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Hackers Sought a Backdoor in High-Tech Safes – Now Can Open Them in Seconds

https://www.wired.com/story/securam-prologic-safe-lock-backdoor-exploits/
5•kPwn•3h ago

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bell-cot•3h ago
Human nature is a huge part of the problem here:

> research on the higher-end version of the two kinds of Securam lock used on Liberty Safe products revealed something more intriguing. The locks have a reset method documented in their manual, intended in theory for use by locksmiths helping safe owners who have forgotten their unlock code.

Most people want an "absolutely uncrackable" lock, safe, coin wallet, encryption algo, or whatever - until they manage to lose their combination/key/password. Then, they suddenly want an E-Z-Open back door.

Companies that want to stay in business all understand the "please tell me a bunch of lies about it being unbreakable" customer psychology of this market.

An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring

https://jyn.dev/an-engineers-perspective-on-hiring/
1•zdw•2m ago•0 comments

Google Finance testing new AI features

https://blog.google/products/search/google-finance-ai/
1•DocFeind•2m ago•0 comments

Self-Loathing AI

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/08/08/self-loathing-ai/
1•zdw•3m ago•0 comments

A Routine Vaccine May Lower Dementia Risk by as Much as 20%

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-routine-vaccine-may-lower-dementia-risk-by-as-much-as-20
1•amichail•6m ago•0 comments

The Troubling Decline in Conscientiousness

https://www.ft.com/content/5cd77ef0-b546-4105-8946-36db3f84dc43
2•jnord•8m ago•0 comments

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering

https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html
2•Bogdanp•10m ago•0 comments

Keeping Up with AI: The Painful New Mandate for Software Engineers

https://thenewstack.io/keeping-up-with-ai-the-painful-new-mandate-for-software-engineers/
1•andsoitis•13m ago•0 comments

How Intel's CEO Helped Create China's Chip Industry

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/executive-leadership-and-management/how-intel-s-ceo-helped-create-china-s-chip-industry/ar-AA1Ka98v
2•jnord•17m ago•0 comments

What makes a SuperAger?

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/08/what-makes-a-superager/
7•hhs•19m ago•1 comments

Tornado Cash co-founder found guilty on 1 of 3 charges after jury deadlock

https://cointelegraph.com/news/tornado-cash-roman-storm-found-guilty-partial-verdict
2•creer•22m ago•0 comments

EPA plans to end a program that makes solar available to low-income Americans

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5493300/solar-climate-change-trump-epa
1•rbanffy•25m ago•0 comments

International Cat Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cat_Day
4•PaulHoule•26m ago•0 comments

Watching the watchers: Former NSA employee on Flock cameras

https://www.protectprivacynow.org/news/watching-the-watchers-former-nsa-employee-on-flock-cameras-real-and-palpable-damage-to-citizenry
1•hhs•29m ago•0 comments

Back to the Future: From Freeze-in-Place to Sliding Scale Chip Controls

https://rhg.com/research/back-to-the-future-from-freeze-in-place-to-sliding-scale-chip-controls/
2•rbanffy•29m ago•0 comments

When ChatGPT integration within Apple Intelligence will use GPT-5

https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/07/apple-intelligence-gpt-5-chatgpt-integration/
1•gnabgib•30m ago•0 comments

Not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment I have grown accustomed to

https://medium.com/@steve.desch/this-is-not-the-quality-of-pseudoscience-infotainment-to-which-i-have-grown-accustomed-34268f892ba8
1•rbanffy•31m ago•0 comments

Americans, Be Warned: Lessons from Reddit's Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/americans-be-warned-lessons-reddits-chaotic-uk-age-verification-rollout
2•mdp2021•32m ago•0 comments

Could AI help America out of its debt hole?

https://www.ft.com/content/3c56d56e-b889-4eff-a8db-324c487334f3
1•hhs•33m ago•1 comments

The Desperate Struggle to Squeeze Aid into a Starving Gaz

https://share.google/lwSKW8yEyTcCMaDrs
7•loandbehold•38m ago•0 comments

I built a Python tool to spot legal risks in AI responses under the EU AI Act

https://medium.com/@esromwoldtensaie/i-built-a-free-python-tool-to-spot-million-euro-lawsuit-risks-in-your-ai-ac1cbcb083a9
1•Esrbwt•39m ago•0 comments

iOS 26 will bring GPT-5 to Apple Intelligence

https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphones/apples-confirmed-gpt-5-is-coming-to-apple-intelligence-and-sooner-than-expected
1•stikit•44m ago•0 comments

When OpenAI Fires Your Favorite Coworker

https://relantic.com/radar/gpt-5-lost-friends.html
5•relantic•47m ago•0 comments

Disclaimer

https://xkcd.com/3126/
1•LorenDB•48m ago•0 comments

New research shows promise for restoring vision for people with glaucoma

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/new-research-shows-promise-for-restoring-vision/
3•mgh2•51m ago•0 comments

Spindle

https://blog.tangled.sh/ci
2•todsacerdoti•56m ago•0 comments

Trump to blame for high cost of living, Americans say in new poll

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/01/trump-inflation-cost-of-living-poll
10•PaulHoule•57m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Made a "Block Blast " Solver

https://www.adriclumma.com/projects/blockBlastSolver/
2•xFixItNow•58m ago•0 comments

China's overlapping tech-industrial ecosystems

https://www.high-capacity.com/p/chinas-overlapping-tech-industrial
1•walterbell•1h ago•0 comments

Essential Books on the Science of Reading

https://journal.imse.com/ten-essential-books-the-science-of-reading/
1•mindcrime•1h ago•0 comments

Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01191
1•nnx•1h ago•0 comments