Trezor Says 347,000 Users Received Phishing Emails After Brevo Hack
Hackers compromised the Brevo marketing platform and used that access to send phishing emails to users of Trezor, BitBox, and CoinTracking. The post Trezor Says 347,000 Users Received Phishing Emails After Brevo Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New iPhone Feature Helps You Prove Your Photos Aren’t AI-Generated
The tool connects photo authenticity to hardware and cloud verification, not just file metadata.
Instagram’s head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
Article URL: https://thenextweb.com/news/mosseri-instagram-algorithm-opt-out-engagement-australia Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656564 Points: 12 # Comments: 4
The Girl Scouts have new online cookie options as prices rise
Girl Scouts of the USA have announced two new cookies for the 2027 cookie season. Here’s what cookie lovers everywhere have to look forward to: Patch Pals, the organization’s first cookie exclusively for dogs, are soft-baked blueberry muffin-flavored treats developed...
Packard Bell is back, but there’s a catch
If the name Packard Bell sends you back to beige desktop towers, chunky CRT monitors, floppy disks and dial-up modem screeches, Acer has a surprise for you.
AI isn’t replacing jobs; it’s restructuring work
Companies are racing to automate work without realizing they may also be automating away the systems that create expertise. That is the workforce challenge emerging beneath today’s AI conversation. Most debates focus on whether AI will replace jobs. But jobs are the...
25 leaders on keeping teams aligned during uncertainty
Hope for the best and plan for the worst. Ask any leader and they’ll say it’s impossible to know exactly what comes next. That can create some anxiety even in good times. But when there’s uncertainty or market turbulence, how leaders steer the ship can determine...
Apple’s iPhone Handoff feature will cost you $5 a month on T-Mobile
Apple will release iPhone Handoff with iOS 27 this month, but it will only be available to T-Mobile subscribers in the US at launch.
The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
Article URL: https://www.researchagenda.news/articles/the-waymo-effect.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656496 Points: 23 # Comments: 2
The end of driving culture
Ask someone about their travels, and one of the first topics they’ll remark on is how the people, wherever they were visiting, drove their cars. There are New York drivers, aggressive, impatient, and honky. There are California drivers, well adapted to...
Apple Unveils iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max With Variable-Aperture Camera, A20 Pro Chip
Both start at $100 more than last year's models.
Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Developer Sentenced to 4 Years in US Prison
Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko has been sentenced to 4 years in prison after he was arrested in Ireland in 2023. The post Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Developer Sentenced to 4 Years in US Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Claude is no longer available for minors
Article URL: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15171100-age-assurance-on-claude Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656225 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree
Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/does-rtk-make-ai-coding-cheaper/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656471 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Check Point Patches Critical VPN Vulnerabilities
Tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103, the flaws could be exploited for remote code execution. The post Check Point Patches Critical VPN Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Elizabeth Holmes documentary grabbed our attention. Now it has to keep it
Sometimes the secret to promoting a new movie is an actual secret. The latest example, You Can See Everything, is taking that strategy to an extreme. And it’s no spoiler to say that it’s working, at least so far. After all, few would have predicted that arguably the...
It took 2,977 drones to create this stunning 9/11 memorial show. Here’s how they pulled it off
To remember the lives of the 2,977 people killed in the 9/11 attacks 25 years ago, 2,977 drones were arranged in the shape of the original Minoru Yamasaki-designed World Trade Center at full architectural scale for a stunning temporary memorial. It took a lot of...
Resist “AI”
Article URL: https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/x/t/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656033 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/the-death-of-shame-is-tearing-us-apart Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655619 Points: 5 # Comments: 3
Purely Random TV In Your Browser
One of the things we used to appreciate about broadcast television is that… you kinda just got what you got. You didn’t have to choose beyond picking a channel, and then you settled in to imbibe whatever media the CRT was spraying at you. A vague recreation of part of...
Kiteworks Acquires Bonfy.AI to Fill the AI Gap in Data Governance
Financials have not been disclosed, but the estimated cost is in the tens of millions of dollars. The post Kiteworks Acquires Bonfy.AI to Fill the AI Gap in Data Governance appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Hollywood has plenty of movies. Why are theater screens sitting empty?
On August 3, AMC announced the highest-revenue weekend in its 106-year history. More than 10.2 million people had gone to AMC and its Odeon subsidiary’s theaters, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey leading the box office. It was a sign that, financially at...
Trump wanted to change the design of mail-in ballot envelopes. A court just ruled against him
A court ruled on Thursday against implementing new rules that would have required local elections officials to redesign mail-in ballot envelopes right before the election. One reason? There’s not enough time to make the design changes that were being called for. The...
The iPhone Duo is the perfect screen to watch the full Imax version of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’
The Odyssey is so far the biggest movie of the year after Spider-Man: Brand New Day. It was also too big for your friendly neighborhood theater: Most people on the planet missed as much as 40% of the movie because it was filmed in Imax 70 mm’s 1.43:1 aspect ratio, a...
The End of Prompt-and-Hope AI Development
The era of "prompt and hope" software development is coming to an end. Over the past two years, we have treated Large Language Models (LLMs) like mystical oracles: feeding giant text streams into a "black box" and waiting for a miracle. This approach caused a crisis...
Why Speech Recognition Misses Human Context: Dr. Sunday David Ubur’s Affective Architecture
Building automated speech recognition has become one of the most resource-intensive arms races in modern computing. For years, the industry standard has centered on scaling foundational transformer models across hundreds of thousands of hours of speech data to drive...
React Activity: When A Render No Longer Guarantees an Effect
React 19.2 introduced <Activity> as a powerful way to hide UI while preserving its state and DOM. But beneath this seemingly simple feature is an important lifecycle shift: a component can render without its Effects ever mounting. That difference can expose...
From CV to Proof of Contributions (PoC): How Engineers Can Prove Their Skills and Impact
Don’t Focus Too Much on Your Resume, Focus on Skills FirstThe world of work will never be the same anymore, with AI disrupting many fields and changing the way we learn. But what about recruiting engineers and developers? For many years, a CV was seen as a measure of...
Congratulations on Your Flawless AI Agent. Too Bad the Business Runs on Slack.
If you want to know why your shiny new enterprise AI tool has a 5% adoption rate, go look at the database schema the client handed you when you first starting prototyping for this project: It’s probably beautiful. Perfectly normalised. You spent ages cleaning foreign...
5 Principles to Make Your Tech Product Hard to Ignore and Easy to Trust
Most founders think their trust problem is that people don't believe them. Usually, users can’t even tell what the product does.Here's the page you've seen a hundred times: purple gradient, a wordmark that could belong to four thousand other companies, dots connected...