Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage
Article URL: https://blog.herlein.com/post/build-another-engineer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759970 Points: 13 # Comments: 4
What to expect at Meta Connect 2026: New AI glasses, a mixed reality headset and more
There's a lot for Mark Zuckerberg to cover at this year's keynote.
Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue
Article URL: https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/korea-raises-data-breach-fines-to-10-of-revenue/12869899 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759466 Points: 39 # Comments: 7
Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root
A security researcher has released working exploit code for four Linux kernel flaws that each let a local user gain root, the highest level of access on a machine. Kernel maintainers have fixed all four over the past few weeks, so a system running an up-to-date kernel...
Automattic names interim CFO after exec departures
Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company's WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being.
Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation
Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable, by helping small businesses get "level-funded" health insurance.
ESPN wants to break the Super Bowl ratings record. Here’s how Disney could help
The NFL season just got underway, but preparations for the 2027 Super Bowl began at ESPN as soon as the 2026 game ended this past February. In what ESPN is calling “the year of the Super Bowl,” the TV network is gearing up to broadcast the most-watched big game for...
World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
Why is Meta’s Threads being flooded with eerily identical investment advice?
In a normal context, the phrase “my husband and I work for JPMorgan” might be merely a not-so-subtle flex. But lately on Threads, it’s seems more like a telltale sign that the user is in fact a bot. Users on Meta’s short-form social network have recently noticed a...
Think you can spot an AI-generated ad? 83% of consumers got it wrong
An advertising company is challenging consumers to pick their AI-generated ad out of a lineup, and so far, participants aren’t up to the task. The COOL Company is an advertising platform that offers customers fully AI-powered ad campaigns, from creation to activation...
Making a Digital Music Player for Cassette Decks
In the cross-over between the era of tapes into that of MP3s, you’d see quite a few of those special cassette tapes that were actually digital music players inside. Some simply provided a 3.5 mm input, while others were complete MP3 players or Bluetooth receivers that...
Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758736 Points: 30 # Comments: 5
We know how to shape systems to better support working mothers. So why don’t we?
As more women join the workforce and gradually gain representation in leadership roles, the lack of resources like affordable childcare and paid maternity leave has become increasingly consequential. In the first half of last year, the U.S. saw the steepest decline...
Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03215 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758615 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02852 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758689 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758580 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden says this key strategy turned the company around
The key to Adidas’s recent revival? Getting rid of all the “no-sayers,” CEO Bjørn Gulden told an audience at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York. He credits this strategy for turning the brand around after a tumultuous period. When Gulden took the reins...
Barclays workers in the U.K. demand extra pay to return to office
Barclays workers in the United Kingdom are protesting the bank’s move from two office days a week to three (with senior staff expected four days) and demanding that the firm cover costs associated with the policy. Thousands of employees signed an open letter...
The new Resident Evil movie captures the survival horror magic of the games
Resident Evil is yet another horror classic from the director of Weapons.
A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.
Disney hires ex-CEO of AI company it accused of copyright infringement
What's a little IP theft between friends?
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0
Article URL: https://x.ai/news/grok-voice-transcribe-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757859 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Barclays workers in the UK demand extra pay to return to office
Barclays workers in the United Kingdom are protesting the bank’s move from two office days to three (with senior staff expected in four) and demanding that the firm cover costs associated with the policy. Thousands of staff signed an open letter criticizing the RTO...
Reconstructing a Pin on a Pin Grid Array Package
Before moving to land grid array (LGA) packaging whereby each pin on the substrate is just a copper pad, processors commonly used pin grid array (PGA) packaging, including the still highly relevant AMD AM4 socket. With PGA you get a pin soldered onto the copper pad...
FCC allows Gulf state wealth funds to own nearly half of Paramount-Warner Bros.
Great news for the Ellisons and Saudi Arabia. Everyone else: not so much!
US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757520 Points: 35 # Comments: 4
Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion
Article URL: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-government-was-entitled-trumps-border-agents-can-now-search-cellphones-without-a-warrant-probable-cause-or-reasonable-suspicion-2nd-circuit-rules/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758028 Points:...
Global AI safety is hinging on U.S.-China cooperation, but they see each other as the problem
As concern rises over the risks of artificial intelligence, hopes for any kind of global approach depend on cooperation between the U.S. and China — superpowers that seem only to be more skeptical of each other’s AI strategy.AI governance is expected to be on the...
A major Wendy’s franchisee with 314 stores just filed for bankruptcy. What it means for the burger chain’s footprint
Despite being the third-largest fast-food hamburger chain in the world and the second-largest in the U.S. after McDonald’s, Wendy’s has struggled lately with declining sales and a shrinking store footprint. This week, another worrying sign suggests the brand’s...
Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.