AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that lets a chatbot reach into your calendar, your database, or your internal...
Judge halts Paramount and Warner merger for at least 2 weeks per states’ request
A federal judge on Monday ordered Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $81 billion merger for at least two weeks, allowing states that are challenging the deal more time to see their case through in court. Twelve states, led by California, sued to block...
Samsung US Headquarters Move Affects 739 New Jersey Jobs
Samsung’s US headquarters move to Texas is affecting 739 New Jersey positions as the company consolidates teams and cuts some jobs. The post Samsung US Headquarters Move Affects 739 New Jersey Jobs appeared first on TechRepublic.
San Francisco Orders Apple And Google Remove 13 AI Nudify Apps
San Francisco gave Apple and Google 28 days to address 13 alleged AI nudify apps, raising questions about app-store controls and AI governance. The post San Francisco Orders Apple And Google Remove 13 AI Nudify Apps appeared first on TechRepublic.
AWS Billion-Dollar Software Bug Explained
An AWS software bug showed some customers billing estimates in the billions and trillions. Here is what failed, why invoices were unaffected, and what IT teams should know. The post AWS Billion-Dollar Software Bug Explained appeared first on TechRepublic.
Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims
Real FBI agents won't slide into your DMs and offer to help you recover stolen funds. The bureau's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) updated an earlier warning on Monday about scammers impersonating the agency online, saying fraudsters continue to use the scheme...
Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
Article URL: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983382 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid
AI datacenters wreak havoc on the power grid under normal circumstances, so what happens if a bad actor controls all the GPUs and wants to cause harm? Cybersecurity researchers in China have devised a way for malicious tenants to attack their infrastructure provider,...
AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical
Nothing can ruin the end of a week like finding out that all of the websites and hosted email you’re responsible for are offline, which is exactly what happened to Christopher Bradbury and his web design and development firm, Digital Takumi last week. AWS has since...
Frontier LLMs couldn’t help Hugging Face fight off evil agents
Apparently, being a leading destination for AI development doesn't mean AI will bail you out. AI agents broke into Hugging Face's production infrastructure, but commercial LLM guardrails blocked the forensic investigation, forcing it to turn to a Chinese open-weight...
Echolocation for Drones
Bats are remarkable creatures, able to fly at night or inside the confines of caves without light to guide their way. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has determined how to use low power ultrasonic sensors to guide drones in obscured...
FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to deliver a malware family known as SmartLoader as part of an ongoing...
X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort
X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.
OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US Be?
Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.
Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/safety-alignment-long-horizon-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983108 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac
Article URL: https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982681 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe
The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.
I tested a 4TB quantum-resistant USB drive – but you don’t have to spend $3000 for this much security
I tested a 4TB quantum-resistant USB drive - but you don't have to spend $3000 for this much security Go to Source Apricorn's new 4TB Aegis Secure Key is the biggest-capacity hardware-encrypted flash drive on the market right now.
An Empirical Study: AI Agent Rules Need Context and Layered Enforcement
Article URL: https://eunomia.dev/blog/2026/07/15/ebpf-ai-agent-policy-enforcement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982583 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Judge halts Paramount and Warner merger for at least two weeks per states’ request
A federal judge on Monday ordered Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $81 billion merger for at least two weeks, allowing states that are challenging the deal more time to see their case through in court. Twelve states, led by California, sued to block...
Netflix brings ASL interpretations to dozens of shows and movies for kids
Netflix has teamed up with a company called SignUp Media to offer ASL interpretations on a bunch of kids shows and movies.
That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing
Article URL: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/05/05/404/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982374 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
A Feature-Rich Drum Machine
A little over a month ago, we featured a project from [Igor] who built 64 bits of DRAM from scratch using discrete components. Jokes about memory pricing aside, he did have a use case for such a small amount of memory — he is using it in a custom-built drum machine....
Everything to know before putting a car key on your iPhone
Do you need to be in your car to set up your digital car key?
Today’s RAM and SSD Prices Are ‘Lagging’ and Will Continue to Climb, Valve Warns
Unfortunately, industry analysts agree.
What if hunger were treated like a vital sign?
Food insecurity adds an estimated $53 billion to the nation’s medical bill every year, per a 2019 study. Yet most providers still log it as a note in the patient chart rather than a vital sign worth treating. It’s a problem with few headlines or funding dollars, but...
The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency
Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800646.3800650 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982578 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency
Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800646.3800650 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982578 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Adobe crams multiple AI tools into its experimental camera app
Adobe's Project Indigo app will have new features like removing distractions and offering immediate photo feedback.
Somebody paid nearly $1 million for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s leather jacket. Is it the new Steve Jobs black turtleneck?
At nearly $10,000 a pop, Tom Ford leather jackets are already pricey. But put one on a tech CEO, and its value will soar even higher—almost a million dollars higher, apparently. Earlier this month, a leather jacket owned by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang went up for auction...