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Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication

Article URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/passwordless-authentication-security-risks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176644 Points: 15 # Comments: 7

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FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it

Article URL: https://808bits.com/articles/fips-140-3-not-a-security-guarantee/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176634 Points: 10 # Comments: 2

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libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

Article URL: https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176606 Points: 58 # Comments: 3

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Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust

I wrote libcorrect in C in 2016 and wanted to revisit it in Rust. Instead of doing just a direct conversion, I went down the rabbit hole of making Rust's std::simd work for me. I ended up with a templated, generic Viterbi decoder for convolutional co

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We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/center-div/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176055 Points: 34 # Comments: 18

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Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176038 Points: 33 # Comments: 7

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DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)

Article URL: https://techascent.com/blog/just-ducking-around.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175924 Points: 31 # Comments: 0

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AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

https://www.interpol.int/Media/Documents/Publications/Cyberc... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175826 Points: 115 # Comments: 59

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I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel

https://twitter.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768 , https://xcancel.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768 https://gwern.net/guardian-angel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900 Points: 102 # Comments: 37

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Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone

Article URL: https://deepgrove.ai/maple-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173984 Points: 34 # Comments: 10

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Lucid’s turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis

Lucid's new CEO Silvio Napoli listed four must-win priorities, including the successful launch of its midsize EV, finishing a factory in Saudi Arabia, cutting expenses, and robotaxis.

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How to get the best hotel deals for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

We’ve partnered with hotels around Moscone West during Disrupt, taking place October 13 to 15, to secure the best prices available for attendees.

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SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk's universe of companies are.

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SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth

SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.

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Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

New findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation aim to warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also collect their users' location data when they grant permission to the app.