In the 8-bit home computer boom of the early 1980s, Sir Clive Sinclair’s machines were always among the cheapest on the market, often packing a surprising level of sophistication in their limited hardware. If there was one...
Months of speculation over the future of data security company Varonis Systems Inc. ended today when Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc. agreed to buy it for about $6.3 billion in cash. Bloomberg first reported...
Climate change is a global phenomenon, meaning that everyone, in some way, will feel its devastating impacts. And increasingly, those impacts are happening simultaneously: Over the past two decades, more than half of the...
Article URL: https://boldagents.co/blog/call-center-jobs-declining-14000-calls-humans-outperform-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111112 Points: 15 # Comments: 3
A small but active community of retro computing enthusiasts is working to keep Palm OS alive, and a developer who recently became aware of their existence has just handed them a treasure trove of code he had no idea was still...
Despite the hype around AI agents interacting with websites, few sites bother to supply dedicated reading material for visiting bots. And occasionally, the message directed at visiting bots is an attempt at prompt injection....
Security researchers warned about exploitable vulnerabilities in refrigeration controllers months – and in one case, more than a year – before cyberattacks disrupted hundreds of French supermarkets. Late Sunday...
With some extra tokens to burn, developer and popular YouTuber Theo Browne used AI agents to port Microsoft’s TypeScript compiler to Rust, just to see if it could be done. Not only did he produce a working implementation,...
Article URL: https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109715 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
Wholesale inflation rose more than expected last month on a big jump in fuel costs as rising prices become a bigger economic challenge for millions of Americans, and a growing political problem for Republicans in the upcoming...
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/why-are-we-even-doing-all-this/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109707 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
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