Emacs is one of the big classic text editors, right up there next to vi. It’s famous for its interface and its ubiquity across the *nix world. It’s such a core piece of software in the coding world that it has showed up a fair...
N-able said attackers exploited an authentication bypass in N-central to gain remote administrative access and reach the customer systems managed through those servers. Its first fix was incomplete. CVE-2026-18577 affects...
Three high-severity security flaws have been disclosed in Hugging Face’s Diffusers library that could allow crafted model repositories to stealthily execute arbitrary code on machines that load it, opening the artificial...
Article URL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-project-goals/blob/main/src/2026/move-trait.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152023 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
AI is becoming both an attack tool and a high-value target, with attacks by AI-enabled adversaries rising 89 percent in 2025, according to CrowdStrike. The security firm’s annual Threat Hunting Report details criminal...
Article URL: https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151933 Points: 15 # Comments: 4
Microsoft has added four new items to the to-do list it set itself to improve the quality of Windows 11. Redmond’s list landed in March 2026 in response to users’ anger at Windows 11 becoming increasingly flaky and needy. Pavan...
WHO, ME? Comedian W.C. Fields is credited with the aphorism “Never work with children or animals,” which The Register mentions because half of it has some relevance to this week’s edition of “Who,...
Most of work life doesn’t involve that much creativity. Instead, it involves experience. The more that you have seen before, the more likely it is that you will have a ready solution for something that comes up at work, because...
As easy as it is to make a late 1980s-style game console using a modern microcontroller, there’s arguably more fun in doing things the traditional way. This is the challenge that [Throaty Mumbo] took upon himself when he...
ASIA IN BRIEF Meta last week briefly took down an unremarkable video posted by India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, earning itself days of criticism and regulatory trouble. The video featured Modi announcing a new task force...
Article URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/exclusive-apple-engineer-says-he-was-fired-after-refusing-to-send-customer-devic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150738 Points: 22 # Comments:...
