AI giants promise to play nice with personal data after UK watchdog scrutiny
Ten of the world's biggest AI developers have agreed to tighten their handling of personal data following scrutiny by Britain's privacy watchdog, which is now turning its attention to autonomous AI agents that don't always play by the rules. The recently rebranded...
The World’s Smallest TV Console Plays DOOM
We’ve seen plenty of game console projects here, many of them that seek to produce a miniature game console. But this one from [RayTriangle] may break a new barrier entirely — it fits an entire TV game console that plays DOOM, including the battery, into a TV antenna...
The real threat to U.S. hardtech leadership is China’s rules
American hardtech venture is finally being taken seriously. Deep tech funds are outperforming conventional VC. The opportunity is real, and it’s being funded the way it should be, by investors who bear the cost of being wrong. But there’s an elephant in this room, and...
The next competitive advantage is infrastructure
Businesses and policymakers are racing to build an economy centered on AI, and it’s quickly becoming one of the biggest economic bets in history. Billions of dollars are flowing into numerous sectors to support it, and states are competing to attract investment while...
We’re placing the wrong bets on innovation
I became a social entrepreneur at 14, working in partnership with other students to make our high school a more welcoming home to students with disabilities. We saw what the adults did not: Bullying and harassment could not be wished away with detentions and...
Samsung eyes $80B quarterly profit as memory buyers pay the price
Samsung Electronics expects third-quarter revenue to more than double and operating profit to reach nearly nine times last year's level as the AI infrastructure boom fuels demand for memory. The South Korean company is among the major memory manufacturers benefiting...
UK and Germany team up against Russian cyberattacks as Brexit rethink looms
Britain and Germany have announced a partnership to counter cyberattacks and sabotage, particularly from Russia, as Prime Minister Andy Burnham heads to Berlin for talks. Under the arrangement announced Thursday, the countries will share information and coordinate...
Windows Search learns to take orders
Microsoft's latest Windows Search preview promises faster results and less clutter, while adding a new sideline: carrying out commands such as muting audio or minimizing windows. Following July's improvements, Microsoft began rolling out the new preview yesterday. The...
Vesta raises $30M to bring swarms of agents to mortgage lenders
Vesta, an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital.
Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026
Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 Go to Source Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/08/wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004777 Points: 4 #...
What is attribution science? The critical climate research that Big Oil would rather you didn’t believe in
Climate science has been clear for decades: Since at least the 1950s, oil and gas companies have known that their fossil fuels release planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. And we’ve known that those emissions cause dangerous planetary impacts...
OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/history.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003107 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Gemini Could Soon Make Quick Outbound Calls to Friends and Family
“Call John and ask if he’s coming for dinner.”
Rein Security Raises $25 Million to Guard AI Agents at Runtime
The cybersecurity startup will invest in product innovation, agentic research, and employee base expansion. The post Rein Security Raises $25 Million to Guard AI Agents at Runtime appeared first on SecurityWeek.
He helped build Alexa. Now Rohit Prasad is taking over Boston Dynamics
Rohit Prasad, who led Amazon’s artificial general intelligence division and helped build and scale Alexa, has been tapped as the new CEO of Boston Dynamics. The appointment, announced earlier this week, puts Prasad at the forefront of the increasingly competitive...
Skydance’s subtle rebrand proves which company has brand power
Atop the Warner Bros. water tower in Burbank, California, a crew of workers added a small line of text below the WB logo on Monday to mark Paramount Skydance’s $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The iconic water tower now says “A Skydance Corporation”...
Wazza Phishkit Targets Banking, Government, and Manufacturing Across the US, EU, and Australia
Phishing kits are no longer limited to copying a familiar login page and waiting for a victim to enter credentials. Attackers are increasingly building filtering, session management, and traffic controls into the infrastructure that delivers the phishing page itself....
How AI is simplifying race day and speeding development at NASCAR
NASCAR fans today can do more to follow a live race than simply watch it on TV. Official NASCAR apps make live data, including telemetry feeds from race cars and behind-the-scenes driver audio communications, available to premium subscribers as races take place....
Open-Source Rust Alternatives to Adobe Apps
Article URL: https://getartcraft.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004284 Points: 15 # Comments: 3
Teenage Engineering will stop making synths to focus on… whatever it feels like
Teenage Engineering, the company famous for its synths, is going to stop making... synths.
Big Tech is cutewashing its AI agents
First came the buttholes. Then the sparkles and gradients. Now, the next Big Tech AI branding trend has arrived. As the biggest artificial intelligence players introduce new agent capabilities, they’re all converging around the same visual shorthand: cute little guys....
TP-Link Faces State Lawsuits and New Scrutiny Over ISP Router Flaws
SEC Consult has published technical details on vulnerabilities mentioned in a complaint filed by several US states. The post TP-Link Faces State Lawsuits and New Scrutiny Over ISP Router Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Scientists just designed the world’s most accurate clock
Physicists in Singapore have built an atomic clock so precise that it measures time down to the 19th decimal place. A machine with this level of accuracy could run for hundreds of billions of years—far longer than the entire age of the universe—without gaining or...
Trump wants to rebrand his West Palm Beach golf club into MAGA ‘Camp David’
President Donald Trump wants to turn his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, into an official government golf course for U.S. presidents, operated by his family’s company. Harvey Oyer, a real estate lawyer there, said in a letter to the Palm Beach County...
These costly recruiter and résumé writer scams are targeting executives
A recruiter reaches out. They tell you you’re a good candidate for a senior role or board seat. The opportunity is plausible, but edging into the too-good-to-be-true zone. That’s exactly what happened over a year ago to an operations executive who contacted me. I’m an...
Wall Street is handing more decisions to AI. What could go wrong?
At 10:08 a.m. on April 7, 2025, U.S. stocks were deep in the red. Then what looked like good news arrived: A claim began circulating on X that Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, had said President Donald Trump was considering a...
Hashi Mainnet to Launch With $500M in Capital Backing, Adds Anchorage Digital to Coalition
Singapore, Singapore, October 8th, 2026/Chainwire/--Sui, a high-performance blockchain designed to move money as freely as messages, will announce today at Sui Basecamp that Hashi mainnet will go live this month, backed by more than $500 million in capital commitments...
How Anton Malinovskiy Is Designing an Embedded Wallet for Live-Stream Rewards
According to industry experts, PJM ranks No. 1 among Web3 solutions for location-based live streaming, showing that blockchain rewards can become a natural part of a live broadcast rather than a distraction from it. During a live stream, viewers react to what is...
AI Can Remember Your Chats. Remembering Your Life Is Much Harder.
AI can answer increasingly complex questions about the world, yet it still knows remarkably little about the life of the person asking them. It doesn’t inherently know what happened in your day, which moments mattered, or how an experience from last week connects to...
The Most Dangerous Memory in an AI Agent Is the One That Used to Be True.
AI agents do not only need to remember. They need to know whether what they remember is still valid. An AI agent can remember something perfectly and still make the wrong decision because the thing it remembers stopped being true. That sounds obvious when you put it...