Get mistake fares, flash sales, and custom route searches sent to your inbox for a single payment of $39.99. The post Matt’s Flights Premium Drops to $40 for a Lifetime of Fare Alerts appeared first on TechRepublic.

Codex and Claude Code split the latest coding-agent benchmarks on performance, cost, speed, and deployment controls. The post OpenAI Codex vs Claude Code: The Better AI Coding Agent Depends on More Than Benchmarks appeared first on TechRepublic.

ChatGPT Pro 500 adds Astra Ultrafast and more included usage, but whether it’s worth $300 more depends on how heavily you use Work and Codex. The post ChatGPT Pro 500 vs. Pro 200: Is Astra Ultrafast Worth $300 More a Month? appeared first on TechRepublic.

Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system.

AI ambition is easy to describe - using data and models to improve decisions, automate work, accelerate discovery, or create new services. Delivering those outcomes is harder and takes a significant amount of experience to be successful. Training a frontier model,...

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Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the site again. The backdoor has been codenamed SC after the...

Earlier this year, Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s $185 million startup, Phia, faced allegations of “cookie stuffing,” following a Bloomberg investigation. However, there’s one person who wasn’t involved in the controversy: Gates’s mother, Melinda French Gates, who...

Elon Musk has long proselytized about the potential of space-based data centers. But as of today, he’s no longer alone in touting the idea of sending the hardware that powers AI into orbit. Google is launching a test satellite as part of Project Suncatcher, its effort...

Rob Juncker is chief product and technology officer at Mimecast. Is he a hacker? “Unequivocally yes,” he says. The post Hacker Conversations: Rob Juncker, a Knock at the Door and a Moral Compass appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Police took control of KillSec’s leak site and secured at least 110 terabytes of data stolen from victims. The post Police Shut Down KillSec Ransomware, Identify Alleged Teen Leader appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Article URL: https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/09/30/black-navy-sailor-dies-by-suicide-after-extended-deployment/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921523 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

MI5 has warned that more than 100 UK-linked academics contributed to research projects allegedly funded to improve China's spying capabilities. The Security Service issued an unusually public espionage alert this week naming the China General Technology Research...

After previously exploring the impact of vapor pressure on the drying of desiccant and more, the conclusion was essentially that in order to drive moisture that’s not directly on a material’s surface out of it, you pretty much have to heat up said material to make the...

The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/meta-ai-data-centers-taxes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921118 Points: 16 # Comments: 1

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/bc178357-793b-45d8-ae3b-d5929159c243 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921051 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

A federal judge has granted Paramount’s settlement agreement with 12 states that sued over the company’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, allowing the companies to soon close their $81 billion mega merger.In a Wednesday order, U.S. District Judge Araceli...

Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we warn you about weak security practices. This week’s terrifying tale involves a lack of important patching and a humorously bad password belonging to the person in charge of tech security at a law firm. Have a story...

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/ftc-ai-probe-openai-anthropic.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921050 Points: 10 # Comments: 0

For two years, ServiceNow’s challengers have built businesses around frustrations with its software. Their pitch centers on two complaints: Implementations take too long, and employees increasingly expect help inside tools they already use rather than through a...

The U.S. Treasury Department will soon begin automatically enrolling children in “Trump accounts,” which could cause the ranks of those enrolled to grow nearly tenfold. Though parents previously had to submit an IRS form to open this new type of tax-advantaged...

As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation, so-called virtual patching still comes down to defense-in-depth and strong application security fundamentals. The post AI Has Changed Attack Speed, Not Security Fundamentals appeared first on SecurityWeek.