MonsterCloud Owner Accused of Billing Over $19M While Secretly Paying Ransoms to Decrypt Data
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced charges against a 50-year-old U.S. and Israeli national for allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying the attackers to obtain decryptors while claiming to use proprietary tools to recover...
Dat-ecosystem: high level applications built on top of P2P protocols
Article URL: https://dat-ecosystem.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002505 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/mbe5IY2LF9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002665 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically Go to Source Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002008 Points: 174 # Comments: 94
ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains
ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains Go to Source ICANN has revealed the applicants for new generic top-level domains (GTLDs). As The Register reported in August, this is just the second time ICANN has accepted applications...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it’s a droppable robot boat
It's a bird, it's a plane...well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it's a droppable robot boat Go to Source The ALBATROSS, a sailboat drone prototype developed by researchers at Singapore University of Technology and Design...
People Holding Up the Internet
People Holding Up the Internet Go to Source Article URL: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002494 Points: 18 # Comments: 2
Tensorlake npm Package Compromised to Deliver Shai-Hulud Credential-Stealing Worm
The npm package known as "tensorlake," a TypeScript software development kit (SDK) for Tensorlake applications, sandboxes, and cloud services, was compromised as part of a ChainDrop / Shai-Hulud supply chain attack. The malicious version 0.5.144 "contains obfuscated...
India rejects Elon Musk’s claim of discrimination over Starlink launch
Starlink is still awaiting security clearance before it can seek spectrum and begin commercial services in India.
Terence Tao Responds to the OpenAI Math Drop
Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002008 Points: 19 # Comments: 0
How leaders can rebuild their team’s confidence after a layoff
Microsoft announced over the summer that it was cutting global head count by 2.1%. That’s 4,800 former Microsoft employees who are navigating the emotional ups and downs of losing their job. These individuals are being supported “to take their next steps” according to...
A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew
A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew Go to Source Article URL: https://github.com/zerobrewhq/zerobrew Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001580 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
Solve Your TTL Video Woes With An RP2350
Before HDMI and DVI there was VGA, and before that? TTL RGB, in which instead of analogue voltages, the connector carried TTL logic voltages. TTL monitors used to be ten a penny because nobody wanted them in the VGA era, but the decades have not been kind to the TTL...
Ransomware fixer claimed he could decrypt files, allegedly defrauded clients instead
The United States Department of Justice has charged a man with fraud after he allegedly told clients he could decrypt files locked up by ransomware but actually paid ransoms – and seemingly got away with it for years. The Feds allege that Zohar Pinhasi – aka “Zack...
Singapore’s central bank wants all FinTech AI use cases subject to independent review
Singapore’s Monetary Authority, which acts as both central bank and finance industry regulator, wants all local industry players to seek independent review of AI use cases before deployment. The island nation’s combination of strict regulation and low taxes have made...
CyrusOne – 373,460 breached accounts
In August 2026, data centre operator CyrusOne was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion attempt. The group subsequently published data allegedly obtained from the company, which included 373k unique email addresses across records relating to users,...
Keep That Old Radio Alive With An ESP32
As the legacy AM broadcast bands fade away, what happens to the millions of devices built to receive them? Many of them will go into e-waste, but with a century of radios to choose from, some of them are collector’s items. Vintage tube radios like the ones...
Rust Port of TypeScript (Tsc)
Article URL: https://github.com/pingdotgg/ts-rust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000676 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Margaret Hamilton has died
Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998895 Points: 501 # Comments: 58
‘Jonathan’ is the oldest land animal on Earth
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998066 Points: 30 # Comments: 6
Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia
Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia Go to Source The startup pays people to record everyday tasks.
Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for the Apollo program, has died
Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998895 Points: 302 # Comments: 30
Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
Article URL: https://www.rswebsols.com/news/meta-and-microsoft-take-steps-to-reduce-employee-usage-of-claude-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997161 Points: 241 # Comments: 229
Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system
If you thought Windows Recall was creepy, buckle up. Microsoft is about to shoehorn even more AI into its desktop operating system, giving Copilot access to every file on your PC. But don't worry, Redmond insists it's totally secure and safe since the agents powering...
OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties
When OpenAI introduced dots last month, it pitched them as "always-on agents" running in their own cloud computer, but that may be overstating the readiness of the technology and of the people trying to use it. Presently, multiple users are reporting task failures and...
Argonne scientists create chatty X-ray microscope that zooms in where you tell it to
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have plugged an agentic AI platform into an X-ray nanoprobe beamline, creating a system that can get a closer look at areas researchers ask it to focus on. Argonne reported the success of an experimental run of the agentic...
Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia’s shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra
Look out, Intel! Microsoft released its first Surface notebook powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark system-on-chip (SoC) during an event in San Francisco on Wednesday. The Surface Laptop Ultra is one of several new Copilot+ PCs powered by the N1X chip that Microsoft says is...
Attackers hijacked top-level domains, minted fake security certs for Google and other orgs
Imagine going to a Google website at its correct URL, only to be redirected to a crim's illegitimate copy. Attackers hijacked top-level domains, allowing them to alter DNS records and mint fraudulent HTTPS certificates for several Google domains, and those belonging...
Streaming Games Means the Nintendo DSi Will Never Be Obsolete
There comes a point where you have to acknowledge that your beloved console is out of date and– barring the odd homebrew title– won’t be playing new games ever again. You’d think that Nintendo’s 2008 DSi handheld would be in this category, but [gavff64] has a...
While VCs crowd into San Francisco, Endeavor Catalyst raises $320M for founders ‘elsewhere’
Endeavor Catalyst just raised $320 million to keep backing founders outside Silicon Valley. Half the profits go back to the nonprofit that finds them.