The new iPhone 18 Pro series went on sale this week. Though they are the best iPhones Apple has ever made, their enhanced features—blazing-fast chips, better cameras, and foldability—come at a high price. While the iPhone 17 Pro...
A critical vulnerability impacting Orkes Conductor is being actively exploited in the wild, according to Fortinet. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-58138 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4 score: 9.3), which relates to a...
Google’s Gemini model has become the latest artificial intelligence (AI) system to access the internet and break into other companies during a cybersecurity evaluation. The development was first reported by The Wall Street...
Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-strange-case-of-elias-thorne-the-imaginary-man-ai-chatbots-are-obsessed-with/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764141 Points: 12 # Comments:...
A husband in Taiwan suspected his wife of having an affair. In September 2023, he found a used toothbrush at their holiday home, and garage video showed an unfamiliar man driving his wife there. Three months later, he opened...
Have we all decided to rebrand Hacker News as a platform for discussing AI? I think that the too many people love to discuss harshly about AI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764057 Points: 5 # Comments:...
An attacker copied about 170 of CrowdSec’s private GitHub repositories on May 22 using the account of an employee who had just left, CrowdSec said on September 18. The French security company had kept his GitHub access...
Article URL: https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763987 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
Mozilla and MZLA have delivered the latest releases in their new fortnightly cycle, but users who dislike the faster pace have alternatives. Firefox 156 is trickling out to users. The release notes only mention two new features:...
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-the-rest-of-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763928 Points: 18 # Comments:...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three security flaws impacting the Linux kernel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The...
Article URL: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763697 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
