February 2025

“with this, i could push auto updates to all applications using todesktop”

“The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that ‘We never sell your data’ is because, in some places, the LEGAL definition of ‘sale of data’ is broad and evolving.”

“The US government made nearly 500,000 data requests to Google and Meta — more than all the other members of the so-called 14 Eyes Alliance combined.”

“People create thousands of GitHub repositories with all sorts of things - from Roblox and Fortnite mods to ‘cracked’ FL Studio and Photoshop.”

“After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down.”

“GPT-4.5 is also very expensive to run, OpenAI admits — so expensive that the company says it’s evaluating whether to continue serving GPT-4.5 in its API in the long term.”

“The attacker doesn’t need to be anywhere near you - they can track your location from thousands of miles away as long as there are Apple devices passing near you.”

“The payments to AWS gradually skyrocketed as the naira depreciated around 70% against the dollar between 2020 and 2024.”

“The current state of the source code does not fully compile and will require some effort to restore it.”

“Microsoft removed both extensions from the VS Code marketplace and banned the developer.”

“Alexa also remains unprofitable. Amazon has never charged for access to Alexa, instead infusing it into its lineup of smart speakers, tablets and other devices.”

“It is not tolerable that the daily lives of millions of Chileans are affected by the responsibility of one or several companies,” Boric said in his nationally televised address.

“The purpose of the bill – which may be passed next year – is for the police and Security Service to be able to request message history in retrospect for individuals suspected of crimes.”

“Y Combinator supports an AI startup that’s pitching granular machine vision surveillance of factory workers.”

“Schemas are now file layouts. We lose.”

“In bug 1910322 comment 74 DigiCert wrote, ‘We have not used a legal team as a shield against accountability.’ Contrary to this statement, I received a letter from DigiCert’s lawyers, Wilson Sonsini, regarding posts made by Sectigo’s Chief Compliance Officer in bug 1910322.”

“So I can break into this building in about 5 minutes without attracting any attention whatsoever.”

“It turns out Co-Scientist had been fed a 2023 paper by Penadés’ team that included a version of the hypothesis. The BBC coverage failed to mention this bit.”

“Microsoft has reportedly canceled several data center leases with U.S. operators, indicating potentially overbuilt infrastructure and unclear demand for AI services.”

“He was also kind enough to lie and claim “There were few more security layers which would have made any data breach impossible anyway.” and only basic information such as database sizes was exposed.”

“Manufacturers told legislators that sharing repair information would make it impossible for them to protect their trade secrets and would be dangerous to customers—so we brought in experts, shared data, and proved that repair information is not protected and changing batteries isn’t dangerous.”

“The drug offers so modest a benefit that doctors and patients might not perceive any effect whatsoever.”

“The following sites and services have stated that the Online Safety Act 2023 is the reason for their closing, or for geo-blocking UK users.”

“Thailand cut off power supply on Wednesday to three areas in Myanmar where online scamming hubs are concentrated.”

“The report also showed between 2017 and 2019, the insurers in the study showed a net loss of $432 million and their affiliate companies showed a net income of $1.8 billion.”

“The Facebook giant revealed in a government filing that its Compensation, Nominating and Governance Committee (CNGC) approved a target annual bonus increase for its top executive officers bar CEO Mark Zuckerberg.”

“S.B. 180 is unfortunately a necessary step in the right direction when it comes to regulating the rapid spread of police using generative AI to write their narrative reports for them.”

“Just like Apple AI generating fake news summaries, Yahoo AI was hallucinating the fake winner messages, presumably as a result of training their model on our old emails.”

“We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP will not be available to our customers in the UK given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy,” Apple said in a statement.

“Each bed contains a full Linux-based computer. If my estimations above are correct, all of Eight Sleep engineering can take full control of that computer any time they want.”

“Plaintiffs, thus, plead no facts to show that Meta seeded Plaintiffs’ books – a claim that Meta will address at summary judgment,” Meta notes.

“The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit was hacked for more than $1.4 billion worth of Ethereum on Friday in what cybersecurity experts are calling the largest-ever theft targeting a cryptocurrency platform.”

“If there are mistakes in the table, it doesn’t matter how many there are - I can’t trust it.”

“The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.”

“Yep. Certainly that history is making some experts cautious about the new claim.”

“So unless the Foundation manages to raise $100,000 of funding by the end of March 2025, we will have to focus our resources on the critical lines of work, and consequently we will have to shut down all the remaining bridges hosted by the Matrix.org Foundation.”

“The recent AWS SDK bump introduced strong integrity checksums, and broke compatibility with many S3-compatible object storages (pre-2025 Minio, Vast, Dell EC etc).”

“Some streamers have taken to social media to share their discontent with the decision, with many pointing out that Twitch is owned by Amazon, which is a market leader in cloud services through its AWS platform.”

“HP bought up Humane’s CosmOS operating system and IP, including the tech for the AI Pin, for $116 million. The sale means the end for Humane.”

“Unlike the Steam Workshop or local content mods, this SDK gives mod makers the ability to change, extend or rewrite TF2, making anything from small tweaks to complete conversions possible,” Valve explained.

“Because linking an additional device typically requires scanning a quick-response (QR) code, threat actors have resorted to crafting malicious QR codes that, when scanned, will link a victim’s account to an actor-controlled Signal instance.”

“I had enough to charge the juvenile delinquent for something else, but instead I told him a lie so I could get to the gun. And ultimately, that worked…”

“Putting aside the hype, bluster and ungodly amounts of money, I can find no evidence that any of these apps are making anyone any real money.”

“This was a 25% improvement on the previous record time achieved with EAST, in China, a few weeks previously.”

“Many are producing hundreds of papers each year and gaining hundreds to thousands of new collaborators annually, according to recent analysis by researchers at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia.”

“When planes land with the crosswind, when they point the nose of the planes, it’s called a crab, into the wind, the plane tracks straight.”

“The patient who achieved more than 18 years of complete remission after the infusion never required any other cancer treatment.”

“searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably one of the largest in the world, at least for a public facing website.”

“Wait around 30 seconds, and your Kindle will spew text and restart the GUI.”

“By explicitly allowing a tracking technique that they previously described as incompatible with user control, Google highlights its ongoing prioritisation of profits over privacy,” said Lena Cohen, staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

“Floating point numbers are imprecise - they cannot represent 0.3 or 10^100.”

“I traced this behavior to an amdgpu driver power/memory management bug, which took over a year to brainstorm and implement solutions for.”

“The records show that Tsai — who worked for McKinsey from 2007 to 2015, according to his LinkedIn page — helped develop a marketing strategy for tramadol sold under the brand name Ultram ER, an effort that involved cultivating relationships with doctors who became prolific prescribers.”

“If you spend $1 on carbon capture instead of on wind, water, and solar, you are increasing CO2, air pollution, energy requirements, energy costs, pipelines, and total social costs…”

“Nintendo has secured what appears to be an anti-Palworld patent in the United States.”

“Surprisingly, newer brake pads proved more harmful than older ones, which were made with asbestos.”

“The biggest problem: developers don’t want GPUs. They don’t even want AI/ML models. They want LLMs.”

“This appeal presents a scenario in which agencies from two different state jurisdictions shared a defendant’s sensitive phone data without consent, without a warrant, and without any pending charges, or even an investigation by the out-of-state agency requesting access to the data.”

“Apple is feeling the heat over its acclaimed iPhone privacy policy after a German regulator’s review of iOS tracking consent alleged that the tech giant exempted itself from the rules it enforces on third-party developers.”

“According to NTI, the removal of these derived models was not requested by NTI, but by a third-party report, unbeknownst to NTI or the original creator of the model.”

“Linux started out as a hobbyist project, but it has well and truly lost its hobbyist roots.”

“Starting February 26, 2025, the “Download & Transfer via USB” option will no longer be available.”

“When we cannot track you even if we wanted to, that’s genuine privacy.”

“Variation selector sequences are a way to do this that survives most copy/pastes and allows arbitrary data density.”

“There wasn’t any server-side limit to the length of a recording name.”

“As long as countries will put their data - all of it - in a single place we can use AI to help manage the care of all of the patients and the population at large,” Ellison said

“With US $400 worth of equipment and freely available software, you can start right away intercepting Iridium communications in an area with a diameter of hundreds, sometimes even thousands of kilometers…”

“Since we are still at the beginning of 2025, these only represent 41 days worth of submitted benchmarks.”

“One survey of the literature suggests that drivers in the typical American city spend an average of eight minutes looking for parking at the end of each trip.”

“With his bid, Musk has signaled there’s at least one group of investors willing to pay a sizable premium for OpenAI’s nonprofit wing. That puts the board of directors in a tight spot.”

“Ross was using Thomson Reuters’s headnotes as AI data to create a legal research tool to compete with Westlaw,” Judge Bibas wrote.

“In a move that has left drivers both frustrated and bewildered, Stellantis has introduced full-screen pop-up ads on its infotainment systems.”

“Aw, crap. Here we go again.”

“It failed to merge out of a lane that was ending (there was no one on my left) and made no attempt to slow down or turn until it had already hit the curb.”

“You didn’t just come up with a cool hash table,” he remembers telling Krapivin. “You’ve actually completely wiped out a 40-year-old conjecture!”

“Both are valuable to Google, with the tracking cookies generated by the former potentially contributing to ad targeting, and data from the latter being applied toward AI model training, either internally at Google or sold to another company.”

“McCauley has failed to identify a single fact alleged in Debanking which is incorrect, or any other malfeasance.”

“Tesla acknowledges all faults in the vehicle (except for battery losses, a fact on which it has not yet formally commented).”

“The Wisconsin-focused spot showed a farmer using the tool to write a product description, mentioning that gouda cheese comprises 50 to 60 percent of global cheese consumption.”

“At Habana, we could make a decision in a five-minute hallway conversation. At Intel, that same decision required three meetings with dozens of participants, and nothing moved forward…”

“Anyone can connect to the device at any time and start issuing commands. You can pull activity data, sleep data, heart rate data, menstrual data.”

“The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months, and lower prices lead to much more use.”

“Our most important finding is that the reproducibility rate in nixpkgs has increased steadily from 69% in 2017 to about 91% in April 2023.”

“Because Sure International holds an exclusive monopoly telecommunications licence, Starlink’s use in the islands is currently illegal.”

“There is no technological compromise between strong encryption that protects the data and a mechanism to allow the government special access to this data.”

“For vehicles that weigh more than the fleet average, there’s hardly any decrease in risk for occupants associated with additional poundage.”

“Unlike Tramp, which lives off the land on the remote connection, VSCode mounts a full-scale invasion: it runs a Bash snippet stager that downloads an agent, including a binary installation of Node.”

“We are destroying software telling new programmers: “Don’t reinvent the wheel!”. But, reinventing the wheel is how you learn how things work, and is the first step to make new, different wheels.”

“The incident occurred due to human error and insufficient validation safeguards during a routine abuse remediation for a report about a phishing site hosted on R2.”

“The average PG&E electricity charge now starts at 40 cents per kilowatt hour and goes up from there.”

“I no longer have any faith left in the kernel development process or community management approach.”

“The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov.”

“This stage involves downloading and executing a ScreenConnect installer, which is typically known as a legitimate remote desktop application.”

“The median concentration in brain samples collected from people who died in 2024 was nearly 5,000 micrograms of plastic per gram of brain tissue, tallying almost 0.5% by weight.”

“In the first month of 2025, there were 147 reported crimes on the subway down from 231 last year—resulting in 36% fewer crimes committed on the rails this year.”

“The researcher’s tests demonstrated that the resulting battery design can have an extremely long life, with the battery retaining 99 percent of its original capacity after 10,000 charge/discharge cycles.”

“In months where you don’t utilize any searches on your plan, we will automatically apply a full credit to your account for that month.”

“They used 16 NVIDIA H100s for 26 minutes per training run, that equates to around $6.”

“For the past three years, Microsoft documented a way to run Windows 11 on PCs that lack Trusted Platform Module 2.0 hardware – but that workaround has now disappeared from its help page.”

“Over the last month, across five different YouTube channels, the studio has released more than 30 full movies. On YouTube. For free. Without any sort of gating.”

“My mental health has been in decline as a direct result of this behavior; the joy of working on this project has pretty much gone. There is nothing to be gained from putting time and hard work into it any more.”

“The company appears to have updated its public AI principles page, erasing a section titled ‘applications we will not pursue,’ which was still included as recently as last week.”

“By flooding its once converted editorial playlists with hastily-assembled royalty-free music and AI generated slop, Spotify was able to quietly displace real artists to make more money for itself.”

“Alpine is not a project you host lightly, with a monthly transfer of about 800TB.”

“The reductions will save Vanguard’s investors more than $350 million in 2025 alone, the largest annual expense ratio reduction in Vanguard’s nearly 50-year history.”

“The beavers saved us 30 million Czech crowns. They built the dams without any project documentation and for free…”

“The Republican Senator from Missouri Josh Hawley has introduced a new bill that would make it illegal to import or export artificial intelligence products to and from China, meaning someone who knowingly downloads a Chinese developed AI model like the now immensely popular DeepSeek could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both, should such a law pass.”

“Since 1988, Keirans led a productive life, obtaining a high-paying job at UIHC, marrying, and raising a son, all while living under the stolen identity of William Woods, a sporadically transient man who Keirans had briefly worked with at a hot dog stand in New Mexico.”

“The vulnerability is that the CPU uses an insecure hash function in the signature validation for microcode updates.”

“They could be on the hook for up to €35 million (~$36 million), or 7% of their annual revenue from the prior fiscal year, whichever is greater.”

“Likes received have a positive impact, but it is very light, which is a good thing from a monetization standpoint (you can make guys pay and not show them to anyone; they will keep paying, just a bit less than if they received likes.”

“This is the worst thing about these data trades that happen constantly around the world - each small part of it is (or seems) legit. It’s the bigger picture that makes them look ugly.”

“They might not be able to reason beyond what they have seen during the training data for hard tasks,” Dziri said. “Or at least they do an approximation, and that approximation can be wrong.”

“We refuted all of Nintendo’s arguments, demonstrating their errors and our rightful claim,” Jiménez explained.

“Literally gluing a few microvanes to the rear fuselage of a C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane can result in fuel savings in the tens of millions of dollars.”

“I wasn’t told that my account was disabled. I didn’t receive an E-Mail or anything.”

“Dell justified the policy change by asserting a thirty-second in-person conversation can replace an email discussion that goes on for hours or days and by noting that specific groups within the company – sales, manufacturing, and engineering – have already adjusted to being in the office five days per week.”

“Only one air traffic control worker was managing the helicopters and some planes from the Reagan National Airport tower at the time of the collision, a job normally done by two people, two sources told CBS News Thursday.”

“Just because you outsource your block cipher implementations to your programming language’s crypto module doesn’t mean you’re not rolling your own crypto.”