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Crypto Mining Stock Is Up 400% This Year As It Inks Nvidia Deal

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-17 19:12:46

Shares of Iren (IREN), an AI, cloud, and data center company, jumped nearly 15% on August 29 after announcing it had achieved “preferred partner” status with Nvidia. The designation is seen as a significant endorsement, positioning Iren as a key collaborator in Nvidia’s expanding ecosystem for AI and data center solutions. In addition to the partnership news, Iren confirmed it has secured the purchase of up to $168 million worth of Nvidia GPUs, further fueling the company’s stock rally on the

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Cracks are forming in Meta’s partnership with Scale AI

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-18 00:34:05

It’s only been since June that Meta invested $14.3 billion in the data-labeling vendor Scale AI, bringing on CEO Alexandr Wang and several of the startup’s top executives to run Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). But the relationship between the two companies is already showing signs of fraying. At least one of the executives Wang brought over to help run MSL — Scale AI’s former Senior Vice President of GenAI Product and Operations, Ruben Mayer — has departed Meta after just two months with the

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MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 06:13:50

Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering critical Social Security data This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client Charles Borges and was originally published here. Within weeks of Donald Trump’s second inaugural, members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team showed up at the Social Security Administration and started demanding access to files. The efforts were not well received: Michelle King, in her capacity as the acting Social Securi

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SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-10-18 07:49:36

On Friday, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, Chuck Borges, sent an email to agency staff claiming that he was forcibly removed from his position after filing a whistleblower complaint this week accusing the agency of mishandling sensitive agency data. Minutes after the email went out, it disappeared from employee inboxes, two SSA sources tell WIRED. “I am regretfully and involuntarily leaving my position at the Social Security Administration (SSA),” Borges wrote in the re

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Data engineering and software engineering are converging

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 18:43:42

TL;DR: · If you’re an engineer building realtime analytics or AI-powered features, you need the right data infrastructure coupled with the right developer experience (DX). · A great DX for data infrastructure should empower both software devs and data engineers, while taking inspiration from the best of modern web development (git-native, local-first, everything as code, CI/CD friendly, etc). · MooseStack by 514 offers a fully open source implementation of a DX layer for ClickHouse. Da

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Wearable devices are sharing your private data - these are the 5 worst offenders

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-18 23:15:30

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Several wearable devices are sharing user data. The worst offenders include Meta, Samsung, Xiaomi, and Huawei. Apple, Oura, and Whoop have some of the best data practices. Those shiny new Meta Ray-Bans might be uploading the media you're collecting to train its AI model, according to a new report by VPNMentor highlighting the data-sharing practices of the best and worst wearables. Meta and it

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Apple Reportedly Still Under Pressure to Give UK Government Backdoor iCloud Access

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 21:46:00

The UK government continues to seek access to Apple's iCloud services, according to a new report, with its request to access people's data seemingly even broader than originally thought. According to a legal filing seen by the Financial Times, the UK Home Office wanted backdoor access to standard iCloud services in addition to those secured with the highest level of encryption. Just last week, President Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said that the UK and US had

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Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-18 23:48:51

At the beginning of the month, Tesla was found partly liable in a wrongful death lawsuit involving the death of a pedestrian in Florida in 2019. The automaker—which could have settled the case for far less—claimed that it did not have the fatal crash's data. That's until a hacker was able to recover it from the crashed car, according to a report in The Washington Post. In the past, Tesla has been famously quick to offer up customer data stored on its servers to rebut claims made against the com

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Court documents shed new light on UK-Apple row over user data

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-19 06:58:33

Court documents shed new light on UK-Apple row over user data 1 hour ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Share Save Getty Images The UK government may have wanted to force Apple to provide it with access to more customer data than previously thought, a court document has indicated. A row erupted between the two after it emerged the Home Office asked the tech giant for the right access to highly encrypted user data stored via a service called Advanced Data Protection (ADP). Now a

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Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it

news.ycombinator.com Trisha Thadani 2025-10-19 12:15:39

Years after a Tesla driver using Autopilot plowed into a young Florida couple in 2019, crucial electronic data detailing how the fatal wreck unfolded was missing. The information was key for a wrongful death case the survivor and the victim’s family were building against Tesla, but the company said it didn’t have the data. Then a self-described hacker, enlisted by the plaintiffs to decode the contents of a chip they recovered from the vehicle, found it while sipping a Venti-size hot chocolate a

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UK's demand for Apple backdoor may have been broader than previously thought

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 23:30:09

The UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has submitted a new legal filing, suggesting that authorities wanted the iCloud backdoor they're demanding Apple to create to be able to access more data than previously thought. According to the Financial Times, UK's Home Office has also yet to legally withdraw or change its order for Apple to create backdoor access to its users' data. If you'll recall, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claimed a few days ago that the UK "has agreed

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Deepnote (YC S19) is hiring engineers to build a better Jupyter notebook

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 23:01:52

We started Deepnote to help data teams solve the hardest problems. We don’t just need better algorithms, bigger data sets, and more computing power. We need tools that help us explore, collaborate, and share. These tools don’t exist yet. We need to invent them first. Data work is as much a scientific and creative process as it is an engineering one. It involves working together, failing, learning, and going back to the drawing board. Data professionals are explorers. To make projects successful

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Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it

news.ycombinator.com Trisha Thadani 2025-10-19 22:15:39

Years after a Tesla driver using Autopilot plowed into a young Florida couple in 2019, crucial electronic data detailing how the fatal wreck unfolded was missing. The information was key for a wrongful death case the survivor and the victim’s family were building against Tesla, but the company said it didn’t have the data. Then a self-described hacker, enlisted by the plaintiffs to decode the contents of a chip they recovered from the vehicle, found it while sipping a Venti-size hot chocolate a

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If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 08:39:26

Anthropic sent out an email, saying they will train on personal data. They made it sound like you have to opt in, but when I click the privacy link it defaults to on. If you don’t want your data trained on, you better manually turn it off. Email: Hello, We're writing to inform you about important updates to our Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy. These changes will take effect on September 28, 2025, or you can choose to accept the updated terms before this date when you log in to Claude.ai. T

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Thirsty data centres boom in drought-hit Mexico

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-20 11:03:41

Thirsty data centres boom in drought-hit Mexico 59 minutes ago Share Save Suzanne Bearne Technology Reporter, Querétaro, Mexico Share Save Arterra/Getty Images Querétaro is known for its impressive stone aqueduct Located in the middle of Mexico, Querétaro is a charming and colourful colonial-style city known for its dazzling stone aqueduct. But the city, and state of the same name, is also recognised for a very different reason - as Mexico's data centre capital. Across the state companies inc

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Credit Bureau TransUnion Hit With Data Breach Affecting 4.4 Million People

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 14:29:00

The TransUnion data breach exposed the data of up to 4.4 million customers. CNET Major credit bureau TransUnion has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive information belonging to 4.4 million customers, including names and Social Security numbers. The data breach took place on July 28, meaning the sensitive information could have been sold and distributed throughout the dark web already. TransUnion is notifying people who may have been affected that their information could be exposed an

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Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-20 13:43:12

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories of our own. But first, what’s changing: Previously, Anthropic didn’t use consumer chat data for model training. Now, the company wants to train its AI systems on user conversations

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Forget data labeling: Tencent’s R-Zero shows how LLMs can train themselves

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-10-20 19:07:08

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new training framework developed by researchers at Tencent AI Lab and Washington University in St. Louis enables large language models (LLMs) to improve themselves without requiring any human-labeled data. The technique, called R-Zero, uses reinforcement learning to generate its own training data from scratch, addressing one of the main b

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Incogni deletes your family’s private info from the internet – here’s why that matters

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-10-20 19:30:00

In today’s world, everyone needs to have dozens, if not hundreds of different online accounts to keep up with their everyday life. That’s a lot of potentially sensitive data in the hands of tons of different companies – and it’s easy to not think about that. You and your family’s data is incredibly valuable to data brokers, but it isn’t too difficult to put a stop to it – and protect the online privacy of your family. Protecting your online privacy It can be hard to take control of your online

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Enterprise data infrastructure proves resilient as Snowflake’s 32% growth defies tech slowdown fears

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-10-20 22:55:42

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Just days after Gartner’s stock plummeted 50% on warnings of slowing enterprise technology purchases, Snowflake delivered a resounding counter-narrative. Enterprises aren’t pulling back on data infrastructure. They’re doubling down. The cloud data platform company reported 32% year-over-year growth in product revenue for its fiscal second

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Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your data for AI training

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-20 23:43:12

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories of our own. But first, what’s changing: previously, Anthropic didn’t use consumer chat data for model training. Now, the company wants to train its AI systems on user conversations

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There's a Stunning Financial Problem With AI Data Centers

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-21 10:21:32

Over the past few years, the tech industry's plans for artificial intelligence have grown from ambitious to outright treacherous, with the amount of money invested in the space so high it now poses a serious risk to the broader economy. Underlying the broader, often poorly-defined AI tech are data centers, which are vast warehouses stuffed to the brim with specialized chips that transform energy into computational power, thus making all your Grok fact checks possible. The economics of data cen

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Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 09:59:11

Today, we're rolling out updates to our Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy that will help us deliver even more capable, useful AI models. We're now giving users the choice to allow their data to be used to improve Claude and strengthen our safeguards against harmful usage like scams and abuse. Adjusting your preferences is easy and can be done at any time. These updates apply to users on our Claude Free, Pro, and Max plans, including when they use Claude Code from accounts associated with those

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How Is AI Used In Space? This Wild Look Into a Data Center Plan Has Clues

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-21 15:05:57

The world runs on data. As humanity’s information gets increasingly digitized and artificial intelligence creeps its way into every aspect of life, data centers become more and more important. But that data comes with a catch: the servers in these data centers have monstrous energy demands that eat up natural resources like water, and that puts a significant burden on local communities where data centers are located. Some companies think they’ve found the solution to this problem by sending th

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Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-21 15:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless users choose to opt out. It’s also extending its data retention policy to five years — again, for users that don’t choose to

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TransUnion suffers data breach impacting over 4.4 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-21 23:10:34

Consumer credit reporting giant TransUnion warns it suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of over 4.4 million people in the United States. TransUnion is one of the three major credit bureaus in the United States, alongside Equifax and Experian. It operates in 30 countries, employs 13,000 staff, and has an annual revenue of $3 billion. It collects and maintains credit information on over 1 billion consumers worldwide, with approximately 200 million of those based in the U.S.

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That boolean should probably be something else

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 02:31:15

Monday, June 30, 2025 One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean logic underpins much of modern computing. And yet, it's one of the types we should probably be using a lot less of. In almost every single instance when you use a boolean, it should be something else. The trick is figuring out what "something else" is. Doing this is worth the effort. It tells you a lot about your system, and it will improve your design (even if you end up usi

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LLMs solving problems OCR+NLP couldn't

news.ycombinator.com Filip Rejmus 2025-10-22 03:15:28

The first idea resembling something like the idea of OCR got developed in 1870 as a reading machine for the blind - the Optophone. This was the first step to solve a problem that sounds pretty simple: How do we get writing on paper inside a computer? 150 years of research, engineering breakthroughs and hundreds of IDP products later we were finally able to scan a receipt and have the fields be filled out - if it looked nice and friendly enough to the OCR model. Heureka. Unfortunately for Tesse

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GAN Math (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Jake Tae 2025-10-22 01:42:35

Generative Adversarial Networks refer to a family of generative models that seek to discover the underlying distribution behind a certain data generating process. This distribution is discovered through an adversarial competition between a generator and a discriminator. As we saw in an earlier introductory post on GANs, the two models are trained such that the discriminator strives to distinguish between generated and true examples, while the generator seeks to confuse the discriminator by produ

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TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-22 07:04:57

Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations. TransUnion claimed “no credit information was accessed,” but provided no immediate evidence for its claim. The data breach notice did not s

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