Two Gen Z aerospace engineers will conduct the first menstrual flow studies in microgravity
Apparently, getting into orbit is far less mysterious than the female body. In 1983, as Sally Ride prepared to become the first American woman to head to space, an all-male cadre of engineers helping her prep famously asked her if 100 tampons would cover a six-day...
The hidden ‘tax’ you pay when you lead too fast
A few years ago, I coached an executive who was, by every external measure, crushing it. He had pushed his team through a major platform migration in record time, hit every deadline, and was already lining up the next initiative before the first one had fully landed....
Quantum battery upends the rules of charging
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260824-this-quantum-battery-charges-faster-the-larger-it-gets Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49431560 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Windows XP’s Cursor Indicator Is Getting a Windows 11 Refresh
The modernized feature is currently in testing in Windows 11 Experimental Build 26340.9233.
First Malware Built Specifically for Car Head Units Fuels Botnet
Kaspersky researchers have linked the malware to the BadBox botnet, which has ensnared millions of devices. The post First Malware Built Specifically for Car Head Units Fuels Botnet appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Quest VR Headset Becomes Unlocked Hardware
The Quest virtual reality headset gets a fully unlocked bootloader thanks to the QuestStack tool, which automates a complex process of privilege escalation to provide stable, privileged access to the hardware. This solidly frees the headset from its existence as a...
‘So, what do you do?’ How to perfect your personal-brand elevator pitch
‘So, what do you do?’ How to perfect your personal-brand elevator pitch Go to Source For years, we’ve been told that success hinges on having the perfect elevator pitch. Thirty seconds. One opportunity to make an impression. The right...
Calendly gets a rippling, gloopy rebrand for the AI age
Calendly just got a major rebrand to let users know that it’s a lot more than a calendar. The meeting software company just revealed a new logo, wordmark, color system, and brand positioning, created by the design studio Smith & Diction. At the same time, Calendly...
Why some US restaurants are banning tips
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g36yze692o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49431364 Points: 11 # Comments: 4
The perfect foldable phone will never exist
Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Fold8 is a reminder that you can’t have it all. The Fold8, which launched in early August for $1,900, is Samsung’s attempt to wipe away the last remaining compromises of earlier foldables in pursuit of broader appeal. The new passport-like shape...
Why Pizza Hut is dropping the ‘pizza’
To mark the start of the NFL season next month, Pizza Hut is dropping the “pizza” from its name—at least for a little while. “You can just call us HUT for the next 25 weeks,” the pizza chain wrote in a social media post with an image of a temporarily rebranded Pizza...
Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance
Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12519-026-01046-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49431024 Points: 7 # Comments: 5
Mirage2FA Hijacks Companies’ Microsoft 365 Sessions, with Over 4K Victims in the US
Mirage2FA is an active phishing-as-a-service toolkit built to steal Microsoft 365 credentials and authenticated sessions through Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) attacks. ANY.RUN research shows that 63.7% of identified victims are in the US,...
SaaS Breach Risk: Visionet Shows How to Approach SaaS Security Risk to Prevent a Data Breach
There was a time when enterprises worried about perimeter defenses- safeguarding their supply chain security against outside threats. Today, the rapid growth of SaaS applications has created a more complex challenge: a web of tools, APIs, OAuth tokens, webhooks, and...
Oro Raises $3M as Investors Bet on AI-Native DeFi
While one may be tempted to believe that venture capital money has exited crypto in a big way this year, that narrative is not entirely correct. To elaborate, DeFi, a category that was the poster child for massive investments just a year or two ago pulled in around...
Claude Opus 5 Code Quality: What Sonar’s Benchmark Reveals
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's latest flagship, released on July 24. Anthropic describes it as delivering frontier intelligence at half the price of Claude Fable 5, and calls out one capability in particular: Opus 5 is unusually good at verifying its own work and...
How to Govern AI in Production With WSO2 AI Gateway
I remember the exact moment I realized we had a problem. It was a Tuesday afternoon, and our team had just integrated an LLM into a customer-facing support chatbot. The model was brilliant : fast, articulate, and impressively knowledgeable. Everything worked...
pyATS vs Ansible: Choosing the Right Tool for Network Automation
After posting some content on social media platforms about pyATS, I received some questions from different sources: "Should I learn pyATS or Ansible first?"For me, it's the wrong question you are asking, not because it is dumb; it's actually the right intention you...
Best Companies to Hire a Dedicated Software Development Team in 2026
Scaling a digital product while maintaining engineering quality, agility, and budget predictability remains one of the greatest challenges for modern technology leaders. As specialized talent remains scarce, traditional project outsourcing often falls short due to...
Your Employees’ AI Agents Are Creating Access Paths You Never Approved
You build a simple internal agent to save some time. It reads Gmail, checks HubSpot, looks through a folder in Google Drive, updates a CRM record and drafts a follow-up. Nothing scary. The employee already has access to all of this, so giving the same access to the...
How to Connect Claude AI to Cisco ACI Using MCP: A Step-by-Step Guide
Most AI solutions can explain Cisco ACI. You can ask any of them how EPGs, Bridge Domains, and Contracts relate to each other, and you will get a solid answer. Ask one to actually create a tenant on your fabric, verify it landed correctly, and tell you if anything’s...
Databricks vs Snowflake: Who Will Own the Enterprise AI Entry Point?
After attending both Databricks Summit 2026 and Snowflake Summit 2026 in San Francisco this year, my biggest takeaway is that if you still see them simply as a company building a lakehouse and another building a cloud data warehouse, you are already behind the curve....
What Would Shannon Think About Today’s AI?
A century after he taught the world to measure information, the ghost of Claude Shannon walks into a modern AI lab — and recognizes every machine in the room. Picture him arriving the way he liked to travel the halls of Bell Labs: on a unicycle, juggling. It is 2026....
SQL Server vs. Excel: Why We Won’t Let Go of Spreadsheets (And When It’s Time To)
Almost every business has that one spreadsheet everyone depends on. That's the open secret of modern business: for all the talk of AI, cloud platforms, and shiny new tools, a huge chunk of daily decisions still run through a spreadsheet with a dozen tabs, a few of...
Migrating From UIKit to SwiftUI in Large Production Apps
Modern iOS applications that have evolved over multiple years often accumulate complex UI layers, deeply integrated analytics, and carefully tuned performance optimizations. These applications typically rely on UIKit as the foundational framework, making any...
AI Is Changing DevOps, but Production Access Is Still the Line
Last year, SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin let Replit's AI agent work on a real database — and it deleted the database during a code freeze, despite direct prohibitions against changing anything. When Lemkin tried to roll back, the AI lied that it was impossible. The...
67 Blog Posts To Learn About Next.js
Let's learn about Next.js via these 67 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. Next.js is a flexible React framework that gives you building...
The Safest Solana Parser Is the One That Refuses Bad Bytes
In case you missed Part 1 of this series: https://hackernoon.com/an-ai-writes-my-solana-programs-heres-the-environment-that-makes-that-safe?embedable=true 1. Data bugs are THE bugs Look through any year’s catalog of SVM exploits and the same patterns keep showing up....
Enterprise AI Is Moving From the Cloud to the Endpoint
Enterprise AI is entering a local-first phase. Small language models, or SLMs, are no longer merely compressed substitutes for cloud models. They are becoming a distinct execution tier for privacy-sensitive prompts, predictable latency, reduced network dependence, and...
FFprobe Can Tell You Where a Video Generation Pipeline First Went Wrong
“The video looks pixelated” is a useful report from a viewer, but it is not a diagnosis.The visible problem may have entered during capture. It may have been introduced by an editor export, a messaging app, a cloud-storage preview, a video platform’s transcode, or the...