Google TV Streamer Jumps to $150 as Component Costs Rise
Google raises the TV Streamer price to $149.99 as component costs rise, changing how it compares with Roku, Amazon and Walmart streaming alternatives. The post Google TV Streamer Jumps to $150 as Component Costs Rise appeared first on TechRepublic.
Dyson Put a Camera in a $499 Toothbrush: Here’s What It Does
Dyson’s CameraJet toothbrush uses a built-in camera and machine learning to detect gaps between teeth and automatically target them during cleaning. The post Dyson Put a Camera in a $499 Toothbrush: Here’s What It Does appeared first on TechRepublic.
Xbox Series X25 vs Xbox Series X: Is the $100 Premium Worth It?
Xbox Series X25 costs $100 more than the standard Series X without adding performance. Here’s what the anniversary premium actually buys. The post Xbox Series X25 vs Xbox Series X: Is the $100 Premium Worth It? appeared first on TechRepublic.
Five Singapore Firms Account for 98% of Southeast Asia Data Center Funding as Build-Out Spreads
Five Singapore firms account for 98% of Southeast Asia’s data-center equity funding as new cloud and AI capacity spreads across the region. The post Five Singapore Firms Account for 98% of Southeast Asia Data Center Funding as Build-Out Spreads appeared first on...
ChatGPT for Healthcare Adds Epic Integration for Patient Records
OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT for Healthcare to supported Epic EHR systems, giving clinicians read-only access to patient records and medical data. The post ChatGPT for Healthcare Adds Epic Integration for Patient Records appeared first on TechRepublic.
Brazil Tried to Regulate AI in Elections. A Bolsonaro Avatar Is Testing the Rules
Brazil’s election court faces a new AI test after a synthetic Jair Bolsonaro appeared in campaign content, exposing gaps between regulation and technology. The post Brazil Tried to Regulate AI in Elections. A Bolsonaro Avatar Is Testing the Rules appeared first on...
Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 5: Key Features and Price
Sennheiser’s $299.95 Momentum True Wireless 5 adds user-replaceable batteries to both the earbuds and charging case, plus longer battery life and Bluetooth 6.0. The post Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 5: Key Features and Price appeared first on TechRepublic.
Nothing OS 5.0: Eligible Phones, Features, Rollout Dates
Nothing OS 5.0 starts with Phone (3) and expands through January 2027. Here are the eligible devices, major features, rollout dates, and beta risks. The post Nothing OS 5.0: Eligible Phones, Features, Rollout Dates appeared first on TechRepublic.
Which came first, Windows 95’s taskbar or NeXT’s Dock? Neither
Last week marked the 31st anniversary of Windows 95 going on sale. More than three decades later, suggestions about the influences behind its interface can still rile some of the people who built it. The Reg FOSS desk prompted spirited responses from several former...
Over 3 Million WordPress Sites Affected by Migration Plugin Vulnerability
The high-severity SQL injection flaw (CVE-2026-19949) could allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution. The post Over 3 Million WordPress Sites Affected by Migration Plugin Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/02/japan-new-speed-limit-30kmh-narrow-city-streets Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49547763 Points: 11 # Comments: 3
More schools are banning cell phones. The academic benefits haven’t materialized
School cell phone bans aren’t as new as you might think. While a growing number of states have adopted them over the past three years, the practice dates to 1989, when Maryland prohibited the devices (and pagers) in an attempt to limit in-school communication among...
Notion’s new San Francisco HQ is an ode to classic design
Ever since offices have existed, they’ve projected a certain image of the companies who build them. And in the tech space, this has usually meant a forward-looking aesthetic—Apple’s spaceship, Amazon’s geodesic domes, and Bell Labs’ mirrored complex. It’s a fitting,...
5 proven ways to turn disinterest into a job offer
You landed an introduction to a hiring decision-maker through a mutual connection. Now the person across the table is being perfectly pleasant—and barely paying attention. There’s no open role; they’re doing someone a favor. This nice conversation is going nowhere,...
Cisco Warns of Unpatched Secure Email Flaws, Patches Critical Switch Vulnerabilities
Publicly disclosed S/MIME flaws could expose encrypted email content, while critical IOS XR and Nexus bugs could enable remote code execution and authentication bypass. The post Cisco Warns of Unpatched Secure Email Flaws, Patches Critical Switch Vulnerabilities...
PSA: Don’t rely on AI to plan anything that could put your life at risk… like a mountain climb
Gemini reportedly told a group of climbers that it would only take them eight hours to climb Mt. Shasta. They had to be rescued more than a day later.
My Safety Checks Were Monuments to Bugs I Had Already Fixed
I am building Kotohira Digital Residents for Shipaton 2026 — a membership app for a Japanese town of about 8,000 people. Expo SDK 57, React Native 0.86, react-native-purchases, TypeScript. The whole product is one idea: A ¥5,000 annual subscription that cannot buy the...
Startup Founder Interview: How Allie Digital CIC Is Building Better Technology for ADHD Learners
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Writing Prompts! Would you like to take a stab at answering some of these questions? The link for the template is HERE. 1. What is your company in 2–5 words? Building accessible tech for ADHD learners. 2. Why is now the time for your company to...
Coldcard, Trezor, SafePal hacks… Is Crypto Self-Custody Dead Now?
August 2026 was a rollercoaster for the crypto space. Kind of a bad one. Just before the start of that month, some unknown attackers managed to take advantage of a bug in the Coldcard hardware wallets to steal up to 2,055 BTC (~$130 million) directly from users. This...
OpenMatter Network Expands with New Capabilities for Secure AI, Computing and Data Collaboration
Melbourne, Florida, September 2nd, 2026/CyberNewswire/--Less than three months after its commercial launch, OpenMatter Network today announced a significant expansion of the platform with new capabilities that make it easier for enterprises, developers and researchers...
From Rejection to Release: How the Pinoy-Made App Todochi Got on Google Play
Hello, World!Hello again from Lagooners! We are four brothers from the Philippines building Todochi for RevenueCat's Shipaton 2026.It has been a few weeks since we first submitted Todochi for testing on both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. The journey...
How to Diagnose Latency Using p50, p90, and p99
The Median Vs. the Mean, and a breakdown of what each percentile Is attempting to tell you From what I have experienced most app. observability dashboards start with an average because it is familiar and easy to calculate. If an exporter gives you the usual histogram...
The Administrative Translation of Force
The most effective way to hide force may be to describe it perfectly - as a process.A missile strike can become a targeting operation.Civilian deaths can become a collateral estimate. Surveillance can become risk assessment. Occupation can become security management....
3 Architecture Mistakes When Building Autonomous AI Agents (And How to Fix Them)
As AI integrations rapidly evolve from simple API wrapper scripts to fully autonomous agents, software engineers and enterprise architects face a set of critical performance, cost, and reliability bottlenecks. Building production-grade agentic systems requires moving...
AI Was Supposed to Be Our Assistant. What If We Become Its Burden Instead?
There is a version of the next fifty years that looks like a miracle. Cancers caught and reversed before a patient ever feels sick. Fusion reactors humming quietly, uncracked, delivering power nobody has to ration. Crop yields doubling in soil we'd already written off...
What It Actually Takes to Network a Live System That’s Never Allowed to Go Offline
There is a version of network engineering where you get a maintenance window. Somebody sends a calendar invite, everyone agrees that Sunday 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. belongs to you, and if you overrun by twenty minutes the worst thing that happens is an apologetic email.I have...
How to Find Vulnerable WordPress Sites Using Common Crawl
Recently, due to the rapid growth of WordPress websites, crawling the existing database of tens of millions of WordPress websites has become a challenge. And why bother when Big Data is available?Everyone’s goals can be different, with good intentions, malicious ones,...
MCP is Deleting Its Own Handshake: Inside the Biggest Spec Rewrite Since Launch
I want to start with a bug, because this whole rewrite is really an answer to it. Imagine I'm running an MCP server in production, three instances of it behind a load balancer that spreads incoming requests across them. A client connects and the first instance...
Testing Drone Autonomy Shouldn’t Require a Drone
The title of this article is why I ended up building an open-source drone simulator that runs in a browser tab, and everything that silently broke on the way there. We are living in an era of the beginning of intelligent autonomous vehicle systems, and drones play a...
Operational Dark Matter: Why Mature Systems Keep Surprising Engineers
The most threatening parts of modern infrastructure are often not the ones engineers cannot see, but the ones everyone stopped remembering.IncidentAt 2:17 a.m., I was convinced we were chasing a network problem. My team was 3 hours into diagnosing a slowdown event...