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Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution
Article URL: https://emilygorcenski.com/post/owning-my-own-data-part-1-integrating-a-self-hosted-calendar-solution/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643343
Points: 1
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CPI for all items falls 0.1% in March, up 2.4% YoY
Article URL: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_04102025.htm
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643342
Points: 1
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Photon: Rust/WebAssembly image processing library faster than VIPs and PIL
Article URL: https://github.com/silvia-odwyer/photon
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643312
Points: 1
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My Experience Testing Under-Desk Treadmills, as Both a Fitness Expert and Busy Mom
Elliptical Python Programming
Article URL: https://susam.net/elliptical-python-programming.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643292
Points: 1
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Bait Hook Reward Payload
Article URL: https://www.saxifrage.xyz/post/bait-hook-reward-payload
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643281
Points: 1
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Las Vegas: How the internet's most notorious risk-taker always wins in the end
Article URL: https://slate.com/life/2025/03/las-vegas-matt-youtube-gambling-casino-slots-hotel.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643251
Points: 1
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Europe's AI Leadership with an Ambitious AI Continent Action Plan
America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/air-pollution-trump-administration/682361/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643243
Points: 7
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Increasing Energy Efficiency by Using the Ground for Thermo-Accumulation
Article URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17/1/262
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643221
Points: 2
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Locating Stealth Fighters with Cheap Cameras Without Using AI or Radar [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b51C82-UE
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643207
Points: 2
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Show HN: Temp.pw
Article URL: https://temp.pw/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643204
Points: 1
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Simple but Powerful Pratt Parsing
Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2020/04/13/simple-but-powerful-pratt-parsing.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643202
Points: 2
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The Curious Case of Jupiter Ace
Article URL: https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-jupiter-ace
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643197
Points: 2
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'Hidden galaxies' could be smoking gun in universe riddle
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-hidden-galaxies-gun-universe-riddle.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643183
Points: 1
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Synchronization Bt Were Afraid to Ask [pdf]
Article URL: https://sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2013/papers/p33-david.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643182
Points: 2
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The UI Evolution of Audio Plugins [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4SJwUrVInk
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643180
Points: 1
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Buried by Bots: How AI Is Maxing Out Your Cognitive Bandwidth
Article URL: https://wrk3.substack.com/p/buried-by-bots-how-ai-is-maxing-out
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643168
Points: 2
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Don’t say you are nontechnical
Article URL: https://federicopereiro.com/no-nontechnical/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643143
Points: 1
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Your 23andMe genetic data could be bought by China, senator warns
Senator Cassidy, the chair of the US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has expressed concerns about foreign adversaries, including the Chinese Communist Party, acquiring the sensitive genetic data of millions of Americans through 23andMe.
The risk is considered real because of the impending takeover of the genetic database that belongs to 23andMe. Since the DNA testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy it has been looking for a new owner, and views its genetic data as an asset in the possible sale.
An asset that Senator Cassidy fears could do a lot of harm in the wrong hands, as he wrote in a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent:
“The recent bankruptcy filing by 23andMe raises questions about potential buyers of its genetic database that contains the information of approximately 15 million customers. Chinese companies have already taken steps to collect genetic data across the world that could be used for adverse purposes.”
The Department of the Treasury, through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), has broad authority to review transactions that may impact the national security of the United States.
23andMe tried to reassure customers that:
“Any buyer of 23andMe will be required to agree to comply with our privacy policy and with all applicable law with respect to the treatment of customer data.”
However, the senator fears that the company and its assets will be sold to the highest bidder which will put the information of its approximately 15 million customers at risk of falling into the wrong hands. For this reason he has asked 23andMe to answer a number of questions about the sales process, the supervision of the transfer, the ability of customers to delete their data, and the effect of the bankruptcy on 23andMe’s cybersecurity infrastructure.
For those that missed our tips the last time, I’ll repeat them here.
How to delete your 23andMe dataFor 23andMe customers who want to delete their data from 23andMe:
- Log into your account and navigate to Settings.
- Under Settings, scroll to the section titled 23andMe data. Select View.
- You will be asked to enter your date of birth for extra security.
- In the next section, you’ll be asked which, if there is any, personal data you’d like to download from the company (onto a personal, not public, computer). Once you’re finished, scroll to the bottom and select Permanently delete data.
- You should then receive an email from 23andMe detailing its account deletion policy and requesting that you confirm your request. Once you confirm you’d like your data to be deleted, the deletion will begin automatically, and you’ll immediately lose access to your account.
In 2023, 23andMe suffered a data breach that impacted up to seven million people. Found being sold on the dark web, the data reportedly included “profile and account ID numbers, names, gender, birth year, maternal and paternal genetic markers, ancestral heritage results, and data on whether or not each user has opted into 23AndMe’s health data.”
With the data, cybercriminals could learn about a person’s genealogy and potentially use some of the information to aid them in committing identity fraud.
There is no meaningful way to remove this data from the dark web. Instead, we recommend that you run a scan using our free Digital Footprint Portal to see if your data was exposed in the 2023 breach, and then to take additional steps to protect yourself.
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