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SonicWall urges admins to patch critical RCE flaw in SMA 100 devices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-07 14:17:39

SonicWall urges customers to patch SMA 100 series appliances against a critical authenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability that can let attackers gain remote code execution. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2025-40599) is caused by an unrestricted file upload weakness in the devices' web management interfaces, which can allow remote threat actors with administrative privileges to upload arbitrary files to the system. "SonicWall strongly recommends that users of the SMA 100 series produ

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VectorDB bench now support S3Vector

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 12:39:52

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Thawing vacuum-packed fish correctly (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Shannon Stover 2026-01-03 08:37:44

Thawing vacuum-packed fish correctly Improper thawing of vacuum-packed fish can lead to a foodborne illness. Learn how to do it safely. Looking for vacuum-packed fish is an excellent way to purchase fish in the grocery store. Vacuum packaging keeps the fish from drying out by preventing water loss; it also can ensure the fish is packaged at peak quality. Vacuum packaging, also called reduced oxygen packaging (ROP), limits oxygen and allows for extended shelf life in the freezer by reducing od

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Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 05:20:52

*) SECURITY: CVE-2025-54090 : Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true in 2.4.64 (cve.mitre.org) A bug in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.64 results in all "RewriteCond expr ..." tests evaluating as "true". Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.65, which fixes the issue. Reviewed By: covener, ylavic, gbechis, jorton git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x@1927361 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

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Shattering the Rotation Illusion: The Attacker View & AWSKeyLockdown

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 14:07:17

PDF Report Shattering the Rotation Illusion: How Quickly Leaked AWS Keys are Exploited Download Now -> Through the Attacker’s Eyes: A New Era of NHI Security This final installment in our blog series brings together everything we’ve uncovered about leaked AWS Access Keys—how attackers exploit them, why traditional security measures fall short, and what organizations can do to protect themselves. Over the series, we explored real-world scenarios across various platforms: GitHub and GitLab, Pac

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CVE-2025-54090: Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 11:20:52

*) SECURITY: CVE-2025-54090 : Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true in 2.4.64 (cve.mitre.org) A bug in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.64 results in all "RewriteCond expr ..." tests evaluating as "true". Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.65, which fixes the issue. Reviewed By: covener, ylavic, gbechis, jorton git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x@1927361 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

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Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 14:31:16

Jitsi is an open-source web conferencing application. Jitsi also hosts a public instance, with millions of monthly active users. Attack scenario Let’s walk through an example. An attacker runs a meeting called `MiniGinger` on the public Jitsi instance meet.jit.si. When a user visits the attacker controller webpage `CuteCats.com`, in the background they are redirected to: https://meet.jit.si/MiniGinger#config.prejoinConfig.enabled=false If the user visited any other Jitsi meeting before and

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Bracing for a Recession? These Accounts Can Keep Your Money Safe

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-07 16:30:00

The best place for your cash depends on what you're using it for. PM Images/Getty Images A recession may not be as likely as it seemed earlier this year, at least according to some forecasts. But economic uncertainty is still forcing us to be cautious about our finances. From high prices to layoffs, the big financial struggles are out of our control. However, one thing we can do to help ourselves weather the ups and downs is to make sure our money is in the right place. Keeping your cash safe

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Brave blocks Windows Recall from screenshotting your browsing activity

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-07 22:42:05

Brave Software says its privacy-focused browser will block Microsoft's Windows Recall from capturing screenshots of Brave windows by default to protect users' privacy. Windows Recall is an opt-in Windows feature that takes screenshots of active windows every few seconds, analyzes them, and enables Windows 11 users to search for text within the snapshots using natural language. The goal is to make it easy for users to quickly find information about past activities in Windows. However, the featu

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Show HN: NativeSwap – Low cost cross-chain swaps without wrappers or bridges

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 16:02:59

1 Connect Your Wallet Securely connect your preferred wallet (Ctrl, Metamask, or any Web3 wallet) to access your assets across blockchains. Your private keys remain in your control at all times. 2 Select Your Assets Choose your source and destination cryptocurrencies from our extensive list of supported assets. View real-time rates, fees, and estimated transaction times before proceeding with your swap. 3 Confirm Transaction Review the swap details, including exchange rate, fees, and destinati

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Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 08:22:42

Artificial intelligence has the power to tackle humanity’s challenges, big and small, from scheduling meetings to modeling molecules. But to truly transform how we live and work for the better, we need an AI assistant(new window) built responsibly — putting people and privacy first. Today, Big Tech is repeating the mistakes from the internet’s early days. Instead of using AI to serve people, they’re turning people into products — and using AI to accelerate the surveillance-capitalism business m

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Ralph Ineson Actually Got in the Galactus Suit for ‘Fantastic Four’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-07 22:00:45

Friday’s Fantastic Four: First Steps reintroduces moviegoers to Galactus, one of the heroes’ biggest (literally) enemies. While comics fans love that he’s actually a giant man this time around and not a cloud, the bigger selling point is that Ralph Ineson, who lent his deep voice and whole body to portray the comics character. Talking to the Hollywood Reporter, Ineson discussed the process of bringing Galactus to giant-sized life. He’d been offered the role by director Matt Shakman, who Ineson

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A troubled SPAC plans to buy iRocket for $400M but it already returned most of its cash

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2026-01-07 22:03:33

An unproven small launch startup is partnering with a severely depleted SPAC trust to do the impossible: go public in a deal they say will be valued at $400 million. Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc. (iRocket) and BPGC Acquisition Corp., a special purpose vehicle company founded by former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, is aiming to close the transaction in the fourth quarter of this year. Interestingly, the SPAC has been depleted of most of its cash after it raised $345 million in its IPO i

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Sony is finally making it possible to pair a DualSense with more than one device

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-08 03:17:15

Sony is bringing a welcome quality-of-life feature to the PlayStation 5. In the next PS5 system update beta, players will be able to have their DualSense controllers synced with multiple hardware platforms at the same time. That means you could swap a controller from a PS5 to your gaming PC to your smartphone without needing to re-pair the DualSense each time. Up to four devices can be simultaneously paired with a single controller, and each of them will be mapped to one of the action buttons.

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OpenAI and partners are building a massive AI data center in Texas

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-08 03:34:26

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a partnership with Oracle to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity for its Stargate AI infrastructure platform in the US. The expansion, which TechCrunch reports is part of a $30 billion per year deal between OpenAI and Oracle, will reportedly bring OpenAI's total Stargate capacity under development to over 5 gigawatts. The data center has taken root in Abilene, Texas, a city of 127,000 located 150 miles west of Fort Worth. The city, which serves

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IBM shares drop despite earnings beat

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-01-08 08:49:59

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna appears at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 16, 2024. IBM shares fell as much as 5% in extended trading on Wednesday after the tech conglomerate issued second-quarter results that topped Wall Street projections. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $2.80 adjusted vs. $2.64 expected $2.80 adjusted vs. $2.64 expected Revenue: $16.98 billion vs. $16.59 billion IBM's revenue increased nearly 8% year over

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The Promised LAN

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 16:24:32

🖧 The Promised LAN The Promised LAN is a closed, membership only network of friends that operate a 24/7 always-on LAN party, running since 2021. The vast majority of documentation is maintained on the LAN, but this website serves to give interested folks, prospective members or friends an idea of what the Promised LAN is, and how it works. A Manifesto for The Promised LAN For background on why we started the lan, what we hope to achieve, and how we approach the social-technical dynamics, we h

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SpaceX Has the Nerve to Be Mad About a Competitor’s Massive Satellites Littering Earth Orbit

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-08 17:55:20

Despite owning more than half of the satellites currently in low Earth orbit, SpaceX is complaining about AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird constellation and how it’ll introduce added risks. In a letter sent to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), SpaceX raised concerns that AST SpaceMobile poses a threat to the sustainability of low Earth orbit. Elon Musk’s space venture accused the Texas startup of underestimating collision risks in space and whether its satellites pose a threat to people on

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Meta Touts Even More Protections for Teen Users. Here's What's New

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-08 17:12:37

Meta on Wednesday unveiled the latest efforts it's making to bolster the safety of teens and kids on its social media apps. The company has touted these new features for Instagram and Facebook in a blog post, most notably adding more information and warnings about accounts teens might try to contact via direct messages. "We've added new safety features to DMs in Teen Accounts to give teens more context about the accounts they're messaging and help them spot potential scammers," the post explain

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A year later, the Sonos Ace is finally fulfilling its potential

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-08 22:00:35

2024 was an awful year for Sonos. Its long-awaited entry into a crowded headphones market was eclipsed by a bungled app launch which had a knock-on effect that impacted everything the company had planned to do for the rest of the year. Plus, those Ace headphones were missing a major feature. One year later, that TrueCinema spatial audio enhancement is finally ready. And with that update, Sonos added a few more improvements to the Ace, including two-person TV Audio Swap, adaptive noise cancellat

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Proton launches privacy-respecting encrypted AI assistant Lumo

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-08 22:41:11

Proton has launched a new tool called Lumo, offering a privacy-first AI assistant that does not log user conversations and doesn't use their prompts for training. Proton is a Swiss company behind proven privacy and security tools and services, including Proton Mail, Proton VPN, and Proton Drive. In June 2024, it transitioned to a non-profit structure, putting user privacy over profits. The introduction of Lumo aligns with this mission, as Proton claims this AI tool is designed to provide help

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FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 22:09:47

Vision Language Models (VLMs) enable visual understanding alongside textual inputs. They are typically built by passing visual tokens from a pretrained vision encoder to a pretrained Large Language Model (LLM) through a projection layer. By leveraging the rich visual representations of the vision encoder and the world knowledge and reasoning capabilities of the LLM, VLMs can be useful for a wide range of applications, including accessibility assistants, UI navigation, robotics, and gaming. VLM

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US nuclear weapons agency hacked in Microsoft SharePoint attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-09 02:14:25

Unknown threat actors have breached the National Nuclear Security Administration's network in attacks exploiting a recently patched Microsoft SharePoint zero-day vulnerability chain. NNSA is a semi-autonomous U.S. government agency part of the Energy Department that maintains the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and is also tasked with responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies within the United States and abroad. A Department of Energy spokesperson confirmed in a statement that hac

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Optimizations That Aren't

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 16:49:24

Optimizations that aren't We all like it when our code is fast. Some of us like the result, but dislike the process of optimization; others enjoy the process. However, optimization for the sake of optimization is wrong, unless you’re doing it in your pet project. Optimized code is sometimes less readable and, consequently, harder to understand and modify; because of that, optimization often introduces subtle bugs. Since optimization is not a process with only positive effects, in production it

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The ‘Booster Gold’ Show Finally Shows Some Progress

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-09 03:15:32

It’s easy to forget, but part of DC Studios’ initial slate reveal included a TV show for one Booster Gold. There’s been nothing about it since then, but now we know who’ll be spearheading the show-to-be. Per Deadline, Our Flag Means Death creator David Jenkins has signed on to write the series’ pilot. If it gets the green light, he’ll also run the show, which centers on Michael “Booster” Carter, a fame-seeking superhero from the 25th century who comes to the present day to build up his superher

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This Window AC Keeps My Home Cool Even During Record-Breaking Heatwaves

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-09 03:30:56

CNET's key takeaways The Windmill AC normally costs $349 for 6,000 BTUs, but you can often find it on sale on Windmill's website Amazon Home Depot Not only is the Windmill AC the easiest unit I've ever installed, it's the only AC unit I've tried that effectively kept my older and not well-insulated home cool during a heat wave. Bonus: It's actually stylish. Although, I still would have paid for an ugly one that works. Its normal price is higher than some other window AC units, but I've paid

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Trump’s AI strategy trades guardrails for growth in race against China

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-01-09 03:57:21

The Trump administration published its much-anticipated AI Action Plan on Wednesday, a document that takes a sharp shift away from former President Biden’s cautious approach to addressing the risks of AI, and instead barrels ahead with plans to build out AI infrastructure, cut red tape for tech companies, shore up national security, and compete with China. The downstream effects of this shift will likely ripple throughout various industries and may even be felt by the average American consumer.

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US nuclear weapons agency reportedly hacked in SharePoint attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-09 08:14:25

Unknown threat actors have reportedly breached the National Nuclear Security Administration's network in attacks exploiting a recently patched Microsoft SharePoint zero-day vulnerability chain. NNSA is a semi-autonomous U.S. government agency part of the Energy Department that maintains the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and is also tasked with responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies within the United States and abroad. A Department of Energy spokesperson confirmed in a stateme

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