The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
Article URL: https://sive.rs/itunes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033001 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
First look with the Galaxy Watch 9: I took it on a run in London – here’s what I learned
Samsung's Galaxy Watch 9 is light and comfortable, with helpful nudges to hydrate as you exercise.
Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain’s pubs
Andy Burnham has found a novel way to back the local pub: make the digital marketplace help pick up the tab. The UK prime minister on Thursday promised pubs, social clubs, and live music venues in England a 20 percent cut in business rates from April 2027, a package...
Can the U.S. government legally gatekeep global access to AI models?
When the U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic on June 12 to immediately prevent all foreign nationals from using the artificial intelligence company’s two most advanced large language models, Anthropic disabled its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models within...
NodeBB Patches Eight AI-Found Flaws Exposing Admin Access and Private Chats
Eight security flaws in NodeBB went public on Wednesday, along with the code to exploit them. Aikido Security rates all eight as high severity and says its AI pentest agents found them in a six-hour review of the forum software's source code. Every version before...
Kimi K3 Agents Found Redis Zero-Days and Built RCE Exploit, Researchers Say
Redis shipped seven security releases on July 23 after researchers published authenticated RCE PoCs for stock Redis 6.2.22, 7.4.9, 8.6.4, and 8.8.0. All four chains require RESTORE. The Streams chains also need EVAL and XGROUP; the 8.8.0 chain needs EVAL and the...
Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter
EXCLUSIVE Google invited residents living near its newly built datacenter north of London to meet the team at the local council offices on Wednesday evening – and was met with a barrage of complaints about poor consultation, noise, and light pollution. The Waltham...
What solopreneurs should refuse to hand over to AI
I use AI heavily in my solo business. I’ve written previously about handing tasks over to artificial intelligence, and I’m a genuine advocate for it. But I’ve also drawn clear lines around what AI does and doesn’t touch in my work. The question isn’t just, “What can...
A New Blood Hack For An Old Game
Even before 3D graphics and advanced shaders became common in the gaming world, there were concerns that virtual violence looked too realistic. Fighting games in the 1990s were routinely toned-down by having gratuitous displays of blood removed, which was often seen...
Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine
Alibaba’s reign as the worst offender under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) lasted just four days, after the European Commission yesterday fined Google €890 million for breaches of the law –€340 million more than the Chinese e-commerce company will pay....
The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std:indirect type
Article URL: https://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2026/07/23/the-pimpl-idiom-and-the-cpp26-stdindirect-type/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49032095 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Russia’s businesses under strain from Ukraine’s attacks on Wildberries
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9n2y61w6o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031917 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Flux 3
Article URL: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031796 Points: 23 # Comments: 0
Fake Notepad++ Plugin Delivers MATCHBOIL.V2 in UAC-0099 Attacks
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new campaign that involves the use of a malicious program that's dressed up as a Notepad++ plugin to compromise Windows systems. The activity has been attributed by the agency to a threat...
For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings
Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2026/us-drivers-electric-vehicles-offer-emissions-benefits-cost-savings-0512 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031561 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
Show HN: A factory simulator game built on Spreadsheets
I would say this is the real factory simulator game haha Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030100 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Intel knows it needs to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has acknowledged that the semiconductor giant must catch up to rivals AMD and Arm, and said it now assumes edge AI and robotics will be a business as big as PCs. Tan made those remarks during Intel’s Q2 earnings call, which saw the company report...
Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it
ON CALL Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday column in which we share readers' tales of tech support jobs that go south, pear-shaped, or just badly. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Lionel" who told us that in the 1990s he worked...
Google is expanding access to its Gemini Spark agentic AI assistant
Gemini Spark is now available to more users.
Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked
A hacker claims to have stolen the information of 2 million Origin Energy customers and is threatening to leak it. The post Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked appeared first on SecurityWeek.
There’s a new workforce crisis and it isn’t burnout
Something strange is happening in offices and on video calls right now. By almost every visible measure, people are still showing up and doing their work. They are nodding along in meetings and occasionally unmuting to say it sounds great. And underneath all that...
Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis
Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-data-center-crisis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031262 Points: 9 # Comments: 4
Zuckerberg Emojis
Article URL: https://rybakov.com/blog/zuckerberg_emojis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031330 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
New Method Accelerates Color 3D Printing
Multi-color 3D printing is notorious for being difficult to get right. Even with modern printers, you often end up much using more filament (and tool changes) than you would for a single-color print. [YKG3D] shows us a new method of color printing that needs far fewer...
I asked an early-stage investor for a startup compliance horror story. What I got instead was a warning sign
I asked an early-stage investor a simple question: Tell me about a startup that discovered, too late, that it wasn’t allowed to operate the way it had built itself to operate. He gave me three companies. For each one, his answer was some version of the same thing:...
The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin
Article URL: https://reprodev.com/the-corporate-creep-of-plex-why-it-may-be-time-to-move-to-jellyfin-and-the-open-source-reality/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030547 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Police Removed Prominent Scientists from the ADA Meeting. Researchers Respond
Article URL: https://www.the-scientist.com/police-removed-prominent-scientists-from-the-ada-meeting-researchers-respond-74607 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030474 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Targeting Allele-Specific Faulty mRNA in SCNA2 Mutation Patients
When an individual is born with genetic defects, there are a few ways to deal with the impact of the faulty genes. The most extreme solution is direct DNA editing to repair the mutation, while the treatment of symptoms with medication is the least invasive, though...
OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn’t mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be
Open AI’s admission this week that its agents escaped the sandbox and autonomously hacked model repository Hugging Face has spawned more apocalyptic warnings of agents gone bad than we can count. Thankfully, Renato Marinho, chief research officer at Morphus Labs and a...
Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours
Azure users who use resources in Microsoft’s West US region endured an uncomfortable day after the tech giant cut off access to its Californian cloud outpost. As Microsoft explains in its preliminary post incident review, at 14:44 UTC on July 23rd (07:44 AM Pacific...