This Key Will Self-Destruct: An Open Standard for Revocable API Keys
Every leaked credential should be dead, or dying, within sixty seconds of being found. Here's a proposal to make that the default. The post This Key Will Self-Destruct: An Open Standard for Revocable API Keys appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Huawei Watch D3 pumps up its health-monitoring credentials
Huawei has released the Watch D3, the third generation of its blood-pressure-measuring wearable, as the company continues plowing a relatively lonely furrow in cuff-based technology. The D3 is an intriguing device for anyone seeking more credible blood pressure...
Chrome 153 Patches Seventh Zero-Day of 2026
The Chrome update includes 230 security fixes, and users are advised to update their browsers as soon as possible. The post Chrome 153 Patches Seventh Zero-Day of 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety
Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/anthropic-openai-researcher-jacob-coxon-warns-ai-could-kill-humans/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49623306 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
Prediction markets are eating politics
No one used to argue about the phrase “insider trading.” For decades, those two words connoted a transgression, a crime, something unambiguously tainted. But lately, with the meteoric rise of prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi, leveraging niche...
New cPanel Flaw Lets a Hosting Account With Mail Privileges Run Code as Root
cPanel has patched a flaw that it says lets a single hosting account take control of an entire server. An authenticated account holder with mail-related privileges can create files of their choosing on the server through EmailTrack and, from there, run code as the...
F5 BIG-IP APM Malware Injects a PHP Web Shell Into Memory, Evading Disk Scans
Malware linked to break-ins at F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager appliances hides a PHP web shell in memory instead of in a file on disk, Sophos said in an analysis published on September 7. When Apache loads any of the three appliances' own PHP scripts, the malware...
Researcher Drops New Microsoft Defender PoC Showing ShieldBreak Patch Can Be Bypassed
The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse has dropped a proof-of-concept (PoC) for yet another zero-day in Microsoft Defender. The vulnerability, codenamed ShieldCrash, is assessed to be a patch bypass for CVE-2026-69414 (CVSS score: 7.8), also called...
SAP Patches CVSS 10.0 Kernel Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
SAP has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity flaw in SAP Extended Passport (EPP) Processing that could have a severe impact on the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the application The vulnerability,...
Chrome V8 Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild Enables Code Execution Inside Sandbox
Google on Thursday released updates to patch 230 security vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The medium-severity vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-87491 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as an...
Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365
Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 Go to Source Switzerland's Federal Chancellery is preparing to offer a FOSS workplace suite to some 3,000 employees – but the Swiss Armed Forces are pushing ahead faster still....
Suno trained its v6 AI music models with help from Warner and BMG
Suno trained its v6 AI music models with help from Warner and BMG Go to Source Suno's new AI music models are the formal start of the company's partnership with some big labels.
Audio-Technica’s new wireless ATH-AL5NC completes its open-back headphone lineup
Audio-Technica's new wireless ATH-AL5NC completes its open-back headphone lineup Go to Source The new AT cans offer great sound and convenience, even if they can't be truly noise-cancelling.
How to watch Apple unveil the new iPhones on September 9
New Apple CEO John Ternus will be revealing new iPhone and Apple Watch models this week.
The foldable iPhone will reportedly be called ‘Duo’ and cost $2,000
Apple's foldable iPhone may not be called the 'Fold' or 'Ultra' as was expected.
Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code
A few weeks back we spotted Microsoft’s Exchange team admitting that AI has found so many bugs it hasn’t found time to deliver a Cumulative Update for the messaging server. And on Tuesday, the Microsoft Edge team revealed it’s also a bit overwhelmed by AI. “Rapid...
Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing
One of the few proven use cases for generative AI is automating customer service inquiries to reduce costs even further than it’s been possible to achieve by offshoring jobs to low-wage companies like the Philippines – which yesterday bet that its outsourcing industry...
US claims Chinese AI companies’ core AI strategy is distilling American models
Two US intelligence agencies and the nation’s cyber-defense org CISA have accused Chinese AI companies of running “aggressive, malicious, and targeted distillation activities at an industrial scale that extract restricted proprietary functionalities and capabilities...
Sick of Wayland vs. Xorg? How about GEM?
Between lawsuits from Apple, and Microsoft being Microsoft, Digital Research’s GEM desktop for DOS never really had a chance. It did have another life on Atari home computers, but it’s the DOS version that provided the code for [Tomaz Stih]’s Linux port of the GEM...
Sam Altman’s statement on the Navier-Stokes dispute
Article URL: https://twitter.com/sama/status/2097385167002415140 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622377 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/codex-quantum-computing-experiments/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622561 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Trying
Article URL: https://gwern.net/on-really-trying Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622305 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117231186011306184 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622042 Points: 23 # Comments: 1
AI Has a Discovery Problem
Article URL: https://mhacevedo.com/posts/the-discovery-problem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621223 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/on-navier-stokes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621697 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Microsoft Patches Record 974 Flaws, Including Two Exploited Windows Zero-Days
Microsoft on Tuesday broke Patch Tuesday records by addressing an earth-shattering 974 vulnerabilities spanning its software portfolio, including two flaws that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. These include 723 flaws in Windows, 111 in Office and...
Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid
Fusionality is developing control systems and simulation environments to help fusion power startups move faster.
A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare’s Technology (Part 1)
Article URL: https://note.com/masakazu_urabe/n/n7815f5b64fab?hl=en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621102 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
One Bit Sound with the ZX Spectrum
[Michael] has a thing for playing audio over beepers using a single bit. He’s done it with the Apple ][ and the IBM PC. This time he turns to the ZX Spectrum. He didn’t get quite as good a result — at least not yet — but he did manage to get some things working. He...
N-able N-central Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Exploited in the Wild
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting N-able N-central to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the...