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This $12 USB-C accessory is one of the best investments I've made for my electronics

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-10 00:00:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The magnetic USB-C connector now supports a 180-degree swivel, and it's only $12 at Amazon. It can pump out as much as 240W of power. I just wish it was suitable for data transferring or powering monitors. $15.99 at Amazon These handy 240W USB-C magnetic adapters are on sale for just $12 (with the added coupon) for one on Amazon. A hill I'm always willing to fight on -- and maybe even die on -- is that the magnetic breakaway USB-C connector is one of the best USB access

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Billions of login credentials have been leaked online

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 08:37:14

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers at cybersecurity outlet Cybernews say that billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving criminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day. According to a report published this week, Cybernews researchers have recently discovered 30 exposed datasets that each contain a vast amount of login information — amounting to a total of 16 billion compromised credentials. That includes user passwords for a range of p

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Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 09:34:21

9 min read This post is also available in Français Nederlands and Español In mid-May 2025, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps). This comes shortly after the publication of our DDoS threat report for 2025 Q1 on April 27, 2025, where we highlighted attacks reaching 6.5 Tbps and 4.8 billion packets per second (pps). The 7.3 Tbps attack is 12% larger than our previous record and 1 Tbps greater than a recent attack reported by cyber

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An analysis of recent multithreading improvements for a smoother game

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 10:56:40

UNIT: Dedmen, Programmer, Programming TO: Arma 3 Users OPSUM: An analysis of recent multithreading improvements for a smoother game experience SITREP Welcome to this technical deep dive into Arma 3's performance optimizations in update 2.20. Before handing you over to this blog's actual author, I wanted to share a few words on the state of Live Ops. Yes, REPception is now a thing. Some 12 years since its initial release, we still find ourselves releasing free platform updates to the game. T

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US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

news.ycombinator.com Wyatt Reed 2025-09-09 08:53:28

Four senior executives at Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have been formally appointed lieutenant colonels in the US Army following the creation of a “special” unit created for rich Big Tech mavens seeking military leadership roles. On June 13, the Army announced the creation of Detachment 201, otherwise known as the “Executive Innovation Corps,” which it describes as “a new initiative designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation.” Four ultra-wealthy executives from top tec

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Malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 09:51:17

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James Gunn Says ‘Get Off Matt’s Nuts,’ ‘The Batman’ Sequel Will Happen When It Happens

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-09-09 07:45:02

Cool your jets Batman fans, James Gunn has heard you loud and clear over the highly anticipated sequel to Matt Reeves’ The Batman. So much so that he recently expressed his frustration with the demand in defense of the time DC Studios was taking. “Listen, we’re supposed to get a script in June. I hope that happens. We feel really good about it,” Gunn told Entertainment Weekly, and colorfully added, “People should get off Matt’s nuts because it’s like, let the guy write the screenplay in the amo

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Something Big Is Twisting Mercury’s Crust

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-09 09:00:50

Mercury has it rough. Not only is it the smallest planet in the solar system, it’s also the closest to our Sun. This unfortunate position has caused Mercury to develop cracks and fractures across its surface, and generate stresses to its crust, a new study has found. Mercury is dry, rugged, and heavily cratered; the planet appears deformed with towering cliffs and ridges, as well as fracture lines that run along its surface. The origin of Mercury’s scars has long been a mystery: How did the pla

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Microsoft lays out its path to useful quantum computing

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-09 09:52:35

On Thursday, Microsoft's Azure Quantum group announced that it has settled on a plan for getting error correction on quantum computers. While the company pursues its own hardware efforts, the Azure team is a platform provider that currently gives access to several distinct types of hardware qubits. So it has chosen a scheme that is suitable for several different quantum computing technologies (notably excluding its own). The company estimates that the system it has settled on can take hardware q

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Show HN: SecureBuild – Zero-CVE Images That Pay OSS Projects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 11:04:31

Revenue Sharing We share subscription revenue with your project maintainers or foundation, creating a sustainable funding source for your open source work. 70% of revenue goes to maintainers, while 30% goes to SecureBuild.

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MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-09 13:32:33

MIT graduate student Alex Kachkine once spent nine months meticulously restoring a damaged baroque Italian painting, which left him plenty of time to wonder if technology could speed things up. Last week, MIT News announced his solution: a technique that uses AI-generated polymer films to physically restore damaged paintings in hours rather than months. The research appears in Nature. Kachkine's method works by printing a transparent "mask" containing thousands of precisely color-matched region

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Applebee’s and IHOP have plans for AI

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-09 13:21:52

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. Applebee’s and IHOP plan to launch an AI-powered “personalization engine” that could help its restaurants provide recommendations and customized deals, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The personalization engine would use a customer’s past purchases — or the orders of customers similar to them — to make recommendations. Justin Sk

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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 2025-09-09 17:32:00

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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Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a '70s artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-06 23:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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A Python-first data lakehouse

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 23:22:03

“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible”. Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things. Data and ML scientists - A life in the middle Despite AI eating the world and data becoming one of the most important things for every company on the planet, but getting models from prototype to production is still pretty problematic. According to HBR , fewer than 1 in 5 models ever make it into prod

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Midjourney's new animation tool turns images into short videos - here's how

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-09 21:46:00

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET A growing number of AI sites and services are able to generate short videos based on your descriptions or still images. Now, you can add Midjourney to the mix. On Wednesday, the popular AI image creator announced that users can now animate their images into five-second videos. The new feature is available to all Midjourney subscribers, including those on the $10-per-month Basic plan, and offers a variety of ways to cook up cool videos. Also: I test AI tools f

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Boston Side Events lineup at TechCrunch All Stage with Fidelity Private Shares, Women Tech Meetup, Prepare 4 VC, and more

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-09 21:00:00

Get ready to amplify your TechCrunch All Stage 2025 experience with the electrifying lineup of Side Events taking Boston by storm during the week of July 13–19. As the countdown to TC All Stage begins, we’re thrilled to share our Side Events lineup, where you can foster meaningful connections within the vibrant Boston tech community. Whether you’re a seasoned industry pro or a budding entrepreneur, our Side Events promise an unforgettable week filled with networking opportunities, innovation sh

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Everything we know about Tesla's robotaxi launch in Austin

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-10 01:16:55

Tesla 's long-overdue robotaxi is finally hitting the streets this weekend, but the rollout may face some roadblocks. The Elon Musk-led electric vehicle company is expected to roll out robotaxis in Austin, Texas, on June 22, with the first driverless trip from the factory to a customer house expected on his birthday, June 28. Musk shared news of the tentative debut in a post to social media platform X last week. Here's what we know about the Tesla event so far. When and where The launch wil

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Cursed New Dating App Matches You Based on the Most Deranged Thing We Can Imagine

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-10 00:09:58

A newly-developed dating app matches potential lovers based on their entire internet browsing histories — and we're not quite sure how we feel about it. As Wired reports, the new service is straightforwardly-named "Browser Dating," and is the brainchild of Belgian artiste provocateur Dries Depoorter. After years creating one-off projects like "Shirt," a top that increases one euro each time it's purchased, Depoorter took a different route with his new app that invites lonely users to upload th

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Aflac discloses breach amidst Scattered Spider insurance attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-10 01:52:05

On Friday, American insurance giant Aflac disclosed that its systems were breached in a broader campaign targeting insurance companies across the United States by attackers who may have stolen personal and health information. Aflac (short for American Family Life Assurance Company) is the largest supplemental insurance provider in the U.S. and a Fortune 500 company that provides insurance services to millions of customers in the U.S. and Japan. In a press release earlier today, the insurance c

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1800W Anker Power Station With 11 Ports Has Never Been Cheaper, Prime Day Won’t See a Better Price

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-10 01:25:31

Whether you’re planning outdoor parties, heading out on a boat or setting up camp, having reliable power is a game-changer. Among the many options available, the Anker Solix C1000 portable power station is very popular, thanks to its impressive 11 ports to charge multiple devices at once, solar panel rechargeability, and battery longevity. Currently, this huge power station is available for just $448, down from its original $799 (44% off) which makes it one of the most attractive offers in the

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Amazon improves Kindle accessibility with new text spacing adjustments

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-10 01:07:35

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Amazon released a new software update for several recent Kindle models last week. The company’s release notes only mention “performance improvements, bug fixes, and other general enhancements,” but the update includes notable upgrades when it comes to adjusting text and line spacing, improving legibility and accessibility for many users, as spott

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One of the best RPGs of all time is coming to Android on August 5

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-10 05:12:12

Oliver Cragg / Android Authority TL;DR Disco Elysium will launch on Android on August 5. It will feature full voice acting and revamped, mobile-first gameplay. The first two chapters are free, with the full game costing $9.99. Disco Elysium is one of the most celebrated titles of the past decade, with numerous awards and accolades under its belt. A mobile port was announced earlier this year, and now it finally has an official release date. The stylish 2019 RPG will launch on August 5, and

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Ahead of Google Assistant’s death, Gemini finally inherits this much-loved feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-10 05:13:08

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini has finally received another long-awaited Google Assistant feature. The chatbot can now identify songs playing nearby using the Google app’s Song Search feature. Previously, Gemini would recommend using third-party music recognition apps when asked to identify a song. Gemini lacked several Google Assistant features at launch, but steady updates from Google have brought it closer to being a comprehensive replacement for the legacy voice assistant.

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NASA Scientists Find Ties Between Earth's Oxygen and Magnetic Field

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-10 05:21:31

The solar wind flows around Earth's magnetic field. A new NASA study suggests that the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere and strength of the magnetic field have been correlated for more than half a billion years. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Laboratory For 540 million years, the ebb and flow in the strength of Earth's magnetic field has correlated with fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen, according to a newly released analysis by NASA scientists. The research suggests tha

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Chimpanzees yawn when observing an android yawn

news.ycombinator.com Joly-Mascheroni 2025-09-07 06:50:44

Participants Participants were 14 adult chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes spp.) aged 10 to 33 years ($\bar{X}$ = 22.57, SD = 8.06), including 10 males and 4 females (see Table 1). The chimpanzees had lived at the Fundació Mona (Spain) for between 1 and 12 years ($\bar{X}$ = 7.36, SD = 4.34), after being confiscated or rescued from the pet and entertainment industry to be permanently housed at the centre. All chimpanzees were socially housed in two stable groups within a naturalistic enclosure de

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College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 08:20:32

The Pitch Deck. The deck is often the introduction of a venture capitalist to a company, sent after a warm intro. For the athlete, the pitch deck consists of video and some metrics, posted on Twitter (the LinkedIn of college baseball). In both cases, the best story is (naturally) being told: they aren’t dishonest, but they also aren’t going to emphasize flaws or risks. In my experience, pitch decks are important, but not as important as the underlying business; similarly, terrific video of a bul

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I changed 12 settings on my Android phone to significantly improve the battery life

zdnet.com Max Buondonno 2025-09-10 09:32:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET I've spent large portions of my life looking for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather dramatic, but growing up with only budget models meant I was constantly tweaking device settings to squeeze every bit of juice out of their batteries. Thanks to this micromanaging, I successfully pushed the batteries on all my past smartphones to their absolute limit. I don't want to hoard this knowledge to myself, so I've decided to share it wit

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How to turn off ACR on your TV (and what your TV stops tracking when you do)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-10 09:40:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: 184 million passwords for Google, Microsof

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A '70s performance artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-07 19:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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