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'Chairmen' of $100 million scam operation extradited to US

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-08 17:03:34

The U.S. Department of Justice charged four Ghanaian nationals for their roles in a massive fraud ring linked to the theft of over $100 million in romance scams and business email compromise attacks. The defendants were allegedly high-ranking members of a major international fraud ring based in Ghana that targeted companies and individuals across the United States between 2016 and May 2023. Isaac Oduro Boateng (also known as "Kofi Boat"), Inusah Ahmed ("Pascal"), Derrick Van Yeboah ("Van"), an

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I Tried Midjourney's AI Video Generator, and It's Hard to Beat the Value for the Price

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-08 17:00:03

Midjourney has come a long way. As one of the original AI image generators, the popular service is no longer Discord-exclusive. It's expanded its offers with new features and models, including its most recent seventh-generation image model. Now, Midjourney has joined the pool of AI companies that support AI video generation. As CNET's resident AI creative software reviewer, I knew I had to try out its V1 video model. I was most curious to see if the creative, detailed quality I had come to enjo

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Surprise Matter update focuses on reliability and stability

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-12-08 17:00:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For Matter, this year was never going to be about flashy new features. Other than support for security cameras, which I hear should finally arrive this fall, 2025 is all about fixing problems. And with Matter 1.4.2, announced today, t

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Sam Altman now says AGI, or human-level AI, is 'not a super useful term’ — and he's not alone

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-12-09 04:18:36

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said artificial general intelligence, or "AGI," is losing its relevance as a term as rapid advances in the space make it harder to define the concept. AGI refers to the concept of a form of artificial intelligence that can perform any intellectual task that a human can. For years, OpenAI has been working to research and develop AGI that is safe and benefits all humanity. "I think it's not a super useful term," Altman told CNBC's "Squawk Box" last week, when asked whether

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An upcoming phone could offer double the battery capacity of S25 Ultra

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-09 00:28:45

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR HONOR is apparently working on a smartphone with a 10,000mAh battery. This would be double the capacity of the Galaxy S25 Ultra’s battery and larger than some tablet batteries. It’s highly likely that the phone won’t offer a 10,000mAh battery if it launches in the EU. We’re seeing more and more smartphones with huge batteries thanks to silicon-carbon battery tech. HONOR recently launched the HONOR Power, which packs an 8,000mAh battery. However, it loo

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Low-cost MacBook production starting soon, possible $599 or $699 pricing

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-09 04:34:22

We learned back in June that Apple is working on a new entry-level MacBook, to be powered by the A18 Pro chip rather than an M-series processor. This would be the first time the company has ever offered a MacBook below $999. A new supply-chain report says that the first stage of production is scheduled to begin sometime next month, with full-scale manufacturing potentially in progress by the end of the year … Low-cost MacBook The MacBook Air has always been the cheapest model offered by Apple

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Dear String-to-Integer Parsers

news.ycombinator.com Sarah Muller 2025-12-04 14:44:32

These are very useful functions that any language with distinct string and integer types will include in their standard library. Pass in a string with decimal digits and it’ll return the equivalent in the binary integer form that you can do mathematics with. I’d like to make a modest proposal that I’d find very useful, and maybe you, dear reader, would too. “The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate. He made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.” Who me? Specifically, I’m

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TCP Client Self-Connect (2013)

news.ycombinator.com Stjepan Groš 2025-12-08 21:33:09

Random notes of what's on my mind. Additional materials you'll find on my homepage.

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Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability

news.ycombinator.com Eric Shobe 2025-12-05 20:14:33

Fourteen years ago, Dropbox took its first steps toward building its own hardware infrastructure—and as our product and user base has grown, so has our infrastructure. What started with just a handful of servers has evolved into one of the largest custom-built storage systems in the world. We've scaled from a few dozen machines to tens of thousands of servers with millions of drives. That evolution didn’t happen by accident. It took years of iteration, close collaboration with suppliers, and a p

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Generic Containers in C: Safe Division Using Maybe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 03:14:06

Generic Containers in C: Safe Division Using Maybe. Martin Uecker, 2025-08-10 I discuss the implementation of type and bounds safe generic containers in C. Previously, I discussed a span type, bounds checking using arrays. and a a vector type. This time, I will discuss maybe inspired by Haskell. This type can used to return a value that may not exist, e.g. because an error was encountered during the computation. The following examples shows for a divide function that catches division by

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Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-08 21:00:00

A security researcher said flaws in a carmaker’s online dealership portal exposed the private information and vehicle data of its customers, and could have allowed hackers to remotely break into any of its customers’ vehicles. Eaton Zveare, who works as a security researcher at software delivery company Harness, told TechCrunch the flaw he discovered allowed the creation of an admin account that granted “unfettered access” to the unnamed carmaker’s centralized web portal. With this access, a m

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An updated Siri that interacts with apps reportedly won't be here until next spring

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-08 20:30:00

A Siri that does way more than just setting a timer or writing down a reminder may still be nearly a year away. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple plans to release an overhauled version of Siri in the spring, which will be enhanced by the new App Intents feature. Gurman reported that the upgraded Siri will handle more complex tasks within apps, like commenting on an Instagram post, adding an item to your cart in a shopping app or editing a specific photo and sending it afterwards. Afte

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Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

news.ycombinator.com Sam Meredith 2025-12-08 23:19:06

A firefighting helicopter flies near as a home burns from the Mountain Fire on November 6, 2024 in Camarillo, California. David Mcnew | Getty Images News | Getty Images Top insurers fear the climate crisis could soon outpace industry solutions, effectively threatening to make entire regions around the world uninsurable. Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz , one of the world's biggest insurers, recently outlined how the world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will n

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James Mardsen’s Happy to Be Cyclops Again for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-08 21:00:11

After The Marvels and Deadpool & Wolverine laid the groundwork for more Fox X-Men to return, Avengers: Doomsday is going all in by bringing back several non-Wolverine (or Professor X) characters from the original films. Among them is James Marsden, who played Cyclops in that initial trilogy and didn’t really get to do much in them. Speaking to Vanity Fair, the actor recalled “20 years of listening to people say, ‘When are you coming back? When are you coming back? Are you coming back?’ But I’m

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OpenAI Brings Back Fan-Favorite GPT-4o After a Massive User Revolt

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-08 21:37:20

After a disastrous 72 hours that saw its most loyal users in open revolt, OpenAI is making a major U-turn. In a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) Sunday, CEO Sam Altman announced that the company is bringing back its beloved older AI models, including GPT-4o, and dramatically increasing usage limits for paying subscribers, a clear peace offering to a furious customer base. The move comes just days after the botched rollout of GPT-5, the company’s latest and most powerful model. The launc

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‘Weapons’ Runs to Big $70M Global Opening in Debut Weekend

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-08 23:00:28

“Are you watching?” asks a creepy voice in the trailer for Weapons. And the answer to that question is a resounding “yes.” Per Variety, Zach Cregger’s sophomore outing earned $70 million worldwide. Domestically, its $42.5 million take was $10 million ahead of projections, and its overall take marks another win for New Line and parent company Warner Bros. Since Minecraft’s release in April, the studio has been on a money making hot streak thanks to Final Destination Bloodlines, F1: The Movie, Si

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How to Use Parallels to Run Windows on a Mac

wired.com David Nield 2025-12-08 11:30:00

While Apple is very keen that its macOS software is only ever run on Macs, there are numerous options for doing the opposite and running Windows on Apple computers. If you're a developer, or need access to both Windows and Mac apps, or simply want the flexibility of two operating systems, this isn't too difficult to set up with the right tools. The option we'll cover here is Parallels Desktop for Mac. This is certainly not the cheapest of your options, but it is fully authorized and legal, as w

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Apple’s MacBook Pro overhaul with OLED might not launch until 2027: report

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-08 18:55:05

Rumors have long pointed at a new MacBook Pro with an OLED display launching towards the end of 2026 – alongside a general MacBook Pro overhaul. While that isn’t completely off the table, there’s an increasingly likely possibility of it launching in early 2027 instead. In this weekend’s Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman mentioned an interesting detail about the upcoming MacBook Pro overhaul. It’ll still have a thinner design, an M6 chip, an OLED screen, and more. However, it might la

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POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 11:26:42

POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language POML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language) is a novel markup language designed to bring structure, maintainability, and versatility to advanced prompt engineering for Large Language Models (LLMs). It addresses common challenges in prompt development, such as lack of structure, complex data integration, format sensitivity, and inadequate tooling. POML provides a systematic way to organize prompt components, integrate diverse data types seamlessly, and

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Flintlock – Create and manage the lifecycle of MicroVMs, backed by containerd

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 22:30:48

Flintlock - Create and manage the lifecycle of MicroVMs, backed by containerd. What is flintlock? 🎉 This project was originally developed by Weaveworks but is now owned & run by the community. If you are interested in helping out please reach out. Flintlock is a service for creating and managing the lifecycle of microVMs on a host machine. We support the Cloud Hypervisor and Firecracker VMMs. The original use case for flintlock was to create microVMs on a bare-metal host where the microVMs w

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The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-08 22:45:58

The world is hurtling towards an inevitable AI dystopia in the very near future, according to Mo Gawdat, the former chief business officer of Alphabet’s moonshot factory, formerly known as Google X. “We will have to prepare for a world that is very unfamiliar,” Gawdat said in an interview on the “Diary of a CEO” podcast, adding that humanity’s key values like freedom, human connection, accountability, reality, and power are all facing a major disruption by AI. And this dystopia isn’t far off,

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Footage Teases a Big Spidey Stunt

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-08 23:25:16

After showing off Tom Holland in his brand new suit for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Sony continues its soft marketing launch with a new video showing its first day of production in Glasgow. If you’ve been on social media in the past week, you’ve probably seen some snippets of filming from the public. This behind-the-scenes vignette offers a better quality of what those people saw with their own eyes, showing not just Holland wowing the crowd with his new suit (and taking pics with similarly dres

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12 of the Best Sci-Fi Movies to Stream on Prime Video

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-08 16:00:03

There are so many streamers that have cool science fiction but for epic sci-fi movies, Prime Video is where it's at. Sci-fi fans love this genre because there are so many tones and flavors that come with the territory. From silly to bleak, action-packed to dystopian, every mood can be accounted for. Prime Video has a title that fits the bill, no matter what you're looking for. The next step is actually scrolling through the pages of content to find the title you want to watch. Well, I went ahe

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iPhone Users, Find Calls Faster With This Trick

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-08 16:00:05

It can be frustrating to scroll through your iPhone's Recent calls tab to find the right voicemail or to remember when you talked to someone last. But when Apple introduced iOS 18 in 2024, it included a trick that let you find calls faster in your recent call history. That update brought a lot of new features, like customizable home screens and RCS messaging, as well as a search bar in your iPhone's Phone app. This lets you easily search your call history and voicemails. Before iOS 18, your Pho

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This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up

wired.com Elise Cutts 2025-12-08 17:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately became important objects of mathematical study. So it might be surprising that, millennia later, mysteries still surround even the simplest shape in Plato’s polyhedral universe: the tetrahedron, which has just four triangular faces. One major open problem, for instance, asks how densely you can p

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How To Use Parallels to Run Windows on a Mac

wired.com David Nield 2025-12-08 17:30:00

While Apple is very keen that its macOS software is only ever run on Macs, there are numerous options for doing the opposite and running Windows on Apple computers. If you're a developer, or need access to both Windows and Mac apps, or simply want the flexibility of two operating systems, this isn't too difficult to set up with the right tools. The option we'll cover here is Parallels Desktop for Mac. This is certainly not the cheapest of your options, but it is fully authorized and legal, as w

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Inside the automated warehouse where robots are packing your groceries

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-12-08 21:00:00

It’s the lack of noise you notice first. There’s no clatter of equipment, rumble of engines, or chatter of coworkers. Only the low hum of electronics. For an industrial space, this is eerily quiet, but it makes sense in a building where robots might outnumber people. I’m at a warehouse — or customer fulfilment center (CFC) — operated by online grocery company Ocado in Luton, just outside London. You might not have heard of Ocado, but it may still have delivered your groceries. Its technology ha

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After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-08 18:00:00

If you, like practically anyone else with a cell phone in the U.S. and beyond, have received a scam text message about an unpaid toll or undelivered mail item, there’s a good chance you have been targeted by a prolific scamming operation. The scam isn’t particularly complex, but it has been highly effective. By sending spam text messages that look like genuine notifications for popular services, from postal deliveries to local government programs, unsuspecting victims click a link that loads a

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I compared the best headphones from Apple, Sony, Bose, and Sonos: Here's how the AirPods Max wins

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-12-08 21:45:15

Jada Jones/ZDNET In the past few years, Bose, Sony, Sonos, and Beats have released premium headphones to compete with each other and Apple's AirPods Max. I've worn all of the AirPods Max's top competitors, and they each excel in different categories. But for an older dog in this fight, the AirPods Max are still kicking. Since their 2020 release (and 2024 re-release), the Max haven't received many significant software or hardware updates, aside from new colors, a USB-C port, and support for los

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Microsoft POML – Prompt Orchestration Markup Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 17:26:42

POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language POML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language) is a novel markup language designed to bring structure, maintainability, and versatility to advanced prompt engineering for Large Language Models (LLMs). It addresses common challenges in prompt development, such as lack of structure, complex data integration, format sensitivity, and inadequate tooling. POML provides a systematic way to organize prompt components, integrate diverse data types seamlessly, and

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