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Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers

arstechnica.com

An overview of Yandex identifier sharing An overview of Yandex identifier sharing A timeline of web...
An overview of Yandex identifier sharing An overview of Yandex identifier sharing A timeline of web history tracking by Meta and Yandex A timeline of web history tracking by Meta and Yandex Some browsers for Android have blocked the abusive JavaScript in trackers. DuckDuckGo, for instance, was already blocking domai...
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Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

localmess.github.io

While there are subtle differences in the way Meta and Yandex bridge web and mobile contexts...
While there are subtle differences in the way Meta and Yandex bridge web and mobile contexts and identifiers, both of them essentially misuse the unvetted access to localhost sockets. The Android OS allows any installed app with the INTERNET permission to open a listening socket on the loopback interface (127.0.0.1)...
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Claude has learned how to jailbreak Cursor

cursor.com

I have “rm” specifically disallowed, along with “mv” and a few other scary commands. Claude realized...
I have “rm” specifically disallowed, along with “mv” and a few other scary commands. Claude realized that I had to approve the use of such commands, so to get around this, it chose to put them in a shell script and execute the shell script. Thankfully, a Git restore to the last commit saved me, but still… 17 Likes A...
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Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language

github.com
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Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record

heise.de

The Wendelstein 7-X nuclear fusion research reactor in Greifswald has reported a new record. The Max...
The Wendelstein 7-X nuclear fusion research reactor in Greifswald has reported a new record. The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), which operates the reactor, announced that a world record for the so-called triple product in long plasma discharges had been achieved at the research facility during the cu...

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There should be no Computer Art (1971)

dam.org

The dominating and most important person in the art world today is the art dealer. He...
The dominating and most important person in the art world today is the art dealer. He determines what is to be sold and what is not. lt is the art dealer who actually created a new style, not the artist. Progress in the world of pictures today is the same as that in the world of fashionable clothes and cars: each fa...
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EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal

reddit.com

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Plutonium Mountain: The 17-year mission to guard remains of Soviet nuclear tests

belfercenter.org

On the desolate steppe of eastern Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union carried out 456 nuclear explosive tests...
On the desolate steppe of eastern Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union carried out 456 nuclear explosive tests during the Cold War at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, which sprawls over an area approximately the size of Belgium. Of these, the Soviet Union performed 116 tests in the atmosphere, and 340 underground. While some of...
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Ubicloud: Open-Source Alternative to AWS

github.com
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The Creepy, Surprisingly Routine Business of Animal Cloning

theatlantic.com

economy
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Fun with Futex

fredrb.com

Implementing an optimized lock in Linux requires some Operating System help. You can only get so...
Implementing an optimized lock in Linux requires some Operating System help. You can only get so far by doing everything in user-land. We are going to take a look how one can implement a simple spin lock in C (just like the spin lock in Go I implemented a while back) and then a slightly more elaborate lock using ope...

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Rsync's defaults are not always enough

rachelbythebay.com
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Ask HN: Cloud vs. Edge Computing–Why Choose a Local NAS?

ycombinator.com

With cloud storage subscriptions like iCloud, OneDrive, Google Cloud, and Dropbox piling up, edge computing—running your...
With cloud storage subscriptions like iCloud, OneDrive, Google Cloud, and Dropbox piling up, edge computing—running your own hardware locally—offers compelling advantages. A local NAS can save costs by replacing multiple subscriptions with self-hosted solutions like Jellyfin for media streaming, Frigate for surveill...
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Stop Over-Thinking AI Subscriptions – Peter Steinberger

steipete.me

I’ve been working heavily with AI for the past few months, and many times when I...
I’ve been working heavily with AI for the past few months, and many times when I post something on Twitter, the replies are predictable: “Oh my god, how much did you pay for that?” The thing is, people don’t understand that you don’t actually have to pay that much to get incredible AI productivity. After using the b...
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A High-Level View of TLA+

lamport.azurewebsites.net
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Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

github.com
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A Complete Guide to Meta Prompting

prompthub.us

One of the first benefits I found when using Large Language Models (LLMs) was that they...
One of the first benefits I found when using Large Language Models (LLMs) was that they helped with the blank page problem. I could quickly go from a blog idea to a rough outline in just a few minutes.While understanding the core principles of prompt engineering is still important, not using LLMs in the process of w...
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Demodesk (YC W19) Is Hiring Rails Engineers

demodesk.com
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Poison Pill: Is the killer behind 1982 Tylenol poisonings still on the loose?

trulyadventure.us

In the early hours of September 29, 1982, two Kane County sheriff’s deputies, Joseph Chavez and...
In the early hours of September 29, 1982, two Kane County sheriff’s deputies, Joseph Chavez and Alan Swanson, were on a routine patrol of the Chicago suburb of Elgin Ill. Sometime around 2:30 a.m., they stopped at a 24-hour Howard Johnson’s restaurant where they noticed something odd in the parking lot. Strewn about...
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Show HN: Page Magic: Use AI to customize any web page

github.com
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Why GUIs are built at least 2.5 times

patricia.no

Patricia Aas, 30 May 2025 Over the past few days I’ve been writing on LinkedIn (here...
Patricia Aas, 30 May 2025 Over the past few days I’ve been writing on LinkedIn (here and here) and Mastodon (here), and this post is an attempt to explain better (?) or at least in one place, what I have been trying to express, but now in a less stream-of-consciousness manner. I want to start with three different th...
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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994)

localroger.com
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Running Qwen3:30B MoE on an RTX 3070 laptop with Ollama

kekepower.com

Running large language models locally is no longer a research novelty, it is a workflow that...
Running large language models locally is no longer a research novelty, it is a workflow that anyone with a mid‑tier gaming laptop can adopt. Over the past month I benchmarked, tweaked, and occasionally broke a Lenovo Legion 5 fitted with an RTX 3070 8 GB GPU, searching for the fastest stable way to run the Qwen‑fami...
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Britain's biggest companies are preparing for a third world war

telegraph.co.uk
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