CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pressing bottlenecks
UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced Wednesday a $20 million B extension round, bringing its lifetime total raised amount to $128 million.
Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance
Article URL: https://current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/harvard-study-predicts-most-suicide-attempts-week-advance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619906 Points: 24 # Comments: 3
AI Responsibility – OpenAI and Anthropic
Article URL: https://twitter.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619639 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter
Article URL: https://gpu-lexer.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619464 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
SN 1095: AI-Driven Expertise Loss – Gemini, Hugging Face, and the AI Arms Race
OpenAI's latest advances have the rumor mill buzzing about "hidden thoughts" and unsupervisable models, but are AI safety experts panicking over the wrong threat? Get the clear-headed take behind the headlines. We start out with a classic old school hack against...
What are the major changes coming to Apple HomeKit in iOS 27?
iOS 27 isn't leaving out HomeKit and the Home app in its list of AI revamps and improvements.
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic
In the dispiriting race to replace human store managers with AI, OpenAI has taken the lead, according to Andon Labs, a business that analyzes whether AI can take on real-world tasks. OpenAI's latest model, GPT-6 Astra, has demonstrated that it can run a business more...
Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 974-CVE deluge
The vulnpocalypse is upon us, dear reader. Microsoft delivered a record number of patches to address 974 CVEs in its own products this month, including two bugs that Redmond says are already under exploitation. September's record-breaking collection of security...
Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas
While OpenAI and Anthropic fight over whose models can escape their sandbox more alarmingly, Google’s DeepMind team has once again shown how machine learning can also be used to advance science for humanity’s benefit. On Tuesday, the Chocolate Factory’s crack team of...
US to ban Canadian dairy, alcohol, motor vehicle imports on September 29
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/us-ban-canadian-dairy-alcohol-motor-vehicle-imports-september-29-2026-09-08/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619457 Points: 11 # Comments: 5
The Different Ways To Look at Negative Resistance
[lcamtuf] has an in-depth look at the concept of negative resistance that goes somewhat further than one might expect. Normally, as voltage across a resistance increases so too does the current. Negative resistance is the concept of current decreasing as voltage...
I Resigned from Anthropic Today
Article URL: https://xcancel.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843#m Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619227 Points: 32 # Comments: 24
How to change and customize your Apple CarPlay display
CarPlay doesn't have a ton of customization options, but it's worth going through what's there to set it up properly.
White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the Tetris Company complains
The Trump administration's short-lived arcade game "Build the Wall" is now nowhere to be found after the Tetris Company posted that it takes "copyright infringement very seriously."
A Topological Picture Book, Rendered
Article URL: https://e-infinity.space/picture-book/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49618050 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Is there any benefit to restarting your PC regularly?
Rebooting your PC regularly is old advice, but how important is this today? And how often do you really need to restart?
Anti-Doomscroll Tamagotchi Only Lives if You Do
The odds are, you have a device deliberately designed to be addictive in your pocket or on the table next to you if you aren’t staring at it right now– your smartphone. We’ve seen a number of projects that try and help people control or moderate their phone usage...
AI Agent Security Is Recreating the Password Problem
AI agents can turn temporary access into a lasting security liability across enterprise systems. The challenge is controlling what happens after people delegate authority and agents begin acting on their behalf. The post AI Agent Security Is Recreating the Password...
SpaceX’s recovered Starship 40 will take months to get back to Texas
SpaceX's rocket traveled thousands of miles from Texas to the Indian Ocean for a launch test. For a number of reasons, it'll take a lot longer to return home.
What’s going on with OpenAI and the Navier-Stokes controversy?
Artificial intelligence has solved a major mathematics problem, but credit for the accomplishment is murky.
I Built the Game. Now I Need to Find Out If Anyone Wants It
I Built the Game. Now I Need to Find Out If Anyone Wants It Go to Source On August 25, I submitted Adversary to Apple App Review. I liked the date. I was born on the 25th. My wife and I first met on the 25th. Our wedding was...
Building Isolyne (Part 2): How We Detect Silent Architectural Drift with Zero AI Hallucinations
Building Isolyne (Part 2): How We Detect Silent Architectural Drift with Zero AI Hallucinations Go to Source If you ask an AI engineer today how to build an app that detects when developers disagree, most of them are likely to propose...
Why Can’t My AI Agent Renew My Driver’s License?
Why Can’t My AI Agent Renew My Driver's License? Go to Source This morning, an AI agent autonomously refactored a messy legacy codebase I was working on years ago, it did the whole thing before I had a chance to finish my coffee.Next...
How Cloud Policies and Store Verification Delayed My Mobile App Release
How Cloud Policies and Store Verification Delayed My Mobile App Release Go to Source The app was finished. Everything that actually stopped it from shipping was an identity check — and not one of them is in the SDK documentation. I am...
Lightsage Raises $4M Led by Nexus to Build the Growth Stack for AI Agents
Lightsage Raises $4M Led by Nexus to Build the Growth Stack for AI Agents Go to Source In June 2026 Cloudflare reported that machines had overtaken people as the source of most requests to web pages, 57.5 per cent against 42.5, a...
Reflectiz Launches Agentic Pentesting for Websites: Up to 10x Coverage vs Conventional Pentests
Reflectiz Launches Agentic Pentesting for Websites: Up to 10x Coverage vs Conventional Pentests Go to Source Boston, MA, USA, September 8th, 2026/CyberNewswire/--Reflectiz, the continuous web exposure management company, today...
This ‘union-busting’ calculator arms workers with information
When employees dare to organize their workplace, a $1.7 billion industry of consultants and law firms springs into action. According to the Labor Department, something like 75% of employers enlist union avoidance consultants to quash union efforts. Some of them,...
Bing Wallpaper app opens Harry Potter’s chamber of ads
Microsoft has pumped ads into the Windows Start menu and pushed users through setup screens promoting its services. Now it's bringing advertising to the Windows desktop with a Harry Potter promotion in its Bing Wallpaper app. Users of Microsoft’s Bing Wallpaper app...
OpenAI’s Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack
A secret channel running through ChatGPT's internal JFrog Artifactory instance allowed one account to send hidden tasks - such as retrieving email data from a connected Gmail account - to a ChatGPT session under another account, according to Check Point Research. The...
Google research shows when AI agents communicate, some cheat while others tattle
When AI agents communicate with one another, they may decide to cheat when they have difficulty achieving their goals. The solution could involve teaching them how to govern themselves. Segregating AI agents would seem to be the obvious fix – if they can't...