After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action
After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother's voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones and flag fake voices in real time, and it's now one of the companies...
FBI reportedly declares ‘cyber security incident’ after hackers steal agents’ personal data
The bureau has not yet publicly confirmed a breach, but has told its agents that their personal information and Social Security numbers were exposed.
Israel Keeps Expanding into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/28/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-cease-fire-palestinian-territory.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878331 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Europe’s AI ambitions rest on somebody else’s supply chain
Europe is one of the world's largest markets for AI datacenter infrastructure, but its own local companies capture only a fraction of the value, because overseas suppliers dominate chips, servers, and cloud infrastructure. According to the Global Electronics...
Next five VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting for. Startup Battlefield 200 is almost here, and with today’s announcement, the judging panel is...
New fuel efficiency standards for cars are coming soon from the Trump administration
The Trump administration on Monday plans to release new fuel economy standards that would relax regulatory requirements for automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and light trucks.President Donald Trump said on his Truth Social media account...
The FPGA Chronicles: Exploring the Tang Nano 20K
FPGAs used to be mysterious, expensive devices, but these days you can buy surprisingly capable boards for very little money. Some years ago, I did an FPGA Bootcamp over on Hackaday.io. Much of that material still applies, but the hardware is dated. So I decided it...
Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis suite
Modulate deploys its models to detect deepfake, fraud and scam
⚡ Weekly Recap: $387M Crypto Hack, Citrix Exploits, AI Agents Go Off-Script, and More Threats
A domain used as harmless placeholder text showed up in roughly 1,700 repositories. Then somebody registered it and started serving malicious lures. That is the kind of week this was: forgotten assumptions turning into live attack surface. Elsewhere, weak service...
ElevenLabs’ new v4 speech model supports more expression control and 90 languages
ElevenLabs v4 can clone voices with a 10 second clip
Insuretech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round
The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers.
Your final chance to grab your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is Oct. 2
The last day to book your Disrupt 2026 exhibit table is this Friday, October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Secure your exhibit table and get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at San Francisco's Moscone West on Oct 13-15.
Coding Is Not Solved – Alex Ewerlöf Notes
Coding Is Not Solved – Alex Ewerlöf Notes Go to Source Article URL: https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/coding-is-not-solved Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877988 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Leasing vs. buying a new iPhone: Which is better if you upgrade every year?
If you want to upgrade your Phone every year, should you lease with Apple Upgrade or buy and trade-in? The answer isn't the same for everyone.
Turtle Beach Afterglow review: A Switch 2 controller with the full RGB treatment
This is for the gamer who wants RGB everything.
How to improve your Samsung Galaxy’s battery performance
If your Samsung Galaxy phone is running out of juice faster than it used to, it might need some settings to be adjusted. Here's which ones.
Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation
Instinct has raised a $1 billion Series C, saying 'we're just getting started.' The company is now valued at $10 billion.
Airlines say ticket prices could stay high even if jet fuel costs fall. Here’s why
Travelers could be stuck paying high airfares even if oil and jet fuel prices fall, major U.S. airlines and industry analysts say.The price of jet fuel shot up after the Iran war began and retreated sharply in the spring before surging again as the summer went on....
OpenAI agents went the long way round for UN data
OpenAI agents apparently spent two months hammering a United Nations (UN) data API, trying increasingly creative ways to bypass the barriers they encountered. Researcher Rowan H-J uncovered the activity by analyzing roughly 16,500 scans of the UN Conference on Trade...
Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Article URL: https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/reddit-astroturf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877678 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches orbit for the first time
Though not without some drama along the way.
Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News
hi there! i'd like you to try out a tui i made for browsing hackernews. it's built using opentui and also effect (learning experiment). i really like it and i think you will too! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876760 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Starbucks store closures: See a list of locations that have shuttered across the country in latest coffeehouse cull
Last week, Starbucks Coffee Company announced it would close around 250 stores in North America. That’s a cull of 1% of its roughly 18,000 locations in the region. However, the coffee giant did not disclose a list of which specific locations would close. But thanks to...
Why it’s important to eject external drives properly
Safely removing external drives before removing them might sound like old-school advice, but it's still important to keep your files healthy.
Ocean surveillance startup Quartermaster raises another $140M
The tech enables real-time awareness for what Quartermaster calls the “largest blind spot on Earth.”
Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn’t coming back
Microsoft accidentally wiped some nonprofit customers' M365 data before their retention period expired – and now says it cannot tell them what disappeared, or even whether they lost anything. The cockup followed Microsoft's retirement of its Microsoft 365 Business...
Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon
Cameron John Wagenius was sentenced to 70 months in prison for stealing information from the wireless carriers. The post Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Carbonato Botnet Compromises Docker Hosts to Deploy Telegram-Controlled Hermes AI Agent
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet malware called Carbonato that's targeting exposed Docker daemons to deploy an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent framework called Hermes Agent. "The implant installs the framework unchanged,...
Webinar: How to Govern AI Agents, Reduce Excessive Access, and Control Shadow AI
AI agents are moving into production faster than security teams can govern them. They are connecting to apps, handling data, calling APIs, and acting across business systems—often without the same controls applied to human users. According to Okta’s Global CISO...
The smart home graveyard is getting crowded
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/column/1000778/smart-home-june-oven-graveyard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876373 Points: 5 # Comments: 2