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Figma’s stock soars in its highly anticipated IPO, market cap instantly hits $45B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-29 08:15:35

Figma began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after a long delay. It soared so quickly that trading was halted for a short time due to market volatility. The price is currently bouncing between $101 and $112 with a mid-day market cap of $45 billion, Yahoo Finance reports. The company and existing investors sold shares at the IPO price of $33 per share. Quite the pop. There has been so much demand for this stock that people on X are posting funny pictures of their orders being

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This handy NordVPN tool flags scam calls on Android - even before you answer

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-12-29 12:10:31

NordVPN / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways NordVPN can detect a scam call before you answer it. The Scam Call Protection is only for NordVPN Premium Android users. Future features include caller ID for legitimate calls and an option to report. Your phone rings, but the call is from an unknown number. Should you pick it up? It could be important. Or it could be a scam call. You're not sure what to do. Well, a new tool from the folks at NordVPN could help you decide. Scam C

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Go Assembly Mutation Testing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 12:23:17

While maintaining and developing the Go cryptography standard library, we often spend significantly more time on testing than on implementation. That’s good and an important part of how we achieve our excellent security track record. Ideally, this would be especially true for the least safe parts of the library. However, testing assembly cores presents unique challenges, due to their constant-time nature. This has been a long-standing issue. For Go 1.26, I am working on introducing a mutation

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Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 12:21:07

LWN wrote an article which opens with the assertion "Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a key from Microsoft that is set to expire in September". This is, depending on interpretation, either misleading or just plain wrong, but also there's not a good source of truth here, so.First, how does secure boot signing work? Every system that supports UEFI secure boot ships with a set of trusted certificates in a database called "db". Any binary sig

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Radioactive Wasp Nest Found in Decommissioned Nuclear Weapons Plant

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-29 12:15:30

As if wasps couldn’t get any scarier, a chilling discovery near Aiken, South Carolina, suggests they’re comfortable making their nest in a former nuclear bomb facility. On July 3, employees conducting a regular checkup of radiation levels at the Savannah River Site (SRS)—a former nuclear weapons production facility dating back to the 1950s—found themselves staring down at something that probably should not have been there. That something was a wasp nest measuring more than 10 times the federall

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US moves to ban shady subscription auto-renewals after FTC court loss

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-29 12:21:33

Canceling a subscription should be easy, Democratic lawmakers insisted Wednesday, introducing a bill to revive the Federal Trade Commission's so-called "Click-to-Cancel" rule. The FTC hoped to enforce the rule due to "increasing reports of consumers losing time and money from intentionally difficult subscription cancellation processes," lawmakers said. But cable companies sued to block the FTC rule last year, arguing that the FTC failed to conduct an economic impact study before making it easie

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The best dating apps aren’t even dating apps

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-29 12:40:05

It’s no longer taboo to meet your partner on the internet. The evidence is everywhere: it’s on your refrigerator door, where you’ve hung up the wedding invitations of friends who met on Tinder. It’s on your Instagram feed, where a friend shares a sappy post about her one-year anniversary with a woman she met on Hinge. But when Zeke Rothfels tells people that she met her husband online, she’s not talking about swiping left until she finally found the right guy. She’s talking about cultivating a

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Google search flaw allows articles to vanish through "clever" censorship tactics

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-29 17:23:00

In context: Online censorship can take many forms and due to its dominance in web search, Google has traditionally been the primary target. A recently uncovered case highlights the lengths to which reputation management companies will go, as well as Google's vulnerability to sophisticated censorship tactics. Someone successfully censored a pair of uncomfortable articles that were previously accessible through Google Search. The unknown party exploited a clever trick along with a bug in Google's

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Proton just dropped a 2FA app that does a few things others don’t

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 16:49:08

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Proton Authenticator is a new free, open-source 2FA app for mobile and desktop. It supports encrypted multi-device sync, local-only storage, and easy import/export of 2FA tokens. The app works with or without a Proton account and avoids things like ads and trackers. Authenticator apps are a great way to help keep your accounts secure, but some of them come with annoying trade-offs. That could be ads, missing features, or making it hard to switch to anot

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Restaurant Industry Report from Square

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 17:20:34

As consumer confidence dips, so does tipping In Q1 2025, Square found that the average tip on food and beverage transactions was 15.17%, and this continued to fall into Q2 with the average tip coming in at 14.99%, aligned to dropping consumer confidence in the economy. Bars regularly receive the highest tips; in Q1 their average tip was 17.36% on each transaction, though this too fell to 16.96% in Q2. Cafés and quick-service restaurants received 14.72% and 14.64% in Q1, respectively, and dropp

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GuliKit’s new budget-friendly controller can wake the Switch 2

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-29 16:10:44

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. The Elves 2 could also appeal to gamers who prefer a symmetrical joystick layout, similar to what the PlayStation’s controllers use, or those who still have a soft spot for the Sega Saturn gamepad. You’ll need to look real close to actually see inside the translucent black version of the Elves 2. Image: GuliKit It’s compatible with the original

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The 15 best back-to-school deals for college students

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-12-29 17:14:59

Believe it or not, summer break is winding down and it’s almost time to head back to school. It’s sad, I know, but look at the bright side: retailers like Amazon are using the occasion as an excuse to launch yet another sale. We’re not complaining, mainly because the deals encompass a wide range of solid dorm essentials, some of which include a few of our top picks from our back-to-school shopping guide. For example, our favorite laptop — the latest MacBook Air — recently dropped to $799.99 ($20

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TikTok merges its Core Product and Trust & Safety teams

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-29 17:00:20

As TikTok’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain, the company is merging its Core Product and Trust & Safety teams into a single organization, according to an internal memo sent to staff by TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew and viewed by TechCrunch and confirmed by TikTok. “This new team will allow us to better leverage our technical capabilities across both business and safety objectives, and will help us move faster as we develop the next generation of safety technology,” Chew wrote in the memo. As pa

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Motorola’s next special edition looks extra flashy in new leak

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 22:31:23

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Motorola will launch a special edition Razr in collaboration with Swarovski. New renders provide a look at the special edition phone from a variety of angles. This collaboration is limited to the vanilla Razr. A few weeks ago, we learned that Motorola was joining forces with jewelry maker Swarovski to create a special edition of the Razr 2025 (a.k.a. Razr 60). Days later, the company began officially teasing the collaboration, announcing plans to unveil

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Spikes in malicious activity precede new security flaws in 80% of cases

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-29 20:00:00

Researchers have found that in roughly 80% of cases, spikes in malicious activity like network reconnaissance, targeted scanning, and brute-forcing attempts targeting edge networking devices are a precursor to the disclosure of new security vulnerabilities (CVEs) within six weeks. This has been discovered by threat monitoring firm GreyNoise, which reports these occurrences are not random, but are rather characterized by repeatable and statistically significant patterns. GreyNoise bases this on

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This hidden Pixel camera setting gave my photos the pop they've been missing

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-29 22:26:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET One reason why the Pixel phones are so popular is the camera. There's a depth, a level of clarity, and brilliant/accurate colors that most phone cameras cannot match. Also: How to clear your Android phone cache (and why it greatly improves performance) Google is always trying to one-up itself by improving the Pixel camera with every iteration. Back with the Pixel 8, Google introduced the P3 wide gamut capture feature that came along with the Ultra HDR format of Android 14. The

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Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 21:23:40

Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ Why? | Goals | Status | Getting started | Join us See our announcement video from CppNorth. Note that Carbon is not ready for use. Fast and works with C++ Performance matching C++ using LLVM, with low-level access to bits and addresses Interoperate with your existing C++ code, from inheritance to templates Fast and scalable builds that work with your existing C++ build systems Modern and evolving Solid language foundations that are easy

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Best Shark Vacuums of 2025: We Tested Every Model to Find the Top Performers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 02:00:00

Subrating category Weight What we looked for Performance 30% Performance score extrapolated from the average sand score on hard flooring, low-pile carpets and mid-pile carpets. Value/price 25% Retail price rating considering all other features. i.e., Does this price seem fair for the value offered? Runtime 20% How long does the battery last when cleaning at medium setting? (No ECO, turbo, MAX, etc.) Features 15% Overall comfort and handling of the product (e.g., weight, comfortable grip handle).

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I May Never Ride an Amusement Park Ride Again After Watching Netflix's Latest Docuseries

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 21:00:03

Each week, Netflix releases a list of the Top 10 films and TV shows dominating the platform, and for the week of July 21, the new original docuseries Critical: Between Life and Death made a big impression on viewers and it ranked No. 7 in the platform's most-watched shows. While medical shows -- including series like The Pitt, Pulse and ER -- have always been popular, Critical is an unscripted documentary that depicts real-life emergencies as they're happening. What makes it so captivating is th

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Spotify Made a Huge Mistake With AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-30 03:20:38

While Spotify users worm their way through a maze of AI-generated slop, the streaming giant's executives are dealing with an exodus of musicians after CEO Daniel Ek was working on a massive investment into an AI military weapons firm. Through his tech investment company, Prima Materia, Ek lead a $690 million funding round into Helsing, a German drone and AI weapons tech company, as reported by the Financial Times. Four years earlier, Ek — who also holds a position as Chairman of Helsing — led t

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TikTok gets long-overdue fact-checking enhancement, plus new parental controls

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-28 20:23:47

Video streaming platform TikTok is finally introducing community fact-checking, in the form of TikTok Footnotes – the equivalent to X’s Community Notes. This is initially available in the US only. The company has also announced new parental controls, aimed at giving oversight of both TikTok consumption and uploads by teens … Community Notes have played a valuable role on the social network formerly known as Twitter. Hoaxes and disinformation has been a growing problem on X, and the Community N

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Proton launches free standalone cross-platform Authenticator app

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-29 22:00:00

Proton has launched Proton Authenticator, a free standalone two-factor authentication (2FA) application for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. 2FA authenticator apps are offline tools that generate time-based one-time passwords (TOTPs) that expire every 30 seconds, and which can be used alongside passwords when logging into online accounts, providing the second factor authentication. Proton is a Swiss technology company known for privacy-focused end-to-end encrypted services like Proton

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Spikes in malicious activity precede new CVEs in 80% of cases

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-30 02:00:00

Researchers have found that in roughly 80% of cases, spikes in malicious activity like network reconnaissance, targeted scanning, and brute-forcing attempts targeting edge networking devices are a precursor to the disclosure of new security vulnerabilities (CVEs) within six weeks. This has been discovered by threat monitoring firm GreyNoise, which reports these occurrences are not random, but are rather characterized by repeatable and statistically significant patterns. GreyNoise bases this on

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Two critical Android 16 security features you're not using (but absolutely should)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-30 03:51:00

JEFF PACHOUD/Getty Images Although Google's earlier-than-expected release of Android 16 was missing a few important features, the updated OS does deliver improved security that every Android user would be well-advised to enable. I'll explain these two key security features and how to find and enable them. Also: How to clear your Android phone cache (and why it greatly improves performance) 1. Identity Check This feature was added in 2024, but it didn't receive much attention until the relea

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Do PE firms create value? How?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 03:54:33

What separates the best private equity deals from the rest? Which sectors consistently outperform, and why? How has value creation changed over the years? These are just some of the questions that led us to analyze data from over 10,000 private equity investments globally for our latest “Private Equity Value Creation” report. Here's a summary of our key findings:

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Microsoft officially tops $4 trillion in market cap, joining Nvidia in exclusive club

cnbc.com Ari Levy Jordan Novet 2025-12-30 08:56:52

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella speaks in front of the OpenAI logo at the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle, Washington, on May 19, 2025. The $4 trillion club has a second member. Microsoft shares climbed more than 5% Thursday following a better-than-expected earnings report, lifting the software giant's market cap above the $4 trillion mark. The company joined chipmaker Nvidia , which hit $4 trillion for the first time earlier this month. Microsoft reported 18% revenue growth,

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Informatica advances its AI to transform 7-day enterprise data mapping nightmares into 5-minute coffee breaks

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-12-30 08:00:00

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 Data platform vendor Informatica is expanding its AI capabilities as the needs of gen AI continue to increase enterprise requirements. Informatica is no stranger to the world of AI; in fact, the company debuted its first Claire AI tool for data in 2018. In the modern generative AI era, the company has expanded its technology with improved

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Spotify Panama Playlists expose the soundtrack of the elite (and the death of their privacy)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 04:43:37

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR A website called Panama Playlists claims to have exposed the Spotify listening habits of politicians, tech CEOs, celebrities, and journalists by tracking their public playlists and listening activity. The leak reveals the personal music choices of some of the world’s most powerful people, including US Vice President JD Vance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, United States Attorney General Pam Bondi, and others. The site highlights a big flaw in how Spotify hand

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Spotify activity revealed for celebrities, politicians, exposing privacy faults

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-30 08:44:35

Spotify has always had a bent toward social sharing and keeping music activity public. Now, a new website called Panama Playlists has exposed the service’s privacy gaps by revealing Spotify playback activity, playlists, and more for various celebrities—including tech leaders, politicians, and more. Panama Playlists exposes Spotify’s privacy shortcomings Do you know what your Spotify privacy settings are? That’s the question being prompted by a new website. As highlighted by The Verge, Panama

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Google's 'virtual satellite' AI model can provide a near real-time view of Earth

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 08:30:55

Google has introduced a new AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations that it says can function like a "virtual satellite." The model uses a system called "embedding," which works by taking big volumes of pubic information from various sources every day, such as optical satellites, radars and climate simulations, and then combining them all together. It then divides lands and coastal waters into 10x10 meter squares, which it then analyzes and tracks over time. As Wired explains, these squares are c

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Latest Tech News

Figma’s stock soars in its highly anticipated IPO, market cap instantly hits $45B

This handy NordVPN tool flags scam calls on Android - even before you answer

Go Assembly Mutation Testing

Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you

Radioactive Wasp Nest Found in Decommissioned Nuclear Weapons Plant

US moves to ban shady subscription auto-renewals after FTC court loss

The best dating apps aren’t even dating apps

Google search flaw allows articles to vanish through "clever" censorship tactics

Proton just dropped a 2FA app that does a few things others don’t

Restaurant Industry Report from Square

GuliKit’s new budget-friendly controller can wake the Switch 2

The 15 best back-to-school deals for college students

TikTok merges its Core Product and Trust & Safety teams

Motorola’s next special edition looks extra flashy in new leak

Spikes in malicious activity precede new security flaws in 80% of cases

This hidden Pixel camera setting gave my photos the pop they've been missing

Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

Best Shark Vacuums of 2025: We Tested Every Model to Find the Top Performers

I May Never Ride an Amusement Park Ride Again After Watching Netflix's Latest Docuseries

Spotify Made a Huge Mistake With AI

TikTok gets long-overdue fact-checking enhancement, plus new parental controls

Proton launches free standalone cross-platform Authenticator app

Spikes in malicious activity precede new CVEs in 80% of cases

Two critical Android 16 security features you're not using (but absolutely should)

Do PE firms create value? How?

Microsoft officially tops $4 trillion in market cap, joining Nvidia in exclusive club

Informatica advances its AI to transform 7-day enterprise data mapping nightmares into 5-minute coffee breaks

Spotify Panama Playlists expose the soundtrack of the elite (and the death of their privacy)

Spotify activity revealed for celebrities, politicians, exposing privacy faults

Google's 'virtual satellite' AI model can provide a near real-time view of Earth

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