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Ex-Mossad chief, behind ICJ blackmail campaign, brags Israel has installed a global sabotage network – Middle East Monitor

Ex-Mossad chief, behind ICJ blackmail campaign, brags Israel has installed a global sabotage network – Middle East Monitor

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: In a shocking admission, former Mossad director Yossi Cohen has openly boasted that Israel has deployed a global sabotage and espionage network which uses “booby-trapped and spy-manipulated equipment”. The method, denounced as terrorism by ex-CIA chief  Leon Panetta, was used to target Hezbollah and now, according to Cohen, is embedded in “all the countries you can imagine.” In a video that’s now circulating on social media, Cohen is seen speaking on The Brink podcast hosted by Jake Wallis Simons, editor of The Jewish Chronicle. The former…
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Qt Creator 18 released

Qt Creator 18 released

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 18! Qt Creator 18 adds experimental support for Development Containers and many more improvements. (more…)
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ventoy/Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution.

ventoy/Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution.

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, just copy the image files to the USB drive and boot them. You can copy many image files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. You can also browse ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files in local disk and boot them.x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are supported in the same…
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US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty

US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty

💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: More than 70 countries signed the landmark U.N. Convention against Cybercrime in Hanoi this weekend, a significant step in the yearslong effort to create a global mechanism to counteract digital crime. The U.K. and European Union joined China, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria and dozens of other nations in signing the convention, which lays out new mechanisms for governments to coordinate, build capacity and track those who use technology to commit crimes.  In his speech at the event, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said cyberspace “has become fertile ground…
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Estimating the Perceived ‘Claustrophobia’ of New York City’s Streets

Estimating the Perceived ‘Claustrophobia’ of New York City’s Streets

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Hi! I’m back with a supplement to a piece in the New York Times’ Street Wars series, which is all about the battle for navigable urban space in New York City. In this article, I’ll go more in-depth about how I devised & computed the claustrophobic metric. We plan to explore this metric further through an in-progress research paper; keep an eye out for that later this year! Let’s begin. New York City is a large place; almost 469 square miles of pretty dense civilization. Within…
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FCC Republicans force prisoners and families to pay more for phone calls

FCC Republicans force prisoners and families to pay more for phone calls

💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: At yesterday’s meeting, the FCC separately proposed to eliminate a rule that requires Internet providers to itemize various fees in broadband price labels that must be made available to consumers. Public comment will be taken before a final decision. We described that proposal in an October 8 article. “Under the cover of a shutdown with limited staff, a confused public, and an overloaded agenda, the FCC pushed to pass the most anti-consumer items it has approved yet,” Gomez said yesterday. New inflation factor to…
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Alphabet tops $100 billion quarterly revenue for first time

Alphabet tops $100 billion quarterly revenue for first time

🚀 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: Alphabet reported third-quarter earnings that beat analyst expectations. Shares rose 5% in after-hours trading.Here's how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG:Revenue: $102.35 billion vs. $99.89 billion estimatedEarnings per share: $3.10 adj. vs $2.33 estimatedWall Street was also watching several other numbers in the report:YouTube advertising revenue: $10.26 billion vs. $10.01 billion, according to StreetAccountGoogle Cloud revenue:  $15.15 billion vs. $14.74 billion, according to StreetAccountTraffic acquisition costs (TAC): $14.87 billion vs. $14.82 billion, according to StreetAccountAlphabet reported solid momentum in its cloud business, thanks to strong…
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Trump says nuclear weapons testing to resume in US after more than 30 years

Trump says nuclear weapons testing to resume in US after more than 30 years

💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: President Donald Trump called on US military leaders to resume testing US nuclear weapons in order to keep pace with other countries such as Russia and China."Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis," he wrote on social media just before meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.The US has more nuclear weapons than any other country, Trump said, with Russia second and China a "distant third". It has…
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Building a fast frontier model with RL · Cursor

Building a fast frontier model with RL · Cursor

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Composer is our new agent model designed for software engineering intelligence and speed. On our benchmarks, the model achieves frontier coding results with generation speed four times faster than similar models.We achieve these results by training the model to complete real-world software engineering challenges in large codebases. During training, Composer is given access to a set of production search and editing tools and tasked with efficiently solving a diverse range of difficult problems. The final result is a large-scale model optimized for high-speed use as…
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Removing obfuscation in Java Edition

Removing obfuscation in Java Edition

💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Do you like to mod Java, tinker with builds, or take deep dives into Minecraft’s code? Then this article is for you!   For a long time, Java Edition has used obfuscation (hiding parts of the code) – a common practice in the gaming industry. Now we’re changing how we ship Minecraft: Java Edition to remove obfuscation completely. We hope that, with this change, we can pave a future for Minecraft: Java Edition where it’s easier to create, update, and debug mods.    An obfuscated…
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