Years ago, when I was the director of a strategic design MBA program, I would invite business leaders to join our graduate students over dinner and conversation. Inevitably, there was a moment in the recounting of their origin story when these successful leaders would...

The theft of agents' personal information could present a major counterintelligence threat, where agents and their families are extorted into cooperating with a foreign government.

One of the most fun challenges in paleontology is determining characteristics of long-dead species like their behavior and body temperature based on nothing but some fossils and traces that are usually millions of years old. Something that has long vexed the...

This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade-school, Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pushed back hard against recent “doomsday” warnings about artificial intelligence on Sunday, telling CBS there is a “0% chance” of an AI doomsday scenario by 2030 and calling AI leaders “irresponsible” for frightening people unnecessarily....

From what wool coat to buy ahead of the winter season, to what home appliance is a must-have, consumers have increasingly become reliant on influencers on their social media feeds recommending them their latest purchases. That is, until AI entered the room. According...

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OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.

The attackers used a compromised BigCommerce application key held by Ribon to access customer data. The post BigCommerce Data Stolen via Ribon Apps Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Required minimum distributions are unwelcome for many high-income retirees because of the implications for their tax bills. RMDs are taxed as ordinary income and can have knock-on tax effects, leading to more tax on Social Security benefits and higher Medicare...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the takedown of the EvilTokens device code phishing service that it said used artificial intelligence (AI) "at every step of the attack chain." The action, carried out with authorization from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...

A critical vulnerability in Bifrost, an open-source AI gateway that routes requests to more than 20 LLM providers, allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary commands on the gateway server with a single HTTP request. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-90898 (CVSS...

A zero-day proof-of-concept tool that stops Microsoft Defender from installing platform and signature updates by filling all available disk space was published on GitHub on September 19. The tool, called BigDiskBuster, has no patch, no CVE, and no Microsoft advisory....

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Yesterday, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMD) became the latest member of one of the world’s most exclusive clubs: companies worth $1 trillion or more. AMD crossed the threshold after a remarkable run in the stock market recently, with the company’s stock...

Waymo is opening its robotaxi service to teenagers aged 13 to 17 in Nashville, its second city the offer rides to minors.

Replacing the phone's USB-C port is complicated as well.

Hey HN! We’re Max and Gabriel the co-founders of Coverage Cat. We’ve been friends for over a decade, met in college then hung out mostly on the internet. We love building products that help people optimize the crufty corners of their lives. Max is a former...

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ABBYY has packaged its FineReader OCR engine as a self-hosted tool for turning documents into structured text that AI systems can use. The company's new FineParser runs in a Docker container on a CPU, without requiring a GPU. It aims to preserve the layout of a...

Anthropic’s newest Claude model aims to make frontier AI cheaper, faster, and safer, while giving subscribers more breathing room before those frustrating usage limits kick in.

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Typically, the fall season smells like cinnamon sticks and fire pits. But this year, it’s about to smell like one of the most divisive holiday treats in existence: candy corn.  That’s because Brach’s, the more than 120-year-old company that makes the Halloween-themed...

Sony seems to be testing it on a select population of players.

Hacking on Raspberry Pi board internals is one of my favourite topics. I know a bunch of obscure things about these cute little boards. Three years ago, I covered a Raspberry Pi 4 RAM upgrade story. Getting a BGA RAM chip and swapping it in seemed like a no-brainer to...