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FBI warns of cybercriminals using fake FBI crime reporting portals

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-20 02:43:29

The FBI warned today that cybercriminals are impersonating its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website in what the law enforcement agency described as "possible malicious activity." Although it didn't share any examples and didn't point to specific attacks, the FBI said that such spoofed websites could be used by attackers in financial scams or to steal the visitors' personal information. "Threat actors create spoofed websites often by slightly altering characteristics of legitimate webs

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The Many Broken Feeds

news.ycombinator.com Abhinav Sarkar 2025-09-17 17:53:30

The Many Broken Feeds RSS/Atom feeds are central to my reading process. I subscribe to over 700 feeds that I have curated over years. Most of them work fine most of the time, but a few are always broken in various different ways (different ones at different times). As a big proponent of Indieweb and feeds, I’m writing this note to categorize the ways feeds break, and offer some solutions. Before we get on to the issues, the very first thing you must do is to subscribe to the feeds of your own

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Robotaxis as public transit? Waymo thinks so

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-09-23 22:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Waymo is teaming up with tech transit startup Via to integrate its autonomous vehicles into city public transit networks, starting with a growing suburb of Phoenix. In Chandler, Arizona, Waymo’s robotaxis will soon join the town’s Flex

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Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’s biggest rival is arriving next week

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-28 22:58:20

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR MediaTek has announced that its next Dimensity flagship processor will be launched next week. This chip is expected to be the Dimensity 9500 processor. The processor is said to pack a powerful CPU, Mali G1-Ultra graphics, and an NPU with 100 TOPS of performance. Qualcomm will announce the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 next week, and it’s expected to power a host of flagship Android phones. Now, arch-rival MediaTek has revealed that its own high-end processo

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I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 04:05:05

Back in college I used to run part of my website from a Linux box in my room. I made it into a speech synthesiser, and people could connect to the machine to talk into my flat. (Retrospective apologies to my flatmates.) This is way back in 2000 so before smartphones, and before texting, and before always-on internet (college was an exception), and before camera phones or being able to reliably email photos let alone video. Decent text-to-speech still felt novel. We had a friend who was travell

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China says Nvidia violated anti-monopoly law after preliminary probe

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-01 05:18:14

China is one of Nvidia's largest markets, particularly for data centers, gaming and artificial intelligence applications. China's market regulator on Monday said that Nvidia violated the country's anti-monopoly law, according to a preliminary probe, adding that Beijing would continue its investigation into the U.S. chip giant. Shares of Nvidia were down around 2% in premarket trading. Late last year, China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) opened an investigation into Nvidia

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Gemini (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 01:04:53

What is Gemini? Gemini is a new way of using the Internet, separate from the World Wide Web you are familiar with. Compared to the WWW, it is intended to be: Simpler – Gemini pages aren’t programs that run in your browser like most modern websites are; they’re just text with a little formatting, so there are no surprises. Once you know how one Gemini page works, you know how they all work. Human Scale – Gemini servers and clients aren’t written by big, monopolistic software companies the way

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California lawmakers pass SB 79, housing bill that brings dense housing

news.ycombinator.com Staff Writer 2025-09-30 23:32:33

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . California lawmakers just paved the way for a whole lot more housing in the Golden State. In the waning hours of the 2025 legislative session, the state Senate voted 21 to 8 to approve Senate Bill 79 , a landmark housing bill that overrides local zoning laws to expand high-density housing near transit hubs. The controversial bill received a final concurrence vote from the Senate on Friday, a day after passin

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Our website looks like an operating system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 00:45:36

I have a problem with many large, technical websites. Often times, I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a couple times” while browsing around and before I know it, I have 12 new tabs open – all indistinguishable from each other because they share the same favicon. PostHog.com has the same problem – especially as the site has grown from supporting a handful of paid products to over a dozen. As I looked for ways to solve this explosion of pages, I started

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Why our website looks like an operating system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 05:45:36

I have a problem with many large, technical websites. Often times, I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a couple times” while browsing around and before I know it, I have 12 new tabs open – all indistinguishable from each other because they share the same favicon. PostHog.com has the same problem – especially as the site has grown from supporting a handful of paid products to over a dozen. As I looked for ways to solve this explosion of pages, I started

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Paramount reportedly wants to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, antitrust law be damned

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 02:33:07

Paramount Skydance, apparently now in a state of permanent merger, plans to make a bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, The Wall Street Journal reports . The company was recently formed following Skydance's acquisition of Paramount for $8 billion. Newly anointed Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison was able to afford the acquisition thanks to the backing of his billionaire father , Larry Ellison. Despite Warner Bros. Discovery's public plans to split back into Warner Bros. and Discovery Globa

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There’s bad news for AirPods Live Translation in EU countries

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-05 06:09:56

We first spotted that AirPods Live translation was coming a month before the announcement. Initial language support is listed as English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish – with four more languages coming later this year. But while European languages are supported, you won’t necessarily be able to take advantage of that if you are within one of the countries in which they’re spoken … We’d already seen some mixed news. On the plus side, the feature isn’t exclusive to the new Air

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Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 14:15:14

I run a small business in Canada. Oddly, if you search my brand name, my own site doesn’t show up at all on the first page. Instead, Facebook, Instagram, and random sites that link to me outrank me. I’ve submitted my sitemap to GSC, checked indexing, and built branded backlinks—but Google still ignores my homepage. It’s bad because people looking for me are funneled into other platforms where I lose control of the user journey. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this Google punishing small/n

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Show HN: Ark v0.5.0 – A Minimal, High-Performance Entity Component System for Go

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 06:33:57

Features Installation To use Ark in a Go project, run: go get github.com/mlange-42/ark Usage Below is the classical Position/Velocity example that every ECS shows in the docs. See the User Guide, API docs and examples for details. package main import ( "math/rand/v2" "github.com/mlange-42/ark/ecs" ) // Position component type Position struct { X float64 Y float64 } // Velocity component type Velocity struct { X float64 Y float64 } func main () { // Create a new World world := ecs . NewWor

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Why Techmeme is still every tech pro's go-to news source after 20 years

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-07 22:02:00

Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera works in his home office in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. By Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Techmeme celebrates two decades. This tech news site remains popular for tech pros. Unlike other content sites, Techmeme is growing its audience. For tech news, we'd prefer you use ZDNET, but we know many of you turn to Reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon, or Ha

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All of the iPhone 17 models compared

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-08 13:26:24

Aisha is a consumer news reporter at TechCrunch. Prior to joining the publication in 2021, she was a telecom reporter at MobileSyrup. Aisha holds an honours bachelor’s degree from University of Toronto and a master’s degree in journalism from Western University. You can contact or verify outreach from Aisha by emailing [email protected] or via encrypted message at aisha_malik.01 on Signal.

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There’s Now a Darwin Awards to Celebrate the Worst AI Fails of 2025

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-09 10:35:42

Stupidity is no longer limited to human intelligence. A new website has popped up online calling for nominees to crown an AI king of making ridiculously dumb mistakes in 2025. The new AI Darwin Awards carry on the tradition of the original Darwin Awards, which honor people who remove themselves from the gene pool in spectacularly idiotic ways. Think of the story of Canadian lawyer Garry Hoy, who in 1993 tried to prove the windows at the Toronto-Dominion Centre were unbreakable by hurling himse

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Godfather of AI Says His Creation Is About to Unleash Massive Unemployment

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-09 18:04:02

One of the most prominent pioneers of artificial intelligence has some grim predictions about what the technology he created is soon going to unleash onto humankind. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose work on neural networks earned him the title of "Godfather of AI," suggested in an interview with the Financial Times that tech CEOs who preach positive outcomes for the future of AI are deluding themselves and others. "What’s actually going to happen is rich people are goin

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Ask HN: Good resources for DIY-ish animatronic kits for Halloween?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 08:57:18

Does anyone know of good resources to make your own animatronic Halloween displays? I'm a software engineer, and not skilled in hardware per se. I would love to make some things together with my kids. For reference, they are 8, 10, 12 and VERY smart and they use Ubuntu as their desktop computers and can use flatpak from the command line. Not that I am bragging.... And, I would love to NOT spent $400 on just a single ridiculous junky thing from Lowes, and do that for multiple things. My budget

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Meet the Ethiopian entrepreneur who is reinventing ammonia production

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-10-12 14:30:00

Haile, now at Northwestern University, recalls thinking that Abate was particularly eager. As a visible Ethiopian scientist, she gets a lot of email requests, but his stood out. “No obstacle was going to stand in his way,” she says. It was risky to take on a young student with no research experience who’d only been in the US for a year, but she offered him a spot in her lab. Abate spent the summer working on materials for use in solid oxide fuel cells. He returned for the following summer, then

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South Korea: 'many' of its nationals detained in ICE raid on GA Hyundai facility

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-10-13 18:51:27

South Korea said Friday that it had expressed “concern and regret” to the U.S. Embassy over an immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia during which it said “many” South Korean nationals had been detained. “The economic activities of our companies investing in the U.S. and the rights and interests of our nationals must not be unfairly violated,” said Lee Jae-woong, a spokesperson for the foreign ministry of the key U.S. ally, according to the Yonhap news agency. Agents from Immigratio

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Disney’s ‘Lego Star Wars’ Show Just Made Darth Revan Canon…Kinda

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-14 02:58:28

Star Wars fans with knowledge of the old lore—whether from books, comics, or games—have long had to console themselves that seeing some of their favorite characters represented in mainstream media would likely never come to pass. But the upcoming Disney+ Lego Star Wars show is doing some of those stalwart fans a solid by reintroducing a much-loved, but overlooked character: Darth Revan. In the new trailer for Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past, we see a Sith Obi-Wan Kenobi

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Columbia tries using AI to cool off student tensions

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-14 02:30:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Can AI help “smooth over” discussion on abortion, racism, immigration, or Israel-Palestine? Columbia University sure hopes so. The Verge has learned that the university recently began testing Sway, an AI debate program currently in beta. De

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WordPress.com review: A heavyweight site builder that makes you work for it

zdnet.com Marshall Gunnell 2025-10-14 15:00:18

WordPress.com ZDNET's key takeaways WordPress.com gives you a lot, but you won't get the good stuff like plugins and serious SEO tools unless you're on the pricier Business plan The block editor works once you figure it out, but it's nowhere near as beginner-friendly as drag-and-drop builders like Wix or Squarespace It's great for blogs or content-heavy sites, but not the best choice if you're new to building websites or want a cheap way to run an online store. View now at WordPress Follow ZD

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Rocket Report: Neutron’s pad opens for business; SpaceX gets Falcon 9 green light

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 15:00:13

Welcome to Edition 8.09 of the Rocket Report! The biggest news of the week happened inside the Beltway rather than on a launch pad somewhere. In Washington, DC, Congress has pushed back on the Trump administration's plan to stop flying the Space Launch System rocket after Artemis III. Congress made it clear that it wants to keep the booster in business for a long time. The big question now is whether the Trump White House will blink. As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't wa

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Age verification doesn’t work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 15:25:22

And just yesterday — June 27 — the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) issued a devastating decision that opens the door to broad state regulation of adult content, effectively allowing AV laws with minimal constitutional constraint. AV implementation was also scheduled to begin in France in June 2025, but was later halted — though only temporarily. However, it is set to come into effect next month in the UK — July 2025. A lot has happened in the past month: the EU Commission (the executive branch of

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Hackers exploited Sitecore zero-day flaw to deploy backdoors

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-15 14:51:42

Threat actors have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in legacy Sitecore deployments to deploy WeepSteel reconnaissance malware. The flaw, tracked under CVE-2025-53690, is a ViewState deserialization vulnerability caused by the inclusion of a sample ASP.NET machine key in pre-2017 Sitecore guides. Some customers reused this key in production, allowing attackers with knowledge of the key to craft valid, but malicious '_VIEWSTATE' payloads that tricked the server into deserializing and exe

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Say Bye with JavaScript Beacon

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 20:38:35

Sometimes we want to send a piece of data to our servers when user leaves our website or webapp. Maybe it’s for for analytics or even auto-logout when they leave the website. But do you know what is a reliable way of doing it? Most of you might say use XMLHTTPRequest (or fetch) in beforeunload or unload events. Like, window . addEventListener ( "beforeunload" , () => { fetch ( '/analytics' , { method : "POST" , headers : { "Content-Type" : "application/json" , }, body : JSON . stringify ({ eve

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I'm ditching passwords for passkeys for one reason - and it's not what you think

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-10-18 18:47:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Adoption of passkeys is fragmented across sites and devices. Users still need passwords for recovery and new device setup. Phishing protection makes passkeys worth adding, despite confusion. OK. Fine. I've finally decided to embrace passkeys. But why does it feel so icky? As you probably know, passkeys are the tech industry's answer to The Password Problem. Unlike password data, which

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Imgur's community was in revolt

news.ycombinator.com About The Author 2025-10-20 01:33:54

The front page of Imgur, a popular image hosting and social media site, is full of pictures of John Oliver raising his middle finger and telling MediaLab AI, the site’s parent company, “fuck you.” Imgurians, as the site’s users call themselves, telling their business daddy to go to hell is the end result of a years-long degradation of the website. The Imgur story is one a classic case of enshitification , Imgur began life in 2009 when Ohio University student Alan Schaaf got tired of how hard it

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