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VPN Secure company CEO explains why he had to axe 'lifetime' deals

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/14/vpn_secure_axe_lifetime_deals/
3•rntn•3h ago

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pavel_lishin•3h ago
> In an email [PDF] one frustrated user shared with The Register, VPN Secure argued that its acquisition of the business in 2023 was an asset-only deal - meaning it took over the technology, infrastructure, and customer database, but not the previous owner's liabilities.

Color me naive, but I'm surprised that's allowed. Seems like it would be all too easy for a company to "sell" itself to "someone", just to jettison liabilities.

GPT-4.1 will be available directly in ChatGPT starting today

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1922707554745909391
1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

Details about Lava: Airbnb's new animation format

https://twitter.com/ramon_fritsch/status/1922647368295481421
1•aqeelat•1m ago•0 comments

Oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app

https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces/
1•todsacerdoti•1m ago•0 comments

Kids Online Safety Act is back

https://www.theverge.com/news/666729/kids-online-safety-act-reintroduced
1•leotravis10•3m ago•0 comments

Launch day for Maple AI – a new privacy AI in the Apple App Store with E2EE

https://blog.trymaple.ai/introducing-maple-ai-for-iphone-and-ipad-your-most-personal-ai-assistant-on-the-go/
2•markskram•5m ago•0 comments

Dropbox Is Down

https://status.dropbox.com/
1•davidcox143•5m ago•1 comments

My Microsoft MultiMedia Keyboard 1.0A is dead

https://kotaku.com/mechanical-keyboard-microsoft-squidgy-keys-1851780616
1•ericzawo•8m ago•0 comments

Yume – Transform your content with GPU shaders

https://yume.sh/
1•andrew_rfc•9m ago•0 comments

Unhappy Meals (2007)

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html
1•Tomte•11m ago•0 comments

How to systematically secure anything (2023)

https://github.com/veeral-patel/how-to-secure-anything
2•Tomte•11m ago•0 comments

A Framework for Defining and Refining Your ICP

https://a16z.com/framework-define-refine-icp/
1•tzury•12m ago•0 comments

Keeping Time on a Stream

https://s2.dev/blog/timestamping
1•shikhar•13m ago•0 comments

Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI

https://www.debugyourpain.org/docs/main_posts/understand/debugging_rsi/
6•luu•14m ago•0 comments

54 years ago, a computer programmer fixed a bug, created an existential crisis

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/blinking-cursor-history
2•cpeterso•14m ago•0 comments

How the 'end of history' illusion shapes your life choices

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230619-how-the-end-of-history-illusion-shapes-your-life-choices
2•jhncls•15m ago•0 comments

Warners Reverses Course: Changes Max's Name Back to HBO Max

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/max-name-change-hbo-max-upfronts-1236216616/
2•jaredwiener•17m ago•0 comments

How we (re)built our AI agent for code reviews in IDEs

https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/how-we-built-our-ai-code-review-tool-for-ides
1•smb06•19m ago•1 comments

In search of a dynamist vision for safe superhuman AI

https://helentoner.substack.com/p/dynamism-vs-stasis
1•stephenflanders•19m ago•0 comments

ONOX: The all-electric tractor with swappable battery packs

https://electrek.co/2025/05/13/meet-onox-the-all-electric-tractor-with-swappable-battery-packs/
1•gnabgib•20m ago•1 comments

Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/climate/noaa-ends-disaster-database
6•vinnyglennon•21m ago•0 comments

Learning pointers 10 years too late

https://codebynight.dev/posts/day-2-of-learning-go-the-pointers-i-finally-understood-10-years-later/
2•shivc•22m ago•0 comments

CISA changes vulnerabilities updates, shifts to X and emails

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/cisa_vulnerabilities_updates_x/
2•rbanffy•22m ago•1 comments

TikTok is using AI-generated alt text to describe photos

https://www.theverge.com/news/666632/tiktok-accessibility-ai-generated-alt-text-contrast-bold
1•01-_-•23m ago•1 comments

Students Are Short-Circuiting Their Chromebooks for a Social Media Challenge

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/tiktok-trend-school-laptops-fire.html
5•ChrisArchitect•24m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I made a client MCP react app for Supabase's MCP server

https://github.com/tambo-ai/supabase-mcp-client
1•michaelmilst•25m ago•0 comments

China and Russia have signed a deal to build a nuclear power plant on the moon

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3310315/china-and-russia-sign-nuclear-reactor-deal-fuel-lunar-research-station
2•zachguo•26m ago•0 comments

Free AI Code Reviews for Cursor, Windsurf and VS Code: CodeRabbit in IDE

https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/ai-code-reviews-vscode-cursor-windsurf
1•smb06•31m ago•1 comments

Cell cycle duration determines oncogenic transformation capacity

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08935-x
3•PaulHoule•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Turn any workflow diagram into compilable, running and stateful code

https://workflows.diagrid.io/
1•yaronsc•31m ago•0 comments

Teaching Kids about Money in the Age of Tap to Pay

https://blog.tendollaradventure.com/teaching-kids-about-money-in-a-digital-age/
2•dskhatri•33m ago•0 comments