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Loupe: open-source iOS app shows exactly what apps can fingerprint about you

Loupe is a free, open-source iOS and iPadOS app that demonstrates the device-fingerprinting surface available to any third-party app. It reads live values from

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aitech-culture

MIT-born $40 home test grinds ticks to flag Lyme in 15 minutes

LymeAlert, a $40 at-home kit launching in August, tests the tick rather than the person. Users drop up to five ticks into a container with a built-in grinder, t

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tech-culture

No article body provided — only a headline on slow breathing and brain function

There is nothing here to summarize beyond the headline: the supplied 'article content' is just the title of a Cell/Neuron paper, 'Slow breathing modulates brain

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South Korea's arms-export boom (source text unavailable)

No article body was supplied for this item — only the Politico headline 'The rise of South Korea's weapons business' was passed in, and the live URL could not b

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tech-cultureai

StartupWiki pitches a free, AI-powered alternative to Crunchbase

A new Show HN post introduces StartupWiki, a startup-research directory positioned as a no-cost alternative to Crunchbase. The site describes itself as an AI-po

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Tesco sues Broadcom for £100M, says VMware perpetual licenses were stranded

UK supermarket chain Tesco has taken Broadcom and reseller Computacenter to court, alleging breach of contract over support for VMware software it already owns.

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cybersecurityvulnerability

The Zoom localhost flaw was really a CORS misunderstanding

Plenty of web developers fundamentally misread how CORS works, and the 2019 Zoom vulnerability is a textbook case. Zoom ran a local web server on localhost:1942

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tech-cultureopen-source

TownSquare: a one-tag script that puts live visitors back on your web page

TownSquare is a lightweight presence layer that site owners add with a single <script> tag dropped before the closing body tag — no build step, dependencies, or

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tech-cultureopen-source

UHF X11 Turns Apple Vision Pro Into a Full X11 Display Server

UHF X11 reimagines the decades-old X Window System as a native display server for visionOS, letting an Apple Vision Pro host classic Xlib clients in 3D space. V

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open-sourcedevops

Why io_uring Is Quietly Retiring epoll for Linux Async I/O

A developer recounts how building an educational reverse proxy called TinyGate pushed his team through three architectures in pursuit of nginx-class throughput:

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Why Your p50 Lies: Customers Live in the Tail of Your Latency

AWS engineer Marc Brooker explains a measurement gap that makes service operators and their users both correct when they disagree about speed. An operator measu

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aitech-culture

AlphaFold Lead John Jumper Leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic

John Jumper, the Nobel-winning researcher who led DeepMind's AlphaFold protein-structure work, is leaving Google DeepMind after almost nine years to join Anthro

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