Cloud Misconfigurations Deserve a Place Beside Vulnerabilities in Your Risk Strategy
Vulnerability management has been used to assess cyber risk for years. You keep tabs on your CVEs, manage patching, and calculate remediation times. All are useful, but they don't give you the entire picture. Cloud environments have changed infrastructure risk. Today,...
The Engineering Mindset That aI Didn’t Replace
Looking back, I do not think AI changed the direction of my career. It arrived after that direction had already been set. Every week brings another comparison of coding models, another prediction about which engineering role will disappear, and another list of tools...
AI Coding Tip 028 – Wire a Skill Into Your Company’s Live Systems
One Second Brain doesn't scale past one skull. TL;DR: Wire a skill into your company's live systems so every answer carries a source and a freshness check. Common Mistake ❌ As a single contributor, you can build a personal Second Brain, and it works beautifully for...
#FreeYakutia: How a Viral Meme Turned Into a Conversation About Independence
Humor, propaganda, and political imagination during the first months of the war In the first weeks after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, reality became difficult to process. Cities were under attack, families were hiding in underground stations, and...
Why Fora’s $1B Valuation Proves the Future of Travel Belongs to Augmented Human Advisors
TL;DR: Fora’s $1B valuation proves the future of travel belongs to human travel advisors supercharged by back-office AI, not autonomous bots. By automating operational friction rather than the customer experience, Fora compressed its latest $1B booking milestone to...
101 Blog Posts To Learn About Coding Interviews
Let's learn about Coding Interviews via these 101 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Coding interviews are structured conversations...
Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs
A solo Russian-speaking threat actor known as "bandcampro" outsourced a chunk of their operations to Google's open-source Gemini CLI artificial intelligence (AI) and commandeered a live botnet. The findings come from an analysis of 200 Gemini CLI session logs between...
New 7-Zip Vulnerability Could Let Crafted XZ Archives Run Code During Extraction
Opening a crafted XZ archive in 7-Zip could let an attacker run code on the machine. The flaw, CVE-2026-14266, is a heap-based buffer overflow in how the archiver processes XZ chunked data, and Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) detailed it on July 15. A fix...
Sign up for T-Mobile Fiber 2 Gig and get $100 back, plus a month included
T-Mobile Fiber's latest offer covers your first month and pays you $100 back on the 2 Gig plan. Here's all you need to know.
Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red
The UK government has admitted that two major planks of its multibillion-pound shared services strategy are in serious trouble. Matrix, a project that involves moving nine government departments to shared ERP and HR systems, has been rated red by the National...
Your AI Agents Have Dashboards. Their Human Managers Have Annual Reviews
A sales manager opens a dashboard and sees that an outbound AI agent has completed 1,200 prospecting tasks overnight. The system reports strong delivery rates, low token costs and an acceptable error rate. Everything appears efficient until a customer forwards one of...
Hugging Face Hacked in Autonomous AI Attack
Targeting production infrastructure, the attack compromised internal datasets and service credentials. The post Hugging Face Hacked in Autonomous AI Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/gas-prices-iran-war-4-gallon-4b82825734ec3ded192351e53a4be69e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976172 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
OpenAI killed the tool behind this AI film. Its director says Hollywood is only getting started
Critterz was one of the first feature films built primarily with AI. But OpenAI abruptly shut down Sora, the tool its director, Nik Kleverov, was relying on. Kleverov, who is chief creative officer of the production company Native Foreign, makes the case that AI isn’t...
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
OPINION European aerospace giant Airbus has lined up on the runway and is pushing the throttles forward as it prepares to evict apps from America. Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications, with an initial 70...
Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
Article URL: https://slcyber.io/research-center/exploit-brokers-pay-500000-for-a-wordpress-rce-i-found-one-with-gpt5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48975665 Points: 12 # Comments: 3
1,273 designers tell all: Their rates, real pay, and how they really feel about AI
One of the best things about being a freelance designer is building a career that’s all your own. But that independence is also what makes freelancing so hard. Finding clients. Brainstorming. Getting paid. Unlike their W-2 counterparts, freelance designers are...
EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods from Battery Removal Requirements
Article URL: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/07/17/eu-exempts-apple-watch-and-airpods-from-battery-removal-requirement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48975245 Points: 9 # Comments: 12
The job market is so bad, people are buying career spells from witches
Chon Azzopardi-Brown had done everything career experts tell job seekers to do. She polished her CV, searched job boards, networked on LinkedIn, and tried to navigate a tough hiring market complete with AI screenings and applicant ghosting. But after getting nowhere,...
Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings
UK government auditors are calling for officials to consider the impact of AI on the size of the workforce needed for the civil service and wider public sector. The National Audit Office (NAO) recommends civil service leaders to "reflect the impact of major...
I’m Done with Mullvad
Article URL: https://moonwriting.blog/i-m-done-with-mullvad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48975428 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Think someone is lying to you? A veteran detective says never call them out—do this instead
On paper, the candidate seems wonderful, and when you bring them in for an interview, things go great … at first. But as the conversation goes on, your gut instinct tells you something is off. Maybe they’re a little too polished. Maybe there are holes in their story....
Chrome 150 Update Patches Severe Memory Safety Bugs
The fresh security update resolves six critical and high-severity use-after-free vulnerabilities. The post Chrome 150 Update Patches Severe Memory Safety Bugs appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Could Reticulum Power a Post-Internet Network?
These days, it is easy to think you always have access to the Internet. But some wonder if — in spite of its ARPANET, nuclear-war-planning heritage — you can actually count on it to be there when things go pear-shaped. [The Tech Prepper], as you might imagine, is...
High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required
Red Hat has come up with a way to reduce the quantity of servers needed for high-availability edge deployments of its OpenShift platform, because its customers worry about high hardware costs. The IBM business unit’s Daniel Froehlich and Paul Lancaster last week...
How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in
Article URL: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/17/microsofts-main-tool-for-lock-in/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974476 Points: 19 # Comments: 1
Xiaomi-Robotics-1
Article URL: https://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974454 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Comment in code read ‘Dear future me, sorry I wrote this’
WHO, ME? Regrets? We've had a few. And so have many readers of The Register, who we try to help by getting their stories of workplace mistakes off their chests every Friday in a reader-contributed column we call "Who, Me?" This week, meet a reader who asked to be...
SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new software supply chain attack codenamed SleeperGem targeting the Ruby ecosystem after three malicious gems were published to RubyGems with the end goal of serving additional payloads. The rogue gems are listed below -...
World’s Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent
In an ironic twist, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face revealed that it was the victim of a hack perpetrated by an autonomous AI agent system. The company said it detected and responded to the incident targeting its production...