What SREs Should Automate — and Never Automate — with AI
Five key takeaways: Automate based on impact and recoverability, not on whether the AI is technically capable of doing the task. Alert triage, anomaly detection, incident summaries, capacity forecasting — these are the easy wins. Low risk, high value. Production...
The Google Publisher ID Linking 15 Kompromat Sites
Three pieces of code appear in the HTML source of every domain in the Konstantin Chernenko network. All three link fifteen differently-named, differently-registered sites to a single technical infrastructure: IP address 185.203.72.75, a content management system...
When the System Flags the Human Who Was Helping It
A public record of months of stress-testing Grok, a spontaneous image generation previously seen only with Elon Musk, and a permanent suspension from Creator Revenue Sharing.On August 6, 2026, at 05:15 CEST, I opened an email from X Support.“After a thorough review,...
What Gandhi and Open Source Have in Common
One of the greatest polymath and genius of all times, Albert Einstein, once said about the political views of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, called as Mahatma Gandhi by his millions of followers, that “I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the...
What Building My First RAG Application Taught Me
I thought connecting an LLM to my documents would be the hard part. It wasn't. The real challenge was getting the AI to retrieve the right information, use it correctly, and admit when it didn't know. I thought building a RAG application would be straightforward: take...
When AI Talks About Iran, Where Are the Iranians?
Sanctions hurt civilians, but grammar calls it pressure. Artificial intelligence does not need to hate anyone to reproduce political blindness. It only needs to summarize the world the way the world is usually written. That is the problem. Ask an AI system to explain...
AI Can Build a Game. Can It Make One Good?
A single prompt can now produce a playable platformer, shooter or survival game before you finish your coffee. That is an extraordinary technical achievement. It is also a misleading way to measure progress in game development. The important question is no longer...
How AI Copilots Turn Messy Dev Threads Into Action
I feel like this is one of those small things that doesn’t get talked about enough, but quietly drains a lot of time if you’ve been working in a typical dev setup. We’ve been running the usual stack for years - Slack, Jira, Confluence,BridgeApp. It works, nothing...
This Website Is Served by an OS Written in Swift
TL;DR: I wrote an operating system in Embedded Swift for 64-bit ARM: kernel, drivers, TCP/IP stack, and userland. It runs on a Hetzner Cloud ARM VM and serves its own website, swiftos.tech, over HTTPS — nginx on my own kernel, my own syscall ABI, my own libc port. No...
How to Check Whether a Benchmark Actually Has a Source
Somewhere in a sales deck that has been viewed a few hundred thousand times, there is a slide listing the standard contact-rate breakdown. Two percent of sales close on the first contact. Three percent on the second. Five on the third, ten on the fourth, and eighty...
Build a Production-Ready Serverless API With AWS SAM and TypeScript
Most serverless tutorials leave you with a toy: a single "hello world" Lambda that teaches you nothing about IAM, a DynamoDB table you never actually touch, and zero thought about what happens when a real request goes sideways. I wanted the opposite — a starting point...
GoCaracal Malware Uses Ethereum Smart Contract to Fetch Replacement C2 Address
Threat actors linked by Arctic Wolf to Dark Caracal with medium confidence deployed a previously undocumented Go-based malware framework, GoCaracal, during a June 2026 intrusion at an unnamed communications organization in Venezuela. GoCaracal provides operators with...
AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi
AROS is an all-FOSS re-implementation of AmigaOS, and after years of effort, it now supports Arm kit – both 32-bit and 64-bit Raspberry Pi hardware, especially the Pi 3. The AROS project's nightly builds page has some interesting new offerings. Notably, there's...
The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement
Article URL: https://www.siliconcontinent.com/p/the-dutch-are-filling-gas-wells-with Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461608 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
It’s time to stop sleeping on quantum computing: 48 experts on what to watch for next
The media continues to sleep on quantum. No surprise, really, between the AI boom and the fact that the science behind the technology can feel inscrutable. But while most everyone slumbers, quantum computers have been making considerable progress. Researchers are...
Check out the width of that Debian display
BORK!BORK!BORK! Wide, super wide, ultra wide, and monitor-munga screens might be all the rage these days. But check out the girth of this Debian display in Scotland. Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Kenny Millar, this digital billboard in the west central...
US Disrupts Chinese Hacking Platform Used in Military and Critical Infrastructure Attacks
The operation focused on a group named QTFY, which offers hacking services to the Chinese government and others. The post US Disrupts Chinese Hacking Platform Used in Military and Critical Infrastructure Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The best iPad Air cases of 2026: Expert tested
The right case can take your iPad Air to the next level. These are our favorite iPad Air cases from brands like Apple, Burga, and Logitech.
New GPUThor Rowhammer Defeats ECC on NVIDIA RTX A6000 to Gain Host Root Access
Academic researchers have disclosed a Rowhammer attack impacting NVIDIA workstation GPUs with GDDR6 memory that defeats error correction codes (ECC), the mitigation NVIDIA recommends against GPU Rowhammer, and enables denial-of-service (DoS) and privilege escalation...
AI use among UK teachers doubles, but working hours still don’t come down
Around 80 percent of UK teachers now regularly use AI in their work, although the minority say it has cut their hours. Research from YouGov shows that AI use among teachers has doubled in the past year. Among those who use it, just over half (51 percent) said it had...
Kusama Yayoi has died
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eeink Provides eInk, ESP32 Powered Text Adventures
There’s a niche genre of text adventure that’s halfway between a traditional novel and a videogame. Think Zork if it had an extra few novels worth of words of well-crafted story to go with the action. [t0mg] is a fan of such adventures, and also quite enjoys carrying...
CISA Adds Six Exploited Flaws to KEV, Including NetScaler, Linux, and SQL Server Bugs
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added six flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including a high-severity security vulnerability impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, citing evidence...
You could own AI.slop, if applicant for new global top-level domains get their way
ICANN is poring through over 1,600 applications for new global top-level domains (GTLDs) and will reveal which ones it thinks are valid in a few weeks – but hundreds of names applicants hope to secure have already appeared online. GTLDs are the last part of an...
Nutanix built $20m AI cluster to reduce use of Copilot and Claude, expects ROI in a year
Nutanix is closer to porting its stack to the Arm architecture, spurred by the high price of hardware and a desire to ensure customers can run its wares wherever they want to. CEO Rajiv Ramaswami today told The Register Nutanix customers are currently acutely aware of...
Why the dream of ‘having it all’ is finally dead
Ange, 32, used to have a clear idea of what “having it all” meant: a stable corporate job, a decent-size wedding, a house, and the ability to buy nice material goods every so often. But, like many young people, Ange has found that checking all of these boxes has felt...
Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business.
Do Smart Monitors Track You? What Buyers Should Know
Do Smart Monitors Track You? What Buyers Should Know Go to Source A smart monitor can do far more than display a PC. Built-in apps, ACR, and advertising systems can introduce additional privacy considerations. The post Do Smart...
Fake GTA 6 Demo Spreads Malware: How to Spot the Scam
Fake GTA 6 Demo Spreads Malware: How to Spot the Scam Go to Source There is no legitimate GTA 6 demo. Fake Rockstar sites are distributing Vidar malware that targets passwords, cookies, and logged-in browser sessions. The post Fake...
OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used in Covert Influence Campaign
OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used in Covert Influence Campaign Go to Source OpenAI banned Russian ChatGPT accounts tied to a covert influence campaign involving copied research, fake attribution and coordinated social posts....