SoundCloud Confirms Breach After Member Data Stolen, VPN Access Disrupted
December 16, 2025 at 09:00PM
December 16, 2025 at 09:00PM
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SoundCloud Confirms Breach After Member Data Stolen, VPN Access Disrupted
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database containing…
Google's Real Estate Listings 'Experiment' Sends Zillow Shares Down More Than 8%
December 16, 2025 at 10:00PM
December 16, 2025 at 10:00PM
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Google's Real Estate Listings 'Experiment' Sends Zillow Shares Down More Than 8%
Google's data partner HouseCanary has begun displaying home listings directly in search results in select markets, sending Zillow's shares tumbling more than 8% yesterday as investors weighed whether the search giant might eventually cut into the portal business…
Mozilla's New CEO Bets Firefox's Future on AI
December 16, 2025 at 10:40PM
December 16, 2025 at 10:40PM
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Mozilla's New CEO Bets Firefox's Future on AI
Mozilla has named Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its new chief executive, promoting the executive who has spent the past year leading the Firefox browser team and who now plans to make AI central to the company's future. Enzor-DeMeo announced on Tuesday that an "AI…
Microsoft Will Finally Kill Obsolete Cipher That Has Wreaked Decades of Havoc
December 16, 2025 at 11:30AM
December 16, 2025 at 11:30AM
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Microsoft Will Finally Kill Obsolete Cipher That Has Wreaked Decades of Havoc
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and recently…
The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down
December 16, 2025 at 11:22PM
December 16, 2025 at 11:22PM
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The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down
The traditional signals that employers used to evaluate entry-level job candidates -- college GPAs, cover letters, and interview performance -- have lost much of their value as grade inflation and widespread AI use render these metrics nearly meaningless…
Tech Giants Can't Agree On What To Call Their AI-Powered Glasses
December 17, 2025 at 12:01AM
December 17, 2025 at 12:01AM
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Tech Giants Can't Agree On What To Call Their AI-Powered Glasses
The glasses-shaped face computers that tech companies have been building for years now face an identity crisis, and their makers can't agree on what to call them. Meta has asked a journalist to refer to its Ray-Ban glasses as "AI glasses" to distinguish them…
High-Speed Traders Are Feuding Over a Way To Save 3.2 Billionths of a Second
December 17, 2025 at 12:40AM
December 17, 2025 at 12:40AM
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High-Speed Traders Are Feuding Over a Way To Save 3.2 Billionths of a Second
A millisecond used to be a big deal for the world's quickest traders. A dispute over huge trading profits at one of the world's largest futures exchanges shows they now think a million times faster [non-paywalled source]. From a report: The controversy is…
McKinsey Plots Thousands of Job Cuts in Slowdown for Consulting Industry
December 17, 2025 at 01:27AM
December 17, 2025 at 01:27AM
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McKinsey Plots Thousands of Job Cuts in Slowdown for Consulting Industry
McKinsey, the consulting giant that has spent a century advising companies on how to cut costs and restructure operations, is now turning that advice inward as it plans to eliminate thousands of jobs across its non-client-facing departments over the next…
Texas Sues TV Makers For Taking Screenshots of What People Watch
December 17, 2025 at 02:02AM
December 17, 2025 at 02:02AM
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Texas Sues TV Makers For Taking Screenshots of What People Watch
mprindle writes: The Texas Attorney General sued five major television manufacturers, accusing them of illegally collecting their users' data by secretly recording what they watch using Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology. The lawsuits target Sony…
US Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight
December 17, 2025 at 02:50AM
December 17, 2025 at 02:50AM
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US Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight
U.S. officials excoriated the European Union for discriminating against American technology companies and threatened to penalize European tech companies in return, in a social media post on Tuesday. From a report: The pronouncement appeared to signal a rockier…
Racks of AI Chips Are Too Damn Heavy
December 17, 2025 at 03:30AM
December 17, 2025 at 03:30AM
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Racks of AI Chips Are Too Damn Heavy
The weight of AI server racks has reached a point where legacy data centers cannot accommodate them even with significant retrofitting efforts, The Verge reports. Chris Brown, chief technical officer at Uptime Institute, said most retrofitting attempts would…
MI6 Chief: We'll Be as Fluent in Python As We Are in Russian
December 17, 2025 at 04:10AM
December 17, 2025 at 04:10AM
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MI6 Chief: We'll Be as Fluent in Python As We Are in Russian
The new chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service told officers this week that they must become as fluent in programming languages like Python as they are in foreign languages like Russian as the spy agency adapts to what she described as a space between…
Utah Leaders Hinder Efforts To Develop Solar Energy Supply
December 17, 2025 at 04:50AM
December 17, 2025 at 04:50AM
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Utah Leaders Hinder Efforts To Develop Solar Energy Supply
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed two bills this year that ended solar development tax credits and imposed a new tax on solar generation despite solar power accounting for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state's power grid. The legislation…
Volkswagen To End Production At German Plant, a First In Company History
December 17, 2025 at 05:30AM
December 17, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Volkswagen To End Production At German Plant, a First In Company History
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The last vehicle will roll off the assembly line at Volkswagen's plant in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday, marking the first time in the automaker's 88-year history that it has closed a plant in its…
Reporter Suggests Half-Life 3 Will Be a Steam Machine Launch Title
December 17, 2025 at 06:10AM
December 17, 2025 at 06:10AM
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Reporter Suggests Half-Life 3 Will Be a Steam Machine Launch Title
A veteran games journalist claims Half-Life 3 is real and still planned as a Spring 2026 launch title tied to Valve's next Steam Machine push. Ars Technica reports: On the contrary, veteran journalist Mike Straw insisted on a recent Insider Gaming podcast…
Intel Quietly Discontinues Its Open-Source User-Space Gaudi Driver Code
December 17, 2025 at 06:50AM
December 17, 2025 at 06:50AM
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Intel Quietly Discontinues Its Open-Source User-Space Gaudi Driver Code
Intel has quietly stopped maintaining its open-source user-space driver stack for Gaudi accelerators. Phoronix reports: It turns out earlier this year Intel archived the SynapseAI Core open-source code and is no longer maintained by Intel. The open-source…
Mark Carney Criticised For Using British Spellings In Canadian Documents
December 17, 2025 at 07:30AM
December 17, 2025 at 07:30AM
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Mark Carney Criticised For Using British Spellings In Canadian Documents
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Mark Carney says that amid a fundamental shift to the nature of globalization, his government will catalyze the growth in both the public and private sector. But Canadian linguists say that's a problem.…
Dual-PCB Linux Computer With 843 Components Designed By AI Boots On First Attempt
December 17, 2025 at 08:10AM
December 17, 2025 at 08:10AM
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Dual-PCB Linux Computer With 843 Components Designed By AI Boots On First Attempt
Quilter says its AI designed a complex Linux single-board computer in just one week, booting Debian on first power-up. "Holy crap, it's working," exclaimed one of the engineers. Tom's Hardware reports: LA-based startup Quilter has outlined Project Speedrun…
Meta Tolerates Rampant Ad Fraud From China To Safeguard Billions In Revenue
December 17, 2025 at 08:50AM
December 17, 2025 at 08:50AM
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Meta Tolerates Rampant Ad Fraud From China To Safeguard Billions In Revenue
A Reuters investigation found that Meta knowingly tolerated large volumes of scam and illegal ads from China worth billions in revenue. Reuters reports: Though China's authoritarian government bans use of Meta social media by its citizens, Beijing lets Chinese…
EU Moves To Ease 2035 Ban On Internal Combustion Cars
December 17, 2025 at 09:30AM
December 17, 2025 at 09:30AM
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EU Moves To Ease 2035 Ban On Internal Combustion Cars
The EU is moving to soften its planned 2035 ban on internal combustion cars by allowing a small share of low-emission engines. "The less stringent limit would leave room for automakers to continue selling some plug-in hybrids, which have both electric and…
缺水的阿拉伯半岛遭遇洪灾
阿拉伯半岛是全世界最干旱的地区之一，但最近几年暴风雨频发甚至引发了洪灾。去年四月一场暴雨的降雨量在阿联酋创 75 年以来的最高记录，迪拜地铁和迪拜机场都被淹没。这场暴雨也给沿海的阿曼带来了灾难。全球大气数据显示，阿拉伯半岛正经历着剧烈的大气变化，向阿曼北部沿海输送的水分是全球平均水平的 1.5 倍以上，导致了该地区的极端降雨。1881-2007 年的 126 年间，仅有六场飓风级风暴袭击阿曼或逼近该国百公里内。而过去 15 年至少四场飓风级风暴登陆阿曼。阿曼苏丹卡布斯大学（Sultan Qaboos University）分析了 8000 场暴风雨在 69 个雨量站的数据，发现一半的降雨量都集中在 24 小时暴雨的前 90 分钟内。强降雨超过了沙漠的吸水能力，引发洪灾，冲刷干涸的河床，而很多居民区就建在河床之上。阿曼应对之法是建造水坝，而阿联酋正在建造一条耗资 80 亿美元的地下雨水排放网络。 via Solidot
阿拉伯半岛是全世界最干旱的地区之一，但最近几年暴风雨频发甚至引发了洪灾。去年四月一场暴雨的降雨量在阿联酋创 75 年以来的最高记录，迪拜地铁和迪拜机场都被淹没。这场暴雨也给沿海的阿曼带来了灾难。全球大气数据显示，阿拉伯半岛正经历着剧烈的大气变化，向阿曼北部沿海输送的水分是全球平均水平的 1.5 倍以上，导致了该地区的极端降雨。1881-2007 年的 126 年间，仅有六场飓风级风暴袭击阿曼或逼近该国百公里内。而过去 15 年至少四场飓风级风暴登陆阿曼。阿曼苏丹卡布斯大学（Sultan Qaboos University）分析了 8000 场暴风雨在 69 个雨量站的数据，发现一半的降雨量都集中在 24 小时暴雨的前 90 分钟内。强降雨超过了沙漠的吸水能力，引发洪灾，冲刷干涸的河床，而很多居民区就建在河床之上。阿曼应对之法是建造水坝，而阿联酋正在建造一条耗资 80 亿美元的地下雨水排放网络。 via Solidot