Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit
Hackers are threatening to release confidential data stolen from Reddit unless the company pays a ransom demand – and reverses its controversial API price hikes. In a post on its dark web leak site, the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, claims to have stolen 80 gigabytes of compressed
Read moreA Deep Dive Into Observation: A New Way to Boost SwiftUI Performance
The Observation framework should reduce unnecessary updates in SwiftUI views, improving the performance of SwiftUI appsPhoto by Jean-Louis Aubert on UnsplashAt WWDC 2023, Apple introduced a new member of the Swift standard library — the Observation framework. Its appearance is expected to alleviate the long-standing issue of unnecessary updates to SwiftUI views for developers.This
Read moreY Combinator-backed Rever aims to modernize refunds and returns
Màrius Montmany and Oriol Hernandez i Fajula, former employees at large logistics companies, several years ago found themselves frustrated with the problem of “reverse logistics” — how to get product returns through the mail system in an efficient and cost-effective way. Dissatisfied with the existing solutions out there, the pair
Read moreSeedstars, Fondation Botnar launch new fund to back African startups focused on youth wellbeing
Seedstars Capital and Swiss philanthropic foundation Fondation Botnar have launched Seedstars Youth Wellbeing Ventures, a $20 million investment mandate targeting early-stage startups in Africa that are focused on improving the wellbeing of people below 30 years in low-and-middle-income countries. The evergreen fund will back pre-seed to Series A startups including
Read moreMercedes jumps into the ChatGPT fray and Toyota plays catch-up
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Read moreA parabola, a triangle, and a circle
Let P be a parabola. Draw tangents to P at three different points. These three lines intersect to form a triangle. Theorem: The circumcircle of this triangle passes through the focus of P. [1] In the image above, the dashed lines are tangents and the black dot is the focus
Read moreSpotify does nothing as Joe Rogan peddles vaccine misinformation
Nick Barclay / The Verge After Baylor microbiology professor and public health advocate Peter Hotez, MD Ph.D. tweeted out a Motherboard article about Spotify’s lack of moderation of Joe Rogan’s misinformation after a podcast episode with guest Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Rogan challenged him to debate Robert F Kennedy, Jr,
Read moreEquation of a circle through three points
A few months ago I wrote about several equations that come up in geometric calculations that all have the form of a determinant equal to 0, where one column of the determinant is all 1s. The equation of a circle through three points (x1, y1), (x2, y2), and (x3, y3)
Read moreMicrosoft says June Outlook outages were a DDoS attack
Microsoft Outlook was subjected to a DDoS attack. | Illustration: The Verge In early June, complaints began cropping up on Twitter that Outlook was down for as many as 18,000 users at the peak of what, it turns out, was a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, according to a story in
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