Israeli firm’s digital ads enabling installation of ‘zero-click’ spyware
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/15/israeli-firm-digital-ads-enabling-installation-of-zero-click-spyware-researchers-say Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103000 Points: 39 # Comments: 6
Dr. Anne Welsh and Shalene Gupta on how women can navigate work and motherhood
Fast Company‘s Shalene Gupta surveyed more than 100 women about the challenges of juggling motherhood and career advancement, and she found that even the most accomplished mothers in leadership are struggling to maintain balance. Women who juggle parenting and...
Tin Can’s next product is a Rolodex for Gen Alpha
The retro tech company Tin Can reinvented the landline for kids. Next, it’s introducing Gen Alpha to the Rolodex. The brand’s core product, the $100 Tin Can phone (so named for its chunky, playful form factor) is a Wi Fi-enabled, screen-free landline complete with a...
TSMC sends scouts to check whether America’s datacenters can deliver
TSMC is dispatching personnel to check out US datacenter construction and power availability as it plans billions of dollars in additional chipmaking capacity. The Taiwanese chipmaking giant warned of pressure on consumer markets during its third-quarter earnings...
Descope’s Agentic Identity Hub 3.0 takes aim at shadow AI agents inside companies
Customer and agentic identity platform company Descope Inc. today unveiled Agentic Identity Hub 3.0, the latest version of its platform for securing artificial intelligence agents. This time the focus is on the agents employees build or adopt inside their own...
BriefCatch Targets AI Errors With Expanded Legal Writing Suite
Polished legal briefs can hide fabricated citations and misleading claims. BriefCatch's expanded suite helps flag those errors. The post BriefCatch Targets AI Errors With Expanded Legal Writing Suite appeared first on TechNewsWorld.
Xreal’s new flagship One Pro+ AR glasses offer better brightness and increased comfort
There's still no camera here, so they won't be confused for pervert specs.
NVIDIA’s RTX Spark is good for Windows, even if you don’t need local AI
NVIDIA's RTX Spark is meant for AI fiends, but it could end up helping Windows PCs in general
Google’s new Universal Cart tracks prices on items you want now – plus 3 other tricks
Google unveiled two new shopping tools ahead of the holiday buying season. Here’s what to know.
Libreboot 26.10 “Ominous Olive” released with UEFI, Chromebook support
Article URL: https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot2610.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102923 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Supermarket Refrigeration Attack Widens to Copeland, Dixell Controllers
Roughly 700 French supermarkets were hit by the cyberattacks, for which no group has claimed responsibility. The post Supermarket Refrigeration Attack Widens to Copeland, Dixell Controllers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CitizenLab details new spyware triggered by online advertising
A new type of spyware dubbed "AdFection" is infecting phones and computers via global online advertising networks.
Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released
Article URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2026-October/000330.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102423 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
CoreWeave stock keeps falling as fears of AI spending drag down markets. Here’s the latest on what’s happening
Shares of CoreWeave Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWV) have fallen more than 25% in the last week as concerns grow over the company’s debt and the success of the “neocloud” industry as a whole. On Thursday, the cloud-computing company’s stock fell up to 7% during premarket as...
Steve Jobs said half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from everyone else comes down to 1 trait
There’s a point in almost every worthwhile pursuit when motivation stops carrying you. The excitement wears off after a launch and results take longer than expected. Customers say no more often than you expected, and now your best employees are leaving. That’s usually...
X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms
X says it has nuked more than 13,000 accounts involved in three suspected foreign influence operations targeting US political debate. In a post on Wednesday evening, the platform linked the operations to Iran, Russia, and China. It said the networks used inauthentic...
Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land
Article URL: https://unfenced.land/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102247 Points: 17 # Comments: 2
Watch Out for Suspicious Google Calendar Entries
They're becoming a go-to route for scammers targeting everyday consumers.
Google Now Lets You Vibe Code Personal Android Apps
This feels one step ahead of the unreleased "Create My Widget" feature for Android 17.
Why every leader needs radical accountability
Leadership is often reduced to a familiar collection of habits: waking before sunrise, exercising, and arriving at work before everyone else. The implication is that successful leaders are naturally disciplined people who organize every part of their lives with almost...
‘No Kings’ October 17 protest: 2,500 rallies, marches, and parties in all 50 states urge Americans to vote early in midterm election
The “No Kings” movement, which began as a populist protest against the Trump administration, has now morphed into a get-out-the-vote movement ahead of the U.S. midterm elections on November 3. On Saturday, October 17, “No Kings: Vote Early” is scheduled to take place,...
AGI may already be here, we’re just too dependent to notice
Recently, a pretraining researcher named Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and posted the reason on X. His central claim, from someone who spent three years inside both OpenAI and Anthropic, was blunt: “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us...
Trump’s new ‘superintelligence’ website is a rebrand fail
President Donald Trump’s push to rebrand artificial intelligence as “superintelligence” has a new government URL. The Trump administration launched SI.gov on Tuesday, a narrative microsite that promotes the administration’s AI policies and initiatives. The old AI.gov,...
Rocket Lab pushes back first Neutron launch to 2027
Rocket Lab has delayed the maiden launch of its Neutron rocket again, due to carbon composite manufacturing issues. It is more than five years since Rocket Lab said it was developing the launcher, a step up from its workhorse Electron, and capable of sending up to...
Drupal Patches Critical Core RCE Flaw with No-Login Path via Contributed Modules
Drupal core has a critical flaw in its Field UI module that could let an attacker run code on the site's server, and fixes were shipped on October 14 in Drupal 11.4.10, 11.3.19, and 10.6.19. An attacker cannot reach the flaw through core alone, the Drupal Security...
United will now let you check if your flight has Starlink Wi-Fi
United has launched a tracker that you can use to check if your flight has Starlink Wi-Fi.
Bee unveils two AI note-taking devices, its first new products since being acquired by Amazon
The Eclipse and Frontier are cheap and colorful, but you'll need a Pro subscription to make the most of them.
Adobe rebuilt Photoshop and Premiere for NVIDIA’s RTX Spark platform
Adobe has 'rearchitected' Photoshop, Premiere and Substance 3D to work faster on computers powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark AI superchip.
Amazon’s Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75
Amazon-owned Bee has launched its first new AI devices since its acquisition, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that attaches to smartphones. The devices can summarize conversations, create to-do lists, and integrate with Alexa and Amazon...
Legal Aid Agency hackers made off with records dating back to 1978
Hackers who broke into the UK's Legal Aid Agency last year stole records dating back nearly five decades, the government has admitted, revealing the breach was far more extensive than previously thought. The Legal Aid Agency said on Wednesday that around 250,000...