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Vibe coding as a VC

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Kuipers 2025-10-18 17:05:35

Those vacations were the most intense I’ve had in a while. Time off is always the chance to focus on building knowledge or skills, whether for personal enjoyment or for work. And this summer break was the perfect moment to disconnect from the hectic daily routine, the endless flow of emails and back-to-back meetings, and dive into introspection. Walk the Talk Our job is to look for AI-native companies (post-LLM startups), because we believe they are a different breed, born in a different world

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Detecting and countering misuse of AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 14:44:21

We’ve developed sophisticated safety and security measures to prevent the misuse of our AI models. But cybercriminals and other malicious actors are actively attempting to find ways around them. Today, we’re releasing a report that details how. Our Threat Intelligence report discusses several recent examples of Claude being misused, including a large-scale extortion operation using Claude Code, a fraudulent employment scheme from North Korea, and the sale of AI-generated ransomware by a cybercr

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WhatsApp Status is getting a Close Friends feature

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-19 00:24:36

While most U.S. users have never used—or even heard of—WhatsApp Status Updates, Meta recently revealed that the tab is now used by 1.5 billion people per day worldwide. And soon, WhatsApp will take a page from Instagram by adding a Close Friends feature. If you’re unfamiliar with WhatsApp Status, it works much like Instagram Stories, where users can post photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. For the last few years, Instagram users have enjoyed a Close Friends feature, which lets the

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The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-10-18 23:55:04

The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interaction into Salesforce leads, has left many companies racing to invalidate the stolen credentials before hackers can exploit them. Now Google warns the breach goes far beyond access to Salesforce data, noting the hackers responsible also stole valid authentication tokens for hundreds of online services that customers can integrate with Salesloft,

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Google Maps may soon keep your navigation updates where you can’t lose them

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 04:56:42

Megan Ellis / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps is starting to test Live Updates for navigation on some devices. We spotted the feature several days ago, and more reports from other users have since surfaced. Testing appears very limited for now. If you’ve ever had a live navigation slip off your screen mid-journey, you’ll see why the latest Google Maps experiment could be useful. A handful of people are now seeing Live Updates appear for directions, keeping progress pinned on the screen w

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Apple isn’t done patching a discontinued iPhone thanks to EU radiation drama

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-19 20:34:09

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. Apple is preparing a software update for an iPhone from 2020 to address a years-old health complaint only raised in one market. Specifically, Apple is once again updating iPhone 12 models to address a non-issue pushed by health authorities in France. This time the software update will apply to all iPhone 12 models in EU countries, and not just France. Here’s a recap from our coverage two years ago: French authorities determined that the iPhone 12 no lo

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An adventure in writing compatible systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 06:38:35

Turso is a rewrite of SQLite from scratch in Rust. We aim to keep full compatibility with SQLite, while adding new and exciting features like CDC, concurrent writes, encryption, among many others. It is currently in alpha, but progressing fast and getting close to a point where it can be used for production workloads. Rewriting existing software systems is a special kind of hard. Aside from the difficulty in writing the software itself, you have to deal with behaviors of the existing system tha

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De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes

news.ycombinator.com Imran Nazar 2025-10-20 03:52:03

Back to Articles 1st Sep 2025 In the ongoing effort to extricate myself from Google's services, I've been paring down my usage of their apps on my (admittedly Android) phone. I'm now down to two Google apps I use regularly: Maps (for traffic data) and Authenticator (for TOTP [A] Time-based One Time Password codes). Now, I spend most of my time in a terminal window on MacOS or connected to a Linux machine; it'd be nice if I could get TOTPs on the command-line, and it turns out there's a utilit

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One UI 8 beta arrives on Galaxy S23 and Samsung’s popular A-series phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-21 00:32:31

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is expanding the One UI 8 beta program to more devices. In addition to the previously supported models, the update is now available for the Galaxy S23, A55, A54, A36, and A35. Meanwhile, the Galaxy A56, Z Fold 5, and Flip 5 are expected to receive updates this month. After a laggy rollout of its Android 15-based One UI 7, Samsung sprinted to release One UI 8, based on Android 16, in less than six months. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Flip 7 have

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Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America

wired.com Anna Lagos 2025-10-21 01:00:00

The supercomputing infrastructure at the University of Tarapacá (UTA) in Arica, Chile, is a fundamental pillar for Latam-GPT. With a projected investment of $10 million, the new center has a cluster of 12 nodes, each equipped with eight state-of-the-art NVIDIA H200 GPUs. This capacity, unprecedented in Chile and the region more broadly, not only enables large-scale model training in the country for the first time, it also encourages decentralization and energy efficiency. The first version of L

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Replacing a cache service with a database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 14:41:15

Replacing a cache service with a database I’ve been thinking about this: will we ever replace caches entirely with databases? In this post I will share some ideas and how we are moving towards it. tl;dr we are still not there, yet. Why do we even use caches? Caches solve one important problem: providing pre-computed data at insanely low latencies, compared to databases. I am talking about typical use cases where we use a cache along with the db (cache aside pattern), where the application alw

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iPhone just became a wireless dual-camera rig for pro video production

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-20 17:44:50

RODE is rolling out a major firmware update for the RODECaster Video this week that turns the iPhone into a powerful wireless camera source. The update adds NDI support and is available now at no additional cost. NDI (Network Device Interface) is an industry standard for high-quality, low-latency video over IP. With the new update, the RODECaster Video can receive up to four NDI inputs and output one stream over Ethernet, making it easy to connect cameras and devices across the same network w

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Stardew Valley is getting yet another surprise update

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-20 21:18:06

We may not have a date for Stardew Valley's next major update, but we have confirmation that it's happening. Eric Barone, the developer behind the hit farming sim, announced that there will be a 1.7 update during the Stardew Valley Symphony of Seasons concert in Seattle, later confirming the news with a post on X. Barone, better known as ConcernedApe, didn't reveal a release date, nor any teasers about content. Considering the numbered update, we're expecting more than just a patch and somethin

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Replacing a Cache Service with a Database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 19:41:15

Replacing a cache service with a database I’ve been thinking about this: will we ever replace caches entirely with databases? In this post I will share some ideas and how we are moving towards it. tl;dr we are still not there, yet. Why do we even use caches? Caches solve one important problem: providing pre-computed data at insanely low latencies, compared to databases. I am talking about typical use cases where we use a cache along with the db (cache aside pattern), where the application alw

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Google Investors Surprisingly Chill About Major Data Breach

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-20 18:05:36

The stock of Google’s parent company ended Friday’s trading session relatively unchanged, as investors digested news of a major data leak and broader market developments. Alphabet Inc. (GOOG)’s shares closed at $213.53, up slightly from the day’s prior end price, despite Google‘s global security alert advising its 2.5 billion Gmail users to update their information following a data breach involving one of its Salesforce databases. The company immediately issued a network-wide alert telling use

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The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 13:12:06

Read the terms of service. Don’t make assumptions. Don’t pick defaults. Yesterday, Anthropic quietly flipped a switch. If you're a Claude user, your conversations are now training data unless you actively say no. Not when you give feedback. Not when you explicitly consent. By default, from day one. Here's what changed: Previously, Claude didn't train on consumer chat data without your explicit thumbs up or down. Clean, simple, respectful. Now? Everything you type becomes model training fodder

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Are we decentralized yet?

news.ycombinator.com Robert Ricci 2025-10-20 15:26:29

This page measures the concentration of user data on the Fediverse and the Atmosphere according to the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI), an indicator from economics used to measure competition between firms in an industry. Mathematically, HHI is the sum of the squares of market shares of all servers. Values close to zero indicate perfectly competitive markets (eg. many servers, with users spread evenly), while values close to 10000 indicate highly concentrated monopolies (eg. most users on a si

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No, a Windows update probably didn’t brick your SSD

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-20 12:57:19

For the last week or two, reports have been circulating that recent Windows 11 updates (specifically KB5063878 and KB5062660) were causing some SSDs using Phison controllers to fail. Tech influencers on YouTube and TikTok were quick to jump on the reports of corrupted data and disappearing drives, laying the blame squarely at Microsoft’s feet. We’re not saying any company is above lying to the public, and Microsoft has a history of rocky update rollouts, but both Microsoft and Phison claim they’

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Crypto Mining Stock Is Up 400% This Year As It Inks Nvidia Deal

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-20 12:12:46

Shares of Iren (IREN), an AI, cloud, and data center company, jumped nearly 15% on August 29 after announcing it had achieved “preferred partner” status with Nvidia. The designation is seen as a significant endorsement, positioning Iren as a key collaborator in Nvidia’s expanding ecosystem for AI and data center solutions. In addition to the partnership news, Iren confirmed it has secured the purchase of up to $168 million worth of Nvidia GPUs, further fueling the company’s stock rally on the

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If You're Still Running Windows 10, You Need to Do This One Thing Before Oct. 14

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 13:00:06

Microsoft is about to pull the plug on Windows 10. Support for the decade-old operating system is scheduled to end on October 14, and users are encouraged to upgrade to Windows 11. However, we're less than two months out from that end-of-support date, and nearly 43% PC owners are still running Windows 10. These users must now either upgrade their devices or continue using the outdated software if their device doesn't support Windows 11. To give its users more time to upgrade their software and

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Cracks are forming in Meta’s partnership with Scale AI

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-20 17:34:05

It’s only been since June that Meta invested $14.3 billion in the data-labeling vendor Scale AI, bringing on CEO Alexandr Wang and several of the startup’s top executives to run Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). But the relationship between the two companies is already showing signs of fraying. At least one of the executives Wang brought over to help run MSL — Scale AI’s former Senior Vice President of GenAI Product and Operations, Ruben Mayer — has departed Meta after just two months with the

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MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 23:13:50

Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering critical Social Security data This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client Charles Borges and was originally published here. Within weeks of Donald Trump’s second inaugural, members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team showed up at the Social Security Administration and started demanding access to files. The efforts were not well received: Michelle King, in her capacity as the acting Social Securi

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SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-10-21 00:49:36

On Friday, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, Chuck Borges, sent an email to agency staff claiming that he was forcibly removed from his position after filing a whistleblower complaint this week accusing the agency of mishandling sensitive agency data. Minutes after the email went out, it disappeared from employee inboxes, two SSA sources tell WIRED. “I am regretfully and involuntarily leaving my position at the Social Security Administration (SSA),” Borges wrote in the re

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Data engineering and software engineering are converging

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 11:43:42

TL;DR: · If you’re an engineer building realtime analytics or AI-powered features, you need the right data infrastructure coupled with the right developer experience (DX). · A great DX for data infrastructure should empower both software devs and data engineers, while taking inspiration from the best of modern web development (git-native, local-first, everything as code, CI/CD friendly, etc). · MooseStack by 514 offers a fully open source implementation of a DX layer for ClickHouse. Da

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Windows 11 25H2 update hits its last stop before release to the general public

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 12:10:21

Microsoft's fifth major iteration of Windows 11 is nearing its release to the general public—the Windows Insider team announced today that Windows 11 25H2 was being put into its Release Preview Channel, the final stop for most updates before they become available to everyone. That's around two months after the first Windows builds with the 25H2 label were released to the other preview channels. Putting a new yearly Windows update in the Release Preview channel is analogous to the "release to ma

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Microsoft fixes bug behind Windows certificate enrollment errors

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-21 16:02:25

Microsoft has resolved a known issue causing false CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) error messages after installing the July 2025 preview and subsequent Windows 11 24H2 updates. When it acknowledged this bug two weeks ago, the company asked users to ignore error events caused by recent updates that triggered a warning about the 'Microsoft Pluton Cryptographic Provider' not being loaded. "Following installation of the July 2025 Windows non-security preview update (KB5062660) and later upd

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Windows 11 KB5064081 update clears up CPU usage metrics in Task Manager

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-21 16:57:04

Microsoft has released the KB5064081 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, which includes thirty-six new features or changes, with many gradually rolling out. These updates include new Recall features and a new way of displaying CPU usage in Task Manager. The KB5064081 update is part of the company's optional non-security preview update schedule, which releases updates at the end of each month to test new fixes and features coming to the next month's Patch Tuesday. Unlike regular Pa

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Wearable devices are sharing your private data - these are the 5 worst offenders

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-21 16:15:30

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Several wearable devices are sharing user data. The worst offenders include Meta, Samsung, Xiaomi, and Huawei. Apple, Oura, and Whoop have some of the best data practices. Those shiny new Meta Ray-Bans might be uploading the media you're collecting to train its AI model, according to a new report by VPNMentor highlighting the data-sharing practices of the best and worst wearables. Meta and it

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Apple Reportedly Still Under Pressure to Give UK Government Backdoor iCloud Access

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-21 14:46:00

The UK government continues to seek access to Apple's iCloud services, according to a new report, with its request to access people's data seemingly even broader than originally thought. According to a legal filing seen by the Financial Times, the UK Home Office wanted backdoor access to standard iCloud services in addition to those secured with the highest level of encryption. Just last week, President Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said that the UK and US had

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Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 16:48:51

At the beginning of the month, Tesla was found partly liable in a wrongful death lawsuit involving the death of a pedestrian in Florida in 2019. The automaker—which could have settled the case for far less—claimed that it did not have the fatal crash's data. That's until a hacker was able to recover it from the crashed car, according to a report in The Washington Post. In the past, Tesla has been famously quick to offer up customer data stored on its servers to rebut claims made against the com

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Latest Tech News

Vibe coding as a VC

Detecting and countering misuse of AI

WhatsApp Status is getting a Close Friends feature

The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft

Google Maps may soon keep your navigation updates where you can’t lose them

Apple isn’t done patching a discontinued iPhone thanks to EU radiation drama

An adventure in writing compatible systems

De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes

One UI 8 beta arrives on Galaxy S23 and Samsung’s popular A-series phones

Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America

Replacing a cache service with a database

iPhone just became a wireless dual-camera rig for pro video production

Stardew Valley is getting yet another surprise update

Replacing a Cache Service with a Database

Google Investors Surprisingly Chill About Major Data Breach

The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters

Are we decentralized yet?

No, a Windows update probably didn’t brick your SSD

Crypto Mining Stock Is Up 400% This Year As It Inks Nvidia Deal

If You're Still Running Windows 10, You Need to Do This One Thing Before Oct. 14

Cracks are forming in Meta’s partnership with Scale AI

MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes

Data engineering and software engineering are converging

Windows 11 25H2 update hits its last stop before release to the general public

Microsoft fixes bug behind Windows certificate enrollment errors

Windows 11 KB5064081 update clears up CPU usage metrics in Task Manager

Wearable devices are sharing your private data - these are the 5 worst offenders

Apple Reportedly Still Under Pressure to Give UK Government Backdoor iCloud Access

Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it

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