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Perplexity's Comet AI Web Browser Had a Major Security Vulnerability

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 23:22:06

Comet, Perplexity's new AI-powered web browser, recently suffered from a significant security vulnerability, according to a blog post last week from Brave, a competing web browser company. The vulnerability has since been fixed, but it points to the challenges of incorporating large language models into web browsers. Unlike traditional web browsers, Comet has an AI assistant built in. This assistant can scan the page you're looking at, summarize its contents or perform tasks for you. The proble

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An illustrated guide to OAuth

news.ycombinator.com Aditya Bhargava 2025-11-08 18:29:48

OAuth was first introduced in 2007. It was created at Twitter because Twitter wanted a way to allow third-party apps to post tweets on users' behalf. Take a second to imagine designing something like that today. How would you do it? One way would just be to ask the user for their username and password. So you create an unofficial Twitter client, and present the user a login screen that says "log in with Twitter". The user does so, but instead of logging into Twitter, they're actually sending the

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How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com Marty Haught 2025-11-09 02:02:51

by Marty Haught Recently, Socket.dev published research highlighting malicious gems designed to steal social media credentials. We wanted to use this as an opportunity to share more about how RubyGems.org security operates, how we proactively handled this incident (and others), and the work our team is doing each day to keep the ecosystem safe. How We Detect Malicious Gems RubyGems.org security uses a proactive and multi-layered approach: 1. Automated detection: Every gem upload is analyzed

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Meta Has Already Won the Smart Glasses Race

wired.com Amy Francombe 2025-11-08 17:00:00

At Meta’s Q2 2025 earnings call at the end of July, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t hold back. “If you don’t have glasses that have AI,” he warned, “you’re probably going to be at a pretty significant cognitive disadvantage compared to other people.” Forget smartphones. According to Zuck, the real interface of the future is what’s sitting on your nose. These AI-powered specs, he argues, will “see what we see, hear what we hear, and talk to us” in real time—offering a kind of digital copilot for everyday

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WIRED Roundup: The US Chip Manufacturers’ Bonanza

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-11-09 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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Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed

news.ycombinator.com Nati Tal 2025-11-08 18:03:56

This is the new reality we call " Scamlexity " - a new era of scam complexity , supercharged by Agentic AI. Familiar tricks hit harder than ever, while new AI-born attack vectors break into reality. In this world, your AI gets played, and you foot the bill. We built and tested three scenarios, from a fake Walmart store and a real in-the-wild Wells Fargo phishing site to PromptFix - our AI-era take on the ClickFix scam that hides prompt injection inside a fake captcha to directly take control of

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Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

news.ycombinator.com Chris K. W. 2025-11-07 23:34:26

If you’ve fallen far enough down the Wordle rabbit hole you may have heard of Quordle, a version of Wordle where you solve four words at once. If you’re looking for more of a challenge, Britannica has you covered with Octordle, where you solve eight words at once. And of course any Wordler worth their salt should be able to handle sixteen words, like in Sedecordle. And no, it doesn’t stop there: Sexaginta-quattuordle isn’t real, it can’t hurt yo– One logical extreme of this trend would be to

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We Tested All the Cheapest Meal Kits and Prepared Meal Services. These Are the Best

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-09 09:04:00

Our meal delivery experts have logged more than five years of cooking more than 75 meal kits and tasting upwards of 100 prepared meals, from popular meal delivery services to help land on our list of the best cheap meal subscriptions. 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. Life’s busier than ever -- at least it seems that way -- and carving out time to plan a week’s

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Horrifying screwworm infection confirmed in US traveler after overseas trip

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-09 09:38:14

Flesh-eating screwworm larvae poised to invade the US have snuck into Maryland via the flesh of a person who had recently traveled to El Salvador, upping anxiety about the ghastly—and economically costly—parasite. Reuters was first to report the case early Monday, quoting Andrew Nixon, spokesperson for the US Department of Health and Human Services, who said in an email that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had confirmed the case on August 4 in a person who had returned from a tri

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Blade Runner makes its live-action return next year

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-09 09:48:00

Blade Runner's third live-action entry will be a streaming miniseries on Amazon Prime Video, and Deadline reports that it is now slated for release in 2026. "The update was provided by Laura Lancaster, Head of US SVOD TV Development and Series – Co-Productions at Amazon MGM Studios, in an internal memo announcing promotions for two executives, Kara Smith and Tom Lieber," Deadline explained. We previously reported that the series, titled Blade Runner 2099, had been greenlit under original film

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Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-09 09:00:00

Bounce, a new technology that adds a critical component to the open social web, launches to the public on Monday. The cross-protocol migration tool offers a service that allows users of open social networks like Bluesky and Mastodon to move their follow graphs between their accounts, even though the networks rely on different underlying protocols. Today, Mastodon users unhappy with the service can opt to move their account to a different Mastodon server, while Bluesky is developing technology t

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Pixel-art cyberpunk platformer Replaced delayed again, this time until spring 2026

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-09 14:29:08

The long-awaited cyberpunk platformer Replaced has been delayed once again. Now it's not coming out until next spring. Developer Sad Cat Studio apologized for the delay and said that this is simply "what's right for the project" and that the team remains dedicated to creating a "truly special experience." This isn't the first time the game has suffered a delay. It was originally announced back in 2021, with a pending release date of 2022. That didn't happen. In 2024, the company announced a rel

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In a First, a Human Breathed Using an Implanted Pig Lung

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-09 14:40:28

The tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung into a living human body. Researchers in China reported the medical feat in a study published Monday in Nature Medicine. The gene-edited left lung survived for nine days inside a person declared to be brain dead. More work has to be done to ensure the long-term viability of these organs, the researche

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This rumored Apple Watch feature could fix one of my biggest unlocking annoyances

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-09 18:11:02

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple could be toying with Touch ID on the Apple Watch. It will probably not arrive on the smartwatches Apple unveils next month. Touch ID is part of a larger Apple Watch upgrade that could be coming in 2026. You might be unlocking your next Apple Watch with a biometric Touch ID, according to MacWorld. The publication found internal software that suggests Touch ID could be coming to future watc

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Changing these 6 settings on my Samsung TV greatly improved the performance

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-09 18:25:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Say you recently picked up a shiny new TV. You unbox it like a kid at Christmas and prepare to indulge in all its visual glory. You think to yourself, "This is 2025. TV technology is sizzling, and it's going to look amazing no matter what." So you plug it in and don't take one look at the default settings. Big mistake. Also: Samsung is giving away free 65-inch TVs right now - here's how to get one I've been guilty of it. A

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ChatGPT is reportedly scraping Google Search data to answer your questions - here's how

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-11-09 18:32:04

Anadolu / Contributor / Anadolu via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Reports reveal that OpenAI uses Google Search data to answer some of users' questions. The topics that use Google Search data mostly surround news, sports, and financial markets. OpenAI retrieves the Google Search data using a third-party web-scraping tool. As more people consult ChatGPT for general inquiries, reports are pointing to OpenAI, the AI-powered chatbot's parent

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The MiniPC Revolution

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 17:45:19

Over the past couple of years I’ve been experimenting with MiniPCs, and the more I do, the more I’m convinced this is the future I want to invest in. The Many Advantages Of MiniPCs # Before I ramble on about how great something I like is, first let me assure you that I know they’re not perfect either, and might not be what some people want. Nevertheless, here are my own reasons and explanations for how I came to be swayed in this direction, why I think it’s a good idea, and why I would recomme

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Astronomers Revisit the Mysterious Wow! Signal—and Find a Big Surprise

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-09 18:30:00

Nearly 50 years ago, astronomers searching the cosmos for evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life detected a strong radio signal emanating from deep space. Today, scientists still aren’t sure where—or what—the Wow! Signal came from. It remains one of the most perplexing phenomena in the history of radio astronomy. A new study has brought scientists closer than ever to solving that mystery. Researchers from the Arecibo Wow! (AWOW) project at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico recently

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The ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Success Story Could Be a Turning Point for Cinema

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-09 18:45:13

This weekend, movie history was made. For the first time ever, Netflix had the number one movie at the box office with its megahit KPop Demon Hunters. However, while every single other film distributor would’ve celebrated this fact, the streamer didn’t report the numbers. Instead, it put the version of the film in theaters immediately onto its streamer. The message was clear. This wasn’t meant to be a huge money grab or play for theatrical dominance. It was more of a thank you to the fans who st

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'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Isn't Over Yet: Season 3 Schedule and How to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-09 17:30:04

It's not summer without you. Jenny Han's The Summer I Turned Pretty is back for its third and final season, and it's been a roller coaster of a season so far. But don't fret -- we're not finished with Belly, Conrad and Jeremiah yet. The show is based on the book trilogy of the same name by Jenny Han, who has been executive producing the TV series. Isabel "Belly" Conklin (Lola Tung) starts the third season as an older, more mature college student. She's eased into her relationship with Jeremiah

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AirPods Pro 3 Coming in September? Here's Everything We Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-09 17:35:00

Recent reports suggest we probably won't see a new version of the AirPods Max this year, but many folks are predicting we will see the AirPods Pro 3 at Apple's iPhone 17 launch event this fall. Apple last updated its flagship AirPods Pro buds in 2022 and released two all-new versions of Apple's open earbuds -- the AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Canceling -- at last year's iPhone 16 event. While there's no guarantee we'll get the AirPods Pro 3 this year, Apple has announced a new model

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Tech founder throws hat in California governor’s race

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-11-09 18:05:22

In Brief Tech founder Ethan Agarwal, who has raised tens of millions of dollars from VCs across two startups, is running for the 2026 California gubernatorial seat, as reported by Axios. Axios described Agarwal as a “Democrat who believes in capitalism.” He told the outlet he’s mainly concerned about the increased cost of living and doing business in the state, which has led to the departure of residents and other opportunities, such as film productions. California “could use some business an

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As Health Questions Swirl, Weird Spot Appears on Trump’s Hand

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-09 23:08:00

Image by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty / Futurism Treatments Over the past few months, a small media circus has ignited after the White House announced that 79-year-old president Donald Trump, who had been photographed with swollen ankles, had been diagnosed with a disorder called chronic venous insufficiency that causes blood to pool in the extremities. Now, amid the increasing scrutiny about those "cankles," it appears the president or his aides are obfuscating another visible ai

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Building the mouse Logitech won't make

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 22:34:50

Building the Mouse Logitech Won't Make My absolute favorite mouse is the MX Ergo from Logitech. It's a trackball mouse with a good number of buttons and a comfortable, ergonomic tilt. It clicked with me as soon as I tried it, and I've been using one since they came out back in 2017. However, it's not without its issues. There are 3 main areas where the sheen of perfection wears off: It uses a micro-USB port to charge. The switches are a little loud and clicky. The software is bloated. After

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This Orange Shark Is the Result of a Rare Genetic Double Whammy

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-09 23:50:14

The depths of the Caribbean host a spectacular array of marine life—including this nurse shark featuring vivid orange scales and cloudy white eyes. Last year, anglers on a fishing trip near Costa Rica with Parisima Domus Dei, a tourist company, reeled in what looked like a giant goldfish with shark-like chompers. After snapping some photos of the creature—about 6 feet (1.8 meters)—the fishermen let it go, later describing their strange encounter to marine experts. The researchers concluded tha

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Our favorite smart lock is on sale for the first time today

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2025-11-09 23:38:42

Setting up a smart home security system is important, even if you never want to think about having to use it. Thankfully, Kwikset’s Halo Select — the best smart lock we’ve ever tested — is currently down to $259 ($20 off) at Amazon, Lowe’s, and The Home Depot, marking the first time the lock has been on sale since its launch late last year. In her review, Verge reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy praised the Halo Select for supporting four entry methods: a physical key, Kwikset’s app, a location-b

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Just bought a new Galaxy foldable? Watch out for this alert-hiding bug

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 04:40:21

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 suffer from a Do Not Disturb bug. Custom Do Not Disturb settings can reset automatically, removing your call or notification filters. A fix exists for the Galaxy S25 series in One UI 8 beta 5, but not yet for the Fold 7 or Flip 7. When you buy a flagship Samsung phone, the minimum you expect is smooth sailing with the core functionality. Still, early Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 owners might want to double-check th

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I retested GPT-5's coding skills using OpenAI's guidance - and now I trust it even less

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-10 03:16:03

seamartini/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The same prompts in GPT-5 yield success, crashes, or errors. OpenAI's prompt optimizer helps, but introduces its own quirks. AI "unconsciously" adding details raises trust concerns. Do AI's get headaches? Because GPT-5 has certainly been giving me one. This article was going to be so easy. OpenAI came out with a list of best practices for GPT-5 coding. All I was going to do was t

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‘Foundation’ Star Brandon P. Bell on Sci-Fi Spycraft and the Power of Asimov

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-10 04:00:04

Foundation season three is closing in on its finale, but there’s still a trio of action-packed episodes to go. io9 got a chance to talk to Brandon P. Bell, who plays Captain Han Pritcher; he’s a new character this season but has a name Foundation book readers will immediately recognize. On the Apple TV+ show based on the Isaac Asimov stories, Pritcher is entwined in multiple storylines. He’s the Foundation’s top intelligence officer, at least until he has a major falling-out with his boss. But

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Report Reveals Major Details About Apple’s Foldable iPhone

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-11-10 04:00:31

Apple is looking for its next cash cow. But Tim Cook won’t need to look far because, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company is working on reinventing the iPhone with not one, not two, but three models. The first of the three iPhones will come next month at Apple’s annual fall launch event. The long-rumored “iPhone 17 Air” will reportedly be Apple’s thinnest phone ever—even skinnier than the iPhone 6, which sparked “bendgate” back in 2014. The 17 Air is expected to replace the iPhone

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Perplexity's Comet AI Web Browser Had a Major Security Vulnerability

An illustrated guide to OAuth

How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure

Meta Has Already Won the Smart Glasses Race

WIRED Roundup: The US Chip Manufacturers’ Bonanza

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We Tested All the Cheapest Meal Kits and Prepared Meal Services. These Are the Best

Horrifying screwworm infection confirmed in US traveler after overseas trip

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Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon

Pixel-art cyberpunk platformer Replaced delayed again, this time until spring 2026

In a First, a Human Breathed Using an Implanted Pig Lung

This rumored Apple Watch feature could fix one of my biggest unlocking annoyances

Changing these 6 settings on my Samsung TV greatly improved the performance

ChatGPT is reportedly scraping Google Search data to answer your questions - here's how

The MiniPC Revolution

Astronomers Revisit the Mysterious Wow! Signal—and Find a Big Surprise

The ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Success Story Could Be a Turning Point for Cinema

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AirPods Pro 3 Coming in September? Here's Everything We Know

Tech founder throws hat in California governor’s race

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Our favorite smart lock is on sale for the first time today

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I retested GPT-5's coding skills using OpenAI's guidance - and now I trust it even less

‘Foundation’ Star Brandon P. Bell on Sci-Fi Spycraft and the Power of Asimov

Report Reveals Major Details About Apple’s Foldable iPhone

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