Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
Article URL: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/09/30/is-sandboxing-sufficient-to-contain-rogue-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49917378 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Do you need a new job or do you need a break?
Anu Bharadwaj was a rising star at Atlassian, but just two years into her role, she was ready to quit. Exhausted from long hours and constant pressure, Bharadwaj walked into her boss’s office to resign. Instead, he made her a counteroffer: Take a year off to do...
Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections
Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ahead-rare-execution-lone-woman-tennessee-death-row-says-peace-rcna600279 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49917662 Points: 8 # Comments: 3
DIY Game Console Does It With Optical Disks
DIY Game Console Does It With Optical Disks Go to Source Optical media may be dead for video games on the big corporate consoles, but not in [Emmet]’s heart– or on his DIY game console, that he built specifically to use optical media....
Citrix NetScaler Post-Exploitation Payload Creates Superuser, Maps Web Shell to CSS-Like URLs
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a critical pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway to drop web shells and attempt theft of configuration data. LevelBlue's Threat Hunt Operations & Research (THOR)...
Apple TV is down
Several Apple services went down for maintenance on the afternoon of September 30. Only Apple TV remains inaccessible.
Hershey CEO Kirk Tanner on GLP-1s, AI, and keeping an iconic brand relevant
The second a brand like Hershey stops being culturally relevant, says CEO Kirk Tanner, you should be worried. So he explains exactly what he’s doing to make sure that never happens. Tanner also reveals why GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) users are actually good for...
RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates ‘much higher’ prices
Memory-maker Micron has warned that RAM shortages will persist into 2028, and perhaps beyond. Speaking on the company’s FY 2026 earnings call, CEO and company chair Sanjay Mehrotra reminded investors that Micron has already sold most of the memory it will make next...
Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services
Microsoft has advised users of its ExpressRoute Gateway, VPN Gateway, and Azure VMware service that they may experience degraded or interrupted network connectivity, and struggle to perform some network management operations. This looks like a self-inflicted wound...
Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/how-cities-are-forced-to-funnel-license-plate-data-to-a-massive-federal-surveillance-program-hidta/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49916955 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++
Yantra is a C++ parser generator: lexer, parser, and AST walker all generated from one tool. It builds the whole AST first, then walks it.Most LALR parser generators (Yacc, Bison, Lemon) run your semantic actions during parsing, as each rule reduces, bottom-up.That...
Jevotron: Multiple Jev integrations from the command line
Article URL: https://cmungall.github.io/jevotron/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49916865 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6rm9mnn0w3eo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49917089 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/surging-yields-bring-the-bond-market-back-to-the-turn-of-the-century-2b74773f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49916668 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Will Superconducting Transistors Help Quantum Computers?
Despite all the glamorous promises made about quantum computing, it’s hard to make the argument that today’s quantum computers hold a candle to the sheer practicality of classical computers, especially when qubits need to be cuddled at cryogenic temperatures inside a...
Azure maintenance mess disrupts hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services
Microsoft has advised users of its ExpressRoute Gateway, VPN Gateway, and Azure VMware service that they may experience degraded or interrupted network connectivity, and struggle to perform some network management operations. This looks like a self-inflicted wound...
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
OpenAI, which hoovered up vast amounts of internet content amid copyright fights, has accused individuals associated with China’s Moonshot AI of being involved in a "distillation attack" that began July 1. The house of Altman warns that extracting its models’...
Hot Dog! America’s new chatbot is packed with wieners
The White House's new AI chatbot, America.gov, turns out to be a bit of a sausage fest. Not long after the AI-powered portal went live this week, El Reg readers were met face-to-face with a life size Frankfurter. The prompt? "hotdog." How the apparent Easter egg, a...
How to watch NASA’s Crew-13 launch
How to watch NASA's Crew-13 launch
56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience
Article URL: https://56k.rip/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915126 Points: 28 # Comments: 14
FTC is Investigating OpenAI and Anthropic Over Possible risks to Consumers
An FTC spokesperson confirmed the investigation but declined further comment. The post FTC is Investigating OpenAI and Anthropic Over Possible risks to Consumers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.
EDG C++ Compiler is open source
Article URL: https://github.com/edgcpp/compiler Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915484 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk's and Luckey's companies...
Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-really-caused-the-bronze-age Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915221 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
Eric Schmitt doesn’t seem to think he’s done anything wrong
Most people try to get their facts straight when accusing someone of perjury—especially if the accuser is a sitting U.S. senator. But that doesn’t seem to be the case for Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt, who has been ubiquitous on social media after a failed...
Pogo-Bot Goes All Terrain With Compliant Foot
What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto? This thing, apparently– a “monopedal hopping robot” that uses a spikey, pivoting foot pad tensioned by what look like elastic bands to keep it upright...
Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32
Article URL: https://groundrun.io/blog/automating-wi-fi-setup-testing-on-the-esp32/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915119 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Meta AI Shares Seller’s Address: Facebook Marketplace Buyer Shows Up at His Home
Meta’s Muse AI shared a Facebook Marketplace seller’s pickup address and arranged a deal that ended with a buyer showing up unexpectedly. The post Meta AI Shares Seller’s Address: Facebook Marketplace Buyer Shows Up at His Home appeared first on TechRepublic.
Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey will advise the government on the future of warfare
So will Newt Gingrich, for some reason.