Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill
Mozilla's Firefox 155 and subsidiary MZLA's Thunderbird 155 have arrived. Yes, already. Firefox officially debuted yesterday, although The Reg FOSS desk wasn't offered the upgrade until early evening. Thunderbird followed several hours later. If this seems soon after...
Chevron confirms it will invest billions to expand operations in oil-rich Venezuela
Oil giant Chevron confirmed that it will expand its operations in Venezuela, just days after President Donald Trump announced an ambitious deal to develop the nation’s oil reserves and give the Pentagon a stake in the profits.Chevron, the only U.S. oil company that...
Just bury your trash: What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/just-bury-your-trash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536536 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine
Article URL: https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536411 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
UN climate report, ‘among the bleakest’, outlines a new plan for Earth’s climbing temps
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming’s harms. So now the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and...
Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers
Dropbox has warned around 5,000 users that attackers compromised their accounts by abusing a legacy Lenovo login integration. In an email sent to affected customers, the cloud storage biz said attackers exploited an integration that allowed users to access Dropbox...
Exit the Cave
Article URL: https://turtlespace.blog/p/exit-the-cave Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536606 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117194007157499435 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536384 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Article URL: https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536375 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Poisson Disk Sampling
Article URL: https://stripeacross.com/posts/poisson-disk-sampling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536177 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Dyson CameraJet: The only toothbrush with a camera and a jet
Article URL: https://www.dyson.com/discover/news/latest/introducing-camerajet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536180 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero
Article URL: https://aisle.com/blog/aisle-discovered-six-curl-cves-after-openai-and-anthropic-found-zero Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536114 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-particle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536079 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
HONOR Watch 6: Everything You Need to Know
HONOR Watch 6 combines long battery life, dual-band GPS, health tracking, and NFC, but some features depend on your phone, bank, and region. The post HONOR Watch 6: Everything You Need to Know appeared first on TechRepublic.
Instagram Cracks Down on AI Influencers That Pretend to Be Real
Instagram will limit recommendations for AI-generated influencer profiles that fail to disclose their synthetic identities under a new labeling policy. The post Instagram Cracks Down on AI Influencers That Pretend to Be Real appeared first on TechRepublic.
MobiPDF Lifetime License Offers Full PDF Editing for $49.99
A cross-platform PDF solution with advanced editing and conversion tools built for professional efficiency. The post MobiPDF Lifetime License Offers Full PDF Editing for $49.99 appeared first on TechRepublic.
Walmart Accused of Creating Voiceprints From Customer Service Calls
Two Illinois customers allege Walmart created voiceprints from service calls without obtaining consent required under the state’s biometric privacy law. The post Walmart Accused of Creating Voiceprints From Customer Service Calls appeared first on TechRepublic.
Malicious Apache Modules Hijack Brazilian Government Site Traffic to Push Betting Pages
A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster known as Gambling Goblin has been observed installing malicious Apache modules on compromised web servers run by Brazilian government and educational institutions, and using them to divert visitors to attacker-controlled pages...
Malicious .git Configs Can Make Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Other AI Agents Run Attacker Code
Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository's own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs on the developer's machine, four of them still unpatched at publication. The command...
Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo
This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023
“I’m Not Dead Yet!” Reverse Polish Notation Calculators You Can Still Buy
If you used a scientific calculator in the 1970s or 1980s, there was a fair chance that it worked differently from almost every calculator you see today. Instead of typing: 2 + 3 = you entered: 2 ENTER 3 + There wasn’t even an equals key. Hewlett-Packard made this...
Just Bury Your Trash
Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/just-bury-your-trash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535835 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Getting the right products to the right people at the right time
For global food and beverage brand PepsiCo, Mexico plays a critically important role. In fact, it’s the company’s second-largest market after the U.S. But while the U.S. market is tilted toward big grocery chains and convenience stores, Mexico’s retail landscape is...
What happened to Costco Next? Customers stunned as access to curated marketplace is abruptly lost
Visitors to Costco Next have been met with confusion and consternation over the past several days after the wholesale giant’s curated marketplace for select third-party goods appears to have abruptly shut down without notice. Here’s what you need to know. What’s...
Made Possible: A story of transformation
24/7 access for every customer, from around the world to around the block
Mexico City is home to more than 9 million residents in countless communities and neighborhoods that serve PepsiCo consumers through small mom-and-pop shops. Like small-business owners everywhere, the owners of these stores work around the clock, every day, to meet...
Google is helping bring cutting-edge battery tech to an old West Virginia strip mine
For decades, a sprawling site in West Virginia was mined for coal, and part of the operation is still active. But on a 500-acre section abandoned 20 years ago, something new is taking shape: a clean-energy project pairing solar power with cutting-edge battery...
BGP Hijack Delivers Malicious Virtualizor Update That Establishes Persistent Root Access
Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtualizor package to some installations. A hosting-provider account separately said 5 of its...
Meta Ads Push StreamRat Android Trojan That Can Gain Near-Complete Device Control
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a fake television-streaming campaign on Meta and can give operators near-complete control of infected devices....
Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15
Good news if you want to keep your NAS boxes on FreeBSD – two new contenders just stepped up, with updated forks of the cancelled TrueNAS Core. FreeBSD has a strong reputation as a stable server OS, and integrates highly reliable ZFS filesystem right into its kernel....