GitLab has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that, under certain conditions, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely modify or delete public projects and...

Siemens and fellow German engineering biz Reinhausen are developing a solid-state transformer (SST) to deliver 800-volt DC power directly to increasingly dense AI datacenter racks. As AI hardware grows hotter and hungrier, server farm operators are looking to overhaul...

Payments biz Stripe has reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for at least $7 billion, signaling a shift in focus for the AI industry. OpenRouter provides a way for customers to integrate multiple AI models into their workflow and infrastructure and...

Article URL: https://beachfront.bearblog.dev/will-you-have-spent-more-of-your-life-with-computers-than-your-family/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336672 Points: 14 # Comments: 2

Tomorrow’s Tomorrowland at Disneyland could look very different than it does today. Tens of thousands of Disney fans learned over the weekend that their wishes have finally come true: The long-running attraction at the theme park in Anaheim, California will soon be...

A new Computer History feature saves event interactions on your Mac and sends them to OpenAI for processing.

Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high.

OLED displays solve many of the problems suffered by LC displays, including color fidelity, dynamic range and power usage. That said, especially in the early days OLED gained a reputation for dim screens, short lifespans and burn-in. Over time better organic dyes were...

Article URL: https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336573 Points: 17 # Comments: 1

In 50 years or so, quite a few Gen Zers are going to be telling their grandkids that they met while birdwatching.  At least, that’s according to the latest study from the events marketplace Eventbrite. The platform’s research found that Gen Zers are increasingly...

Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake's public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a crafted GitHub issue to execute commands in a workflow...

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated...

Cybersecurity researchers have traced the continued evolution of the Cavern (aka Cav3rn) command-and-control (C2) framework used by Iranian nation-state hackers in attacks targeting entities in Israel. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said its ongoing...

Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite music. Editors will be using the feature, too, on top playlists like RapCaviar and others.

Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.

SynthID and origin data are unaffected.

Article URL: https://ben.balter.com/2026/08/17/how-i-over-engineered-my-book/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335292 Points: 5 # Comments: 2

Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit stories instead of just reading them.

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lonely-men-at-the-end-of-the-world Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335600 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/meta-attorneys-general-california-federal-trial-astronomical-consequences.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335163 Points: 8 # Comments: 2