In 50 years or so, quite a few Gen Zers are going to be telling their grandkids that they met while birdwatching. At least, that’s according to the latest study from the events marketplace Eventbrite. The platform’s research...
Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake’s public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a crafted...
A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites. The...
Cybersecurity researchers have traced the continued evolution of the Cavern (aka Cav3rn) command-and-control (C2) framework used by Iranian nation-state hackers in attacks targeting entities in Israel. Russian cybersecurity...
Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite music. Editors will be using the feature, too, on top playlists like RapCaviar and others.
Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.
SynthID and origin data are unaffected.
Article URL: https://ben.balter.com/2026/08/17/how-i-over-engineered-my-book/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335292 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit stories instead of just reading them.
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lonely-men-at-the-end-of-the-world Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335600 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/meta-attorneys-general-california-federal-trial-astronomical-consequences.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335163 Points: 8 # Comments:...
Aside from global access to cat videos, the presence of thousands of Starlink broadband internet access satellites in LEO has a very pleasant side effect for atmospheric researchers. Starlink publicly publishes near-real-time...
