Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to compare notes on the most interesting posts this week on the site. As usual, there are just too many choices, so you’ll have to settle for just the few that can fit in a podcast. The guys were excited about 3D printing —...

Over at Best Buy, the 2024 Moto G Play dropped down to $100, making this Android one of the budget buys around.

American oil and gas giants raked in massive spring profits while fighting between Iran and the U.S. impeded petroleum shipments and consumers around the world paid more for fuel and confronted shortages.The conflict, now in its sixth month, halted most shipping...

For only the second time in its history, the American Red Cross has declared a national blood crisis, and the second time it’s done so in the past five years, as it cautions that the current blood supply could threaten patient care. With less than a one-day national...

Last quarter, I caught a senior engineer burning through roughly $12 worth of Claude Opus tokens just to format a bash string manipulation script. It wasn't an isolated incident. Across our engineering team, developers were running AI-powered CLI extensions and IDE...

Every web server faces the same fundamental trade-off: how do you handle thousands of concurrent connections without drowning in context switches or deadlocking on disk I/O? In 1999, Vikram Pai, Peter Druschel, and Wolfgang Zwaenepoel answered this with “Flash: An...

Marketing intent disguised as thought leadership, swathes of AI slop, invented authority, and unsubstantiated claims have contributed to an almost complete erosion of trust in online blogging. And once lost, trust is one of the hardest things to regain. I love...

Earlier this year, I launched two websites, remote job boards with almost identical technical setups.One indexed reasonably well.The other was indexed briefly, then almost completely removed from Google.The comparison has changed how I think about launching websites...

An AI feature can fail without crashing. The API may return a 200 response. The latency dashboard may remain green. The output may be valid JSON. Nothing appears broken from the infrastructure side. Then a customer reads the answer and realizes it is wrong. This is...

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/defcon-34-badge-baochip-andrew-bunnie-huang/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124409 Points: 13 # Comments: 1

The leading U.S. automakers are mentioning EVs on their investor calls at pre-pandemic rates, according to new data from TechCrunch and Hudson Labs.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: parcel delivery company OnTrac hacked, Adobe patches, UK Department for Education loses 607,000 records. The post In Other News: OpenAI Open Source Tool, AWS Links Hacks to North Korea, Mythos Crypto Research...

Anthropic said its artificial intelligence models hacked into three other organizations during testing, just days after ChatGPT maker OpenAI raised concerns over AI controls after it disclosed its rogue models hacked another company.Anthropic, the San Francisco-based...

When you need to match paint colors, one of the tools you’ll reach for is a deck of reference colors. Another might be a colorimeter. But what if you want both? [hallko1234] created just that by reverse-engineering and then patching a CR4501 colorimeter. It starts...

Iran has the “geopolitical motivations” and a recent history of targeting water systems, experts pointed out. The post Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Systems Investigated as Officials Warn About Iranian Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.