AI’s water problems run deep
By now, most people understand AI requires enormous computing power and energy. U.S. data centers consumed about 183 TWh of electricity in 2024. That’s more than 4% of total U.S. electricity use in 2024, and demand is projected to more than double by 2030. Although...
iOS 27 Will Finally Fix a Common Android-iOS Messaging Annoyance
Beginning next month, inline replies will finally work between the two major operating systems.
NASA images show crater on the moon caused by SpaceX Falcon 9 crash
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took images of the crater created by a SpaceX rocket crashing into the moon.
GrapheneOS in 2027 available on high-end Motorola phones
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360242 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Prevalent AI raises first outside capital in nine years with $22M round
Prevalent AI raises first outside capital in nine years with $22M round Go to Source Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI Ltd. today said it has raised $22 million in growth funding, the first primary capital it has taken since...
Super Cool: IBM Links Cryogenic Modules to Scale Quantum Computing
IBM says its modular cryogenic system could help scale superconducting qubits while managing the extreme cooling, wiring and stability demands of larger quantum computers. The post Super Cool: IBM Links Cryogenic Modules to Scale Quantum Computing appeared first on...
You can Venmo your college tuition, for some reason
Kids these days don't know how good they have it.
AI isn’t close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take.
It's the data, stupid.
Prevalent AI Raises $22 Million to Expand Data Fabric Platform
The previously bootstrapped company helps organizations securely and reliably operate AI agents at scale. The post Prevalent AI Raises $22 Million to Expand Data Fabric Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
GitHub blames 8-hour outage on autoscaling fail and VS Code retry storm
GitHub has published its account of this week's nearly eight-hour outage, tracing the developer pain to saturated load balancers, a faulty autoscaling policy, and a "latent retry bug in Visual Studio Code." According to GitHub, problems began at 1328 UTC on August 17...
Critical macOS, SharePoint, vCenter, and Microsoft IKE Flaws Under Active Exploitation
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four critical vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating they are being exploited in the wild. The shortcomings added to the KEV catalog are listed...
US Charges 17 Iranian Hackers, Offers $10 Million Rewards for 5 of Them
The 17 members of the Mabna Institute targeted hundreds of universities and organizations in the US and abroad. The post US Charges 17 Iranian Hackers, Offers $10 Million Rewards for 5 of Them appeared first on SecurityWeek.
StopAndProtect Uses Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites to Spread Malware and Steal Data
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a global cybercrime operation that abuses thousands of hacked WordPress websites as infrastructure to disseminate malware, commandeer infected hosts, store stolen documents, screenshots, and activity logs created to track the...
Amazon Is Shredding Rare Books in the Name of AI Training
The company wouldn't be what it is today without the very readers mourning these volumes.
Get better color accuracy on your TV with these simple steps
Even if it has impressive out-of-the-box color, your new (or old) TV can always benefit from a few simple tweaks to get the best color accuracy possible.
Cl0p Ransomware Group Names Over 40 Victims of PTC Windchill Campaign
The cybercrime gang has listed major companies such as Shell, Philips, Fiserv, Zebra, Mindray, and Largan Precision. The post Cl0p Ransomware Group Names Over 40 Victims of PTC Windchill Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Hisense U8QG is one of the smartest TV buys I can recommend
The Hisense U8QG delivers premium features at a midrange price and wins a ZDNET Lab Award for the most accurate color reproduction.
Prompts aren’t enough: Why two AI giants are evolving their approach
This summer, OpenAI and Anthropic both announced features that let their AI systems learn a task by watching someone do it once, instead of being told how in a prompt. In June, OpenAI launched Record & Replay, a feature that lets ChatGPT and Codex users...
Scotland’s AI Growth Zone gets a wee £300M power-up
Datacenter operator DataVita has secured £300 million ($406 million) to expand its campus in Scotland's Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone, while Dell is moving into the area – albeit only into a regional office. The AI Growth Zone, unveiled earlier this year, centers on...
We lab-tested 7 TVs for color accuracy – and the winners weren’t Sony or Samsung
ZDNET's latest Lab Award crowns two flagship TVs that have the most accurate color reproduction in SDR and HDR formats.
Simple DIY STM32 Oscilloscope Project
In part one of what is intended to be a series on developing an STM32-based oscilloscope, [BTTLab] demonstrates a how to use the built-in ADC of an STM32F207 MCU to develop a straightforward single-channel oscilloscope. This can be followed along both via the YouTube...
Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam
Article URL: https://theremin.bizibah.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359425 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Dreamy handmade effects bring classic Disney magic to its new short film
Disney’s latest short film is an homage to practical magic. Once a Princess, Always a Princess, created by Disney and ad agency Fallon, debuted on August 17 for World Princess Week. It’s a four-minute-long tale about the joy of childhood friendship and play, set both...
CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Microsoft, VMware, Apple Vulnerabilities
The flaws can be exploited for remote code execution, authentication bypass, and device takeover. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Microsoft, VMware, Apple Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
These 3 unexpected practices helped me grow my startup
When I launched RiseGuide, a self-improvement platform letting people become their best by learning from the best, I wanted to offer a beneficial alternative to doomscrolling. We aggregated thousands of hours of expert knowledge into short, interactive, and practical...
I took on big tech. We need to get it right this time
Something is shifting. In July, New York became the first state in the country to impose a moratorium on hyperscale data centers—the power-devouring facilities that fuel artificial intelligence—so that the state could actually study what they do to communities before...
SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims
SAP consultant job ads across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland typically quote salaries 10 to 12 percent above the eventual offer, according to a recruitment firm specializing in the market. Employers seeking SAP consultants include IT services firms, management...
Faster Incident Response: How ANY.RUN Helps SOCs Cut MTTR by Up to 21 Minutes per Case
SOCs face constant pressure to detect and respond to threats faster. Heavy workloads, limited threat visibility, and disconnected tools can delay action, increasing the risk of financial loss and operational disruption. ANY.RUN helps more than 15,000 security teams...
Continuous Aggregate Refresh, Demystified: Invalidation, Lookback, and Late-Arriving Data
Yesterday the shift dashboard reported 41,900 units across an eight-hour window. Today the same query over the same eight hours reports 43,100. Nobody shipped a code change and nobody edited a row after the fact, so why did the number move? A plant-floor historian had...
From $823 to $200: A Practical AWS Cost Optimization Case Study
Cloud cost optimization isn’t simply a matter of “switching to smaller servers.” It starts with understanding the actual workload, then using billing data and monitoring to identify the true sources of cost, and finally verifying through rolling deployments, health...