PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we school ourselves on others’ security failures. This week, we’ll learn about a school where the entire network was like an open-book test … and the IT department got a...
Infosys chairman Nandan M. Nilekani has predicted AI – even AI that does the kind of coding work his company does for many clients – will be good for services companies. Nilekani made his prediction in a speech delivered at the...
Australia’s Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has established dedicated teams to counter nation-state attacks on critical infrastructure, the org’s director general Mike Burgess revealed yesterday. “We discovered...
Article URL: https://hl2.slqnt.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669534 Points: 28 # Comments: 5
An unknown threat actor exploited a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed, according to new findings from Google-owned...
Article URL: https://jamesoclaire.com/2026/06/25/the-unbearable-cheapness-of-open-weight-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668255 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/medical-students-are-using-popular-research-tool-pump-out-misleading-studies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668119 Points: 12 # Comments:...
In 2025, Cambridge Dictionary added over 6,000 new words. One of them was “mouse jiggler”—a device or piece of software used to make it seem as though a computer mouse is moving so that it seems as though you are working when...
OpenAI has rolled out an upgrade for the free model you interact with the most on ChatGPT.
iButtons are microchips housed in small, round, metal containers, and are similar to coin cell batteries in appearance. Among other things, they’re used for logging data in industrial contexts, particularly where it’s desirable...
Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/grand-theft-auto-6-physical-copies-wont-include-a-disc-will-just-be-a-code-in-a-box Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668662 Points: 16 # Comments:...
I had been running a small (3 people) software company for about 4 years. Since closing down, I recently hung out at a friend’s company to see what they were working on (15 ppl). To preface: I’m a heavy user of...
