Nelson Griggs, Nasdaq’s president and head of its Capital Access Platforms Division, sat down with Fast Company senior writer Ainsley Harris during this year’s Innovation Festival to discuss how the new era of mega-IPOs could reshape industries, the public stock...

For more than two decades, truck driver Joe Macken spent his free time building a massive scale model of his native New York City out of balsa wood and foam board.When he finished, his daughter convinced him to show off the sprawling basement creation — encompassing...

Inertia co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson joins the Smart Systems Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 by September 25.

KDE's annual conference takes place this weekend at Graz University of Technology in Austria, with an AI-native desktop proposal likely to divide attendees. The KDE project is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, giving delegates at the Akademy conference in...

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Mandiant's 2026 AI risk report, PhantomRaven malware used by bug bounty hunter, WordPress plugin bug exploited. The post In Other News: Ransomware Developer Sentenced, Plugin4Shell AI Attack, Critical SAP...

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-chatbots-are-becoming-experts-changing-people-s-minds-what-s-their-secret Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754250 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

Leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets has released a dump of the filesystems of a Flock camera, and Micah Lee has published a dive into the contents.  Apparently the Flock security model did not include “angry citizens with a hacksaw in the middle of the night” in...

Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code repository before reporting the flaws.

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Anthropic’s Claude is helping the company develop the next, more intelligent version of the model, the artificial intelligence lab said in an announcement Thursday.Claude is leading 26% of Anthropic’s model research and development, which the company said means it can...

Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85889, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. "Missing...

In July 2025, someone registered a domain that used to belong to a content delivery network.  The CDN had been wound down years earlier, and the domain it served assets from was allowed to expire. What it had not lost were its callers. Thousands of websites, code...

A flaw in four widely used AI coding agents lets someone who controls a plugin's code repository swap the plugin an agent installs for a malicious one, even when the agent locked that plugin to a specific reviewed version, security firm Air Security said on Thursday....

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20804 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49753878 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Microsoft has issued a partial fix for the Excel bug that causes paste operations to fail. The hotfix applies only to Excel 2016, and Microsoft warns that pasting may still fail in workbooks containing conditional formatting. Earlier in September, Microsoft released a...

Warren Buffett has stepped down as chairman at Berkshire Hathaway Inc., effectively immediately.  Buffett, 96, will become chairman emeritus and remain as a member of the board of directors. His son, Howard Buffett, will take over as chairman of the board after...

Article URL: https://hawksley.dev/blog/i-dont-like-passkeys Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49753211 Points: 44 # Comments: 15

Hacktron researchers earned a bug bounty after demonstrating access to OpenAI employee accounts.  The post AI-Built Exploit and Sign-In Flaw Opened Path to Internal OpenAI Code appeared first on SecurityWeek.

INTERVIEW Percona CEO Peter Farkas reckons AI caught the database industry off guard and that agentic workloads may eventually require a new kind of database – once anyone works out what those workloads actually need. Farkas spoke to The Register at the company's...

Article URL: https://blog.liampwll.com/posts/bend_vibe_coding/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49753179 Points: 15 # Comments: 1

In 2025, Amazon settled allegations brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it used deceptive practices to enroll customers in its Prime membership. Although the e-commerce giant did not admit to any wrongdoing, Amazon agreed to pay affected customers a...

Industry players say agentic commerce is the next big revolution in retail. I’ve spent my career in payments infrastructure and watched the same pattern repeat with every new commerce technology. It gets built on rails that weren’t designed for it, and nobody notices...

Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, observed in a May 2026 New York Times podcast that the rate of change we’re living through is unlike anything humans evolved to process. And the data backs him up. In 2010, Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO, noted that humanity was...

Whenever I complain to my executive coach about a problem inside my organization, his go-to response is both irritating and insightful: “That’s your system.” I might be describing a missed target, a persistent challenge, or something that feels impossible to fix, but...