Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/pentagon-releases-then-quickly-removes-testosterone-screening-policy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576196 Points: 18 # Comments: 4
How to check your MacBook’s hard drive health
Your MacBook's storage is vitally important. If your SSD or hard drive goes kaput without a backup, getting your files back can sometimes be impossible.
Elementor Pro WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exploited to Hack Sites
Tracked as CVE-2026-32475 (CVSS score of 9.8), the bug described as an arbitrary file upload issue in the function that handles form submissions. The post Elementor Pro WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exploited to Hack Sites appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Is it worth paying extra for iCloud storage?
Storing lots of photos, videos and files online can quickly fill up your iCloud storage and pause all of your backups. Choosing the right plan can be key.
Terpstra Keyboard
Article URL: http://terpstrakeyboard.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575150 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
How to check which apps are draining your iPhone battery
Some of the reasons why you've lost battery are out of your control, but knowing which apps are draining it can help your iPhone last until the end of the day.
10 products Apple is leaving behind in 2026
As Apple continues to upgrade its operating system and line of smartphones, smartwatches, displays, and computers, it's leaving plenty behind in 2026.
What happens when you run the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool?
Memory issues could be behind your PC's performance problems, app crashes and random restarts. A Windows tool could help you understand what's going wrong.
Remote work as a worm, colorful platformers and other new indie games worth checking out
Here are the new indie games worth checking out, plus an early look at shipbuilding, I Am Your Beast DLC and a cat trying to stop an AI office takeover.
LG TVs aren’t the only ones spying on you [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvFu343KNek Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575176 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Netherlands pulls gold out of the US for fears of ‘geopolitical unrest’
Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-04/why-the-netherlands-moved-its-gold-from-us-and-canada/107111990 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575034 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
Running Generative AI on an RP2350
Driven by a desire for privacy, customization, and lower costs, there’s growing interest in AI models which can be run on local hardware. Few of them go as far as [Tim], though, who built an image generation diffusion model which can run on an RP2350 microcontroller....
Your AI Agent Has a System Prompt. But Will It Keep the Bowtie?
An AI agent can tell you its name. It can publish a list of capabilities. It can expose an Agent Card. Its developer can describe its role, permissions, model, tools and intended behavior. But none of those things tell us what kind of actor it becomes once it starts...
The Demotion Ladder: A Year of Governing Claude Code
I thought that if I wrote my feedback down, the agent would work through it like a checklist. And for a while that theory held. Every time I caught something in review, I'd write the rule into a doc, and the next run would be a bit better than the last one. With two...
Industrial MLOps as a Distributed Operating Model
Industrial MLOps is the discipline of managing ML systems across distributed environments with different trust boundaries, operational constraints, and availability requirements. When people talk about MLOps, they often imagine a fairly straightforward lifecycle.A...
Will the Xbox Helix Have a Disc Drive?
After PlayStation announced that it will end physical disc production in 2028, many have taken that to mean that the PlayStation 6 will no longer have a disc drive. It’s a good assumption to make, however, it’s still an assumption. We know next to nothing about the...
Why Feature Flags Should Be Treated as Production Infrastructure
Beginning with a very simple concept - to turn on/off new functionality using a switch - many developers use feature flags to prevent needing to deploy the application again.The initial implementation may seem harmless at this stage (see below):if...
The AI Writing “Witch Hunt” Is a Huge Waste of Everyone’s Time
Why fighting AI-generated text protects human mediocrity rather than intellectual depth. Lately, the media and writing platforms have developed a peculiar obsession: they have all started fiercely fighting texts created by artificial intelligence. The battle ranges...
What Internal AI Projects Teach You That No Guide Will, Part 1
Anyone who has ever built an enterprise AI application knows the feeling: you look at the first promising tests, the team is excited, everything seems to go to plan. But a few sprints in, the project just stalls, and not for technical reasons. I want to explain why...
What to expect at Apple’s iPhone 18 launch event on Wednesday
Apple’s annual iPhone launch event will take place on Wednesday, September 9. It is a staple of the tech scene every year, but this year’s iPhone event is arguably one of the most consequential for Apple in well over a decade. Not only is the company expected to...
They paid $470,000 for a ‘boring’ business. Within days, almost everything went wrong
Andrea Palacio and her husband thought they were playing it safe. In a search for a passive income business, they paid $470,000 for a South Florida landscaping company a few years ago. It was, in their words, a “boring business,” which was hands-off and had good cash...
Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel
A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task...
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
Article URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574167 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
America’s disposable workforce is growing. It comes with hidden costs
Below, Paul Osterman shares five key insights from his new book, Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment. Paul is a Professor Emeritus of Human Resources and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. What’s the Big Idea? The rise of disposable...
Git hosting that never leaves Europe
Article URL: https://pushin.eu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573680 Points: 6 # Comments: 4
Free Your Rotary Telephone From Its Wire
It’s said that a teenager given a rotary telephone in 2026 would be mystified by its operation, yet there are enough surviving instruments for them to be an attractive target for a project. But just what project? [fregacmols] is here with one possibility, turn that...
Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities
Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe. The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed attackers exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and...
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury
After nearly eight years, ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo spacecraft is finally nearing Mercury, as engineers begin the arrival sequence by jettisoning the power module that got it this far. The spacecraft stack separated from the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) on September...
Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgyn8q8gqxo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573455 Points: 27 # Comments: 7
How women over 40 can use personal branding to reclaim their careers
For decades, Cindy Gallop worked in the advertising industry, building brands. But at 45, she stepped away from her career and built her own. Now, at 66, she’s known as the founder of sextech, has one of the most-watched TEDx videos on YouTube, and is building her own...