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Telecom giant Orange warns of disruption amid ongoing cyberattack

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-31 00:00:28

Orange, a French telecommunications giant and one of the largest phone providers in the world, announced on Monday that it was the victim of an unspecified cyberattack. In the announcement, the company said that it detected a cyberattack “on one of its information systems” on July 25, and that it proceeded to “isolate potentially affected services and minimize any impact.” The move to isolate affected systems, Orange added, caused disruptions to some of the company’s platforms, as well as busi

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What you may have missed about Trump’s AI Action Plan

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-12-30 23:00:00

But if you dig deeper, certain parts of the plan that didn’t pop up in any headlines reveal more about where the administration’s AI plans are headed. Here are three of the most important issues to watch. Trump is escalating his fight with the Federal Trade Commission When Americans get scammed, they’re supposed to be helped by the Federal Trade Commission. As I wrote last week, the FTC under President Biden increasingly targeted AI companies that overhyped the accuracy of their systems, as we

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French telecom giant Orange discloses cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-31 05:28:08

Orange, a French telecommunications company and one of the world's largest telecom operators, revealed that it detected a breached system on its network on Friday. The compromised system was discovered and isolated from the rest of the network by Orange Cyberdefense, the company's cybersecurity business unit, on July 25. This has led to some operational disruptions, primarily affecting French customers, which are expected to be gradually resolved by Wednesday morning, July 30. "On Friday, July

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This Linux app alerts you when an app tries to connect to the internet - and why that matters

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-31 05:06:36

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET OpenSnitch is a Linux port of the popular MacOS app Little Snitch. This app is essentially an application firewall that tracks network requests from apps, so you can create rules to block or allow those requests. Why is that important? Also: 7 things every Linux beginner should know before downloading their first distro Say, for example, that you've installed a Linux app that shouldn't require internet access (those do still exist). You're using tha

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Microsoft in talks to maintain access to OpenAI’s tech beyond AGI milestone

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-31 05:44:10

Microsoft is reportedly in advanced talks with OpenAI for a new agreement that would give it ongoing access to the startup’s technology even if OpenAI achieves what it defines as AGI, or advanced general intelligence. If the deal goes through, it would clear a key hurdle in OpenAI’s transition toward becoming a fully commercial enterprise. The companies have been negotiating regularly, and they could come to an agreement in a few weeks, Bloomberg reports, citing three anonymous sources. The rep

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build Tesla tunnels under Nashville

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-31 05:56:16

The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging company, and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee have announced a plan to build a 10-mile “loop” that will connect Nashville’s downtown and its convention center to the area’s airport. The project will be privately funded by The Boring Company “and its private partners,” according to the Governor’s press release, though those partners are not named. The Boring Company and local officials will now begin a “public process to evaluate potential routes, engage

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Apple opens manufacturing academy in Detroit as Trump ramps up pressure to invest in U.S.

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-31 10:00:01

US President Donald Trump (R) and Apple CEO Tim Cook (2nd L), with Senior Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump (L) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, tour the Flextronics computer manufacturing facility where Apple's Mac Pros are assembled in Austin, Texas, on November 20, 2019. Faced with intensifying pressure from President Donald Trump to bring more jobs to the U.S., Apple is opening a manufacturing program in downtown Detroit. The Apple Manufacturing Academy, which is being administer

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AI Datacenters Are Raising Nearby Residents' Electric Bills

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-31 10:04:46

If you're looking for someone to blame for your ballooning energy bills, we have an increasingly familiar culprit: AI data centers. A new analysis of one the US's largest power grids, PJM, found that a rise in customer energy rates is directly attributable to the tremendous power demands of these data facilities that undergird services like OpenAI's ChatGPT, the Washington Post reports. Serving 67 million customers, the PJM region covers just over a dozen states, including Indiana, Maryland, M

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Sparrow raises $35M Series B to automate the employee leave management nightmare

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-31 10:00:00

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 Sparrow, the employee leave management technology company, announced Tuesday it raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Silver Lake Waterman, bringing the company’s total investment to $64 million as it capitalizes on the growing complexity of workplace leave compliance. The funding comes as companies grapple with an explosion of sta

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Apple Manufacturing Academy opening in Detroit to support US businesses

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-31 10:50:09

A new Apple Manufacturing Academy has been announced by the company, launching in Detroit on August 19. The iPhone maker says it will offer free training in “smart manufacturing” for small and medium businesses from across the country. The initiative is working in partnership with Michigan State University, and will include Apple engineers among the trainers … The company made the announcement this morning: Apple will open its all-new Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit on Tuesday, August

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My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)

news.ycombinator.com Simon Willison 2025-12-31 10:45:07

My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX I wrote about the new GLM-4.5 model family yesterday—new open weight (MIT licensed) models from Z.ai in China which their benchmarks claim score highly in coding even against models such as Claude Sonnet 4. The models are pretty big—the smaller GLM-4.5 Air model is still 106 billion total parameters, which is 205.78GB on Hugging Face. Ivan Fioravanti built this 44GB 3bit quantized version for MLX, spe

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

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-31 10:05:54

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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Meta's AI spending spree is Wall Street's focus in second-quarter earnings

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-31 15:00:01

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives for the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Meanwhile, revenue growth in the second quarter likely slowed to 15%, down from 22% a year earlier, according to LSEG. It would be the slowest rate of expansion for the company since early 2023, and analysts are expecting lower levels of growth in the coming quarters. Although Meta's AI talent grab may not result in the company raising its projection for 2025 total expe

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Google Pixels just got a welcome boost for PC emulation

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-31 15:22:40

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR GameSir has confirmed that its GameHub PC emulator will also perform better on Google Pixel phones. This comes shortly after it announced performance improvements for devices with Mali graphics. The company hasn’t detailed which improvements will come to Pixel phones, but this is still good news for mobile gamers. Controller brand GameSir recently announced that its GameHub app for PC emulation offers much better support for devices with Mali GPUs. The

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Spotify hits 696M users, but returned to making a loss

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-31 15:11:44

Spotify has posted its latest earnings report, stating that both paid and free users were up more than 10% year-on-year, but the company returned to making a loss … Spotify announced solid growth in both subscribers and revenue: Subscribers climbed 12% Y/Y to 276 million. climbed 12% Y/Y to 276 million. Monthly Active Users grew 11% Y/Y to 696 million. grew 11% Y/Y to 696 million. Total Revenue increased 10% Y/Y to €4.2 billion. increased 10% Y/Y to €4.2 billion. Gross Margin improved by 22

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Anthropic Faces Potentially "Business-Ending" Copyright Lawsuit

news.ycombinator.com Garrison Lovely 2025-12-31 14:41:26

This piece has been updated to add additional context and clarify some details. Anthropic, the AI startup that’s long presented itself as the industry’s safe and ethical choice, is now facing legal penalties that could bankrupt the company. Damages resulting from its mass use of pirated books would likely exceed a billion dollars, with the statutory maximum stretching into the hundreds of billions. Last week, William Alsup, a federal judge in San Francisco, certified a class action lawsuit aga

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PayPal beats on earnings, raises full-year outlook as Venmo growth accelerates

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-01-01 02:35:05

PayPal reported better-than-expected results for the second quarter and raised its full-year guidance for transaction margin dollars and earnings per share. The stock slipped more than 4% following the report. Here's how the company did compared with Wall Street estimates, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG: Earnings per share: $1.40 adjusted vs. $1.30 expected $1.40 adjusted vs. $1.30 expected Revenue: $8.29 billion vs. $8.08 billion expected Sales increased 5% from $7.89 billion a year

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You Can Recycle Your Old Computers and Printers for Free. Here's Where to Take Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 23:25:04

It's somehow really hard to get rid of your old laptops, desktops and printers, even when it's been over a decade since you last plugged them in. But recycling old tech is easier than you think and can free up a lot of space in your home. A CNET survey found that 31% of US adults are still holding onto old, unused devices, including laptops, because they're unsure of what to do with them. The survey also found that 19% of respondents just toss old devices in the trash -- which is actually illeg

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New Speed Test Data Reveals the Nation's Fastest Internet Service Provider

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 00:00:00

There's been a lot of talk about internet speed lately. From various company taglines -- "Don't take slow for an answer" -- to the latest news about Japan's internet data transmission record, it's all about the speed. Just recently, Ookla released its Speedtest Connectivity Report for the first six months of 2025, and AT&T Fiber topped the list as the country's fastest fixed internet service provider. (Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) What does that mean? Does it

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Food delivery service Calo scores $39 million in Series B extension as it sets eyes on the UK

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-01-01 02:35:57

Middle Eastern food delivery startup Calo said Tuesday it has raised $39 million in a Series B extension that was led by AlJazira Capital. The fundraise, which was more than 1.5x of its original $25 million raise in December, also saw participation from existing backers such as Nuwa Capital, STV, Khwarizmi Ventures, and Al Faisaliah Group. The company is using this funding to expand into territories like the UK and also explore different partnerships in physical space. Calo primarily offers re

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Europe sets its sights on multi-billion-euro gigawatt factories as it plays catch-up on AI

cnbc.com April Roach 2026-01-01 00:02:29

Data storage tapes are stored at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) facility at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which will house the U.S. supercomputer to be powered by Nvidia's forthcoming Vera Rubin chips, in Berkeley, California, U.S. May 29, 2025. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Europe is setting its sights on gigawatt factories in a bid to bolster its lagging artificial intelligence industry and meet the challenges of a rapidly-changing sector. Buzz aroun

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Fintech dystopia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 02:57:44

"Just like beauty, efficiency, competition, and security are all in the eye of the beholder. For example, one person’s “efficiency” may be another person’s “dismantling critical government infrastructure.” And yet technological solutions designed to make things more efficient, more competitive, or more secure are often presented by Silicon Valley as neutral and universally desirable. That veneer of neutrality and universality can be dangerous if it disguises the fact that Silicon Valley is solvi

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‘The Vampire Lestat’ Cast Breaks Down the Next Chapter of AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-31 23:40:31

During San Diego Comic-Con, io9 was invited to a press conference for The Vampire Lestat, the latest Anne Rice Immortal Universe series for AMC. And don’t get it twisted, this is not Interview With The Vampire season three; this is officially the Lestat show, as he takes the mic to tell his story and put some misconceptions about himself and his past to rest—that is, until they rise from the dead or awaken… Star Sam Reid (Lestat de Lioncourt) was joined by Jacob Anderson (Louis de Pointe du Lac

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MicroStrategy copycats are getting out of control as Canadian vape company joins fray

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2026-01-01 02:39:14

The logos of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether outside a cryptocurrency exchange in Istanbul, Turkey, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. The crypto market's bullishness may be tipping into speculative frenzy, if the latest MicroStrategy-style copycat is any indication. On Monday, a little-known Canadian vape company saw its stock surge on plans to enter the crypto treasury game – but this time with Binance Coin (BNB) , the fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap, excluding the dollar-pegged stablecoi

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Waymo taps Avis to manage robotaxi fleet in Dallas

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2026-01-01 05:42:19

Waymo said it plans to launch a robotaxi service next year in Dallas, the latest city to be added to the Alphabet-owned company’s growing commercial footprint that already includes Los Angeles and San Francisco. This time around, Waymo is partnering with Avis Budget Group to manage its fleet of all-electric autonomous Jaguar I-Pace vehicles. Avis will handle general depot operations, including charging and maintaining the vehicles. Users will be able to hail a robotaxi through the Waymo app. W

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Anthropic is rate limiting Claude Code, blaming some users for never turning it off

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-01 15:11:34

Anthropic has introduced new weekly rate limits on its Claude Code tool for AI assistance with coding tasks. The move comes shortly after the AI company quietly began implementing rate limits on the Claude Code service, which is an agentic side of the AI chatbot that is capable of reading code, editing files, performing tests and pushing GitHub commits. According to a series of posts from Anthropic on X, these changes are in response to some users who have been running Claude Code "continuously

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The Useless UseCallback

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 14:44:26

28.07.2025 — React, JavaScript, useCallback, Performance — 5 min read #1: The Uphill Battle of Memoization #2: The Useless useCallback I thought I'd written enough about memoization by now, but I feel there is one pattern I'm seeing a lot lately that makes me think otherwise. So today, I want to look at useCallback , and to some extent useMemo , in situations where I think they are totally pointless. Why memoize? There's usually only two reasons to create a memoized version of a function wi

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Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare

theverge.com Tanya Tianyi Chen 2026-01-01 20:22:15

An app designed to help women spot the “red flags” of men they date has incidentally put its users at risk. 404 Media reported that Tea was hacked by 4chan users last week, resulting in the selfies and driver’s licenses of its mostly women users being posted to 4chan. An independent researcher for 404 Media has since discovered that messages between users discussing infidelity, abortion, and personal phone numbers are also vulnerable to hackers. Tea was founded by software developer Sean Cook,

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Trump Organization says Amazon, Walmart, eBay sellers are hawking knockoff shirts, hats, mugs

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-01-02 00:50:47

The Trump Organization is seeking to prevent some online businesses from hawking counterfeit merchandise promoting President Donald Trump. In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Florida, the company accused unnamed merchants of selling "inferior imitations" of Trump-branded products on several online marketplaces, including Amazon , Walmart and eBay . The Trump Organization company, which is owned by Trump, sells a variety of branded merchandise through its website, including a go

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Principles for production AI agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 21:19:03

Every now and then, people ask me: “I am new to agentic development, I’m building something, but I feel like I'm missing some tribal knowledge. Help me catch up!”. I’m tempted to suggest some serious stuff like multiweek courses (e.g. by HuggingFace or Berkeley), but not everyone is interested in that level of diving. So I decided to gather six simple empirical learnings that helped me a lot during app.build development. This post is somewhat inspired by Design Decisions Behind app.build, but

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