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I'm taking my favorite portable vinyl player on all my summer trips

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-07-26 14:48:48

ZDNET's key takeaways The Audio-Technica Sound Burger retails for $199 and comes in yellow, black, or white. The Sound Burger has unparalleled portability, a long battery life, and provides a novel listening experience. It doesn't have a counterweight, and also doesn't have an auto-return feature. View now at Amazon Technology is all about embracing the now. So, even though I am one of those people who can be stuck in their ways (such as listening to vinyl records with the appropriate analog

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Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

news.ycombinator.com Paul Melman 2025-07-25 16:28:36

Campbell's Law (a variant of Goodhart's Law) states that the more a metric is used for social decision-making, the more it will be subject to corruption which distorts and corrupts not only the metric itself, but the very social processes it was meant to measure. Selection criteria for a position of authority are one example of such a metric. When selection criteria are opaque, it is difficult for them to become a target, preserving their utility as measures. For governance positions however, it

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UK launches vulnerability research program for external experts

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-27 18:21:22

UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has announced a new Vulnerability Research Initiative (VRI) that aims to strengthen relations with external cybersecurity experts. The agency already conducts internal vulnerability research on a wide range of technologies and will continue to do so. However, the launch of VRI will create a parallel program designed to improve discovery and sharing of critical insights with the community more expeditiously. The NCSC is the UK's cybersecurity authority

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Why random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

news.ycombinator.com Paul Melman 2025-07-28 09:28:36

Campbell's Law (a variant of Goodhart's Law) states that the more a metric is used for social decision-making, the more it will be subject to corruption which distorts and corrupts not only the metric itself, but the very social processes it was meant to measure. Selection criteria for a position of authority are one example of such a metric. When selection criteria are opaque, it is difficult for them to become a target, preserving their utility as measures. For governance positions however, it

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Apple @ Work: Passkey portability is finally here in iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-07-28 23:00:00

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Exploits for pre-auth Fortinet FortiWeb RCE flaw released, patch now

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-29 22:41:39

Proof-of-concept exploits have been released for a critical SQLi vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb that can be used to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution on vulnerable servers. FortiWeb is a web application firewall (WAF), which is used to protect web applications from malicious HTTP traffic and threats. The FortiWeb vulnerability has a 9.8/10 severity score and is tracked as CVE-2025-25257. Fortinet fixed it last week in FortiWeb 7.6.4, 7.4.8, 7.2.11, and 7.0.11 and later versio

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CISA tags Citrix Bleed 2 as exploited, gives agencies a day to patch

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-30 18:45:57

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has confirmed active exploitation of the CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability (CVE-2025-5777) in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway and is giving federal agencies one day to apply fixes. Such a short deadline for installing the patches is unprecedented since CISA released the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, showing the severity of the attacks exploiting the security issue. The agency added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabiliti

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Microsoft July 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes one zero-day, 137 flaws

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-06 06:30:56

Today is Microsoft's July 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 137 flaws, including one publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server. This Patch Tuesday also fixes fourteen "Critical" vulnerabilities, ten of which are remote code execution vulnerabilities, one is an information disclosure, and two are AMD side channel attack flaws. The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below: 53 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 8 Security Fe

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Overthinking GIS (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Scott Sexton 2025-08-09 12:26:10

Overthinking GIS A roundabout way to downsampling data Maps in the Modern Era GIS is probably one of the best things to happen to cartography in the last couple hundred years. I say that with absolutely no knowledge of the history of map making, but GIS is wildly useful and consistent in how it is presented on publicly-accessible sites. I can go to the USGS National Map Viewer and am presented with more data and information than I could possibly ever find useful. Even more surprising is that

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What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 16:29:37

Credit: Ultra Heaven In this post, I analyze nootropics ratings I gathered through a recommender system. Jump directly to What I learned if you don’t like caveats and methodology. The effectiveness of a nootropic varies a lot from one person to another (your mileage will vary). This is why I built a nootropic recommendation system Enter ratings on nootropics you’ve tried, and it will spit out nootropics liked by people with similar rating patterns. This was initially based on the 2016 SlateSta

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What I learned gathering nootropic ratings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 17:29:37

Credit: Ultra Heaven In this post, I analyze nootropics ratings I gathered through a recommender system. Jump directly to What I learned if you don’t like caveats and methodology. The effectiveness of a nootropic varies a lot from one person to another (your mileage will vary). This is why I built a nootropic recommendation system Enter ratings on nootropics you’ve tried, and it will spit out nootropics liked by people with similar rating patterns. This was initially based on the 2016 SlateSta

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Transform 2025: Why observability is critical for AI agent ecosystems

venturebeat.com Vb Staff 2025-08-15 22:50:00

The autonomous software revolution is coming. At Transform 2025, Ashan Willy, CEO of New Relic and Sam Witteveen, CEO and co-founder of Red Dragon AI, talked about how they’re instrumenting agentic systems for measurable ROI and charting the infrastructure roadmap to maximize agentic AI. New Relic provides observability to customers by capturing and correlating application, log, and infrastructure telemetry in real time. Observability goes beyond monitoring — it’s about equipping teams with the

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Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved

news.ycombinator.com Amsterdam 2025-08-19 13:31:09

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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Is being bilingual good for your brain?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 09:50:19

R eams of papers have been published on the cognitive advantages of multilingualism. Beyond the conversational doors it can open, multilingualism is supposed to improve “executive function”, a loose concept that includes the ability to ignore distractions, plan complex tasks and update beliefs as new information arrives. Most striking, numerous studies have even shown that bilinguals undergo a later onset of dementia, perhaps of around four years, on average. But some of these studies have faile

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Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

news.ycombinator.com Scott Alexander 2025-08-20 17:13:00

The Story So Far The mid-20th century was the golden age of nurture. Psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and the spirit of the ‘60s convinced most experts that parents, peers, and propaganda were the most important causes of adult personality. Starting in the 1970s, the pendulum swung the other way. Twin studies shocked the world by demonstrating that most behavioral traits - including socially relevant traits like IQ - were substantially genetic. Typical estimates for adult IQ found it was about 60%

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New IQ research shows why smarter people make better decisions

news.ycombinator.com University Of Bath 2025-08-23 02:30:08

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study from the University of Bath's School of Management has found that individuals with a higher IQ make more realistic predictions, which supports better decision-making and can lead to improved life outcomes. The research, published in the Journal of Personality and Social

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Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-23 05:52:42

Hackers are exploiting a maximum-severity vulnerability that has the potential to give them complete control over thousands of servers, many of which handle mission-critical tasks inside data centers, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning. The vulnerability, carrying a severity rating of 10 out of a possible 10, resides in the AMI MegaRAC, a widely used firmware package that allows large fleets of servers to be remotely accessed and managed even when power is unavai

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Active exploitation of AMI management tool imperils thousands of servers

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-23 10:52:42

Hackers are exploiting a maximum-severity vulnerability that has the potential to give them complete control over thousands of servers, many of which handle mission-critical tasks inside data centers, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning. The vulnerability, carrying a severity rating of 10 out of a possible 10, resides in the AMI MegaRAC, a widely used firmware package that allows large fleets of servers to be remotely accessed and managed even when power is unavai

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Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-25 17:34:35

Getty Images dropped its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI on Wednesday at London’s High Court, narrowing one of the most closely watched legal fights over how AI companies use copyrighted content to train their models. The move doesn’t end the case entirely – Getty is still pursuing other claims as well as a separate lawsuit in the U.S. – but it underscores the gray areas surrounding the future of content ownership and usage in the age of generative AI. The developm

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The probability of a hash collision (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 11:34:16

The probability of a hash collision Tags: probability A hash function takes arbitrarily complex input - a word, a website, an image, a human being - and maps it to a single number. This is useful for various computer science stuffs, such as data storage and cryptography. For example, let's say you want to store a book in one of N N N boxes. If you put the book in a random box, it's quite likely that you'll forget which box you picked, especially as N N N gets bigger. What you can do instead i

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The Probability of a Hash Collision

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 16:34:16

The probability of a hash collision Tags: probability A hash function takes arbitrarily complex input - a word, a website, an image, a human being - and maps it to a single number. This is useful for various computer science stuffs, such as data storage and cryptography. For example, let's say you want to store a book in one of N N N boxes. If you put the book in a random box, it's quite likely that you'll forget which box you picked, especially as N N N gets bigger. What you can do instead i

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Is this the electric grid of the future?

technologyreview.com Andrew Blum 2025-09-05 18:00:00

Following the unanimous approval by Lancaster County commissioners of a 304-megawatt solar plant outside Lincoln, one of the largest in the state, local opponents appealed. The project’s developer, the Florida-based behemoth NextEra Energy Resources, made news in March when its CEO both praised the Trump administration’s policy and insisted that solar and storage remained the fastest path to increasing the energy supply. Lincoln Electric is headquartered in a gleaming new building named after A

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The Interpretable AI playbook: What Anthropic’s research means for your enterprise LLM strategy

venturebeat.com Ross Teixeira 2025-09-08 06:01:08

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made an urgent push in April for the need to understand how AI models think. This comes at a crucial time. As Anthropic battles in global AI rankings, it’s important to note what sets it apart from other top AI labs. Since its founding in 2021, when seven OpenAI employees broke off over concerns about AI safety,

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Apple, Lenovo lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-01 21:20:21

Apple and Lenovo had the lowest laptop repairability scores in an analysis of recently released devices from consumer advocacy group US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. While Apple's low marks are partially due the difficulty involved in disassembling MacBooks, Lenovo appears to be withholding information from shoppers deemed critical to right-to-repair legislation and accessibility. The report, US PIRG's fourth annual “Failing the Fix” [PDF], calculated repairability score

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Microsoft fixes Power Pages zero-day bug exploited in attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-06-01 22:34:14

Microsoft has issued a security bulletin for a high-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in Power Pages, which hackers exploited as a zero-day in attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-24989, is an improper access control problem impacting Power Pages, allowing unauthorized actors to elevate their privileges over a network and bypass user registration controls. Microsoft says it has addressed the risk at the service level and notified impacted customers accordingly, enclosing instruct

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Latest Tech News

I'm taking my favorite portable vinyl player on all my summer trips

Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

UK launches vulnerability research program for external experts

Why random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

Apple @ Work: Passkey portability is finally here in iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26

Exploits for pre-auth Fortinet FortiWeb RCE flaw released, patch now

CISA tags Citrix Bleed 2 as exploited, gives agencies a day to patch

Microsoft July 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes one zero-day, 137 flaws

Overthinking GIS (2024)

What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)

What I learned gathering nootropic ratings

Transform 2025: Why observability is critical for AI agent ecosystems

Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved

Is being bilingual good for your brain?

Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

New IQ research shows why smarter people make better decisions

Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets

Active exploitation of AMI management tool imperils thousands of servers

Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues

The probability of a hash collision (2022)

The Probability of a Hash Collision

Is this the electric grid of the future?

The Interpretable AI playbook: What Anthropic’s research means for your enterprise LLM strategy

Apple, Lenovo lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

Microsoft fixes Power Pages zero-day bug exploited in attacks

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