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ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-23 22:30:42

"I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF." Mass Text US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents accidentally added a random person to a mass group text in which officers from multiple federal law enforcement agencies discussed extremely sensitive information about arrests, targets, and strategy. As 404 Media reports, the group text was titled "Mass Text" and included an unredacted ICE document titled "Field Operations Worksheet." The document included "detaile

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Your smart home device just got a performance and security boost for free

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-23 20:00:19

Maria Diaz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Matter 1.4.2 enhances experiences by focusing on security and efficiency. Improvements cover Wi-Fi-only commissioning and scene management. The update sets the stage for the Matter 1.5 release this fall. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. The smart home world is gearing up for the Matter 1.5 release this fall, but the CSA this week announced a 1.4.2 update as a precursor to prepa

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Comparison of different C libraries providing generic containers capabilities

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 05:45:15

Introduction The goal of this project is to compare several C libraries that provide some STL like capabilities of the C++ (container template) but are targeting classic C language. A STL like library for C is a C library providing several classic generic containers for the C language, like vector, list, sorted set, unordered_map, and so on. A small benchmark to compare their performance is includes in the bench directory. To do this, the same simple programs will be implemented by the librar

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Does OLAP Need an ORM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 03:03:21

TL;DR · ORMs have proven to be useful for many developers in the OLTP/transactional stack (Postgres, MySQL, etc). · OLAP/analytical databases like ClickHouse could potentially benefit from ORM abstractions. · Existing transactional ORMs probably shouldn’t be extended to OLAP due to fundamental differences in semantic meaning between OLTP and OLAP. · Moose OLAP (part of MooseStack) is an open source, MIT-licensed implementation of an ORM-like interface for ClickHouse, inspired by tran

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Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 15:51:50

Over the last couple of months, I've been trying to build the dream: A local-first, end-to-end encrypted and reactive app, with all of the user's data in a local SQL database but continually synced to a remote server. This article summarizes my learning and how I ended up building a minimal sync engine for SQLite with full reactivity. First Try: PGlite and Electric My first try was with Electric and a WASM-based version of PostgreSQL called PGlite that can run directly in the browser. I ev

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Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 02:40:04

Yes, during the pre-sale period, you’ll receive all small updates we release—this includes bug fixes, performance improvements, and minor feature tweaks. These updates are free for all pre-sale buyers. Once the pre-sale ends, we’ll begin developing larger features and major upgrades. These will be part of the full release, and pre-sale buyers will have the option to upgrade at a special discounted price. By joining early, you get to enjoy the app right away, help shape its development with your

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Major Plastics Treaty Ends in Failure

gizmodo.com Joseph Winters 2025-11-23 23:56:33

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into the early hours of Friday — with no agreement on a global plastics treaty. During a closing plenary that started on Friday at 6:30 a.m. — more than 15 hours after it was originally scheduled to begin — nearly all countries opposed an updated draft of the United Nations treaty that wa

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Start Saving Now: An iPhone 17 Pro Price Hike Is Likely, Says New Report

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 21:00:04

The iPhone 16 series dropped last year with the same US prices as the iPhone 15 series. But the iPhone 17 might come with the first price increase in years. James Martin/CNET Apple's annual iPhone event is likely just a few weeks away but we're still seeing new rumors surface. One of the latest leaks is that the iPhone 17 Pro will get a $50 price increase. The rumor surfaced on the Chinese social media site Weibo from a user named Instant Digital (Setsuna Digital) and corroborates an earlier pr

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What Is the Electric Constant and Why Should You Care?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-11-23 21:00:00

It's fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical universe. They include things like the speed of light, the gravitational constant, and Planck’s constant, and they’re “fundamental” in the sense that we can't derive them theoretically, we can only measure them. We use these in solving physics problems all the time, so it’s easy to take them for granted. But why are there such numbers in nature, and why do they just happen to

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Passive Microwave Repeaters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 14:25:27

>>> 2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters (PDF) One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications technology was the development of microwave radio. Essentially an evolution of radar, the middle of the Second World War saw the first practical microwave telephone system. By the time Japan surrendered, AT&T had largely abandoned their plan to build an extensive nationwide network of coaxial telephone cables. Microwave relay offered greater capacity at a lower cost. When Japan

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Microsoft Teams to protect against malicious URLs, dangerous file types

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-23 08:20:30

Microsoft recently revealed that it's currently enhancing protection against dangerous file types and malicious URLs in Teams chats and channels. "Microsoft Teams now blocks messages containing weaponizable file types, such as executables, in chats and channels, increasing protection against malware and other file-based attacks," the company said in a Microsoft 365 roadmap update this week. "Microsoft Teams can now detect and warn users on malicious URLs sent in Teams chat and channels, increa

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OpenAI is improving ChatGPT voice mode

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-23 15:15:42

ChatGPT's Voice mode is already pretty good, but OpenAI is working on a new feature that will allow you to control how Voice mode actually works. As you can see in the screenshot below, OpenAI has added "Voice speed" to the ChatGPT web app settings for voice mode. This means you can control how fast ChatGPT can speak. You can lower it to 0.5x or make it as far as 2.0x. There is a slider that allows you to specify the ChatGPT pace. These options are currently hidden. Also, OpenAI has added "c

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GPT-5's Voice Mode Can Hold a Decent Conversation, but Please Don't Talk to ChatGPT in Public

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 05:00:05

Sitting in the lobby of the auto body shop waiting for a repair estimate, I realized I'd forgotten my earbuds. Normally, that's not a major issue, but I was talking to my phone. And I wasn't talking to another person. I was talking to ChatGPT. It felt as embarrassing as asking Siri a question from across the room or joining a Zoom meeting sans headphones in an open office. I'm testing the advanced voice mode that comes with GPT-5, OpenAI's latest version of the generative AI model behind ChatGP

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Starlink Deal Makes Satellite Dish 50% Cheaper for New Customers. Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 11:45:02

Starlink's satellite-based internet service has been a popular solution for people outside of traditional ISPs' service areas, and it just got a lot easier to give Starlink a try -- it's now featuring its lowest monthly prices ever and cutting the cost of the necessary equipment in half. You can now purchase the Starlink standard kit for $175, down from its usual $349 price tag. Unlike previous deals, this one is available to new customers anywhere in the country. Most Starlink deals in the pas

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Rapidly intensifying Hurricane Erin becomes historic storm due to strengthening

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-23 11:50:31

After several days of working its way across the open and at times hostile Atlantic Ocean this week, Hurricane Erin found more favorable conditions and exploded in intensity on Friday night. Shortly before noon on Saturday, the National Hurricane Center declared that Erin had reached Category 5 status, the most powerful kind of hurricane. This determination is based on sustained winds, which were measured by a US Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft on Saturday at 160 mph. There is some good ne

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Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-23 14:26:22

When The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975, no one could have dreamed that it would become the longest-running theatrical release film in history. But that's what happened. Thanks to a killer soundtrack, campy humor, and a devoted cult following, Rocky Horror is still a mainstay of midnight movie culture. In honor of its 50th anniversary, Disney/20th Century Studios is releasing a newly restored 4K HDR version in October, along with deluxe special editions on DVD and Blu-ray. And the f

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Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way

news.ycombinator.com The Pudding 2025-11-23 12:54:19

This is a project about onions and math. Why? Because tens of millions of people are curious about how to properly dice an onion, according to YouTube. In 2021, chef and food writer J. Kenji López-Alt broke out some math to get optimal uniform piece sizes. But there is more than one way to dice an onion… This is an onion. (Well, a simplified cross-section of one.) We’ve cut it in half lengthwise, using a sharp knife to reduce the chance of injury and onion-induced crying. From here, what’s the

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Good system design

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 05:38:46

I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are new to the industry. Another is the Twitter-optimized “you’re a terrible engineer if you ever store booleans in a database” clever trick. Even good system design advice can be kind of bad. I love Designing Data-Intensive Applications, but I don’t think it’s particularly useful for most system design problems engineers will run into. Wha

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Microsoft Probing Whether Israel Used Its Cloud to Build Palestinian Surveillance System

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-23 12:45:18

For the past two years, Microsoft has been dogged by accusations—both within and outside the company—that its technology is aiding the Israeli war effort. Microsoft’s own employees have protested the firm’s contracts with Israel, and protesters have disrupted the company’s various talks and conferences. Even the company’s 50th anniversary was ruined by shouts from one of its own employees, who reportedly yelled “Shame on you” while calling the company’s head of AI a “war profiteer” who was “usin

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Ozempic Users Can Now Workout With Apple Fitness Plus Through New Weight-Loss Partnership

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 12:00:00

If you're a FuturHealth member, you'll now have a free membership to Apple Fitness Plus as part of your program. It's Apple Fitness Plus’s first direct integration with a personalized GLP-1 weight-loss program. FuturHealth offers personalized weight-loss guidance and medications with the help of licensed dietitians and doctors. These include GLP-1 agonists such as semaglutide -- better known as Ozempic. It's partnered with Valisure, a tech company that provides independent quality assurance, to

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Generative AI Gave MIT Scientists a New Tool to Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 12:15:43

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are dangerous because they already "know" what most antibiotics look like. Scientists at MIT have found a way to create something new: using generative AI to design two antibiotic compounds from scratch that can kill drug-resistant gonorrhea and MRSA in lab dishes and mice. Antibiotic resistance is one of the world's biggest public health threats yet new antibiotics have been scarce for decades. Traditional drug discovery methods rely on screening known chemical li

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How a mysterious particle could explain the Universe’s missing antimatter

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-23 10:15:17

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current theories, matter and its counterpart, antimatter, ought to have been created in equal amounts at the time of the Big Bang. But antimatter is vanishingly rare in the universe. So what happened? Physicists don’t know the answer to that question yet, but many think the solution must involve some subtle dif

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UN Plastics Treaty Talks Once Again End in Failure

wired.com Joseph Winters 2025-11-23 11:52:00

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva—plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into the early hours of Friday—with no agreement on a global plastics treaty. During a closing plenary that started on Friday at 6:30 am, more than 15 hours after it was originally scheduled to begin, nearly all countries opposed an updated draft of the United Nations treaty that was put forwa

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Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-23 15:50:05

Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations in what the company describes as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Strikingly, Anthropic says it’s doing this not to protect the human user, but rather the AI model itself. To be clear, the company isn’t claiming that its Claude AI models are sentient or can be harmed by their conversations with users. In its own words, Anthropic remains “hig

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I subscribe to Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal, but keep coming back to YouTube Music for one reason

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 15:00:47

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Thanos has his gemstones, and I have my music subscription services. I’ve subscribed to practically all the major streaming services. Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal — they all have their own unique strengths and quirks. Of course, I’ve tried to rationalize the cost by saying that I’m keeping my options open and that different services are good for different use cases, and even moods. Spotify Jam comes in clutch when I’m throwing a party. Other days, I want Apple M

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Tiny flyers levitate on the Sun's heat alone

news.ycombinator.com Tollefson 2025-11-20 16:11:57

Devices (artist’s illustration) kept aloft by sunlight could take sensors into an understudied layer of the atmosphere.Credit: Schafer et al. Nature (2025) Theory and mathematics said his device would fly. But Ben Schafer was still pleasantly surprised the first time he flipped a switch and watched the centimetre-square device his team had built levitate, if only for a moment before flipping over. It was a proof of concept for a design that has been published today in Nature1. One day, it migh

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Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on Plastics

news.ycombinator.com Stephen Robert Miller 2025-11-23 11:39:32

Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into the early hours of Friday — with no agreement on a global plastics treaty. During a closing plenary that started on Friday at 6:30 a.m. — more than 15 hours after it was originally scheduled to begin — nearly all countries opposed an updated draft of the U.N. treaty that was put forward by the negotiating committee chair, the Ecuadorian diplomat Luis Vayas Valdivieso. Many

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Everything I know about good system design

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 11:38:46

I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are new to the industry. Another is the Twitter-optimized “you’re a terrible engineer if you ever store booleans in a database” clever trick. Even good system design advice can be kind of bad. I love Designing Data-Intensive Applications, but I don’t think it’s particularly useful for most system design problems engineers will run into. Wha

Topics: data database design need service

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Signs Your Gut Is Unhealthy and 4 Ways to Fix It, According to a Microbiome Expert

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 11:28:03

The trillions of microbes living in your gut are known as your gut microbiome, and they play a huge role in your well-being. Cleveland Clinic microbiome expert Gail Cresci describes these microbes as "little pets living inside your intestinal tract." They help break down food, regulate inflammation, support immunity and even produce essential compounds like vitamins and hormones. Since gut health is essential to overall health, it's important to pay attention to signs that it may be unhealthy.

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WIRED’s Guide to Buying a Used Plug-In Hybrid

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-11-23 15:00:00

With sales growth lagging, it’s a weird time in the electric vehicles market. It’s also, oddly enough, a good time to experiment with the plug. The Donald Trump administration put the kibosh on several US federal policies aimed at boosting the development, production, and purchase of new-energy vehicles. Still, $4,000 tax credits for used battery-electric cars and plug-in hybrids are available for qualified vehicles and buyers (more on that later) until the end of September. If you want to tak

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