Newly SLEEPWALKER Backdoor Waits for One Crafted Packet, Then Runs Its Own Bytecode
An independent malware researcher has documented a previously unreported Windows backdoor, dubbed SLEEPWALKER, that stays inert in memory until a specifically crafted network packet reaches the machine and then runs commands written in a 23-instruction language of its...
The Cheesecake Factory is closing locations: See a list of shuttered locations for 2026
The Cheesecake Factory closed a number of restaurants at the start of this year. The decision comes even as the chain pushes forward with its most aggressive growth year yet. The company currently operates 218 Cheesecake Factory-branded restaurants in the...
Sopra Steria’s £370M Capita spat heads for 2028 courtroom showdown
System integrator Sopra Steria is set to have its day in court to contest a £370 million contract awarded by the UK government to Capita to run shared services for finance and HR across a number of Whitehall departments. A judge has set a trial date for early 2028,...
Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-influence-campaign-russia/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445252 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
I miss the old Claude Code
Article URL: https://alexkras.com/focus-is-the-main-feature-why-i-miss-the-old-claude-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444863 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
New Controller Makes Heavy Machinery Intuitive
New Controller Makes Heavy Machinery Intuitive Go to Source As children, many of us looked wistfully into the cockpits of heavy machinery, wondering just how the series of knobs and levers would do something like operate a bulldozer,...
Apple Mac Studio M5 Ultra with 1.2TB/S Memory Bandwidth
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444661 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Sensitive Information Exposed in Nutex Health Data Breach
Nutex Health has informed the SEC that it recently detected unauthorized access and data exfiltration. The post Sensitive Information Exposed in Nutex Health Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Fake Apple Support AI Calls Target Stolen-Device Owners for Passcodes and 2FA Codes
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform built to strip Apple's Activation Lock from stolen devices, using rented AI voice agents that call theft victims posing as Apple Support and ask for their device passcode....
Critical Gitea RCE Actively Exploited as Reported Attack Drops Miner-Like Payload
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday warned of active exploitation efforts targeting a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Gitea. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-60004 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of remote...
SpaceX is building a $100 billion ‘Starbase’ launch site in Louisiana
'We're preparing to build a spaceport that, until now, has only existed in science fiction,'
Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund
The Pan-African venture firm has raised $83 million and plans to invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria.
Job hunting is like dating now—in all the worst ways
Messages that stopped after meeting a couple of times. Paying for premium tiers to get better matches. Settling for something good enough until something better comes along. These aren’t descriptors of the modern dating scene, but the realities of searching for a job...
India’s crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets
India plans the first launch of its crewed space program this year and has expanded its orbital ambitions to include operating a space station by 2035. India’s crewed space program is called Gaganyaan and has already missed deadlines to fly in 2022 and 2025. The...
Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over
The number of large users hosting their own email servers has halved in the last decade, according to Artem Berezin, a researcher who works at business e-mail company Live Direct Marketing. On the Internet Society blog, Berezin explained that DNS records reveal a lot...
Ikea’s new collab turns Xbox controllers into furniture
For anyone who’s twiddled their way through several dozen hours of Halo or Grand Theft Auto, the newest Ikea home furnishings collection will probably look very familiar. The nine-item collection, named Yxstaby, is a collaboration between Ikea and Xbox focused on...
Exploring the difference between Regular and Zero Balance Account opening
Are you planning to open a Savings Account? Well, you have multiple options, two of which are the regular Savings Account and zero balance Savings Account. Both accounts offer secure banking services, but differ in minimum balance requirements, maintenance fees and...
More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding
Article URL: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/more-half-adults-us-say-they-lack-basic-statistical-understanding Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444514 Points: 6 # Comments: 5
Why the best companies scale by eliminating friction, not adding head count
The original London Underground map was accurate—and incredibly confusing. It showed the streets, rivers, trees, and geography above the railway. But it failed at its main purpose: helping passengers get from one station to another. Henry Beck, a young engineering...
CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability
CVE-2026-60004 is a remote code execution vulnerability patched by Gitea developers in late July with the release of version 1.27.1. The post CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Students prefer Gemini over ChatGPT and Claude for AI essays in blind tests
Students prefer Gemini over ChatGPT and Claude for AI essays in blind tests Go to Source Article URL: https://studyarena.com/blog/chatgpt-vs-claude-vs-gemini-college-essays-2026 Comments URL:...
Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems
Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems Go to Source Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21503 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443523 Points: 12 # Comments: 3
Blow Those Pyros With A Telephone!
A pyrotechnic charge is set off by passing a high voltage through a filament within it, melting the filament and igniting the charge. We could think of a variety of circuits that could do this, but perhaps we wouldn’t have come up with [Michał Słomkowski]’s solution....
India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call
Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.
Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?
Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at? Go to Source I am looking for ideas on what to train a specialized model for!What is one simple thing you repeatedly ask ChatGPT, Claude, or another model to do that it still...
Letter from Dolly Parton to Eminem
Article URL: https://twitter.com/Eminem/status/2092367272891310482 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443331 Points: 15 # Comments: 1
SN 1093: Tokens in the Stream – Why LLMs are inherently insecure and prompt injection will persist
Turns out, every chatbot conversation runs on a messy hack at the heart of language models, making prompt injection an unsolved—and possibly unsolvable—security threat. Steve and Leo unravel the research that explains why "roles" in AI aren't what you think they are....
Cheap AI Token Resellers: The Secret Ingredient is Fraud
[Matt Lenhard] has an interesting writeup explaining exactly how fraudsters offer access to cutting-edge AI models at a tenth of the price. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the secret is to get tokens for free from anywhere they can and by any means necessary. Then wrap them...
Queryable Executables
Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442589 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action
AI company Perplexity has already tried its hand at search services, advertising, personal assistants, browsers, and a hosted agent platform – and now it's getting into local AI services. The biz, having already built a hybrid agent inference orchestrator that...