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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Ad Data From Popular Apps Gives Police a Powerful Way to Track Users

A Bloomberg feature reports that advertising technology embedded in widely used smartphone apps is being used by police to monitor people's movements. The piece describes how location and identifier data gathered for ad targeting can be accessed by law enforcement without the usual warrant process. The article highlights the privacy implications for ordinary app users who may be unaware their data is being shared. The source text provided is limited to the link and metadata, so specific cases and details are drawn only from the original headline and its framing.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Jason Kelce's Pennsylvania home grows to $6M estate, drawing neighbour concerns

Former NFL center Jason Kelce turned a home bought for about $680,000 into a nearly $5.99 million property covering roughly 10 acres in Pennsylvania. He achieved this through three separate property purchases. His proposed expansion, which includes a new house and a privacy fence, has raised worries among neighbours about flooding, drainage and security. The local zoning board approved the plans, but with conditions attached. The project continues to be a subject of local discussion.

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TechnologyThe Verge ·

Elvis Presley and Eminem Rights Holders Sue AI Music Firm Suno

Rights holders for Elvis Presley's music and the publisher of several of Eminem's major records have filed lawsuits against AI music company Suno. They allege that Suno's tools generate music and lyrics that imitate these artists. The Presley suit invokes Tennessee's ELVIS Act, which bars AI companies from cloning a singer's voice. Presley's rights holders argue that Suno has built its system around artists' identities and creative work without authorization. The article notes that Suno already faces other legal challenges.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily Report on Unused RAM, Dubbed 'RAM Altman'

A Linux user has built a script that sends a daily email to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reporting how much RAM sits unused on the author's PC. The project is playfully named 'RAM Altman' and was shared on Hacker News, where it gathered 25 points and 8 comments. The article describes the script as a lighthearted take on memory usage rather than a serious monitoring tool. It appears to be a humorous personal project and does not indicate any involvement or response from Altman himself. The source material is limited, so details beyond the core concept are not clearly specified.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Devotees Angered as Karnataka CM's Temple Visit Halts Entry at Hasanamba Temple

Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar visited the Hasanamba temple on Sunday and offered prayers inside the sanctum sanctorum. Entry for ordinary devotees was temporarily suspended while he was inside the shrine. Many waiting devotees grew frustrated at the delay and voiced their discontent. Broadcast footage of the chief minister's visit reportedly deepened the anger among those kept waiting. Several women openly criticized the chief minister for the hold-up during the live coverage.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Packethound Brings Little Snitch-Style Network Monitoring to Windows

A new Windows application called Packethound has been introduced as a network monitoring tool. It is modeled on Little Snitch, a well-known network traffic monitor long associated with macOS. The product is presented on its own website, packethound.app. The item gained attention on Hacker News, where it earned 21 points and 6 comments. The available source material gives no further detail on its features, pricing, or technical design.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Field guide catalogs CAPTCHA types and the methods used to defeat them

A GitHub project titled FuckCaptcha has been shared on Hacker News, where it gathered 13 points and one comment. The repository appears to serve as a field guide organizing the different kinds of CAPTCHA challenges used to tell humans from bots online. It also outlines how each type can be broken or bypassed. The post's details are limited to the repository link and discussion metadata, so the scope of the guide's technical content is not fully described in the available material. The item reflects ongoing interest in the weaknesses of bot-detection systems.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Webflow only pastes its own elements; a developer built a way to paste SVG and HTML

Webflow's Designer accepts only its own elements on paste, so copying an icon from Figma or plain HTML and CSS into it does nothing. The usual workaround, a Code Embed, works but is a black box whose contents cannot be selected, classed, or styled in the Style panel. The developer behind devpack built SVG to Webflow and HTML & CSS to Webflow tools, plus a browser extension that performs the conversion directly when pasting into the Designer. The approach works by inspecting the JSON Webflow places on the clipboard, which uses a flat list of nodes and a separate styles list, and then writing equivalent JSON that the Designer will paste. Because the modern Clipboard API cannot write that custom type, the developer relies on the older copy-event method, which remains the only viable option despite being deprecated.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Google overhauls YouTube's immersive view on Meta Quest and VR glasses

Google is reportedly redesigning the YouTube app's immersive viewing mode on Meta Quest and other VR glasses, aligning it more closely with Android XR and visionOS experiences. The shift suggests that watching video in headsets is moving from an occasional feature toward a routine habit. The article argues this matters beyond convenience, since sustained daily use makes it practical to layer vision-training activities onto existing viewing habits. It highlights Amblyotube, a Meta Quest app that sends different visual feeds to each eye during streamed content to support amblyopia (lazy eye) therapy. The app positions itself as an educational aid rather than a diagnostic or curative treatment, and is limited to users aged 13 and older.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Government agencies issue vendor questionnaire on post-quantum cryptography readiness

On November 4, the NSA, CISA, and Australia's ASD's ACSC published a 19-page guide of questions for buyers to ask software and hardware vendors about their post-quantum cryptography readiness. The document is a joint update of an earlier Australian version released in July. It follows NIST's final transition plan, which deprecates RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography after 2030 and disallows them after 2035. The guidance centers on a cryptographic bill of materials that inventories every algorithm, library, and configuration a product relies on, including those inherited from third parties. Buyers are encouraged to ask whether vendors can provide such an inventory and when post-quantum-ready releases will ship in time for deployment before 2030.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Proposal Urges Experience Decision Records to Align UX and Developers

The author proposes adopting Experience Decision Records, modeled on Architectural Decision Records, to capture both UX decisions and the reasons behind them. Without this, developers often lack context and either repeatedly ask the UX team for small rules or make inconsistent assumptions. Machine-readable records could also help AI-assisted coding and review tools check compliance with UX guidelines. The author acknowledges setup costs but suggests AI tools could extract existing decisions from emails, chats, and meeting notes to reduce effort. Human review would still be required, and the author argues the records would distribute knowledge more evenly and improve long-term consistency.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Model Context Protocol Explained: How AI Assistants Connect to Everyday Tools

A DEV Community piece walks through how AI assistants can move beyond understanding requests to actually acting on them. It uses the example of checking a calendar and creating a task, noting that language models alone cannot access external applications without integration. The article contrasts understanding an action with executing one, comparing it to frontend and backend separation in software design. It introduces Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that gives AI applications a common way to connect to external tools, systems, and data sources, much as USB standardizes device connections. The author stresses that MCP does not replace the underlying APIs, which services still need to communicate with their own systems.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

OnePassApps Maps Forty Common URL Paths: Redirects, Missing Pages and Off-Index Pages

The OnePassApps team tested forty commonly typed paths on its own site with plain HTTPS requests, without cookies or JavaScript. Fifteen returned 200, four returned permanent 301 redirects, and twenty-one returned a standard 404 page, with no temporary redirect codes appearing. Several pages reachable by URL, including /apps, /support, /sign-in, /sign-up and /account, are not in the sitemap and lack structured data, with the account pages also disallowed in robots.txt. The authors note that /apps has no links from the rest of the site, so visitors reach it only by typing its address. Missing paths all return the same noindex page with no canonical link or structured data.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Solo developer releases free open-source AI website builder that runs in the browser

A developer has launched openconstructor, a free and open-source editor where users describe an interface and an AI generates it on a visual canvas. Users can edit blocks by hand or through further prompts, then publish the page or download the underlying code, including static HTML, Vite and React projects, and game UI formats. The tool runs on open AI models with a daily free quota that increases with a free account, and users can optionally plug in their own API keys from other providers. Published pages are restricted to prevent JavaScript execution, and the project is licensed under MIT. The creator, who built it as a solo project about a week before posting, is seeking user feedback on AI errors and missing features.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Bengaluru serial killer's brother faced 2018 murder charges, died in prison

S Indushekhar, now in police custody, is accused of seven murders linked to domestic disputes and property conflicts. His brother, S Ramesh, was involved in a major murder case tied to a land scam. Ramesh allegedly orchestrated the killing of an elderly man to illegally seize valuable property. When Sudharani uncovered the plot, her husband was reportedly pressured into killing her to shield the gang. The article indicates Ramesh was charged with murder in 2018 and later died in prison.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Louisiana woman wins 11-year road dispute; neighbours barred beyond 1,000 feet

After more than ten years of litigation, Mona Matherne has prevailed in a dispute over a private road next to her country home in Louisiana. Her neighbours had contended that the road was public, but Matherne argued against that claim in court. State appeals judges, in a November 2026 ruling, upheld earlier court decisions in her favour. The court determined that only the first 1,000 feet of the road is open to public use. The remainder stays private, which protects Matherne's privacy.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Antonelli wins 2026 drivers' title as Verstappen, Hamilton, Russell and Leclerc fight for second

Kimi Antonelli has secured the 2026 Drivers' Championship. Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, George Russell and Charles Leclerc are now contesting second place in the standings. Grid penalties mean all four will start outside the top six, which makes scoring points harder. The race at Sao Paulo's Interlagos circuit is known for unpredictable weather, adding further uncertainty. Each remaining lap could decide their final positions.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Prominent Astrophysicist Holley Bockelmann Departs the United States

A leading astrophysicist has left the United States, according to a New York Times report that was shared widely on Hacker News. The article is linked from the NYT's science section and is discussed in a small Hacker News thread. The provided text includes only the article URL and engagement metadata, so the specific reasons for the move and its details are not included here. Readers are directed to the original New York Times article for the full account.

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SportsESPNcricinfo ·

Babar Azam says team selection is not in his hands, focuses on giving input

Pakistan captain Babar Azam has said that choosing the team is not his responsibility, as selectors and coaches make those decisions. He explained that his role is to offer his inputs and then help the selected players perform. According to him, the goal is to deliver match-winning performances on the field. His comments reflect a focus on team contribution rather than selection matters.

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