“If Apple’s appeal is not resolved until during or after the remedies trial, Apple may well be forced to stand mute at trial, as a mere spectator, while the government pursues an extreme remedy that targets Apple by name and would prohibit any commercial arrangement between Apple and Google for a decade.”
“Money is not necessarily ‘property’ for constitutional purposes,” the government’s brief declared—putting the very idea of property in scare quotes.
“But as Americans, we basically have no real rights to privacy, so my home address showed up in the PulsePoint logs and then a guy from Servpro read it and promptly arrived at my door hawking his services.”
“The core Manipulaters product is Heartsender, a spam delivery service whose homepage openly advertised phishing kits targeting users of various Internet companies.”
“Google has likely trained Gemini to avoid repeating expletives, so it simply is disabled in search when a curse word is present in order to avoid that.”
“The sheriff’s department’s 6,789 abuses made up a majority of the record 7,275 violations across California that were reported to the state Department of Justice (CADOJ) in 2023 regarding the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS).”
“No machine should ever choose to take the life of a human being.”
“As it stands today, OCSP is not making anyone more secure. Browsers are either not checking it or are implementing it in a way that provides no security benefits.”
“The Platforms & Devices team is offering a voluntary exit program that provides US-based Googlers working on this team the ability to voluntarily leave the company with a severance package.”
“It’s hard to imagine this is just a simple mixup, not just because so many retailers are apparently involved but also because they’ve all had their SMART stats reset, which would be very useful to someone trying to pretend a used drive is new.”
“Within minutes, we found a publicly accessible ClickHouse database linked to DeepSeek, completely open and unauthenticated, exposing sensitive data.”
“To add insult to injury, Google wiped the older firmware as part of the update process, so there’s no official way to go back to the previous version.”
“California’s memo makes clear that companies that use AI to create “deepfakes, chatbots, and voice clones that appear to represent people, events, and utterances that never existed” could fall under the category of “deceptive” and, thus, be considered a breach of state law.”
“As of 29 January 2025, ESA estimates that the probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 may impact Earth on 22 December 2032 is 1.2%.”
“If the LAP guesses wrong, it causes the CPU to perform arbitrary computations on out-of-bounds data, which should never have been accessed to begin with, under speculative execution.”
“Aside from using fewer GPU hours to train, the H800 chips that DeepSeek used to train its LLM have less performance than the H100 due to U.S. export restrictions.”
“The only evidence pointing to Tolbert was a report from Clearview AI, which explicitly said in a disclaimer at the bottom that the results ‘are to be treated as investigative leads and should not be solely relied upon for making an arrest.’”
“Millions of companies, particularly small businesses, rely on web hosting providers like GoDaddy to secure the websites that they and their customers rely on.”
“Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook’s internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being “cybersecurity threats”.”
“offering crypto as compensation could compromise the validity of user consent for collecting sensitive biometric data.”
“We do expect to find more, but we’re hoping the ‘more’ that we find is latent TB and not active.”
“Swedish authorities seized and boarded a ship on Sunday just hours after it was suspected of sabotaging a communications cable in the country’s exclusive economic zone beneath the Baltic Sea.”
“A total of 4,668 Tesla Model 3s of the 2020 model year were inspected between January 1 and November 21, 2024, and of those, 1,051 failed.”
“The attackers struck in darkness, forcing their way into Balland’s residence in the Cher region of central France during the early morning hours of January 21.”
“This incident, along with previous NEOCP postings of the WMAP spacecraft, highlights the deplorable state of availability of positional information on distant artificial objects.”
“despite almost 30 years of trying, Fintech companies have not disrupted banks. At least, not the big ones.”
“Tasks that seemed straightforward often took days rather than hours, with Devin getting stuck in technical dead-ends or producing overly complex, unusable solutions,” the researchers explain in their report.
“A trojanized version of the XWorm RAT builder has been weaponized and propagated,” reads the CloudSEK report.
“The Texas Attorney General’s office estimates that 45 million Americans, including those in Texas, unwittingly downloaded this software that collected their information, including location information, without notice or consent.”
“Caltrain is running its service on 100% renewable energy and is returning nearly a quarter of that energy to the grid,” said Michelle Bouchard, Caltrain Executive Director.
“By taking the highly anomalous post IDs and filtering out the MathHelpBoards import, and filtering out instances which seem plausibly close to their actual post times, we get an estimated 115,000 posts written by LLMs and attributed to humans.”
“The thing that’s crazy is that if I followed the 2 “best practices” of verifying the phone number + getting them to send an email to you from a legit domain, I would have been compromised.”
“And so I feel some sense of civic duty, as a Chicagoan, taxpayer, and reasonably financially sophisticated person, to say the following publicly: What the hell, Chicago.”
“We’re now 3 months on from our renewal submission, with zero communication from Docker, an account that is no longer part of the DSOS program, and no obvious way to speak to a human about it.”
“Using the access provided by the vulnerability, an attacker who only knew the victim’s last name and ZIP code, email address, phone number, or license plate could have done the following:”
“Between October 2023 and June 2024 alone, the Israeli Defense Ministry spent $10 million to purchase 19,000 hours of engineering support from Microsoft.”
“After my pull request it took less than ninety minutes for them to update the curl records. Without explanation, with no reference to my PR, they now apparently consider the issue to be CVSS 3.4.”
“Not only is Microsoft transgressing an important norm here, but as far as I can tell, they also didn’t tell anyone about this or warn us in any way.”
“The study found that 41 percent of postdocs end up leaving academia, at least in part because there aren’t enough faculty positions for them.”
“The misconfiguration persisted for nearly five years until a security researcher spent $300 to register the domain and prevent it from being grabbed by cybercriminals.”
“In 2021 alone, the FBI conducted 3.4 million warrantless searches of US person’s 702 data.”
“In reality, no consumer knowingly agrees to let their carmaker sell their driving data to other companies.”
“And that’s how we ended up with a crash, caused by unsafe-free Rust code badly interacting with the use of libc elsewhere in the program.”
“Startups burn through cash as they skyrocket in size and ambition, accumulating outrageous perks and office equipment along the way. Then they crash to Earth, with nothing but their private planes or massive 3D printers to pad the impact.”
“Signal instantly dismissed my report, saying it wasn’t their responsibility and it was up to users to hide their identity”
“Instead, you are automating exploitation – leveraging black-box algorithms to make decisions about de-activation, work allocation and pay without sufficient explanation, stripping workers of the ability to understand and challenge those decisions.”
“A lot of technology is not using our peripheral attention, but instead our primary attention, which makes it tiring and difficult to use it,” says Case.
“It would be up to a top-secret satellite program called Parcae to help keep the Cold War from suddenly toggling to hot.”
“Notably, it is the first open research to validate that reasoning capabilities of LLMs can be incentivized purely through RL, without the need for SFT.”
“By downloading through the bit torrent protocol, Meta knew it was facilitating further copyright infringement by acting as a distribution point for other users of pirated books…”
“The Bambu Connect app is a fairly low-effort Electron-based affair, with some attempt at obfuscation and encryption, but not enough to keep prying eyes out.”
“My total energy bill more than doubled! This is not uncommon feedback to hear from homeowners after installing a heat pump, but there’s more to the story.”
“The mathematicians creating the problems for FrontierMath were not (actively) communicated to about funding from OpenAI.”
“This means that setting help.autocorrect to 1 logically means “wait 100ms (1 decisecond) before continuing”.”
“Internet surveillance, the algorithmic polarization of social media, predatory app stores, and extractive business models have eroded the freedoms the personal computer once promised, effectively ending the PC era for most tech consumers.”
“This isn’t just wage disparity. It’s misallocation of human capital on a national scale.”
“It’s futile to block AI crawler bots because they lie, change their user agent, use residential IP addresses as proxies, and more.”
“That’s no small number at Google scale. Google processes around 8.5 billion searches per day, so one can assume that millions of people performing searches through Google aren’t using JavaScript.”
“Thanks to a bug discovered by Rairii in August 2022, attackers can extract your disk encryption key on Windows’ default ‘Device Encryption’ setup.”
“However it is not remotely designed or intended for use by commercial Matrix hosting providers to serve huge nation-scale deployments such as public healthcare insurance companies, and it will fail when used at this scale.”
“Canon will happily take your credit card for you to pay a small monthly price of $4.99 per month or even a discounted $49.99 per year!”
“Most TPM2 unlock setups fail to verify the LUKS identity of the decrypted partition.”
“Once a sufficiently-powerful general-purpose agent has been deployed on your phone, the only question that remains is who is given access to talk to it.”
“And not only is it rare that we understand why things break upstream, but also despite multi-million dollar annual spend, we get about as much support from them as you would spending $100.”
“One day, I woke up and out of frustration, I nuked the ‘book a call’ button from my pricing page.”
“Dorsey is presumably being platformed in Janson because his blockchain bullshit company is a main sponsor of FOSDEM this year.”
“Unfortunately, certificate revocation doesn’t work very well. This means that certificates with compromised keys (or other issues) may continue to be used until they expire.”
“Tennis Australia’s director of innovation Machar Reid said the technology used 12 cameras tracking 29 skeletal points that are stitched together to create the reproduction on a two-minute delay.”
“Nearly 100 individuals have been charged civilly or criminally by regulators at least in part through our work, including billionaires and oligarchs. We shook some empires that we felt needed shaking.”
“Previously, Google charged an additional $20+ per user/month for Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Meet, and other Workspace apps. The full Gemini experience is now coming to Google Workspace business users as part of a price increase.”
“The local department gets up to 80 percent of the forfeiture proceeds, and the rest goes into a Justice Department pool that is doled out to other participating departments around the country.”
“SpaceX chose the southern Indian Ocean as its reentry zone because of its remote location. But the location is very relevant to Qantas: It falls within its route from Sydney to Johannesburg.”
“Here’s the problem: Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against someone purchasing a failed startup’s domain and using it to re-create email accounts for former employees.”
“The Wall Street Journal cites internal data from the hiring platform Greenhouse that shows one in five online job postings—or between 18% and 22% of jobs advertised—are either fake or never filled.”
“One of the most frustrating things is that the change only saved seconds for drivers.”
“The rapid feedback loop between creators and audiences (as constructed by platform metrics) means that the system more and more responds to itself.”
“Millions of pieces of precise location data have been released, showing users’ most visited locations such as their home, workplace, and more.”
“The user who published the NPM package uses a snyk.io email address for the Snyk Security Labs team.”
“And when that end date rolls around, he’ll be granted a severance of $1,875,000.”
“But school administrators said the tool violated a UW registration policy pertaining to the use of automated tools for enrollment.”
“The CEO preferred not to enumerate the increase precisely however The Register understands it exceeded 500 percent.”
“Put simply - we have been hijacking backdoors (that were reliant on now abandoned infrastructure and/or expired domains) that themselves existed inside backdoors, and have since been watching the results flood in.”
“Locked devices also allow companies to restrict who is and is not allowed to repair hardware.”
“Generative Remove and Generative Fill have become so unreliable that some members of the PetaPixel staff have stopped using it entirely.”
“Rather, it was the system behavior that emerged from clients downloading the new version that led to the outage.”
“I strongly encourage anyone who wants to try different leadership models or align with WP Engine to join up with their new effort,” Mullenweg wrote.
“The proximity of the AES Andes industrial megaproject to Paranal poses a critical risk to the most pristine night skies on the planet,” highlighted ESO Director General, Xavier Barcons.
“For the first time ever in our country’s history, we are making leading-edge 4nm chips on American soil, American workers — on par in yield and quality with Taiwan,” Raimondo told Reuters.
“With that being said, technical understanding is no substitute for consent, which should have been requested by Apple along with a proper explanation.”
“In at least five of the 16 African countries where the service is available, a monthly Starlink subscription is cheaper than the leading fixed internet service provider.”
“The astute reader will note that this is the 11th year in a row that the CEO of Tesla has made this prediction of the same milestone happening the next year. We can admire the consistency.”
“Deno Land also accused Oracle of committing fraud in its trademark renewal efforts in 2019 by submitting screen captures of the website of JavaScript runtime Node.js, even though Node.js was not affiliated with Oracle.”
“The 4,000x energy-efficiency improvement is on Vaire’s road map but probably 10 or 15 years out.”
“Curl said that this is a Windows feature and there are no plans to fix it.”
“Customers are presented with three subscription options – their current plan, the cheaper “Classic” plan and a “Basic” OneDrive-only plan. Customers aren’t told about this option anywhere else.”
“We will be heads down building a new product with Datadog, so to ensure our open-source community can continue on, we will soon release a new version of Quickwit under the Apache License 2.0.”
“VLC media player, the popular open source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered subtitle system.”
“Three decades ago, breaking a 512-bit RSA public key was a feat achievable only with a supercomputer. Today, it’s possible to do so in just a few hours for less than US$8 on a cloud server.”
“Some 400,000 residents are without power, and water pressure needed to fight the blazes is reportedly failing, with hydrants said to be running dry.”
“We want to signal and prime the pump with our own major tech purchases of the U.S. government that this is the way we move the internet of things market to be more secure,” she said.
“We will end the current third party fact checking program in the United States and instead begin moving to a Community Notes program.”
“In essence, the voice phishers are using an automated Apple phone support line to send notifications from Apple and to trick people into thinking they’re really talking with Apple.”
“If you can’t beat Google, trick your users into thinking that they’re using Google.”
“It’s a cloud computing platform that sits on your desk.”
“This is the holy grail for remotely attested trusted compute.”
“Pie Adblock is not an open source project”
“Meta has deleted some of the AI-generated users created for Facebook and Instagram after a severe backlash over the existence of the accounts.”
“Shipping features from the roadmap is a chunk of our core job. It shouldn’t usually be in our OKRs.”
“I gained remote code execution via MIDI messages to trick my synth into playing Bad Apple on its LCD.”
“Many apps are starting to integrate AI models directly on the device.”
“This also meant that it was exposed to the internet, with open ports in the router firewall and everything.”
“the car needs to be at least 20 years old, and with a day value of less than €1000.”
“The farm’s 3,276 solar panels generate enough electricity to power approximately 300 homes.”
“Entering full-screen mode and then returning to the Windows GUI will leave you with a corrupted screen.”
“After benchmarking, the algorithm is extremely fast, resulting in about 6 milliseconds a run, or a 100x speedup.”
“We are tenants with landlords who want to make sure that we can’t leave the building or go hang out with friends elsewhere.”
“Live by the fast follow; die by the fast follow.”
“A bug in the SSH integration feature caused input and output to be logged to a file on the remote host.”
“The rules require broadband operators to treat all internet traffic equally and banned them from giving preferential treatment to some sites by speeding up or slowing down consumer access.”
“While the FSF has been focusing on TPMs, GPU vendors have quietly deployed all of this technology without the FSF complaining at all.”
“In March 2024, Redis Ltd. announced they were switching from the system’s original (very permissive) BSD-3 license to a dual license comprising the proprietary Redis Source Available License and MongoDB’s SSPL.”
“On January 1, 2025, we celebrate published works from 1929 and published sound recordings from 1924 entering the public domain!”
“Rejection is actually a relatively common occurrence for me, happening once or twice a year on average.”