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Alleged Verizon data breach sees 61M customer records offered for sale [U]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-19 13:13:47

An alleged Verizon data breach has seen hackers offering for sale a database of 61 million customer records, which includes personal information useful for both phishing attempts and identity theft. Update: Verizon told us it has checked the data and it is not from its customers – see the end of the piece. The sample data supplied includes name, full postal address, date of birth, email address, phone number(s), tax identification code, and other ID codes. Security researchers at SafetyDetect

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Esse Health says recent data breach affects over 263,000 patients

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-20 13:04:29

Esse Health, a healthcare provider based in St. Louis, Missouri, is notifying over 263,000 patients that their personal and health information was stolen in an April cyberattack. As the largest independent physicians' group in the Greater St. Louis area, Esse Health operates 50 locations and employs over 100 physicians. The organization was made aware of a breach after the attackers took down some primary patient-facing network systems and its phone systems on April 21. Impacted systems were

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Pbf2sqlite: Reading OpenStreetMap into a SQLite Database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 09:17:41

pbf2sqlite A simple command line tool for reading OpenStreetMap .osm.pbf files into a SQLite database. Usage: pbf2sqlite DATABASE [OPTION ...] Options: read FILE Reads .osm or .osm.pbf FILE into the database rtree Add R*Tree indexes addr Add address tables graph Add graph table The command pbf2sqlite test.db read country.osm.pbf reads the OSM PBF file country.osm.pbf and creates in the database test.db the tables. OSM data can be obtained from a provider such as Geofabrik.

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First-Class Models: The Missing Productivity Revolution

news.ycombinator.com Guyren Howe 2025-08-17 15:48:11

TL;DR: First-class models with branching and merging capabilities represent an almost entirely unused enormous productivity and expressiveness unlock in programming and computer systems. The Current State: Well-Designed Systems, Constrained Users Imagine you’re building an accounting system from scratch. You’d design it properly: a normalized database schema, algebraically defined operations for debits and credits, account reconciliation, and comparison functions. You’d implement data-only, in

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One UI’s Now Bar now plays nicer with Samsung Wallet for real-time journey alerts

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-20 17:18:17

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The latest Samsung Wallet update brings real-time alerts for journeys using stored travel tickets. These updates show in One UI’s Now Bar, live notification, and Now Brief. Along with new functionality, Samsung Wallet gets a new animation showing all cards in a stacked view. Samsung Wallet is one of the company’s finest apps, especially in regions where Google Wallet doesn’t fully work just yet. It holds passes, travel tickets, cards, and even allows

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Genesis AI launches with $105M seed funding from Eclipse, Khosla to build AI models for robots

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-08-20 17:56:52

Genesis AI, a startup that aims to build a foundational model for powering all kinds of robots, has emerged from stealth with a giant $105 million seed round co-led by Eclipse Ventures and Khosla Ventures. Founded last December by Zhou Xian (pictured above, left), a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, and Théophile Gervet, a former research scientist with the French AI lab Mistral, the startup wants to build a general-purpose model that will enable robots to automate a wide range

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Web giant Cloudflare to block AI bots from scraping content by default

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-08-21 01:07:10

In this article NET Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Internet firm Cloudflare will start blocking artificial intelligence crawlers from accessing content without website owners' permission or compensation by default, in a move that could significantly impact AI developers' ability to train their models. Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers, effectively giving them

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There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets

news.ycombinator.com Jack Morris 2025-08-20 05:43:46

Most people know that AI has made unbelievable progress over the last fifteen years– especially in the last five. It might feel like that progress is *inevitable* – although large paradigm-shift-level breakthroughs are uncommon, we march on anyway through a stream of slow & steady progress. In fact, some researchers have recently declared a “Moore’s Law for AI” where the computer’s ability to do certain things (in this case, certain types of coding tasks) increases exponentially with time: the

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T-Mobile Data Breach Settlement Checks Are Showing Up: Here's What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-21 00:00:07

Could you use a little extra money this summer? Check your bank account -- there may be an unexpected deposit from a company you may not recognize. It could be the money you're due from T-Mobile's 2022 class-action settlement. Those who qualify were told to expect settlement checks in April, but then that was moved to May. And now, in mid-June, as cited by Android Authority, Reddit users are saying they are seeing money in their bank accounts. Some are saying they received $56, but others are re

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Microsoft Offers Free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates, but There's a Catch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-21 00:30:03

Microsoft is closing the door on Windows 10 in October 2025, and will be ceasing security support for that operating system unless users pay $30 for a one-year extended security update. On June 24, with less than four months on the clock until support expires, Microsoft has added a free option. Users need to turn on cloud backup and connect it to their OneDrive account. The ability to get free updates on Windows 10 is a pretty big deal because it is still the most widely used Windows OS, accoun

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Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Boone 2025-08-20 14:03:26

Kevin Boone They don’t make ’em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise: DAT players were fantastic. They offered all the advantages of an audio cassette, but with the sound quality of a CD. The compact audio cassette was a marvellous invention, in its own way; but this technology struggled to provide audio fidelity that would satisfy discerning listeners. Its frequency response was limited, and the unavoidable background hiss was very obv

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Google Wallet gets a fresh coat of Material 3 Expressive with latest Play System update

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-21 03:38:57

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Wallet is getting a new design that adopts Google’s Material 3 Expressive aesthetic. The update is now rolling out widely, and Google has also made it official in its latest Play System update. With the update, Google Wallet has a more modern layout, with new icons, rounded rectangle containers, fresh buttons, and more. Google is officially rolling out a new Google Wallet experience with the latest Play System update (version 25.25). The redes

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The original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) compressor source code has been released

news.ycombinator.com View More Posts 2025-08-20 20:19:52

Last year, I discovered that the Kosinski compression format is actually LZEXE, which was used for compressing DOS executables back in the 90s and the late 80s. Its developer catalogues three versions on his website: v0.90, v0.91, and v0.91e. While only binaries of v0.91 and v0.91e can be found on the website, v0.90 can be found mirrored on various other websites. I got in touch with LZEXE’s developer, Fabrice Bellard, and he was able to release LZEXE’s source code, untouched since 1990! It i

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People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees

news.ycombinator.com Nick Tobey 2025-08-19 02:01:54

Multiple Discovery refers to when a scientific discovery is made independently by multiple individuals around the same time. The most well-known examples are Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz's independent invention of calculus, and Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's independent formulation of the theory of evolution. (Source: https://xkcd.com/626/) There's even a hypothesis that multiple discovery is the norm, rather than an exception: that invention is an result of social conditions

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My Database Is My Application: Rethinking Webhook Logic with DuckDB and SQL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 07:06:11

My Database is My Application: Rethinking Webhook Logic with DuckDB and SQL Sat May 10 2025 • duckdbsqlwebhooks Back Imagine you need to build a system for processing incoming webhooks. You're probably picturing a familiar setup: a lightweight web server (FastAPI, Flask, Express.js, etc.), some Python (or Node.js, or Go) handlers to parse JSON, a sprinkle of business logic, and then maybe persisting data to a traditional database like PostgreSQL or MySQL. Perhaps you'd toss events onto a messa

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The Original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) Compressor Source Code Has Been Released

news.ycombinator.com View More Posts 2025-08-21 16:19:52

Last year, I discovered that the Kosinski compression format is actually LZEXE, which was used for compressing DOS executables back in the 90s and the late 80s. Its developer catalogues three versions on his website: v0.90, v0.91, and v0.91e. While only binaries of v0.91 and v0.91e can be found on the website, v0.90 can be found mirrored on various other websites. I got in touch with LZEXE’s developer, Fabrice Bellard, and he was able to release LZEXE’s source code, untouched since 1990! It i

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There are no new ideas in AI only new datasets

news.ycombinator.com Jack Morris 2025-08-21 11:43:46

Most people know that AI has made unbelievable progress over the last fifteen years– especially in the last five. It might feel like that progress is *inevitable* – although large paradigm-shift-level breakthroughs are uncommon, we march on anyway through a stream of slow & steady progress. In fact, some researchers have recently declared a “Moore’s Law for AI” where the computer’s ability to do certain things (in this case, certain types of coding tasks) increases exponentially with time: the

Topics: ai data models new progress

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Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved

news.ycombinator.com Amsterdam 2025-08-21 20:31:09

The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened. Originally published on 11 May 2023. 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of six topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get full newsletters twice a week, subscribe here. Datadog is a leading observability tooling provider which went publi

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I write type-safe generic data structures in C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 18:55:20

June 25, 2025・7 minute read I write type safe generic data structures in C using a technique that I haven’t seen elsewhere. It uses unions to associate type information with a generic data structure, but we’ll get to that. My approach works for any type of data structure: maps, arrays, binary trees… but for this article I illustrate the ideas by implementing a basic linked list. Since many people aren’t aware you can do C generics at all, I figured I’d start simple and build up to this: typede

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Germany asks Google, Apple to remove DeepSeek AI from app stores

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-22 01:03:31

The Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection has formally requested Google and Apple to remove the DeepSeek AI application from the application stores due to GDPR violations. The commissioner, Meike Kamp, alleges that DeepSeek’s owner, Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence, based in Beijing, unlawfully collects data from German users and transfers them for processing in servers in China. As per the GDPR and Article 46 (1) specifically, any personal data collected from individuals in the Eur

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They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Boone 2025-08-22 01:03:26

Kevin Boone They don’t make ’em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise: DAT players were fantastic. They offered all the advantages of an audio cassette, but with the sound quality of a CD. The compact audio cassette was a marvellous invention, in its own way; but this technology struggled to provide audio fidelity that would satisfy discerning listeners. Its frequency response was limited, and the unavoidable background hiss was very obv

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Forecasters to Lose Hurricane Satellite Data at the Worst Possible Time

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-08-22 01:25:10

In one month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its National Hurricane Center (NHC) will lose access to critical satellite data that lets meteorologists see inside the eye of a storm. This marks the latest blow to the agency’s forecasting abilities as hurricane season gets underway. In an abrupt move that blindsided meteorologists and public officials on Wednesday, June 25, the Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) announced it was shutt

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Date Everything will make you see your favorite household objects in a sexy new light

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-08-22 01:00:07

Date Everything! isn’t the dating sim it appears to be. Though the game’s cutesy art style and lighthearted premise indicate an unserious game that’s making yet another joke at the expense of the genre, Date Everything actually contains novel explorations of human relationships and sharp-as-shit political critique. Date Everything (the title technically includes an exclamation point) is a game where you, with the help of special glasses called “dateviators,” can turn everyday household objects

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Pixel camera app creators tweak Indigo to address its biggest flaws

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-22 05:14:23

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR The latest update to the new Project Indigo app disables super-resolution by default on many iPhones. The changes appear aimed at reducing overheating and stability issues reported in early tests. Other tweaks include thermal warning adjustments and lower capture rates on weaker devices. When we tested Project Indigo last month, we were impressed with its lifelike photos, but the app also caused our iPhone 16 to run hot and freeze up. Indigo is built by t

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US lawmakers allege that OnePlus phones transmit data to Chinese servers without user consent

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-22 05:52:05

A pair of US lawmakers have called on the US Department of Commerce to investigate OnePlus over allegations that the company's devices transmit data to Chinese servers without user consent, according to a report by Reuters . This is a bipartisan effort, with Republican Representative John Moolenaar (MI) and Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL) spearheading the calls for an investigation. There's no actual data to go along with these allegations, but the lawmakers claim to have see

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A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

news.ycombinator.com Abu Baker 2025-08-22 04:38:43

The United Nations’ Global E-waste Monitor estimates that the world generates over 60 million metric tons of e-waste annually. Furthermore, this number is rising five times faster than e-waste recycling. Much of this waste comes from prematurely discarded electronic devices. Many enterprises follow a standard three-year replacement cycle, assuming older computers are inefficient. However, many of these devices are still functional and could perform well with minor upgrades or maintenance. The i

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I Write Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-22 04:55:20

June 25, 2025・7 minute read I write type safe generic data structures in C using a technique that I haven’t seen elsewhere. It involves unions and typeof , but we’ll get to that. My approach works for any type of data structure: maps, arrays, binary trees… but for this article I illustrate the ideas by implementing a basic linked list. Since many people aren’t aware you can do C generics at all, I figured I’d start simple and build up to this: typedef struct { int value ; } Foo ; List ( int )

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There Are No New Ideas in AI Only New Datasets

news.ycombinator.com Jack Morris 2025-08-22 07:43:46

Most people know that AI has made unbelievable progress over the last fifteen years– especially in the last five. It might feel like that progress is *inevitable* – although large paradigm-shift-level breakthroughs are uncommon, we march on anyway through a stream of slow & steady progress. In fact, some researchers have recently declared a “Moore’s Law for AI” where the computer’s ability to do certain things (in this case, certain types of coding tasks) increases exponentially with time: the

Topics: ai data models new progress

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Switzerland says government data stolen in ransomware attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-22 13:39:42

The government in Switzerland is informing that sensitive information from various federal offices has been impacted by a ransomware attack at the third-party organization Radix. The hackers have stolen data from Radix systems and later leaked it on the dark web, the Swiss government says. The exposed data is being analyzed with the help of the country’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to determine which government agencies are impacted and to what effect. “The foundation Radix has been

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Data Centers, Temperature, and Power

news.ycombinator.com Stephanie Doyle 2025-08-19 15:42:10

It’s easy to open a data center, right? All you have to do is connect a bunch of hard drives to power and the internet, find a building, and you’re off to the races. Well, not exactly. Building and using one Storage Pod is quite a bit different than managing exabytes of data. As the world has grown more connected, the demand for data centers has grown—and then along comes artificial intelligence (AI), with processing and storage demands that amp up the need even more. That, of course, has real

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Alleged Verizon data breach sees 61M customer records offered for sale [U]

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