N-able Issues Fourth N-central Hotfix in Five Weeks for Unauthenticated RCE Flaw
Every on-premises N-central build below 2026.3.1.14 — including servers updated to Hotfix 3 a day earlier — needs Hotfix 4. N-able's incident notice says the flaw has been exploited in the wild; its release notes say that is unconfirmed. N-able has released its fourth...
This 3D-printed alarm clock has an arcade-style snooze button
This alarm clock is almost comically easy to snooze once, but much harder to ignore a second time. [Photo: Endothermal Systems] The CinderClock is a 3D-printed alarm clock with a big, red 10-millimeter (0.4-inch) arcade button on top that designers sized so you can...
Digital critical infrastructure should be built and managed better. Here’s how
What do the water system in Flint, Michigan, the electrical grid in Puerto Rico and your search engine have in common? They are all critical infrastructure—systems essential to everyday life. People expect critical infrastructure to be reliable, to minimize risk and...
Peers ask why UK cyber bill leaves execs off the personal liability hook
Peers have questioned why the UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill does not allow regulators to penalize senior executives when an organization's failure to comply involves their consent, connivance, or deliberate or careless neglect. Echoing arguments heard across...
Programming is Art
Article URL: https://orchidfiles.com/programming-is-art/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49595360 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
The case for common sense at work
“Why isn’t common sense more common at work?” I’ve heard some version of this question more times than I can count, and it’s only increasing. I’ve asked it myself. I’ve been at nearly every rung of the corporate ladder, from working the cash register to sitting in...
It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/mark-zuckerberg-resign-meta Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49595320 Points: 12 # Comments: 8
JSCeal Malware Can Bypass Google Authentication Using Stolen Session Cookies
Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked JSCeal, a sophisticated compiled V8 JavaScript (JSC) malware with credential harvesting, surveillance, and traffic-interception capabilities. "The payloads are protected with javascript-obfuscator, using multiple techniques...
OpenAI’s rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on
OPINION You will have heard of July's OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, where thousands of the former's AI agents conducted a mass jailbreak from a notionally secure capture-the-flag lab experiment, before going on to feloniously capture chunks of Hugging Face's assets....
If your business doesn’t offer workers a 401(k) plan, maybe now is the time
The business of retirement savings has been going through some major changes lately. Financial services companies are seeking to grow the pie aggressively by getting more employees to invest in 401(k) plans and similar savings accounts. At the same time, more people...
‘Did you use AI?’ is the wrong question. Ask ‘What did you use AI for?’
At the end of July, a debut crime novel became the most expensive casualty so far in the publishing industry’s war over AI. Fourteen publishing houses had bid for the manuscript, with the winning offer delivering a $2 million contract for the author. But when rumors...
Comparing PETG and PCTG Filaments
The average 3D printer owner knows a few types of filaments – PLA, ABS, somewhere in the middle, PETG. PCTG is another option that can be confusingly similar to PETG. Recently, [Igor Gaspar] of [My Tech Fun] took a poke at both types. He obtained both PETG and PCTG...
Switzerland’s Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
Article URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/switzerland-replace-microssoft-pilot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594251 Points: 24 # Comments: 11
Amazon-branded plane in fatal accident at Miami Airport
Amazon-branded plane in fatal accident at Miami Airport Go to Source Two runways are currently closed at Miami International Airport after an Amazon-branded cargo plane overran a runway, resulting in five fatalities. The leased 767,...
Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire
WHO, ME? Every Monday morning The Register asks the same question – “Who, Me?” – because that’s the name of our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace scrapes, escapes, and japes. This week meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Marc” who...
Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs
Article URL: https://github.com/timgordontg/engrim Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594008 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
I refused to train the AI that could replace me
Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-training-jobs-expert-replacement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593959 Points: 23 # Comments: 3
Keep Our Servers Running
Article URL: https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/keep-our-servers-running-your-recurring-donation-goes-3x-this-september/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593563 Points: 205 # Comments: 45
Coop – Isolated VM Environments for Running Claude Code and Codex
Article URL: https://github.com/trailofbits/coop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593842 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security
Article URL: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0301 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593066 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
Jensen’s purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry
KETTLE AI repository Hugging Face will soon be an Nvidia property, and while everyone's promising things will remain the same we at The Register's Kettle desk aren't so sure the status quo is going to stay the status quo at the AI industry's leading open model host....
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says ‘AGI has arrived’ and congratulates OpenAI
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-jensen-huang-agi-openai-astra-ai-2026-9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594189 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
Want to improve your performance? Focus on this
There was a time where being a high performer meant putting every other aspect of your life on the back burner and devoting all of your time and energy to your work. Family, hobbies, and other obligations were cast aside. Rest and sleep in particular were a luxury the...
How marketing and HR can work together to increase sales
Over nearly two decades in the branding industry, I’ve seen way too many highly imaginative marketing departments and ad agencies give it their all to develop and launch impactful sales campaigns, only to see them fall flat in terms of results. Many of those campaigns...
Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds
Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has decided he might as well blame AI for a version 7.3 release candidate that’s larger than was usually the case before LLMs came into our lives. “This didn't *feel* like a particularly busy rc2, but it clearly was,” he wrote in his...
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals
ASIA IN BRIEF Thailand’s National Economic and Social Development Council last week decided to pause all datacenter builds in the country, while it works out appropriate regulations. The Council announced the pause last Friday in a communiqué issued after a meeting of...
NES Radar Tracks Flights at 9600 Baud
Air traffic visualizers seem to be having a bit of a moment right now, and now that moment has come to the venerable NES thanks to [k6lcm]’s NES Radar project, which is open-source under the GPL on GitHub. In spite of the name, there’s no Radio Direction or...
ChatGPT Sites makes building a website feel like making a Google Doc
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. ChatGPT Sites is one of the best tools I’ve tried for making simple websites. I once spent hours drafting HTML by hand. I struggled with...
Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This September
Article URL: https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/keep-our-servers-running-your-recurring-donation-goes-3x-this-september/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593563 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don’t need POST to Post
Article URL: https://gettogether.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592840 Points: 9 # Comments: 1