South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot
South Korea’s government has posted a tender seeking suppliers to build a universal basic AI chatbot, and an AI agent for government services. The “AI for everyone” plan calls for private entities to create and operate the AI systems under contracts that expire in the...
At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills
At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills Go to Source Corporate PC buyers haven’t rushed to buy AI PCs but analyst firm Gartner thinks the machines can now do an important new job: Running AI workloads on...
Goose Creek – 6,574,121 breached accounts
In June 2026, a party claiming to have access to data from Goose Creek Candle Company sent emails to a number of the company's customers, claiming the company had a security vulnerability and suffered a data breach. The data was subsequently sent to Have I Been Pwned...
AI is doing the work. Are your leaders still doing the thinking?
AI has crossed a threshold. Organizations are no longer simply deploying artificial intelligence as a tool that helps people do their jobs. They are deploying AI as an actor that initiates, executes, and reports back—moving through decision loops that leaders used to...
The great AI layoff is turning into the great AI rehire
For the past two years, a certain kind of corporate announcement has become almost routine. The company cuts staff. The company cites AI. The company moves on. The formula was clean, the earnings calls were tidy, and the narrative was simple enough to fit in a...
SonicWall Issues Urgent SMA Patch Warning for Two Zero-Day Exploits
SonicWall SMA1000 zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410 can be exploited for remote code execution. The post SonicWall Issues Urgent SMA Patch Warning for Two Zero-Day Exploits appeared first on SecurityWeek.
For women, being creative at work comes with a hidden cost
In 2007, two psychologists, Madeline Heilman and Tyler Okimoto, published what would become one of the most influential papers on gender bias in the workplace. Across three experiments, they found that women who succeeded in stereotypically masculine roles were judged...
AIM-ing For a More Open Platform Than Discord
Do you remember AIM? It may suprize you to hear that AOL’s instant messanger was actually supported all the way up to 2017– two years after Discord launched. Unlike Discord, AIM is a protocol, not a platform. Everything on your favourite Discord server is at the mercy...
Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop ‘theft’ of content
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has delivered a landmark speech outlining the nation’s AI policy, which will require datacenter builders to contribute more energy than they consume and mean AI companies must reach agreements with local artists and media...
Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915709 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What’s Behind the New German Climate Warning
Article URL: https://worldcrunch.com/focus/green-or-gone/global-warming-at-3c-by-2050-what-s-behind-the-new-german-climate-warning/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915244 Points: 26 # Comments: 6
SN 1087: HalluSquatting, GhostApproval & GitLost – Patch Tuesday Breaks Records
AI is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity, and this week, massive government and private sector moves show just how quickly the stakes are rising. Find out how regulators, attackers, and defenders are all scrambling to keep up as vulnerabilities surface at record...
Benchmarking Repairability Scores with an Asus Tablet
A few years ago, France introduced a mandatory repairability score for consumer goods like laptops and tablets. It involves five criteria that range from documentation and availability of spare parts to ease of disassembly, with the manufacturer using a...
TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915004 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/07/14/data-centers-23-billion-electricity-bills/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914683 Points: 14 # Comments: 2
Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
Article URL: https://vpd.ca/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914644 Points: 6 # Comments: 4
Why I’m using wired Android Auto when all the cool kids are switching to wireless
Sometimes, you have to dial back the tech to make ends meet.
OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark
OpenAI has never been as open as its name suggests and is becoming even less so. The free-spending AI giant recently revised the multi-agent orchestration in its Codex command line interface to encrypt messages passed to subagents. OpenAI's Codex supports multi-agent...
Google Cloud’s VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update
Google Cloud has admitted it made a configuration change that means some customers of its VMware Engine (GCVE) can’t use stretched cluster. A G-Cloud incident report time-stamped 13:24 PDT on July 14 (21:24 UTC) reports some customers “are experiencing zonal outages...
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B
Lightspeed is in discussions to lead the funding round, sources say.
Casio FX-870P Emulator
Article URL: https://github.com/urbancamo/fx870p-emulator Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913910 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
New TV guidelines could change how women athletes are shown during live sports events
From Michael Phelps breaking records in the pool to Alysa Liu’s emotive gold medal ice skating performance, broadcast television has allowed athletes to bring their remarkable talents to a global audience. But for some—particularly women athletes—it’s also become a...
Linear is always a lagging indicator
Article URL: https://remark.ing/rob/rob.mw/-/Linear-is-always-a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913953 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
LeMario: Training a JEPA World Model on Super Mario Bros
Article URL: https://www.benjamin-bai.com/projects/lemario Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913763 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
QR-Swastika-Avoider
Article URL: https://crates.io/crates/qr-swastika-avoider Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913894 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
Lorde says AI glasses are “not sexy”
"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said on stage.
Full Body VR Tracking Is Just Some Recycled Hardware Away
Full body tracking in VR applications involves attaching sensors to one’s body, and [Jaki] has a DIY method to do it on the cheap: the Vive Tracker Lite project repurposes Vive controllers as lighthouse-based trackers, no hardware modifications required. A common...
Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month’s record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs
Remember last month when we were awed by Microsoft’s record-setting Patch Tuesday that addressed 206 CVEs? That was a quaint era compared to this month: Redmond just rolled out patches for 622 CVEs specific to its products, slightly more than tripling last month’s...
Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull120.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913443 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move
OpenAI's first hardware device is reported to be a screenless, AI-guided smart speaker that can move. Weird enough for you?