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Right-Wing Influencers Are Turning to Foreign Affairs

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-10-03 05:43:28

Wearing combat helmets and protective vests, some of the US’s most popular right-wing creators toured what they called an aid distribution hub in Gaza late last month—a trip carefully funded by Israel’s foreign ministry. By way of the nonprofit Israel365, the Israeli government funneled at least $70,000 to 15 MAGA creators to bring them to Gaza’s humanitarian sites, the Western Wall, and the Golan Heights, among other areas. “It sits here to spoil and be stolen,” Xaviaer DuRousseau captioned a

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OpenAI tech to be used to in a full-length animated film

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 12:59:21

OpenAI is throwing its resources behind a mostly AI-generated animated film that was the brainchild of one of the company's employees. As first reported by the Wall Street Journal , the film will be called Critterz and will follow forest creatures who go on an adventure after their village is disrupted by a stranger. Chad Nelson, a creative specialist at OpenAI, started designing the characters three years ago with the intention of making a short film using OpenAI's DALL-E image-generation tool

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What happens when ambassadors are summoned by the host country?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 23:52:36

The BBC recounts by means of interviews the experience of a few ambassadors in these matters. "I was called by the foreign ministry and was told 'We need to see you immediately,'" Mr Casson [former UK ambassador to Egypt] tells the BBC. "The first thing they said was, 'We are not summoning you, but we are going to tell the press we are summoning you. If it had been a summoning, we would have sent a formal diplomatic note summoning you.'" This is the way things normally work in a summoning - a f

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FTC warns tech giants not to bow to foreign pressure on encryption

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-26 19:21:32

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning major U.S. tech companies against yielding to foreign government demands that weaken data security, compromise encryption, or impose censorship on their platforms. FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson signed the letter sent to large American companies like Akamai, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Cloudflare, Discord, GoDaddy, Meta, Microsoft, Signal, Snap, Slack, and X (Twitter). Ferguson stresses that weakening data security at the request of foreign

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US to review all 55M visas to check if holders broke rules

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 08:20:27

US to review all 55 million visas to check if holders broke rules US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced several measures this year to curb immigration President Donald Trump has made anti-immigration the cornerstone of his second administration, from mass deportations and full-on travel bans on countries to revoking 6,000 student visas. Visas will be revoked if there are indications of "overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activit

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Senators are trying to force ISPs to block all foreign pirate sites

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-28 03:45:10

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Lawmakers have introduced a new bill aimed at countering “foreign piracy sites,” as reported earlier by TorrentFreak. The bill, called the Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block BEARD) Act, would allow copyright holders to ask a federal court

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U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications

news.ycombinator.com Kat Lonsdorf 2026-01-20 22:48:48

U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications toggle caption Alexander F. Yuan/AP WASHINGTON — In yet another twist for foreign students hoping to study in the U.S., the State Department says it will resume processing student and visiting scholar visa applications for foreign citizens but plans to review their social media accounts as part of the process. All students applying for a visa will need to set their social media profiles to "public," according to a post Wednes

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Automatically Packaging a Haskell Library as a Swift Binary XCFramework

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-18 11:01:56

Announcing xcframework or: the happy path for wiring a Haskell dependency to your Swift app I’ve written about Haskell x Swift interoperability before. Calling Haskell from Swift is about marshalling and the foreign function interface. But Creating a macOS app with Haskell and Swift tells the much messier tale of hijacking XCode to vodoo together the Haskell library, its headers, and two handfuls of other magic ingredients into one buildable SwiftUI application. Stop! Don’t click on the last l

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Memory safety is table stakes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-16 15:36:11

The past few years has seen a massive success story for systems programming. Entire categories of bugs that used to plague systems programmers—like use-after-free, data races, and segmentation faults—have begun to completely disappear. The secret to this new reality is a set of systems programming languages chief among them Rust—whose powerful type systems are able to constructively eliminate these kind of bugs; if it compiles, then it’s correct … or at least, will not contain use-after-free or

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Memory Safety Is Merely Table Stakes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-16 21:36:11

The past few years has seen a massive success story for systems programming. Entire categories of bugs that used to plague systems programmers—like use-after-free, data races, and segmentation faults—have begun to completely disappear. The secret to this new reality is a set of systems programming languages chief among them Rust—whose powerful type systems are able to constructively eliminate these kind of bugs; if it compiles, then it’s correct … or at least, will not contain use-after-free or

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Australian Critical Infrastructure Faces 'Acute' Foreign Threats

darkreading.com Nate Nelson 2025-11-09 12:00:00

Australian intelligence is projecting that foreign nations will increasingly attempt to sabotage its country's critical infrastructure. On Feb. 19, Mike Burgess, director-general of security in charge of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), delivered an annual threat assessment encompassing the many national security threats facing Australia. Among the most important, he noted, are the ways in which foreign threat actors are weaponizing artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled

Topics: australia critical foreign infrastructure intelligence

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Latest Tech News

Right-Wing Influencers Are Turning to Foreign Affairs

OpenAI tech to be used to in a full-length animated film

What happens when ambassadors are summoned by the host country?

FTC warns tech giants not to bow to foreign pressure on encryption

US to review all 55M visas to check if holders broke rules

Senators are trying to force ISPs to block all foreign pirate sites

U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications

Automatically Packaging a Haskell Library as a Swift Binary XCFramework

Memory safety is table stakes

Memory Safety Is Merely Table Stakes

Australian Critical Infrastructure Faces 'Acute' Foreign Threats

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