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The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/911888/netgear-router-ban-conditional-approval Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773448 Points: 28 # Comments: 8

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Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/apple-threat-remove-grok-app-store-deepfake-letter-musk-x-ai-rcna331677 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772906 Points: 36 # Comments: 3

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Stop Flock

Article URL: https://stopflock.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772012 Points: 183 # Comments: 18

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Ukraine’s military robot surge aims to offset drone risks to humans

Ukraine is replacing more soldiers with robots in the battlefield kill zone.

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Fuck the cloud (2009)

Article URL: https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772048 Points: 46 # Comments: 24

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AI data center startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation months after hitting $7.5B, says report

Fundraising is reportedly flowing for Fluidstack after it secured a $50 billion deal to build data centers for Anthropic.

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Sony killing features for antenna, set-top box users of Bravia smart TVs in May

Some 2023 and 2024 models are also affected.

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Americans ask AI for health care. Hospitals think the answer is more chatbots.

Do you trust AI chatbots for health advice? What about one in your patient portal?

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Two-year-old Surface PCs get $300 price hikes as sub-$1,000 models go away

"Paying more for the same stuff" is the story of consumer technology in 2026.

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Apple chooses Amazon satellites for iPhone, years after rejecting Starlink offer

Amazon announces $11.6B merger with Globalstar and satellite deal with Apple.

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Free, fast diagnostic tools for DNS, email authentication, and network security

Article URL: https://mrdns.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771220 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/scaling-trusted-access-for-cyber-defense/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770770 Points: 32 # Comments: 22

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Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

Fiverr (gig work/task platform, competitor to Upwork) uses a service called Cloudinary to process PDF/images in messaging, including work products from the worker to client. Besides the PDF processing value add, Cloudinary effectively acts like S3 he

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Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites

Dozens of WordPress plug-ins were allegedly hijacked to push malware after they were sold to a new corporate owner.

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UK gov's Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype

New model is the first AI system to complete a difficult multi-step infiltration challenge.