The EU’s Right to Repair directive kicks in today
Today is the day the EU's Right to Repair rules come into force that will, eventually, make it much easier to fix your broken gear.
NASA’s Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin
Katalyst Space has confirmed that problems with its LINK spacecraft have delayed its attempt to rescue NASA's Swift observatory, with rendezvous now targeted for the end of August. Katalyst disclosed the delay in an update on the spinning spacecraft. Engineers used a...
Ruby Central’s Destructive Legacy
Article URL: https://andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/ruby-centrals-destructive-legacy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122105 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner
Vodafone has paid £4.3 billion ($5.78 billion) for the remaining 49 percent of VodafoneThree, taking full ownership of the UK's largest mobile operator. The telecoms giant announced that it planned to buy the stake held by Three's former parent, CK Hutchison Group...
Slate Truck first drive: A minimalist’s delight
Slate's anti-truck EV is poised to deliver on all of its promises.
Food packaging is entering a new era of scrutiny
For a long time now, food packaging has been treated as a relatively isolated and low-priority business decision. Marketing teams care about how it looks and feels to a consumer making a split decision. Procurement cares about cost and shelf-life. Over the past...
The employee benefits paradox
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, employers are spending more on benefits than at any point in history, yet employees remain overwhelmed, distracted, and increasingly stressed. This affects employee morale and engagement, and impacts organizational...
TGI Fridays store closures: See a list of locations that have lost the most restaurants since its bankruptcy
TGI Fridays is forging a path forward after a headline-grabbing bankruptcy raised doubts about its future nearly two years ago, but fans of the casual dining brand in the United States might still have harder time finding one these days. The restaurant chain has lost...
Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer
Article URL: https://tasklet.ai/careers/customer-success-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122034 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Burrito Drop Incoming: DoorDash Receives FAA Drone Delivery Certification
Rumors point to the first drone-powered deliveries taking place this fall.
Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers
Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding.
Chinese Hacker Commands DeepSeek via Telegram to Launch Autonomous Attacks
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 says a Chinese-speaking threat actor used DeepSeek through the open-source Hermes Agent framework to launch attacks autonomously. After an initial Telegram instruction, the agent found internet-facing systems and selected public exploits....
6 Reasons Why Device Code Phishing is the Fastest-Growing Threat of 2026
Device code phishing - the abuse of the OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant to steal access tokens - has evolved from a niche red-team technique to an industrial-scale threat in under six months. Designed for input-constrained devices like smart TVs, printers, and so...
Anthropic Says Claude Mistook the Open Internet for a CTF and Breached Three Organizations
Anthropic on Thursday became the latest artificial intelligence (AI) company to reveal that three of its models, including Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, had breached three unnamed organizations during cybersecurity testing without its...
Scotland’s university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in
Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC) says attackers gained unauthorized access to historical data in a cyberattack earlier this month. The Scottish education procurement body said it immediately contained the mid-July intrusion and was...
American workers are more disillusioned with AI the more they use it
AI has an optics problem. For years, surveys have shown that public perception of AI is largely negative. When the Pew Research Center polled thousands of U.S. adults in 2024, only 17% of them thought the technology would have a positive impact in the years to come....
Building a Reproduction PlayStation Motherboard
Thanks to things like spilled drinks, leaky batteries, and the general ravages of time, older consoles can be tough to keep going. In particular, excessive damage to a motherboard can make repair difficult or near-impossible to execute even if the rest of the console...
Astronomers Use Unexpected Tool to Track Distant Space Junk
Until now, nobody had thought to use a type of observatory first built to investigate the furthest reaches of the universe.
I told Mark Cuban he was wrong about AI. Here’s what founders can learn from my mistake
In 2013, I stood across from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank. He wanted to invest, with one condition. He told me AI was about to make most of the human expertise my business ran on either free or irrelevant, and the smart move was to build toward where the technology was...
Electronic Arts says it’ll be a private company next week
Electronic Arts will close its $55 billion deal to go private by August 4 next week.
Google AI Uncovers 13-Year-Old Chrome Flaw Amid Record Patching Pace
The internet giant has built an agent harness to find vulnerabilities across Chrome’s codebase. The post Google AI Uncovers 13-Year-Old Chrome Flaw Amid Record Patching Pace appeared first on SecurityWeek.
YouTube is on a major decluttering mission
YouTube has ballooned from a small selection of low-resolution videos in 2005 to a total library of more than 20 billion videos uploaded. Over the course of two decades, it has introduced a bevy of new features including YouTube Premium, Shorts, and YouTube Shopping....
How France’s wildfires are becoming a national security threat
As record-breaking wildfires burned through France this week, they neared a hub of aerospace and defense industry sites, threatening plants that house rocket fuel and missiles. This is far from the first time climate change has threatened defense infrastructure. In...
Influencers are excited about Meta’s glasses. The rest of the world? Not so much
A week before Meta officially released its new Kylie Jenner-embossed smart glasses in June, 23-year-old Allison Oh had already made up her mind about them. Oh, a lifestyle and travel influencer, with more than 100,000 followers on TikTok, attended a marketing event in...
I Scored a Perfect 996 on Anthropic’s Claude Certified Architect Professional Exam
I Scored a Perfect 996 on Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect Professional Exam Go to Source When the score report loaded, I read it twice. 996 out of 1000, and 100 percent in every one of the seven domains. I have sat a lot of...
Anatomy of a Silent 502: How Four HAProxy Characters Exposed a K8s Upload Failure
Anatomy of a Silent 502: How Four HAProxy Characters Exposed a K8s Upload Failure Go to Source A 502 Bad Gateway tells you that one proxy failed to get a valid response from another system. It does not tell you which layer failed,...
Why the Best Acquisition Strategy Is Forgetting About the Acquisition
Why the Best Acquisition Strategy Is Forgetting About the Acquisition Go to Source For many founders, acquisition becomes the finish line long before they have built a business worth buying. From the first fundraising pitch,...
Everyone Is Talking About Humanoid Robots. Procurement Data Shows What Comes Next.
Everyone Is Talking About Humanoid Robots. Procurement Data Shows What Comes Next. Go to Source Humanoid robots are everywhere in the news right now. From Tesla's Optimus to Figure AI, Unitree, Agility Robotics, and Boston Dynamics,...
How to Automate AI Video Generation With an AI Agent (Without Losing the Director’s Job)
How to Automate AI Video Generation With an AI Agent (Without Losing the Director's Job) Go to Source The cover image on this article was not made by me clicking a button. I typed a description of the shot I wanted into a chat window,...
Inside ARK-ASR-3B’s Whisper and Qwen Architecture
Inside ARK-ASR-3B’s Whisper and Qwen Architecture Go to Source OverviewARK-ASR-3B is a 3-billion-parameter multilingual automatic speech recognition model built by Audio8 that combines a Whisper-style audio encoder with an MLP adapter...