The most common way into a company last year was to ask. A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions, it quietly places a command on their clipboard. Then it talks them through opening a terminal and pasting it in. The...

Article URL: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/lake-ontario-lake-america/146975 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49520270 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

Before this summer, the WNBA player Sophie Cunningham was probably most famous for her decision, in the waning seconds of a 2025 game, to more or less tackle an opponent who had poked the eye of her Indiana Fever teammate Caitlin Clark. In the weeks that followed,...

With the first quantum-resistant transaction mined, Bitcoin users get glimpse at the future of quantum-hardened transactions.

The defendants unsuccessfully attempted to physically install malware on ATMs to force them to dispense cash. The post Five Venezuelans Plead Guilty in US Court to ATM Jackpotting appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Microsoft ended the summer with two more Windows annoyances: Defender falsely warning that it is disabled, and reports that an August 27 update is wiping users' mouse cursor customizations. The company added both problems to its Windows release health dashboard on...

If you’ve heard the high-pitched whine or buzz from an electronic device when a current-carrying inductor is vibrating, you’ll know how unpleasant it can be. It’s common in all kinds of equipment, but it’s become a particular annoyance of late in hardware like PC...

French cybersecurity company Filigran SAS today launched Attack Chaining, a capability in its OpenAEV exposure validation product that links individual attack simulations into a single running path. It ships with OpenAEV v3, out today. Real intrusions rarely stop at...

Article URL: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/21656 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49520022 Points: 65 # Comments: 1

Most design and business education teaches students to solve problems that already exist. But in a world shifting at supersonic speed, the more urgent skill isn’t problem-solving—it’s learning how to notice, navigate, and shape the problems coming next. After three...

The company has notified the SEC that hackers accessed patient, employee, provider, business, and financial information. The post Ransomware Gang Claims Nutex Health Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

EXCLUSIVE The Register has seen information that IBM’s Linux subsidiary is moderating its previously gung-ho AI stance by imposing limits on token spend. The Reg FOSS desk received a tip-off this week from a well placed company insider that a new edict has been sent...

Article URL: https://mvakde.github.io/blog/44-on-arc-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519939 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced "Meter"), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models for their ability to carry out long-horizon, agentic tasks, disclosed that it suffered "two notable security...

An under six-month regulatory rollout, 8% budget utilisation and a forward-looking bet on programmable finance are giving Pakistan an unusually different global technology story. For decades, Pakistan’s global technology story has usually been framed around potential:...

The SEO industry can't agree on a name for what happens after an AI agent lands on your site. Some call it ASO, Agentic Search Optimization. Others call it ADO, Agentic Discoverability Optimization. Neither term is settled, and neither is a good pick. ASO already...

NewsGuard is currently monitoring 3,749 AI-generated content farms across 16 languages. The figure was, as one would expect, smaller last month and will, of course, be greater next month. The main point is that it has definitely become cheap to publish large amounts...

AI can make social media safer for kids by verifying age, detecting harmful content, redesigning recommendations around wellbeing instead of engagement, identifying harmful content patterns, and enabling independent algorithm audits. The goal isn't less technology....

Last weekend the season finale of House of the Dragon ran for seventy-five minutes. I decided that was long enough to build an agentic chatbot. That was my goal. And I was determined to make it. So I watched the episode on one screen with a terminal open on the other,...

Two weeks. That’s how long I lasted.I signed up for Claude Pro with the same excitement I get every time a new tool shows up promising to make my day easier. And for about 5 days, it delivered. Then the honeymoon ended on a Tuesday, mid-task. First, the Love Claude is...

A twenty-year-old in a cold Helsinki apartment thinks the entire trillion-dollar architecture of machine intelligence is in bad taste. He may be the most dangerous kind of person in tech: the kind who is bored. An editor's note on this story. What follows is a work of...

An analyst runs KMeans(n_clusters=4) on a dataset of customer purchase history; it gets back four groups, and he/she writes up the report as "from the data, it revealed four customer segments!" Management simply loves this - after long periods struggling to grasp...

Mobile applications can be complex, and when performance issues or crashes occur in production, finding the root cause is often a slow, manual process. Engineers may spend minutes or hours stitching together logs, metrics, and release notes from multiple tools before...

Lately I’ve been struggling seriously to stay focused during pair and mob programming. Sometimes we hand a single task to a coding agent, and while it’s working, we drift into other topics. Sometimes we hand off multiple tasks at once, one moves forward while we try...

The Pixel 11 was meant to push Google's security forward. Instead, one of the most valuable hardware protections from the last few Pixel generations is reportedly gone. A GrapheneOS project discussion says the Pixel 11 lineup does not support ARM Memory Tagging...

Every abstraction layer in software eventually develops its own tax. Cloud added an observability tax somewhere between 2013 and 2016, when Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, and the rest quietly became line items running 15 to 30 percent on top of raw infrastructure spend....