My 5 favorite Windows Insider features in 2026 so far
Microsoft's Windows 11 insider builds let you preview and try upcoming new features and settings. Here are my five favorites this year so far and how you can check them out.
Chip stocks down: Micron, Sandisk, Intel shares get hammered as AI uncertainty infects global markets
Chip stocks down: Micron, Sandisk, Intel shares get hammered as AI uncertainty infects global markets Go to Source Shares in major U.S. chip and memory companies, including Micron, Sandisk, and Intel, are sinking this morning in...
AI Costs Continue to Rise Despite Falling Token Prices
Falling token prices haven't lowered enterprise AI bills. As organizations expand agentic AI and process more data, hidden operational costs are becoming a much larger part of the equation. The post AI Costs Continue to Rise Despite Falling Token Prices appeared first...
Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed off for applauding datacenter critics
A Kansas physics teacher discovered that in at least one corner of America's AI buildout, applause can apparently earn you a trip to jail. According to local news reports, Lux Claridge, a 37-year-old physics teacher from Emporia, Kansas, was arrested after applauding...
Too many AI agents can get in each other’s way
Anthropic and OpenAI have both proposed the deployment of agent armies as a way to maximize the notional benefits of artificial intelligence systems. But the optimal agent workforce isn't necessarily the largest. Researchers affiliated with the NTT Research's Physics...
This stunning map shows the world’s electric grid in detail
On an incredibly detailed new map, you can look through the world’s 120,000-plus power plants, from solar and wind farms to battery storage and coal and gas plants, along with nearly 3 million miles of transmission lines and hundreds of thousands of substations. Other...
This viral clip reveals what a data center sounds like. People are comparing it to torture
People have found plenty to dislike about data centers, from their massive energy and water usage to their potential to drive up the cost of living in surrounding areas. But perhaps the biggest anxiety around data center development is the threat of noise pollution,...
AI has one unsolved problem
Until recently, governance felt like a solved problem—critical but entirely manageable. With the rise of AI, it is now the dominant enterprise anxiety. AI projects are stalling because companies lack the governance, visibility, and controls to deploy them effectively....
The creator economy needs the Hollywood treatment
Spend five minutes reading the coverage coming out of Cannes this year and you’d think there weren’t any movie stars left on billion-dollar yachts in the harbor. The celebrities this year were creators, all making mega deals back on shore. Brands are building creator...
AI transformation is the CEO’s job
Most conversations about AI-ready leadership focus on the technology— which workflows to rebuild, which tools to buy. True, the CEO must endorse these decisions but that isn’t their role. In the AI era, their role is one of people transformation and the readiness that...
Big Lots is closing stores again: See a list of doomed locations in the latest twist for the discount retail chain
Your local discount store might be going out of business—again. Less than 15 months after hundreds of Big Lots locations were saved from permanent closure in a dramatic 11th-hour bankruptcy deal, some stores are already shuttering, Fast Company has learned. Variety...
Neri Oxman wants to grow the colors on your clothes
At Oxman, a New York design studio, you’ll find four capes. They hang off a mannequin in soft folds, each knitted from a single piece of silk. Their color is uneven. Deep indigo collects in the ridges of the material, black shades in the valleys, blues appear in...
New research reveals what happens to your brain when you stress about money
As if you didn’t have enough to worry about: Now, it turns out, stressing about money could have a long-term effect on your brain. A new study, published in Innovation in Aging, looked at data collected from 2,759 people over the course of more than seven decades, in...
Exclusive: Yelp’s AI phone service for restaurants can now take food orders, too
When Alyssa Gangeri was running restaurants in New York more than a decade ago, Yelp was the bane of her existence, she says. She would regularly go down a rabbit hole, reading her restaurant’s reviews and scouring them for clues about when the diners had visited or...
The Pope’s Official Prayer App Sends Your Prayers to the Almighty—And Your Data to Hackers
The total number of accounts exposed in a recent security breach is over 700,000.
Hugging Face reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes
Researchers investigating Hugging Face found the majority of its models would generate non-consensual deepfakes.
Went to the ER? The Trump administration may want your medical records
Why is a tiny federal agency demanding detailed medical records from emergency room visits? That’s a question that, as yet, doesn’t have a good answer. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has been pressuring executives from at least 100 hospitals to start...
Microsoft Unveils MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, Its First Cybersecurity AI Model
The company claims MAI-Cyber-1-Flash tops Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol in CyberGym testing. The post Microsoft Unveils MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, Its First Cybersecurity AI Model appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Arista patches actively exploited VeloCloud bug as CISA puts admins on the clock
A critical flaw in Arista's VeloCloud Orchestrator has gone from zero to KEV in short order, with the networking giant confirming attackers are already exploiting it. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-16812, carries a maximum CVSS score of 10.0 and affects...
Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision
Jodrell Bank Observatory faces an uncertain future after UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) pulled funding. The UK's Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics (PPAN) science budget is decreasing by 2.7 percent over four years, which, coupled with increasing...
FreeBSD Just Removed the Last of its GPL-Licensed Code
FreeBSD Just Removed the Last of its GPL-Licensed Code Go to Source With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. Although the impact of...
Hacker Conversations: Tal Kollander’s Journey From Black Hat to Hack Blocker
Tal Kollander’s history divides neatly into two halves: first as an active hacker and then as the block that stops hacks. The post Hacker Conversations: Tal Kollander’s Journey From Black Hat to Hack Blocker appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Google’s Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era
Article URL: https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3819083 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081644 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
This hotel-inspired hospital is designed to make high-risk pregnancies feel less scary
Squint and you might see what looks like a hotel room inside Nemours Children’s Health, a pediatric hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. The hospital’s new Advanced Delivery Unit—which treats patients during the complicated, long, and fearful process of going through a...
Meet the new robot dog patrolling LaGuardia Airport
Inside the slick new Terminal B at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, a headless robotic “dog” is beginning to patrol the floors. As bemused airport travelers watch from close by, the four-wheeled device rolls around baggage claim, where it’s been deployed for a...
This simple UI fix made verifying early voting signatures faster in Arizona
To cut down on the time it takes to verify signatures for early ballots, election officials in Arizona’s largest county made a simple UI change. All it took was less scrolling. When people in Maricopa County vote early, they sign green affidavit envelopes that are...
Would you work harder if you knew your boss was anti-union?
Unions have grown more popular in recent years, with 16.5 million workers represented by a union in 2025—the highest share of the overall workforce in 16 years. As workers have mounted high-profile union campaigns at companies like Starbucks and Amazon, some employers...
Hush Security Raises $30 Million for AI Agent Governance
The startup will invest in expanding engineering and sales teams, accelerating ecosystem support, and expanding corporate partnerships. The post Hush Security Raises $30 Million for AI Agent Governance appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Kratos PhaaS Targets US and EU: How to Reduce Microsoft 365 Account Takeover Risk
Kratos is a mature Phishing-as-a-Service operation targeting Microsoft 365 users across the US, Europe, and other regions. By combining trusted platforms, anti-bot checks, and convincing login pages, ithelps attackers steal credentials while delaying detection and...
What Happens If You Send Crypto to Your Same Address?
Here’s a hypothetical scenario. You’re trying to send some crypto to a relative, and copied a wallet address. You were distracted, though. The address seemed familiar enough, so you just clicked “Send”, and that’s it. Just in case, you double-checked the transaction...