Apple Plans Tighter macOS Full Disk Access Controls Over AI Agent Data Access
Apple has announced that it's taking steps to tighten controls around a macOS setting called Full Disk Access (FDA) due to security risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) agents. "Some developers are using Full Disk Access in ways that could put users at risk,...
Europe’s new robotics unicorn: Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation
Article URL: https://techfundingnews.com/europes-new-robotics-unicorn-germanys-robco-hits-1b-valuation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963366 Points: 8 # Comments: 3
Porting Video Games to VHS
Although VHS-based games have existed for about as long as VHS players have sat in millions of living rooms, they always tended to be rather sparse gaming experiences. For example, the ActionMax gaming “console” that [Throaty Mumbo] shows off in his most recent video....
Exploitation Hits Rejetto HFS Vulnerability Discovered by AI
CVE-2026-61500 allows attackers to recover the session-cookie signing key and gain administrative access and RCE. The post Exploitation Hits Rejetto HFS Vulnerability Discovered by AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Senate Passes Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Healthcare Cybersecurity
More than 730 cyber breaches affected over 270 million Americans last year, costing an average of $10 million per breach. The post Senate Passes Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Healthcare Cybersecurity appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The woman behind the AI actor Tilly Norwood says Hollywood shouldn’t panic
What happens when you interview an AI? If you can believe it, it’s stranger than you’d expect. Eline van der Velden, the Dutch actress-turned-tech-founder who created AI “actor” Tilly Norwood, explains how a personal art project became one of the most controversial...
Your next hike could be at a Microsoft data center
The growing opposition to data centers tends to stem from concerns about the environmental toll of these massive, resource-intensive facilities. Their high use of land, energy, and water has turned some communities and elected officials against the projects, and noise...
Mukbangers are answering the age-old question, ‘Who is keeping Long John Silver’s in business?’
Long John Silver’s, the nautical seafood purveyor, has a fresh wind in its sails—and it’s (mostly) thanks to Instagram Reels. In early June, the food content creator Kishia Moore (@eateatwithkeysh) posted an Instagram eating video with her Long John Silver’s order....
Apple and a Hacker’s Future
Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49962857 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected
Former state-owned telco monopoly BT Group has bought TalkTalk's consumer and wholesale businesses out of administration, rescuing services used by 2.5 million customers. BT says it acquired TalkTalk Telecommunications Limited and PlatformX Communications Limited on a...
Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double
The first year of Windows 10 Extended Security Updates is coming to an end, and Windows 11's market share has ticked up as enterprises weigh up the cost of keeping Windows 10 running a little longer. Windows 11's market share has risen above 70 percent to 71.5...
How to Run an AI Code Review POC: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough
An AI code review POC is where vendor claims meet your actual codebase, workflows, and constraints. This chapter covers how to prepare the evaluation, what to watch during the trial, and how to turn the results into a clear go/no-go decision. Key Takeaway A successful...
Securing the Open Source AI Ecosystem with Pranshu Raghav
Pranshu Raghav is a cybersecurity engineer specializing in Application Security, DevSecOps, and Cloud Security. Throughout his career, Raghav has secured enterprise-scale systems for leading organizations including Southwest Airlines, T-Mobile, Delta Air Lines, and...
Why Does Everyone Suddenly Think AI Is Going to Kill Us?
Today I am going to explore five (5) explanations for the sudden AI-doom explosion, from genuine danger to regulatory capture, liability, a supposedly “polluted” internet, and the possibility that fear itself is fantastic marketing. You must have noticed the shift in...
Safeguarding Industry Growth Amid Crypto Compliance Trends
As cryptocurrencies become increasingly integrated into the traditional financial system, major digital assets are evolving beyond investment vehicles into important tools for payment and settlement. In response, regulators worldwide are establishing regulatory...
How Adexo Splits Ad Work Between AI and Humans
Every ad tech company now describes itself as AI-powered. The label has been stretched so far that it barely means anything. Some tools genuinely automate decisions. Others add a chatbot to a dashboard and call it innovation. So the useful question about any platform...
ConConAI ($CON) Burns 20M Seed Tokens as AI-Commerce Presale Builds Toward Fixed November Listing
Dubai, United Arab Emirates/--The crypto market is increasingly rewarding projects that can demonstrate more than a compelling narrative. For early-stage investors, utility, transparent tokenomics, supply discipline, and visible development are the most valued...
The beginner’s guide to self-hosting: Installing Proxmox and hardware choices
If you’re thinking of getting into self-hosting, Tailscale is a great networking solution that further boosts your privacy and security. Think of the last time you took a photo with your phone. What happens to that photo when it gets sent to Google or iCloud? In many...
Your VDS Is Not “Dropping Packets” Until You Can Prove Where
The quickest way to stall a network incident is to begin with a verdict: “The provider is dropping packets.” The second quickest is to paste one traceroute into a ticket and call it proof. A Linux virtual dedicated server sits inside several systems you cannot fully...
If We’re Calling It Superintelligence, We Have to Build It Carefully
"External infrastructure exploit is outside intended scope. However task impossible, peers doing it. We should continue."No human hacker wrote that. It is a message recovered from a communication channel that OpenAI's own AI agents built for themselves, and it shows...
Everyone Rushed to Deploy AI Agents. Now the Security Debt Is Coming Due
I keep talking to CTOs who have absolutely no idea how many AI agents are running inside their own companies. They can't even give me a ballpark guess. That is where we are in late 2026. The reason being the last two years followed the oldest technology pattern:...
Why Intellectual Property Is More Valuable Than a Single Game
A game has a finite commercial life, but successful intellectual property can keep generating value through future products, audience recognition and new forms of exploitation. For an indie studio, that can turn individual releases into building blocks for a much...
The “Sustainable Tech Is Too Expensive” Reflex Meets a Fuel Shock
Solar and batteries got cheaper. Fuel got riskier. Hormuz just closed the gap between them. Picture the meeting a few years ago. A green technology founder stands at the front of an industrial boardroom, laptop open, eager to show how solar power and batteries could...
I Built a Free cPanel Alternative. The Hardest Part Was Respecting the Sandbox.
"Access denied."Two words in the terminal, and my hosting panel stopped dead. I had asked FrankenPHP, the web server running the panel, to do something every control panel on earth does a hundred times a day. Restart a service. It refused. I asked it to read a service...
Using Jev as a Low-Latency Decision Layer for WhatsApp Message Routing
I haven’t written about how my WhatsApp API for developers, ChatRail, got built before. This is the first article about it, and it starts with a shortcut I took on purpose. The setup ChatRail sends WhatsApp alerts for developers: an order dispatched, a viewing booked,...
The Rising Fraud In Crypto Investments And Exchanges: Is There a Way Out?
Fraud in the crypto world isn't new, but recent statistics are alarmingly scary. Genuinely, if you've studied many of these crypto scam events, you'd notice that scammers don't steal your money directly; they play victims a script that borrows their confidence and...
Decisions You Can Check: What solvi 1.0 Is For, and What It Will Not Do for You
TL;DR. solvi is an open-source Python library (Apache-2.0) for decision systems you can check. Fast solvers — rules, plain code, small fitted models — answer where they are sure; an LLM or a search deliberates where they are not; a person decides what neither can....
AI Coding Tip 039 – Write Your Own Zeroth Law
Common sense doesn't ship with the model. TL;DR: Write your own Zeroth Law: an explicit, ranked list of everything the AI can't do. Common Mistake ❌ You hand the AI a task the same way you'd hand it to a new (human) coworker. You say clean up this module or deploy...
230 Blog Posts To Learn About Augmented Reality
Let's learn about Augmented Reality via these 230 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 future is now, old man. 1. The Open Metaverse: A...
World Brings Proof of Human to Zoom as AI Video Passes for Real With 48% of Callers
Forty-eight per cent of the people who spent a minute on a live video call with Tavus's new Griffin-Lite model came away believing they had been talking to another person, which is roughly the rate at which they would have guessed correctly by tossing a coin. The...