Using the SNES Super FX Chip to Run Super Mario 64
Although the Nintendo 64 was the first to bring real 3D graphics to the table in 1996, the Super Nintendo had an ace up its sleeve in the form of the Super FX chip. One major advantage of using cartridge-based games is that you have the option to add wild features...
Google Warns of ShinyHunters’ Fresh Oracle PeopleSoft Campaign
The extortion group has modified its exploit in new attacks targeting the PeopleSoft vulnerability CVE-2026-35273. The post Google Warns of ShinyHunters’ Fresh Oracle PeopleSoft Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New Mexico Jury Finds Facebook Liable for Deceiving Users About Privacy Protections
A New Mexico jury has found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the platform. The post New Mexico Jury Finds Facebook Liable for Deceiving Users About Privacy Protections appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Federal officials once feared Amazon could train AI on government data
Even the government sometimes freaks out about changes to the terms and conditions. Documents obtained by Fast Company through a public records request show that officials of at least two federal agencies were, at least briefly, anxious about whether Amazon might have...
Our brains are overstimulated, and cities aren’t helping
You are standing at a crosswalk. The light is red. A bus roars past you a little too closely. Your phone buzzes with a BOGO offer from Starbucks. A billboard changes from a perfume ad to a phone number of a personal injury law firm. Someone is talking about their...
How a character from ‘The Addams Family’ is shaping the future of robotics
Robotic hands usually come bolted to the wrist of a mechanical arm, waiting for their humanoid owners to move them over to whatever knob or valve needs turning. However, at ETH Zürich’s Soft Robotics Lab, a group of roboticists decided to get rid of the body,...
These are the tips for staying professional when your personal life is falling apart
It happens to all of us. At some point in your career, inevitably, your personal life will suddenly, messily, spill into your work life. A relationship ends. A parent’s diagnosis arrives on a random Tuesday. A protracted custody battle, a miscarriage, a house fire, a...
Everyone loves ‘whimsymaxxing,’ including your local craft store
Whimsy can take many forms: a walk home among the flowers, collecting colorful oddities, or, perhaps, bedazzling any surface in sight with shimmering stick-on jewels. By late summer, so-called “whimsymaxxxing” acquired a much more specific meaning. People began...
Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC Go to Source Article URL: https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875913 Points: 15 # Comments: 5
Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog
The platform combines open source software and a reference system design to keep AI agents within set boundaries. The post Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CISA Says Attackers Are Exploiting Two Critical Citrix NetScaler Flaws Globally
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Sunday added two critical Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below -...
JADEPUFFER-Linked Attackers Used Compromised Service Principals to Delete Azure Resources
The threat actor known as JADEPUFFER has been observed orchestrating destructive actions within a Microsoft Azure environment using compromised service principals. Microsoft, which is tracking the activity under the name Storm-3168, has called it an evolution of the...
Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK
Article URL: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs-are-now-nine-times-cheaper-than-petrol-or-diesel-to-drive-in-the-uk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875466 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Building Once Upon Today: Why I Tested My AI Pipeline Locally First
A Quick Update on Once Upon Today Before We Get Into the Build Before getting into the local AI pipeline, here is a quick update on where Once Upon Today currently stands. I recently redesigned the app’s logo. The original version was AI-generated, which helped me...
Designing Idempotent Side-Effect Contracts for AI Agents
An AI agent calls send_refund. The payment provider accepts the request, but the response disappears during a network timeout. The runtime sees an exception and retries. The second request also succeeds.The trace now looks reassuring:send_refund attempt=1 timeout...
ERCOT’s Ancillary Services Market Is Sized by Forecast Error, Not by Load
Three numbers from the Texas grid, all from calendar 2025, that only mean something together. The installed battery fleet grew by almost 80%, to more than 17,000 megawatts and 31,500 megawatt-hours. The volume of ancillary services ERCOT procured stayed roughly flat....
Startup Founder Interview: The Startup Building a Better AI Matchmaking Model
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Writing Prompts! Would you like to take a stab at answering some of these questions? The link for the template is HERE. 1. What is your company in 2–5 words? Compatibility-First AI Matchmaking Concierge 2. Why is now the time for your company...
Giving Browser Agents a Map of Your Product
The profession of software and product engineering has changed a lot over the last year. We used to have coding tools like Cursor doing small changes to our code, but eventually when Claude Code got really good, most of software engineering became purely knowing how...
When Fast SQL Turns Slow: Detecting Query Performance Regressions Before Production Suffers
SQL performance failures rarely begin as outages. A query that completes in 40 milliseconds can drift toward 400 milliseconds as tables grow, value distributions shift, cache behavior changes, or the optimizer selects a different plan. PostgreSQL’s planner bases...
How to Load and Run a Java Card Applet on Real Hardware
The walkthrough we kept coming back to was twenty-five years old. We wanted one that reached the reader on our desk. This is our attempt, including the wrong turns.What this article covers In part one we covered the why: secure elements, threat models, and why TLS...
From Raw Trace to Share-Checked Evidence: The Safety Model Behind AgentInspect
“The trace never left my laptop” sounds reassuring. It says nothing about whether the trace is safe to paste into an issue, attach to a pull request, or send to a colleague.Agent traces can contain prompts, model outputs, tool arguments, retrieved documents, URLs,...
My Waitlist Emails Passed SPF and DKIM but Failed DMARC
New here? I'm building Vesprit in public for Shipaton, a study app that predicts what you're about to forget and brings it back before it's gone. I wrote a full intro to it here. This post is one bug from that build: the week my waitlist quietly broke, and why "my...
Kiteworks Urges Server Shutdown, Finds Advanced Forms Vulnerability
The company says the measure was precautionary and that it has no evidence of Kiteworks or customer systems being compromised. The post Kiteworks Urges Server Shutdown, Finds Advanced Forms Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
HMRC vowed to break up with Capgemini then paid it another £4.2B
As the UK government promises to use public spending to back British business, research indicates that the tax collector has paid French tech giant Capgemini at least £4.2 billion since it began dismantling their flagship outsourcing arrangement. When Andy Burnham...
What people living next to data centers think about managing them
The people of northern Virginia have been living with data centers for many years. The area is home to the world’s largest concentration of data centers. In a survey we conducted, we found northern Virginians support development restrictions that could make data...
Nvidia debuts enhanced safety controls to rein in rogue AI agents
Few companies are more invested in the success of artificial intelligence agents than Nvidia Corp., so it makes sense that the chipmaker would want to ensure these autonomous software systems run safely, without causing any problems. To that end, Nvidia early today...
Maybe don’t let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account
Article URL: https://www.threads.com/@matt.j.robb/post/DdxwAJnDhNy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875006 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
Article URL: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-opus-5-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874728 Points: 23 # Comments: 1
Made by Mechanical Means
Article URL: https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874551 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Enterprise AI impact isn’t about the most powerful model—it’s about the smartest steering
This is something you have probably noticed several times—at least, I certainly have. When you use an AI chatbot for personal questions, decision-making, research, and the like, it works amazingly well. But when you try your company’s AI . . . well, the results tend...