Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed Friday column which often shares your stories of what happens when incompetent people climb the greasy pole and send their failures straight back down into the lap of tech support. This week,...

The security defect, tracked as CVE-2026-107406, could lead to remote code execution or denial-of-service. The post Citrix Urges Immediate Patching of Critical NetScaler Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

$1.2 million was paid out at Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 for exploits targeting phones, printers, smart speakers, smart home hubs, and AI infrastructure and coding tools. The post Google Pixel 10 Exploits Earned Hackers $560,000 at Pwn2Own appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DoJ) have announced the disruption of malicious tools used by a China-linked advanced persistent threat group known as Flax Typhoon. To that end, the agencies seized several domains and blocked...

Article URL: https://ai-cybernetics.grok.me Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016067 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/anger-man-sentenced-death-facebook-2060304 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015486 Points: 26 # Comments: 11

Every generation of leaders has been judged on their decisions. Ours may be the first judged on every draft, discussion, hesitation, and deleted comment that preceded them. Leadership has always required making imperfect decisions with incomplete information. What has...

I was writing a book about the perils of recklessly chasing new things when I had an idea: I should interview Tom Hanks.  I had read about how Hanks was an avid typewriter collector, and the typewriter seemed like the perfect foil to today’s futuristic gizmos. It’s...

We imagine that electroplating is like making PC boards or soldering surface-mount chips. Before you’ve done it, it seems like a lot. Afterward, you can’t remember why it was such a big deal. [Kovancapol] wants to show you how to plate a mirror-finish nickel over your...

Researchers from George Washington University have published a paper examining whether the time and cause of AI going rogue can be predicted. The post Formula Predicts When AI Chatbots Are at Risk of Turning Bad appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-keyboard-differences-between-windows-and-macs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015515 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

India’s peak technology industry body, NASSCOM, has shrugged off changes to the USA’s skilled visa regime, and Microsoft has denied it abuses the program. The changes, announced on Thursday by US vice president JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling, mean that...

Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/what-should-we-tell-our-students/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015236 Points: 12 # Comments: 0

Russian web giant Yandex says one of its cloud availability zones is unavailable due to a drone attack. Yandex is Russia’s rough equivalent of Google, and dominates the local market for search, email, and mapping services. The company also operates a cloud computing...

Anthropic has launched an effort to help people patch the software vulnerabilities exposed by its own Project Glasswing. If that sounds like a careless camper starting a wildfire and later funding a fire department, well, that's one way of looking at it. Anthropic...

Most home security sensors require a chemical battery or external power source to operate, which can be a point of weakness. If the battery in a window or door sensor dies overnight and nobody is there to swap it, it might miss that one intruder or mess up your...

Article URL: https://karagila.org/2026/openai-pp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013902 Points: 10 # Comments: 0

Amazon unveils three new Alexa tablets starting at $229.99, with Google Play access, Alexa+ features, and major changes for Fire tablet owners. The post Amazon’s New Alexa Tablets Start at $229: What’s Changing for Fire Owners appeared first on TechRepublic.

Common Sense Media flags gaps in ChatGPT’s teen safeguards, while OpenAI disputes the tests. Here’s what the findings mean for parents and educators. The post ChatGPT Teen Safety Report Finds Gaps in Parental Alerts appeared first on TechRepublic.

Hark Pro offers free AI task automation on web, iOS and Android. Explore its pricing, proactive features and privacy trade-offs before connecting accounts. The post Hark Launches Free AI Assistant to Handle Tasks Before You Ask appeared first on TechRepublic.

Repurposing old smartphones for more general purpose computing isn’t a new thing, but the project by [LastComputer] ups the ante by going from a Samsung Galaxy S23 that looks like it got run over by at least a few cars to a very serviceable gaming computer, courtesy...

Anthropic PBC today launched a program that brings its frontier models and onsite engineers to the security companies protecting power grids, water systems and other critical infrastructure. OSS Scanner, launched with it, offers open-source projects free periodic...