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T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users

arstechnica.com

AT&T enables unlocking of paid-off phones after 60 days for postpaid users and after six months...
AT&T enables unlocking of paid-off phones after 60 days for postpaid users and after six months for prepaid users. AT&T lodged similar complaints as T-Mobile, saying in an October 7 filing that the FCC's proposed rules would "mak[e] handsets less affordable for consumers, especially those in low-income households," ...
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Russian Propaganda Unit Behind Spread of False Tim Walz Abuse Claims

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The claims, however, didn’t go viral until last week and the release of the deepfake video.Darren...
The claims, however, didn’t go viral until last week and the release of the deepfake video.Darren Linvill, codirector at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, tells WIRED that he immediately recognized this tactic as part of Russia’s well-established disinformation playbook.“There is little doubt this is Storm-1...
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Meta's Israel Policy Chief tried to suppress pro-Palestinian posts

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Photo illustration: Fei Liu/The Intercept / Photo: Joy Malone/Getty Images A former senior Israeli government official...
Photo illustration: Fei Liu/The Intercept / Photo: Joy Malone/Getty Images A former senior Israeli government official now working as Meta’s Israel policy chief personally pushed for the censorship of Instagram accounts belonging to Students for Justice in Palestine — a group that has played a leading role in organi...
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Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf]

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Show HN: Floating point arithmetic types in C++ for any size and any base

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Please do not write below the line

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Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab

amoses.dev

For almost as long as the Undergraduate Projects Lab at the University of Wisconsin has existed,...
For almost as long as the Undergraduate Projects Lab at the University of Wisconsin has existed, there’s been a camera of some sort peering at the room. There’s evidence of a system existing even as far back as the 1990s, with a prehistoric revision of the site mentioning that an old iteration was: …a $15 video came...
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Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot

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The Vibes Are Off: Did Elon Musk Push Academics Off Twitter?

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Twitter has been a prominent forum for academics communicating online, both among themselves and with policy...
Twitter has been a prominent forum for academics communicating online, both among themselves and with policy makers and the broader public. Twitter thus has had a significant role in the practice of social scientific research in the 2010s and early 2020s. The growth of this online academic community has weathered a ...
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Red Hat Reveals Major Enhancements to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI

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Red HatWell, that was fast. It was only back in early September that Red Hat released...
Red HatWell, that was fast. It was only back in early September that Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 1.0. Now, Red Hat has followed up by announcing the general availability of RHEL AI 1.2. This latest release introduces several key improvements aimed at streamlining the development, testing, ...
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Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners

malwarebytes.com

Multiple robot vacuum cleaners in the US were hacked to yell obscenities and insults through the...
Multiple robot vacuum cleaners in the US were hacked to yell obscenities and insults through the onboard speakers. ABC news was able to confirm reports of this hack in robot vacuum cleaners of the type Ecovacs Deebot X2, which are manufactured in China. Ecovacs is considered the leading service robotics brand, and i...
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Turing and the Primes (2016) [pdf]

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Perplexity AI's new tool makes researching the stock market 'delightful'

zdnet.com

Yuichiro Chino/Getty ImagesI'm no day trader. Back in the 1990s, I dabbled with Cocoa futures trading...
Yuichiro Chino/Getty ImagesI'm no day trader. Back in the 1990s, I dabbled with Cocoa futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange using Globex. However, you may have noticed I'm not a commodity millionaire. Still, I know a thing or two about the stock market, and I think Perplexity AI, the rapidly growing AI ...
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Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back

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ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models

arstechnica.com

But recruiting AI experts for that expansion may be challenging for ByteDance, which saw an "exodus"...
But recruiting AI experts for that expansion may be challenging for ByteDance, which saw an "exodus" of top AI experts in May, as startups lure talent to attract investors seeking to prop up the next OpenAI, the South China Morning Post reported. ByteDance also competes for talent with top rivals Tencent and Alibaba...
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U.S. retailers list AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs – prices range from $484 to $525

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(Image credit: AMD) Listings and corresponding price points for the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor have...
(Image credit: AMD) Listings and corresponding price points for the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor have begun popping up on retailers around the web. This probably signals the Ryzen 9000 X3D Series' imminent release and should help solidify expectations of a general pricing range. The highest price we've seen so far,...
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Ask HN: How to learn UI/UX as a data/BE engineer?

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Bumblebee malware returns after recent law enforcement disruption

bleepingcomputer.com

The Bumblebee malware loader has been spotted in new attacks recently, more than four months after...
The Bumblebee malware loader has been spotted in new attacks recently, more than four months after Europol disrupted it during 'Operation Endgame' in May. Believed to be the creation of TrickBot developers, the malware emerged in 2022 as a replacement for the BazarLoader backdoor to provide ransomware threat actors ...

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xAI Grok API Beta

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Werckmeister Temperment

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Tuning system described by Andreas Werckmeister Werckmeister temperaments are the tuning systems described by Andreas Werckmeister...
Tuning system described by Andreas Werckmeister Werckmeister temperaments are the tuning systems described by Andreas Werckmeister in his writings.[1][2][3] The tuning systems are numbered in two different ways: the first refers to the order in which they were presented as "good temperaments" in Werckmeister's 1691 ...
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YouTube: The SiFive HiFive Premier P550 [video]

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Solar power from space? it might happen in a couple of years

arstechnica.com

That approach starts in low-Earth orbit rather than 36,000 km away from the surface of the...
That approach starts in low-Earth orbit rather than 36,000 km away from the surface of the Earth. Aetherflux plans to begin with a single satellite, launching into an orbit about 500 km above the planet on a SpaceX transporter mission about 12 to 15 months from now. This initial satellite will be based on a commerci...
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India's airline industry in chaos after 90 hoax bomb threats in a week

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A reported 90 hoax bomb threats have been made against Indian airlines in the past week,...
A reported 90 hoax bomb threats have been made against Indian airlines in the past week, provoking international travel chaos as planes were grounded, diverted and flown to safety by fighter jet escorts.The unprecedented surge in fake bomb threats against multiple Indian and international airlines has caused severe ...
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Welcome to the Era of the $20k Family Car Insurance Bill

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Have several children, a driveway full of cars and a few moving violations? Good luck to you. There are some ways to lessen the financial pain.Listen to this ...
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