You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
Article URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891295 Points: 22 # Comments: 2
Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
Article URL: https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891290 Points: 26 # Comments: 3
500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-stations-false-positive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891480 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Healthcare campaigners turn up the heat on Palantir at Labour conference
Campaigners against Palantir's involvement in the UK's health sector are set to make themselves heard this week with planned protests at the Labour Party conference and in London. Health justice charity MedAct and medical campaign group Just Treatment are coordinating...
Dutch police arrest ‘security pro’ in ShinyHunters probe
Dutch police have arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of involvement with the prolific ShinyHunters cybercrime group. Cops announced the arrest on Monday night and said the Amsterdam resident would appear before judges at Rotterdam District Court today (Tuesday)....
RemoteThreat launches with $7M for an offensive cyber operations platform
Offensive cybersecurity startup RemoteThreat Inc. launched today with $7 million in new funding to push its O/C/O Platform out to enterprise red teams and U.S. government customers. Some of the money will also go to new features. RemoteThreat offers what it calls the...
Former X-Force hackers chase the offensive cyber gold rush
Two former leaders of IBM's X-Force Red team have launched RemoteThreat, an offensive cybersecurity startup backed by $7 million in pre-seed funding. CEO Chris Thompson and CTO Shawn Jones say the company's platform uses AI to plan, execute, and adapt offensive cyber...
Four Cyber Threats Harboring Big Plans for the Future
- AI, supply-chain exposure, quantum computing and geopolitical conflict are testing security programs. Preparing for disruption must become part of day-to-day operations. The post Four Cyber Threats Harboring Big Plans for the Future appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI Calls Off GPT-6.1 Astra Launch, Details Safety Cases for Frontier Training
The GPT-6.1 Astra model was slated to debut in ChatGPT and Codex in October, but it fell short of expectations. The post OpenAI Calls Off GPT-6.1 Astra Launch, Details Safety Cases for Frontier Training appeared first on SecurityWeek.
UK Government to Civil Servants: Save Energy, Quit Thanking Chatbots
Every unnecessary input wastes power.
Dutch Police Arrest Convicted Hacker in ShinyHunters Investigation
Pepijn van der Stap was convicted in 2023 for hacking multiple organizations, stealing their data, and extorting them. The post Dutch Police Arrest Convicted Hacker in ShinyHunters Investigation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Testing Coulomb’s Law and Similar Fundamentals Yourself Remains Tricky
How easy is it to build a simple demonstration at home that proves fundamental law of physics, such as Coulomb’s inverse square law, or Maxwell’s equations? This is one of those questions that always nagged at [Casual Physics Enjoyer] as they sought to find ways to...
Redmond to millions of Power BI users: You’re Fabric app devs now
Microsoft is pushing its data analytics and engineering environment to a new set of commercial users that are an “order of magnitude” greater than its current base. Power BI has become a popular biz intelligence system - with more than 425,000 customers worldwide -...
Nvidia Adds Record $150 Billion to Stock Buyback Plan: What It Says About the AI Boom
Nvidia adds a record $150 billion to its stock buyback authorization, bringing the remaining total to $235 billion as AI infrastructure revenue surges. The post Nvidia Adds Record $150 Billion to Stock Buyback Plan: What It Says About the AI Boom appeared first on...
Private 5G Moves Into Banking at Hana Financial’s 16-Floor Headquarters
Hana Financial’s new headquarters runs private 5G across 16 floors, giving roughly 3,000 employees secure wireless access to internal systems. The post Private 5G Moves Into Banking at Hana Financial’s 16-Floor Headquarters appeared first on TechRepublic.
Singapore Quantum Startup AQSolotl Opens Johor Base in Malaysia’s Hardware Push
AQSolotl has opened a Johor Bahru office for quantum-control hardware, strengthening Malaysia’s ties to Singapore’s quantum research ecosystem. The post Singapore Quantum Startup AQSolotl Opens Johor Base in Malaysia’s Hardware Push appeared first on TechRepublic.
Apple Smart Glasses Could Arrive in 2027: What We Know So Far
Apple could launch its first smart glasses in late 2027 while exploring a lighter, redesigned Vision headset for 2028 or 2029. The post Apple Smart Glasses Could Arrive in 2027: What We Know So Far appeared first on TechRepublic.
Nothing’s flagship $399 Headphone 1 Pro actually have some professional features
Nothing's new 'pro' headphones feature a flat EQ, bucking the trend of custom equalizers.
New Cyber-OSINT model released
Article URL: https://twitter.com/0x0SojalSec/status/2104736980768866439 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890829 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]
Article URL: https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-tracker-(clean).pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890226 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
7 Places Your AI Agent Can Be Exploited (And How to Guard Each One).
I built a small support-ticket agent as a weekend project. It read incoming tickets, searched a docs folder, and drafted replies. Nothing fancy — a few hundred lines of code wrapped around an LLM API call. It worked beautifully in the demo.One of my friends in the...
CertiK Completes Formal Verification of zkWasm, Mathematically Proving the zkVM Sound
Researchers who catalogued 141 security flaws in zero-knowledge proof systems between 2018 and 2024 found 99 of them in the circuits, the sets of mathematical constraints that decide whether a proof is accepted. Almost nine in ten of the 141 broke soundness, the...
Your Best Partner in the Agentic Era Is One You Can’t Measure
How do you measure a partnership in the agentic era, when the one choosing your product isn't a person anymore, but an AI? I've closed more than 75 partnerships per edition of Blockchain Jungle and run the pipeline at other startups I've worked for, so I know what...
Using Jev in Production
At work I have been playing with Jev by TypeSafe AI a lot, and the reason it got popular is pretty straightforward: it opened up a class of possibilities where you get an intelligent, LLM-like model that doesn't take forever, so you can use it as a quick classifier...
Investors Fire. Owners Hire.
By Chris GaleThe conversation around artificial intelligence has been dominated by a familiar image, a boardroom, a new AI initiative and a round of layoffs. Month after month brings another headline about workforce reductions at a large technology company or...
MY APP GOT ACCEPTED TO THE APPSTORE!!!!
Before you read this, on September 28th 2026, my app just crossed over 2,000,000+ views on instagram in less than 24 hours: https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd0TQrPo5mZ/Im 16, a junior in highschool, and this was the first app I ever built.Read my story below:I have a...
Why Good Games Fail: The Economics of Discoverability
A good game can fail commercially without failing creatively. In a market where thousands of games compete for limited player attention, the economic problem is often not making something people would enjoy, but getting enough of the right people to discover it.One of...
Building Dogear’s On-Device Scan-to-Save Pipeline With Apple Vision and Live Text
Reading a physical book is a wonderfully tactile experience. You can underline a sentence, fold a page corner, or write a thought in the margin. But once the book is closed, those moments can be difficult to find again. Dogear is a minimal iOS app for the books you...
A (Very) Short Introduction to Oil Futures
What are oil futures? Oil futures contracts are legal agreements that require holders to buy or sell crude oil at fixed prices on designated dates in the future. The price of oil is locked in at the start of the contract, which makes oil futures useful for hedging...
When Old Workflows Meet New Code: Preventing Temporal Replay Failures in Production
Temporal changes the meaning of deployment because a Workflow Execution can outlive the process and code revision that started it. The Temporal Service persists Event History, while Workers reconstruct Workflow state by replaying that history through Workflow code. A...