs and immutable data structures within a Common Lisp environment, and to make Common Lisp more approacha

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Palo Alto Networks stock falls 8% after announcing $25 billion Cyberark deal

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-28 15:59:50

Palo Alto Networks will take over Israeli identity security provider CyberArk in a deal valued at roughly $25 billion. The California-based cybersecurity company will pay shareholders $45 apiece for 2.2005 shares of CyberArk, representing a 26% premium to its share price Friday. The deal is expected to close during Palo Alto Networks' fiscal year 2026. Shares of Palo Alto fell more than 8% Wednesday, building on a 5% loss from Tuesday. CyberArk's stock dipped about 2%. Palo Alto CEO and chair

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Nightfall launches ‘Nyx,’ an AI that automates data loss prevention at enterprise scale

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-28 15:00:00

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 Nightfall AI launched the industry’s first autonomous data loss prevention platform Wednesday, introducing an AI agent that automatically investigates security incidents and tunes policies without human intervention — a breakthrough that could reshape how enterprises protect sensitive information in an era of expanding cyber threats. The S

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Watch and learn, Samsung: This Galaxy Ring competitor now predicts your chances of falling sick

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-28 15:00:43

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Circular’s smart ring is getting a new Immunity Index that measures your defense against diseases. It accounts for your vitals and gives you a rating on a scale of 0–8. The feature is rolling out to the companion app for the first-gen Circular Ring and will be available for the Ring 2, which is expected to be available soon. Even though the smart ring market is still niche, the entry of big players like Samsung with its Galaxy Ring has set it into mot

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Apple’s two new iPhone models this year might have a lot in common

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-28 15:37:31

Apple launches new iPhones every single year. But the introduction of a brand new model is a rarity, and this year we’ll end up getting two: iPhone 17 Air and iPhone 16e. Coincidentally, these two new models could turn out having a lot in common. iPhone 16e focused on essentials, but with some drawbacks Earlier this year, Apple launched the brand new iPhone 16e. What was once thought to be an iPhone SE refresh turned into something altogether different. Apple hasn’t defined the ‘e’ in the ti

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State capacity and eight parking spaces

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 06:37:39

Jul 29, 2025 politics government infrastructure seattle State Capacity and Eight Parking Spaces Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book, Abundance, makes a compelling case that American government has systematically eroded its own capacity to build things. Through decades of well-intentioned regulations, environmental reviews, and bureaucratic processes, we’ve created a system that prioritizes blocking bad projects over enabling good ones. The result is a country that can’t build high-speed rail,

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Observe continues to adapt to the changing world of software observability

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-28 15:00:00

Observe, an observability platform, was founded in 2017 in response to the changing nature of software observability. Companies started pushing out new versions of their software more frequently — and producing significantly more data because of it. Now, Observe is responding to the latest big shift in technology: AI. San Mateo-based Observe helps companies get an inside look at the status of their software, which makes it easier for engineers to spot and solve disruptions and outages. The re

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Survey of 1,000 Experts Shows Quantum Physicists Still Can’t Agree on Anything

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-28 17:00:10

In July 1925—exactly a century ago—famed physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to his equally famous colleague, Wolfgang Pauli. In it, Heisenberg confesses that his “views on mechanics have become more radical with each passing day,” requesting Pauli’s prompt feedback on an attached manuscript he’s considering whether to “complete…or to burn.” That was the Umdeutung (reinterpretation) paper, which set the foundation for a more empirically verifiable version of quantum mechanics. For that r

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Big Tech split? Google to sign EU’s AI guidelines despite Meta snub

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-12-29 03:33:31

Google on Wednesday said it will sign the European Union's guidelines on artificial intelligence, which Meta previously rebuffed due to concerns they could stifle innovation. In a blog post, Google said it planned to sign the code in the hope that it would promote European citizens' access to advanced new AI tools, as they become available. Google's endorsement comes after Meta recently said it would refuse to sign the code over concerns that it could constrain European AI innovation. "Prompt

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Google Photos is getting a new video editor and some much-needed extras (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 04:30:18

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed an overhauled video editor in Google Photos. The new editor features some visual changes in line with the Material 3 Expressive style. The editor also has video flipping functionality and the ability to add music to videos. We previously discovered a redesigned image editor in Google Photos before its recent release. Google isn’t stopping here, as it’s also working on an overhauled video editor. Authority I

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TikTok 'content check' tells creators if their videos will be blocked from For You pages

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-29 06:00:15

TikTok's "For You" recommendations have long been a source of mystery and fascination for creators on the platform. Even the most seasoned TikTok stars don't always understand why some videos go viral and some don't. And there's long been lots of speculation about the types of content that is and isn't acceptable to the app's recommendation algorithm. Now, the company is looking to give creators more transparency into its recommendations. TikTok is testing out a "content check" feature that wil

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State Capacity and Eight Parking Spaces

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 00:37:39

Jul 29, 2025 politics government infrastructure seattle State Capacity and Eight Parking Spaces Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book, Abundance, makes a compelling case that American government has systematically eroded its own capacity to build things. Through decades of well-intentioned regulations, environmental reviews, and bureaucratic processes, we’ve created a system that prioritizes blocking bad projects over enabling good ones. The result is a country that can’t build high-speed rail,

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After 100 Years of Quantum Mechanics, Physicists Still Can’t Agree on Anything

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-29 05:00:10

In July 1925—exactly a century ago—famed physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to his equally famous colleague, Wolfgang Pauli. In it, Heisenberg confesses that his “views on mechanics have become more radical with each passing day,” requesting Pauli’s prompt feedback on an attached manuscript he’s considering whether to “complete…or to burn.” That was the Umdeutung (reinterpretation) paper, which set the foundation for a more empirically verifiable version of quantum mechanics. For that r

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YouTube makes it easy for TV users to skip to the best bits of videos

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-29 06:00:05

It seems YouTube is finally giving its TV app the AI feature that lets you skip to the most interesting parts of a video. Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman reports that the Jump Ahead perk for YouTube Premium subscribers appeared on his Nvidia Shield TV yesterday, a feature that was previously exclusive to YouTube’s web and mobile platforms. Jump Ahead gives users an easy way to automatically get to the best bits of a video by using AI to analyze the most-watched segments that viewers typicall

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This subscription-free smart ring gave my Oura a run for its money (and it's cheaper too)

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-12-29 08:00:13

RingConn Smart Ring ZDNET's key takeaways The RingConn Smart Ring is available now in three colors for $259 (regularly $279). One week battery life, lovely matte finish, powerful smartphone app, and no subscription fee. No readiness score and does not sync with third-party fitness apps other than Apple Health $169 at Amazon While I wear watches on both of my wrists, that type of wearable isn't the best for tracking sleep without being disruptive. For more than two years, I have also had an Ou

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Palo Alto Networks agrees to buy CyberArk for $25 billion

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Hexatetrahedral Rails

Critical Vulnerability Discovered 11 Days After Wix Buys Base44

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You can hide an AirTag in Skechers’ new kids’ shoes

Palo Alto Networks stock falls after announcing $25 billion Cyberark deal

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Palo Alto Networks stock falls 7% after announcing $25 billion Cyberark deal

Google will sign EU's AI Code of Practice

Clj-coll: Clojure collections and sequences in Common Lisp

Palo Alto Networks stock falls 8% after announcing $25 billion Cyberark deal

Nightfall launches ‘Nyx,’ an AI that automates data loss prevention at enterprise scale

Watch and learn, Samsung: This Galaxy Ring competitor now predicts your chances of falling sick

Apple’s two new iPhone models this year might have a lot in common

State capacity and eight parking spaces

Observe continues to adapt to the changing world of software observability

Survey of 1,000 Experts Shows Quantum Physicists Still Can’t Agree on Anything

Big Tech split? Google to sign EU’s AI guidelines despite Meta snub

Google Photos is getting a new video editor and some much-needed extras (APK teardown)

TikTok 'content check' tells creators if their videos will be blocked from For You pages

State Capacity and Eight Parking Spaces

After 100 Years of Quantum Mechanics, Physicists Still Can’t Agree on Anything

YouTube makes it easy for TV users to skip to the best bits of videos

This subscription-free smart ring gave my Oura a run for its money (and it's cheaper too)

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