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There's a hidden Android setting that spots fake cell towers

https://www.howtogeek.com/theres-a-hidden-android-setting-that-spots-fake-cell-towers/
43•rmason•1h ago

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pwndByDeath•46m ago
I set up a rayhunter, not so worried about myself, but more an early warning if something was to change in the area
FuriouslyAdrift•1m ago
Reference in case anyone's interested: https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter
buran77•35m ago
Is something similar available in iOS? Apples full control over the hardware and software should make it easier than in the Android ecosystem.

> software can only do so much. For these security features to work, your phone's modem has to be able to communicate with the Android OS in a very specific way

> Because of this hardware requirement, the full suite of these network security tools is currently exclusive to the Pixel 10 series

veverkap•16m ago
This would be an amazing feature.
OptionOfT•8m ago
iOS allows disabling 2G connections, but only in lock-down mode.
zugi•8m ago
Many years ago browsers started alerting users to HTTP (vs HTTPS) connections and HTTPS sites using invalid or untrusted certificates.

How is it possible that in 2026 we're not notified by default when we connect to a cell tower with no certificate so our communications is being broadcast into the air completely unencrypted?

OptionOfT•5m ago
Isn't it the case that disabling 2G on its own is enough to block these issues?

Like the notifications are nice, but they're not a Allow / Deny popup. When you get the popup your data could've been intercepted.

Flux.2 Klein 4B (Apache 2.0)

https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-4B
2•anjneymidha•34s ago•0 comments

What if the idea of the autism spectrum is completely wrong?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2509117-what-if-the-idea-of-the-autism-spectrum-is-completel...
1•kristianp•57s ago•0 comments

Regressions on benchmark scores suggest frontier LLMs ~3-5T params

https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/benchmarks-predict-model-size/
1•namnnumbr•1m ago•1 comments

Origami Programming [pdf]

https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/publications/origami.pdf
1•andsoitis•2m ago•0 comments

Do AI models reason or regurgitate? Why AI is not merely a "stochastic parrot"

https://bigthink.com/the-present/do-ai-models-reason-or-regurgitate/
1•ryan_j_naughton•2m ago•0 comments

Package Manager Glossary

https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/13/package-manager-glossary.html
1•7777777phil•4m ago•0 comments

The industrial waste site that glitters like a glacier

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/kishangarh-dumping-yard-marble-india
1•noleary•5m ago•0 comments

Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs

https://github.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang
1•Scramblejams•6m ago•0 comments

Minnesota wants to win a war of attrition

https://www.theverge.com/policy/863632/minnesota-walz-trump-sousveillance-ice
3•andrewstetsenko•9m ago•0 comments

Tesla, BYD, and Xiaomi Are Playing Different Games

https://gilpignol.substack.com/p/tesla-byd-and-xiaomi-are-playing
1•light_triad•10m ago•0 comments

Nebra Sky Disc: the oldest depiction of astronomical phenomena

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/nebra-sky-disc-the-worlds-oldest-depiction-of-astronomica...
1•janandonly•11m ago•0 comments

I Improved Claude's MCP-CLI Experimental MCP Fix – 18x speedup on 50 calls

1•AIntelligentTec•12m ago•0 comments

Of donkeys, mules, and horses: data structures for network prefixes in Rust

https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/donkeys-mules-horses/
1•fanf2•12m ago•0 comments

Gravity from Information Geometry: A Lean 4 Formalization of Emergent Spacetime

https://www.academia.edu/146192044/Gravity_from_Information_Geometry_A_Lean_4_Formalization_of_Em...
1•kristintynski•13m ago•1 comments

Software Is Fine

https://shomik.substack.com/p/software-is-fine
1•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

Do not give up your brain

https://cassidoo.co/post/good-brain/
1•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

Use Social Media Mindfully

https://danielleheberling.xyz/blog/mindful-social-media/
2•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Deskflow is getting spammed with AI-slop PRs

1•acheong08•14m ago•0 comments

Google Mandiant Delivers the Coup de Grâce to Microsoft's NTLM

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Windows-Networks-Google-Mandiant-Delivers-the-Coup-de-Grace-to-Micro...
2•croes•15m ago•0 comments

Apple's "Protect Mail Activity" Doesn't Work

https://www.grepular.com/Apples_Protect_Mail_Activity_Doesnt_Work
2•mike-cardwell•17m ago•0 comments

Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt

https://www.seanmuirhead.com/blog/targeted-bets
1•seany62•19m ago•1 comments

Jazz – The Database That Syncs

https://jazz.tools/
1•aleksjess•19m ago•1 comments

Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt

1•seany62•20m ago•0 comments

Nanotimetamps: Time-Stamped Data on Nano Block Lattice

https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/nanotimestamp/wiki
2•Imustaskforhelp•21m ago•0 comments

Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to train xAI models

https://twitter.com/cryps1s/status/2013345999826153943
6•pizza•21m ago•1 comments

Nobody knows how large software products work

https://www.seangoedecke.com/nobody-knows-how-software-products-work/
2•7777777phil•25m ago•0 comments

Moving from Java to Python (2014)

https://yusufaytas.com/moving-from-java-to-python/
3•jatwork•25m ago•0 comments

19 hacks to get your startup's first customers (I made $150k+)

https://twitter.com/hustle_fred/status/2013200865956426130
2•Farid_Sukurov•26m ago•0 comments

Lava Lamps in Cloudflare's Encryption

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/
1•cl3misch•27m ago•0 comments

The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of LLMs

https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis
3•mfiguiere•29m ago•0 comments