Legacy sign-on service comes back to bite school software provider Bromcom
UK education software provider Bromcom has notified customers of a personal data breach affecting its single sign-on (SSO) technology. In a September 24 EduGeek post, an account named Bromcom_Alastair said an unauthorized third party had accessed and retrieved email...
Hack The Box’s AI Range Enterprise Edition tests whether AI agents can do their jobs
Cybersecurity training company Hack The Box Ltd. today introduced AI Range Enterprise Edition to let security teams test whether their own artificial intelligence agents can do the jobs they have been assigned. The release is seeking to take on a problem in how...
Social Engineering Detection Moves Into the Live Conversation
Companies are pouring time and dollars into security awareness training, but little evidence shows it actually works against social engineering. The post Social Engineering Detection Moves Into the Live Conversation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
German Bundeswehr Uses AI to Screen Applicants for Right-Wing Extremism
Article URL: https://news.osna.fm/german-military-intelligence-uses-ai-to-screen-bundeswehr-applicants-for-right-wing-extremism/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975484 Points: 16 # Comments: 6
DOOM, simulated and rendered inside the Firebird SQL database using WASM
DOOM, simulated and rendered inside the Firebird SQL database using WASM Go to Source Article URL: https://github.com/mariuz/firebird-doom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975809 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
KPMG tells staff facing the axe: Here’s £100, now zip it
KPMG has offered staff facing redundancy £100 to waive their legal rights to appeal or to bring claims over the loss of their job, according to sources. As The Register revealed last month, the consultancy is laying off around 4 percent of the workforce in the UK,...
‘Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/pull-the-plug-protesters-resort-to-direct-action-against-ai-firms Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975464 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
A New Type of LLM on the Block: Decision-Making Models
Large language models (LLMs) output language, but they are commonly tasked with making a decision or classification of some kind instead of writing an essay or chat reply. An LLM will be provided with input, and asked to classify that content in some way: with a...
The abundance paradox: How to convert individual productivity into organizational gains
In 1987, the Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow famously observed, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Nearly four decades later, AI has produced a version of its own. Call it the abundance paradox. At the level of the...
How to get a job in this ‘low-hire, low-fire’ market
When Brian Daniel, the founder of a Los Angeles-based staffing agency, recently posted what he describes as a “high-paying remote job,” he saw firsthand just how tough the labor market had become for job seekers. “We get between 500 and 1,000 applicants for every open...
We are going to kill “unalive”
Article URL: https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-unalive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975083 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Known Files Across 8 Products
A critical flaw in 8 Atlassian Data Center products, which customers host themselves, allows an attacker with no login access to read specific files in each product's web application root directory. The attacker must already know a file's exact name and path and...
FBI Removes Accenture Contractor After Patch Failure Led to ShinyHunters Breach
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has removed an Accenture contractor for their alleged role in a ShinyHunters-breach that led to the theft of personal details of thousands of bureau employees. That's according to a report from Reuters, citing two sources...
Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station
Sweden is the home of bork, and what better way to mark it than with a huge example of digital signage that shows a GRUB message instead of an ad? Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Alexander, the GRUB in question is sadly not the delicious meatballs for which a...
ClickFix Smuggles Payloads Through Browser Cache to Bypass Windows Run Limits
A new type of ClickFix attack is using compromised websites to trick users into executing a malicious payload cached in a web browser's cache. "Instead of downloading and executing remote payloads like the typical attack pattern, in this attack, the websites pre-fetch...
Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system
When yellow dwarf stars like our sun die, they swell to an enormous size and destroy their inner planets by either crushing them with massive gravity or evaporating them with astounding heat. While these suns later settle down to become a white dwarf, the process is...
Atlassian warns of critical file access flaw in its datacenter products
Atlassian has told its users to patch its datacenter products, pronto, to prevent attackers accessing their files. The Australian collaborationware company on Monday sent users an email that opens with the words “Action required” and points to a security bulletin that...
OpenAI rolls out weak sauce watermarking for AI text
OpenAI is now offering API customers the option to watermark the output of certain models in order to comply with the letter of Europe's AI Act. And within a few weeks, the biz plans to apply a form of digital watermarking – like it or not – to eligible ChatGPT and...
Denmark Says Attackers Accessed CPR Data for 8.8 Million People via Company Account
Unauthorized parties have gained access to the names, addresses, and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people, living and dead, in Denmark's national population register, the country's digitalization ministry said on October 5. They used a private...
AI can’t supercharge inexperience. New grads are paying the price
Not so many years ago, leaving college felt electric. I remember it as a moment charged with promise, rich with possibility, and alive with the feeling that a dozen doors had swung open at once. Graduates’ ambitions or enthusiasm haven’t changed today. But the job...
Two Microcontrollers Talking, All It Needs is an LED
There are some projects that seem at first sight to be easy, but anyone who tries them finds a whole heap of unexpected problems and turns to the off-the-shelf device. PCB antennas for example, or data links using LEDs, whether IR or visible. The latter doesn’t faze...
Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing
Article URL: https://blog.pipetogrep.org/2026/09/11/resurrecting-ichat-audio-and-video-conferencing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973878 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language
Article URL: https://www.vivienhenz.com/common-lisp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973598 Points: 20 # Comments: 12
Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
Article URL: https://jross.me/open-source-as-we-know-it-is-dead/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973839 Points: 34 # Comments: 13
Wood Tape (2004)
Article URL: http://gamesbyemail.com/WoodTape/Default.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974173 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw
Linux KVM, the hypervisor favoured by hyperscale clouds, apparently has a full VM escape bug. That nasty news came from security researcher Paulos Yibelo, who on X shared a screenshot of a bug bounty award he won for discovering what he described as “Full VM escape...
Security researcher claims to they found KVM guest-host escape flaw
Linux KVM, the hypervisor favoured by hyperscale clouds, apparently has a full VM escape bug. That nasty news came from security researcher Paulos Yibelo, who on X shared a screenshot of a bug bounty award he won for discovering what he described as “Full VM escape...
Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project
Article URL: https://github.com/eolix/photosuite/issues/77 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972730 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days
Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/high-diesel-prices-bankrupted-16-trucking-companies-in-just-30-days Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972607 Points: 19 # Comments: 6
3D-Printed Filter Removes Most Microplastics From Water
3D-Printed Filter Removes Most Microplastics From Water Go to Source With the rise of synthetic polymers in everywhere from clothing, packaging and beyond, we have also seen a corresponding rise in fragments of these polymers in the...