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

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-19 14:39:44

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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GNU Midnight Commander

news.ycombinator.com Yury V. Zaytsev 2025-09-20 21:54:06

Welcome to Midnight Commander GNU Midnight Commander (or mc ) is a visual, dual-pane file manager. It is released under the GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. Midnight Commander is a feature-rich, full-screen, text-mode application that allows you to copy, move, and delete files and entire directory trees, search for files, and execute commands in the subshell. Internal viewer, editor and diff viewer are included. mc uses versatile text interface libraries su

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I ditched my flagship for a mid-range phone and don’t regret it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-23 06:00:32

Joe Maring / Android Authority I did it. After years of exclusively buying and using flagship phones, I finally made the switch to a mid-ranger. And you know what? I don’t regret it. Not even a little. For the last decade, I’ve used high-end phones from brands like OnePlus and Google. After recently breaking my phone and shopping for a new one, I skipped the new Pixel 10 series I had my eye on and bought the Pixel 9a. This decision made me realize that today’s mid-range phones are not just goo

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Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?

news.ycombinator.com Kyrylo Silin 2025-09-23 06:02:31

The Great Pyramids took decades to build. It was a monumental feat of human ingenuity and collaboration. Today, we software developers erect our own pyramids each day - not from stone, but from code. Yet despite far more advanced tools, these systems don’t always make the experience better. So why, when KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is a well-known mantra, do we keep gravitating toward complexity? Marketing > Simplicity Sell me this pen: ✎ What? You don’t know how? Okay, instead, sell me this

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HomeKit Weekly: SwitchBot’s Evaporative Humidifier gets smarter with Matter 1.4 support

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-09-26 07:00:00

SwitchBot released its Evaporative Humidifier last year, and it’s now even better thanks to newly upgraded firmware that includes Matter 1.4 support. The update brings faster setup and better cross-platform compatibility for a device type that is typucally stuck as a “dumb appliance” in your house. Some of my favorite gear eufyCam 2C Upgrade your home security with wireless cameras that includes HomeKit compatibility. Unlike a lot of humidifiers, the SwitchBot Evaporative Humidifier uses cold

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

news.ycombinator.com Brandon Vigliarolo 2025-09-27 19:15:07

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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Midjourney Is in Major Trouble

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-30 15:19:19

AI image generator Midjourney is in major trouble after being accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement. According to documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery is suing the startup for "brazenly" infringing on its intellectual property by letting its users create AI-generated images and videos of its copyrighted characters — which, due to Warner Bros' immense catalog, include everything from the Batman franchise to Scooby-Doo to Bu

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Warner Bros., DC Comics and More Sue Midjourney, Says AI Firm 'Thinks It Is Above the Law'

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 17:04:03

Warner Bros. Discovery on Thursday filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against AI image and video company Midjourney, making it the third major entertainment company to do so following Disney and Universal's similar lawsuit filed earlier this year. The lawsuit alleges the AI company violated the entertainment company's copyright protections by allowing AI users to create images with characters like Batman, Scooby Doo and Bugs Bunny. "Midjourney thinks it is above the law," Warner Bros. Disc

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Microsoft Azure: "Multiple international subsea cables were cut in the Red Sea"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 15:57:15

Increased network latency on traffic routes through the Middle East Starting at 05:45 UTC on 06 September 2025, network traffic traversing through the Middle East may experience increased latency due to undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea. Network traffic is not interrupted as Microsoft has rerouted traffic through alternate network paths. We do expect higher latency on some traffic that previously traversed through the Middle East. Network traffic that does not traverse through the Middle East

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996

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 13:20:57

996 “Amazing salary, hackerhouse in SF, crazy equity. 996. Our mission is OSS.” — Gregor Zunic “The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 9-9-6, […].” — Daksh Gupta “The truth is, China’s really doing ‘007’ now—midnight to midnight, seven days a week […] if you want to build a $10 billion company, you have to work seven days a week.” — Harry Stebbings I love work. I love working late nights, hacking on things. This week I didn’t go to sleep before midnight once. And yet… I also love my wife

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Warner Bros. sues Midjourney to stop AI knockoffs of Batman, Scooby-Doo

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-07 15:47:32

Warner Bros. hit Midjourney with a lawsuit Thursday, crafting a complaint that strives to shoot down defenses that the AI company has already raised in a similar lawsuit filed by Disney and Universal Studios earlier this year. The big film studios have alleged that Midjourney profits off image generation models trained to produce outputs of popular characters. For Disney and Universal, intellectual property rights to pop icons like Darth Vader and the Simpsons were allegedly infringed. And now,

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Warner Bros. sues Midjourney for AI images of Superman, Batman, and other characters

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-07 23:56:38

In Brief Warner Bros. is suing AI startup Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that the company allows users to generate images and videos of characters like Superman, Batman, and Bugs Bunny without permission. As first reported by Reuters, Warner Bros says that Midjourney knowingly engaged in wrongful conduct, noting that the company previously restricted subscribers from generating content based on infringing images, but recently lifted those protections. “Midjourney has made a c

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Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney for copyright infringement

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 21:58:50

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a lawsuit against popular AI image generator Midjourney, accusing it of stealing and exploiting its intellectual properties. The complaint revolves around the AI tool's ability to generate images and videos of Warner Bros.' popular fictional characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Scooby Doo, Bugs Bunny and his friends from Looney Tunes. "Midjourney thinks it is above the law," the company wrote in its lawsuit. It said that the image generator sells

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AI Firm Midjourney Faces Copyright Lawsuit by Warner Bros., DC Comics and Cartoon Network

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 01:46:00

If I got a nickel every time a major entertainment company sued AI image and video company Midjourney, I'd now have 15 cents. On Thursday, Warner Bros. Discovery filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Midjourney, following Disney and Universal's similar lawsuit earlier this year. The recent lawsuit alleges the AI company violated the entertainment company's copyright protections by allowing users to create images with characters like Batman, Scooby Doo and Bugs Bunny. "Midjourney thinks

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Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating ‘countless’ copies of its characters

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-09 11:49:27

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. Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney over claims the AI startup “brazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if it were its own,” as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. In the lawsuit, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges that Midjourney generated “c

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The Middle Earth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 00:09:29

One of the most engaging books I have read this year is A Little Learning: A Victorian Childhood, by the novelist Winifred Peck (1882-1962). Looking back from the 1950s, Peck describes her education at a number of different schools in the last decades of the 19th century – a time when the opportunities available to women, and ideas about how girls should be educated, were changing very rapidly. Though she came from a scholarly and successful family (her father was a bishop), Peck’s chequered ed

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Next.js is infuriating

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 23:57:41

Hey, it's finally happened. I've decided to write a blog post. And if you're reading this, I've also finished one. I have wanted to do this for a long time, but could never find the motivation to start. But you know what they say: anger is the best motivator. They do say that, right? Some context that's in the background We're going on a journey, you and I. But first, we need to set the scene. Imagine we're working for $COMPANY and one of our Next.js services did an oopsie. This being Next.js,

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Next.js Is Infuriating

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 19:57:41

Hey, it's finally happened. I've decided to write a blog post. And if you're reading this, I've also finished one. I have wanted to do this for a long time, but could never find the motivation to start. But you know what they say: anger is the best motivator. They do say that, right? Some context that's in the background We're going on a journey, you and I. But first, we need to set the scene. Imagine we're working for $COMPANY and one of our Next.js services did an oopsie. This being Next.js,

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How a Meta partnership with Midjourney could inject more AI into future products

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-28 14:46:00

Lester Mapp/ZDNET via Midjourney Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Meta is partnering with AI start-up Midjourney. It's the latest move in Meta's rapid transformation to keep up in the AI race. Midjourney will remain independent, according to its CEO. Meta is partnering with Midjourney as part of its ongoing effort to win the AI race. The collaboration will allow Meta to integrate Midjourney's "aesthetic technology" into future models and products

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Meta is licensing Midjourney's AI image and video tech

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 23:00:12

Meta has signed a partnership with Midjourney, an AI service that can generate images and videos from text prompts. According to Alexandr Wang, Meta's Chief AI Officer, Meta is licensing Midjourney's "aesthetic technology" for its future models and products. "To ensure Meta is able to deliver the best possible products for people it will require taking an all-of-the-above approach. This means world-class talent, ambitious compute roadmap, and working with the best players across the industry," W

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Meta is partnering with Midjourney and will license its technology for ‘future models and products’

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-10-29 10:12:07

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Even three years after its debut, with ever increasing competition in the AI image generation space, Midjourney, the boostrapped San Francisco startup, remains the “gold standard” for its 20 million users — including us here at VentureBeat, where we use it to generate the “header” art to many of our articles. Apparently, the leaders of Fac

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Meta Teams Up With Midjourney for Future Creative AI Models

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 10:00:00

Meta is diving into AI video generation with a splash. The company will work with and license models from Midjourney AI, one of the most popular AI image and video companies. Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, revealed the partnership in a post on X Friday. It's still unclear when a possible Meta x Midjourney model could be available for people to use. Meta teased a possible tool, MovieGen, at its 2024 Connect event, but we haven't heard much since. Right now, you can upload an existing f

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Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-29 14:41:31

Meta is partnering with Midjourney to license the startup’s AI image and video generation technology, Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced Friday in a post on Threads. Wang says Meta’s research teams will collaborate with Midjourney to bring its technology into future AI models and products. “To ensure Meta is able to deliver the best possible products for people it will require taking an all-of-the-above approach,” Wang said. “This means world-class talent, ambitious compute roadmap,

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Oh No, ‘World of Warcraft’ Is Getting Me Elf-Pilled Again

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-02 02:56:42

As someone who has played World of Warcraft on and off for what now qualifies as a significant portion of my life over the last 21 years, I’ve come to learn that there are two things that I deeply appreciate about Blizzard’s long-running fantasy MMO. The first is the way Warcraft has sat with, and handled, the evolution of its world and characters over those two decades as an ongoing entity. Well, that’s not really the first. Because the actual first is that I just really love Warcraft‘s elves.

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Who Invented Backpropagation?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 00:50:21

Efficient backpropagation (BP) is central to the ongoing Neural Network (NN) ReNNaissance and "Deep Learning." Who invented it? BP's modern version (also called the reverse mode of automatic differentiation) was first published in 1970 by Finnish master student Seppo Linnainmaa [BP1] [R7]. In 2020, we celebrated BP's half-century anniversary! A precursor of BP was published by Henry J. Kelley in 1960 [BPA]—in 2020, we celebrated its 60-year anniversary. In the 2020s, it was still easy to find

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I did not expect this Marshall speaker to rival pricier Bose and Sonos models like this

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-11-16 08:30:13

Marshall Middleton II ZDNET's key takeaways Marshall's Middleton II Bluetooth speaker is available in Black And Brass or Cream for $330. The Middleton II debuts with meaningful upgrades from its predecessor, spectacular sound, a stylish design, and 30 hours of battery life. Despite its long list of pros, this speaker is considerably more expensive than its competitors with similar features. $329.99 at Amazon $329.99 at B&H Photo-Video $329.99 at Crutchfield more buying choices There's a sea o

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Humidifier vs. Purifier: How to Pick the Right Option for Yourself

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-17 15:00:00

While spring has come and gone, your allergies might still be lingering. So, you should make your environment as healthy and safe as possible. There are a few home tech gadgets to consider when trying to protect yourself from indoor allergies. CNET experts spoke to allergy and medical professionals, and they both say an air purifier or humidifier can be effective. Humidifiers, though, if used improperly, can cause more harm than good. "If there is too much humidity in a room, it can promote the

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I Tried Midjourney's AI Video Generator, and It's Hard to Beat the Value for the Price

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-24 05:00:03

Midjourney has come a long way. As one of the original AI image generators, the popular service is no longer Discord-exclusive. It's expanded its offers with new features and models, including its most recent seventh-generation image model. Now, Midjourney has joined the pool of AI companies that support AI video generation. As CNET's resident AI creative software reviewer, I knew I had to try out its V1 video model. I was most curious to see if the creative, detailed quality I had come to enjo

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I brought this portable Marshall speaker on vacation - and now my Bose is staying home

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-12-04 10:27:00

Marshall Middleton II ZDNET's key takeaways Marshall's Middleton II Bluetooth speaker is available in Black And Brass or Cream for $330. The Middleton II debuts with meaningful upgrades from its predecessor, spectacular sound, a stylish design, and 30 hours of battery life. Despite its long list of pros, this speaker is considerably more expensive than its competitors with similar features. $329.99 at Amazon $329.99 at B&H Photo-Video $329.99 at Crutchfield more buying choices There's a sea o

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Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 09:56:28

Schematra A minimal web framework for CHICKEN Scheme, inspired by Sinatra. Schematra is currently an early exploration project created for learning purposes, but hopefully it will grow into something more useful over time. Why Schematra? I created Schematra because I wanted to: Improve my knowledge of scheme : Building a web framework is a great way to explore a language's capabilities and idioms : Building a web framework is a great way to explore a language's capabilities and idioms Creat

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