What’s Mu Metal?
If you tear into old TVs or recording equipment, you may see shields made from some exotic-looking metal. Old timers will tell you it’s called mu metal, and its purpose is to — sort of — shield things from magnetic fields. The qualification is important. Unlike a...
When do the fall leaves change color? This interactive map shows a full-bloom timeline for autumn foliage
Tomorrow, the arrival of September kicks off the meteorological fall in the Northern Hemisphere, and on September 23, astronomical fall arrives. That means that over the next several weeks—and well into October and November—most of the United States will begin to see...
Identity and permissions aren’t enough to govern AI agent behavior
Identity and permissions aren’t enough to govern AI agent behavior Go to Source Presented by BoxIdentity and permissions are no longer enough to secure enterprise AI agents. They govern what an agent can reach, not how it behaves once...
ServiceNow Patches 3 Critical Code Injection Vulnerabilities
Attackers could exploit the security defects to execute arbitrary code and access or tamper with data. The post ServiceNow Patches 3 Critical Code Injection Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A PlayStation State of Play double bill is set for September 3
A PlayStation State of Play double bill is set for September 3.
Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508982 Points: 18 # Comments: 7
What I Learned About AI Trust from Reconciling over 100B Transactions
Article URL: https://engineering.moniepoint.com/what-i-learned-about-ai-trust-from-reconciling Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508443 Points: 16 # Comments: 13
The Universe as a Minified Bundle
Article URL: https://andrewarrow.dev/2026/moons/2/day/9/the-universe-as-a-minified-bundle/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508367 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
The upside of a laptop having two charging ports (and why some don’t)
There are some good reasons you might want to look for a laptop with multiple USB-C ports next time you upgrade.
The British state has lost the argument
Article URL: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-british-state-has-lost-the-argument Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508715 Points: 18 # Comments: 1
Melissa Chiu, new director of the Guggenheim Museum, talks about the role of culture in a time of turmoil
Melissa Chiu, longtime director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, announced in April that she would be leaving for a new role as director of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. As Chiu concludes her successful tenure at the Hirshhorn,...
These automated vending machines are moving into NYC’s subway newsstands
For most New York City subway riders, especially in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, underground newsstands are often nothing more than a relic of history turned into prime real estate for graffiti and branded stickers. Once a staple of the commuter experience,...
How to turn your iPhone into a Bluetooth controller
If your PC gaming controller is broken or you need an extra for a friend, there's a simple solution for iPhone users.
Instagram will demote AI-generated influencers if they don’t clearly label their account
The app isn't cracking down on other kinds of AI slop, though.
This feature keeps distracting spam calls away while using Android Auto
If you use Android Auto, you might be interested to know that there's a feature available on some phones that helps keep phone calls minimal while you drive.
McKesson Confirms Data Breach as Attacker Deadline Looms
The ShinyHunters extortion group has claimed the theft of 284 million records from the company’s systems. The post McKesson Confirms Data Breach as Attacker Deadline Looms appeared first on SecurityWeek.
How Android 17 stops network snoops and SMS blasters now – with ECH and a 2G kill switch
The latest Android 17 update adds broad support for Encrypted Client Hello, among other changes. Here's how they work.
Target courts millennial women with Delia’s collection—a blast from the era of 1990s catalogs
Target Corporation is big time baiting millennial women with a new clothing drop. The latest brand to hit the chain’s rack is none other than the once-famous Delia’s, a 1990s and 2000s clothing company designed for teens and young women, which went out of business in...
Cloudflare launches Adaptive Intelligence to rewrite bot rules on the fly
Cloudflare Inc. today launched Adaptive Intelligence, a detection engine inside Cloudflare Bot Management that writes and discards its own blocking rules while an attack is underway. The engine trains continuously on live traffic moving across Cloudflare’s network,...
Jazz brings its agentic DLP investigator to CrowdStrike’s Falcon Foundry
Data loss prevention startup Jazz Security Ltd. today made its platform available as an app on CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s Falcon Foundry, putting its agentic investigator Melody inside the Falcon console. Melody is built to judge whether a given data movement was a...
Meeting notetaker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers
Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month
AI-Written Code Is Still *Your* Code. Are You OK with That?
Article URL: https://martiansoftware.com/articles/ai-written-code-is-still-yours Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508664 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
From watches to passwords on paper, everything that’s old is new again
KETTLE Windows XP is turning 25, and with AI still causing a memory crunch we're really missing the days of low-overhead OSes from Microsoft that just worked. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on this page, as well as on Spotify, Apple...
ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions
The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions. Russian...
Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets
Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security. The two independent...
Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance
Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer’s machine. Anthropic’s new Compliance API endpoints give security teams their clearest view yet into that activity. They also expose a larger...
Creators are your best PR
For decades, strategic communications operated in two distinct lanes: You pitched journalists for earned credibility or you bought media for controlled reach. That model rested on one assumption: Institutional newsrooms held a monopoly on audience trust. Things have...
Stop trying to retain employees
Every CEO I know is worried about employee retention. The questions are almost always the same. How do we reduce turnover? How do we keep our best people from leaving? How do we compete when another employer offers a dollar or two more an hour? After spending much of...
What the Hugging Face Incident Teaches Security Leaders About AI Agent Access
Security teams must treat autonomous agents as highly privileged identities. The post What the Hugging Face Incident Teaches Security Leaders About AI Agent Access appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections
The AI giant is logging customers out of their accounts and removing payment data to prevent unauthorized Claude usage. The post Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections appeared first on SecurityWeek.