October brings us leaf peeping, pumpkin spice, and a Halloween that includes something extra—and we’re not talking about candy. Let’s just say this spooky month comes with more treat than trick as far as your bank account is concerned. But it all depends on how...

There are few things less likely to reassure a nervous passenger awaiting a delayed flight than the Windows desktop putting in an unexpected appearance and demanding an update. Take this display at Alcantarí International Airport, which serves Sucre, Bolivia's...

CVE-2026-104286 is a critical-severity path traversal vulnerability that could allow attackers to write arbitrary files to the system. The post Exploited Fortinet FortiMail Zero-Day Calls for Urgent Action appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Google has announced a new security measure that limits access to Android's accessibility services to verified applications classified as Accessibility Tools when Advanced Protection is enabled. With malicious Android applications abusing the API serving as the main...

The Pi coding agent reached its 1.0 milestone on Thursday while being treated for whiplash. One of the core new inclusions is support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), which Pi creator Mario Zechner once dismissed as unnecessary. Earendil, the company formed by Armin...

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-tells-france-germany-release-diesel-stocks-or-face-us-export-ban-sources-say-2026-10-01/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930086 Points: 12 # Comments: 2

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Thursday, added a critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiMail to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as...

Amazon Web Services has debuted an agent that it says will evaluate your cloudy environment “as an experienced cloud architect would” and recommend useful changes. The cloud colossus named its bot the “AWS Well-Architected Agent,” a nod to the Well-Architected...

Article URL: https://inrng.com/2026/10/shimano-bicycle-museum/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930047 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://sigh.dev/posts/metas-muse-is-fantastic-for-web-scraping/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929970 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

I have the unusual experience of spending my working life building and scaling artificial intelligence while going home to two teenagers trying to imagine their place in the future it’s creating. They’re just starting to figure out what they want their lives to look...

Article URL: https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929489 Points: 41 # Comments: 14

Unless it’s automated or using some other form of high-tech trickery, a vegetable garden isn’t exactly the sort of thing you’d expect to see on Hackaday. Be that as it may, the bountiful crop of peppers [Mihai Oltean] grew on the side of his house was done the old...

Google’s first “Suncatcher” datacenter satellite has made it into space, but the company has cast doubt on whether its orbital ambitions can scale. As The Register reported last week, Project Suncatcher aims to test whether Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) can...

[Applied Science] has a new demo of an old 1970s patent for a portable generator that is both interesting and terrifying. The generator uses sodium and water, which, if you remember your old chemistry classes, will combust spontaneously. Turns out, though, it won’t if...

A new California law places new rules on autonomous vehicles operators

Article URL: https://www.essex.ac.uk/news/2026/09/30/butterflies-use-optical-illusions-to-dodge-predators Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928152 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.theapplepost.com/2026/10/01/72882/apples-smart-home-camera-reportedly-wont-record-video/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928054 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

AI agents hacked the hackers - the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) - via two zero-day bugs in its Zammad support platform, abusing the flaws to hijack sessions, run code remotely as the local zammad user, and escalate privileges to root. The...

[Michael H Thiesen] had a couple of Elgato Key Lights in his home streaming setup. The only problem was that they would stop responding regularly, requiring a power cycle to get them going again. He never quite pinned down where the problem lay; instead, he set about...

Article URL: https://locaterodeo.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927844 Points: 3 # Comments: 0