Artificial Intelligence as It Once Was
One day, people will look back at what we call Artificial Intelligence and laugh. We do the same thing today, as chat bots totally outstrip what the computer industry called AI up until pretty recently. This didn’t escape curators at the Internet Archive, apparently,...
Pacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power
Fusion startup Pacific Fusion broke ground on a demonstration facility in New Mexico that it says will generate enough energy to power itself.
Apple M5 Ultra vs M3 Ultra: What’s changed?
Everything you need to know about Apple's powerful new chip.
Apple’s M5 Ultra is its most powerful chip ever – with 4x faster AI performance than M3 Ultra
The Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra will feature up to a whopping 512GB of unified memory, and drive up to eight external displays.
Astronomy or Megaconstellations: New Study Shows We Can’t Have Both
If the private space industry has its way over the next decade, ground-based and even orbital astronomy could become much, much more difficult.
Why Enterprise AI Pilots Keep Failing
Why Enterprise AI Pilots Keep Failing Go to Source MIT researchers looked at corporate AI pilots and found that 95 percent fail to deliver measurable results — compared to a 25 percent failure rate for ordinary IT projects. [ 1 ] BCG...
How much of HN is AI?
Article URL: https://blog.coredump.cx/p/how-much-of-hn-is-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49435728 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/25/apple-releases-new-polishing-cloth/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434830 Points: 19 # Comments: 6
Apple just unexpectedly released a new M6 Mac mini—and raised prices again
With all eyes focused on the upcoming iPhone 18 launch (and likely Apple’s first foldable iPhone, too), not many expected Apple to announce new products before next month. Yet that’s just what Apple did today. The company unveiled two new desktop computers—an updated...
A Malicious Webpage Could Poison Your Local AI Model Behind NVIDIA NemoClaw
A Malicious Webpage Could Poison Your Local AI Model Behind NVIDIA NemoClaw Go to Source Oasis Security has disclosed a weakness in NVIDIA NemoClaw that could let an attacker-controlled webpage take unauthenticated control of the...
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica
Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team.
Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap
Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap Go to Source Apple says it will no longer ditch using its icloud.com domain for hiding people's email addresses.
Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
Article URL: https://www.imkylelambert.com/articles/building-a-backyard-office-the-build-and-cost-breakdown Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434645 Points: 16 # Comments: 2
Bomb Fishing Is Wreaking Havoc on Indonesia’s Coral Reefs
Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bomb-fishing-coral-reefs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434820 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
MySQL CDC to BigQuery: what periodic syncs miss, and how binlog avoids it
Article URL: https://www.erathos.com/en/blog/mysql-cdc-to-bigquery Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434613 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
US convicts ex-Philips engineer for exposing X-ray secrets to competitor
A 71-year-old Philips engineer has been found guilty of stealing the company’s medical imaging trade secrets and passing them on to a Chinese competitor. Chih-Yee Jen worked at Philips’ Aurora, Illinois, facility where engineers researched, developed, and manufactured...
Nintendo reveals its latest Switch 2 bundles just ahead of the console’s price increase
Let this serve as a reminder that the Switch 2 is getting more expensive next week.
Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-san-francisco-staff-work-remote-office-security-strike-2026-8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434291 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Sony phones in an update to the midrange Xperia 10 and slaps a sizable price hike on it
The Xperia 10 VIII offers few upgrades for a lot more money.
What’s the difference between Thunderbolt 4 and 5?
Thunderbolt 5 offers extremely fast data transfer and lots of power, but most devices can't take advantage of it
OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show
Tested on Semianalysis’s InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.
Alice Raises $140M to Expand AI Model Defenses and Enterprise Guardrails
The company, previously known as ActiveFence, has raised a total of $280 million from investors. The post Alice Raises $140M to Expand AI Model Defenses and Enterprise Guardrails appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6
Apple unveils these new processors alongside an updated Mac Mini and Mac Studio.
Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200M following PepsiCo deal
The funding, Gatik's largest so far, was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies.
Anatomy of an SLA Resin Printing Disaster
When I got back into SLA resin printing recently, I knew that I’d inevitably have to deal with the agony of failed prints and of course resin spills. This moment eventually came, and I felt motivated to treat mistakes as teaching moments on aspects like how to...
SiFive pushes development server to take RISC-V into the datacenter
RISC-V chip champ SiFive has launched a development server built around its own CPUs to help port key workloads to the open compute architecture, and claims it already has hyperscalers and software customers signed up. The processor design firm biz showcasing its...
Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago
It is a quarter of a century since Microsoft packed Windows XP off to manufacturing, finally drawing a line under the Windows 9x codebase (behind Windows 95, 98, and Me) and making Windows NT something for consumers. Before Windows XP, consumers and businesses lived...
Microsoft breaks WPF printing with .NET update
Having some unexpected printer problems? Microsoft's August 2026 .NET update might have broken printing on your device. According to Microsoft, "After installing the August 2026 .NET Framework cumulative update, some WPF applications may fail with a...
CISA slaps its tightest three-day patching deadline on perfect-10 Oracle flaw
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) just dished out another three-day deadline for patching an actively exploited vulnerability, the most urgent in its wheelhouse. The culprit: a max-severity Oracle bug affecting Windows VMs. Tracked as...
OpenAI’s upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it’ll be an inference beast
OpenAI offered its closest look yet at its spicy new Jalapeño AI accelerator at the annual Hot Chips semiconductor development conference at Stanford on Tuesday. The chips, first teased earlier this year, were developed in collaboration with Broadcom, and are the...