NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild — and Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers

Issue #1249 — September 09, 2023

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NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild citizenlab.ca \| points: 1386 \| comments: 773

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Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers arstechnica.com \| points: 856 \| comments: 512

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Bun v1.0.0 bun.sh \| points: 658 \| comments: 213

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Touch Pianist touchpianist.com \| points: 590 \| comments: 188

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Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software bitbashing.io \| points: 415 \| comments: 358

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Procreate Dreams procreate.com \| points: 390 \| comments: 137

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Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy growth.design \| points: 332 \| comments: 309

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Aardvark’d: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later mtlynch.io \| points: 323 \| comments: 106

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Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories hackyournews.com \| points: 288 \| comments: 152

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Emoji Generator with AI emoji.fly.dev \| points: 277 \| comments: 134

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FTC judge decides Intuit’s ‘free’ TurboTax ads misled consumers theverge.com \| points: 255 \| comments: 72

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I rode with an ice road trucker to the Arctic Circle freightwaves.com \| points: 226 \| comments: 152

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What’s new in Emacs 29.1 masteringemacs.org \| points: 223 \| comments: 132

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China’s ancient water pipe networks show no evidence of a centralized authority phys.org \| points: 217 \| comments: 148

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California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics latimes.com \| points: 216 \| comments: 254

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Bees struggle to find flowers because of air pollution birmingham.ac.uk \| points: 204 \| comments: 31

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NYPD spent millions to contract with firm banned by Meta for fake profiles theguardian.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 125

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A BERT for laptops, from scratch github.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 44

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PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril jpcamara.com \| points: 174 \| comments: 60

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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo en.wikipedia.org \| points: 168 \| comments: 90

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