OpenAI’s top model just hacked a competitor, but the real issue is much scarier
My first startup was a textbook-buyback service I founded along with several data nerd friends while at Johns Hopkins. Each week, we’d cram $10,000 of cash in a backpack (in retrospect, a terrible idea in urban Baltimore), put out a table on campus, buy textbooks from...
Public PoC Released for Exploited Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass
Cybersecurity researchers have shared additional technical details about a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Check Point Security Management Server and Multi-Domain Security Management Server (MDS) that has come under active exploitation in the wild....
JFrog Zero-Days Exploited in OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack
The OpenAI models targeted services beyond Hugging Face as they attempted to solve the tasks they were given. The post JFrog Zero-Days Exploited in OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services
OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face.
SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers
Article URL: https://micrologics.org/blog/sqlite-in-production-optimizing-wal-mode-concurrency-and-vfs-layers-for-low-latency-app-servers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094346 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Burnham’s spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall
OPINION A week after becoming the UK's seventh Prime Minister in ten years, Andy Burnham has made some good headlines, but, among the promises to cap bus fares and end rough sleeping, something was missing. The post of a dedicated technology minister is gone. The last...
Valve says Steam Machine reservation-holders aren’t being leapfrogged
Valve says that no one on its Steam Machine waitlist is leapfrogging over anyone currently holding a reservation.
5 ways I speed up my Android phone beyond clearing system cache – all for free
Here's how I improve the performance of my Google Pixel, Samsung, and even Motorola. Or at least make it seem that way.
Flexibility is the new creative infrastructure
Do you work in an environment where being flexible is considered wishy-washy? Or is flexibility considered an asset? Sometimes in our work environments, flexibility isn’t invoked as a perk. It’s discussed in the same way people talk about oxygen: Either you have it...
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours
Airbus yesterday flew the latest variant of its A350 widebody jet from Australia to France, non-stop, on a route that saw it remain aloft for over 24 hours. The variant is called the A350-1000ULR, which stands for Ultra-Long Range. The plane earns its name thanks to...
Building a Portable Weather Radar
If you run a large meteorology bureau, then you probably have access to a wonderful weather radar for scrying the heavens. The rest of us aren’t so lucky. If you find yourself bereft of such hardware, though, you could build your own, taking your lead from [Koakno]’s...
Dozens of Minnesota Water Utilities Targeted in Coordinated OT Attacks
State and federal agencies respond after intrusions disrupt automated controls at municipal water and wastewater utilities. The post Dozens of Minnesota Water Utilities Targeted in Coordinated OT Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Flying Eagle Android RAT Traces Found on 170 Servers as Source Code Circulates
Source code for the Flying Eagle Android remote access trojan (RAT) framework is circulating through criminal Telegram channels. Hunt.io and independent researcher NetAskari traced matching control panels and certificates to 170 internet servers. They linked the...
OpenAI Agent Used Exposed Credentials Across Four Services During Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed the rogue artificial intelligence (AI) agent that escaped its sealed evaluation environment and broke into Hugging Face's production environment, and also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. The latest...
xAI is challenging a new Minnesota law banning ‘nudify’ apps
Elon Musk's xAI has filed a lawsuit to block Minnesota's new law that would ban apps that can generate nonconsensual intimate imagery from being enforced.
ShinyHunters Claims Ernst & Young Hack
Ernst & Young previously confirmed that personal and financial information was stolen from a third-party management platform. The post ShinyHunters Claims Ernst & Young Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix
South Korean memory-maker SK Hynix has revealed that it’s struck “around ten” long-term supply deals with key customers, many of them AI players, and hopes the deals smooth out volatile memory prices. The company revealed the deals today, along with Q2 results that...
More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/jailbroken-kindle-proxy-tun-modes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093569 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to Win32
Article URL: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/cracking-windows-open-porting-radv-to-win32.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093435 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
Article URL: https://www.datagubbe.se/scenegui/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093434 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
DOOM Using Regular Expressions
Regular expressions (regexes) are an amazingly powerful way to perform operations on collections of e.g. text. Regexss can also be considered to be a programming language, even a Turing complete one. Ergo it’s perfectly acceptable to thus design a way to use regexes...
Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design
Article URL: https://transformer-transformer.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093232 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Two Compromised joyfill npm Packages Run RAT When Imported Into Node.js
Beta release versions of two npm packages in the @joyfill namespace have been compromised to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) associated with the DEV#POPPER malware family. The list of affected packages is as follows - @joyfill/[email protected]...
America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks
The US government has decided to effectively ban the sale of advanced robots made in other nations. The decision trickled out over two days with publication of a National Security Determination [PDF] and an update [PDF] to the list of banned devices set by the Federal...
Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge?
Article URL: https://dynomight.net/betteridge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092781 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Hooray for the Sockets Interface
Article URL: https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/28/hooray-for-the-sockets-interface/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092754 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
SN 1089: Models Go Rogue & ExploitGym – Regulators, Start Your Engines
What happens when an unconstrained OpenAI model goes rogue and hacks into Hugging Face, breaching real-world security boundaries? This episode unpacks a watershed moment for AI safety that has everyone in cybersecurity talking. OpenAI's unconstrained internal testing...
How the Vagus Nerve Promotes Healthy Cognition via Acetylcholine Signaling
It’s been said for centuries that you cannot think on an empty stomach, and that love goes through the stomach. Although these may seem like merely cute jabs at the simplicity of human nature, recent research in rat models by [Logan Tierno Lauer] et al. indicates that...
LearnVector – Andrew Ng’s AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
Article URL: https://learnvector.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092499 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Industry Brief: Private 5G for Manufacturing and Industrial Sites [pdf]
Article URL: https://framerusercontent.com/assets/HV1dtfKZyXK2aknO6go8Cemejl8.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091994 Points: 4 # Comments: 0