Why is everyone talking about John Oliver and ‘General Hospital’?
Most people know John Oliver as the Emmy-winning host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight. But lately, he’s been popping up somewhere viewers never expected: daytime soap operas. After recent appearances on General Hospital and Days of Our Lives, fans are calling for the...
Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12
Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.
Figma acquires team behind a vibe coding app
The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe coding platform and later built an agent creation product.
Here’s what the CE mark means on your electronics
Know when and why the CE mark appear on a label.
I connected ChatGPT to my bank, and it’s my go-to finance app now – here’s how (and why)
With ChatGPT Finances, I can see all my money, investments, and debts in one place - and I can ask AI what it all means.
New Literalism Comes for Museums
Article URL: https://jaymollica.com/blog/new-literalism-comes-for-museums/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820458 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Democrats pull endorsements for Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner amid sexual assault allegation
A woman who previously dated Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said he drunkenly forced her to have sex after she told him to stop, according to a Politico report, leading prominent supporters to pull their endorsements and throwing a must-win race for...
iRobot made a non-robot floor cleaner
iRobot's new floor cleaner isn't a robot at all.
Rogue Agent Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Hijack Google Dialogflow CX Chatbots
A critical flaw in Google's Dialogflow CX could have let an attacker with edit rights on one Code Block-enabled agent compromise other Code Block-enabled agents in the same Google Cloud project. From there, they could read live conversations, steal the data users...
RedWing MaaS Packages Android Bank Fraud as a Telegram Rental Service
A new Android malware operation called RedWing is being rented out on Telegram as a ready-made bank-fraud service. It lets even low-skill criminals take over a victim's phone, steal their banking logins, and capture the one-time codes that protect their accounts....
NASA calls time on CAPSTONE after four years of lunar orbit lessons
After four years of operations around the Moon, NASA's CAPSTONE mission has bitten the lunar dust, in a manner of speaking. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) was launched in 2022, with a primary...
CAI cloud worm gives competitors’ malware the boot, then steals secrets and mines for coin
EXCLUSIVE There's no honor among thieves as a new worm steals from other infectious software. It pilfers “multiple” victims’ credentials and mines for cryptocurrency while killing competitors’ processes, including similar secret-harvesting malware. It’s called Cloud...
Predatorgate snoopfest victims launch €8M sueball at spyware maker
Eight victims of Greece’s spyware scandal, later dubbed “Predatorgate,” have sued the Athens-based company behind the program used to surveil them. According to the Predator victims’ lawyer, Zacharias Kesses, each of the plaintiffs is asking for €1 million in moral...
New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead
Using command-line tools is often the best way to get something done, but remembering all those flags is a chore. Now, you can let a simple open-source CLI module turn any command into a GUI for you instead. That’s the solution Jordanian full-stack software engineer...
Court tosses Microsoft’s appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle
The UK's Court of Appeal has dismissed Microsoft's appeal against a ruling that ValueLicensing (VL) can resell pre-owned software licences. The judgment, handed down July 7, follows a ruling by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in November that customers could...
A bug in Discord’s safety systems incorrectly banned accounts since May
A bug may have led to around 8,200 erroneous bans on Discord.
South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters
Power-efficient South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI has landed on European shores. On Tuesday, the chip biz revealed that it had begun fielding its RNGD — pronounced “renegade” — line of AI accelerators at colocation giant Equinix’s LS2 datacenter in Lisbon,...
You can soon restore Windows 11 from scratch even if it can’t boot up – here’s how
Now in preview mode, the new Cloud rebuild option will restore Windows to a clean state if some glitch prevents it from even loading.
Google’s next Pixel event is on August 12
Google's next Pixel event will be August 12 at 6pm ET.
County Government Reportedly Paid $1 Million to Cyber Extortion Group
The alleged victim, believed to be a small Ohio county, reportedly paid the extortion group to prevent the public release of sensitive stolen data. The post County Government Reportedly Paid $1 Million to Cyber Extortion Group appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Netflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others
Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Stone and Variety.
5 trends in design right now
Every year, a new crop of trend forecasts attempts to spell out where different industries are heading; for me, the most interesting is the state of design. While the predictions vary, a clear theme is emerging: The most important design story of 2026, according to...
AI learning loops aren’t an engineering trick. They’re a governance issue
For the past two years, the dominant unit of AI work was the prompt. Write a better prompt, get a better answer. Learn the right phrasing, the right examples, the right constraints, the right tone. Prompt engineering became the first folk discipline of the generative...
Critical Gitea Flaw Under Active Exploitation, Researchers Warn
Attackers are exploiting the critical Gitea vulnerability CVE-2026-20896 to bypass authentication with a single HTTP header and access vulnerable repositories and secrets. The post Critical Gitea Flaw Under Active Exploitation, Researchers Warn appeared first on...
Got a spare PC? How I turned mine into an open-source smart home hub for free
Home Assistant OS can serve as a user-friendly control hub for your smart devices. Here's how to get started.
These homes are selling at huge discounts—and buyers are taking notice
Gone are the days of surfing real estate listings far beyond their reach, many budget-minded Americans have instead begun scrolling foreclosures. Foreclosure listings received more than 26% more page views than the average listing in the first half of the year,...
The X app for iOS now has a built-in video editor
X now has a built-in video editor on iOS.
Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k
Article URL: https://govauctions.app/research/cheapest-homes-in-america Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820274 Points: 10 # Comments: 5
Reducing Doom Loops with Final Token Preference Optimization
Article URL: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/antidoom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820127 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33y0n1v1xjo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820220 Points: 13 # Comments: 11