Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data
Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. The first campaign, per the...
Norton Neo Browser
Article URL: https://neobrowser.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49681724 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
How to make Xfce look like almost any desktop you want
PART 1 Xfce is one of the oldest and smallest desktops, but it's also one of the most malleable: it can look and work like multiple other OSes. Best of all, an optional extra Xfce tool automates away most of the configuration. Xfce has been around for 30 years,...
JetKVM Mini
Article URL: https://jetkvm.com/blog/introducing-jetkvm-mini Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49681152 Points: 17 # Comments: 6
Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq635037g18o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49681276 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
How AI is opening up spectrum space on crowded airwaves
Every time you make a phone call, stream a video, or connect to Wi-Fi, your device is sending and receiving invisible signals through the air. So are your baby monitor, garage door opener, your GPS, the weather-monitoring satellites, and the radars keeping planes...
Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/why-so-many-ai-researchers-think-the-machines-could-kill-everyone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680858 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
Whip-Cracking Machine Reliably Breaks the Sound Barrier
We tend to think of breaking the sound barrier as a comparatively modern accomplishment, but on a smaller scale, cattle herders have been breaking it for centuries: the cracking sound of the tip of a bullwhip snapping comes from a small-scale sonic boom. Reliably...
American Medical Association Backs Classification of Nearsightedness as Disease
Article URL: https://www.aao.org/newsroom/news-releases/detail/ama-backs-formal-classification-nearsightedness Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49681074 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
When Anyone Can Build Software, Who Decides What Not to Build?
Article URL: https://architectureintel.com/when-anyone-can-build-software-who-decides-what-not-to-build-ae07fdb370e4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680485 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-08-black-hole-caught.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49679734 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Why do routers have so many antennas?
It seems like routers keep growing more antennas each year. Is this a marketing gimmick, or is there a good reason?
A succession crisis that tore England apart
Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/succession-crisis-tore-england-apart Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49679647 Points: 13 # Comments: 5
Why empathy is a crucial leadership skill
With AI we are entering a new era in which technology can tabulate information, recognize patterns, answer questions, and write reports at a phenomenal speed, and do tasks that would require a massive amount of human time and effort. This has huge implications for our...
How to use humor at work effectively
A finance director stands in front of hundreds of employees to reveal the annual figures. No, it’s not the start of the most corporate joke ever, but something I saw a few weeks ago. Right away, he reveals he’s nervous. This isn’t his natural habitat. In fact, the...
Spin FV-1 Emulator Simplifies Sound Pedal Development
If you’ve never heard of the Spin Semiconductors FP-1 digital signal processor chip, don’t worry– that just means you haven’t been deep into guitar petals and audio effects hardware lately. [adamjvr], a.k.a. [avr] has, and he’s gone to the point of creating a PC-based...
The Succession Crisis That Tore England Apart
Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/succession-crisis-tore-england-apart Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49679647 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
The Interim Computer Museum
Article URL: https://icm.museum/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49679459 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
Article URL: https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678969 Points: 11 # Comments: 6
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: 16-Bit Homebrew Relay Computer
You want Retro? We did, when we started our retrocomputing challenge. [Peter] decided that transistors weren’t retro enough, and sent us this lovely homebrew relay computer, complete with 16- bit CPU, which is rather more bits than one normally associates with clicky...
Align AI and Mathematics–To Something Else
Article URL: https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/align-ai-and-mathematics-to-something-else/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678783 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/everyone-slowdown-but-me/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678683 Points: 39 # Comments: 3
A Godot 4 port of two 1996 Bethesda shooters
Article URL: https://github.com/nemo22/skynet-godot Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678606 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Recurrent Looped Transformer
Article URL: https://yifanzhang-pro.github.io/recurrent-looped-tranformer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678548 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record
Article URL: https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/no-atlantic-hurricanes-by-sept-12-breaks-a-60-year-record/1932278 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678432 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research
Article URL: https://agentsdock.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678435 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2000°C
Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-create-a-new-form-of-ice-at-more-than-2000-c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678918 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
What is the difference between a dead pixel and a stuck pixel?
These issues may appear similar, but there's an easy way to tell them apart.
Killing with a car costs $1.6M, California requires drivers to carry $30K
Article URL: https://maxmautner.com/2026/09/11/liability-coverage.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49677836 Points: 14 # Comments: 3
Is there any benefit to restarting your gaming handheld regularly?
Your Steam Deck, Switch or Ally may benefit from occasional restarts. Here's why you should consider it.