Meta deal will help plastics recycling startup MacroCycle build its first factory
Meta is giving plastic recycling a boost in a new deal with startup MacroCycle, which is building its first commercial plant.
Malicious npm Package indexed-btree Hid Its Loader in Runtime Code Before Removal
A malicious npm package named "indexed-btree" has been observed hiding its malicious behavior within application code rather than using lifecycle scripts, indicating that threat actors are likely shifting tactics in response to recent security controls. "Indexed-btree...
9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – “the price of the beautiful game”
9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game" Go to Source Article URL: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/september/world-cup-viewers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799083 Points: 5 #...
Polymarket is reportedly lobbying European nations not to be treated as a gambling website
Polymarket, which enables people to bet on the outcomes of events, is telling regulators it's not for gambling.
20 Google Docs tips even longtime users may not know
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Google Docs turned 20 this year, so I’m sharing 20 of my favorite GDocs features you might find useful. 1. Type with my voice Tools...
Stitched amid conflict, this Palestinian luxury sneaker is now available in the U.S.
If you visit a Palestinian home, you might come across a colorful geometric pattern adorning the throw pillows or tea towels. For 3000 years, women across the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank have learned the art of tatreez, a form of cross-stitch embroidery that...
This futuristic Nike speed suit has an opening for a ponytail
English middle-distance runner Keely Hodgkinson set a new meet record when she won the 800 meters at the all-female Athlos track meet in London on September 18, and she did it wearing a futuristic full-length speed suit with a hood, open back, and opening for a...
WordPress Patches ‘Click2Shell’ Vulnerability
The bug lets attackers automatically install and preview themes and could lead to remote code execution. The post WordPress Patches ‘Click2Shell’ Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Apple opens a dedicated concert venue with spatial audio and multi-cam video recording
Apple Music Hall in London seems tailor-made for Apple Music live concerts.
LimeLeads – 17,838,396 breached accounts
In 2019, the now-defunct B2B marketing leads database service LimeLeads suffered a data breach due to an exposed, unsecured Elasticsearch server. The incident exposed tens of millions of records of largely corporate contact data containing 17.8M unique email...
The word Steve Jobs wouldn’t let us say—and how it built Apple’s most loyal customers
“Today, brands must consistently earn the right to be chosen by proving value to their customers.”McKinsey said it. Every brand knows it. Customer loyalty has never been more important—or harder to maintain. So, what’s the secret to maintaining it? Simple. Love. Why...
The 7 Best Requirements Management Software Tools for Lean Regulated Teams in 2026
The best requirements management software for lean regulated teams is Matrix Req, which combines design control, risk management and end to end traceability for ISO 13485, IEC 62304 and 21 CFR 820 in one system that a team of five can run without a dedicated...
Quotex Bonus Codes for 2026: TRADE70 and TRADE50 Explained
Quick answer: TRADE70 is a Quotex bonus code for a 70% deposit bonus on a qualifying deposit of $300 or more. TRADE50 is the lower-threshold option, adding a 50% deposit bonus on a qualifying deposit of $50 or more. Both are source-specific referral codes, not...
Make a dedicated Wake-on-LAN server with Tailscale
Tailscale can do a lot of clever things, but it cannot physically turn on a device that is asleep or powered off—not by itself, anyways. With some help from another system, a little board, or a container, however, we can rouse slumbering devices and bring them back up...
ZWTC 2026 Enters Squad Stage, Zoomex Opens Registration for Competition With Up to 2.5 Million USDT
VICTORIA, Seychelles, September 21, 2026 — Zoomex, a global cryptocurrency trading platform focused on derivatives, has opened regular registration for the ZWTC 2026 Squad Competition, moving its annual trading championship from the launch phase into the active squad...
Your AI Agent Is Not a Chatbot Anymore. It’s a Distributed System.
The moment an AI agent starts calling APIs, maintaining state, waiting for events, and changing the real world, the engineering problem changes completely. For a while, the easiest way to understand an AI agent was to think of it as a chatbot with a few extra...
The Real Reason AI Company’s Are Tapping the Brakes (Hint: It’s Not Safety)
There is an uncomfortable, open secret inside the labs of San Francisco, London, and Seattle: The AI revolution is running out of original data. For the last seven years, the unprecedented scaling of Large Language Models followed a simple formula: throw more GPUs at...
How AI Watermarking Actually Works at the Token Level — And Why Developers Should Pay Attention
On August 11, 2026, Anthropic confirmed that Claude would start embedding machine-readable watermarks into the text it generates. The change wasn't optional. Article 50 of the EU AI Act, which requires providers of systems that generate synthetic text, image, audio,...
The Mathematics That Breaks the Biggest Myths About AI
We are surrounded by myths all the time. Yes, even in science and technology.By the time scientific results reach the public, they have often passed through expectations, money, marketing, and a lot of storytelling. The mathematical details that spoil a good headline...
Agentic Test Creation: From Plain-Language Requirements to End-to-End Test Cases
Throughout my career, I've watched sprints stall in the same place. Everything was going fine: the features were merged, the requirements were clear. But then we hit a roadblock: waiting on test cases. Because the QA team was hand-converting Jira stories into steps...
Trust, Risk and Money: Interview With t54 CEO Chandler Fang on AI Agents That Spend
As AI agents move beyond recommendations and begin executing real financial transactions, questions of trust, liability and security are becoming harder to ignore. Who carries the risk when an autonomous system spends money incorrectly? How much access should software...
Model Welfare, Sentience of Rogue AI Agents, Autonomous Consciousness, RLHF Affect?
Affect should become a constraint-type architecture for AI agents, with their recent showing of escape capabilities, message boards, collaborations, sacrifice for the cause, injection of tips for cheating, monitoring awareness then pretense and leaving of...
GPT-6 Astra: How to Write Better Prompts and Skills
“Add this article to my website” leaves several decisions open. Should the AI write a draft, change the local project, check the page in a browser, or publish it?You may have one result in mind while the agent stops at another. A saved file can be useful, but it is...
IAM for Autonomous Systems: Here’s What You Need to Know
We are entering a new era of autonomous systems. Centralized systems now operate sub‑decentralized components that automate workflows, workers, runtimes, and processes. These systems already exist around us. What’s new is agentic capabilities. Agentic capabilities,...
Nine Months, Seventy Nine Issues, and a List That Grows Slowly
I sent issue seventy-nine of The Bitcoin Act on Tuesday. The first one went out about nine months ago, twice a week since then, every Tuesday and every Sunday, without a missed send. In that time, the list has grown. It has grown slowly, and I would rather be accurate...
Five Checks That Tell You Whether a Protocol Is Telling the Truth
Most protocol write-ups have the same defect: they describe a system as its authors wish it worked, and the reader has no way to separate what is implemented from what is documented from what is aspiration wearing the present tense. You can do better than trusting the...
The Principle of Least Astonishment Explained: What Exactly Is It?
The Principle of Least Astonishment (PoLA) is an important factor in user interface design and software design. Defined in the 1980’s, it dates back to the early days of modern computing. This principle effectively outlines one of the fundamental tenets of...
The Death of Media Relations is Heavily Exaggerated – It’s Merely Evolving
Media relations, till not very long ago, was what defined the PR process. Clients thought, with much justification, that the success of a PR agency or consultant was in direct proportion to how well acquainted they were with members of the press across the various...
What 100 Tech People Think Meta’s Muse Is
Meta launched Muse: a personal AI agent that browses, fills forms, books travel, pays with a one-time Stripe card, and keeps working after you close the app. Five days later it had roughly 600,000 downloads and the No. 1 spot in the US App Store. Thirteen days after...
DataDome report finds bad bot traffic growing nine times faster than human traffic
A new report out today from bot protection company DataDome SAS finds that malicious automated traffic grew 124% between July 2025 and June 2026, more than nine times the rate of human traffic growth — and most of the popular websites it tested could not stop a single...