Louisiana judge rules against NCAA in high-profile LSU case over ex-NFL players
LSU coach Lane Kiffin’s chances of fielding former NFL players improved Thursday night when a Louisiana judge issued a preliminary injunction against the NCAA in a high-profile eligibility case.East Baton Rouge Parish Judge William Jorden issued his ruling the night...
What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even...
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
Article URL: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/project-hydrafusion-frontier-quality-via-multi-model-orchestration/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566788 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Nvidia’s Free Tool Turns Your Idle Home Computers Into a Personal AI Hub
Got a few computers sitting around? Now you can run your own little data center.
Hackaday Podcast Ep 385: 3D Printers with Lasers, Wicked RAM Prices, and Reverse Polish Notation
As the calendar turns a leaf into September, Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for our weekly look at all things Hackaday. In the news, our retrocomputing competition is well under way, but there’s plenty of time to get an entry in if you’ve got a cool old-style...
No little kids allowed, and other new info about Tesla’s Cybercab
The company says no children under 13 can ride -- even with a parent. That's more restrictive than the Model Y SUVs it's using as robotaxis.
Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters
Microsoft is alerting of a "high-volume phishing campaign" that's using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. "Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used them to split...
PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution
PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present...
My Word. Microsoft’s prepping Similarity Checker for retirement
Microsoft is retiring Word's Similarity Checker on October 3 and stripping the feature from Microsoft Editor. Other writing and editing tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, won't be affected. But if an organization uses Similarity Checker as part of its workflow,...
In Other News: Microsoft’s Cloud Patches, Hacked Dropbox Accounts, Guardio’s $1.1B Valuation
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Microsoft rolled out patches for cloud services, hackers compromised 5,000 Dropbox accounts, and Guardio is now valued at $1.1 billion. The post In Other News: Microsoft’s Cloud Patches, Hacked Dropbox...
HPE Patches Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in AOS-CX
Nearly two dozen issues, tracked collectively as CVE-2026-73749 (CVSS score of 9.8), were addressed with the updates. The post HPE Patches Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in AOS-CX appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion to Bring Frontier AI to Critical Infrastructure Defenders
The Daybreak initiative will provide subsidized AI cyber capabilities, training and technical assistance, though OpenAI has disclosed few details about costs and eligibility. The post OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion to Bring Frontier AI to Critical Infrastructure Defenders...
Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
OpenAI’s agents were going rogue as early as May, according to a new report, making the Hugging Face incident far from the first where bots committed a breach. A report published Friday by a group of researchers claims to have found – with all of the agent posts...
Tag Markets Built Technology For Their Partners And Traders
Behind many international brokerages sits a distribution layer that receives far less attention than the trading platform itself. Introducing brokers and professional partners can connect financial businesses with clients across different markets, communities and...
The TechBeat: The Six-Day Mystery That Rewrote AI’s Price List (9/4/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Can Machines Learn Taste? By @derzhaiev [ 8 Min read ] Silicon Valley...
The Illiquidity Premium is Dead: How Property Tokenization is Bridging Real Estate and DeFi
For decades, the cornerstone of conservative wealth preservation has been tangible: real estate. The traditional investment mindset is rooted in a simple, enduring truth: they aren’t making any more land. Owning property provides a psychological and financial safety...
Designing a Driving Profile From Telematics Data
I’m Valeria Terekhina, a former Product Designer at Yandex, a technology company that develops products and services including search, maps, navigation, and mobility. I spent nearly four years working on Yandex Drive, the company’s free-floating car-sharing...
Elara Launches elUSD, a Dollar-Referenced Treasury Asset for Idle Stablecoins
There is more idle capital sitting onchain than most people realize. The total stablecoin float sits above $300 billion and has grown roughly 14% year over year, yet billions of those dollars are parked in wallets earning nothing, or worse, rotated into memecoin plays...
How to set project boundaries as a solopreneur
Recently, I decided to build a customer relationship management system (CRM) for my solo business. It started as a simple list of my contacts. Then I integrated my Google Drive and my calendar. Then I decided to add a pretty interface in my brand colors, along with...
The SLM Revolution: Taking a Look at Why Fit Beats Force
For the last few years, AI engineering has operated under a surprisingly simple assumption:Bigger models are better models.More parameters. More training data. More GPUs. More compute.And to be fair, that strategy has worked remarkably well. Scaling has produced huge...
Tennis influencers are causing disruptions at the US Open
The US Open tennis tournament is used to hosting big crowds that come to watch tennis players from around the world compete against one another. One group has grown and become more noticeable—content creators. On August 31, during Naomi Osaka’s first-round match...
Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I
Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I Go to Source Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/technology/open-source-ai-anthropic-openai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566137 Points: 5...
Nintendo just announced two Direct livestream events for next week
Zelda takes center stage on September 8 and everything else is being saved for September 9.
GMails custom domain “send as” discontinues January 2027
Article URL: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49565693 Points: 13 # Comments: 9
3D Printed Cubes Provide Passive Cooling
Passive evaporative cooling has been used for centuries to reduce temperatures. Heat is drawn off as water evaporates, which in turn reduces temperature. The more efficiently this process happens the greater the temperature differential, and that’s exactly what the...
Sony Adds Over 100 Free Live TV Channels to US PS5s
The service is ad‑supported.
Move over data centers, the midterms have a new campaign target
Wisconsin’s candidates for governor want to limit them, while Pennsylvania’s say they support a ban. A Michigan congressional candidate called them “un-American.” A Florida Senate candidate is selling merch opposing them.Across the country and up and down ballots,...
Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels
Canonical is closing off some of its older tools and communications channels for users, although some may remain – just unofficially. Back in May, Canonical’s Aaron Prisk announced on Discord that the company was closing the Ubuntu Pastebin at the end of June. Now a...
New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims’ Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic
A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The attackers named the implant ted...