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What is Laura Loomer?

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-12-04 04:51:24

For the uninitiated, watching a Jeffrey Epstein truther such as Laura Loomer have such influence over the White House’s decisions is nothing short of baffling. ABC News attributes “the ouster of at least 15 individuals from Trump’s second administration” to Loomer’s influence — partially, at least. For Washington veterans who grew up in quote-unquote normal times, it’s unprecedented. If this 32-year-old online personality with no government experience tweets her displeasure at a random official,

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Columbia University data breach impacts nearly 870,000 individuals

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-04 16:43:28

An unknown threat actor has stolen the sensitive personal, financial, and health information of nearly 870,000 Columbia University current and former students and employees after breaching the university's network in May. Established in 1767 as King's College, Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university with a budget of $6.6 billion in 2024, over 20,000 employees, including 4,700 academic staff, and over 35,000 enrolled students across 19 schools and special programs. The

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California jury rules Meta violated privacy law in case involving period-tracking app

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-05 17:59:20

A California jury ruled against Meta in a privacy-related lawsuit involving the alleged collection of sensitive data from Flo, a period-tracking app. The jury ruled that the plaintiffs proved that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, according to a verdict form filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for Northern District of California. The ruling stems from a class-action lawsuit dating back to 2021 against the health-tech company Flo Health and other businesses like Meta, Go

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Woman Diagnosed with Malaria in Washington May Be State’s First Locally Acquired Case

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-05 18:55:11

Washington state officials have revealed that a local woman has been diagnosed with malaria, which, if confirmed, would mark the first known case of the disease being acquired in the state. The woman was diagnosed with malaria, a mosquito-borne illness caused by a parasite, on August 2, according to the officials. State and federal public health agencies are working to confirm the source of the infection, according to a statement published on Wednesday. Officials believe that the infection may

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Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 10:28:47

Day zero model performance optimization work is a mix of experimentation, bug fixing, and benchmarking guided by intuition and experience. This writeup outlines the process we followed to achieve SOTA latency and throughput for GPT OSS 120B on NVIDIA GPUs at launch with the Baseten Inference Stack. The day an open source model like OpenAI’s new gpt-oss-120b is released, we race to make the model as performant as possible for our customers. As a launch partner for OpenAI’s first open-source LLM

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Verizon Promo Offers NFL Sunday Ticket Access at No Extra Cost

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 16:50:56

It's still the NFL preseason, but ahead of the official 2025-2026 regular season kickoff in September, Verizon, a long-term partner of the league, is offering NFL Sunday Ticket to new and existing mobile and internet customers. You don't even need a paid subscription for YouTube TV or YouTube Primetime Channels. Verizon revived its Sunday Ticket on Us promo on Tuesday, and it will run through Sept. 23, along with an alternative option to get $200 off the sports package for a savings of up to $4

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The Real Origin of Cisco Systems (1999)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 04:48:15

The following account of the real origins of Cisco Systems, as opposed to the history often recounted in Cisco company literature, was written in 1999 by Tom Rindfleisch. Rindfleisch was Director of the SUMEX-AIM project (1973-1990), under which the software for a powerful Internet router system was developed and widely deployed at Stanford and elsewhere for research purposes. That code found its way, without approval from the original developers, to form the basis of the Cisco router. Tom Rindf

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The Real Origin of Cisco Systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 10:48:15

The following account of the real origins of Cisco Systems, as opposed to the history often recounted in Cisco company literature, was written in 1999 by Tom Rindfleisch. Rindfleisch was Director of the SUMEX-AIM project (1973-1990), under which the software for a powerful Internet router system was developed and widely deployed at Stanford and elsewhere for research purposes. That code found its way, without approval from the original developers, to form the basis of the Cisco router. Tom Rindf

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Dotfiles feel too personal to share

news.ycombinator.com Juha-Matti Santala 2025-12-08 14:36:01

I love dotfiles. “Dotfiles” is a term that refers to configuration files used to configure software and operating systems. They are called such because often these files start with a dot. You may have seen .bashrc , .tmux.conf or .zshrc in the wild. Whenever a software doesn’t offer direct file-based configuration, I feel sad because it means I need to take extra steps to keep my configuration across different devices in sync or when setting up a new machine. I love sharing. I regularly publ

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Inside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety

wired.com Will Knight 2025-12-08 18:00:00

At a computer security conference in Arlington, Virginia, last October, a few dozen AI researchers took part in a first-of-its-kind exercise in “red teaming,” or stress-testing a cutting-edge language model and other artificial intelligence systems. Over the course of two days, the teams identified 139 novel ways to get the systems to misbehave including by generating misinformation or leaking personal data. More importantly, they showed shortcomings in a new US government standard designed to h

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The Origin of Cisco Systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 10:48:15

The following account of the real origins of Cisco Systems, as opposed to the history often recounted in Cisco company literature, was written in 1999 by Tom Rindfleisch. Rindfleisch was Director of the SUMEX-AIM project (1973-1990), under which the software for a powerful Internet router system was developed and widely deployed at Stanford and elsewhere for research purposes. That code found its way, without approval from the original developers, to form the basis of the Cisco router. Tom Rindf

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news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 08:18:44

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ESPN's Standalone Streaming Service and App to Launch Aug. 21

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-09 08:07:00

Just in time for the NFL and college football seasons, ESPN will launch its flagship streaming service and app Aug. 21. The service, which will simply be called ESPN, will cost $30 as a standalone service or $36 a month if bundled with Disney+ and Hulu. The NFL season kicks off on Sept. 4, and the first set of college games are scheduled for Aug. 23. Subscribers will receive access to all of ESPN's live games for all sports and programming from ESPN on ABC, ESPN2 and the SEC Network. On Wednes

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Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share

news.ycombinator.com Juha-Matti Santala 2025-12-09 14:36:01

I love dotfiles. “Dotfiles” is a term that refers to configuration files used to configure software and operating systems. They are called such because often these files start with a dot. You may have seen .bashrc , .tmux.conf or .zshrc in the wild. Whenever a software doesn’t offer direct file-based configuration, I feel sad because it means I need to take extra steps to keep my configuration across different devices in sync or when setting up a new machine. I love sharing. I regularly publ

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ESPN’s live sports streaming service arrives this month

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-09 23:13:07

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. The launch of ESPN’s long-awaited standalone streaming service is just weeks away. Alongside its earnings results on Wednesday, Disney revealed that ESPN’s streaming service and its “enhanced” app will arrive on August 21st for $29.99 per month. ESPN’s new stre

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I built a tool to help people remove their info from the Tea App

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 11:57:05

From: To: [email protected], [email protected] Copy Subject: Request for Immediate Removal of Unauthorized Personal Information Copy To Whom It May Concern, My name is . I have discovered that my personal information is being published and distributed through the Tea Dating Advice app without my knowledge or consent. This includes a post referencing me. This anonymous and unverified content violates my right to privacy, and I am requesting the immediate removal of any

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PBS confirms data breach after employee info leaked on Discord servers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-10 23:06:29

PBS has suffered a data breach exposing the corporate contact information of its employees and those of its affiliates, BleepingComputer has learned. Earlier this month, BleepingComputer was alerted to a file circulated on Discord servers that allegedly contained this information. This data was not distributed on dark web sites, hacking forums, or other mediums frequented by threat actors. Instead, it was being shared on Discord servers for fans of "PBS Kids," where young adults, teenagers, an

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Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-11 14:28:10

Cisco said that one of its representatives fell victim to a voice phishing attack that allowed threat actors to download profile information belonging to users of a third-party customer relationship management system. “Our investigation has determined that the exported data primarily consisted of basic account profile information of individuals who registered for a user account on Cisco.com,” the company disclosed. Information included names, organization names, addresses, Cisco assigned user I

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If the AI Bubble Pops, It Could Now Take the Entire Economy With It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-11 23:09:39

AI companies are pouring so much money into AI, experts are starting to warn that it may be propping up the entire US economy. As investor Paul Kedrosky told the Wall Street Journal, spending on AI infrastructure has already eclipsed spending on telecom and internet infrastructure during the dot-com crisis over two decades ago, raising the specter of a massive bubble. Kedrosky also floated the possibility that we haven't really felt the effects of president Donald Trump's tariffs due to the sc

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Verizon is offering a NFL Sunday Ticket subscription for free, if you qualify

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-12 04:42:22

Andrew Grush / Android Authority TL;DR Verizon is offering the NFL Sunday Ticket free ($480 value) to users adding a new line or switching to Verizon Home Internet. Customers not making these changes can still save over $200 on the NFL Sunday Ticket through Verizon. Verizon customers can also grab limited free NFL game tickets via the My Verizon app on August 7. erizon recently drew some negative attention for removing loyalty discounts alongside a few minor fee increases, but this time, Big

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Cisco discloses data breach impacting Cisco.com user accounts

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-12 18:17:12

Cisco has disclosed that cybercriminals stole the basic profile information of users registered on Cisco.com following a voice phishing (vishing) attack that targeted a company representative. After becoming aware of the incident on July 24th, the networking equipment giant discovered that the attacker tricked an employee and gained access to a third-party cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system used by Cisco. This allowed the threat actor to steal the personal and user infor

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Could Apple create an AI search engine to rival Gemini and ChatGPT? Here's how it could succeed

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-13 23:52:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Apple reportedly has an AI search in the works. The AI search experience could have a standalone app and power Siri. Timely and strategic release with broader success of AI search engines. With the launch of Apple Intelligence, Apple sought to enter the AI space after a somewhat late entry. However, several delays of its most sought-after feature, including Siri 2.0, have made it difficult to keep up with more established competitors. A new report d

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Idaho has become the wild frontier of vaccination policy and public health

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-15 04:19:40

Some 280,000 people live in the five northernmost counties of Idaho. One of the key public officials responsible for their health is Thomas Fletcher, a retired radiologist who lives on a 160-acre farm near Sandpoint. Fletcher grew up in Texas and moved to Idaho in 2016, looking for a place where he could live a rural life alongside likeminded conservatives. In 2022, he joined the seven-member board of health of the Panhandle Health District, the regional public health authority, and he was appo

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Galaxy S26 could get a hardware upgrade for much easier payments

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 10:59:03

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is apparently thinking about adding an additional NFC antenna to the top of the Galaxy S26 series. This should make it more convenient to use tap-to-pay, as you can do so via the rear or top of the phone. The Galaxy S26 rumors are trickling in at a steady pace, even though the expected launch window is roughly six months away. The latest leak has revealed that Samsung could significantly improve NFC payments like Samsung Pay or Google Wallet.

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EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor's office

news.ycombinator.com Robert N. Charette 2025-12-15 06:07:44

Cheryl Conrad no longer seethes with the frustration that threatened to overwhelm her in 2006. As described in IEEE Spectrum, Cheryl’s husband, Tom, has a rare genetic disease that causes ammonia to accumulate in his blood. At an emergency room visit two decades ago, Cheryl told the doctors Tom needed an immediate dose of lactulose to avoid going into a coma, but they refused to medicate him until his primary doctor confirmed his medical condition hours later. Making the situation more vexing w

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Mystery packages with QR codes spark new wave of scams

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-15 15:12:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust WTF?! A new twist on package-related scams is drawing concern from federal authorities, as the FBI warns Americans to be vigilant when receiving unexpected parcels containing QR codes. According to a recent alert, criminals have begun exploiting the ubiquity of QR codes as a tool for financial fraud and identity theft. The scheme unfolds when an individual receives a package that's addressed to the

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The Ski Rental Problem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 08:34:47

Ski Rental Problem The ski rental problem is a classic example problem in online algorithms. It feels like a small but interesting problem that can be explained relatively easily while some clever tricks can be applied to it. In this article, I took these lecture notes by Debmalya Panigrahi and Hangjie Ji and tried to rewrite them in a way that is easier to understand (at least for me). Formulation You are going skiing in the mountains but you are unsure about the weather reports and don't k

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Ongoing Lean formalisation of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 14:59:41

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. Until September 2029 it is being funded by grant EP/Y022904/1, awarded by the EPSRC. 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 nonstandard research. General

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C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 12:12:15

The first thing I do every time I need to learn a new codebase is to start drawing the UML diagram of its classes, and usually give up soon after I started. The process of doing it manually is certainly useful, but now with reflections I figure it would be fun to try generate it instead. With C++26 reflections[1] the general consensus is that the magnitude of language change is comparable to what happened with C++11. After my little experiment with it, I would cautiously agree. So how does one

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Thousands of private ChatGPT conversations found via Google search after feature mishap

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-12-15 14:24:00

What just happened? Numerous organizations have repeatedly warned ChatGPT users over the years never to share personal information with OpenAI's chatbot. A recent incident involving a now-removed feature reveals that potentially thousands of people disclosed deeply intimate information with ChatGPT and also inadvertently made it discoverable through Google search. OpenAI recently confirmed that it has deactivated an opt-in feature that shared chat histories on the open web. Although the functio

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Latest Tech News

What is Laura Loomer?

Columbia University data breach impacts nearly 870,000 individuals

California jury rules Meta violated privacy law in case involving period-tracking app

Woman Diagnosed with Malaria in Washington May Be State’s First Locally Acquired Case

Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs

Verizon Promo Offers NFL Sunday Ticket Access at No Extra Cost

The Real Origin of Cisco Systems (1999)

The Real Origin of Cisco Systems

Dotfiles feel too personal to share

Inside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety

The Origin of Cisco Systems

Constitution.congress.gov/constitution 6/8/25 –> 8/4/25 Diff

ESPN's Standalone Streaming Service and App to Launch Aug. 21

Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share

ESPN’s live sports streaming service arrives this month

I built a tool to help people remove their info from the Tea App

PBS confirms data breach after employee info leaked on Discord servers

Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco

If the AI Bubble Pops, It Could Now Take the Entire Economy With It

Verizon is offering a NFL Sunday Ticket subscription for free, if you qualify

Cisco discloses data breach impacting Cisco.com user accounts

Could Apple create an AI search engine to rival Gemini and ChatGPT? Here's how it could succeed

Idaho has become the wild frontier of vaccination policy and public health

Galaxy S26 could get a hardware upgrade for much easier payments

EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor's office

Mystery packages with QR codes spark new wave of scams

The Ski Rental Problem

Ongoing Lean formalisation of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML

Thousands of private ChatGPT conversations found via Google search after feature mishap

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