Stablecoin Payments Are Easy Until the Customer Uses the Wrong Chain
I used to think stablecoins were the simple answer to crypto payments.Bitcoin was too volatile for many merchants. ETH moved too much. A customer could pay at 2:00 p.m., the market could move by 2:05 p.m., and suddenly a normal invoice had become a small trading...
Controlling Scripts With Content Security Policy: Hashes, Nonces, and strict-dynamic
This post is dedicated to script-src, the directive that controls which scripts your page is allowed to run. We will look at how to use this directive to protect your site, and discuss when to use hashes, nonces and 'strict-dynamic', and see it live in interactive...
Cloudflare and AWS Want AI Agents to Pay for the Web
Cloudflare has launched a Monetization Gateway that allows websites to charge AI crawlers, data agents, and model-training systems for access to content, APIs, and datasets, marking one of the clearest attempts to turn automated AI traffic into a paid internet...
AI Filmmaking Needs Its Own Version of “Print It”
Three weeks ago, I generated a corridor shot for Lost Garden, glanced at it for maybe four seconds, thought close enough, and moved on to the next beat. Six shots later, cutting the scene together, I noticed the torchlight in that one shot hit my character’s face from...
JobVerify Earns a 64 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an Automated AI Background Check System to Detect Scam Job Offers
Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...
Leveraged Cup Awards $20,000 Grand Prize in Global Trading Competition
Limassol, Cyprus, July 12th, 2026/Chainwire/--LEVERAGED, a proprietary trading firm empowering anyone to become a trader, announced the conclusion of the 2026 Leveraged Cup, a worldwide trading competition where participants competed to secure the highest percentage...
How I Built a 30,000-Person Ambassador Program From Scratch at a Mass-Market Beauty Brand
In June 2023, I a cosmetics and set out to build something the brand didn't have yet: a structured way to turn ordinary customers into a scalable, trackable ambassador community. It was my initiative from day one — I designed the program and led my team through...
Games Done Quick abruptly canceled SNK stream due to ties with Saudi Arabia
Games Done Quick said it would not accept funds from or work with SNK in the future.
Apple’s new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
Article URL: https://get-inscribe.com/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894752 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-07-13/Special_report Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894671 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
DOGE is done. What happened to its records?
Article URL: https://www.ms.now/opinion/doge-government-efficiency-records-job-cuts-elon-musk-foia Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894641 Points: 33 # Comments: 3
Should AI companies be ‘forced’ to give half their stock to the public? Most Americans say yes
Companies that build AI are changing the way Americans live, and most Americans want to share in the wealth. According to a new national survey of 1,690 adults from research firm Verasight, 69% said they support “forcing” AI firms to transfer half their stock to a...
LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-and-privacy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893947 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
As TV-tracking app TV Time shuts down, its founder builds Bingers, a new home for fans
The creator of TV Time is building a successor app that will let users import their watch histories and preserve the community that formed around discussing their favorite shows.
Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US
Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.
How I tag my files to avoid endless searching and disorganized folders
File managers are often overlooked as one of the most important tools in an operating system. Try this and see if you don't agree!
Voltmeter-Based Floating Point Calculator Does It In Style
[lcamtuf] is not just a calculator superfan, but also a skilled builder. That much is evident in the fabulous design of Calcumator 2000, an electromechanical calculator that uses voltmeter readouts as digits (plus one at the bottom to represent decimal place). There...
You can easily scan QR codes that are already on your phone
Android and iOS both have built-in tools to easily open QR codes from screenshots.
The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed
Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/silpheed/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893639 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Precursor
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-precursor/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893446 Points: 17 # Comments: 4
New MemGhost Attack Plants Persistent False Memories in AI Agents Through One Email
Give an AI assistant a memory and access to your inbox, and you hand an attacker a way to rewrite what it thinks it knows about you. A single email can trick that agent into saving a false "fact" about the user, hide the change, and quietly steer its answers in later...
Think 8 hours of sleep is the best for your cognitive health? A new study suggests otherwise
Your sleep habits may be even more important than you think. A new study from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Western Australia just found a surprising new link between your nighttime routine and your future risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The study, which was published...
Meet Intel’s 18A-Based Starfire Orbital Chip Design
It can handle space radiation and temperatures up to 125° C, but the max TDP is just 35W.
⚡ Weekly Recap: ShareFile Threat, Citrix Bleed 2 Ransomware, AI Coding Attacks, and More
Somewhere right now, a security tool is quietly finding bugs faster than any human can fix them. That's supposed to be the good news. The catch is that the attackers have the same tools, pointed the other way, and they don't file tickets. That's the shape of this...
Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thing
KETTLE Like a drug dealer who's hooked you and raised their prices, business leaders are simply shocked to learn the AI their organizations are becoming dependent on is suddenly a lot more expensive. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on...
Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test
SpaceX is scheduling another test flight of its monster Starship rocket later this week. Flight test 13 will carry 20 Starlink satellites and, hopefully, will not repeat the anomalies seen during the previous test. The mission is set to launch on Thursday, July 16,...
SREs to AI agents: Prove yourself before you touch production
Trusting an AI agent to summarize user complaints about downtime is one thing; trusting it to fix the problem unattended is something else entirely. A survey of 696 experts The Register ran with NeuBird AI in April 2026 found that 73 percent are not using AIOps at...
The best all-in-one computers of 2026: Expert tested and reviewed
We tested the best all-in-one computers that combine the power of a desktop PC with a slim, lightweight design.
Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop
Article URL: https://github.com/clawkwork/clawk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892859 Points: 12 # Comments: 6
Fake Bank Apps Let Scammers Control Android Phones in Southeast Asia
RedHook malware uses fake banking and government apps to steal data and control Android phones, with attacks confirmed in Vietnam and Indonesia so far. The post Fake Bank Apps Let Scammers Control Android Phones in Southeast Asia appeared first on TechRepublic.