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Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-09-18 13:42:46

On Wednesday, Google announced a partnership with StopNCII.org to combat the spread of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), the company announced today . Over the next few months, Google will start using StopNCII’s hashes to proactively identify nonconsensual images in search results and remove them. Hashes are algorithmically-generated unique identifiers that allow services to identify and block imagery flagged as abuse without sharing or storing the actual source. StopNII says it uses PDQ f

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Trump admin says Social Security database wasn’t “leaked, hacked, or shared”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-20 00:39:44

The Trump administration yesterday issued a lengthier denial of a whistleblower's allegation that DOGE officials at the Social Security Administration (SSA) copied the agency's database to an insecure cloud system. The allegation centers on the Numerical Identification System (NUMIDENT) database containing Americans' personally identifiable information. The cloud location described by the whistleblower report "is actually a secured server in the agency's cloud infrastructure which historically

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Trump's Biggest Fans Furious at His Embrace of AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-21 19:55:57

Partisan politics in the United States makes for a generally contentious atmosphere But these days, the mainstream rift isn't just between blue and red — even some of president Donald Trump's most diehard fanatics have become openly belligerent over the president's obsession with AI. Following the release this summer of president Trump's "AI Action Plan" — a sweeping blueprint outlining the white house's strategy to ramp up AI development while slashing regulation — a number of far-right stalwa

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Eli Lilly to Build $5 Billion Drug Manufacturing Plant in Virginia

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-21 21:00:38

Eli Lilly announced plans on Tuesday to build a $5 billion drug manufacturing facility in Virginia. The announcement comes amid pressure from President Donald Trump to bring more drug manufacturing to the U.S. and threats to slap heavy tariffs on pharmaceuticals coming from overseas. The new manufacturing plant will be built west of Richmond, Virginia, in Goochland County, according to a press release from the company. Eli Lilly says it expects the project to be completed in five years and clai

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Google to invest £5 billion in UK AI as Trump heads for state visit

cnbc.com Sam Meredith 2025-09-23 15:59:51

General view of the Google headquarters in King's Cross as the tech giant faces a 5 billion pound lawsuit in the UK for allegedly abusing its online search dominance. Google owner Alphabet on Tuesday announced a £5 billion ($6.8 billion) investment in the U.K.'s artificial intelligence development, just as the country prepares for U.S. President Donald Trump's state visit this week. The U.S. president is scheduled to arrive in Britain on Tuesday evening, before the pomp and pageantry gets unde

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Trump's willingness to let TikTok go dark motivated China to make deal, says Bessent

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-09-23 18:48:49

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer hold a press conference, following a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, on the day of U.S.-China talks on trade, economic and national security issues, in Madrid, Spain, September 15, 2025. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that President Donald Trump was willing to let TikTok go dark, and it was "what turned the tide" in the deal framework with China. "President Trump made it clear that he

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Locking Your Social Security Number Can Protect You From Identity Theft – Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 12:55:25

Credit freezes are your free shield against thieves. fstop123/Getty Images Your Social Security number is a crucial piece of personal information. It's used for everything from getting a new job to securing lines of credit, making it a prime target for identity thieves. This nine-digit number is linked to health benefits, taxes and more. As we see major breaches happen more and more often, protecting your SSN is more important than ever. You can pay for monitoring, but there is a tougher, free

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A TikTok deal may finally be happening

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-25 01:04:49

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that the United States and China have reached a framework deal on TikTok. Speaking to reporters in Madrid after two days of talks with his Chinese counterparts, Bessent said, “It’s between two private parties, but the commercial terms have been agreed upon.” President Trump said in a Truth Social post that he will be speaking with Xi Jinping this Friday regarding the potential deal, among other things. This breakthrough comes after the Trump administ

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Trump Admin Says ‘Framework’ Reached for U.S. Owners to Take Control of TikTok

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-25 01:20:34

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that the U.S. has “a framework for a TikTok deal,” suggesting that some kind of agreement is imminent to allow the social media platform to continue operating in the U.S. despite a law passed in 2024 that sought to ban the app or force a sale. The comments from Bessent came as he and U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer took questions from reporters after two days of meetings with Chinese officials in Madrid. “We believe we have an agreement. It

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US, China reach ‘framework’ deal for TikTok

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-25 13:24:49

In Brief The U.S. has reached a “framework” deal with China for social media platform TikTok, CNBC reported, citing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “It’s between two private parties, but the commercial terms have been agreed upon,” CNBC quoted Bessent as saying on the sidelines of a meeting between the two countries in Madrid on Monday. The news comes barely an hour after U.S. President Donald Trump hinted on his social media platform Truth Social that a deal for the short-video app had bee

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Titania Programming Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 23:29:49

Titania Programming Language Based on the Oberon-07 programming language designed by the late Niklaus Wirth. This is designed to be a language to teach compiler development with. Meaning behind the name: Titania is the wife of Oberon (Fairy King) in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titania_(A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream) This is just a codename, and probably not final for this teaching language Grammar module = "module" ident ";" [import_list] decl_sequ

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Becoming the person who does the thing

news.ycombinator.com Fred Rivett 2025-09-28 01:24:36

It can be disorienting when our beliefs shift. The world we helped create no longer exists, and our role in it transforms too. It can be unsettling, naturally. But that's kind of the point. Looking back at times when I held certain beliefs—about how the world works, and what my role in this story is—it can feel less like a mod was installed and more like an entirely new operating system was swapped in. Up until my late twenties, I could count the number of times I had been to the gym on one h

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Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' SSA database 'immediately'

news.ycombinator.com Brandon Vigliarolo 2025-09-28 05:15:07

A US Senator is demanding answers after a Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who blew the whistle on Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dealings involuntarily resigned last month, citing workplace hostility in response to his concerns. Republican Senator Mike Crapo (it's pronounced Cray-poe), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to the SSA's commissioner, Frank Bisignano, giving him just two weeks to provide answers to concerns raised last month by now-form

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NASA found intriguing rocks on Mars, so where does that leave Mars Sample Return?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-28 13:21:03

NASA's interim administrator Sean Duffy was fired up on Wednesday when he joined a teleconference to talk about new scientific findings that concerned the potential for life to have once existed on Mars. "This is exciting news," said Duffy about an arrow-shaped rock on Mars found by NASA's Perseverance rover. The rock contained chemical signatures and structures that could have been formed by ancient microbial life. The findings were intriguing, but not conclusive. Further study of the rocks in

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Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

news.ycombinator.com Tom Phillips 2025-09-28 21:28:44

A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy. Justice Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha ruled on Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning three of the five judges involved in the t

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‘Here We Go!’: Trump Weighs in After Russian Drones Shot Down Over Poland

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-01 09:40:24

NATO fighter jets shot down at least three Russian drones in Polish airspace overnight after more than a dozen entered its eastern border, according to several reports. It was a historic action, the first time that NATO forces have shot down a Russian aircraft in a NATO country. But President Donald Trump didn’t offer much clarity about what the U.S. plans to do about it, writing a confusing Truth Social post on Wednesday that could be read several different ways. “What’s with Russia violating

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Jaguar Land Rover says data stolen in disruptive cyberattack

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-02 05:19:29

In Brief Jaguar Land Rover said on Wednesday that an unspecified amount of data was stolen during a cyberattack that has brought vehicle assembly lines to a standstill. In a statement on Wednesday, the U.K.-based maker of Land Rover and Range Rover vehicles said it was aware that “some data” was taken in the incident. Companies that operate in the U.K. are obligated to notify the Information Commissioner’s Office within three days of discovering a data breach. It’s not immediately clear if th

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Android’s anti-theft protections will soon become less annoying thanks to your smartwatch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-02 09:00:06

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is making its “Identity Check” anti-theft feature more convenient by integrating it with smartwatch proximity. This allows users to use their PIN or password as a fallback to biometrics, even outside a trusted location, as long as their watch is nearby. Expected to land in a future Android 16 quarterly release, the feature may only work with the Google Pixel Watch 3 and newer models. Android offers a number of optional theft protection features

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Zuckerberg caught on hot mic telling Trump 'I wasn't sure' how much to promise to spend on AI in the US

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 17:28:19

US President Donald Trump jokes with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) as he hosts tech leaders for a dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) Mark Zuckerberg has certainly come a long way in his relationship with President Donald Trump. Almost exactly a year after the president threatened the Meta CEO with imprisonment, the two sat side-by-side at a White House dinner, alongside numerous other tech CEOs. T

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A Sitting President Is Making Billions Off Crypto, Which Feels Like a Bit of an Outrage

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-06 21:00:34

Before his first presidential bid, TV personality and real estate tycoon Donald Trump was doing just fine, financially speaking. The benefactor of a $5.5 million trust fund, adjusted for inflation — not to mention a $20 million inheritance from his father, split with his siblings — Trump's actual net worth has always been a hazy target for estimates. As he left office in 2021, Trump's net worth seemed to be around $2.3 billion, according to Forbes, thanks to legal fallout and a real estate port

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Zuckerberg caught on hot mic telling Trump ‘I wasn’t sure’ how much to promise to spend on AI in the US

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 08:19:15

US President Donald Trump jokes with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) as he hosts tech leaders for a dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) Mark Zuckerberg has certainly come a long way in his relationship with President Donald Trump. Almost exactly a year after the president threatened the Meta CEO with imprisonment, the two sat side-by-side at a White House dinner, alongside n

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At White House dinner, Tim Cook praises Trump’s ‘leadership and focus on innovation’

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-09 07:02:50

Yesterday, news broke that Apple CEO Tim Cook was one of many tech CEOs who had been invited for a “White House event on AI hosted by first lady Melania Trump.” Now, The Wall Street Journal has a few details of how the event went. Taking turns to praise Trump As reported by the WSJ, the list of tech CEOs at tonight’s dinner included OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who sat alongside Trump), Microsoft founder and ex-CEO Bill Gates, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, and IBM CEO Arvind

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Chess.com discloses recent data breach via file transfer app

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-10 13:51:37

Chess.com has disclosed a data breach after threat actors gained unauthorized access to a third-party file transfer application used by the platform. The incident occurred in June 2025, with the threat actors maintaining access to the said application for two weeks, between June 5 and June 18. Chess.com discovered the breach on June 19, 2025, and launched an investigation to determine its scope and impact. "On June 19, 2025, Chess.com became aware of potential unauthorized access to data stor

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LinkedIn will require recruiters and executives to verify their identity to cut down on scams

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-11 05:00:40

LinkedIn will now require some users to verify their identity before they change job titles in an attempt to cut down on scams on the platform. The new identity verification rules will specifically apply to executives and recruiters who interact with job seekers or represent a company in one form or another. As part of these changes, LinkedIn says users who add or update their title to anything recruiter-related (recruiter, talent acquisition, etc.) will have to verify their workplace on their

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Tire giant Bridgestone confirms cyberattack impacts manufacturing

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-11 05:46:07

Car tire giant Bridgestone confirms it is investigating a cyberattack that impacts the operation of some manufacturing facilities in North America. The company believes that its rapid response contained the attack at its early stages, preventing customer data theft or deep network infiltration. Bridgestone Americas (BSA) is the North American arm of Bridgestone, a Japanese multinational tire manufacturer, the largest in the world by production volume. BSA operates 50 production facilities and

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Trump to host tech CEOs over dinner for inaugural event in renovated Rose Garden

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-11 20:48:12

U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk to the Rose Garden of the White House to hold a signing ceremony for the Take it Down Act, in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 19, 2025. U.S. President Trump will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for an inaugural event in the White House's renovated Rose Garden on Thursday. Invitees include Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and OpenAI founder Sam Altman, according to a lis

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Appeals court reinstates fired Democratic FTC commissioner

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 17:45:49

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter can resume her work as a commissioner for the FTC, a federal appeals court has ruled. Slaughter, who was one of the two Democratic commissioners for the FTC that President Trump fired back in March, filed a lawsuit for her reinstatement. "Your continued service on the FTC is inconsistent with my administration’s priorities," a letter to the commissioners said. In July, US District Judge Loren AliKhan ruled that her removal from the agency was "unlawful and without legal e

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Trump Blames AI for Weird Video of Stuff Being Tossed Out White House Window

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-14 13:00:36

A very strange video appearing to show large objects being thrown out of a window at the White House went viral over Labor Day weekend. President Donald Trump was asked about it during a press conference on Tuesday, and he insisted it must be AI. Curiously, White House staff told Time magazine it was just regular maintenance. The video appears to have been first posted to Instagram on Aug. 31 by an account called WashingtonianProbs. “One of our community members noticed some things being throw

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Civics Is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 20:58:00

December 2, 2024 Volume 22, issue 5 PDF Civics is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something! IT professionals can either passively suffer political solutions or participate in the process to achieve something better. Poul-Henning Kamp It's a common trope in entertainment for some character to deliver a nonlinear response to something seemingly trivial, only for that to later prove to have been a vitally important clue. So, that room the janitor won't let anybody into? Right, that isn't actually

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Massive TransUnion breach leaks personal data of 4.4 million customers - what to do now

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-19 05:09:05

WhataWin/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways At least 4.4 million people have had their personal information stolen. I recommend you freeze your credit with all three credit bureaus. You should also enroll in an identity theft protection and credit monitoring service. If it seems like hardly a day can go by without a major security breach, you're not wrong. Adidas, Farmers Insurance, Google, and numerous other compa

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Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search

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Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' SSA database 'immediately'

NASA found intriguing rocks on Mars, so where does that leave Mars Sample Return?

Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

‘Here We Go!’: Trump Weighs in After Russian Drones Shot Down Over Poland

Jaguar Land Rover says data stolen in disruptive cyberattack

Android’s anti-theft protections will soon become less annoying thanks to your smartwatch

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A Sitting President Is Making Billions Off Crypto, Which Feels Like a Bit of an Outrage

Zuckerberg caught on hot mic telling Trump ‘I wasn’t sure’ how much to promise to spend on AI in the US

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Appeals court reinstates fired Democratic FTC commissioner

Trump Blames AI for Weird Video of Stuff Being Tossed Out White House Window

Civics Is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something

Massive TransUnion breach leaks personal data of 4.4 million customers - what to do now

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