The cost of underestimating the ageless generation
We operate in an industry obsessed with the future. Gen Z’s media habits and predictions on how Gen Alpha will reshape retail are our everyday clickbait. Staying one step ahead is a fundamental part of the job. But in our rush to understand and capture the next...
The wellness industry is not selling wellbeing to black women
I recently attended a wellness event built around the promise that feeling better was only a simple product purchase away. There were supplements for stress, products for better sleep, routines for optimizing hormonal balance, and tools designed to help women feel...
When Vibe Hacking Turns AI into the Junior Hacker Every Adversary Always Wanted
The cybersecurity industry has spent decades assuming that offensive capability scales with technical expertise. That assumption is starting to break. Security teams have long estimated risk by ranking attacker sophistication. Nation-state actors sat at one end....
Google Deletes 3 ADK AI Workflows After Malicious GitHub Issue Could Trigger Privileged Agent
Google deleted three AI agent workflows from its Agent Development Kit (ADK) Python repository. Pillar Security showed that a public GitHub issue could manipulate a triage agent into triggering a privileged code-fixing agent. The researchers said the public agent...
Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras
An independent congressional candidate in Tennessee faces four felony vandalism charges after allegedly shooting four automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras between July 14 and 22. According to the Blount County Sheriff's Office (site geo-restricted), Adam Lee...
You trained the AI. Big Tech got paid
On January 24, 1956, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was the largest private company in the world. Its revenues amounted to almost 2% of the U.S. gross domestic product. It employed 746,000 people. It owned Bell Labs, the fabled research division that had...
Sam Altman shared a parenting hack. Thousands of moms and dads instantly disagreed.
Sam Altman has some advice for parents, and it’s going about as well as you’d expect. On August 31, the Open AI CEO took to X (where he’s a frequent poster) to share an idea with his followers: “cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night,” he wrote. “connect...
Is drinking water safe? What to know about the water systems cyberattacks targeting multiple states
Multiple U.S. agencies have confirmed ongoing cyberattacks against water systems that Americans rely on each day. The attacks are now known to have occurred against water facilities in at least seven states. Here’s what you need to know about the attacks and whether...
Xbox goes down. You can’t play games you own on disc
Article URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167448 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/mqqfa38-lead-full-stack-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167444 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Buckminster Fuller: everything I know
Article URL: https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/everything-i-know/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167147 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Nobel Disease
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166918 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller
Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/mini-retirements/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166749 Points: 14 # Comments: 9
Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is set today (2026-08-04)
Article URL: https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166491 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone
Article URL: https://learning-rust.github.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166411 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02412 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166442 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
FBI, EPA Warn of Cyberattacks on Water, Wastewater Facilities
The FBI and EPA are warning water and wastewater operators after cyberattacks targeted internet-connected programmable logic controllers, underscoring growing risks to critical infrastructure. The post FBI, EPA Warn of Cyberattacks on Water, Wastewater Facilities...
EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers
Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.
TP-Link Omada ZTP Vulnerabilities Chain Into Full Network Takeover
Forescout researchers have found 15 new vulnerabilities in the TP-Link Omada networking ecosystem. The post TP-Link Omada ZTP Vulnerabilities Chain Into Full Network Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Here’s how to watch the Nintendo Direct for Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave
The livestream starts today at 10AM ET/7AM PT.
DJI’s Mic Mini 2S is the first in its Mini lineup that can record your audio internally
DJI's Mic Mini 2S gives creators a backup with 32-bit float internal recording.
OpenAI says Apple ‘is getting this wrong’ after trade secret lawsuit
Apple sued OpenAI and two of its former employees for trade secret theft. OpenAI has just published its response.
CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages
CAF Bank has told customers its online banking service is back after being shuttered for more than ten days following what it described as "attempted fraud." In an email update seen by The Reg, the bank warned that access could remain intermittent, and it might "need...
Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B
At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.
U.S. used ‘virtually all’ of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/us-has-used-virtually-all-of-its-long-range-precision-missiles-report.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166860 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says playing this game as a child helped develop his legendary investing skills
Jamie Dimon has run JPMorgan Chase as CEO for 20 years, and under his leadership, it’s become the largest bank in the world by market capitalization. But Dimon’s business savvy started long before he ran JPMorgan, and even before he attended Harvard Business School....
New cPanel Critical Flaw Could Let Hosting Customers Run SQL as Database Root
cPanel has patched a flaw that let an authenticated hosting customer execute SQL in the database's root context, crossing the privilege boundary between a cPanel account and the server's administrative database identity. It shipped in a targeted security release that...
The best anti-AI smartphones in 2026: Expert tested and recommended
Sick to death of unwanted AI features getting stuffed into your smartphone? We tested the best models from Apple, Samsung, and more that forego AI in favor of features you actually need.
Testing Hundreds of Used LFP Cells Requires Some Automation
Although Li-ion cells have become a lot cheaper over the years, if you wish to buy hundreds of high-quality ones for that performance go-kart project, you may feel financially pressured into going for the option of stripping down years-old commercial battery packs...
Gemini Agent-to-Agent Attack Method Exposed Secrets, Enabled Pull Request Tampering
A crafted prompt to a low-privilege Google ADK agent could be used to pass a malicious hand-off comment to a privileged agent. The post Gemini Agent-to-Agent Attack Method Exposed Secrets, Enabled Pull Request Tampering appeared first on SecurityWeek.