Michael Saylor Better Hope Bitcoin Doesn’t Rise Too Much
Strategy ($MSTR) is down roughly 80% and Wall Street seems to be burying Michael Saylor's company. But, like with everything, it's worth checking whether the numbers tell a different story. And that includes one of the strangest risks out there: the one that can go...
The Practical Case for Context Engineering in Software Teams
Someone asked me for a practical example of context engineering. Here is one pattern I use: keep a separate context layer for product memory, and give agents clear rules for maintaining it. This is different from putting another AGENTS.md into the product codebase. In...
How Blockchain Whitepapers Became Worldbuilding Documents
Author's note: This essay is adapted from Dreaming Systems, my ongoing memoir about blockchain, technological optimism, and the futures we imagined before they existed. -- In 2017, my inbox changed. I had started freelancing not long before, looking for a way to...
INTELLECT-3.1 Brings Open-Source RL Reasoning to 106B MoE Scale
INTELLECT-3.1 is a 106B open-source MoE reasoning model from PrimeIntellect built for math, coding, software engineering, and agents.
Myopic Loss Aversion: The Trader’s Silent Killer
Count how many times you checked your P&L yesterday. If you’re like most crypto traders I talk to, the honest answer is somewhere between ten and fifty. Each check felt free. None of them were. Here’s the math nobody runs. In equities, the market closes green on...
Why leaving extension cords plugged in permanently is riskier than you realize
Sure, home extension cords and power strips are handy, but they also result in thousands of preventable fires each year. Here's how to use them more safely.
The world is designed for men, which makes it dangerous for women. It doesn’t have to be that way
By trade, I am an industrial designer. I have been a designer for the majority of my life. I have navigated the world as a woman for the entirety of my life. Every day, I inhabit and interact with spaces and things—the tangible, built world assembled to achieve modern...
This startup is turning roofs of New York rent-stabilized buildings into an enormous, distributed power plant
At an aging seven-story apartment building in the South Bronx, the landlord recently faced an expensive problem: a leaking roof. The repairs were pricey enough, and installing solar panels wasn’t on the agenda. But a couple of months earlier, the building partnered...
China-Linked UAT-7810 Expands ORB Network With New LONGLEASH Malware
A Chinese threat actor tracked as UAT-7810 is actively refining its bespoke malware to expand its Operational Relay Box (ORB) network by breaking into internet-facing networking devices. According to findings from Cisco Talos, UAT-7810 is an advanced persistent threat...
Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
Article URL: https://tris.sherliker.net/blog/obfuscated-self-evaluating-bash-script-by-cdn-akamai-being-supplied-to-consumers-via-retail-stores/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829312 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Home Office’s glitchy eVisa rollout lands UK privacy regulator in campaigners’ crosshairs
Home Office's glitchy eVisa rollout lands UK privacy regulator in campaigners' crosshairs Go to Source The UK's privacy watchdog is facing calls for parliamentary scrutiny after campaigners accused it of failing to get a grip on the...
OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna will be widely available on Thursday.
ESP32 Keeps Tabs on Your Local Airspace
We know, we know. Despite being called ESP32-Plane-Radar, this project from [Mateusz Juszczyk] isn’t actually using radar. But thanks to the round LCD this desktop gadget does a fantastic job of recreating a classic radar display, and by pulling in Automatic Dependent...
This latest frightening ransomware attack was orchestrated entirely by an LLM
This latest frightening ransomware attack was orchestrated entirely by an LLM Go to Source Typically, when hackers attempt to break into a system, they have to retrace steps and make incremental changes time and again. A new campaign...
The business behind Chili’s viral comeback
TikTok trends, affordable meals, and Gen Z hype transformed an old-school chain into one of casual dining’s biggest comeback stories. Follow Fast Company‘s Gen Z reporter, Isa Luzarraga, as she dives into the business behind Chili’s viral comeback.
NHS told to show its working on Palantir platform benefits
A campaign group has written to the UK health minister to force him to clarify data used by the government in Parliament to justify its controversial £330 million investment in a data-sharing system supported by Palantir. The Register understands that the UK's...
AI’s biggest challenge is not compute – it’s data storage
AI continues to evolve at pace. The novelty of generative models producing their own content is already giving way to the buzz around agentic systems that can set goals autonomously and execute multi-step workflows without human involvement. Each staging post on AI's...
Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.
AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
Meta says it will disable the camera on its glasses if you tamper with the recording LED
Meta answers people's privacy concerns about its smart glasses in an FAQ.
GitLost: We Tricked GitHub’s AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
Article URL: https://noma.security/blog/gitlost-how-we-tricked-githubs-ai-agent-into-leaking-private-repos/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48827858 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
ADHD brains are prone to wandering. That’s a secret weapon in the workplace
Some of the symptoms that create challenges for those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may also contribute to a greater capacity for creativity under the right circumstances. Traits associated with the condition, such as distractibility, a lack of...
15-Year-Old GhostLock Flaw Enables Root and Container Escape on Most Linux Distros
Researchers at Nebula Security have disclosed GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old Linux kernel flaw that lets any logged-in user take full root control of a machine that has not been patched. The vulnerable code has shipped by default in essentially every...
CISA Adds 4 Actively Exploited Adobe, Joomla, and Langflow Flaws to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-48282 (CVSS score: 10.0)...
AI is becoming a bargain hunter’s market, with a few luxury models on top
The price of AI tokens is fluctuating widely, with some becoming cheaper and others more expensive, leaving users of AI services struggling to assess if the price is right. Aman Panjwani, an AI engineer based in India, says that GPT-4-class model output cost about $20...
Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world’s vids
SYSTEMS APPROACH A few weeks ago, Larry and I independently received the same advice from two different sources: take a look at Media Over QUIC (MoQ) for your next edition. I’ve been following the standardization of QUIC for several years (and wrote about it) but MoQ...
GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday
Article URL: https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2074704958419792299 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48827402 Points: 34 # Comments: 0
How to say no to projects that are a waste of your time
Everyone I know these days is busy. They put in long hours at work running from one meeting to another, writing reports, engaging in internal and customer-facing work. There isn’t much downtime. Yet, all that busy-ness doesn’t necessarily equate to production. Often,...
The Atari Jaguar Runs Linux
The Atari Jaguar Runs Linux Go to Source Among the many forgotten might-have-beens of the games console world, the Atari Jaguar occupies a special place. It was the final gasp of Atari Corporation, the Jack Tramiel-era incarnation of...
How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS
Article URL: https://neil.computer/notes/how-to-setup-minimal-zfs-nas-without-truenas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48827325 Points: 11 # Comments: 1