For the last three years, the story of AI has been told almost entirely in text. We measured progress in tokens, context windows, and benchmark scores on question-answering datasets. That framing was useful, and it produced genuinely capable systems. But it also...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way we think about warfare. Autonomous systems, AI-assisted targeting, unmanned aircraft and increasingly sophisticated weapons are moving decisions once made entirely by humans closer to machines. While writing my...

In January 2026 Anthropic published a retrospective on multi-agent systems that described what I'd been running for a year, and described it as the mistake. Their wording, near enough: teams build elaborate multi-agent systems with separate agents for planning,...

A new company has a fundamental credibility problem: it needs a history to build a reputation, but it often needs a reputation to create the opportunities that produce that history. I think you can partially solve this by deliberately building the public evidence...

URL normalization, media variants, and the backend boundaries that kept the integration maintainable I recently built a backend workflow that accepts public Twitter/X status links and turns them into predictable media records. The first prototype appeared to need only...

There's a moment, when you've worked long enough in traditional finance, when something quietly stops making sense. For me, it wasn't dramatic. There was no single breaking point, just a growing discomfort. I spent over five years as a software engineer building...

The deadlines for AI privacy rules keep moving out. The EU pushed its high risk AI obligations from August 2026 to December 2027 when the AI Omnibus entered into force on July 27. Colorado rewrote its AI law in May and moved the start date to January 1, 2027. HHS has...

Granting a weather app access to your location feels like a two party exchange. You tap allow, the app pulls your coordinates, and it hands back a forecast for the block you are standing on. Android does not actually treat it as two parties. Once permission is granted...

The first time a client asked us to run a content pipeline natively in Hindi instead of writing in English and translating afterward, we expected the usual headaches: tone, idiom, getting a human reviewer to sign off on cultural nuance a model can't reliably judge on...

When I started building ffetch, I had a fairly simple goal: make HTTP requests more resilient without turning a fetch wrapper into a complicated piece of machinery. Retries, backoffs, circuit breaking, and the other patterns could live around a small core, with...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 16 malicious Mozilla Firefox extensions that are capable of stealing cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases and private keys. "The extensions masquerade as wallet portals, desktop utilities, and browser tools, but...

Microsoft launched some new devices last night, but the big news appears to be a rebrand of the Surface range as "Surace." The typo (we assume) appeared on a slide about the number of ports on Microsoft's expensive hardware. Pavan Davuluri – he who promised that...

Zohar Pinhasi was paying ransoms to obtain decryption keys and then charging victims substantially more for remediation. The post Fake Decryption Tools Masked $11M Markup in Ransomware Recovery Scheme appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has enabled scientists to trace magnetic switchbacks in the solar wind's magnetic field back to their source at the Sun. "Switchback" is the name given to an S-shaped kink in the solar wind's magnetic field – a sudden and...

Article URL: https://twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108065033070789090 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002650 Points: 20 # Comments: 4

While Ace Hardware is celebrating record growth, some of its longest-standing stores are shutting their doors for good. Like many traditional neighborhood hardware stores, Ace Hardware operates as a retailer-owned cooperative rather than a traditional franchise,...

As organizations race to adopt AI, some are investing in workforce development to complement the technology, while others are shifting resources to tech—and away from people.  According to a recent study by outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray...

The figure is far higher than the counts that surfaced in earlier filings and patient notifications. The post Oracle Health Data Breach Tally Climbs to Nearly 20 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we highlight some of the lowlights in corporate security. This week, we’ll talk about two scenarios, one that ended in tragedy and another that shows the power of a good defense over dedicated phishing attacks. Have a...

Retrocomputing is more than just hardware. It’s also a feel, a vibe, and [valkyrie0528]’s Retro Terminal Bartop Arcade Topper has it in spades. The same unit, in bartop arcade machine mode. Here’s how it happened. The gorgeous device you see in the image above in fact...

When implementing any kind of technology, the difference between offering employees training and supporting them in adoption is all too frequently misunderstood. But the difference is a significant one. Training is usually a time-limited, structured educational...

Attackers are creating new accounts and deleting existing ones and passwords to prevent legitimate access. The post FortiBleed Attackers Locking Victims Out of Fortinet Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek.