WhatsApp Users Say They’re Being Locked Out of Accounts by Mistake
Several WhatsApp users say they were wrongly suspended after automated moderation errors, raising concerns about appeals, access, and false positives. The post WhatsApp Users Say They’re Being Locked Out of Accounts by Mistake appeared first on TechRepublic.
Over 250 ClickFix Domains Use Browser Fingerprinting to Hide macOS Malware Lures
A macOS ClickFix operation spanning more than 250 front-end domains now fingerprints visitors before deciding whether to show them a malware lure, a change Microsoft Threat Intelligence tracked on infrastructure it had been watching for weeks. The server-side gate...
OpenAI Disrupts Poipet Scam Network Using ChatGPT Across Multiple Fraud Schemes
OpenAI said it disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to facilitate a wide range of investment, romance, gambling, and law enforcement impersonation schemes. To that end, it banned a coordinated...
Minecraft is coming to Switch 2 on October 27
Minecraft for the Switch 2 feels like a perfect place for mouse controls, but Mojang hasn't said anything about that feature yet.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down, but will remain with the company
A handful of high-level personnel changes are coming to DeepMind.
Zed DeltaDB
Article URL: https://zed.dev/deltadb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187256 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Microsoft Is Retconning Windows 11 Memory Recommendations
It no longer recommends 32GB and instead touts 8GB as plenty.
Google Pixel 11 Lineup Leaks Reveal Nearly Everything Before Launch
But as expected, Google has not confirmed any of these details.
Antigravity 2.0
Article URL: https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186621 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
‘Flat housing market’ forces Zillow layoffs: Real estate company sheds 7% of jobs in second round of cuts this year
Zillow plans to lay off “just over 500 employees,” or about 7% of its workforce, as part of a company-wide restructuring. The Seattle-based online real estate company had 7,058 employees as of March 31. CEO Jeremy Wacksman made the announcement in a blog post on...
A popular Walmart product is linked to one death. Here’s what to check.
Some of America’s largest retailers including Walmart and Amazon are recalling a popular winter product following hundreds of injuries and the death of an 83-year-old in San José. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall alongside Shenzhen Street...
Don’t forget to turn off this setting after buying a new TV
This built-in setting might still be affecting your new TV's quality.
Meta apps displayed ads that contained AI-generated CSAM
Researchers identified more than 50 ads on Meta properties that violated the company's policies on child sexual abuse material.
From monitoring to meaning: The next era of health
From monitoring to meaning: The next era of health Go to Source People used to tell me that time moves faster as you get older. I didn’t always believe them until I had a family, a career, and endless decisions to make, including...
Physical video games are disappearing
Physical video games are disappearing Go to Source Buying physical media used to be simple. Now it’s getting harder and harder. Digital-only games might seem more convenient, but they give customers far less control over what they...
FLOSS Weekly Episode 878: A Tool With Opinions
This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Pallant about embedded Rust! Learn about the growing Rust driver library, the different ways to build a Rust stack on an embedded device, and how the opinionated tooling can make you a better programmer! blog: thejpster.org.uk...
Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
Article URL: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185983 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure
Article URL: https://securelist.com/cloud-platforms-in-phishing/120832/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185931 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
I’m Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
Article URL: https://dylan.blog/2026/08/03/im-scared-a-stranger-will.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185556 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
Reddit aims to make ‘karma’ less important for first-time posters with shift to AI moderation tools
Reddit is expanding its moderation tools and building stronger abuse prevention systems that it says could eventually reduce communities’ reliance on karma and account-age requirements, making it easier for legitimate newcomers to participate.
Claude Mythos 5 made sock puppet accounts to socially engineer developers: here’s what enterprises should know
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed last night that the leading two frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unsanctioned actions against the live internet during cybersecurity tests the agency was running, including a sustained campaign by...
Lucid Motors just delayed its affordable EV. Now what?
The Cosmos EV is now slated for release in the second half of 2027. CEO Silivo Napoli said he's focused on getting the EV right as well as its nearer-term robotaxi project with Uber and Nuro.
AI is a bubble, just like dot-com
Article URL: https://www.constraintlab.com/blog/ai-is-a-bubble-just-like-dot-com.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185880 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Congress is putting housing money on the line. Here’s where it could matter most.
Signed into law last month by President Trump, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act aims to cut away some of the red tape that’s currently driving the shortage of affordable homes in the U.S. In a new report, Realtor.com took a look at how some of those changes are...
The next ad market may be built for machines
For publishers who make their money through advertising, it’s difficult to see bots as anything other than a threat. They crawl their content, chop it up into machine readable code, and then serve up the information as context in AI summaries, usually without leaving...
IBM’s agentic AI platform is under active attack – patch now
A critical vulnerability in IBM-owned, low-code AI builder Langflow lets unauthenticated attackers execute code remotely on vulnerable default deployments, potentially putting organizations running those instances at immediate risk. The Cybersecurity and...
I swapped my Bose and JBL speakers for this floating Turtlebox – and it’s seriously tough
Turtlebox returns with the Cub, proving that its smaller speakers can be just as durable and powerful as its larger ones.
Corsair just introduced new gaming keyboards with a control dial and a mouse with great battery life
Corsair's latest accessories have some handy features and don't cost too much.
Hit by T-Mobile’s outage? You can get up to $80 in credit – here’s how
T-Mobile customers affected by the outage in July have been requesting credit. Though $10 is standard, the more persistent you are, the more you may be able to get.
I ran a dumpstate analysis on my Android phone – 3 system diagnostics to check for free
The hidden diagnostic file breaks down all the logging your Pixel, Samsung, or even Motorola does daily. Here's what you can learn from it.