US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to hack NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate
The FBI has seized domains associated with a botnet that allowed Chinese-backed hackers to breach several U.S. government departments.
Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the ‘female economy’
Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund. The firm backs companies building in the “female economy” — or the markets where women drive demand. That mainly falls into three buckets for the firm,...
Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9
The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It'll also be the first Apple event with John Ternus as CEO, who is scheduled to take the reins of the tech giant from Tim Cook on September 1.
Ukraine extends its drone campaign, burning this Russian e-commerce warehouse to the ground
Ukrainian long-range drones struck for the second time in five weeks a major warehouse belonging to Russia’s biggest online retailer, causing a fire that burned it to the ground, local authorities said on Wednesday.The depot in the Tambov region southeast of Moscow,...
Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND
The rising cost of contract prices for memory chips could see DRAM and NAND flash account for more than two-thirds of the capital expenditure of cloud service providers (CSPs) by next year. Taiwan-based market watcher TrendForce forecasts that total capex by cloud...
Will plug-in solar plus batteries solve your power problem? I did the math
It can't be just about harvesting solar power - it's also about storage, and time-shifting cheap, off-peak power to times when it's more expensive.
Preorders for Xbox’s anniversary collection are open (for some) and the bundle costs $900
The Xbox 25th anniversary bundle includes a translucent green Series X, a similarly-colored controller and a digital download of Halo: Campaign Evolved.
The fix for the AI agent that hijacked a company’s DNS: it can propose the change, but it can’t approve it
A security agent read a Cloudflare log, found an attacker’s prompt-injection payload sitting inside it, and rewrote the company’s DNS. The firewall had already blocked that payload, and blocking it is what wrote it into the log.That chain is GhostJacking, which Tenet...
Apple announces September 9 date for ‘Surprise and shine’ iPhone event
Is it finally time to see the foldable iPhone?
Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies
Hi HN, we're Sam and Alex, founders of Risklytics (https://risklytics.ai). We're both on leave from Harvard, and we run an insurance brokerage for companies building robots, drones, autonomous systems and satellites. You describe your machine, we find the insurance...
It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours (and suggested by AI)
Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/using-obsidian-with-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450898 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Life360’s $8 Pet Tag vs Pet GPS: What Each One Does
Life360's new QR pet tag costs $7.99 once, while Pet GPS adds live tracking and escape alerts with a paid membership. Here's where each fits. The post Life360’s $8 Pet Tag vs Pet GPS: What Each One Does appeared first on TechRepublic.
Fitbit’s Founders Have a New Wearable, But It’s Not Really for Fitness
Fitbit’s founders have launched Luffu Link, a $300 wearable that uses health sensors, LTE and AI to help families monitor health and safety. The post Fitbit’s Founders Have a New Wearable, But It’s Not Really for Fitness appeared first on TechRepublic.
Mac Studio 2026: Apple Goes All In on Local AI With M5 Ultra
Apple’s new Mac Studio pairs M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips with up to 512GB of unified memory, targeting demanding local AI and creative workloads. The post Mac Studio 2026: Apple Goes All In on Local AI With M5 Ultra appeared first on TechRepublic.
Pixel Phones Get Motion Assist: What Android 17 Users Should Know
Motion Assist is appearing on select Pixel phones with Android 17. Learn how its moving screen cues work, where to find it, and why access varies. The post Pixel Phones Get Motion Assist: What Android 17 Users Should Know appeared first on TechRepublic.
Tim Curry, Star of Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, Dies Aged 80
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451448 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states
One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled with parental permission.
TikTok Agrees to $400M Settlement Over Children’s Privacy
TikTok and ByteDance agree to pay up to $400 million to settle US allegations involving children’s data, parental consent and account deletion. The post TikTok Agrees to $400M Settlement Over Children’s Privacy appeared first on TechRepublic.
The Password Notebook Is Back — but Is It Actually Safer?
Password notebooks are making an unexpected comeback as infostealers and browser attacks revive debate over the safest way to store credentials. The post The Password Notebook Is Back — but Is It Actually Safer? appeared first on TechRepublic.
WhatsApp Just Added 3 New Ways to Protect Your Account
WhatsApp is adding stronger two-step verification, multiple passkeys and more context for unknown callers as it expands protections against scams. The post WhatsApp Just Added 3 New Ways to Protect Your Account appeared first on TechRepublic.
Mate Security Launches Gamebooks as a New Architecture for Trusted AI Security Investigations
Security teams have spent years trying to automate investigations without losing the judgment and controls that make those investigations reliable. Traditional playbooks provide structure but can become outdated as environments change, while fully autonomous AI agents...
The TechBeat: Decentralize AI, Tech Categories, Fresh Business Hub, and More: Inside the New HackerNoon Upgrades (8/26/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Navigating Claude Code: The Full Workflow By @efimovov_5guqm5 [ 9 Min...
A 24-Test Production Readiness Review for AI Agents
The easiest way to approve an unsafe agent is to ask whether the model is “good enough.” The model may be excellent. The system can still send duplicate emails, cross tenant boundaries, follow instructions from a retrieved document, retry a payment after an ambiguous...
94 Blog Posts To Learn About Node
Let's learn about Node via these 94 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. The most hated language powering web servers since PHP. 1. Assign...
Small Specialized Models Are Eating the AI Stack (While Everyone Watches Frontier LLMs)
Every few weeks or so, updates light up for a new frontier model. New leaderboards, new benchmarks, screenshots, promises of how this one will be the one that “changes everything”… By now, I’d say we’ve all grown accustomed to it. But under the hood, most agents...
CoSnitch: When Your AI Assistant Becomes Its Own Whistleblower
Varonis Threat Labs uncovered another one-click vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot Personal dubbed CoSnitch (critical, CVE-2026-24301), which quietly executes an attack chain that exfiltrates data from enterprises without obvious red flags. What makes CoSnitch unique...
Validator Exits Are Quietly Rising — On-Chain Data and a Year of M&A
The Validator Market Is Splitting Into Three Tiers Crouton Digital publishes a public on-chain tracker: 41 Cosmos SDK networks, ~2,000 validator seats. What it shows is not a projection — consolidation is underway, written into blockchains and acquisition...
How to Tell Whether Your Slow Query Is a Planning or an Execution Problem
Every EXPLAIN ANALYZE prints two numbers at the bottom, and most engineers read only one of them. Planning Time is how long Postgres spent deciding how to answer your query, while Execution Time is how long it spent actually answering it. When latency climbs, those...
5 AI Strategies to Boost CSAT Without Scaling Engineering
Modern B2B software companies are shipping features and release updates faster than ever. Yet customer satisfaction scores continue to stagnate or decline. Rapid release cycles often come at the expense of testing and stability, introducing hidden risks and technical...
AI Dubbing for Filmmakers: A Checklist That Turns One AI-Generated Video Into Ten Languages
The first time I ran a dubbed track under an AI-generated close-up, the voice was flawless and the shot looked instantly wrong. Not because the translation was bad. Because the mouth kept moving to the rhythm of a sentence that no longer existed on the soundtrack....