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State-backed hackers targeted EU officials on WhatsApp, document shows

Cyber spies use custom lures to hack "high-ranking officials," EU's internal cyber unit warns.

  • Foreign governments, including Russia, targeted EU officials on WhatsApp.
  • State-sponsored spearphishing used personalized messages to infiltrate accounts.
  • EU cybersecurity officials identified eight significant incidents this year.

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Clicks Rose 73%. I Shut the Site Down.

In June I fixed a real problem on a small editorial site I run. The site was a client-side app — the kind where the server sends a nearly empty HTML shell and the browser assembles the actual page…

  • Clicks rose 73% on the editorial site
  • Site shut down due to performance decline
  • Top pages accounted for 91% of impressions

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Why I Built a Waitlist Tool That Forces You to Validate Before You Code

I've lost count of how many side projects I've abandoned. Not because the code didn't work — because nobody wanted what I'd built.

  • Author abandoned side projects due to poor validation, leading to wasted effort
  • Created WaitlistTest tool to validate ideas before coding, emphasizing validation-first approach

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Robinhood Chain: Three Things the Docs Don't Say

Originally published on xroot.dev . I spent a day reading Robinhood Chain with eth_call instead of reading about it. Three things turned up that no documentation page mentions — and one of them is a…

  • Chain ID is 0x1237 (4663) on Arbitrum Orbit L2
  • Operated by Robinhood with permissionless deployment
  • ABI lacks transfer restrictions despite source code showing "onlyNotBlocked" modifier

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New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-new-m6-and-m5-pro/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433450 Points: 268…

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IBM Built the Cold War’s Most Powerful Code Breaker for the NSA

At the height of the Cold War, one very specialized computer was so secret that the world didn’t know it existed. It ran its jobs up to 200 times as fast as any other computer of its time. It was the U.S. National Security Agency’s main cryptographic processor in operation from the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 through the…

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Uber launches live video streaming for teen accounts

Uber said no one will be able to access the video once the ride ends

  • Uber launches live video streaming for teen accounts safety monitoring
  • Parents alerted when stream accessible, driver and teen notified
  • Feature operational in nine U.S. markets, soon nationwide
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