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Incogni vs. DeleteMe: I compared the two best data removal services, and there's a clear winner

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-10-16 20:30:19

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Data removal services began to appear around 15 years ago, after data brokers realized that data could become a new, valuable currency -- and one ripe for exploitation, given the lack of laws and little to no consumer data privacy protection written into legislation. Incogni and DeleteMe, founded in 2021 as part of VPN provider Surfshark and in 2010 by Abine Privacy, respectively, are two of the most widely-known data remo

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Delete, Delete, Delete: How FCC Republicans are killing rules faster than ever

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 05:00:19

The Federal Communications Commission's Republican chairman is eliminating regulations at breakneck speed by using a process that cuts dozens of rules at a time while giving the public only 10 or 20 days to review each proposal and submit objections. Chairman Brendan Carr started his "Delete, Delete, Delete" rule-cutting initiative in March and later announced he'd be using the Direct Final Rule (DFR) mechanism to eliminate regulations without a full public-comment period. Direct Final Rule is

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Delete Tests

news.ycombinator.com André Arko 2025-10-21 01:18:15

You should delete tests We’ve had decades of thought leadership around testing, especially coming from wholistic development philosophies like Agile, TDD, and BDD. After all that time and several supposedly superseding movements, the developers I talk to seem to have developed a folk wisdom around tests. That consensus seems to boil down to simple but mostly helpful axioms, like “include tests for your changes” and “write a new test when you fix a bug to prevent regressions”. Unfortunately, on

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VIM Master

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 03:50:54

VIM Master VIM Master is a lightweight in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels. No installs required—just open index.html and start practicing. Demo Open index.html directly in your browser. directly in your browser. Best viewed on desktop for full keyboard support. Screenshot Features Normal/Insert modes with an on-screen status bar Command log showing your keystrokes Levels that validate your action outcomes (not just keystrokes

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VIMMaster

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 13:50:54

VIM Master VIM Master is a lightweight in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels. No installs required—just open index.html and start practicing. Demo Open index.html directly in your browser. directly in your browser. Best viewed on desktop for full keyboard support. Screenshot Features Normal/Insert modes with an on-screen status bar Command log showing your keystrokes Levels that validate your action outcomes (not just keystrokes

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Here’s how Google Photo’s new Tinder-like swiping feature works (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-09 15:21:18

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is getting a swiping mechanism to keep or delete photos, and we got it working. With this, you will be able to weed out unwanted photos by swiping left on them. It currently lets you keep or delete images and videos from daily or monthly clusters in the Google Photos app. Among the many reasons to use Google Photos is the ease of backing up valuable memories to Drive and accessing them across multiple devices. But enabling automatic upl

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You can delete sent text messages on Android now - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-17 00:04:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Google Messages now lets you delete a sent text message. A deleted message disappears for the other person immediately. The feature is available now for almost all Android users. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Android users finally have an undo option. A long-awaited feature that lets you delete a sent text message is widely rolling out to most Android devices --

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Google Photos is getting Tinder’s swipe mechanic (wait, what?)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-17 10:06:39

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is letting some users clean up their cloud storage with a Tinder-style interface. Users can swipe left to delete large files and blurry photos or swipe right to keep them. This seems to be a limited release for now, and there’s seemingly no way to activate it. Google Photos offers a few ways to claw back cloud storage. One option available in the app is the ability to review and delete blurry photos and large files. Now, it looks like G

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Google Messages support for remotely deleting texts you’ve sent now widely rolling out

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-17 18:08:02

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR RCS support has opened the door for some advanced messaging features, and earlier this year Google started work on a new remote-deletion option. Users are able to delete recently sent messages from the phones of recipients. After beta testing this past spring, we’re now seeing the feature widely available. Who doesn’t love a good do-over? Everybody makes mistakes, and we don’t have nearly enough opportunities to go back and try setting things right.

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The equality delete problem in Apache Iceberg

news.ycombinator.com Yingjun Wu 2025-11-25 11:27:50

The Equality Delete Problem in Apache Iceberg Yingjun Wu 9 min read · 14 hours ago 14 hours ago -- Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size Since last year, Apache Iceberg has been one of the hottest topics in the data infrastructure world. Databricks recently spent $1 billion to acquire Neon, a startup building a serverless Postgres. Snowflake also spent about $250 million to acquire Crunchy Data, a veteran enterprise-grade Postgres provider. These are not random acquisi

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The Equality Delete Problem in Apache Iceberg

news.ycombinator.com Yingjun Wu 2025-11-26 17:27:50

The Equality Delete Problem in Apache Iceberg Yingjun Wu 9 min read · 6 hours ago 6 hours ago -- Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size Since last year, Apache Iceberg has been one of the hottest topics in the data infrastructure world. Databricks recently spent $1 billion to acquire Neon, a startup building a serverless Postgres. Snowflake also spent about $250 million to acquire Crunchy Data, a veteran enterprise-grade Postgres provider. These are not random acquisiti

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Pkgbase Removes FreeBSD Base System Feature

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 18:05:46

Hi, after short discussion here: - https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2485 I got REALLY concerned. One of THE features and selling points of a FreeBSD UNIX system is the 'untouchable' Base System. Without PKGBASE all the features are preserved. But when You convert to PKGBASE its ... GONE! Consider this command: # pkg delete -af What it does? It removes all third party packages on 'classic' FreeBSD system without touching the FreeBSD Base System. What the same "pkg delete -af" command does on

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Google just released a convenient way to clean up Call Notes on your Pixel

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-05 14:01:58

Google TL;DR Google has started rolling out an auto-delete feature to Call Notes on Pixel 9 phones. This feature lets you automatically delete Call Notes after a specified period of time. The news comes a few months after we first discovered evidence of this option. Google revealed a Call Notes feature alongside the Pixel 9 series last year. This feature records, transcribes, and summarizes phone calls. We’ve seen evidence that Google could bring an auto-delete feature to Call Notes, and it’

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How to Check If That ‘Deleted’ Tweet Is Real

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-07 14:20:58

It happens almost every day. A screenshot of a social media post from a prominent figure like Elon Musk or Donald Trump goes viral because it demonstrates just how stupid these men really are. But sometimes it sounds too good to be true. You go to check X or Truth Social yourself and it’s not there. But maybe it was deleted. What do you do? Well, we’ve got some tips that might be helpful for uncovering the truth. Right off the bat, it’s important to note that there’s not always a foolproof way

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I know genomes and I didn’t delete my data from 23andMe

news.ycombinator.com Steven Salzberg 2026-01-06 20:52:26

As word spread last year that 23andMe was about to go bankrupt, many of their millions of customers wondered if they should delete their data. Social and conventional media were quick to offer advice, sometimes coming from experts in genetics and genomics–my field, I should note–on how to go onto the 23andMe website and delete all of your data. In March of this year, the California attorney general issued a warning that 23andMe was “in financial distress,” and he told Californians that they oug

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I know genomes. Don't delete your DNA

news.ycombinator.com Steven Salzberg 2026-01-09 08:52:26

As word spread last year that 23andMe was about to go bankrupt, many of their millions of customers wondered if they should delete their data. Social and conventional media were quick to offer advice, sometimes coming from experts in genetics and genomics–my field, I should note–on how to go onto the 23andMe website and delete all of your data. In March of this year, the California attorney general issued a warning that 23andMe was “in financial distress,” and he told Californians that they oug

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Verizon’s request to lock phones supported by police, opposed by users

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-30 23:30:50

With Verizon seeking permission to lock phones to its network for six months or longer instead of the current 60 days, a coalition of advocacy groups yesterday urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject the cellular carrier's petition. "Phone locking distorts market competition, raises switching costs, and contributes to unnecessary e-waste," the groups said in a filing. "It impedes consumers' ability to take full advantage of the devices they already own, forces them to purchase new

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I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-12 15:44:19

TL;DR GitHub Archive logs every public commit, even the ones developers try to delete. Force pushes often cover up mistakes like leaked credentials by rewriting Git history. GitHub keeps these dangling commits, from what we can tell, forever. In the archive, they show up as “zero-commit” PushEvents . I scanned every force push event since 2020 and uncovered secrets worth $25k in bug bounties. Together with Truffle Security, we're open sourcing a new tool to scan your own GitHub organization for

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Google Photos could soon suggest photos you may want to delete (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-28 09:39:40

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos may soon offer suggestions to help users clean up storage by deleting unnecessary photos. These suggestions will appear after users delete multiple photos. The feature will likely be optional, and the app could receive a corresponding setting to turn it off. Google Photos already offers a convenient way for users to free up storage space on their devices through the “Manage storage” option. It lists photos and videos with large file siz

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Incogni vs. DeleteMe: Which service removes your personal data best?

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2026-02-28 23:30:15

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Data removal services began to appear around 15 years ago, after data brokers realized that data could become a new, valuable currency -- and one ripe for exploitation, given the lack of laws and little to no consumer data privacy protection written into legislation. Incogni and DeleteMe, founded in 2021 as part of VPN provider Surfshark and in 2010 by Abine Privacy, respectively, are two of the most widely-known data removal services in the US. Both companies offer data remov

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7 Ways to Limit Your Endless Doomscrolling

wired.com David Nield 2026-03-11 06:00:00

If you actually measure the amount of time you spend scrolling through algorithm-led social media feeds each day, it will probably add up to more hours and minutes than you’d guess. Time can quickly slip away while you're checking up on friends, celebrities, the news, and the viral memes of the day. The term doomscrolling has sprung up to describe this behavior, which, let's face it, isn't usually the most edifying or the best for our mood. It's no surprise that the word began to gain traction

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How to delete your 23andMe data

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-03-22 10:59:39

DNA testing service 23andMe filed for bankruptcy protection in March, sparking concerns about what could happen to the genetic data of the company’s 15 million customers. Pharmaceutical giant Regeneron announced in May that it was buying the genetic testing company for $256 million following a bankruptcy auction. While the company has said it will maintain 23andMe’s privacy practices, it also stated that it would use the 23andMe data to aid the discovery of new drugs. When 23andMe filed for ba

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Incogni vs. DeleteMe: I compared the two best data removal services, and there's a clear winner

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Here’s how Google Photo’s new Tinder-like swiping feature works (APK teardown)

You can delete sent text messages on Android now - here's how

Google Photos is getting Tinder’s swipe mechanic (wait, what?)

Google Messages support for remotely deleting texts you’ve sent now widely rolling out

The equality delete problem in Apache Iceberg

The Equality Delete Problem in Apache Iceberg

Pkgbase Removes FreeBSD Base System Feature

Google just released a convenient way to clean up Call Notes on your Pixel

How to Check If That ‘Deleted’ Tweet Is Real

I know genomes and I didn’t delete my data from 23andMe

I know genomes. Don't delete your DNA

Verizon’s request to lock phones supported by police, opposed by users

I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets

Google Photos could soon suggest photos you may want to delete (APK teardown)

Incogni vs. DeleteMe: Which service removes your personal data best?

7 Ways to Limit Your Endless Doomscrolling

How to delete your 23andMe data

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