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....
AI Is Running Out of Internet, and It’s Starting to Eat Itself
The web gave language models their first picture of humanity. The next generation increasingly risks being trained on a copy of a copy of that picture, and every copy leaves something behind. In 1969, the American composer Alvin Lucier sat down inside a room with a...
Boston Scientific discloses ‘global disruption’ in ongoing cyberattack
Medical device maker Boston Scientific’s global operations have been disrupted by an ongoing cyberattack, the company disclosed on Wednesday. According to an SEC filing, the “cybersecurity incident” affecting its IT systems started on Tuesday, and resulted in a...
How to Avoid Burnout as a Solo AI Filmmaker: The System I Built for Lost Garden
AI filmmaking burnout rarely comes from generating too many clips. It comes from quietly becoming your own set designer, colorist, sound editor, and producer at the same time, with nobody around to tell you that’s five jobs, not one. I noticed it on a week when Lost...
What’s driving Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable to Legora
Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But Lovable isn’t the only Stockholm startup putting up huge numbers lately — legal AI company Legora and health tech startup Neko Health are...
Google Pixel 11 Review: Why the base model is still my favorite, even this year
In a year of iterative upgrades, Google is introducing smart features that make the base Pixel still the one to buy for most people.
Yeah, RAM Is Expensive…But You Can Get Apple’s New Polishing Cloth for $9
So how's that for a budget-saver?
Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.
How data center controversies are transforming the 2026 midterm landscape
The snowballing opposition to data centers in communities across the United States has transformed the midterm election landscape, thrown a wrench into the plans of the world’s richest companies and brought perhaps the industry’s biggest booster, President Donald...
Rockstar calls GTA 6 leaks ‘heartbreaking for our team’ and says the game is nearly finished
Ahead of the extended look at GTA 6 on Netflix, Rockstar has addressed leaked gameplay videos in a statement.
Disruption with Some GitHub Services
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450722 Points: 20 # Comments: 7
How Packaging Can Kill An Electronics Microbusiness
Quite a few in our community make a bit of cash on the side by selling our creations, and it’s not uncommon to find that a project which catches your eye can be picked up as a kit for a few of your preferred currency units. But there’s a problem facing such tiny...
What’s the difference between WAN and LAN?
Two identical ports, two different purposes.