Meta’s latest teen safety commitments are US-only (for now)
The UK government now wants time limits for teens on Facebook and Instagram.
Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale
Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movements made by the autonomous vehicles, according to a TechCrunch review of data submitted to OSHA.
Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others
The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.
AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps
Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.
HuggingFace and Pollen Robotics open pre-orders for the $399 Microduck
If you've ever wanted a robotic duck as a companion, now's your chance.
AC2 Protocol: The missing security layer for AI agents
Article URL: https://www.ac2protocol.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464979 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Science tells us what you should do right after waking up, and how it shapes your entire day
In the first hour after you wake up, your brain is doing something remarkable. While you reach for your phone, pour coffee, or scan your inbox, it’s still coming out of its overnight cleaning cycle. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and...
Ok Go’s addictive new app might be the next Wordle
It’s the middle of the work day, and Ok Go guitarist Andy Ross and I are trying to figure out which word best represents the nexus of the words “Mars” and “Netflix” (hint: we both picked a movie starring Matt Damon). This little brain puzzle is par for the course on...
Full moon tonight: The August ‘Sturgeon’ moon is getting upstaged by a lunar eclipse. Here’s when to see it
Much like a bad community theater production, the night sky will be full of drama this evening and into tomorrow. Right before the full “Sturgeon Moon” is about to shine its brightest, the Earth is going to upstage it, causing an almost total lunar eclipse tonight...
Trump Order Aims to Block Foreign Backdoors in US Power Grid Gear
The White House’s new executive order 14420 widens scrutiny of industrial control systems over cyber sabotage concerns. The post Trump Order Aims to Block Foreign Backdoors in US Power Grid Gear appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.
Never Launch Alone
Article URL: https://launchgenius.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464847 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Pause – weekly curated 1:1 coffee matches for London professionals
Article URL: https://joinpause.co/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464834 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem – CoMaps
Article URL: https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-08-23/comaps-integration-with-the-wider-floss-ecosystem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464637 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Show HN: RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages)
Article URL: https://github.com/issacnitin/RealDiff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464459 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode
Article URL: https://rahuljuliato.com/posts/markdown-ts-mode-emacs-31 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464543 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Confdiff – semantic diff for config files (JSON/YAML/TOML) that redacts secrets
Article URL: https://github.com/esperanza-volkov/confdiff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464310 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Australia’s Nationwide Phone Outage Was An Embarrassing Failure
The phones! They were one of the basic utilities of the 20th century, and were just about as reliable as death and taxes. Even when then power grid went down, you still had a fair shot of getting a phone call through thanks to the reliability of the Plain Old...
Google deploys support for Encrypted Client Hello on Android 17
Encrypted Client Hello rolls out on Android 17 to make the web more secure.
Is your really old iPhone still worth anything or just e-waste? How to tell
I found my old iPhone 4 in a drawer and wondered: Does it work? Is it worth anything? What should I do with it? I went looking for answers.
Yayoi Kusama, artist of renowned polka dot paintings and installations, dies at 97
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who splashed her signature polka dots on paintings, sculptures and museum installations around the world, has died, her studio said Thursday. She was 97.Kusama died Aug. 14 at a hospital in Tokyo, Yayoi Kusama Studio said, without...
T-Mobile is closing retail stores and laying off workers: See a list of locations that will be impacted
T-Mobile is continuing to lay off workers and close retail stores in the U.S. The mobile communications company has disclosed 63 new layoffs across 13 locations in Washington state. The impacted employees worked at a mix of retail stores and T-Mobile headquarters. ...
Plaud’s first AI earbuds have arrived – what they can do
Can these new wearables deliver on the long-anticipated promises of AI earbuds?
Socure raises $156M at $5.2B valuation and acquires AI startup Fravity
Identity verification company Socure Inc. today announced a $156 million strategic growth investment at a valuation of $5.2 billion. Part of that money went to agentic artificial intelligence startup Fravity AI, acquired in a separate transaction announced the same...
Sonar launches Hunter Agent to find flaws code scanners can’t see
Artificial intelligence code verification and governance company SonarSource Sàrl today released SonarQube Hunter Agent, an AI agent built to find security flaws that pattern-based scanning cannot see. The vulnerabilities it targets are the ones where the code does...
Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
Plaud's new 'agentic' earbuds are priced at $249.
Google is releasing a special edition Pokémon Sleep Fitbit Air in September
You can get a special Fitbit Air with a sleeping Pikachu design next month.
Alienware 39 5K review: The ultrawide gaming monitor sweet spot
Finally, a large ultrawide monitor with tons of vertical screen space.
Plaud made earbuds for people who want to record every meeting and call
The Plaud One is a different take on AI wearables.
Photoshop’s new ‘Markup’ feature lets you draw on images to show what you want
Photoshop is getting new image-generation features and Lightroom-like controls that users have wanted for a long time.