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Mixed DPI in X11

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 23:01:18

I'm writing this article because I'm getting tired of repeating the same concepts every time someone makes misinformed statements about the (lack of) support for mixed-DPI configurations in X11. It is my hope that anybody looking for information on the subject may be directed here, to get the facts about the actual possibilities offered by the protocol, avoiding the biased misinformation available from other sources. If you only care about “how to do it”, jump straight to The RANDR way, otherwi

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These Three Messaging Apps Are Encrypted, but One Stands Above the Rest

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-18 22:00:03

Key points: Most widely used messaging app Uses the same encryption protocol as Signal Collects heaps of your data Free, but owned and operated by Meta WhatsApp is the most popular private messaging app on this list, with about 2 billion monthly users, according to Exploding Topics. Because it's so popular, there's a higher chance that other people you might be chatting with have WhatsApp, and therefore your chats can be encrypted. And if the person you're chatting with doesn't have WhatsAp

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'Cyber plague': Experts warn of growing infostealer threat after billions of login details exposed

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-02-19 00:56:39

"Someone, somewhere is having data exfiltrated from their machines as we speak," says Volodymyr Diachenko, co-founder of the cybersecurity consultancy SecurityDiscovery. Cybercriminals have intensified their efforts to steal and sell online passwords, experts warn. The alarm comes after the discovery of online datasets containing billions of exposed account credentials. The 30 datasets comprised a whopping 16 billion login credentials across multiple platforms, including Apple, Google and Face

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Hundreds of data brokers might be breaking state laws, say privacy advocates

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-19 22:16:48

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. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a nonprofit privacy rights group have called on several states to investigate why “hundreds” of data brokers haven’t registered with state consumer protection agencies in accordance with local laws. An analysis done in collaboration with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) found that many data brokers hav

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Information has been permanently deleted, for small values of permanently

news.ycombinator.com Raymond Chen 2026-02-20 11:29:42

As part of a periodic purge of unused online accounts, I deleted my account from a company ten months ago. Let’s call that company Contoso. I received a confirmation that said, “Your personal information and items associated with your account have now been deleted. This action is permanent and cannot be reversed.” Yesterday, I got an email from Contoso informing me that they have updated their Privacy Policy. So I guess their “confirmation” of “permanent” and “irreversible” deletion of my pers

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Google Home may soon let you pin weather and AQI data for quick checks (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-21 15:32:17

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR An upcoming release of Google Home could soon support Outdoor Weather and Outdoor AQI information in the Favorites tab. Adding the information to the Favorites tab will allow users to quickly control their smart home devices based on current weather conditions. Google recently upgraded the Google Home app with a ton of new features and upgrades, including the ability to set device-specific favorites. All of these work great, but there’s always room for

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SourceHut moves business operations from US to Europe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-24 03:06:29

[PATCH sr.ht-docs v2] Terms of service & privacy updates Export this patch --- v2: rollback the premature removal of compliance with US law Will defer this until we finish shutting down the US business entity entirely. privacy.md | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------- terms.md | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------ 2 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-) diff --git a/privacy.md b/privacy.md index ab96a1f..ed6eb5c 100644 --- a/privacy.md +++ b

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Hawaii Highways

news.ycombinator.com Oscar Voss 2026-02-26 17:55:58

Aloha! Click the dark green buttons on the left for lists of the Interstate, state, and some county highways on the Big Island (Hawaii island), Maui, Lanai and Molokai, Kauai, and Oahu. Go to those lists for detailed information on specific routes, including route numbers, names, termini, mileages, and sometimes historical or other information and/or links to photos and other material elsewhere on this site. Also on the left is a button for detailed guides to Oahu Freeways exits and interchange

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Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with big promises and unanswered questions

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2026-02-27 03:58:02

Tesla has started giving rides in driverless Model Y SUVs in Austin, a decade after CEO Elon Musk began making — and breaking — myriad promises about his company’s ability to launch such a service. The rollout will become the first big test of Musk’s belief that it’s possible to safely deploy fully autonomous vehicles using just cameras and end-to-end AI – an approach that differs from other players in the space like Waymo. On Sunday, numerous videos shared on social media as well as sources i

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16 billion passwords leaked across Apple, Google, more: What to know and how to protect yourself

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2026-02-27 00:30:01

Moor Studio/Getty With so much news about data breaches, you have to be careful not to panic each time you hear of a new one. Take the latest report of a major breach. In the headline for a recent story published by Cybernews, the cybersecurity media outlet said that 16 billion passwords were exposed in a record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable. Sounds scary, right? But reading the story itself paints a different picture. Also:

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Heard about the 16 billion passwords leak? Here are the facts and how to protect yourself

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2026-02-27 12:32:00

Moor Studio/Getty With so much news about data breaches, you have to be careful not to panic each time you hear of a new one. Take the latest report of a major breach. In the headline for a recent story published by Cybernews, the cybersecurity media outlet said that 16 billion passwords were exposed in a record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable. Sounds scary, right? But reading the story itself paints a different picture. Also:

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16 billion passwords leaked from Apple, Google, more: Here are the facts and how to protect yourself

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2026-02-28 12:32:00

Moor Studio/Getty With so much news about data breaches, you have to be careful not to panic each time you hear of a new one. Take the latest report of a major breach. In the headline for a recent story published by Cybernews, the cybersecurity media outlet said that 16 billion passwords were exposed in a record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable. Sounds scary, right? But reading the story itself paints a different picture. Also:

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No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-02 08:51:41

News broke today of a "mother of all breaches," sparking wide media coverage filled with warnings and fear-mongering. However, it appears to be a compilation of previously leaked credentials stolen by infostealers, exposed in data breaches, and via credential stuffing attacks. To be clear, this is not a new data breach, or a breach at all, and the websites involved were not recently compromised to steal these credentials. Instead, these stolen credentials were likely circulating for some time,

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Krispy Kreme says November data breach impacts over 160,000 people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-04 11:59:49

U.S. doughnut chain Krispy Kreme confirmed that attackers stole the personal information of over 160,000 individuals in a November 2024 cyberattack. The American multinational coffeehouse chain employed 22,800 people in 40 countries as of December 2023 and operates 1,521 shops and 15,800 points of access. It also manages four "Doughnut Factories" in the United States and 37 others internationally, and it partners with McDonald's to have its products sold in thousands of McDonald's locations wo

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Writing documentation for AI: best practices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-06 03:23:46

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems like Kapa rely on your documentation to provide accurate, helpful information. When documentation serves both humans and machines well, it creates a self-reinforcing loop of content quality: clear documentation improves AI answers, and those answers help surface gaps that further improve the docs. This guide provides best practices for creating documentation that works effectively for both human readers and AI/LLM consumption in RAG systems. Many bes

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Alleged Minnesota Shooter Used Data Brokers to Find Lawmakers’ Addresses

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-03-08 11:50:06

Vance Boelter, the man accused of assassinating a Democratic Minnesota state representative and shooting a state senator on Sunday, acquired the addresses of his victims and other alleged targets by using information collected by online data brokers, according to court documents obtained by Politico. According to the report, police found the names of 11 registered data brokers written in a notebook that was recovered from Boelter’s vehicle. He also allegedly wrote, “most property records in Ame

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Security Bite: Infostealer malware spikes 28% among Mac users, says Jamf

9to5mac.com Arin Waichulis 2026-03-09 04:39:12

9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening & Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Appl

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UK watchdog fines 23andMe for 'profoundly damaging' data breach

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-09 07:44:52

UK watchdog fines 23andMe for 'profoundly damaging' data breach 17 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images DNA testing firm 23andMe has been fined £2.31m by a UK watchdog over a data breach in 2023 which affected thousands of people. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the company - which has since filed for bankruptcy - failed to put adequate measures in place to secure sensitive user data prior to the incident. "This was a profoundly damag

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What I talk about when I talk about IRs

news.ycombinator.com Max Bernstein 2026-03-06 02:04:57

I have a lot of thoughts about the design of compiler intermediate representations (IRs). In this post I’m going to try and communicate some of those ideas and why I think they are important. The overarching idea is being able to make decisions with only local information. That comes in a couple of different flavors. We’ll assume that we’re compiling a method at a time, instead of a something more trace-like (tracing, tracelets, basic block versioning, etc). Control-flow graphs A function wi

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Google Adds Button to Generate Error-Laden AI Podcast About Your Search Results Instead of Just Reading Them Like a Functioning Member of Society

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-10 10:31:42

Google has released a baffling new AI feature that turns your web search into a podcast. Why anybody would want to enable the feature is unclear. Why be plagued by misleading and hallucinated AI Overviews search results when you can have a robotic voice read them out loud instead? Have we really lost the ability as a species to parse written information, nevermind original sources? The opt-in feature — which currently lives inside Google's experimental "Labs" section and has to be manually tur

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How to download your information from Facebook

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-11 19:14:04

Once upon a time Facebook was filled with posts about the minutiae of your day and album after album of photos of just about every experience you had. By now, a lot of this media is likely hidden with the "only me" setting. But, regardless of how much you use Facebook these days, it's probably home to a lot of memories you want to hold on to — or at least have the opportunity to laugh at later. The good news is that you can download your Facebook information. You can access things such as your

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Social Media Replaced Zines. Now Zines Are Taking the Power Back

wired.com C. Brandon Ogbunu 2026-03-12 03:00:00

One sunny afternoon in May, a century-old power plant in Brooklyn was buzzing—not with electricity, but with hundreds of creatives congregating at the Black Zine Fair. Handmade booklets piled up on table after table, forming vast paper topographies of politics and activism and culture. Marginalized groups in skating! Fictional characters “that probably made me queer”! Someone else presented zines dedicated to all the TV shows they had recorded onto VHS. Still more tables hosted zine assembly. Ev

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The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats

wired.com Kylie Robison 2026-03-14 15:46:37

“What counties [sic] do younger women like older white men,” a public message from a user on Meta’s AI platform says. “I need details, I’m 66 and single. I’m from Iowa and open to moving to a new country if I can find a younger woman.” The chatbot responded enthusiastically: “You’re looking for a fresh start and love in a new place. That’s exciting!” before suggesting “Mediterranean countries like Spain or Italy, or even countries in Eastern Europe.” This is just one of many seemingly personal

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GCP Outage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-15 03:11:07

This page provides status information on the services that are part of Google Cloud. Check back here to view the current status of the services listed below. If you are experiencing an issue not listed here, please contact Support . Learn more about what's posted on the dashboard in this FAQ . For additional information on these services, please visit https://cloud.google.com/

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Why you should delete your personal data from the internet, and how to keep it from resurfacing

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2026-03-14 14:15:12

Image: Incogni Try searching your full name online right now and see what surfaces. Within a few clicks, you’re likely seeing your home address, phone number, age, and even details about family members. If that’s what a simple search turns up, just imagine what malicious actors can find when their business relies on exploiting your personal data. If there was a big red delete button, you’d set a new record for how fast you could smash it! The problem is there isn’t one, unless you know where

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RFK Jr. promptly cancels vaccine advisory meeting, pulls flu shot campaign

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-09 11:11:40

Just days after anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the country's top health official, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has already pulled back some of its efforts to protect Americans with safe, lifesaving vaccines. The agency has indefinitely postponed a public meeting of its vaccine advisory committee and killed a campaign promoting seasonal flu shots. Last weekend, a Washington Post columnist noted on Bluesky that the CDC's effective "Wild to Mild" seasonal flu

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Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

news.ycombinator.com Jacob Bogage 2025-11-09 14:39:20

The Trump White House and Treasury Department officials have agreed to prohibit the U.S. DOGE Service from accessing personal taxpayer data, according to two people familiar with the arrangement, heading off a brewing privacy crisis at the tax agency. Gavin Kliger, a software engineer with Elon Musk’s DOGE effort assigned to the IRS, will have read-only access to anonymized tax data, the same access granted to academic researchers and IT professionals who work on IRS systems, said the people, wh

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Latest Tech News

Mixed DPI in X11

These Three Messaging Apps Are Encrypted, but One Stands Above the Rest

'Cyber plague': Experts warn of growing infostealer threat after billions of login details exposed

Hundreds of data brokers might be breaking state laws, say privacy advocates

Information has been permanently deleted, for small values of permanently

Google Home may soon let you pin weather and AQI data for quick checks (APK teardown)

SourceHut moves business operations from US to Europe

Hawaii Highways

Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with big promises and unanswered questions

16 billion passwords leaked across Apple, Google, more: What to know and how to protect yourself

Heard about the 16 billion passwords leak? Here are the facts and how to protect yourself

16 billion passwords leaked from Apple, Google, more: Here are the facts and how to protect yourself

No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach

Krispy Kreme says November data breach impacts over 160,000 people

Writing documentation for AI: best practices

Alleged Minnesota Shooter Used Data Brokers to Find Lawmakers’ Addresses

Security Bite: Infostealer malware spikes 28% among Mac users, says Jamf

UK watchdog fines 23andMe for 'profoundly damaging' data breach

What I talk about when I talk about IRs

Google Adds Button to Generate Error-Laden AI Podcast About Your Search Results Instead of Just Reading Them Like a Functioning Member of Society

How to download your information from Facebook

Social Media Replaced Zines. Now Zines Are Taking the Power Back

The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats

GCP Outage

Why you should delete your personal data from the internet, and how to keep it from resurfacing

RFK Jr. promptly cancels vaccine advisory meeting, pulls flu shot campaign

Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

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