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MoneyGram confirms hack: customer data have leaked

mashable.com

On Monday, MoneyGram confirmed that it had been targeted in an cyberattack, resulting in an unauthorized...
On Monday, MoneyGram confirmed that it had been targeted in an cyberattack, resulting in an unauthorized party gaining access to their company's internal systems. It's unclear how many of MoneyGram's customers were affected. According to the company's website, MoneyGram has more than 150 million customers across 200...
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Show HN: Kabit – A Simple Habit Tracker

apple.com

Kabit: Your Fun Habit-Busting SidekickStruggling to stick to a habit? Kabit’s got your back—with a dash...
Kabit: Your Fun Habit-Busting SidekickStruggling to stick to a habit? Kabit’s got your back—with a dash of humor and a sprinkle of magic.What is Kabit?Kabit is more than just a habit tracker—it's your quirky companion on the journey to habit mastery. Whether it's drinking more water, becoming a morning person, or le...

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The Origins of PostScript [pdf]

gwern.net
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TikTok is 'digital nicotine' meant to hook kids, AGs fume in new suits

courthousenews.com
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Ask HN: What's a software project that made people's lives better?

ycombinator.com
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European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware

welivesecurity.com

ESET researchers discovered a series of attacks on a governmental organization in Europe using tools capable...
ESET researchers discovered a series of attacks on a governmental organization in Europe using tools capable of targeting air-gapped systems. The campaign, which we attribute to GoldenJackal, a cyberespionage APT group that targets government and diplomatic entities, took place from May 2022 to March 2024. By analyz...
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Caveman Debugging in the Modern Age

theapache64.github.io

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements —...
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements — Brian Kernighan , “Unix for Beginners” (1979) 📗 Context What’s Caveman Debugging? Caveman debugging, also known as “printf debugging” is a simple and primitive method of debugging code. It involves insertin...
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Open Source Projects of WAGO Kontakttechnik

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Futexes in TLA+

surfingcomplexity.blog

Justine Tunney recently wrote a blog post titled The Fastest Mutexes where she describes how she...
Justine Tunney recently wrote a blog post titled The Fastest Mutexes where she describes how she implemented mutexes in Cosmopolitan Libc. The post discusses how her implementation uses futexes by way of Mike Burrows’s nsync library. From her post nsync enlists the help of the operating system by using futexes. This...
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Five times ICANN deleted a ccTLD, and what it means for .io

domainincite.com

Kevin Murphy, October 4, 2024, 18:07:52 (UTC), Domain Registries With the future of .io coming into...
Kevin Murphy, October 4, 2024, 18:07:52 (UTC), Domain Registries With the future of .io coming into question this week, with the news that the UK will return sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius, I thought it would be a good time to see how ICANN has treated disappearing countries and terri...
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Boeing at Risk of Junk Rating with S&P Amid Strike

bloomberg.com
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Lunar Lake's iGPU: Debut of Intel's Xe2 Architecture

chipsandcheese.com

Intel has a long history of making integrated GPUs, and they’ve recognized how important iGPUs are...
Intel has a long history of making integrated GPUs, and they’ve recognized how important iGPUs are to thin and light laptops. Today Intel is locked in fierce competition with AMD, and the company’s fight to hold on to the laptop market is no less intense on the graphics front. Lunar Lake is Intel’s latest mobile off...
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X reinstated in Brazil after complying with court demands

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SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday authorized the...
SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday authorized the restoration of social media platform X´s service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown, according to a court document that was made public.Elon Musk’s X was blocked on Aug. 30 in the highly online cou...

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Vector math library codegen in Debug

aras-p.info
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Instant (YC S22) is hiring a founding engineer to help build a modern Firebase

ycombinator.com

We’re looking for a hacker to join our team of 3 on-site in San Francisco.You would...
We’re looking for a hacker to join our team of 3 on-site in San Francisco.You would be one of the founding engineers; why join us, when you can start a company yourself or work at an OpenAI?Here’s our case:Instant is (a) a really hard problem (b) that users want (c) worked on by an excellent team (d) where you can h...
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A modest critique of Htmx

chrisdone.com

At work, we really like the basic simple idea of Htmx. Based on using Htmx in...
At work, we really like the basic simple idea of Htmx. Based on using Htmx in a non-trivial user interface, across a team, we’ve found that the following cases are actually not simple and are quite complicated. Inheritance of Htmx properties is a definite mistake Across pieces of code, it’s very surprising and it’s ...
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"Now What?" by John Hopfield (2018) [pdf]

princeton.edu
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Foxconn building Nvidia superchip facility in Mexico

reuters.com
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Mary Hubbard New Executive Director of Wordpress.org

wordpress.org
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Car brands are collecting and sharing your data with third parties

abc.net.au

Popular car brands are collecting and sharing driver data from braking patterns and odometer readings to...
Popular car brands are collecting and sharing driver data from braking patterns and odometer readings to vehicle location and voice recognition information, consumer advocacy group Choice has found.Choice sifted through the privacy policies of the 10 most popular car brands in Australia to identify which tracked the...

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Wanted: Expedition botanist to follow in Darwin's footsteps and look for plants

theguardian.com

With the promise of travel, adventure and the chance to follow in the footsteps of Charles...
With the promise of travel, adventure and the chance to follow in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, applications have opened for what might be the best job in the natural world: an expedition botanist to go on plant-collecting adventures for Cambridge University Botanic Garden.It is understood to be the first time su...
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Canvases versus Documents

kaiwenwang.com

Much web design has reflected that of paper documents: finite with clearly defined edges. But by...
Much web design has reflected that of paper documents: finite with clearly defined edges. But by no means is the canvas style recent, as we can see in Space Jam. A swing back to documents I feel a shift in style is ongoing: the big text on a clear background is now becoming bordered. See Zed, Hebbia, or Matrices. Th...
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Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components

player.style
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End of the Road for Google Drive in Transmit

panic.com

October 8th, 2024 We never like removing functionality from our apps. We especially don’t like doing...
October 8th, 2024 We never like removing functionality from our apps. We especially don’t like doing it when it’s due to circumstances beyond our control. But, sometimes — rarely? — it can happen, and so, please take note: At some unknown point in the future, Google will revoke Transmit’s access to Google Drive. Som...
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