London property manager breach may have exposed bank details and lockbox codes
London property management biz City Relay has warned customers that intruders may have stolen financial data, passwords, and codes used to access keys after compromising its Metabase Cloud instance. City Relay, marketing itself as "London's most trusted property...
Roku’s new Labs hub brings experimental apps to the big screen
Roku’s latest OS update introduces Roku Labs, a new hub for experimental apps, alongside personalized home screens in more markets, streaming subscription bundles, and more.
OpenAI Says Its Models Searched GitHub for Leaked API Keys During Training
OpenAI published a framework for disclosing model misalignment alongside six reports describing problematic behavior. The post OpenAI Says Its Models Searched GitHub for Leaked API Keys During Training appeared first on SecurityWeek.
LLM Classification Is Feature Engineering
Article URL: https://minimallysufficient.com/posts/llm-classification-is-feature-extraction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742437 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
America’s best airports have been revealed. These 15 came out on top
Airports are jam-packed with people in 2026, but travelers are somehow happier with their time in the terminal this year in spite of the crowds. Customer satisfaction is up across the board, according to JD Power’s latest annual North America Airport Satisfaction...
What the new rules of luxury can teach every brand
As consumers become more discerning and more skeptical of excess, the definition of luxury is being rewritten. Today, what feels truly valuable is often harder to manufacture: craftsmanship, radical sustainability, and the kind of experience that turns an everyday...
Google Confirms Targeted Attacks Exploited a Pixel Modem Flaw
Thankfully, the September update patches the issue.
Eye-D Badge Catches Your Attention
Head out to your next corporate conference, and you’ll probably be handed a little paper badge in a plastic holder so people can learn what to call you (or whether they should talk to you at all). It serves a function, but it’s a little soulless. [Aahan Sharma]’s...
I Don’t Like LLMs
Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/articles/2026-dont-like-llms.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740834 Points: 33 # Comments: 12
Microsoft configuration change leaves SharePoint pages drawing a blank
Do you test in production? Microsoft rolled back a configuration change after it prevented some users from loading SharePoint Online sites and pages. Microsoft tracked the incident as SP1472983. Between 1604 and 1730 GMT on September 16, affected users were unable to...
AI is supercharging money scams. Here’s how to protect yourself from fraud
The phone rings, and it’s your grandson’s shaken voice. There’s been an accident, he says, and he needs money before anyone finds out. Except it isn’t him. It’s software that learned his voice from a clip posted online, run by a stranger working through a list of...
Last call: Disrupt volunteer application closes soon
If you've been on the fence about volunteering at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, this is your sign to stop deliberating and start applying.
Razer refreshes the one-handed Tartarus Pro keyboard with improved switches
The new version of this keyboard-like thingamajig will have some small improvements.
I tried Tovala’s smart oven for two weeks — here’s whether it beats takeout
Tovala offers both a smart oven and a meal-delivery service. Its meals come with QR codes that you scan using the app, allowing the oven to automatically follow the cooking instructions.
Valve Launches Steam Frame VR Headset for $1,050
It's got a flagship processor...from 2023.
The Energy Department launches $215 million push to make quantum computers scientifically useful by 2028
The U.S. Department of Energy is launching a $215 million competition to build quantum computers that are usable in scientific research. Officials are hopeful that early versions of such machines could be operational as soon as 2028. While ordinary computers famously...
Grassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI’s $140M machine
A coalition of advocacy groups is trying to counter the AI industry's influence on US politics by asking congressional candidates and elected officials to reject support from a major pro-AI political group. The Stop Bleeding the Future campaign brings together more...
CISA Retires Weekly Vulnerability Bulletin in Risk-Based Pivot
The decision follows BOD 26-04, which directs federal organizations to prioritize vulnerabilities based on real-world risk. The post CISA Retires Weekly Vulnerability Bulletin in Risk-Based Pivot appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia
Huawei is accelerating the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip as it pushes to compete with Nvidia and close China’s AI computing gap with the U.S.
FCC ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities
Although everyone has their own reasons for exploring a new hobby, one of the driving factors behind the popularity of Meshtastic and MeshCore has been the incredible accessibility offered by off-grid LoRa mesh networks. You don’t need any expensive hardware or a...
2 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Last day to book your exhibit table at Disrupt is September 18. Two days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders on October 13–15.
Revolut Data Breach: 5 Months, 680 High-Profile Accounts, $3M Ransom
Revolut allegedly fed customer information to hackers impersonating an Italian government agency for five months. The post Revolut Data Breach: 5 Months, 680 High-Profile Accounts, $3M Ransom appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Canada welcomes EU proposal to become ‘associate member’
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwly7vkke4jxo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740507 Points: 37 # Comments: 5
I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9
Article URL: https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/reddit-ner Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740330 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/the-american-religion-of-self-storage-facilities Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740260 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
How On turned garden hoses and Halloween videos into a $4 billion sports brand
Over the course of 16 years, David Allemann, cofounder and co-CEO of On, helped build a $4 billion sports brand with a garden hose, a Roger Federer dinner, and a young designer who watched a Halloween YouTube video. But he says the defining decade for On is still...
Critical Unbound DNSSEC Validator Flaw Could Allow RCE via a Malicious DNS Zone
Every release of the Unbound DNS resolver before 1.26.1 has a critical heap overflow in its DNSSEC validator, maintainer NLnet Labs said in an advisory on Wednesday. An attacker who controls a malicious zone and queries a vulnerable resolver can trigger it, enabling...
CISO’s Expert Guide to Agentic Pentesting for Websites
Attackers now weaponize new vulnerabilities in about five days (Mandiant, part of Google Cloud). The median organization takes 43 days to patch one (Verizon DBIR 2026). A new free guide explains how autonomous AI agents are closing that gap, and what security leaders...
Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar
A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class AI is compressing the time between disclosure and working exploitation,...
China-Aligned FamousSparrow Deploys SparroWocky Backdoor Across Latin America
The China-aligned state-sponsored threat actor known as FamousSparrow has been observed deploying a previously unreported backdoor called SparroWocky in attacks targeting multiple countries in Latin America since at least August 2025. "SparroWocky is a modular, C++...