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The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-09-21 04:00:00

Beginning today, millions of adults trying to access pornography in the United Kingdom will be required to prove that they are over the age of 18. Under sweeping new online child safety laws coming into force, self-reporting checkboxes that allow anyone to claim adulthood on porn websites will be replaced by age-estimating face scans, ID document uploads, credit card checks, and more. Some of the biggest porn websites—including Pornhub and YouPorn—have said that they will comply with the new rul

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How Is T-Mobile's Starlink-Based Satellite Service Different From the Rest? I Tried It First-Hand

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 21:45:00

T-Mobile's new T-Satellite service commercially launched this week. It uses the Starlink satellite network to let you send and receive text messages from space. For $10 a month (or included in the cost of the company's Experience Beyond plan), the service can be a communications lifeline when you're out of cellular coverage. But that's the thing: To test it out, I had to find a cellular dead zone. T-Mobile estimates there are 500,000 square miles in the US with no cell coverage, so I left my ho

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T-Mobile and Starlink's $10 a Month Satellite Texting Service Is Live. Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 22:45:00

T-Mobile's T-Satellite internet service, powered by SpaceX's Starlink satellites, officially launched on Wednesday, July 23. The direct-to-cell messaging service that enables texting from anywhere isn't limited to T-Mobile customers -- AT&T and Verizon mobile customers can also purchase it for $10 a month. T-Mobile says its goal is to "eliminate mobile dead zones for good" by way of 657 Starlink satellites that'll be used exclusively for cellphone service. T-Satellite has been in beta testing s

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BlackSuit ransomware extortion sites seized in Operation Checkmate

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-22 01:34:13

Law enforcement has seized the dark web extortion sites of the BlackSuit ransomware operation, which has targeted and breached the networks of hundreds of organizations worldwide over the past several years. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed the takedown in an email earlier today, saying the authorities involved in the action executed a court-authorized seizure of the BlackSuit domains. Earlier today, the websites on the BlackSuit .onion domains were replaced with seizure banners announ

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Starlink suffers global outage, as T-Mobile rolls out integration [U]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-22 06:37:06

For the past hour, Starlink customers around the globe have had trouble using the service. Although unrelated, the outage comes just one day after T-Mobile launched its integration with the satellite network. On X, Starlink acknowledged that it is working through the solution of a global outage, which began a little more than an hour ago: Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution. We appreciate your patience, we'll share an update once this issue is

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Starlink suffers global outage, as T-Mobile rolls out integration

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-22 11:37:06

For the past hour, Starlink customers around the globe have had trouble using the service. Although unrelated, the outage comes just one day after T-Mobile launched its integration with the satellite network. On X, Starlink acknowledged that it is working through the solution of a global outage, which began a little more than an hour ago: Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution. We appreciate your patience, we'll share an update once this issue is

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One of the Rarest Pokemon in History Is Coming to Pokemon TCG Pocket

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-22 13:53:12

No honest person can resist the attraction of Pokemon Gold. That's why Pokemon TCG Pocket's Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion set is going all in on generation two when it arrives on July 29. This set will be one of the game's larger offerings, featuring more than 200 cards. I'm sure that has the most ravenous collectors breathing a sigh of relief, since the past two expansions -- Eevee Grove and Extradimensional Crisis -- have both had smaller complimentary card lists to build on Celestial Guard

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Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds

news.ycombinator.com Maria Godoy 2025-09-22 23:42:03

You can't outrun a bad diet. Food — not lack of exercise — fuels obesity, study finds toggle caption PCH-Vector/iStockphoto via Getty Images Back in the 1800s, obesity was almost nonexistent in the United States. Over the last century, it's become common here and in other industrialized nations, though it remains rare among people who live more traditional lifestyles, such as the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. So what's changed? One common explanation is that as societies have developed,

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T‑Mobile's Starlink service is now available to anyone on any carrier - how to sign up

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-23 07:02:08

T-Mobile Are mobile dead zones gone for good? Also: The fastest US mobile carriers and ISPs in 2025, ranked In a post on X today, T‑Mobile CEO Mike Sievert announced that the company's T‑Satellite service, powered by Starlink, is officially out of beta and available to anyone, including Verizon and AT&T customers. How it works With more than 650 satellites in orbit, T‑Mobile says its network is the largest satellite‑to‑mobile constellation on the planet. Starlink connectivity will allow bo

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People are getting over $4,000 each from the T-Mobile data breach settlement — here’s why

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-23 11:22:12

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile’s 2021 data breach victims have started receiving payments from the $350 million settlement. While most users received around $56 or $226 each, those who proved extensive financial harm received much more — over $4,000 in two cases. Such submissions required verifiable losses, such as identity theft, and included claims for associated expenses like legal fees and credit repair fees. Last month, users began receiving their share of the $350M settl

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You can't outrun a bad diet

news.ycombinator.com Maria Godoy 2025-09-23 14:42:03

You can't outrun a bad diet. Food — not lack of exercise — fuels obesity, study finds toggle caption PCH-Vector/iStockphoto via Getty Images Back in the 1800s, obesity was almost nonexistent in the United States. Over the last century, it's become common here and in other industrialized nations, though it remains rare among people who live more traditional lifestyles, such as the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. So what's changed? One common explanation is that as societies have developed,

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Lego's Comic-Con 2025: Game Boy, Stranger Things, Wicked and Batman Sets Debut

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 12:20:00

Cue your oohs and aahs, because Lego is giving fans a first look at its San Diego Comic-Con showstoppers that starts today. When visitors step into the Lego booth, they'll find a brick-built model of the convention floor, along with sneak peeks at new Lego-fied products for Wicked, Stranger Things, DC's Batman and the Nintendo Game Boy. The toy giant dropped the news just ahead of the four-day event. Universal and Lego collaborated on six releases inspired by Wicked: For Good, and while the new

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Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 18:28:31

If you are reading this article, you are most likely using a web browser, and you have some expectations or beliefs about online privacy and security. For example, I do not know what you are reading on other tabs on your web browser, and you would like to keep it that way. But the websites themselves know that you are reading a particular page on their website. They most likely know your IP address and if you are signed in to their website, they also know your identity. This is not unreasonable

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Lego's Game Boy set is here, sadly not playable

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-23 23:21:38

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . After teasing it earlier this year, Lego has unveiled its Game Boy set. The 421-piece model is a "brick-built replica of the original Game Boy" and has buttons you can press, including the +Control Pad, A and B buttons and Select and Start — though you can't play games on it, obviously

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You Can Now Preorder These 9 Wickedly Creative Lego Sets Releasing Today at Comic-Con 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 22:20:00

Cue your oohs and aahs, because Lego is giving fans a first look at its San Diego Comic-Con showstoppers that starts today. When visitors step into the Lego booth, they'll find a brick-built model of the convention floor, along with sneak peeks at new Lego-fied products for Wicked, Stranger Things, DC's Batman and the Nintendo Game Boy. The toy giant dropped the news just ahead of the four-day event. Universal and Lego collaborated on six releases inspired by Wicked: For Good, and while the new

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T-Mobile’s T-Satellite service goes live nationwide: Already used by 2 million people

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-24 09:57:20

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile has officially launched T-Satellite, a satellite texting service available to all US smartphone users, including AT&T and Verizon customers. The service connects phones directly to over 650 Starlink low-Earth orbit satellites for off-grid messaging and location sharing. Over 2 million people used T-Satellite during its beta phase, helping communicate during hurricanes, floods, and wildfires. T-Mobile’s satellite messaging service, T-Satellit

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Lego Returns to ‘Stranger Things’ With These Adorable Chibi Models

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-24 07:00:18

San Diego Comic-Con is finally upon us! Of course, the opening of doors for preview night means the promise of our first glimpses of what to expect out of the next four days, from shiny booths to teases of big news—and of course, the many bits of radical merch that will be revealed. So why don’t we get the ball rolling on that last one with your first look at one of Lego’s reveals from the con, right here? To help celebrate the opening of Comic-Con 2025, io9 has your exclusive first look at Leg

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9 Wickedly Creative Lego Sets Debuting at Comic-Con 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 07:30:03

Cue your oohs and aahs, because Lego is giving fans a first look at its upcoming San Diego Comic-Con displays. When visitors step into the Lego booth, they'll find a brick-built model of the convention floor, along with sneak peeks at new Lego-fied products for Wicked, Stranger Things, DC's Batman and the Nintendo Game Boy. The toy giant dropped the news on Wednesday, ahead of the four-day event. Universal and Lego collaborated on six releases inspired by Wicked: For Good, with the new sets ava

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 22:02:59

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

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-09-24 15:03:33

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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Fusion Startup Says It's Figured Out How to Turn Mercury Into Gold

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-24 21:21:29

A fusion energy startup claims to have found a way to turn mercury into gold. As the Financial Times reports, San Francisco-based Marathon Fusion says that the same process that could one day represent a limitless source of clean energy could also be used for literal alchemy. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, nuclear transmutation — effectively changing an element or isotope into a different one by ripping out protons from its nucleus — could be used to synthesize gold particles.

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Using uninitialized memory for fun and profit (2008)

news.ycombinator.com Russ Cox 2025-09-21 11:11:09

Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit Posted on Friday, March 14, 2008. This is the story of a clever trick that's been around for at least 35 years, in which array values can be left uninitialized and then read during normal operations, yet the code behaves correctly no matter what garbage is sitting in the array. Like the best programming tricks, this one is the right tool for the job in certain situations. The sleaziness of uninitialized data access is offset by performance improveme

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I Tried T-Mobile's New Satellite Service for Texting in Dead Zones. Here's How It's Different

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 03:31:00

If you've traveled to remote areas where cellular coverage doesn't reach, you know that anxious feeling when your communications slam to a halt. T-Mobile's new $10 a month Starlink-based satellite texting service, T-Satellite, which went live today, takes a different approach from other satellite services to provide mobile access even within the half a million square miles of wireless dead zones in the US. To test it out, I drove nearly three hours from Seattle until my phone bars abandoned me,

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After $380M hack, Clorox sues its “service desk” vendor for simply giving out passwords

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-25 03:46:30

Hacking is hard. Well, sometimes. Other times, you just call up a company's IT service desk and pretend to be an employee who needs a password reset, an Okta multifactor authentication reset, and a Microsoft multifactor authentication reset... and it's done. Without even verifying your identity. So you use that information to log in to the target network and discover a more trusted user who works in IT security. You call the IT service desk back, acting like you are now this second person, and

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‘Final Fantasy’ Made Hasbro a Hell of a Lot of Gil

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-25 07:00:36

Hasbro’s no stranger to giving credit where credit’s due when a video game helps save its ass financially, having already made plenty of to-do about how the blockbuster success of Baldur’s Gate 3 a few years ago provided a surge of interest in D&D. Now it’s thanking a video game of a different sort: the Final Fantasy saga, as its recent highly anticipated crossover with Magic: The Gathering has helped make the most successful set of the card game made so far. According to Deadline, Hasbro CEO C

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

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-25 07:55:20

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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Hackers fooled Cognizant help desk, says Clorox in $380M cyberattack lawsuit

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-25 11:20:40

Clorox is suing IT giant Cognizant for gross negligence, alleging it enabled a massive August 2023 cyberattack by resetting an employee's password for a hacker without first verifying their identity. The incident was first made public in September 2023, reportedly carried out by hackers associated with Scattered Spider, who utilized a social engineering attack to breach the company. The lawsuit says Cognizant provided IT services to Clorox, including service desk support and identity managemen

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Proton launches privacy-respecting encrypted AI assistant Lumo

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-25 11:41:11

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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Starlink-powered ‘T-Satellite’ service is now live on T-Mobile

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-25 11:56:24

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. T-Mobile’s satellite service is now available to people across the US — and not just T-Mobile customers. On Wednesday, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert announced that the Starlink-powered service is officially out of beta, though it only supports text messaging and location-sharing for now. The new satellite coverage option is called “T-Satellite,” and it

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Microsoft's big AI update for Windows 11 is here - what's new

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-25 15:18:32

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Windows 11 users will find a host of new features awaiting them with a major update now being rolled out by Microsoft. Launched on Tuesday specifically for Windows 11 24H2, the optional update known as KB5062660 carries with it a cavalcade of AI-powered skills along with general enhancements and bug fixes galore. In a Tuesday blog post, Microsoft touted all the new AI tools and tricks in the update. For better or worse, most of these are geared toward Copilot+ PCs, so if y

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Latest Tech News

The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived

How Is T-Mobile's Starlink-Based Satellite Service Different From the Rest? I Tried It First-Hand

T-Mobile and Starlink's $10 a Month Satellite Texting Service Is Live. Here's How It Works

BlackSuit ransomware extortion sites seized in Operation Checkmate

Starlink suffers global outage, as T-Mobile rolls out integration [U]

Starlink suffers global outage, as T-Mobile rolls out integration

One of the Rarest Pokemon in History Is Coming to Pokemon TCG Pocket

Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds

T‑Mobile's Starlink service is now available to anyone on any carrier - how to sign up

People are getting over $4,000 each from the T-Mobile data breach settlement — here’s why

You can't outrun a bad diet

Lego's Comic-Con 2025: Game Boy, Stranger Things, Wicked and Batman Sets Debut

Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)

Lego's Game Boy set is here, sadly not playable

You Can Now Preorder These 9 Wickedly Creative Lego Sets Releasing Today at Comic-Con 2025

T-Mobile’s T-Satellite service goes live nationwide: Already used by 2 million people

Lego Returns to ‘Stranger Things’ With These Adorable Chibi Models

9 Wickedly Creative Lego Sets Debuting at Comic-Con 2025

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

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

Fusion Startup Says It's Figured Out How to Turn Mercury Into Gold

Using uninitialized memory for fun and profit (2008)

I Tried T-Mobile's New Satellite Service for Texting in Dead Zones. Here's How It's Different

After $380M hack, Clorox sues its “service desk” vendor for simply giving out passwords

‘Final Fantasy’ Made Hasbro a Hell of a Lot of Gil

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

Hackers fooled Cognizant help desk, says Clorox in $380M cyberattack lawsuit

Proton launches privacy-respecting encrypted AI assistant Lumo

Starlink-powered ‘T-Satellite’ service is now live on T-Mobile

Microsoft's big AI update for Windows 11 is here - what's new

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