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.
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
Article URL: https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166386 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
The agentic AI naming trap: Why you must move from red oceans to blue
Ask any founder with a chatbot open: generating names for a product has never been easier. A long list appears in minutes. But this is the great naming illusion of the AI era: the belief that because generating names is now free, or nearly so, the naming challenge...
These are the 3 things that are actually burning you out (and only one is your boss)
Almost every conversation I have with leaders these days revolves around the topic of burnout in their teams. And I’m not talking about having a bad day or a hard week, but the real thing. You know, the kind that creeps in quietly, accumulates over years, and...
The influencer bubble is finally popping
Up until about 40,000 years ago, there were two closely related but distinct human species on this planet. The Neanderthals, who lived mostly in Europe and Western Asia, and Homo sapiens, who originated in Africa. The two separate species overlapped for more than...
Stanford neuroscientists: Teen mental health problems can be predicted by speech patterns. Here’s what to watch for
Computer language models, which analyze what children say during stressful events, are better at predicting their future mental health than a panel of experts in the field. That’s the finding from a new study published in Nature Mental Health. Researchers ran recorded...
Natural food dyes are winning the snack wars
American shoppers are increasingly buying food made from natural colors. Since last year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has moved to phase out synthetic dyes from food. Now, research shows that consumer demand is trending in the same direction as shoppers opt...
The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014)
Article URL: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/04/16/The-US-is-not-a-democracy-but-an-oligarchy-study-concludes/2761397680051/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166254 Points: 14 # Comments: 4
DOUBLECUP Uses ClickFix and Cached PNGs to Deliver CountLoader and DeviceManager RAT
A new Russian loader-as-a-service (LaaS) codenamed DOUBLECUP has been using ClickFix lures as a way to stage malware-laced PNG images in victims' browser cache and ultimately deliver CountLoader and a previously undocumented remote access trojan called DeviceManager....
FFmpeg 9.0
Article URL: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0/RELEASE_NOTES Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166202 Points: 34 # Comments: 1
Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
Article URL: https://live.euronext.com/en/financial-news/bending-spoons-makes-first-post-ipo-acquisition-13-billion-airtable-deal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166182 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Memory Governance Is Becoming the Control Plane for Agentic AI
The Bottleneck Is Shifting Early LLM applications had limited memory. State was stored in variables, logs or session history and it did not carry cleanly from one task to the next. Agentic AI is changing this. Today agents use tools, pull information when needed to...
Introducing Agent Intent-Based Access Control
Today, we’re announcing Agent Intent-Based Access Control (IBAC), a new capability in Varonis Atlas that lets businesses connect AI agents to their enterprise data with safeguards that stop dangerous or out-of-policy behavior. Agents are making headlines for going...
Rajat Bagga and the Culture of High-Stakes Product Development
Product development within high-stakes industries like fintech and healthcare requires balancing rigid technical constraints with necessary human interfaces. Modern operational ecosystems handle unprecedented volumes of sensitive data, creating environments where...
Your AI Meeting Summary Is Probably Missing Something
You get off yet another Zoom call, and the meeting summary arrives about ninety seconds after the call ends. Five bullets, a couple of action items, and you skim it and think, yeeeaaaahhhhhhh, that’s about right. Then you close it.Now think about the last time you...
K-EXAONE 2.0 Brings 262K Context to Frontier AI
OverviewK-EXAONE-2.0-750B-A37B is a frontier-scale multilingual language model developed by LGAI-EXAONE featuring 750 billion total parameters with 37 billion active parameters during inference. The model uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 256 total experts...
Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6B: Compact Multilingual Voice Cloning
OverviewAudio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b is a 0.6B-parameter multilingual text-to-speech model built by Audio8 that generates speech from text and performs zero-shot voice cloning. The model uses a DualAR architecture with a 24-layer slow AR transformer (896 width, 14...
Inside DNP3: Building an Outstation from the Ground Up
In my previous article, Inside DNP3’s Event-Driven Telemetry Model , we explored how DNP3 (IEEE 1815) organizes information through object groups, event classes, and Internal Indications (IIN). That discussion focused on the protocol's architecture and how an...
OpenAI Codex Ambassador Program: What Does an Ambassador Actually Do?
The word "ambassador" can sound like a marketing title. In a developer community, it should mean something more practical. It means finding out where builders are stuck. It means creating a workshop where people can test a workflow instead of only watching slides. It...
The Bechdel Test for Building a Real Developer Community
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work. That – my experiences and observations – are...
Would You Trust an AI With Your Crypto?
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of everyday life. People use it to write emails, plan trips, answer questions and organise their work. It is also starting to play a bigger role in finance. In crypto, AI tools can already track prices, study market activity,...
AI’s Water Problem Is Smaller Than You Think
AI's water problem is smaller than you've been told. Water's problem is far bigger — and, for the first time, solvable. Sometime in the last two years, a very old argument about water got a very new participant. For most of human history, the fight over who gets the...
Building a Real-Time Visualizer and Notation Recorder for Flute
I've seen those piano visualizer videos on YouTube — the ones where the keys light up in sync with what the pianist is playing. I always liked that kind of visual feedback. So I asked myself a simple question: why doesn't this exist for flute players? It doesn’t. Not...
AI Is Changing How We Ideate, Design, and Build User Interfaces
For decades, the workflow for designing user interfaces was fairly predictable. Designers made mockups, developers turned those mockups into code, and product teams reviewed the results, iterated, and shipped. Every artifact had its own clear job: design files for...
90 Blog Posts To Learn About Gamedev
Let's learn about Gamedev via these 90 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. "Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It’s expected...
What Computer Science Students Actually Need When They’re Stuck
In the world of software engineering, the difference between a solution that just works and one that stands the test of time often comes down to noticing the little details. I've seen countless times how a recursive tree traversal breaks because of a missing base case...
Code is for Machines, Not Humans
Your clean code rules were designed for human brains. AI agents need something different. I started writing code in 2017. Back then, the path to mastery was clear: Uncle Bob's Clean Code was the gold standard, SOLID principles were absolute rules, and Design Patterns...