The missing ingredient in successful networking
The greatest missed opportunity at most conferences is not a keynote session, a panel, or a workshop. It is the conversations that never happen. Every year, professionals attend conferences hoping to build relationships, discover new opportunities, and create momentum...
World Cup grudge attackers may have scored Argentine FA access via year-old infostealer infection
Hudson Rock says the suspected compromise of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) may be linked to an infostealer infection nearly a year earlier. The incident appears to be the work of an aggrieved football fan, or group of them, after Argentina eliminated Egypt...
Progress orders emergency ShareFile server shutdown over mystery security threat
Progress Software has ordered some ShareFile customers to pull the plug on their own servers after detecting what it describes as a "credible external security threat" targeting the on-premises component of its enterprise file-sharing platform. The emergency warning,...
HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST
"Idempotent" may be jargon, but the term performs an important job in HTTP as a hall pass that gives reverse proxies and gateways the go-ahead to cache complex query responses and automatically retry failed requests. HTTP has long allowed automatic retries for...
Uber’s robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo
Washington D.C. has become a battleground for Uber and Waymo's competing views.
Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 37 Deals Announced in June 2026
Significant cybersecurity M&A deals announced by 1Password, Accenture, Cisco, F5, Rubrik, and SailPoint. The post Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 37 Deals Announced in June 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Thinking Fast and Slow in the SOC: The Case for Combining Autonomous AI with Analyst Copilots
A few days ago, I was sitting with the CISO of a Fortune 50 company, walking through how his security team was thinking about AI agents in the SOC. Smart team. Serious program. They had already connected Claude to a few detection tools and were seeing real value in...
Meta Files Patent for AI That Can Listen All Day and Track How You’re Feeling
Meta has filed a patent application for an AI that listens to your voice throughout the day, works out how it thinks you are feeling from the way you sound, and keeps a timestamped log of every read. Each read gets pinned to the moment it happened: the time, your...
Attacker Uses Suspected AI-Generated PowerShell Script to Map Active Directory
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an intrusion in which an unknown threat actor leveraged a vibe-coded PowerShell script for Active Directory (AD) enumeration. "The script looked for the Domain Controller (DC) and mapped users, computers, and domains, before...
A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese
Article URL: https://jivx.com/densha Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890959 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
Article URL: https://anderegg.ca/2026/07/12/an-infuriating-goodbye-to-photoshop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891200 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
How to work with AI without becoming replaceable
The rise of AI tools has created a sea of uncertainty about which skills will remain valuable and which will become obsolete. Which raises a question: How can professionals use artificial intelligence tools without becoming easily replaceable? According to experts in...
Taylor Swift fans are willing to buy her trash. Meet the NYC artist who cashed in from the pop star’s wedding night
Swifties will buy anything related to Taylor Swift: a CD or a vinyl—even if they listen on Spotify anyway—a cardigan or scarf inspired by her songs, and yes, even garbage. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce tied the knot on July 3 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden...
The Futility of Banning Killer Robots
As autonomous weapons become increasingly practical, banning them may prove impossible. Building stronger AI defenses could offer a more realistic path to protecting civilians and maintaining military deterrence. The post The Futility of Banning Killer Robots appeared...
RabbitMQ Vulnerability Threatens Enterprise Systems
Unauthenticated attackers could obtain the broker's confidential OAuth client secret, allowing them to take control of the broker. The post RabbitMQ Vulnerability Threatens Enterprise Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Oppo Watch X3 review: Come for the battery, stay for the versatility
Oppo's Watch X3 is a Wear OS watch that'll outlast all of its rivals.
AMD to Debut First Zen 6 CPUs With Epyc Venice This Month
All eyes on the Advancing AI 2026 event.
Four lessons in handling uncertainty from an ER doc turned CEO
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages...
New York City’s chief technologist is launching a new team to transform the city’s technology
New York City may soon undergo a major technological revamp. Earlier today, the mayor’s office announced it had begun hiring for a new group that will travel across city agencies and deploy technologists to transform often wonky and confusing digital interfaces for...
Leadership still hasn’t accepted this key truth about performance
This month marks the 15th anniversary of the publication of my book Lead From The Heart. While years have passed since then, I’m very much aware that the book’s central premise is one many leaders and organizations have yet to fully embrace—or perhaps don’t yet...
Exclusive: 34 CEOs on what thrills and terrifies them about agentic AI
When businesses leaders think about AI right now, they’re thinking about how agentic tools will change the very nature of their work. “We’ve crossed a line,” says Varun Krishna, CEO of the fintech giant Rocket Companies. “AI is no longer just creating. It is...
Amid ongoing war, a new children’s hospital in Ukraine is a lifeline
A pediatric hospital has just opened in Ukraine that could reinvent the country’s approach to providing healthcare. With a design informed by the trauma of war and a construction method optimized for a pressing need, Project Horizon is a modular, 15-bed pediatric...
Europe takes step toward social media ban for kids
Following a worrying new report, Europe is taking steps toward barring children from using social media.
DIY Steam Controller Puck Offers Xbox, Switch, PlayStation Emulation Modes
Valve recently released a new version of the Steam Controller, which features a wired USB puck that serves both as charger and dedicated, low-latency wireless receiver. The downside is they aren’t currently available for purchase separately, but that’s not a worry...
Spider-Man Got His Hands on the Upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide Before Anyone Else
Samsung will introduce two Fold 8 models this year.
Break out of the Spotify echo chamber with these music discovery gold mines
If there’s one thing that gets me as giddy as gadgets, it’s music. Tech and music have always been my two biggest passions. And lately, as I’ve been reconnecting with some of my old (heavy emphasis on the word old) college friends, many of whom are professional...
This new AI model thinks in images, not just words
For almost a decade, AI researchers have been obsessed with one kind of artificial intelligence—large language models (LLMs), which they train to write, talk, and reason using words. The tech industry is making an enormous bet that making such models bigger and...
How an army of digital sleuths are using AI to fix America’s crumbling sidewalks
I’m on a tree-lined street in Lincoln Park, a city in Metro Detroit, studying a curb ramp—the part of the sidewalk that slopes down to meet the street at an intersection so that someone using a wheelchair can safely cross. I mark the ramp “good” and move on. Psych!...
Design history, as told through 125 objects
From the pillow that determines whether a night is restful or not, to the mug that keeps the coffee from burning your hands, the streets and transit systems that get you to work, and the city you inhabit—everything is design. And no one understands that more than the...
AI has a constraint problem
March 2026 was a rocky month for big tech. On March 18, Meta decided to wind down support for Horizon Worlds, the last bastion of its five-year, $70 billion-plus virtual reality bet and the flagship project of its rebrand from Facebook. Eight days later, OpenAI...