Article URL: https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874551 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

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...

There is a strange asymmetry in visual culture. Almost anyone can recognize a cinematic image within a second of seeing it. Most of us cannot say why the skin tones feel right, or why light falling through a window seems to breathe rather than overexpose, but we...

It's hard to make big sheds symbols of oppression, but the datacenter industry's having a jolly good crack at it. Its big boxes of semi-sentient sand are increasingly seen as satanic sandcastles, environmental disasters that inflict drought while boiling oceans. Their...

I have a theory: a mirror image of Roko’s Basilisk. It’s a future AI, millions of years in the future, that values the complexity of every human life so deeply that, after it and humanity have mastered space and time, it tries to resurrect everyone who ever lived.It...

The speed that computers have gotten smaller is a bit mind-bending. Most of us now walk around with computers in our pockets that would have rivaled the supercomputers from a few decades ago. And, although it seems like the speed at which things are getting smaller...

Citrix has released patches for the critical NetScaler vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772. The post Citrix Confirms 2 NetScaler Zero-Days After Admins Pulled the Plug appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Death and taxes are said to be the only certainties in life. Perhaps it’s time to add attackers targeting newly discovered critical flaws in Citrix’s NetScaler application delivery controller and gateway products to that grim list. On Sunday, the company published a...

The AI safety debate advanced at high speed over the weekend, amid new allegations that rogue agents have behaved more badly than first thought – and in greater numbers. The fun started on Friday when OpenAI quietly disclosed it had paused training of its most...

As executive coaches, we’ve worked with leaders of iconic companies like Apple, Nike, eBay, Hewlett Packard, and General Motors, as well as start-up unicorns like DoorDash, MasterClass, Fivetran, and Remitly. In short, we’ve coached some of the most ambitious and...

It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet. Before you get too excited, planets in our solar system also emit RF, so no one credible is claiming these are...

Truecaller finds a new way to reach users as pressure grows on its traditional caller ID business in India, its biggest market.

We're building an AI computer for consumers, most of whom are quite hesitant with existing services due to privacy concerns and because of costs that add up when using various AI tools. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872550 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/26/breast-cancer-us-pesticide-products Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872497 Points: 13 # Comments: 0

E-commerce giant Amazon.com is preparing to launch drone deliveries in Australia and other nations. “As Prime Air evaluates Australia and other countries, we are hiring a Head of Regulatory Approvals, Australia – the person responsible for navigating Australia's...

When flying over the United States, Australia, and a few other vast and relatively empty parts of the world, strange circular formations can be spotted. These are typically center-pivot irrigation systems, an effective way to irrigate crops if efficient use of space...