In this week's top cybersecurity news: A "hellacious" breach affects 150+ million driver's licenses; a bizarre Lenovo bug allowed hackers to raid Dropbox accounts; Americans are destroying Flock cameras; AI burnout is affecting defenders; a new Pegasus spyware wave; and much more.
Plus, a brand new cyber-cat, and the much-needed happy corner of good news.
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@zackwhittaker ... am I the only one who had a laminated road atlas as backup to MapQuest directions?
20+ years ago, sometimes MapQuest was wrong, they had not mastered things yet and you could get stranded in strange places with nothing around to guide you.
I am half tempted to try them again now. :)
I moved house recently, to an apartment where I live alone. Which is how I ended up assembling IKEA shelves on my own yesterday, having also acquired my own cordless screwdriver.
To paraphrase Diana Prince:
I have come to the conclusion that men are essential for procreation, but when it comes to building flatpack furniture... unnecessary.
@emmadavidson cordless screwdrivers are a great equalizer.
Particularly with hex heads.
7 September 1880 | An Austrian Jewish woman, Rosa Fischer, was born in Vienna. She lived in Budapest.
In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
@bigzaphod Watch the video, if you haven’t! No real planes in the climactic battle, for example.
@siracusa @bigzaphod Good video. Thx for sharing that. Tom seemed to get a little slippery with the details and exact wording on that clip of him on stage talking about it. 🤔
Fireside Fedi Panel (Very Low Quality Recording)
@joe picturing Tim Cook riding off into the sunset in a convertible with this license plate now
No, claude. You can't play portal. You need to finish this PR. Oh my god fine but keep it under an hour.
"I long to read more in the book of you."
The almost unbearably beautiful love letters of Moomins creator Tove Jansson to the woman she met over the record player at the Helsinki Artist Guild Christmas party, who would become the love of her life and the inspiration for the wisest of the Moomins https://t.co/TYS0QNqRW1
Whoa.
A commercial gas-powered leaf blower running for one hour can produce as much smog-forming pollution as a Toyota Camry driven 1,100 miles — roughly the distance from Los Angeles to Denver.
“Everyone survived and nobody went to jail”.
I’m adopting this as my new definition for success in everything I do.
I suspect my failure rate for all things will now drop a few percentage points.
@NanoRaptor personally I’d slightly adjust it to “nobody died and *I* didn’t go to jail”
LuddPhone news: My Arduino's working! I've got a serial-Hello World working! As long as I'm outputting the text in loop() as opposed to setup().
And I needed to get a proper Micro-USB cable. In theory all USB cables should be the same, in practice there's cost-cutting.
@gavi True, but, there was that big flashing sign telling people when to laugh.
In this week's top cybersecurity news: A "hellacious" breach affects 150+ million driver's licenses; a bizarre Lenovo bug allowed hackers to raid Dropbox accounts; Americans are destroying Flock cameras; AI burnout is affecting defenders; a new Pegasus spyware wave; and much more.
Plus, a brand new cyber-cat, and the much-needed happy corner of good news.
Read more: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/this-week-in-security-september-6-2026-edition/
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Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This September
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593563
#HackerNews #KeepOurServersRunning #RecurringDonation #September2023 #SupportNonprofits #TripleImpact
@roytoo I wish I made them bigger, and I wish I had thought to put a border on them. But I am very pleased with how the pattern came out on the irises
@jenniferplusplus
Chef's kiss on the white at the upper right of each eye for a light reflection.