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DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-11-01 04:30:30

A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of most Americans at risk of compromise. Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, said in a newly released whistleblower complaint published Tuesday that other top agency officials signed off on

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Security researcher maps hundreds of TeslaMate servers spilling Tesla vehicle data

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-11-01 16:23:00

A security researcher has found over a thousand publicly exposed hobby servers run by Tesla vehicle owners that are spilling sensitive data about their vehicles, including their granular location histories. Seyfullah Kiliç, founder of cybersecurity company SwordSec, said he found over 1,300 internet-exposed TeslaMate dashboards on the internet, likely made public by mistake, allowing anyone to access the person’s Tesla data stored inside without needing a password. TeslaMate is an open-source

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Matter Is Finally Ready to Deliver the Smart Home It Promised

wired.com Paul Lamkin 2025-11-02 10:00:00

Last month's Ikea's announcement of more than 20 new Matter-over-Thread devices felt like a much-needed breakthrough moment for the high-profile smart home standard. If Ikea—a brand with a broad, not necessarily tech-savvy customer base—is all-in on Matter, have we finally arrived at the smart home utopia that was first promised back in late 2019? It was then, amid growing frustrations from users around smart home compatibility, that tech giants including Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung form

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How to stop AI agents going rogue

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-02 10:59:49

How to stop AI agents going rogue 1 hour ago Share Save Sean McManus Technology Reporter Share Save Getty Images Anthropic tested a range of leading AI models for potential risky behaviour Disturbing results emerged earlier this year, when AI developer Anthropic tested leading AI models to see if they engaged in risky behaviour when using sensitive information. Anthropic's own AI, Claude, was among those tested. When given access to an email account it discovered that a company executive was

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Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-03 03:58:07

US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with ties to the Russian government, that exposed confidential court documents. The breach of the judiciary’s electronic case filing system first came to light in a report by Politico three weeks ago, which went on to say that the vulnerabilities exploited in the hack were known since 2020. The New York Times, citing people familiar with the intrusion, said that Rus

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WIRED Roundup: The US Chip Manufacturers’ Bonanza

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-11-03 04:25:20

Louise Matsakis: I think that's right. I think that regardless of which ideology was more convincing to you, I think that officials in both the Trump administration and the Biden administration agreed that you kind of had to have a mix of both. And they were trying to strike this really delicate balance, which is don't totally cut them off tomorrow, where that would devastate companies like NVIDIA and AMD. These are really important American companies that have a large impact on the economy, on

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The Pixel Recorder’s Expressive redesign is rolling out now, but it’s not a total win

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 18:04:37

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel Recorder app has received a visual overhaul in line with Google’s Material 3 Expressive style. Expect changes like a larger play button, more prominent toggles, and larger waveforms. The app also takes a step back by moving some useful shortcut icons into the three-dot menu. The Recorder app is one of my favorite Pixel phone features, owing to its on-device transcriptions, cloud backup functionality, and web-based access. Over the years, the

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The two versions of Parquet

news.ycombinator.com Jerónimo López 2025-11-01 01:34:32

A few days ago, the creators of DuckDB wrote the article: Query Engines: Gatekeepers of the Parquet File Format, which explained how the engines that process Parquet files as SQL tables are blocking the evolution of the format. This is because those engines are not fully supporting the latest specification, and without this support, the rest of the ecosystem has no incentive to adopt it. In my experience, this issue is not limited to Query Engines but extends to the tools within the ecosystem.

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A short introduction to optimal transport and Wasserstein distance (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 20:15:03

A Short Introduction to Optimal Transport and Wasserstein Distance These notes provide a brief introduction to optimal transport theory, prioritizing intuition over mathematical rigor. A more rigorous presentation would require some additional background in measure theory. Other good introductory resources for optimal transport theory include: Why Optimal Transport Theory? A fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning is to come up with useful measures of “distance” between pairs o

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A Physicist Wants to Turn Jupiter’s Largest Moon Into a Gigantic Dark Matter Detector

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-04 20:00:14

When searching for the unknown, classic physics wisdom holds that a bigger detector boosts the chances of discovery. A physicist is taking that advice to heart, advancing a bold plan to use none other than Ganymede—Jupiter’s largest moon—as a dark matter detector on an astronomical scale. Dark matter refers to the “invisible” mass that supposedly constitutes 85% of the universe. There’s considerable evidence that dark matter exists, but it’s “dark,” meaning it doesn’t respond to light and very

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How to Fix Your Context

news.ycombinator.com Drew Breunig 2025-11-04 20:09:53

Mitigating & Avoiding Context Failures Following up on our earlier post, “How Long Contexts Fail”, let’s run through the ways we can mitigate or avoid these failures entirely. But before we do, let’s briefly recap some of the ways long contexts can fail: Context Poisoning: When a hallucination or other error makes it into the context, where it is repeatedly referenced. When a hallucination or other error makes it into the context, where it is repeatedly referenced. Context Distraction: When

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Scientists Alarmed to Discover That Earth's Continents Are Drying Out

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 17:30:25

New research examining over 20 years of data captured by NASA's twin climate satellites, GRACE and GRACE-FO, has revealed an "unprecedented" level of water loss among the planet's continents, creating "mega-drying" regions across the northern hemisphere. One of these mega regions spans Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and vast swaths of Asia. That should clue you in to the staggering scale of this phenomenon, which the scientists are calling terrestrial water storage (TWS) loss. Since 200

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Best Innerspring Mattress in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 18:28:00

All online brands offer a free trial, free shipping and a warranty, but some brands are more generous with their policies than others. Motion isolation, edge support and temperature are important features for couples or people who sleep hot to consider. Hot sleepers should consider a mattress that boasts special cooling features. Couples want minimal motion transfer and a strong, supportive bed perimeter. Hybrid mattresses tend to be best for people who want extra support and durability. Sleep

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Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 12:48:29

We’ve written about how to prevent logging sensitive information when making network requests, but that approach only works if you’re dealing with parameters. What happens when you’re dealing with free text? Filtering the entire string may not be an option if an external API needs to process the value. Think chatbots or LLMs. You could use a regex to filter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers or emails), but that won’t capture everything, since not all sensitive information can

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Apple drags ex-Apple Watch engineer to court over Oppo trade secret leak

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-05 18:15:14

Every now and then, we hear about Apple going after ex-employees who allegedly try to take trade secrets with them when they get hired by the competition. That’s the case with Chen Shi, a former Sensor System Architect for the Apple Watch team. Here are the details. According to Apple’s claim, Shi worked at the company from January 2020 until a couple of months ago, when he left to go work for Oppo, a Chinese company that also makes phones and wearables, like the Oppo Watch. Apple says that in

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If You've Breathed Wildfire Smoke, Scientists Just Found Something Horrifying

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-06 12:15:41

Image by Getty / Futurism Studies Have you gone outside recently and smelled an acrid odor, perhaps accompanied by a hellish orange sky? Check the news, and you were likely downwind of massive wildfires like those in the Canadian province of Manitoba or the Florida Everglades— an increasingly regular event as millions of people find themselves in the path of noxious smoke, sometimes from a country away. Wildfires are becoming more common than ever amid the ravages of climate change — and thos

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Studio Behind New ‘Sekiro’ Anime Denies Use of AI

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-11-06 18:30:10

Earlier this week at Gamescom, Crunchyroll unveiled a first look at its upcoming Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice anime, Sekiro: No Defeat, which adapts the popular PlayStation Soulslike game developed by FromSoftware, Inc. But in the wake of the trailer’s release, concerns from fans online began to suggest and speculate that some off-looking parts of the trailer may have been down to a use of generative AI. Qzil.la, the studio behind No Defeat, was not prominently featured in its marketing in the tra

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Elegant mathematics bending the future of design

news.ycombinator.com Tanya Petersen 2025-11-02 08:36:10

Have you ever rolled a piece of paper into a cylinder, or tried to wrap aluminum foil around an object without making it crumple? Imagine being able to simply turn a piece of flat material into beautiful, strong furniture, lighting or even the buildings and bridges of the future. In the world of architecture and product design this idea of building complex 3D shapes using flat materials has always been a fascinating challenge. Flat sheets made from materials such as paper, metal, or plastic are

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I found the best app for Material 3 Expressive widgets; here’s how to use it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-07 14:00:47

Zac Kew-Denniss / Android Authority Google is implementing a big redesign of Android with Material 3 Expressive. This updated design language will spread across apps and Android itself with the upcoming Android 16 QPR1 update. And despite updating most of its apps, Google is overlooking widgets again with this release, keeping the same old Material You design for several of them, while Apple and other Android OEMs like Samsung have taken widget design more seriously. But if, like me, you’d lik

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DaVita says ransomware gang stole data of nearly 2.7 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-07 12:38:14

Kidney dialysis firm DaVita has confirmed that a ransomware gang that breached its network stole the personal and health information of nearly 2.7 million individuals. DaVita serves over 265,400 patients across 3,113 outpatient dialysis centers, 2,660 in the United States, and 453 centers in 13 other countries worldwide. The company reported revenues of over $12 billion in 2024 and of $3.3 billion for the second quarter of 2025. In April, the healthcare provider revealed in a filing with the U

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Code formatting comes to uv experimentally

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 03:26:44

August 21, 2025 The latest uv release (0.8.13) quietly introduced an experimental new command that Python developers have been waiting for: uv format . This addition brings code formatting directly into uv’s toolkit, eliminating the need to juggle multiple tools for basic Python development workflows. What is uv format? The uv format command provides Python code formatting through uv’s interface. Under the hood, it calls Ruff’s formatter to automatically style your code according to consisten

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Uv format: Code Formatting Comes to uv (experimentally)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 09:26:44

August 21, 2025 The latest uv release (0.8.13) quietly introduced an experimental new command that Python developers have been waiting for: uv format . This addition brings code formatting directly into uv’s toolkit, eliminating the need to juggle multiple tools for basic Python development workflows. What is uv format? The uv format command provides Python code formatting through uv’s interface. Under the hood, it calls Ruff’s formatter to automatically style your code according to consisten

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Show HN: Tool shows UK properties matching group commute/time preferences

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 14:59:49

Introducing Our New App! We’re excited to introduce an app that helps you find the perfect places to live based on your personal needs. Here’s what you can do right now: Find the Perfect Property for You and Your Housemates Our app lets you instantly find properties that match your and your housemates' budgets, desired travel times, and work locations. No more endless searching—just the homes that fit your lifestyle. Key Features

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YouTube Music turns 10 and adds new ‘taste match’ playlists

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-09 04:40:11

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. YouTube Music is launching shared playlists that evolve based on the listening habits of the people who join them. The platform announced the new “taste match” playlists as part of its 10th anniversary on Thursday, and says it will refresh them with new music ev

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Trump’s Stance on Science Is Starting to Look Uncomfortably Soviet

gizmodo.com Lois Parshley 2025-11-09 08:35:00

In the fall of 1925, agronomist Trofim Lysenko arrived on the dusty plains of what is now Azerbaijan, hoping to keep cows from starving to death over the winter. The young scientist, who learned to read as a teenager during the Russian Revolution, dismissed the rapidly advancing field of genetics. He believed nature could be bent to human will. Lysenko denounced the idea that genes pass traits down as a “degradation of bourgeois culture,” and couldn’t understand why cows bred to produce more mi

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Why recycling isn’t enough to address the plastic problem

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-11-10 09:00:00

And looking into the future, emissions from plastics are only set to grow. Another estimate, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, projects that emissions from plastics could swell from about 2 billion metric tons to 4 billion metric tons by 2060. This chart is what really strikes me and makes the conclusion of the plastic treaty talks such a disappointment. Recycling is a great tool, and new methods could make it possible to recycle more plastics and make it easier

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Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 02:27:25

Fermat’s Last Theorem An ongoing multi-author open source project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover. Information about the project The project is currently being led by Kevin Buzzard. It is funded by grant EP/Y022904/1, awarded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The project is hosted at Imperial College London. Kevin would like to extend many many thanks to both of these institutions for their ongoing support of this nonstand

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A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Parris 2025-11-10 09:10:07

Intro: Why Is Everything "Certified Fresh"? I stayed in a hotel recently, which means I watched cable television, which means I consumed commercials that I could not skip—and some of these commercials advertised upcoming movie releases. Promo after promo, I noticed an unmistakable pattern: every film was "Certified Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes, with this seal of approval serving as the ad's climactic selling point. After five days of "Certified Fresh" movie propaganda, I began to grow suspicious.

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Group14 lands $463M from SK, Porsche, and others to make silicon anodes for EVs

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-11 04:50:33

Battery materials startup Group14 announced Wednesday it has closed a $463 million funding round to expand its manufacturing footprint, a sign that investors remain confident in the future of electric vehicles. The startup manufactures silicon anode materials, which significantly boost the storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries. Group14 currently operates three factories, two in the U.S. and one in South Korea. Despite headlines about softening demand growth for electric vehicles, the globa

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Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?

wired.com Will Knight 2025-11-11 14:00:00

During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if AI could do the same? Bilt, a company that offers local shopping and restaurant deals to renters, recently deployed several million agents with the hopes of doing just that. Bilt uses technology from a startup called Letta that allows agents to learn from previous conversations and share memories with one another. Using a process called “sleeptime compu

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DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

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