Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware
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Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

Servers running on motherboards sold by Supermicro contain high-severity vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to remotely install malicious firmware that runs even before the operating system, making infections impossible to detect or remove without unusual protections in place. One of the two vulnerabilities is the result of an incomplete patch Supermicro released in January, said...

Anti-vaccine allies cheer as Trump claims shots have “too much liquid”
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Anti-vaccine allies cheer as Trump claims shots have “too much liquid”

Vaccinations don’t overwhelm children’s immune systems. And there’s no evidence that spacing them out avoids any of the very small risks they pose. Data against dogma After Trump shared his personal feelings about vaccines, the American Academy of Pediatrics rushed to release a statement, first refuting any link between vaccines and autism and then warning...

Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump's America
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Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America

“Maybe 10 years ago, he was like, ‘I want Marco Rubio to be president,’” the same source says. Many players first started hearing of Ellison in the lead up to the 2024 Republican presidential primary. At that point, after years of donating to both parties, Ellison was seen internally as doing Trump a small favor...

Instagram hits 3 billion monthly users
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Instagram hits 3 billion monthly users

We’ve asked Meta if the new Instagram milestone includes users for its X rival Threads, which launched in July 2023 and requires users to sign up using an Instagram or Facebook account. Bloomberg reports that private messaging and Reels short-form video features are Instagram’s biggest growth drivers, and are what the platform is now focusing...

These YC founders pivoted 5 times before building a social app that nabbed 300K users and over $1M ARR in 6 months
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These YC founders pivoted 5 times before building a social app that nabbed 300K users and over $1M ARR in 6 months

A couple of months ago, the founders behind YC-backed social app Candle were in “pivot hell,” cycling through more than a dozen ideas after joining Y Combinator’s Fall 2024 batch, while the clock on their seed money ticked down. Alex Ruber, previously an engineer at Apple, and Parth Chopra, formerly an engineer at Asana and...