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Known. Emerging. Unstoppable? Ransomware Attacks Still Evade Defenses

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-20 05:01:11

No, it's not new or particularly exotic, but after years of attacks, ransomware continues to rank among the most destructive threats facing global organizations today. Even with security teams pouring significant resources into prevention and detection efforts, attackers are still finding ways to bypass their defenses. Double extortion has become the default approach, with groups encrypting systems and stealing sensitive data for leverage. Some actors are now skipping the encryption step entir

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Trump’s Golden Dome will cost 10 to 100 times more than the Manhattan Project

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-20 07:38:22

One thing that's evident about President Donald Trump's proposal for the Golden Dome missile defense shield is that designing, deploying, and sustaining it will cost a lot of money, at least several hundred billion dollars, over the course of several decades. Beyond that, it's really anyone's guess. That doesn't sit well with some lawmakers, but the Republican-controlled Congress committed $25 billion in July as a down payment for new missile-defense technologies. The White House stated in May

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How to Debug Chez Scheme Programs (2002)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 21:22:47

How to Debug Chez Scheme Programs R. Kent Dybvig August 2002 When a program fails to operate as it should, it is said to have a bug. A bug is the root cause of an observed behavior, such as failure to terminate, failure to perform some action, termination with an error message, or merely producing incorrect results. The process of debugging a program is one of finding all of the bugs and "exterminating" them. This process first requires feeding the program a representative set of test cases,

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AI and the Future of Defense: Mach Industries’ Ethan Thornton at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-24 18:00:00

From stealth mode to center stage, Mach Industries is bringing AI into one of the world’s most complex and controversial sectors: defense. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Ethan Thornton, CEO and founder of Mach Industries, steps onto the AI Stage to share what it takes to build in high-stakes environments where speed and autonomy matter most — and why next-gen infrastructure starts with rethinking the fundamentals. Inside the AI arms race — and the founder aiming to rewrite it Thornton launched Ma

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React is winning by default and slowing innovation

news.ycombinator.com Your Name 2025-09-28 10:46:01

React-by-default has hidden costs. Here's a case for making deliberate choices to select the right framework for the job. React Won by Default – And It’s Killing Frontend Innovation React is no longer winning by technical merit. Today it is winning by default. That default is now slowing innovation across the frontend ecosystem. When teams need a new frontend, the conversation rarely starts with “What are the constraints and which tool best fits them?” It often starts with “Let’s use React; e

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Programming Deflation

news.ycombinator.com Kent Beck 2025-09-29 13:11:43

The genies are out of the bottle. Let’s take as a given that augmented coding is steadily reducing the cost, skill barriers, and time needed to develop software. (Interesting debate to be had—another day.) Will this lead to fewer programmers or more programmers? Economics gives us two contradictory answers simultaneously. Substitution . The substitution effect says we'll need fewer programmers—machines are replacing human labor. Jevons’. Jevons’ paradox predicts that when something becomes c

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I unified convolution and attention into a single framework

news.ycombinator.com Kim 2025-09-29 18:02:27

The operational primitives of deep learning, primarily matrix multiplication and convolution, exist as a fragmented landscape of highly specialized tools. This paper introduces the Generalized Windowed Operation (GWO), a theoretical framework that unifies these operations by decomposing them into three orthogonal components: Path, defining operational locality; Shape, defining geometric structure and underlying symmetry assumptions; and Weight, defining feature importance. We elevate this f

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Dotter: Dotfile manager and templater written in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 09:08:05

What is Dotter? Dotter is a dotfile manager and templater. Dotfiles are configuration files that usually live in the home directory and start with a dot. Often times, it is desirable to have a backup of all the configurations on your system, which is why a lot of users have their dotfiles saved in a git repository, then symlinking them to their target locations using ln -s . However, there are several issues with that barebones approach: Hard to keep track of what comes from where once you h

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Google to make it easier to access AI Mode as default

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-11 08:07:54

Google plans to make it easier for users to access AI mode by allowing them to set it as the default, replacing the traditional blue links. AI mode is an advanced version of Google Search that uses large language models to summarise information from the web, so you can spend more time on Google than visiting websites. Google AI mode advanced analysis Source: BleepingComputer Google AI mode can answer complex answers, process images, summarize information on the web, create tables, graphs, ch

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Defense Department Scrambles to Pretend It’s Called the War Department

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-10-11 13:22:27

The Pentagon’s website and social media channels were overhauled Friday at President Donald Trump’s behest to reflect the United States Defense Department’s new “Department of War” persona, shifting from Defense.gov to War.gov—a symbolic rebranding that highlights the administration’s preference for projecting strength through the language of war rather than the idiom of defense. Trump on Friday signed an executive order directing the Pentagon to once again be named the so-called Department of

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iOS 26 adds seven brand new iPhone ringtones, listen here

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-14 13:10:28

The iPhone’s default ringtone is highly recognizable, but in iOS 26 Apple has a lot of alternate options coming. There are seven brand new ringtones, most of which are remixed versions of the familiar default. Listen to all of the new iPhone ringtones below. New ringtones in iOS 26 offer remixed versions of default ‘Reflections’ sound Apple has long offered a variety of iPhone ringtones that serve as alternatives to the system default. But iOS 26, for the first time, takes that very familiar

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Apple’s deals with Google largely unaffected in antitrust case ruling

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-18 17:47:32

Following months of testimony for the remedies phase of the Google antitrust trial, Judge Amit Mehta just issued his decision, and it is largely beneficial to Apple’s deals with Alphabet. Here are the details. Almost a year ago to the date, the Department of Justice won its case against Google, in which it was able to convince Judge Mehta that Google had a monopoly over online search. The case then entered the remedies phase, which collected testimony from multiple parties involved in Google’s

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Space investing goes mainstream as VCs ditch the rocket science requirements

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-21 05:47:13

Five years ago, investor Katelin Holloway made what she calls a “literal moon shot” investment. A founding partner of the generalist venture firm Seven Seven Six admits she and her team had “no clue” what rocket company Stoke Space was talking about when they pitched the firm on its reusable launch technology. “We knew full well we were not the specialist,” she says. Since then, Holloway has also invested in Interlune, a company planning to harvest helium-3 from the moon and sell it back to Ear

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Brokewell Android malware delivered through fake TradingView ads

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-21 19:35:26

Cybercriminals are abusing Meta’s advertising platforms with fake offers of a free TradingView Premium app that spreads the Brokewell malware for Android. The campaign targets cryptocurrency assets and has been running since at least July 22nd through an estimated 75 localized ads. Brokewell has been around since early 2024 and features a broad set of capabilities that include stealing sensitive data, remote monitoring and control of the compromised device. Taking over the device Researchers

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The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 10:12:06

Read the terms of service. Don’t make assumptions. Don’t pick defaults. Yesterday, Anthropic quietly flipped a switch. If you're a Claude user, your conversations are now training data unless you actively say no. Not when you give feedback. Not when you explicitly consent. By default, from day one. Here's what changed: Previously, Claude didn't train on consumer chat data without your explicit thumbs up or down. Clean, simple, respectful. Now? Everything you type becomes model training fodder

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Anduril: Amusement Park for Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Adnan Esmail 2025-10-22 12:14:15

This article features first-ever photos taken from inside Anduril’s R&D facilities in Costa Mesa, California. All photos by Ryan Young. On a Saturday afternoon in April 2024, I was on the rooftop pool deck of a Marriott hotel, setting up radar equipment aimed above the Hollywood Hills in Burbank, California. My five-year-old son, still damp from swimming, darted around as I calibrated the system. “What are you doing?” he asked, touching the electronics with wet hands. “Tracking … flying o

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SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Ayer 2025-10-22 11:30:29

One of the most important properties of a database is durability. Durability means that after a transaction commits, you can be confident that, absent catastrophic hardware failure, the changes made by the commit won't be lost. This should remain true even if the operating system crashes or the system loses power soon after the commit. On Linux, and most other Unix operating systems, durability is ensured by calling the fsync system call at the right time. Durability comes at a performance cost

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SQLite's Durability Settings Are a Mess

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Ayer 2025-10-23 12:30:29

One of the most important properties of a database is durability. Durability means that after a transaction commits, you can be confident that, absent catastrophic hardware failure, the changes made by the commit won't be lost. This should remain true even if the operating system crashes or the system loses power soon after the commit. On Linux, and most other Unix operating systems, durability is ensured by calling the fsync system call at the right time. Durability comes at a performance cost

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The Annotated Transformer (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 01:58:13

The Annotated Transformer v2022: Austin Huang, Suraj Subramanian, Jonathan Sum, Khalid Almubarak, and Stella Biderman. Original: Sasha Rush. The Transformer has been on a lot of people’s minds over the last year five years. This post presents an annotated version of the paper in the form of a line-by-line implementation. It reorders and deletes some sections from the original paper and adds comments throughout. This document itself is a working notebook, and should be a completely usable impl

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The Annotated Transformer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 06:58:13

The Annotated Transformer v2022: Austin Huang, Suraj Subramanian, Jonathan Sum, Khalid Almubarak, and Stella Biderman. Original: Sasha Rush. The Transformer has been on a lot of people’s minds over the last year five years. This post presents an annotated version of the paper in the form of a line-by-line implementation. It reorders and deletes some sections from the original paper and adds comments throughout. This document itself is a working notebook, and should be a completely usable impl

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a16z spends $1.49M in Washington lobbying, while rivals mostly sit out

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-31 20:17:27

Andreessen Horowitz’ plan to push its agenda in Washington shows no sign of slowing down, with the firm reporting $1.49 million in federal lobbying so far this year, according to lobbying records filed with Congress. A16z is even narrowly outspending its own industry trade group, the National Venture Capital Association. The pace of lobbying appears to be accelerating from last year, according to a TechCrunch review of lobbying disclosures. A16z spent $1.8 million on lobbying in all of 2024 and

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Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 08:47:02

One of my favorite little bits of python is __subclasshook__ . Abstract Base Classes with __subclasshook__ can define what counts as a subclass of the ABC, even if the target doesn’t know about the ABC. For example: class PalindromicName (ABC): @classmethod def __subclasshook__ (cls, C): name = C . __name__ . lower() return name[:: - 1 ] == name class Abba : ... class Baba : ... >>> isinstance(Abba(), PalindromicName) True >>> isinstance(Baba(), PalindromicName) False You can do some weird stu

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FromSoft's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is becoming an anime

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 09:50:50

Adaptations of video games continue to be big business. During Opening Night Live at Gamescom 2025, we learned that the punishing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice by FromSoftware will be turning into an anime show. Sekiro: No Defeat will be available exclusively on Crunchyroll some time during 2026. The show will be directed by Kenichi Kutsuna, who previously worked as an animator on the One Punch Man and Naruto: Shippuden series. The vibe in the No Defeat trailer does feel distinct from its source ma

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Ready to Escape Google? Start by Changing Your Phone's Default Search Engine

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 00:15:04

It's hard to imagine life without Google. The internet as we know it is built around search engines, and Google is the biggest of them all. In 2024, Google was the primary search engine for 76% of desktop users and 95% of mobile users. Even if you don't have Google Chrome on your device, you probably use Google Search multiple times a day without thinking about it. If you have an iPhone and you open the Safari app to perform a search, you're automatically using Google. That's no accident: Goog

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Climate Change Has Driven the Amazon Rainforest to the Edge of a "Tipping Point"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-15 21:30:51

Climate Change Has Driven the Amazon Rainforest to the Edge of a "Tipping Point" It's at risk of turning into a "savanna-like environment." Dried Up Husk The famously verdant Amazon rainforest is in danger of transforming into a dry savannah as various environmental indicators, such as deforestation and climate change, are pushing the ecosystem to a dangerous tipping point, according to new research. In a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, as spotted by Live Science

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Lawyers File AI Slop in Murder Case

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-16 05:50:51

This is getting out of hand. Fool Me Twice Yet another team of lawyers was found leaving AI slop in court documents. It's the latest example of white-collar professionals outsourcing their work to confidently wrong AI tools — and this time, it's not just about any old frivolous lawsuit. As The Guardian reports, a pair of Australian lawyers named Rishi Nathwani and Amelia Beech, who are representing a 16-year-old defendant in a murder case, were caught using AI after documents they submitted t

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UK's Turing AI Institute responds to staff anger about defence focus

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-18 12:06:13

UK's Turing AI Institute responds to staff anger about defence focus Technology Secretary Peter Kyle wants the Alan Turing Institute to focus on defence In a letter seen by the BBC, Chair Dr Doug Gurr said the Turing Institute would "step up at a time of national need". They warned that the body - which receives £100m from the government - is at risk of collapse after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle instructed it to prioritise defence, and threatened to pull its funding if it did not. It com

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Prefer Chrome Over Safari? Here's How to Change Your iPhone's Default Apps

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-21 17:00:03

Your default apps are the apps your iPhone uses automatically in certain situations. So if you tap a phone number on a website, for example, your iPhone will open your Phone app and place a call to that number. But if you like using a certain browser app, like Chrome or Firefox, you can make that app your iPhone's default browser app. When Apple released iOS 18.2 in December, that update made it easier to change your iPhone's default apps. You could change a few default apps prior to that updat

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Show HN: Vaultrice – A real-time key-value store with a localStorage API

news.ycombinator.com Inweso Ltd Liab. Co 2025-11-21 00:37:04

Everything You Need, Built-in. ⚙️ Familiar API ⚡ Built-in Real-Time 🛡️ Secure by Default.

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When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army

news.ycombinator.com Jack Poulson 2025-11-23 22:33:45

DEF CON founder Jeff “Dark Tangent” Moss (left) downing a jello shot and shouting “Go Army” at the end of his fireside chat with former National Security Agency director Paul M. Nakasone (right) on Friday. The previously imprisoned hacktivist Jeremy Hammond was ejected from the conference shortly afterward, yelling “Free Palestine!” Amidst a backdrop of continually airborne beach balls and a remix of the indie rock hit “Heads Will Roll,” entrants to the ‘Arcade Party’ on the second floor of the

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