Picus Security launches autonomous platform to validate exposures in one loop
Picus Security launches autonomous platform to validate exposures in one loop Go to Source Cybersecurity validation startup Picus Security Inc. today launched the Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform, a system that merges...
CyberProof launches agentic MXDR to automate two-thirds of investigations
CyberProof launches agentic MXDR to automate two-thirds of investigations Go to Source CyberProof Inc., a co-managed security services company owned by UST Global Inc., today launched an agentic artificial intelligence service that it...
Radware adds Claude Code protection and compliance reporting to agent security
Radware adds Claude Code protection and compliance reporting to agent security Go to Source Application and network security company Radware Ltd. today expanded its Agentic AI Protection product with compliance reporting, deeper...
Red Hat offers RHEL support ‘forever’ for those who need to lock in to legacy tech
Red Hat has created a new support offering for its flagship Enterprise Linux that it characterizes as “RHEL forever” and has “no pre-determined end date.” The IBM business unit says the offering, formally known as “The Long-Life Add-On,” will “keep older minor or...
Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year
ON CALL The 2026 FIFA World Cup continues and at the time of writing, The Register's home nation – England – remains in with a chance to bring home the trophy! We therefore devote this week's edition of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support, to...
Three Different Digital Counters To Remind Us How Good We Have It
Integrated electronic modules like counters and displays are convenient and space-saving, which may also make them easy to take for granted. [Nagy Krisztián] demonstrates this by making three very different digital counter designs, each breadboarded with a 7-segment...
After Apple, India’s smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV
After Apple, India’s smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV Go to Source Vivo's joint venture could become a template for Chinese smartphone makers in India.
Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/ben-bernanke Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855112 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Microsoft warns customers AI will mean busier Patch Tuesdays
Microsoft has warned customers to expect more security patches for the foreseeable future, thanks to AI. “As AI helps defenders discover more issues, customers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security release,” the company’s executive...
Mechanosynthesis of Atomic Carbon Structures Using Inverted-Mode STM
Generally chemical synthesis involves putting a variety of compounds together in an environment where they will react and self-assemble into the desired product. Direct mechanical manipulation could be significantly more effective with synthesizing various substances....
Build your own vulnerability harness
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/build-your-own-vulnerability-harness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854681 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Focus
Article URL: https://boz.com/articles/focus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854363 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Star Just Ate a Planet, and It’s Not Done Yet
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/science/space/planetary-engulfment-hungry-star.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854638 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
10 years later, ‘Pokémon Go’ is as popular as ever
Ten years ago this week, a group of former Google engineers launched a mobile game with an unusual premise: Instead of keeping players glued to their phone screens, Pokémon Go turned the entire world into a playground by overlaying gameplay on real-world maps and...
Show HN: I built a free app for New Yorkers to save money on groceries
I built this because I see that grocery savings are achievable in NYC. People usually just go to the store they're used to going to, and it's rarely worth the effort of combing through card cashback, weekly coupons, CPG rebates.Most people leave real money on the...
I set up a solar panel security camera in my yard – and the image quality beat my Ring
The TP-Link Tapo C465 is a wireless security camera with a built-in solar panel for power, and it doesn't require a subscription.
I’m a Windows user who installed Linux for the first time – here’s how the experience changed me
I put Ubuntu on an old Dell laptop to see if Linux could really replace Windows 11. See why my final destination was so worth the speed bumps.
OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot amid breakup chatter
OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
An unnamed US county – perhaps in Ohio – paid $1M extortion demand to cybercriminals
A US county reportedly paid $1 million to Kairos, an extortion gang that claimed to have stolen more than 2 TB of data, but the county never received independently verifiable proof that the stolen files had been deleted - just the criminals' promise. This means the...
Don’t want to invest in Elon Musk? Two new ETFs explicitly exclude him
The new exchanged-traded funds exclude companies that are founded, controlled, or led by Elon Musk. That means no SpaceX or Tesla.
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role
OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise...
Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Article URL: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853091 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
Radio-Gaga is a Toddler Friendly Remote In a Radio
Humans of all ages like music, but you can’t exactly pass a toddler the aux cable. That’s not to say the younger set don’t have their own particular tastes– they absolutely do, and they absolutely love to take control and inflict them on the rest of us. [nbr23] has a...
Days after announcing mass layoffs, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma tapped to advise the Federal Reserve on jobs
That's a choice.
Singles in World Cup host cities continue to dust off their dating apps amid an influx of tourists
The 2026 World Cup has had no shortage of dramatic moments on the pitch. But action off the field for visitors and Americans is also heating up as the final matches draw closer. In the 11 host cities throughout the United States, an influx of international tourists...
OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
OpenAI's latest family of models promise improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.
Show HN: Rubiks Cube Solver
Speedcube is an open-source platform for speedcubers featuring a Rubik's Cube solver, competition timer, algorithm library, and AI-assisted cube recognition directly in the browser.Built with React, TypeScript, Rust, and Python, the project aims to become an...
How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner
Article URL: https://github.blog/security/application-security/how-github-gave-every-repository-a-durable-owner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852151 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise
Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.