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The App Store Was Always Authoritarian

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High-modernism as handmaiden to autocracy is depressingly predictable. October 11, 2025 Eric Prouzet And now we see it clear, like a Cupertino sunrise bathing Mt. Bielawski in amber: Apple will censor its App Store at the behest of the Trump administration without putting up a fight. It will twist words into their antipodes to serve the powerful at the expense of the weak. To better serve autocrats, it will talk out both sides of its mouth in ways it had previously reserved for dissembling arguments against threats to profits, like right-to-repair and browser choice. They are, of course, linked. Contents…

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors

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Israeli spyware maker NSO Group has confirmed to TechCrunch that a U.S. investment group has acquired the company. NSO spokesperson Oded Hershowitz told TechCrunch on Friday that “an American investment group has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership.” Confirmation of the deal came soon after Israeli tech news website Calcalist reported Friday that a group led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds agreed to purchase the surveillance tech maker in a deal valued in the tens of millions of dollars. Hershowitz declined to specify the amount invested, as well as who the…

acsandmann/rift: a tiling window manager for macos

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Rift is a tiling window manager for MacOS that focuses on performance and usability. multiple layout styles Tiling (i3/sway-like) Binary Space Partitioning (bspwm-like) Menubar icon that shows all of the workspaces and the layouts within click to see the menu bar icon MacOS-style mission control that allows you to visually navigate between workspaces click to see mission control Focus follows mouse with auto raise Drag windows over one another to swap positions Performant animations (as seen in the demo) Switch to next/previous workspace with trackpad gestures (just like native macOS) Hot reloadable configuration interop with third party programs (ie Sketchybar)…

China’s New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten U.S. Defense Supply Chains

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In advance of President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to South Korea later this month—where he is expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time since 2019—China announced that it has expanded its restrictions on rare earth and permanent magnet exports. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce’s Announcement No. 61 of 2025 implements the strictest rare earth and permanent magnet export controls to date. The move both strengthens Beijing’s leverage in upcoming talks while also undercutting U.S. efforts to bolster its industrial base.Q1: What is new about today’s rare earth and permanent magnet export restrictions?A1: The new export controls…

Meta Superintelligence’s surprising first paper

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MSI’s first paper, REFRAG, is about a new way to do RAG.This slightly modified LLM converts most retrieved document chunks into compact, LLM-aligned chunk embeddings that the LLM can consume directly.A lightweight policy (trained with RL) decides which chunk embeddings should be expanded back into full tokens under a budget; the LLM runs normally on this mixed input.The net effect is far less KV cache and attention cost, much faster first-byte latency and higher throughput, while preserving perplexity and task accuracy in benchmarks.Meta’s new Superintelligence labs made big headlines with its eyewatering salaries for researchers and leaders alike. Big name…

Discord hack shows risks of online age checks as internet policing hopes put to the test | Science, Climate & Tech News

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Messaging platform Discord has said the official ID photos of around 70,000 users have been stolen by hackers.The app, which is popular with gamers and teenagers, said the hackers targeted a firm responsible for verifying the ages of its users. Discord said its own platform was not breached. The stolen data could include personal information, partial credit card numbers and messages with Discord's customer service agents, the firm said.No full credit card details, passwords or messages and activity beyond conversations with Discord customer support were leaked, it added.Discord said it had revoked the third-party service's access and was continuing to…

GNU Health | Freedom and Equity in Healthcare

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GNU Health as a social movement: GNU Health is a social project with technology behind. It’s about Social Medicine and delivering universal healthcare. It’s about social activism. One of the main reasons that led me to create GNU Health were the tremendous inequalities in access to healthcare. Over 20000 children die every day from preventable, social diseases. To name a few : malnutrition, contaminated water, child slavery, prostitution, war, malaria, HIV-AIDS, tuberculosis, dengue and other neglected tropical diseases. These are causes and/or results of social diseases, conditions that have a higher impact and higher prevalence on the poor and the…

Hackers leak Qantas data containing 5 million customer records after ransom deadline passes | Qantas

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Hackers say they have leaked the personal records of 5 million Qantas customers on the dark web, after a ransom deadline set by the cybercriminals passed.The airline is one of more than 40 firms globally caught up in the hack, reported to contain up to 1 billion customer records.The hacker collective Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters released an extortion note on a data leaks site on the dark web last week, demanding payment in return for preventing the stolen data from being shared.The Qantas data, which was stolen from a Salesforce database in a major cyber-attack in June, included customers’ email addresses,…

BalajeS/WSL-For-FreeBSD: Experimental project to adapt the WSL2 open-source components to run on FreeBSD

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⚡ Experimental Project – Running FreeBSD on WSL2 ⚡ This repository hosts work-in-progress efforts to run FreeBSD inside Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) with minimal to no changes to the FreeBSD base system. The project builds on the open-source components of WSL2 to enable FreeBSD to boot and run seamlessly in a Windows environment. Enable FreeBSD to run natively on WSL2’s architecture Make minimal or no modifications to the FreeBSD base system Contribute improvements back to open-source components where possible 🚧 Work in Progress – This is an experimental personal project. FreeBSD boots successfully inside WSL2 Basic functionality is up…

“It’s time to go”: Nobel Prize winner opted for suicide in Switzerland

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Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002. (archive picture) Picture: sda At the age of 90, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman chose to die a self-determined death in Switzerland. He spent his last days in Paris - conscious, fulfilled and quiet. No time? blue News summarizes for you The Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman chose assisted suicide in Switzerland on March 27, 2024.The Nobel Prize winner wanted to forestall a phase of mental and physical decline.His final step was well-considered - and yet difficult for many to understand. In March 2024, Daniel Kahneman celebrated his 90th birthday…