Earn Media Coverage Without Paying for It: Here’s How
There are a plethora of ways in which you can obtain media coverage for your products and services by paying for it. This is possible across print, electronic, and digital media. You can pay for straightforward ads or go for native advertising. But that begs the...
Jev: Find Out Why RLCD and System One Models Are Rewriting AI Architecture
The software industry has spent the last three years trying to make large language models behave like functions. It has not gone well. Every team that has shipped an LLM-powered feature has paid a heavy engineering tax in parsing layers, retry loops, JSON repair...
Awesome AGENTS.md That Can Be Used on Any Agent and Any Stack
I reverse-engineered popular coding-agent instruction repos and distilled their best ideas into a stack-agnostic AGENTS.md. 📦 The core rules cover small, focused changes, security boundaries, debugging, and verification before an agent says a task is done. More...
Digital Transformation: How It’s Evolving in the Age of AI
If you are leading an organization today, you are probably under pressure to “embrace AI.” Competitors are making announcements, employees are asking for better tools, and senior leaders want to know how artificial intelligence can improve performance. The...
WOO X EU Goes Live for European Traders
September 28, 2026 — WOO X, a leading global digital asset exchange, today officially announced the launch of WOO X EU, a dedicated trading platform custom-built to operate in alignment with Europe’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. The rollout is supported...
I Used AI Agents to Write Most of a Live-Trading Codebase: Introducing The Gate That Made It Safe
For the last 21 months, I have been the only engineer on TopSet, a system that trades real money. It picks a portfolio with machine-learning models, rebalances on a schedule, and executes through live broker APIs on infrastructure I own end-to-end. It is my own...
Attackers Exploit NetScaler Flaw for Root Access, Deploy WHIPSHOT and SLAPSHOT
Attackers Exploit NetScaler Flaw for Root Access, Deploy WHIPSHOT and SLAPSHOT Go to Source Unknown threat actors have been observed exploiting a newly patched security flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances to...
OpenSSL Fixes High-Severity DTLS Flaw That Can Leak Heap Memory Unencrypted
OpenSSL Fixes High-Severity DTLS Flaw That Can Leak Heap Memory Unencrypted Go to Source A High-severity OpenSSL flaw can leak heap memory to the other side of a DTLS connection or crash the program, OpenSSL said on September 29 as it...
Trump’s AI Force could make AI’s risks worse. Here’s what to do instead
Artificial intelligence dominated the opening of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 22, 2026. Ahead of the meeting, 20 nations released a statement requesting “human direction, oversight and control” of AI. The U.S. was not among them. This followed...
KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn’t invited
KDE Plasma 6.8 is nearly here, bringing the revived Oxygen theme and dropping its X11 session. For those who prefer an older look, a new project called Klassik recreates the KDE 3 experience using modern Plasma technology. KDE has released the second and final beta of...
New research reveals what coffee really does to your gut—and it’s surprising
Is coffee actually good for you? Some experts tout its health benefits, such as lowering the risk of type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. At the same time, excessive caffeine consumption has been linked to various health conditions, such as anxiety, headaches,...
Trump’s new AI chatbot is surprisingly good. But it doesn’t fix government
If there are two things Donald Trump loves more than anything in life, it’s participating in elaborate signing ceremonies and artificial intelligence—sorry, superintelligence. And on September 29, the U.S. president combined both loves with the launch of a new...
Forget flexibility. Working parents need predictability
For years, we have believed that flexibility is the key to survival for working parents. We advocate for flexible hours, flexible PTO, flexible locations. And the ability to log on from the pediatrician’s office or finish a presentation after everyone goes to bed has...
Why McDonald’s, Dunkin’, Starbucks, and other chains keep making their rewards programs worse—and getting away with it
Aaron Braun had decided to play the long game with his Dunkin’ Rewards points. For five years, his employer, an IT company that kept him on the road, covered his coffee and breakfast via a company card linked to his Dunkin’ account, so he never bothered to redeem his...
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
Article URL: https://prospect.org/2026/09/29/artificial-intelligence-agents-openai-microsoft-sam-altman-greg-brockman-ah-nice/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49905633 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
Healthcare built for you: AI and the personalization of medicine
To celebrate AI right now almost feels dangerous, because of the widespread and increasingly intense backlash against it. I myself have written about the dangers of AI, not least in these pages, so I understand the anti-AI sentiment. But we must be careful not to...
Is there a difference between being smart and acting smart?
Although intelligence is one of the most consistent and important predictors of real-life success, the connection is by no means perfect. This explains why we all know people who we consider “smart” in a traditional sense (e.g., knowledgeable, bookish, geeky, and...
UK rail cops’ ÂŁ320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches
British Transport Police (BTP) spent more than ÂŁ320,000 putting half a million commuters through live facial recognition cameras, only for the system to identify precisely nobody it was looking for. Figures obtained by civil liberties group Liberty through Freedom of...
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
Article URL: https://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-09-21/september-2026-the-world-today/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49905487 Points: 17 # Comments: 0
A Simple Solution for Streamlining Battery Recycling
Lithium batteries have become the backbone of many modern devices ranging from toothbrushes to semi trucks, so what are we going to do with them when these rechargeable cells finally die? Researchers at Cornell have identified a way to streamline the recycling...
Sony implements a lottery system to deal with the PS5 Pro shortage in Japan
Gamers in Japan will have to prove they actually use their PS consoles to be able to buy a PS5 Pro.
Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time
Airbus has successfully flown a new freighter based on its A350 passenger jet. The first A350F yesterday rolled down the runway at Airbus HQ in Toulouse, France, bringing the aerospace giant closer to delivering a high-capacity freighter. Airbus already makes two...
OpenClaw slips on a suit to evade widespread business bans
The OpenClaw project has started work on an enterprise edition in the hope that businesses lose their fear of the agentic AI project. OpenClaw was one of the first “AI harnesses” – tools that use a large language model to create a digital assistant that automates...
Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines
The Spectre microarchitecture vulnerability has returned yet again, this time to vex just-in-time (JIT) engines that generate machine code for browsers, runtimes, and kernels. The vulnerability is found in many CPUs that use speculative execution, the process of...
High-Severity Vulnerabilities Patched in OpenSSL, WolfSSL
Roughly a dozen vulnerabilities have been patched in each of the open source cryptographic libraries. The post High-Severity Vulnerabilities Patched in OpenSSL, WolfSSL appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-88772 Exploit Details Show Pre-Auth Path to Shellcode Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed technical details of a recently patched critical security flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-88772 (CVSS score: 9.5), has been...
How to make a big ask of a colleague
Self-reliance is a virtue that is drilled into most of us from an early age. After all, most of the work you’re asked to do in school from kindergarten onward through college is done individually. Group work is done sparingly. When a student does ask for help,...
Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/09/29/tesla-takes-on-30-billion-in-credit-as-it-approaches-unprofitability/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49904408 Points: 15 # Comments: 4
LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
Article URL: https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/linkedin-larpmaxxing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49904314 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
No More Windows For The Dutch Government, Ze Kiezen Nu Linux
The events of the last few years have caused many in Europe to re-evaluate their reliance on large offshore technology companies, with a corresponding move to home-grown EU-based alternatives. It’s one thing when individuals or companies do this, but another entirely...