Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision
Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can own and access.
Force-Fed by ICE
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/ice-force-feeding-detention-gabar-choli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245071 Points: 29 # Comments: 2
Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia
Article URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tjl2/executive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245251 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them
Anti-datacenter sentiment appears to be hardening in the US and UK, with more American jurisdictions blocking new builds and protesters marching against a planned facility in London's historic Brick Lane. A burst of new projects on both sides of the Atlantic has...
Attackers pick Levi’s pockets in social engineering attack
Levi Strauss is investigating a data breach after attackers used social engineering to access three employees' work computers. In a regulatory filing, the jeans maker said the intruders accessed and exfiltrated what it described only as "certain corporate...
Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China
Cameras aboard Royal Navy drone boats were found phoning home to an IP address in China during a routine cyber vulnerability assessment. The UK Ministry of Defence confirmed the discovery, describing it as "an issue affecting a Kraken Unmanned Surface Vessel...
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers
Wetherspoons has stopped short of banning Meta-style smart glasses from its pubs, but told The Register that customers should switch off their cameras and refrain from filming. "Like many hospitality companies, Wetherspoon has CCTV cameras for security reasons, but...
Framework loses customer data in Metabase zero-day attack
Modular laptop maker Framework has warned customers that an attacker exploited a zero-day at analytics provider Metabase to access names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, and login IP addresses, according to an email shared on Reddit. For business...
Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver’s seat
Anthropic is making auto mode the default in Claude Code from August 14, claiming its classifier is "as safe or safer than an average user clicking through prompts." Users with a different default already set might receive a one-time prompt asking whether they want to...
LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity
LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline last week after detecting "unusual activity on servers that are hosted and managed by a third-party vendor." Non-public customer communications penned by Todd Larsen, president of Nexis...
Why managers are ransomware’s top targets now – and 6 ways to stay safe
Almost two-thirds of the victims targeted in a single ransomware campaign held managerial positions or higher.
Slick Search Earns an 81 Proof of Usefulness Score by Giving Users Control Over Search Rankings
Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...
Building Reliable Voice Control for Jellyfin: What Worked, What Broke, and What Had to Go
When I started extending Smart Home Cinema - Voice Control to Jellyfin, the goal sounded straightforward: speak a command on one side of the system and make the expected action happen on a television running a Jellyfin client. The project had started as a Windows...
I Built “Wordle for Opinions” — Here’s How 17 Psychology Tricks Keep Users Coming Back
Every day, four times a day, a notification tells me a new topic just unlocked, and I open my phone to drag a slider from 0 to 100 on something like “is a hot dog a sandwich” or “should tipping be mandatory.” I built the app that asks these questions. It’s called...
166 Blog Posts To Learn About Internet Of Things
Let's learn about Internet Of Things via these 166 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. 'The Internet of Things is not a concept; it is a...
The TechBeat: Kali365 Targets US Organizations with Data Theft via Device Code Phishing (8/10/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## A Netflix Engineer Built a Free Tool That Cuts Your AI Token Bill by...
How Professional Teams Evaluate Telegram Growth Before Investing
Telegram has evolved beyond a simple messaging platform into a powerful ecosystem for communities, creators, businesses, and digital-first brands. As more organizations use Telegram channels to build audiences and communicate with users, growth has become a strategic...
AI Business Intelligence Depends on Data Context, Not Better Models
At the Superweek 2026 analytics summit, consultant Siavash Kanani described a broken product bundle that was quietly costing a company $17,000 a week. Top-line revenue stayed high enough to mask it, so nothing on the dashboard turned red. The company had complete...
sos-vault Earns a 50.6 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Secure, AI-Assisted Platform for Analyzing sosreport Archives
Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...
CVE-2026-56155: The Actively Exploited AD FS Flaw That Hands Over Your Identity Keys
On July 28, 2026, the federal deadline passed to remediate CVE-2026-56155 — an actively exploited vulnerability in Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) that CISA added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on July 14. The flaw is not...
This blazing-fast, super-private browser delivers a brand new beta – try it for free
The zero-telemetry Orion browser finally makes its way to Linux as a beta release. It's also available for MacOS, iOS, and iPadOS, with a Windows version coming soon.
Meet SecurityMetrics: HackerNoon Company of the Week
We are back with another Company of the Week feature! Every week, we share an awesome tech brand from our tech company database, making their evergreen mark on the internet. This unique HackerNoon database ranks S&P 500 companies and top startups of the year...
Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it’s 20g bigger than today’s
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1kjy7gewo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245023 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Convince an AI it’s not alive in psychological horror game Prove You’re Human
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/aug/10/ai-psychological-horror-game-prove-youre-human-sunset-visitor-studio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245019 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
OpenAI’s New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost over $300
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/what-is-openai-s-device-a-doughnut-shaped-speaker-that-costs-over-300 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245062 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Functional Jumping Pokéball from an Ancient Pokémon World
When playing a game about Pocket Monsters, there’s one thing you can’t avoid using no matter what you do, and that’s a pokeball. Whether it’s a new or old game, you can’t avoid it. Many from different generations or spin-off games have their own fun spin, and that’s...
Here’s how to pair your Roku remote
If you've reset your Roku remote or got a new one and need to manually pair it, these are the steps to take.
Sila lands $1.4B Pentagon loan as militaries demand more batteries
Battery materials startup Sila will use a $1.4 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Defense to scale production at its factory in Washington State.
77 Counterfeit Open VSX Extensions Collected Developer and CI/CD Data
Security researchers found 150 lookalike Open VSX extensions published under trusted names, highlighting how extension marketplaces can expose developer credentials, source code, and CI/CD systems to supply-chain risk. The post 77 Counterfeit Open VSX Extensions...
Fake The Odyssey Downloads Are Hiding Password-Stealing Malware
Fake downloads of The Odyssey are spreading Lumma Stealer malware capable of stealing passwords, cookies, payment data, and cryptocurrency information. The post Fake The Odyssey Downloads Are Hiding Password-Stealing Malware appeared first on TechRepublic.