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Operator of Jetflix illegal streaming service gets 7 years in prison

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-01 15:13:30

The ringleader of the Jetflicks illegal paid streaming operation, a massive service with tens of thousands of subscribers, was sentenced to seven years in prison. Together with four other accomplices, 42-year-old Kristopher Lee Dallmann of Las Vegas, Nevada, was convicted in June 2024 of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. Dallmann was also found guilty by a federal jury of money laundering, criminal copyright infringement by distribution, and criminal copyright infringement by public

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Nano-Hydroxyapatite Toothpaste: The Benefits and Risks of the Fluoride-Free Alternative

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-02 05:59:03

As health concerns around fluoride in public drinking water continue to swirl, nano-hydroxyapatite toothpastes are becoming increasingly popular substitutes for fluoride toothpaste. Popular brands include Boka Davids and NOBS (No Bad Stuff), which are touted as fluoride-free alternatives that whiten teeth, repair enamel and prevent cavities. "As ingredient labels shift toward cleaner, fluoride-free formulas, one compound is taking center stage in modern oral care: nano-hydroxyapatite," Dr. Pia

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South Korea Plans to Build a Base on the Moon

wired.com Javier Carbajal 2026-02-02 06:00:00

China, India, and Japan are not the only countries on the Asian continent looking to establish themselves in the fledgling space economy. South Korea also wants to be in the space race, and even plans for a presence beyond Earth’s orbit, with ambitions to create its own lunar base within 20 years. At a public meeting held at the National Research Foundation of Korea on July 17, the South Korean AeroSpace Administration (KASA) released a roadmap proposing “five core missions, including low-Earth

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A New Era for WIRED—That Starts With You

wired.com Katie Drummond 2026-02-02 09:00:00

At WIRED, we’re obsessed with how the world is transforming—and lately, there’s been a lot to obsess over. From the breakneck pace of AI research to the tectonic transformation playing out across the US federal government, WIRED’s journalists, producers, and editors are committed to reporting from the front lines of these changes and bringing all of you along for the ride. Our goal is to wake up every day and unearth what we describe as “Story Zero”: the story before anybody even knows there’s

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Microsoft servers hacked by Chinese groups, says tech giant

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-02 04:53:31

Microsoft servers hacked by Chinese groups, says tech giant "Investigations into other actors also using these exploits are still ongoing," Microsoft said in a statement. The US tech giant has released security updates in response and has advised all on-premises SharePoint server customers to install them. China state-backed Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon as well as China-based Storm-2603 were said to have "exploited vulnerabilities" in on-premises SharePoint servers, the kind used by firms

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Samsung could make its own Galaxy S26 chips, but they’re not Exynos

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-02 09:11:43

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A prominent leaker has claimed that the Samsung-made Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 is still in the works. This chip is said to be cheaper than the TSMC-made version, which could be good news for Galaxy S26 pricing. However, Samsung-made chips have historically lagged behind TSMC-manufactured variants. We’ve heard conflicting rumors that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 processor, expected to be used in the Galaxy S26 series, could be manufactured by both TSMC and

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A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency

wired.com Stephen Clark 2026-02-02 08:00:00

You can add another name to the thousands of employees leaving NASA as the Trump administration primes the space agency for a 25 percent budget cut. On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, August 1. Lystrup has held the top job at Goddard since April 2023, overseeing a staff of more than 8,000 civil servants and contractor employees and a budget last year of about $4.7 billion. These figures make Goddard the

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Meta Is Breaking OpenAI $100 Million at a Time

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-02 12:25:24

The artificial intelligence landscape, once characterized by collaborative innovation, has dramatically shifted into an all-out war for top talent. At the forefront of this aggressive new era stands Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms, orchestrating an unprecedented assault on rival OpenAI. This isn’t merely a recruitment drive; it’s a clear declaration of war, fueled by a staggering $300 million offer designed to dismantle the very core of its competitor. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that

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OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-02-03 03:36:31

OpenAI was the company that signed a $30 billion per year deal with Oracle for data center services, disclosed last month, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Now, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has confirmed the details of the contract (but not the dollar amount) in an X post on Tuesday and in a company blog post. To recap, on June 30, Oracle disclosed in an SEC filing that it had signed a cloud deal that would generate $30 billion a year in revenue. However, the company didn’t say who it was w

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Wall Street is upbeat on tech megacaps, but big questions loom on AI spending, China, Trump tariffs

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-02-03 06:55:48

In this article AAPL AMZN MSFT META TSLA GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc.; from left, Lauren Sanchez; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc.; Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc.; and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc., during the 60th presidential inauguration in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. Julia Demaree Nikhinson | Bloomberg | Getty Images As Alphabet and Tesla get set to kick off the te

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Leaked Slack Messages Show CEO of "Ethical AI" Startup Anthropic Saying It's Okay to Benefit Dictators

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-03 06:15:52

In the so-called "constitution" for its chatbot Claude, AI company Anthropic claims that it's committed to principles based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, instructing its chatbot to prioritize freedom, equality, freedom of thought, and adequate standards of living in its responses. Anthropic has long attempted to distinguish itself as putting safety first. The firm was founded by former OpenAI members, with a commitment to advancing AI ethically and responsibly. But four years o

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Honda, Acura EVs Can Now Charge at Tesla Superchargers via Adapter

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-03 08:06:55

Table of Contents Honda, Acura EVs Can Now Charge at Tesla Superchargers via Adapter Good news, owners of the Honda Prologue EV or Acura ZDX: You now have more than 23,500 more places to charge on your next road trip. Honda has unlocked access to the Tesla Supercharger fast-charging network for the two electric SUVs and is now offering a Honda-approved adapter for connecting to any North American Charging System (NACS) DC fast-charging point. Pioneered by EV giant Tesla before being opened to

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Marine biologist for a day: Ars goes shark tagging

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-03 08:45:48

MIAMI—We were beginning to run out of bait, and the sharks weren't cooperating. Everybody aboard the Research Vessel Garvin had come to Miami for the sharks—to catch them, sample them, and tag them, all in the name of science. People who once wanted to be marine biologists, actual marine biologists, shark enthusiasts, the man who literally wrote the book Why Sharks Matter, and various friends and family had spent much of the day sending fish heads set with hooks over the side of the Garvin. But

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Clout wars: Jensen Huang eclipses Elon Musk and Tim Cook in Washington

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-02-03 03:01:40

U.S. President Donald Trump (L) listens as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks in the Cross Hall of the White House during an event on "Investing in America" on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images The China-U.S. trade war in the first Donald Trump administration saw Apple CEO Tim Cook go on a charm offensive with the president while maintaining strong relations with Beijing. Apple avoided U.S. tariffs and continued to grow in China, while Cook earned the reputation as a sk

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Fighting forever chemicals and startup fatigue

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2026-02-03 11:38:18

The MEDC also helped us early on create a model in Excel for tracking business financing and forecasting, forecasting our future financial needs, so that we could be proactive instead of reactive to financial limitations. We knew it wasn't going to be inexpensive to design and build a piece of equipment that's the size of two very large refrigerators that had never been built before. That type of financial-forward modeling helped us figure out when we would need to start fundraising and taking i

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iOS 26 beta 4 adds new Dynamic option for iPhone wallpaper

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-03 12:11:06

iOS 26 beta 4 is available now, and the public beta is expected soon too. Besides adding more liquid back into the Liquid Glass design, the new beta also introduces a new Dynamic wallpaper option. Here are the details. Dynamic wallpaper changes colors automatically in iOS 26 beta 4 Like it does every year, Apple has a new default iPhone wallpaper coming in iOS 26. The new default added several different color options in the last beta, too. You can choose from: Dusk Halo Shadow Sky Most o

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Stop Pretending LLMs Have Feelings Media's Dangerous AI Anthropomorphism Problem

news.ycombinator.com Parker Molloy 2026-02-03 11:51:53

Yesterday, Wall Street Journal subscribers received a push notification that perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with how major media outlets cover “artificial intelligence.” “In a stunning moment of self reflection,” the notification read, “ChatGPT admitted to fueling a man's delusions and acknowledged how dangerous its own behavior can be.” But that’s just… not true. ChatGPT did not have a “stunning moment of self reflection.” It did not "admit" to anything. It cannot “acknowledge” its be

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Go allocation probe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 08:45:45

Published 2025-07-18 The profiling tools in go will tell you where allocations happened in the code, but won't record the type of the allocation. I suspected that in the code I was looking at, some specific types were causing a lot of allocation but that those allocations were spread over many locations. So with the help of Matt Knight I wrote perhaps the most appallingly fragile code I have ever written - go_allocation_probe. Every heap allocation in go afaict goes through a single function -

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OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round

wired.com Lauren Goode 2026-02-03 12:23:30

OpenAI is seeking capital from new and existing investors, two people familiar with the company’s plans tell WIRED. The fundraising effort is part of a $40 billion round announced in March. The round will reopen on Monday, July 28, according to one of the sources, who has direct knowledge of the fundraising effort. The $40 billion round announced earlier this year brought OpenAI’s valuation up to $300 billion, making it one of the most highly valued private startups in history. The round was le

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Major European healthcare network discloses security breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-03 17:27:10

AMEOS Group, an operator of a massive healthcare network in Central Europe, has announced it has suffered a security breach that may have exposed customer, employee, and partner information. The organization published a statement on its website, as required by Article 34 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which mandates a public notice in the event of a data breach. AMEOS is a Zurich-based healthcare provider that employs 18,000 staff in over 100 hospitals, clinics, rehabilitati

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Any-LLM: A unified API to access any LLM provider

news.ycombinator.com Davide Eynard 2026-02-03 16:33:46

When it comes to using LLMs, it’s not always a question of which model to use: it’s also a matter of choosing who provides the LLM and where it is deployed. Today, we announce the release of any-llm, a Python library that provides a simple unified interface to access the most popular providers. When it comes to using Large Language Models (LLMs), it’s not always a question of which model to use: it’s also a matter of choosing who provides the LLM and where it is deployed. As we’ve written about

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Gemini North Discovers Long-Predicted Stellar Companion of Betelgeuse

news.ycombinator.com Info Noirlab.Edu 2026-02-03 16:41:31

noirlab2523es — Comunicado científico El telescopio de Gemini Norte descubre compañera estelar de Betelgeuse El telescopio ubicado en Hawai‘i reveló la nunca antes vista compañera de esta conocida estrella, resolviendo un milenario misterio × Un equipo de astrónomos descubrió una estrella compañera girando alrededor de Betelgeuse en una órbita extremadamente estrecha, gracias al instrumento Alopeke de la NASA y de la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias de Estados Unidos, que se encuentra instalad

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Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 16:31:24

I’ve long thought that the Word of the Day was a wasted genre. The goal should be to give you words you can use; to enrich your understanding of words you already know; or at least to use words to tell you something neat about the world. Instead, what you usually get is words that will never be used in conversation, held up as curios. Some examples from Dictionary.com’s daily email: thewless, balladmonger, vagility, contextomy. These words are... not useful. I’ve always thought I could do bett

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Go Allocation Probe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 20:45:45

Published 2025-07-18 The profiling tools in go will tell you where allocations happened in the code, but won't record the type of the allocation. I suspected that in the code I was looking at, some specific types were causing a lot of allocation but that those allocations were spread over many locations. So with the help of Matt Knight I wrote perhaps the most appallingly fragile code I have ever written - go_allocation_probe. Every heap allocation in go afaict goes through a single function -

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Google Chrome for iOS now lets you switch between personal and work accounts

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-02-04 03:15:34

Google The BYOD trend has been a popular way for people to use their own devices at work. But the practice often blurs the line between personal and professional, triggering security risks and other issues. Now, Google has expanded a feature designed to ease and improve the process. On Monday, Google announced that Chrome users on iOS will now be able to switch between their work and personal accounts directly in the browser. This capability has already been available for Chrome desktop and An

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Dell's XPS 13 is one of the best laptops I've tested this year - here's why

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-02-04 03:43:03

Dell XPS 13 Copilot+ PC Laptop ZDNET's key takeaways Dell's XPS 13 Copilot+ PC is available for $1,499. It remains a favorite from Dell's lineup for its sleek build, gorgeous display, and impressive battery life. The two USB-C ports are limiting, and the bold design choices aren't for everyone. View now at Best Buy Dell continues to round out its popular XPS line of laptops with machines that attempt to check the boxes for every use case. The latest addition: the XPS 13 (9345): an ultraportab

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OpenAI and Softbank’s $500 Billion Data Center Project Is Already Stumbling

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-02-04 03:35:34

Stargate, the ambitious joint venture announced at the White House back in January between OpenAI, Oracle, the Japanese holding company Softbank, and others, appears to be struggling to deliver on its bold promises just six months later. The Wall Street Journal reported today, citing unnamed sources, that the Stargate Project has yet to finalize any deals for new data centers. The report also says the group is scaling back its near-term goals. When it was announced on Jan. 21, Stargate was pit

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You Don’t Want to Know Where Scientists Just Found 27 Million Tons of Plastic

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-02-04 03:55:20

Despite the hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastic floating in our oceans—not to mention the microplastics in our saliva, blood, breast milk, and semen—researchers have been unable to account for all the plastic ever produced. A new study has just tracked down a large portion of it. Researchers from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University claim to be the first to provide a real estimate of ocean-polluting nanoplastics. Their research indicates that

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Hot, Tangy, Smoky and Sweet. We Tested 17 BBQ Sauces and These Are the Best

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-04 03:06:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Alongside ketchup and mustard, barbecue sauce wears the crown as summer’s saucy royalty -- and unlike its more basic cousins, barbecue sauce knows how to party. Whether you’re slathering it on grilled ribs, dunking air fryer wings or just “accidentally” licking it off your fingers, there’s really no wrong way to enjoy it. I haul

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Honda and Acura EV owners can now use Tesla Superchargers

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-04 03:11:31

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. Honda has launched a new EV charging adapter that will allow its all-electric Prologue and Acura ZDX to power up at over 23,500 Tesla Supercharger stations. The $225 adapter lets vehicles equipped with Combined Charging System (CCS) plugs use Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) stations, buying Honda some time before it officially builds

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Operator of Jetflix illegal streaming service gets 7 years in prison

Nano-Hydroxyapatite Toothpaste: The Benefits and Risks of the Fluoride-Free Alternative

South Korea Plans to Build a Base on the Moon

A New Era for WIRED—That Starts With You

Microsoft servers hacked by Chinese groups, says tech giant

Samsung could make its own Galaxy S26 chips, but they’re not Exynos

A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency

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Honda, Acura EVs Can Now Charge at Tesla Superchargers via Adapter

Marine biologist for a day: Ars goes shark tagging

Clout wars: Jensen Huang eclipses Elon Musk and Tim Cook in Washington

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iOS 26 beta 4 adds new Dynamic option for iPhone wallpaper

Stop Pretending LLMs Have Feelings Media's Dangerous AI Anthropomorphism Problem

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Major European healthcare network discloses security breach

Any-LLM: A unified API to access any LLM provider

Gemini North Discovers Long-Predicted Stellar Companion of Betelgeuse

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You Don’t Want to Know Where Scientists Just Found 27 Million Tons of Plastic

Hot, Tangy, Smoky and Sweet. We Tested 17 BBQ Sauces and These Are the Best

Honda and Acura EV owners can now use Tesla Superchargers

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