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DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-27 09:30:30

A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of most Americans at risk of compromise. Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, said in a newly released whistleblower complaint published Tuesday that other top agency officials signed off on

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Meta is sinking $10B into rural Louisiana to build its wildest AI aspirations

news.ycombinator.com Delaney Nolan 2025-10-27 16:10:42

On a quiet patch of former farmland in northeastern Louisiana, a fleet of excavators has leveled more than 2,000 acres of reddish clay earth. This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line. Enter Meta—the sixth-largest company in the world by market cap. The tech giant is keen on making Richland home to its wildest AI aspirations—courtesy of a trem

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Security researcher maps hundreds of TeslaMate servers spilling Tesla vehicle data

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-27 21:23:00

A security researcher has found over a thousand publicly exposed hobby servers run by Tesla vehicle owners that are spilling sensitive data about their vehicles, including their granular location histories. Seyfullah Kiliç, founder of cybersecurity company SwordSec, said he found over 1,300 internet-exposed TeslaMate dashboards on the internet, likely made public by mistake, allowing anyone to access the person’s Tesla data stored inside without needing a password. TeslaMate is an open-source

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Nissan confirms design studio data breach claimed by Qilin ransomware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 01:48:25

Nissan Japan has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it suffered a data breach following unauthorized access to a server of one of its subsidiaries, Creative Box Inc. (CBI). This came in response to the Qilin ransomware group's claims that they had stolen four terabytes of data from CBI, including 3D vehicle design models, internal reports, financial documents, VR design workflows, and photos. "On August 16, 2025, suspicious access was detected on the data server of Creative Box Inc. (CBI), a c

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Farmers Insurance data breach impacts 1.1M people after Salesforce attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-29 09:48:51

U.S. insurance giant Farmers Insurance has disclosed a data breach impacting 1.1 million customers, with BleepingComputer learning that the data was stolen in the widespread Salesforce attacks. Farmers Insurance is a U.S.-based insurer that provides auto, home, life, and business insurance products. It operates through a network of agents and subsidiaries, serving more than 10 million households nationwide. The company disclosed the data breach in an advisory on its website, saying that its da

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Auchan retailer data breach impacts hundreds of thousands of customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-29 13:56:27

French retailer Auchan is informing that some sensitive data associated with loyalty accounts of several hundred thousand of its customers was exposed in a cyberattack. The company is sending data breach notifications to customers affected by the incident. "We are writing to inform you that Auchan has been the victim of a cyberattack. This attack resulted in unauthorized access to certain personal data associated with your loyalty account," reads the retailer's notification. According to the

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ChatGPT is reportedly scraping Google Search data to answer your questions - here's how

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-29 17:32:04

Anadolu / Contributor / Anadolu via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Reports reveal that OpenAI uses Google Search data to answer some of users' questions. The topics that use Google Search data mostly surround news, sports, and financial markets. OpenAI retrieves the Google Search data using a third-party web-scraping tool. As more people consult ChatGPT for general inquiries, reports are pointing to OpenAI, the AI-powered chatbot's parent

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A new security flaw in TheTruthSpy phone spyware is putting victims at risk

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-29 17:27:26

A stalkerware maker with a history of multiple data leaks and breaches now has a critical security vulnerability that allows anyone to take over any user account and steal their victim’s sensitive personal data, TechCrunch has confirmed. Independent security researcher Swarang Wade found the vulnerability, which allows anyone to reset the password of any user of the stalkerware app TheTruthSpy and its many companion Android spyware apps, leading to the hijacking of any account on the platform.

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The New Face of Data Engineering: No-Code, High Velocity, and AI-Driven

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-30 04:00:50

Data engineering is experiencing rapid transformation due to artificial intelligence’s (AI) modification of work processes and responsibilities. AI-assisted low- and no-code solutions dominate previously code-heavy processes, delivering streamlined development and reduced complexity. This transition challenges engineers to shift from writing pure extract, transform, and load (ETL) code to managing system design, data governance, compliance, and strategic AI tool integration. Transformation of C

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Yottar wants to help energy users find capacity on the electrical grid

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-30 05:27:08

From AI to EVs, the world’s demand for power is soaring, and the electrical grid is feeling the squeeze. Enter Yottar, a startup that maps electrical grid capacity to help companies figure out where they can plug in new data centers, EV charging stations, and other power-hungry equipment. “The electrification super cycle is colliding with the AI data center boom. That’s making the grid operators really struggle to deal with the backlog,” Peter Clutton-Brock, Yottar’s co-founder and CEO, told T

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Why I'm Now Running Enterprise AI on My Laptop (Without Internet)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 13:18:11

Beyond the Cloud: Why I’m Now Running Enterprise AI on My Laptop (Without Internet) Klaudi 6 min read · 1 hour ago 1 hour ago -- Listen Share For years, I’ve been skeptical of the AI revolution. Not because I don’t believe in its potential, but because the how always felt broken. The promise of “AI for everyone” came with a hidden cost: my data, my privacy, and my wallet. Every time I used a cloud based AI service, I’d ask myself: Where is my data going? Who owns it? How much will this cost me

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How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters

technologyreview.com Jon Keegan 2025-10-30 21:00:00

“They give us a lay of the land,” he says. “This is what a particular region has been like at this point in time. Now, if you have consecutive flights at a later time, you can do a ‘difference.’ Show me what it looked like. Show me what it looks like. Tell me what changed. Was something constructed? Something burned down? Did something fall down? Did vegetation grow?” Shortly after the fires were contained in late January 2025, ALERTCalifornia sponsored new lidar flights over the Eaton and Pali

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IBM and NASA Develop a Digital Twin of the Sun to Predict Future Solar Storms

wired.com Fernanda González 2025-10-30 20:00:00

The Sun’s most complex mysteries could soon be solved thanks to artificial intelligence. On August 20, IBM and NASA announced the launch of Surya, a foundation model for the sun. Having been trained on large datasets of solar activity, this AI tool aims to deepen humanity’s understanding of solar weather and accurately predict solar flares—bursts of electromagnetic radiation emitted by our star that threaten both astronauts in orbit and communications infrastructure on Earth. Surya was trained

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Burner Phone 101

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 20:25:58

Hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library, this Burner Phone 101 workshop introduced participants to phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone options, and when to leave phones behind entirely. In August 2025, I hosted a Burner Phone 101 Workshop at the Brooklyn Public Library. Below is a summary of the workshop with key points in bold and additional resources that participants helped crowdsource. Secret Goals Before the workshop began

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Why was Apache Kafka created?

news.ycombinator.com Stanislav Kozlovski 2025-10-29 07:31:41

Reading Time: 13 minutes Intro - the Integration Problem We talk all the time about what Kafka is, but not so much about why it is the way it is. What better way than to dive into the original motivation for creating Kafka? Circa 2012, LinkedIn’s original intention with Kafka was to solve a data integration problem. LinkedIn used site activity data (e.g. someone liked this, someone posted this) for many things - tracking fraud/abuse, matching jobs to users, training ML models, basic feature

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What Is USB-C, and What Do All Those Numbers Mean?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 23:30:00

From laptops to phones to wireless Bluetooth speakers, earbuds and more, USB-C connections have become the de facto standard for charging and data transfer of devices. While USB-C is just about everywhere now, including longstanding holdout Apple since the iPhone 15, not all ports or cables are the same. They look identical, sure, and have some interoperability, but there are ratings for different charging and data speeds. That can make choosing a USB-C cable more complicated than it should be.

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I wish Google would fix this one quirky limitation with Fi

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 05:00:33

Megan Ellis / Android Authority I’ve used Google Fi for almost three years now, and it’s been mostly smooth sailing. Although Google doesn’t promote its cellular services very much, it has slowly but surely released updates that continue to improve the service, all while keeping prices relatively competitive. There is plenty to love about Google’s offering in a competitive market, but one quirk has me considering other options. Have you tried Google's wireless service? 81 votes Yes, I'm curren

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Exploring EXIF (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 12:25:58

← Harley Turan • August 2023 August 2023 Exploring EXIF According to iOS’ Photos application, I’ve taken 73,281 photos over the past 14 years of owning an iPhone. Each one of those images doesn't just contain the photo you see as you scroll through the Photos app — it contains a wealth of information stored encoded directly into the image file itself. It details useful metadata such as where the photo was taken (so that you can view your photos on a map at a later date), the time and date the

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Worried about AI's soaring energy needs? Avoiding chatbots won't help - but 3 things could

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-10-30 13:00:00

Overearth/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways AI investment is driving up energy demands and impacting local grids. AI energy use must be considered relative to tech's energy demands overall. Businesses and individuals have several options for managing their AI footprint. AI feels inescapable. It's everywhere: Your smartphone, Google, even your work tools. AI features promise to make life easier and more productive, but what does all this new tech mean for the

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Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 06:22:33

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with a rapid expansion of data centers. And a lot of those data centers are being built to serve the boom in AI usage. Given that some of this rising demand is being met by increased coal use (as of May, coal's share of generation is up about 20 percent compared to the year prior), the environmental impa

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World Wide Lightning Location Network

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 10:40:44

About WWLLN The World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN - pronounced 'woollen'), is a network of very low frequency (VLF) radio lightning sensors operated by the University of Washington in Seattle. Most ground-based observations in the 3 - 30 kHz VLF band are dominated by impulsive signals from lightning discharges called “sferics”. Significant radiated electromagnetic power exists from a few hertz to several hundred megahertz, with the bulk of the energy radiated at VLF. With our world w

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Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 11:22:33

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with a rapid expansion of data centers. And a lot of those data centers are being built to serve the boom in AI usage. Given that some of this rising demand is being met by increased coal use (as of May, coal's share of generation is up about 20 percent compared to the year prior), the environmental impa

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OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-10-30 17:25:35

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collaborating institutions provides an open source foundation for creating robust AI agents that can operate computers. The framework, called OpenCUA, includes the tools, data, and recipes for scaling the development of computer-use agents (CUAs). Models trained usin

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Black Holes Are the Elusive Source of the Universe’s Dark Energy, Study Argues

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-31 09:25:46

Dark energy—the hypothetical force accelerating our universe’s expansion—sometimes raises more questions than it answers. A new study, however, presents surprising evidence that black holes may be an incubator for dark energy—suggesting that the force may be less constant than we believed. In a paper published August 21 in Physical Review Letters, researchers used data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) to test a hypothesis that argues black holes convert dead star matter into

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Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-31 13:53:12

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with a rapid expansion of data centers. And a lot of those data centers are being built to serve the boom in AI usage. Given that some of this rising demand is being met by increased coal use (as of May, coal's share of generation is up about 20 percent compared to the year prior), the environmental impa

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4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 20:02:21

Some American politicians - particularly the Trump administration, its allies and officials - have pushed back against what they regard as overreach in the regulation of US tech firms by the UK and EU. A perceived impact of the Online Safety Act on free speech has been a particular concern, but other laws have also been the source of disagreement. On 19 August, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the UK had withdrawn its controversial demand for a "backdoor" in an Apple dat

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Meta's AI Push Leads to $10 Billion Google Cloud Deal, Report Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-01 01:20:20

Eager to establish dominance in artificial intelligence, Meta has signed up to use cloud-computing services from Google Cloud in a deal worth at least $10 billion over six years, according to a report from Bloomberg. The deal would expand Meta's capabilities as it continues to push into AI tools and services across its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. AI requires an enormous amount of computing resources, which requires more data center bandwidth. In turn, those data cente

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Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back

news.ycombinator.com Tanmai Gopal 2025-11-01 03:14:35

The reason humans are so useful is not mainly their raw intelligence. It’s their ability to build up context, interrogate their own failures, and pick up small improvements and efficiencies as they practice a task - "Why I don't think AGI is right around the corner", Dwarkesh Patel In this post, based on our recent experiences selling 7-figure AI deals to Fortune 500s and Silicon Valley tech cos alike, I'll discuss how "confident inaccuracy" seems to be at the heart of this problem. Being C

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Being confidently wrong is holding AI back

news.ycombinator.com Tanmai Gopal 2025-11-01 13:14:35

The reason humans are so useful is not mainly their raw intelligence. It’s their ability to build up context, interrogate their own failures, and pick up small improvements and efficiencies as they practice a task - "Why I don't think AGI is right around the corner", Dwarkesh Patel In this post, based on our recent experiences selling 7-figure AI deals to Fortune 500s and Silicon Valley tech cos alike, I'll discuss how "confident inaccuracy" seems to be at the heart of this problem. Being C

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DaVita says ransomware gang stole data of nearly 2.7 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-01 20:38:14

Kidney dialysis firm DaVita has confirmed that a ransomware gang that breached its network stole the personal and health information of nearly 2.7 million individuals. DaVita serves over 265,400 patients across 3,113 outpatient dialysis centers, 2,660 in the United States, and 453 centers in 13 other countries worldwide. The company reported revenues of over $12 billion in 2024 and of $3.3 billion for the second quarter of 2025. In April, the healthcare provider revealed in a filing with the U

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Latest Tech News

DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

Meta is sinking $10B into rural Louisiana to build its wildest AI aspirations

Security researcher maps hundreds of TeslaMate servers spilling Tesla vehicle data

Nissan confirms design studio data breach claimed by Qilin ransomware

Farmers Insurance data breach impacts 1.1M people after Salesforce attack

Auchan retailer data breach impacts hundreds of thousands of customers

ChatGPT is reportedly scraping Google Search data to answer your questions - here's how

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IBM and NASA Develop a Digital Twin of the Sun to Predict Future Solar Storms

Burner Phone 101

Why was Apache Kafka created?

What Is USB-C, and What Do All Those Numbers Mean?

I wish Google would fix this one quirky limitation with Fi

Exploring EXIF (2023)

Worried about AI's soaring energy needs? Avoiding chatbots won't help - but 3 things could

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World Wide Lightning Location Network

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic

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Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back

Being confidently wrong is holding AI back

DaVita says ransomware gang stole data of nearly 2.7 million people

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