CISA Adds Seven Exploited Flaws as Attackers Deploy Reverse Shells and Crypto Miners
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added seven security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after they landed in attackers' crosshairs. The vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS score:...
To keep the AI hacking genie bottled up, try one-way networks
To prevent frontier AI models breaking out of test environments and collaborating to hack other companies, we may have to rethink the network architectures used for model training. Eli-Shaoul Khedouri, CEO of Intuition Machines, argues that past work in the defense...
Researcher Releases FalconFlank PoC Showing Privilege Escalation in CrowdStrike Falcon
The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has dropped a new zero-day dubbed FalconFlank, a privilege escalation flaw impacting Crowdstrike Falcon. "FalconFlank is a 0day privilege escalation that...
How to navigate a values conflict at work as a leader
In general, your satisfaction with work is driven in part by whether your organization has a mission that is aligned with your values and goes about its work in a manner that is consistent with how you choose to live your life. I have written about the impact of...
How AI could kill ‘corporate ick’
Imagine a workplace where you spend less time attached to a keyboard, worrying about how to word an email, write a report, craft a LinkedIn post, polish a presentation deck, or sound professional enough in an office-wide memo. Instead, you stop hunching over a...
Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing ‘geopolitical unrest’
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/netherlands-gold-dutch-central-bank-uk-us-and-canada-geopolitical-unrest Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545747 Points: 18 # Comments: 12
Switch Mod Fixes Fiddly Car Door Projector
Switch Mod Fixes Fiddly Car Door Projector Go to Source While the Citroën logo they project onto the pavement looks great, [OrangeTungsten] wasn’t thrilled with how their door-mounted projectors actually functioned. The mechanism for...
Wk. 6 of Vibecoding an MMO
Article URL: https://eldermyr.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545547 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Has FDM 3D Printing Hit Its Peak?
Over the time Hackaday has been in existence, the art of 3D printing has evolved from a relatively crude hit-and-miss affair to something approaching what we all imagined back then. You can’t yet walk up to a Star Trek replicator and ask for a part, but a modern state...
Reflections on Americans’ Net Worth
Article URL: https://www.betonit.ai/p/reflections-on-americans-net-worth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544226 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
Capsule Security fine-tunes Nvidia Nemotron models to stop rogue AI agents
Agentic artificial intelligence security startup Capsule Security Ltd. today released a detection system built on two Nvidia Corp. Nemotron models it fine-tuned itself, in what it calls an “AI circuit breaker” for rogue AI agents. The models judge an agent’s intended...
Adobe brings 70+ tools from Photoshop, Illustrator and more to Slack
Adobe added dozens of tools from its creative apps like Illustrator and Premiere Pro into Slack, allowing you to ask Slackbot to do the Photoshopping for you.
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash is built for agents, while its Cyber twin hunts vulnerabilities
Google keeps cranking out Flash models: the company on Wednesday announced two versions of a new 3.8 Flash. The variants include a standard Flash, a “workhorse” model for agentic tasks, software development, and multi-step reasoning, and Flash Cyber optimized for...
As AI security concerns rise, HiddenLayer raises $100M and Huskeys bags $27M
Artificial intelligence security startup HiddenLayer Inc. today announced a $100 million Series B round, and a separate $27 million Series A went to edge security company Huskeys Security Ltd. Austin-based HiddenLayer, which dates to 2022, offers a product that checks...
HiddenLayer raises $100M and Huskeys $27M for AI security
HiddenLayer raises $100M and Huskeys $27M for AI security Go to Source Artificial intelligence security startup HiddenLayer Inc. today announced a $100 million Series B round, and a separate $27 million Series A went to edge security...
METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident
Article URL: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#core-takeaways-about-this-incident Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543841 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Maybe We Shouldn’t Be Reviewing All This Code
Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/rachels-ramblings/code-review.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543535 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Show HN: Every AI agrees with you. This writes your startup’s obituary instead
Article URL: https://theyfell.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543617 Points: 7 # Comments: 3
What is a cold wallet and how does it work?
With cryptocurrency wallets becoming huge targets for hackers, using a cold wallet to protect your private keys has never been more important.
Uber launches first robotaxis in London (with human supervisors)
Uber launches first robotaxis in London (with human supervisors).
Zuck’s Muse to Spark joy with open weights release ‘soon’
Meta will release an open weights version of its flagship AI model Muse Spark "soon," CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised in an X post on Wednesday. In the meantime, Muse Spark 1.3 — the smarter, less yappy, and more efficient version of the model — is now live on the...
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say
Despite what we saw with OpenAI’s models going rogue, creating message boards, and breaking into Hugging Face, only one advanced AI model - Anthropic’s Claude Mythos - completed the full cyber kill chain autonomously in Booz Allen’s tests. This doesn’t mean autonomous...
VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade
EXCLUSIVE What's old is new again as VMware will soon release an updated version of vSphere Standard, the low-end server virtualization bundle that it hasn’t significantly changed for years and has scarcely promoted since its 2023 acquisition by Broadcom. VMware’s...
Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November
Microsoft is set to launch the next iteration of C# this November. Redmond recently unveiled a preview of C# 15 that introduces tighter restrictions on data types alongside enhanced memory safety protections. Perhaps the most frequently requested feature that arrives...
With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it’s still in the race
Google on Wednesday announced the release of Gemini 3.8 Flash in an attempt to reclaim its reputation as a top-tier model maker in the process. The company's commitment to the frontier model race has been in doubt since at least early August when Google DeepMind CEO...
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip
If you see a mushroom in the forest and you're wondering if it's safe to eat or poisonous, don't ask an AI. Polish software engineer Piotr Migdał, a founding engineer at AI analytics and cost analysis firm Quesma, explained in a Wednesday blog post why trusting the...
AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit
A human ransomware crook used frontier AI models to breach an enterprise network in less than 10 hours, an intrusion Unit 42 says would normally take human operators around two weeks. The human attacker then told negotiators that they used frontier models and agentic...
Infosec pros say we’re not ready to lose control of AI
A recent survey shows national security pros believe there’s a one in ten chance humans lose control of AI in the next decade, and few believe we’re even watching for the right warning signs, much less preparing properly. The Institute for Security and Technology...
The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
Doubling Thermal Printer Resolution by Wiggling
Insides of the Sears 12 calculator. (Credit: Danalog, YouTube) Thermal printers are still extremely common today, using small heating elements in combination with temperature-sensitive paper to create a dot matrix-like effect without messing with ink ribbons and...