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Unpatched OnePlus Flaws Let Installed Android Apps Gain Root Without Permissions
A OnePlus 15 running the latest OxygenOS can be rooted by a malicious app the owner installs, one that asks for no special permissions. A researcher, Rasmus Moorats, chained two flaws in OnePlus's own software to gain root access, the highest level of control over an...
ThreatsDay: AI Search Poisoning, AI Coding Tool Leaking Repos, One-Click Code Execution and 13 More Stories
This week, the dangerous stuff keeps arriving dressed as something boring. An update. A login box. A search answer. A coding tool. A link you have clicked a hundred times before. That is the thread running through the pile. Trusted paths get poisoned. Old bugs find...
PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses
Prism's larger goal is open-weight AI that runs on devices and makes better use of the computing power they already have.
Meet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers
Feather is betting on a customizable, $30,000 platform built for software developers.
We finally have a trailer for that four-hour Elon Musk documentary
It was directed by Alex Gibney, who has made films about Enron, Scientology and Elizabeth Holmes.
Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers
Article URL: https://www.usestable.com/careers/product-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834893 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
Article URL: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(26)00811-4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834825 Points: 22 # Comments: 3
With Meta’s Muse Charm, AI enters its kawaii era
With Meta’s Muse Charm, AI enters its kawaii era Go to Source AI has an image problem, to say the least, with public fears on the rise that the technology could lead to mass unemployment and human extinction. So for its new AI agent...
CISA issues election infrastructure security plan 40 days before midterms
CISA issues election infrastructure security plan 40 days before midterms Go to Source The nation’s cybersecurity agency on Thursday released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before November’s midterms, laying out...
Handheld Scanner is a Radio Multi-tool
These days, it’s possible to cram a whole lot of radio functionality into a very compact device. A great example of that is the LakeShark scanner from [SAMS0N1TE]. The LakeShark is based on the LilyGO T-Display P4—which combines an ESP32-P4 microcontroller with a 4.1...
AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own ‘pain,’ disturbing study finds
AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own ‘pain,’ disturbing study finds Go to Source Can artificial intelligence feel pain? Not exactly, but researchers have gotten close—and discovered that AI in crisis is willing to put...
Purpose That Performs: Inside the Rare Beauty Blueprint
Purpose That Performs: Inside the Rare Beauty Blueprint Go to Source Rare Beauty entered one of the world’s most crowded categories and quickly became one of its most influential brands—not just by creating products people love but by...
As the coding boom fades, AI is forcing colleges and computer science grads to adjust
Computer science student Jack Zemke was getting nowhere despite sending out hundreds of job applications that mostly disappeared into the void — ignored.With his graduation from Tulane University just days away, he was considering moving back in with his parents when...
Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center
The notice would allow Oracle to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online.
New York continues to fight prediction markets with a lawsuit against Polymarket
The state now has illegal gambling charges underway against four of these businesses.
Google is sending a teensy-tiny AI data center to space
It's an experiment to see how the chips hold up in the harsh vacuum of the cosmos.
Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
Hello! We’re Sid, Alex, Ketan, and Milan. We’re building Whiteboard, an open-source desktop app where humans and agents can architect software together in a common workspace. Here’s our repo: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard and our homepage:...
Agents.md speaks Unix, and you should too
Article URL: https://www.fmind.dev/articles/agents-md-speaks-unix/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833075 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend
Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion accessories.
Elizabeth Holmes documentary trailer hits 4 million views in one day
Elizabeth Holmes is having another moment. The full trailer for the new documentary about the Theranos founder, called You Can See Everything, was released on Wednesday, and quickly climbed to the top of the YouTube Charts among trending movie trailers. The...
Turtle Beach Rematch review: The cutest Switch 2 controller of the bunch
Official Nintendo designs and RGB lighting give the Rematch an adorable edge.
AI agents creating a new insider security risk: theCUBE’s Oktane keynote analysis
AI agent security now depends on knowing what agents can do after they gain access. Agents can act across applications, pass work to other agents and make changes faster than security teams can review them. That makes visibility and permission limits necessary, but it...
Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
Article URL: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/texas-prison-air-conditioning-lawsuit-ruling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832844 Points: 26 # Comments: 3
Databricks buys Row Zero and is scouting for more startups to acquire
Databricks has brought cloud spreadsheet startup Row Zero adding yet another acquisition to its 2026 shopping spree.
Meta Announces Its First Anti-Pervert Smart Glasses
There are speakers and mics, but no cameras.
Palo Alto Networks tackles the risks of autonomous AI agents
AI agent security now has to govern what autonomous software can do, not just what it can say. The shift from chatbots to autonomous agents changes the enterprise risk equation now that agents can access tools, retain information and act without waiting for a human...
CVE flood pushes Ubuntu onto weekly kernel release cycle
Canonical is speeding up Ubuntu kernel releases to one a week as AI-assisted bug hunting helps bury defenders under an ever-growing pile of CVEs. The Ubuntu maker is overhauling how it ships kernel Stable Release Updates (SRUs), replacing its current four-week regular...
iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink
There’s nothing a quick break for a can of ice-cold sparkling water can’t solve - including improving thermal management on the iPhone 18 Pro, as it turns out. Software developer Matt Birchler provided the data to prove it in a recent blog post detailing a bit of...
AI boom could wipe 230 million budget phones a year from the market
First they came for our natural resources, and now the AI datacenter boom looks set to excise a significant chunk of the budget smartphone market. The latest forecast from Counterpoint Research spells dark skies for sub-$200 pocket 'puters, with shipments expected to...