Your company’s well-being survey has the same flaw as a bad doctor
A good doctor doesn’t start with a scan. She starts with a conversation. What hurts, since when, does it get worse at night, has anything like this happened before, have other family members experienced something similar. This conversation has a name in medicine:...
Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64939558 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48831499 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
The best Roku feature for night owls you probably aren’t using
If you indulge in late-night binge-watching on your Roku, Fire Stick or Google TV, you're going to want to enable this feature.
The Imagination Era: Why creativity matters more than ever in the age of AI
We are entering what the creativity strategist Natalie Nixon calls the Imagination Era, a moment when ideas, curiosity, and new ways of thinking matter more than ever. As artificial intelligence accelerates, leaders face a critical question: How can they treat AI as a...
Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander
Former NASA boss Jim Bridenstine has warned that the space agency's plan to land astronauts on the Moon risks becoming too complicated for its own good. Bridenstine, who ran NASA during the first Trump administration and departed in 2021 before the Artemis I launch,...
Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design
Lurking in the release notes for this month's Patch Tuesday preview is a fix for a world of storage pain being experienced by some unlucky Windows 11 users. At the end of June, Microsoft said: "This update improves disk space usage for the...
Tech divorce from Walmart cost Brit retail giant Asda £1.22B
The UK’s third-largest supermarket, Asda, has reported that the cost of its tech divorce from Walmart — which included building a new SAP ERP system — reached £1.22 billion, four years after it first separated from the US retail giant. Results published last month...
Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down
Aussie telco Telstra is currently battling the mother of all borks after blaming a “software defect” for an outage that downed emergency services calls and public transport lines. Telstra blamed the 12-hour outage, which it discovered at around 0430 AEST on Wednesday,...
Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint
UK comms regulator Ofcom has fined Virgin Media £28 million for repeatedly obstructing customers seeking to switch broadband, pay TV, and landline providers, or to cancel their contract with the company. The watchdog says it uncovered deliberate stalling tactics by...
Webinar Today: Why Email Security Keeps Failing
Join the webinar as we break down why email-layer defenses alone can’t keep pace with the modern phishing ecosystem. The post Webinar Today: Why Email Security Keeps Failing appeared first on SecurityWeek.
GitHub’s former CEO launches a distributed Git network built for the agentic coding age
The developer tools startup said it's building better infrastructure for a future run by coding agents.
Fi Ultra pet tracker uses T-Mobile’s Starlink satellite service for coverage
Fi's latest dog tracker uses Starlink satellites for rural areas.
Venus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your steps
With funding from tennis star and angel investor Venus Williams, the French app WeWard says that it increases walking time by almost 25%.
Why we’re all posting less on social media these days
Americans are getting quieter and more selective about what they share online. And, honestly, same.
This European vacation destination has a new dress code—and breaking it could cost you
Italy’s famous “la dolce vita” is getting a dress code. The picturesque fishing village of Varenna, near Lake Como, is cracking down on tourists who wander its streets shirtless or in swimwear. Beach attire is now limited to the lakeside beach and boats, with anyone...
This Steam Game Has 88% Positive Reviews, But Players Are Requesting Refunds in Droves
Zoro Arts, the developer behind Paddle Paddle Paddle, says Steam is long overdue for a change to its refund policy.
Sick of skyrocketing car prices? This tiny, cute EV costs just $13,995—but there’s a catch
It’s hard to find someone who doesn’t think automobile prices are getting out of control. Ever since the pandemic, the prices of both new and used cars have been skyrocketing, with American consumers’ total auto debt surging to $1.68 trillion at the end of 2025—up 37%...
Google Dialogflow CX Bug Allowed Attackers to Hijack AI Conversations
The "Rogue Agent" vulnerability could have enabled attackers to silently manipulate AI conversations, exfiltrate data, and compromise every Dialogflow CX agent within the same Google Cloud project. The post Google Dialogflow CX Bug Allowed Attackers to Hijack AI...
The Verification Step Is the New ATO Battleground in 2026
For years, account takeover (ATO) followed a predictable script. Attackers bought stolen credentials in bulk, ran them through automated tools, and waited for matches. Credential stuffing was cheap, scalable, and for defenders, relatively well understood. That era is...
GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code
An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a new study of GitHub Copilot by researchers Abhishek...
Report Urges States to Lead Data Center Water Oversight
Report Urges States to Lead Data Center Water Oversight Go to Source Rather than imposing national mandates, states should oversee data center water use through standardized reporting, watershed-based reviews, and performance...
Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/07/apple-to-increase-spend-with-broadcom-to-produce-billions-more-us-chips/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830565 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space
Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.
DuckDuckGo Browser can now block video ads, including YouTube’s
DuckDuckGo will now block video ads by default in its browser.
GitHub ‘Verified’ Commits Can Be Rewritten Into New Hashes Without Breaking Signatures
New research shows that a signed Git commit's hash is not the one-of-a-kind name that much of the software world assumes it to be. Given any signed commit, someone without the signing key can mint a second commit with the same files, author, and date, and a valid...
List of European organizations that have banned personal messaging apps at work
Article URL: https://www.birdy.chat/blog/the-growing-list-of-european-organisations-that-ban-personal-messaging-apps-at-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830371 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
We Got This Wrong. and We Are Fixing It
Article URL: https://community.hubspot.com/t/we-got-this-wrong-and-we-are-fixing-it/152063 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830388 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Chili’s is on fire! The untold story of how it’s keeping the party going
At first glance, the toile wallpaper is pure class: cream-colored and printed with intricate, brick-red drawings. But as I look more closely, I see . . . Wait. Is that a pair of chili peppers riding a Jet Ski? And is that other pepper, the one on a chaise longue,...
Apple loses legal fight over its App Store ‘gatekeeper’ status in Europe
Apple has lost its court challenge against EU rules forcing it to open up its platforms to third parties.
Apple reportedly testing RAM chips from US-blocked Chinese company
Apple is testing devices with Chinese-made DRAM made by CXMT, which reportedly has ties to the People's Liberation Army.