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Ryuk ransomware’s initial access expert extradited to the U.S.

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-08 12:05:35

A member of the notorious Ryuk ransomware operation who specialized in gaining initial access to corporate networks has been extradited to the United States. The suspect is a 33-year-old foreign man who was arrested in April 2025 in his home in Kyiv at the request of the FBI. He was extradited to the United States yesterday, June 18. In 2023, the Ukrainian cyber police, the National Police, and international law enforcement partners began investigating a ransomware operation whose members carr

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Guess I'm a Rationalist Now

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 07:22:06

A week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference featuring many people I’ve known for years—Scott Alexander, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Zvi Mowshowitz, Sarah Constantin, Carl Feynman—as well as people I’ve known only online and was delighted to meet in person, like Joe Carlsmith and Jacob Falkovich and Daniel Reeves. The conference was at Lighthaven, a bewildering maze of passageways, meeting-rooms, sleeping quarters, gardens, and vines off Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, which has rece

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ChatGPT will analyze Gmail emails, manage schedule on Google Calendar

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-09 15:29:30

ChatGPT appears to be testing support for Gmail and Google Calendar integration. This will allow users to summarise emails and create events. ChatGPT already supports Gmail integration, but it's tied to Deep Research. Right now, you can use information from Gmail in your Deep Research reports, but it's not possible to pull up emails from Gmail and summarise them. As spotted by Tibor on X, ChatGPT is now actively testing support for integrating Gmail and Calendar, so you can stay "organized."

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Christopher Eccleston’s ‘Doctor Who’ Regeneration Remains One of the Show’s Best

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-09 15:00:53

Twenty years ago this week, the first season of the revived era of Doctor Who came to an end with “The Parting of the Ways,” as did the tenure of Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor. Ready to sacrifice it all to stop the Daleks, the Ninth Doctor’s final moments remain a vital moment in Doctor Who history. It was the first time in decades since Doctor Who had asked its audience to trust in the magic of the series’ defining trick to survival and re-invention: the magic of regeneration itself. Ec

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How Democrats Are Meeting (and Missing) the Moment

wired.com Jake Lahut 2025-09-10 04:00:00

“Well,” a senior Democratic strategist tells me, “my wife and I are having a fight about me going back to the field in the midterms.” “I would be lying if I said these aren’t conversations I’ve been having with my family every day,” shared a Democratic candidate in a high-profile battleground state midterms race. In a matter of days, the truly unthinkable occurred: On Thursday last week, Senator Alex Padilla of California was forcibly removed from a news conference and handcuffed by officials

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Fang, the CLI Starter Kit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-10 06:40:32

Fang The CLI starter kit. A small, experimental library for batteries-included Cobra applications. Features Fancy output : fully styled help and usage pages : fully styled help and usage pages Fancy errors : fully styled errors : fully styled errors Automatic --version : set it to the build info, or a version of your choice : set it to the build info, or a version of your choice Manpages : Adds a hidden man command to generate manpages using mango 1 : Adds a hidden command to generate man

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Fed Rate Cuts Unlikely This Summer. Are Lower Mortgage Rates Still Possible?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 09:47:00

The Fed's interest rate decisions impact mortgages, but the relationship isn't straightforward. Tharon Green/CNET There's a wild amount of uncertainty in today's economy, but one thing is clear: The Federal Reserve isn't planning to lower interest rates this summer. Mortgage rates, which have been stuck near 7% for the past several months, are likely to stay higher for longer. On June 18, Fed officials voted to leave borrowing rates unchanged for a fourth consecutive meeting. Holding interest

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Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-10 04:53:59

In general, ability to perform a task drops off as its duration increases, so they use the AI agent’s performance on tasks of different lengths to estimate the task-length at which the model would have a 50% success rate. They then showed that this length has been doubling every 7 months as the capabilities of frontier agents improve. The task-lengths are measured by how long it took humans to solve the same tasks. They used 50% success rate as their chief performance threshold because it is th

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The Fed Didn't Cut Rates, but Your Credit Card's APR Could Still Change. Here's What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 13:22:00

CNET/Getty Images The Federal Reserve once again held interest rates steady at Wednesday's meeting, but that doesn't mean your card's interest rate can't change. There are other things -- like economic uncertainty and the potential impact of tariffs -- that could impact your credit card's APR. The Federal Open Market Committee left interest rates at a target range of 4.25% to 4.5% (PDF) in response to continued uncertainty about the economy and "somewhat elevated inflation." Chair Jerome Powel

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The Fed's on Pause, but You Shouldn't Be. Here Are 4 Smart Financial Moves to Make Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 13:30:00

Make the most of your money while rate cuts are on hold. Maria Forbes/Getty Images Despite mounting pressure to lower interest rates, the Fed chose to keep rates where they are at this week's Federal Open Market Committee Meeting. With interest rate cuts on hold so far this year, policymakers have more time to assess how the economy responds to tariffs, layoffs and geopolitical conflict. "More of the same" doesn't mean status quo for your finances. The Fed's decisions (including its forecasts)

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The Fed's on Pause, but You Shouldn't Be. 4 Smart Financial Moves to Make Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 18:30:00

Make the most of your money while rate cuts are on hold. Maria Forbes/Getty Images Despite mounting pressure to lower interest rates, the Fed chose to keep rates where they are at this week's Federal Open Market Committee Meeting. With interest rate cuts on hold so far this year, policymakers have more time to assess how the economy responds to tariffs, layoffs and geopolitical conflict. "More of the same" doesn't mean status quo for your finances. The Fed's decisions (including its forecasts)

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‘Surpassing all my expectations’: Midjourney releases first AI video model amid Disney, Universal lawsuit

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-09-10 22:23:52

Popular AI image generation service Midjourney has launched its first AI video generation model V1, marking a pivotal shift for the company from image generation toward full multimedia content creation. Starting today, Midjourney’s nearly 20 million users can animate images via the website, transforming their generated or uploaded stills into 5-second long clips with options for extending the generation longer up to 20 seconds (in 5 second bursts), and guiding them with text. With the launch,

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From prompt chaos to clarity: How to build a robust AI orchestration layer

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-09-10 23:11:10

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Editor’s note: Emilia will lead an editorial roundtable on this topic at VB Transform next week. Register today. AI agents seem like an inevitability these days. Most enterprises already use an AI application and may have deployed at least a single-agent system, with plans to pilot workflows with multiple agents. Managing all that sprawl

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June Mortgage Forecast: Will Economic Chaos Fuel Even Higher Rates?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 22:01:00

As the Federal Reserve likely holds interest rates steady, mortgage rates are expected to stay in a narrow range. Tharon Green/CNET The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady for the fourth consecutive time this year at its monetary policy meeting this week. However, rising jobless claims, intensified geopolitical conflict and slowing economic growth could force the central bank to cut rates as early as the fall. As turbulent trade policies pressure financial markets, investors have been w

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What the Fed's Pause on Rate Cuts Means for Savings Account, CD Rates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 23:15:00

Now's the time to take advantage of APYs as high as 5%. Skyhobo/Getty Images Federal Reserve policymakers voted to hold interest rates steady today, pausing rates for the fourth time this year. In its postmeeting statement, the Fed summarized its findings by noting slightly elevated inflation and a low unemployment rate, though the economic outlook remains uncertain. The latest decision means that households, which have been facing budget strains and increased living expenses, will continue to

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The Fed Didn't Cut Rates, But Your Credit Card's APR Could Still Change. Here's What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 23:22:00

CNET/Getty Images The Federal Reserve once again held interest rates steady at Wednesday's meeting, but that doesn't mean your card's interest rate can't change. There are other things -- like economic uncertainty and the potential impact of tariffs -- that could impact your credit card's APR. The Federal Open Market Committee left interest rates at a target range of 4.25% to 4.5% (PDF) in response to continued uncertainty about the economy and "somewhat elevated inflation." Chair Jerome Powel

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Deezer says 70% of AI music streams on its service are fake

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-11 11:04:00

In brief: The problem of AI-generated music on streaming platforms being "listened" to by AI is so bad on Deezer, up to seven out of every 10 streams of AI tracks are fraudulent, according to the company. The practice can be a lucrative one: in 2024, a man was arrested over claims that he conned music services out of $12 million using this method. The French streaming giant said that AI-generated music accounts for just 0.5% of streams on the platform. However, its own analysis shows that 70% o

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Bogong Moths Are First Bugs Known to Use Stars for Long-Distance Travel

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-11 15:05:10

Every spring in the Southern Hemisphere, Bogong moths migrate up to 621 miles (1,000 kilometers) from southeast Australia to spend the summer in cool caves in the Australian Alps. At the beginning of the fall, they fly back to their breeding grounds and die. Each moth undertakes the two-way journey only once in its life—so how does it know where it’s going? A team led by David Dreyer, a visiting research fellow in sensory biology at Lund University, suggests that Bogong moths may use the starry

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What happens when you feed AI nothing

theverge.com Franklin Schneider 2025-09-11 15:07:30

If you stumbled across Terence Broad’s AI-generated artwork (un)stable equilibrium on YouTube, you might assume he’d trained a model on the works of the painter Mark Rothko — the earlier, lighter pieces, before his vision became darker and suffused with doom. Like early-period Rothko, Broad’s AI-generated images consist of simple fields of pure color, but they’re morphing, continuously changing form and hue. But Broad didn’t train his AI on Rothko; he didn’t train it on any data at all. By hack

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Garmin’s new sleep tracker offers a week of battery life

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-11 19:23:50

Sleep tracking is nothing new in Garmin’s fitness watches, but the company’s latest wearable is a dedicated smart sleep band. The Index Sleep Monitor offers week-long battery life with continuous pulse ox tracking for monitoring your blood oxygen saturation while you sleep. Garmin’s tracker is worn on the upper arm — which should hopefully make it more comfortable — where it tracks a variety of metrics: skin temperature; light, deep and REM sleep stages; and variations in your heart rate and br

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells workers: AI will replace some of you

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-12 02:15:00

A hot potato: CEOs love to sing the praises of generative AI while tiptoeing around the fact it's going to cost people their jobs. But Amazon boss Andy Jassy has just said the quiet part out loud, admitting that the technology will reduce the company's corporate workforce over the next few years. In a message sent to employees this week, Jassy said generative AI was a "once-in-a-lifetime" technology that completely changes what's possible for customers and businesses. Jassy went on to highligh

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TikTok gets third extension from Trump as US sale deadline looms

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-12 03:44:00

What just happened? TikTok is receiving yet another reprieve from Donald Trump. For the third time since taking office, the president is extending the sales deadline this week, giving the company another 90 days to divest its US business from Chinese parent ByteDance. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that Trump will sign an executive order this week that will "keep TikTok up and running" for another 90 days. Leavitt added that the administration will spend the extra time

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Is There a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-12 01:53:59

In general, ability to perform a task drops off as its duration increases, so they use the AI agent’s performance on tasks of different lengths to estimate the task-length at which the model would have a 50% success rate. They then showed that this length has been doubling every 7 months as the capabilities of frontier agents improve. The task-lengths are measured by how long it took humans to solve the same tasks. They used 50% success rate as their chief performance threshold because it is th

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Mortgage Rates and the Federal Reserve: Everything to Know Before Today's Decision

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-12 03:15:03

The Fed's interest rate decisions impact mortgages, but the relationship isn't straightforward. Tharon Green/CNET Later today, the Federal Reserve is expected to extend a pause on interest rate cuts for a fourth consecutive time this year. While mortgage rates could see some volatility, many economists expect them to stay relatively flat until the economic picture changes. Average rates are likely to stay in the 6.75% to 7.25% range unless the Fed signals multiple cuts and backs up their polic

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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-12 02:15:46

Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a precious commodity—a time capsule of organic creative expression from a time before machines joined the conversation. "The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior to the explosion of AI-generated content," Graham-Cumming wrote on his blog last week. The reason? To preserve what made non-AI medi

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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel, and now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-12 12:15:46

Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a precious commodity—a time capsule of organic creative expression from a time before machines joined the conversation. "The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior to the explosion of AI-generated content," Graham-Cumming wrote on his blog last week. The reason? To preserve what made non-AI medi

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Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-12 17:06:54

Today we published bzip2 version 0.6.0 , which uses our rust implementation of the bzip2 algorithm, libbz2-rs-sys , by default. The bzip2 crate is now faster and easier to cross-compile. The libbz2-rs-sys crate can also be built as a C dynamic library, if you have a C project that would benefit from these improvements. Why though? Why bother working on this algorithm from the 90s that sees very little use today? The thing is that many protocols and libraries still need to support bzip2 to be

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Senate confirms Trump’s FCC pick, Olivia Trusty

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-09-12 19:37:34

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The Senate confirmed Republican Olivia Trusty to serve on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday, installing another nominee by President Donald Trump and ending the brief lack of quorum at the agency. The vote was 53-45, with Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) being the on

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Asus urges users to update Armoury Crate due to serious security flaw

techspot.com Unknown 2025-09-12 23:36:00

The Armoury Crate app helps you manage every aspect of your rig - from initial setup to RGB illumination. Pinpoint the latest updates, drivers, manuals and offers, and connect instantly with your gaming peers. Can Armoury Crate be used with other hardware brands? No, Armoury Crate is designed to work exclusively with Asus-branded hardware. For other brands, you can use alternatives like MSI Center, Gigabyte Control Center, or third-party tools such as Signal RGB or FanControl. Why do I need A

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Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-12 22:06:54

Today we published bzip2 version 0.6.0 , which uses our rust implementation of the bzip2 algorithm, libbz2-rs-sys , by default. The bzip2 crate is now faster and easier to cross-compile. The libbz2-rs-sys crate can also be built as a C dynamic library, if you have a C project that would benefit from these improvements. Why though? Why bother working on this algorithm from the 90s that sees very little use today? The thing is that many protocols and libraries still need to support bzip2 to be

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Ryuk ransomware’s initial access expert extradited to the U.S.

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Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% rust

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