Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days? 58 points by tathagatadg 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 18 comments How has the curriculum changed? What are the professors telling their … Read more
TL;DR: Viva.com, one of Europe’s largest payment processors, sends verification emails without a Message-ID header — a recommendation of RFC 5322 since 2008. Google Workspace rejects them outright. Their support team’s response to my detailed bug report: “your account has … Read more
Sehr geehrte Kundinnen und Kunden, sehr geehrte Partnerinnen und Partner, wir möchten Sie über die jüngsten Fortschritte bei der Aufarbeitung des Angriffs sowie über die laufenden Sicherheitsmaßnahmen informieren. Stabilisierung der Systeme Unsere bisherigen Analysen bestätigen, dass das Kernsystem der Localmind-Plattform … Read more
Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found. Thousands of images—including identifiable faces—were found in a … Read more
Satellite data processing algorithms developed by ICM-CSIC have played a crucial role in detecting this significant shift in the Southern Hemisphere, which could accelerate the effects of climate change. Thanks to data obtained from Earth observation satellites, an international team … Read more
PostgreSQL “extensions” are a big part of what makes this database special. The developers building the core Postgres database are amazing. But many people don’t realize just how much of a “data platform” Postgres is (borrowing this phrase from something … Read more
Definitely read up on the Torvalds/Tanenbaum debate as there are lots of moving pieces and interesting theories. My opinion summed up ridiculously concisely is that the reasons are largely accidents of timing (i.e. there was room in the market for … Read more
A Reporter at Large What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to Our Planet Disturbances on the sun may have the potential to devastate our power grid and communication systems. When the next big storm arrives, will we be prepared … Read more
BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana’s Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV) is one of a still undetermined number of government entities, major businesses and organizations to be affected by the unprecedented MOVEit data breach. MOVEit is an industry-leading third party data transfer service used … Read more
