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Moderna and Merck reported that their mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in a Phase 3 melanoma trial. The provided article text contains only cookie consent boilerplate, so no trial data, efficacy numbers, or timelines are available from the source.

Apple introduced simplified EU App Store business terms on August 18, consolidating developers onto a single fee structure: 26% for Apple In-App Purchase (15% for qualifying devs/subscriptions after year one), 20% for alternative payment processors (10% qualifying), 15% for web link-outs (10% qualifying), and a 5% 'Core Technology Commission' for apps distributed via alternative marketplaces or the web. Epic Games called the fees 'junk' and said the plan fails to open the mobile ecosystem as required by the DMA, while consumer group BEUC cautioned that 'the devil is in the detail.'

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 passes are discounted by up to $300 until August 21 at 11:59 p.m. PT, after which prices increase. The event runs October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, expecting 10,000+ founders, investors, and startup community members, with a focus on AI-era building.

Samsung is reportedly raising advanced foundry prices by up to 15%, with its 4nm process lines filled by AI-driven demand. Chinese customers are reportedly accepting the largest price increases.

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Flock, a US surveillance company operating automated license plate readers (ALPRs), faces growing backlash after a Washington Post investigation documented 46 cases of police officers abusing the system, including stalking former partners. CEO Garrett Langley apologized and reduced default data retention from 30 days to 7 days, though a new 'Evidence Mode' lets law enforcement keep data longer. An online 'De-Flock America' campaign is encouraging people to vandalize Flock cameras on Halloween 2026.

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/11/civic-hygiene/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363433 Points: 451 # Comments: 336

Cloudflare internally retested remote Spectre attacks against Workers using newer stabilization techniques and found a limitation in their Dynamic Process Isolation (DyPrIs) defense, achieving reliable cross-tenant memory leakage at 12 bit/s with 99% accuracy in production. They have since mitigated it by integrating the V8 Sandbox and an in-process isolation mechanism. No indicators of active exploitation were found over the past three years.

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China's 'Eastern Data, Western Computing' policy is relocating large AI data center complexes to rural provinces like Guizhou to exploit surplus energy, with Huawei and Tencent building infrastructure there. The article itself is mostly boilerplate; the substantive detail is limited to the headline.

Meta's ad moderation approved and ran advertisements for an app that generates non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) of female politicians, according to Ars Technica. The actual article body was not captured—only cookie consent boilerplate was retrieved—so specific details such as the app name, which politicians were targeted, how long the ads ran, and Meta's response are unavailable from the provided text.

TerraPower, founded by Bill Gates, plans to announce its first AI data center project this year, with construction expected to break ground in 2027. Its Natrium reactor design pairs nuclear generation with energy storage, allowing the reactor to run at full capacity (92.5% capacity factor) while storing excess output rather than ramping down — a key differentiator since existing reactors can only adjust output by about 5% per minute. Meta has already agreed to buy eight Natrium plants, though the data center customer for this project was not named.

Also, a micromobility startup spun out of Rivian in 2025, raised a $150M Series D led by Prysm Capital with existing backers Eclipse, Greenoaks, and MVP Ventures, bringing total funding to $455M in under two years. The company is expanding beyond pedal-assist e-bikes and commercial cargo quads into autonomous delivery vehicles, leveraging the same electric architecture across form factors, with DoorDash as a commercial partner from a prior $200M round.

A study of 7,704 employees at a large healthcare organization found fully remote workers reported the highest well-being, followed by hybrid, then fully onsite workers. Published in Frontiers in Psychology (July 2026), the study found little evidence that remote workers felt less connected to colleagues or culture. Co-author Stefanie Johnson noted the results surprised her, as she expected hybrid workers to report the best outcomes.

Qualcomm retracted select Snapdragon C power efficiency benchmarks nearly a week after they were published, issuing an updated slide that removed results for idle apps and web browsing. The retraction suggests the original figures for those workloads were unreliable or could not be substantiated.

A Casio product page for the F-B100W-1A watch reached 458 points and 382 comments on Hacker News. The article content could not be retrieved, so only the HN engagement metrics are known.

A Pew Research Center survey finds 52% of US adults are now more concerned than excited about AI, up from a minority in 2021, with 71% expecting AI to reduce jobs over the next two decades (up from 64% two years ago). For the first time, adults aged 18-29 are majority-negative (55%), with 73% of that group predicting job losses. Forrester separately forecasts AI and automation could erase 6.1% of US jobs by 2030.

Chris Burnell's page catalogs native HTML features that replace common JavaScript patterns, including the `popover` attribute (with `popovertarget` and `popovertargetaction`) for tooltip/menu-style overlays and the `<dialog>` element for modal boxes. The page was built for HTML Day 2026 and later updated to flag where browser implementations fall short on accessibility. It includes live code snippets showing how to toggle popovers and open/close dialogs with zero JavaScript.

Indian fintech Navi, founded by Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal in 2018, raised $100M from Prosus—its first outside institutional capital—at a ~$1.3B valuation. Navi offers digital payments, lending, insurance, and mutual funds, and is reportedly preparing a ~$314M IPO after abandoning a $440M IPO attempt in 2022.

Amazon is rolling out its AI-powered Alexa+ to all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S. for free, dropping the previous $19.99/month non-Prime paywall. The upgrade is automatic and brings conversational search, smart home controls, and AI-powered recommendations to current-gen Fire TV Sticks, Fire TV Cube, Amazon Ember smart TVs, and select Hisense and Panasonic TVs.

Amazon announced a major expansion of Prime Air drone delivery, targeting nearly 500 U.S. cities by end of 2026, roughly six times its current footprint. The expansion includes 11 new locations, with a return to Tolleson, Arizona after a 2025 drone collision incident, and Amazon emphasizing its Detect-and-Avoid safety system and FAA Part 135 certification.

This is a general CNBC Morning Squawk market briefing covering Target earnings, Canada tariffs, American Airlines seatback screens, Moderna cancer vaccine trial results, and rising global bond yields. The only AI-adjacent detail is a warning that elevated capital costs could increase scrutiny on AI data center buildout spending.

Nvidia is privately brokering introductions between companies that need GPU capacity and data-center operators in the Nordics, per CNBC sources. The region is attracting large AI data-center projects due to cheap power, available land, and cooler climate. This signals Nvidia expanding beyond chip sales into actively shaping where AI infrastructure gets built.

Calendly is launching a meeting note-taker that joins, records, transcribes, summarizes, and drafts follow-up emails, plus a planned AI assistant named Callie that leverages its scheduling stack to set up meetings and surface context from prior meetings. CEO Tope Awotona positions the product around post-meeting workflow automation for sales and marketing users, differentiating from crowded competitors like Granola, Fireflies, Read AI, Otter, and Fathom. Calendly also claims a privacy edge by notifying participants of recording, as Otter and Granola face privacy allegations.

NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot attempted to replace a failed space-to-ground antenna on the ISS on August 18, 2026, but stubborn electrical connections and bolts consumed too much time. They removed the faulty antenna and secured it temporarily, but managers called off the installation of the replacement. A follow-up spacewalk is scheduled for August 25, though NASA hasn't confirmed whether the antenna work will be included.