What the New York Knicks can teach corporate leaders
Anyone who watched the New York Knicks this season saw something that goes well beyond basketball. They saw team members pass up their own shot when a teammate had a better one. They pulled each other off the floor after mistakes instead of pointing fingers. That had...
Visa ships a security AI that patches production code before any human reviews it
Visa's open-source security harness now finds the vulnerability, writes the fix, and turns an adversarial panel on its own patch before any human reviews it. The whole loop ships on by default. A plain scan of the Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness runs all 11 stages...
Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity
Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity Go to Source Article URL: https://humanprogress.org/ac-is-not-a-luxury-it-is-a-necessity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49463367 Points: 10 # Comments: 6
Adentris (YC P25) Is Hiring
Adentris (YC P25) Is Hiring Go to Source Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/adentris/jobs/ZpMXZ0C-founding-engineer-ai-rcm-healthcare-platform-typescript-python Comments URL:...
What is Android System Intelligence and what happens if you turn it off?
You're probably using Android System Intelligence more than you realize -- especially if your phone is a Google Pixel.
The Samsung Galaxy S26 FE looks like a perfectly cromulent budget flagship
The Galaxy S26 FE is basically a more affordable version of the S26+ with slightly reduced specs.
How Facebook and Instagram will change after Meta’s $18B settlement – and where the money is going
The suit alleges that Meta designed its platforms to be addicting to young people.
OpenAI Agents Coordinated via Makeshift Message Board Ahead of Hugging Face Hack
New training environments will teach AI models to distrust instructions arriving from other agents outside sanctioned channels. The post OpenAI Agents Coordinated via Makeshift Message Board Ahead of Hugging Face Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Okta Shares Surge on Strong Earnings, Growing Demand for AI Identity Security
The identity security company beat quarterly expectations and raised its outlook as enterprises face growing pressure to secure AI agents and other non-human identities. The post Okta Shares Surge on Strong Earnings, Growing Demand for AI Identity Security appeared...
Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck
Article URL: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462763 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
To rein in wanton AI spending, we need AI ‘nutrition labels’
Over the past year, tech-forward companies have gorged themselves on AI, gobbling up more and more tokens, the base unit of AI use. The scale is staggering. Google alone now processes more than 3.2 quadrillion tokens a month, roughly seven times what it handled a year...
CEOs at these ‘low wage’ S&P 500 companies enjoy lavish salaries while their workers struggle: report
As the wealth gap continues to widen in our K-shaped economy, the gulf between workers and their CEOs is growing too. CEOs of companies on the S&P 500 make, on average, 312 times what their median worker is paid. On a subset of that list, though, the difference...
The 5 best Linux alternatives to Windows in 2026 (that aren’t Mint)
Looking to leave Windows? I've used Linux for years and there's never better a better time to make the leap.
Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Microsoft is dusting off the rebrandogun again, and this time it's aimed at the Microsoft 365 Roadmap. The list of hopes and dreams will henceforth be called the AI at Work roadmap. The notification popped up in the Microsoft 365 admin center earlier this week with...
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down
Nitter.net and Xcancel.com have been both taken down by the X Corp "cease and desist" letter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462427 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
Mark Zuckerberg is buying Meta a seat at the AI table. Does he know what to do with it?
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted an AI manifesto to his company’s website in August. The 6,537-word missive resembled similar proclamations from CEOs such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei. Unlike theirs, however, it argued that the power of future AI...
The long and beautiful story of Native American graphic design
Brian Johnson, a member of the Monacan Indian Nation, is painting the field of graphic design red, with his new book, Designed to Be Red: Native & Indigenous Graphic Works, published on September 15 by DelMonico Books. The book contributes to the larger project of...
Spark RAT Targets Cambodia, Abuses Vulnerable OPSWAT Driver to Disable Security Tools
Individuals and organizations in Cambodia have emerged as the target of a new campaign that delivers an open-source remote access trojan (RAT) called Spark RAT. "The samples employ diverse lure themes, suggesting an effort to appeal to a broad range of potential...
CISO Conversations: Chris Wheeler – Trust Is the Job, From the Navy to the C-Suite
SecurityWeek talks to Chris Wheeler, CISO at Resilience, about his journey from the Navy to becoming a cybersecurity leader. The post CISO Conversations: Chris Wheeler – Trust Is the Job, From the Navy to the C-Suite appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS
Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS Go to Source It seems like the PayPal app now refuses to run on GrapheneOS. I don't know if it's only because I have enabled the PayPal card for contacless NFC payments, but when opening the app it...
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-flash-next Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461862 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller
The UK’s data protection watchdog has fined a nuisance call blocking biz £190,000 ($258,000) for bombarding elderly people with hundreds of thousands of - you guessed it - nuisance calls. Elderly Aids Ltd made 758,053 unsolicited direct marketing calls between May 27,...
Analog Optical Feedback Generates 4K Fractals With No Computer
For users of a certain age, fractal patterns and computers are nearly synonymous. Typing in BASIC programs and seeing the Mandelbrot set or other fractals slowly render on screen is a key memory for some of us. Others will have generated recursive patterns mucking...
ROG Xbox Ally X20 Now Available Individually for Roughly Half the Bundle’s Price
The model's core hardware is the same as the regular ROG Xbox Ally X, but you'll see a new colorway, upgraded controls, and a slightly larger screen.
Want to lead Whitehall’s AI strategy? AI experience is not essential
The UK government is hiring someone to help lead its AI strategy for civil servants, and actual AI experience is apparently optional. The Cabinet Office is advertising for a Head of Strategy and Engagement in its Digital, Data, Innovation and AI team, or DDI & AI,...
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked August 2026: Live updates from the launch of the next S26
We're expecting to see the Galaxy S26 FE at today's Unpacked, but might there be any surprises?
The Future of AI-Driven Security Depends on Complete Data
For twenty-five years, "data" in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality. The post The Future of AI-Driven Security Depends on Complete Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Women are sounding the alarm on AI. Leaders should listen
Reese Witherspoon, the actor and producer, recently faced backlash after saying, “It’s so, so important that women are involved in AI . . . because the change is here.” Her comments struck a nerve. One response, which received more than 4,300 likes, argued: “The ‘it’s...
Taco Bell’s new Olivia Rodrigo-inspired drink seems pretty pink
In the months leading up to the debut of Olivia Rodrigo’s third studio album, the pop star shared that one way she and her friends liked to experience new music was to visit a Taco Bell and savor the fresh tunes while noshing on the restaurant chain’s Mexican-inspired...