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Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety
Cambridge researchers urge public health bodies like the NHS to provide trustworthy, research-driven alternatives to platforms driven by profit.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,671 posts.
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Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman
Making a discovery with the potential for innovative applications in pharmaceutical development, a West Virginia University microbiology student has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effects similar to the semisynthetic drug LSD, which is used to treat conditions like depression, post-traumatic stress…
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It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine)
In a really broad sense, the history of observability tools over the past couple of decades have been about a pretty simple concept: how do we make terabytes of heterogeneous telemetry data comprehensible to human beings? We’ve seen different companies tackle this in different ways for technology like Ruby on Rails…
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Another Crack in the Chain of Trust: Uncovering (Yet Another) Secure Boot Bypass
Binarly uncovers CVE-2025-3052: a Secure Boot bypass affecting most UEFI devices, enabling attackers to run unsigned code before OS load.
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Android 16 is here
Here’s a look at the new features coming to Android 16.
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
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Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why
In the EU, digital sovereignty is trending. Businesses and authorities are starting to adopt sovereign solutions from Europe.
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Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
Apple announced new technologies and enhancements to its developer tools to help developers create more beautiful, intelligent, and engaging apps.
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Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
Apple previewed a new software design, crafted with Liquid Glass, that makes apps and system experiences more expressive and delightful.
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Forests offset warming more than thought: study
Replanting forests can cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total effect won’t cancel out human-generated warming.
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FSE meets the FBI
I have for you a bizarre tale of scrapers, feds, data poisoning, Torswats, and everyone's favorite fedi instance. It veers technical, because I suspect it will be of interest to other people running servers with UGC (i.e., every fedi instance), and also because the mechanics of how I figured out what I figured out…
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Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode
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Poison everywhere: No output from your MCP server is safe
Protect your organization with Idira®. Modernize identity governance, automate access reviews, and secure every identity across your hybrid cloud environment.
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The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…
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Joining Apple Computer (2018)
40 years ago today, I joined Apple Computer on April 27, 1978. It was a big turning point in my life and I am glad I said "Yes".
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Hate Radio (2011)
Anti-Tutsi articles and graphic cartoons began appearing in the Kangura newspaper from around 1990. In June 1993 a new radio station called Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLMC) began broadcasting in Rwanda…
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Why We're Moving on from Nix
Meet Railpack — the next iteration of the Railway builder, developed from the ground up on lessons from building over 14 million apps with Nixpacks.
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What “working” means in the era of AI apps
New revenue benchmarks for gen AI startups in year one, based on dozens of enterprise and consumer AI companies we’ve spent significant time with.
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Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation
There are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie’s classic piece on names, here are some false assumptions one might make about aviation.
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Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks
Open source LLMs now outperform closed alternatives at 90% lower cost for workhorse tasks. We compare benchmarks, pricing, and real-world performance.
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SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding
The pitch of modern SaaS is "don't reinvent the wheel." But every wheel you bolt on comes with some friction.
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How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
Learn how we tracked a performance bottleneck to a 15-year-old Git function and fixed it, leading to enhanced efficiency that supports more robust backup strategies and can reduce risk.
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Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest
Your trusty Dependabot (and other GitHub bots) might be an unwitting accomplice. Through "Confused Deputy" attacks, they can be tricked into merging malicious code. This doesn't stop here. It can escalate to full command injection via crafted branch names and even bypass branch protection rules. Plus, we disclose two…
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Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11
TigerBeetle is an Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) database built for double-entry accounting with a strong emphasis on safety and speed. It builds on the Viewstamped Replication (VR) consensus protocol to offer Strong Serializable consistency. Unlike general-purpose databases, TigerBeetle stores only accounts…
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How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy
OpenAI is fighting a court order at the demands of The New York Times and plaintiffs, which involves retention of consumer ChatGPT and API user data indefinitely. Learn how we’re working to uphold user privacy, address legal requirements, and stay true to our data protection commitments.
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