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I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts…
Hacking
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EmbeddingGemma 2
My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News. I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license. For embedding models in particular, I don't think it makes sense to use a…
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Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk
Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their…
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Hackers exploit 32 zero-days on first day of Pwn2Own Ireland
On the first day of the Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 competition, security researchers hacked the Samsung Galaxy S26 twice and earned $388,500 after exploiting 32 zero-days.
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Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Attackers hijacked three top-level domains and used their control to mint counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large organizations, Google said Tuesday. The attackers launched a series…
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Mistral Large 4
My comment on Mistral Large 4 — Hacker News. wren6991: The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars.
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ASOS customers receive ‘hack’ notification threatening leak
Sarah Butler reports: ASOS is investigating after users of its mobile app received a notification claiming hackers had “fully compromised” the online fashion retailer’s data. The value of Asos’s…
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ASOS Customers Receive Bizarre “Hacked” Message Amid Suspected Snowflake Compromise
ASOS customers have received a seemingly legitimate push notifications claiming the retailer’s IT systems have been breached through a Snowflake breach
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8.8 Million Impacted by Data Breach at Denmark’s Central Person Register
Hackers abused a company’s lawful access to the CPR system to steal the personal information of registered citizens.
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Shares in British clothing company ASOS dive after hackers apparently send push notification
Several mysteries surround what appeared to be an unauthorized push notification sent to customers of London-based clothing company ASOS.
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Ukraine grocery chain ATB confirms cyberattack as hackers threaten to leak data
Ukraine’s largest grocery store chain, ATB, confirmed that it was hit by a cyberattack after hackers posted an extortion demand on its website.
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Hackers steal 8 million citizens’ records from Danish government database
The Danish government said the breach of names, addresses, and state-issued ID numbers affects 8 million people, including people living abroad and the deceased.
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New Dell System Update flaw lets hackers gain root privileges
Dell warned customers to patch a critical vulnerability in the System Update (DSU) command-line interface (CLI) deployment tool as soon as possible.
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Nueva EPS, Colombia’s largest regional healthcare promoting entity has allegedly been hacked (1)
Colombia’s largest health-promoting entity, Nueva EPS, has allegedly been hacked by an individual demanding $15 million not to leak the data. Colombia’s healthcare system includes Entidad Promotora…
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Fixer, Financier, Spymaster: How the UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon is Setting His Sights on AI Dominance
Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert is quoted in an article in the Guardian about Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s increasing influence on AI dominance. “For the last 20 years, democracy has been in…
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250,000 Impacted by Data Breaches at New Jersey, Texas Healthcare Firms
Hackers stole patient information from Clover Health Investments and AngMar Management Services in July.
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Daiwa Securities says info on 110,000 clients may have been leaked in vendor incident
Takashi Nakamichi and Ryo Horiuchi report that Daiwa Securities, Japan’s second-largest brokerage and investment banking firm, is responding to a breach at one of its vendors. Daiwa Securities Group…
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Detained ShinyHunters hacker reportedly helping FBI track down fellow members
A suspected ShinyHunters member known as Rey has been detained in Jordan and is reportedly helping the FBI track down the rest of the group. Reuters reports that Jordanian authorities detained Saif…
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ShinyHunters hacker reportedly detained in Jordan, aiding FBI
A suspected ShinyHunters hacking group member known online as "Rey" has reportedly been detained in Jordan and is cooperating with the FBI to help locate other members of the extortion group.
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ShinyHunters hacker “Rey,” allegedly involved in FBI data theft, detained in Jordan
Jana Winter, Raphael Satter, and A.J. Vicens report: A key member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee, was detained this week in Jordan, three…