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

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-12 16:20:40

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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Texas Instruments stock falls 12% as CEO warns of tariff concerns

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-12 21:11:21

The Texas Instruments headquarters in Dallas, Texas, US, on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. Texas Instruments shares plunged 12% after the automotive and industrial semiconductor supplier warned of ongoing tariff aftershocks. The company said it expects third-quarter earnings between $1.36 and $1.60 per share, a midpoint of $1.48 per share. That fell short of an LSEG estimate of $1.50. Texas Instruments anticipates revenues between $4.45 billion and $4.48 billion. The midpoint of $4.63 billion was sli

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This powerful Google Photos tool is finally arriving for older Pixels

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 21:17:32

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Reimagine in Magic Editor TL;DR The Google Photos Reimagine feature is starting to roll out to older Pixels. Reports from Reddit and Telegram show it working on Pixel 6 and Pixel 8 devices. Access appears limited for now, so not everyone on the same version will see it. Last September, we spotted early evidence that the Google Photos Reimagine feature, previously exclusive to the Pixel 9 series, might be coming to older Pixels. It took longer than we expected,

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Anker Nebula X1 projector review: The king of outdoor movies, if you can afford it

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-12 21:15:19

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 . My dream projector delivers the brightest and sharpest image. But it also has to be easy to move around and set up anywhere — especially outdoors. Anker’s Nebula X1 long-throw projector promises all of that with a three-laser engine that beams out a category-leading 3,500 ANSI lumens a

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Finally, a tablet that can easily replace my iPad and Kindle (and doesn't break the bank)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-01-12 21:14:00

TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus ZDNET's key takeaways The TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus is available for $249. This tablet can switch from full color to an E Ink-like display with the press of a button, it has 256GB of storage, and an eye-catching matte display with 120Hz refresh rate. The Nxtpaper 11 Plus can get heavy when you use it one-handed and doesn't include a case or stylus, though you can buy them separately. $249 at Walmart I test a lot of tablets, and admittedly, the design aspirations of many of the

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Starlink Texting Launches on Big Three Phone Carriers Today. Check if You’ll Get It for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 20:05:00

T-Mobile’s partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service is finally here, enabling customers to send texts from anywhere in the country, regardless of their proximity to a cellular tower. The direct-to-cell messaging service, called T-Satellite, is also be available to AT&T and Verizon cellphone customers. 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 i

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Xfinity Opens Online Shop for All Your Streaming Entertainment Needs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 21:01:00

Comcast introduced a new online store on Wednesday that serves as a hub for streaming entertainment. The StreamStore is a centralized shop where Xfinity internet and TV customers can find, buy or manage multiple streaming apps, bundles, channels, movies and TV shows. According to Comcast, customers can buy streaming TV packages like Now TV, sign up for the StreamSaver bundle, and explore a selection of "over 450 streaming apps and channels and 200,000 movies and TV shows to rent." That includes

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The Pixel 10 Pro Fold might make blue the new black

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-12 20:49:47

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. Google might replace the upcoming Pixel Pro Fold’s white and black models with two new color options. Leaked renders shared by Android Headlines show the Pixel 10 Pro Fold in a light green “Jade” and a silvery blue “Moonstone” — with no black or white option at all. Since the launch of Google’s first foldable in 2023, the company has sold the devic

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The best Xbox controller to buy right now

theverge.com Quentyn Kennemer 2026-01-12 21:28:34

We live in a golden age of controllers. The gamepads on the market now are of higher quality, more versatile, and more customizable than anything from even one console generation ago. If you play games on an Xbox Series X or Series S (or a Windows PC), you have the unenviable task of choosing between several high-quality controllers from Microsoft as well as a plethora of great options from the likes of 8BitDo, PowerA, Razer, Scuf, Nacon, and Turtle Beach. Some of them have drift-proof Hall effe

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Samsung Galaxy S26 Edge rumor teases the best of both worlds

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-13 02:20:04

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The next Galaxy Edge phone is rumored to be even thinner than its predecessor. The rumor also suggests that the device may have a larger battery. To achieve this feat, Samsung may use “new battery material technology.” The Galaxy S25 Edge stands out from the rest of the Galaxy S25 line due to its slim and light design. However, to achieve this slender frame, Samsung had to make a number of sacrifices, which may have played a hand in its poor sales number

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Show HN: Self-updating MCP server for official pip, uv, poetry and conda docs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 00:32:23

Python Dependency Manager Companion MCP Server README updated on 2025-07-23 by @KemingHe Official docs from pip , poetry , uv , and conda + automated weekly updates = zero maintenance overhead for developers using VSCode/Cursor with AI assistants. [Demo] 🚀 Quick Start for Agentic IDEs 1. Pull latest Docker image: docker pull keminghe/py-dep-man-companion:latest 2. Add to your IDE's mcp.json : { "mcp" : { "servers" : { "python-deps" : { "command" : " docker " , "args" : [ " run " , " -i "

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Reversing a Fingerprint Reader Protocol (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 15:02:37

TLDR: The sensor uses TLS-PSK over USB. We overwrite the PSK and are able to read images. Scan of not-my-finger. I recently got a new Laptop ( Lenovo Ideapad 5 - 15are05 ). Linux compatibility is quite good, as documented in the Arch Wiki. One part that is not working is the fingerprint reader. In this blog post I describe my approach to reverse engineering the fingerprint reader's windows driver and USB protocol. This results in a python script, capable of streaming images from the sensor at

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Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 23:52:47

Why Elixir is not just a good platform for modern development, but a great one - addressing common misconceptions Source: OpenAI [ED: I am sick and tired of having to justify “Why Elixir?” so I decided to write down all of the reasons why in one spot!] Braingasm Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions I’m all-in on the Elixir programming ecosystem. Seriously. I love the idea of a single codebase that works glass-to-tin — and while other platforms have made similar promises, I’ve nev

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Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 00:48:22

Proxmox Donates €10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) is delighted to announce a generous €10,000 donation from Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH, supporting the critical Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Corporate partnerships play a critical role in enabling TPRF to fulfill its mission. A Partner in Open Source Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete, open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hyperviso

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I Tested T-Mobile's Satellite Service: The Hardest Part Was Finding a Dead Zone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 02:00:26

Driving the wooded highways of the North Cascades in Washington state, I deliberately pointed my car toward nothing. Specifically, I needed to get out of Seattle to find an area with no cellular coverage so I could try out T-Mobile's new Starlink-based satellite texting service, T-Satellite, with my phone. It was more difficult than I expected. Most areas of the US are covered by some level of cellular service. But that still leaves around 500,000 square miles of wireless dead zones, according

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Starlink Texting Launches on Big Three Phone Carriers Today. Check if You’ll Get for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 02:05:00

T-Mobile’s partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service is finally here, enabling customers to send texts from anywhere in the country, regardless of their proximity to a cellular tower. The direct-to-cell messaging service, called T-Satellite, is also be available to AT&T and Verizon cellphone customers. 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 i

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Say Bye to Excess Ear Wax. Here’s How to Clean Your Ears Safely

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 02:12:57

Keeping your ears clean is an essential part of good personal hygiene, but how you go about it is equally important. Here's how you can do it safely, if and when needed, to keep muffled hearing at bay and any gunk off your favorite earbuds. The truth about Q-tips The cotton swab, better known as the Q-tip, is the most common device used for cleaning your ears. Its shortcomings illustrate the basic problems with using these types of instruments for earwax removal. Thanks to their long, narrow

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The Outer Worlds 2 will no longer be Microsoft’s first $80 Xbox game

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-13 02:19:25

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft-owned developer Obsidian Entertainment is announcing a price drop for the The Outer Worlds 2 today. The game was originally supposed to debut at $79.99 in October, but it’s now going back to the regular $69.99 Xbox game price. Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would be raising the price of new Xbox first-party games from $69.99 to $79.99, alongside increa

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The Pixel 10 Pro is copying one of the worst things about the Galaxy S25 Ultra

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-13 00:30:01

Joe Maring / Android Authority Just a day after official Google Pixel 10 renders leaked (showing the phone in some really striking new colors), we now have the same treatment for the higher-end Pixel 10 Pro. While the Pixel 10 Pro’s design hasn’t been a secret up until now, these latest renders do provide us with the best look yet at Google’s upcoming flagship. And, perhaps most importantly, we now know what colors the Pixel 10 Pro will be available in. So, what are we getting? Unfortunately,

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My 10 favorite Linux distributions of all time, ranked

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-13 06:22:43

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Linux is on the rise. I believe the popularity of the open-source operating system will continue to increase and possibly even hit the 10% mark by the end of 2025. Some say that's a pipe dream, but I believe. Because of the popularity of Linux, I thought I would create a list of my all-time top 10 distributions that I've used over the years. Some of these distros are no longer with us, while some of them are still thriving. Are you ready to take a

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‘Wednesday’ Is Snapping Back for Season 3 and a Spinoff

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-13 06:15:18

In a few weeks, the Addams Family series Wednesday is debuting its second season on Netflix. Good news for fans of the show: it’s already been renewed for a third. Creator Tim Burton and star Jenna Ortega just broke the news in a Hollywood Reporter cover story about their working together on the show and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. They were both understandably tight-lipped on further details, but showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar talked about their hopes for a seven-season run. (Nevermore

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CISA warns of hackers exploiting SysAid vulnerabilities in attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-13 11:30:15

CISA has warned that attackers are actively exploiting two security vulnerabilities in the SysAid IT service management (ITSM) software to hijack administrator accounts. The two unauthenticated XML External Entity (XXE) flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-2775 and CVE-2025-2776, were reported by watchTowr Labs security researchers in December 2024 and patched in March with the release of SysAid On-Prem version 24.4.60. One month later, watchTowr Labs also published proof-of-concept code, showing that t

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Ukraine arrests suspected admin of XSS Russian hacking forum

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-13 11:41:27

The suspected administrator of the Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is was arrested by the Ukrainian authorities yesterday at the request of the Paris public prosecutor's office. The French authorities state that the investigation was opened roughly four years ago, uncovering activities related to ransomware and other cybercrimes, which yielded multi-million-dollar profits. This was despite the forum publicly banning all ransomware topics on the platform in May 2021. "The investigation, ope

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Forget Samsung Z Fold 7: Why this Galaxy model is on my watchlist going into next year

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2026-01-13 11:38:00

Jason Howell/ZDNET Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold 7 is an impressive book-style foldable that tackles many of the long-standing quibbles plaguing the Fold series for years. I spent a weekend with the device, and was floored by how much its reduced weight and thickness made it feel like a standard candy bar phone when folded. CNET survey: 64% of people say 'no thanks' to foldable smartphones The cover screen is wider and more usable, the interior display is larger at eight inches, and the new 200

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Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 11:17:38

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Police in Spain have reportedly started profiling people based on their phones; specifically, and surprisingly, those carrying Google Pixel devices. Law enforcement officials in Catalonia say they associate Pixels with crime because drug traffickers are increasingly turning to these phones. But it’s not Google’s secure Titan M2 chip that has criminals favoring the Pixel — instead, it’s GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused alternative to the default Pixel OS. As som

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Reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache to make it fast

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 11:17:43

Before this work began, we already had a faster alternative to Github Actions cache. Our approach was different: we forked each of the popular first-party actions that depended on Actions cache to point to our faster, colocated cache. But my coworkers weren’t satisfied with that solution, since it required users to change a single line of code. Apart from the user experience, maintaining these forks steadily turned into a nightmare for us. We kept at it for a while, but eventually reached an in

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Hundreds of organizations breached by SharePoint mass-hacks

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2026-01-13 11:32:09

Security researchers say hackers have breached at least 400 organizations by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint, signalling a sharp rise in the number of detected compromises since the bug was discovered last week. Eye Security, a Dutch cybersecurity firm that first identified the vulnerability in SharePoint, a popular server software that companies use to store and share internal documents, said it had identified hundreds of affected SharePoint servers by scanning the

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I dropped Gemini for Bixby for a week, and I’m so glad that I did

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-13 12:00:03

Andy Walker / Android Authority When Samsung launched Bixby in 2017, it wasn’t well received. The virtual assistant, intended to rival Google Assistant, wasn’t nearly as mature or capable as it is now. Nevertheless, Samsung tried to push it onto users with a dedicated button well before it was ready. The voice assistant landscape has changed significantly since then. Google Gemini has replaced Assistant as my primary voice channel, but it hasn’t been smooth sailing. I’ve encountered many proble

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The Pixel 10 is proof that the iPhone camera strategy isn’t working for Google

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-13 16:55:15

Google will launch the Pixel 10 series phones on August 20, and we’re excited about the standard Pixel 10. Leaked renders show that the base phone could offer a triple rear camera system for the first time, as a telephoto camera joins the main and ultrawide shooters. This is a major strategic shift for the standard Pixel flagship phone. However, this also signals Google’s acceptance that it’s no longer copying Apple’s strategy for base flagship phones. An overdue move for standard Pixel phones

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QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Technical Content Lead

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 16:00:36

About QuestDB As a specialized database, QuestDB stores, processes and analyzes time series data in real-time, with a focus on reliability, extreme performance and simplicity. It provides best-in-class hardware efficiency and robust features, saving costs and accelerating time-to-value. Our open source repository has gathered 16k stars and QuestDB is the fastest growing database in the time-series category, according to DB-Engines . We are a product-first company with a large community of

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

Texas Instruments stock falls 12% as CEO warns of tariff concerns

This powerful Google Photos tool is finally arriving for older Pixels

Anker Nebula X1 projector review: The king of outdoor movies, if you can afford it

Finally, a tablet that can easily replace my iPad and Kindle (and doesn't break the bank)

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Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions

Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

I Tested T-Mobile's Satellite Service: The Hardest Part Was Finding a Dead Zone

Starlink Texting Launches on Big Three Phone Carriers Today. Check if You’ll Get for Free

Say Bye to Excess Ear Wax. Here’s How to Clean Your Ears Safely

The Outer Worlds 2 will no longer be Microsoft’s first $80 Xbox game

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My 10 favorite Linux distributions of all time, ranked

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Reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache to make it fast

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I dropped Gemini for Bixby for a week, and I’m so glad that I did

The Pixel 10 is proof that the iPhone camera strategy isn’t working for Google

QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Technical Content Lead

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