Salesforce Global Outage
Article URL: https://status.salesforce.com/products/all Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724488 Points: 11 # Comments: 4
EU chief opens door for Canada to become ‘associate member’
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwyzrr9d3dko Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724141 Points: 122 # Comments: 58
Logitech releases the MX Keypad to keep idle fingers busy
Logitech has released the MX Keypad, a developer-focused keypad derived from its MX Creative Console, and something that triggers a distinct sense of déjà vu. Do you remember Stack Overflow's "The Key" Joke? Three keys to copy and paste code from the developer's...
Hackuity Raises $19 Million for AI-Powered Vulnerability Management
The company will use the new capital to expand its vulnerability operations platform and support international growth. The post Hackuity Raises $19 Million for AI-Powered Vulnerability Management appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The confidence myth: Why waiting to feel ready holds women back
I’ve noticed there’s a belief that women often carry quietly: I’ll do it when I feel more confident. And it sounds perfectly reasonable on the surface. I’ve heard things along the lines of: “I’m sort of starting a business. I’ll do it when I’ve done enough...
Full-Color Looks Great on 3D Printed Sliding Puzzles
[Angus] of [Maker’s Muse] shows off both a parametric, print-in-place sliding puzzle design he created, and the results of UV printing full-color designs on the same. The results look beautiful, and there was a whole lot of trial and error involved in the process. The...
Breville Eye Q Toaster review: A toaster with a vision
The world's first toaster that works on color instead of time is great. But is it $300 great?
Sony unveils new PlayStation Pulse wireless headsets with ‘planar magnetic’ sound tech
Sony has introduced the PlayStation Pulse and Pulse Edge headsets, which feature planar magnetic drivers.
280,000 Impacted by Premier Medical Group Data Breach
In June 2026, hackers accessed files containing patients’ names, contact information, diagnosis details, and health insurance information. The post 280,000 Impacted by Premier Medical Group Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy
Article URL: https://techwontsave.us/episode/342_tech_fascism_has_come_for_american_democracy_w_gil_duran Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724194 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
Salesforce suffers global outage amid Dreamforce shindig
UPDATED A Salesforce outage is hitting customers with severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access some services, according to the SaaS vendor's status page. The outage has hit hundreds of instances throughout the world, including the USA, Japan, India,...
Ministry of Justice apologizes after court staff accessed Southport victims’ files
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has apologized after court staff accessed documents relating to victims and survivors of the 2024 Southport murders without authorization. For a limited number of people, the material accessed included sensitive personal data assessed as...
Amazon launches Alexa+ in India with Hindi support
Amazon is letting all customers use Alexa+ assistant in early access period
Need a Lyft to the polls? The ride-hailing app is once again offering free or discounted rides this election season
With disruptions to mail voting systems and other election-related problems potentially sidelining some voters this election season, Lyft is offering, well, a lift! For the sixth straight election season, the ride-hailing company’s “Lyft Up Voting Access Program” will...
‘I wanted it to be raw’: Paula Scher explains her squished map logo
Women+ on the Edge of Democracy is an upcoming revue of 10-minute plays and monologues about this moment in democracy, as written by 36 women playwrights. The logo for initiative, designed by Pentagram partner Paula Scher, with associate partner Bruno Bergallo and...
El Niño 2026 just broke a major threshold heading into hurricane season. Here’s what that means for the storm forecast
El Niño just hit another milestone before we’ve even seen the first major storm of this year’s U.S. hurricane season. And no, we’re not talking about predictions that El Niño is likely to be the strongest on record, or that it could result in extreme weather through...
In China, McDonald’s will deliver your Big Mac by drone
Another day, another point of proof that people in China live in the future. Shanghai residents can now order from McDonald’s and have it delivered by air to kiosks installed in the city’s waterfront neighborhood. You just need to order using Meituan—China’s dominant...
New ‘LinkedIn for government’ helps Americans get into public service
After bouncing around employers for much of her career, Joya Patel says she finally felt settled when she joined the Department of Health and Human Services in 2023. That was especially true after being promoted to its director of communications the following year. ...
Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch 115 Vulnerabilities
Google resolved 42 security defects in Chrome, and Mozilla fixed 73 bugs in Firefox. The post Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch 115 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs
Article URL: https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/09/16/on-learning-programming-in-an-age-of-llms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49723873 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-mozilla/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49723408 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
AI makes the right to repair more tempting than ever
Our lives are littered with devices we don’t understand. We don’t know why the microwave suddenly beeps just past midnight, or why the dishwasher won’t run unless it’s been unplugged and then replugged three times, or why the laptop charges only when we push in the...
Acronis Patches Exploited Vulnerability in cPanel Backup Plugin
CVE-2026-87886 is a high-severity insecure file permissions flaw that can lead to local privilege escalation. The post Acronis Patches Exploited Vulnerability in cPanel Backup Plugin appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Debugging Intermittent Kong 503s When the Logs Showed Nothing but the Status Code
An investigation into intermittent gateway failures, NGINX worker restarts, and the metrics that exposed the patternAn API gateway failure does not always begin with an unavailable upstream service. Sometimes the gateway itself loses the ability to select a target,...
Windows 11 out-of-band update fixes audio glitch and other bugs – grab it now
The latest out-of-band update resolves a few problems in Windows 11, including one that cut off the sound for certain USB audio devices.
Martha Stewart reflects on her empire, Kris Jenner, prison, and Snoop
When Martha Stewart started doing her thing, there was no established vocabulary to describe it. Decades before influencers and solopreneurs conjured a creator economy powered by personal brands, Stewart was turning her signature expertise—good taste—into a massive...
BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs
BT Email customers say they have been bombarded with hundreds – and in one case more than 1,000 – unsolicited password reset messages, leaving the telco investigating what is causing the deluge. The reports began appearing on BT's community forums over the weekend,...
Are first impressions as important as we think?
Although most people see themselves as open-minded, we all tend to judge others before we truly get to know them. Prejudging people before we even properly interact with them is the norm, and the origin of the term prejudice. And yet, we can also learn to give people...
Enterprises Warned of Attacks Exploiting WSO2 Vulnerability
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5430, can be exploited to gain access to valuable enterprise data. The post Enterprises Warned of Attacks Exploiting WSO2 Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The new Boox Palma 3 comes with stylus support and an aluminum build
Boox has unveiled three new E Ink devices, including the Palma 3.