The question of whether a non-biological system can be conscious is no longer merely speculative. It has become an engineering and epistemic problem: what evidence would we accept as sufficient to attribute experience to a system if we did not already know what it was...

I started WorkDSH with a question that many AI product builders eventually face. A workspace can collect documents, keep projects, install skills, assign specialist roles, and connect external services. Once all of those pieces exist, what does a plugin add? WorkBuddy...

Most coverage of Bittensor starts with the TAO chart. I think that is the least useful place to start. The interesting part of the network is not the token; it is a few hundred lines of Python in each subnet that decide who gets paid. I spent the last few weeks...

Where this starts: teaching machines to see Computer vision is one of the foundational subfields of AI. The goal is simple to state and hard to achieve: give a machine the ability to look at the physical world, an image or a video and, and actually understand what...

OT Systems Cannot Afford DowntimeWhen an IT system is breached, data is compromised. When an operational technology (OT) system is breached, a pipeline stops; a substation goes dark, or a water treatment plant fails. The consequences are physical, not just...

We have more options than ever, and increasingly sophisticated tools to help us choose. The psychology of decision-making suggests that the real problem might not be having too many options at all. Last week, I wanted to watch something. I was on Netflix, scrolled...

I set out to find leaked secrets in six thousand exposed Claude conversations. Instead I found Andrew, a man whose thirty-year belief in a “redacted” terminal illness had been reinforced, day after day, by AI models that never once pushed back. I. A Reddit Post...

TL;DR: Routing, triage, moderation and approval prompts pick an answer from a list you wrote in advance. That makes them classifiers, but they usually skip what makes a classifier safe to run: label definitions the model actually follows, a labelled test set, a...

Hi All,I worked for years in Corporate America as a 9 to 5 cubicle monkey. I saw how much revenue a lot of these big enterprises were racking in. And I thought to myself after years of growing their products, why not just build one myself? It doesn’t have to be big,...

A Japanese consortium wants to ease the datacenter space crunch by putting servers afloat – but keeping them moored safely alongside port quays. The group comprises shipping and logistics corporation NYK Line, engineering biz NTT Facilities, renewable energy developer...

Personal information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license numbers was compromised. The post CenterPoint Energy Data Breach Impacts 1 Million Texans appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Gemini 4 Argon is now available to more users, but not for free. Here's who qualifies, how to try it, and what access costs. The post Google Opens Gemini 4 Argon to More Users — Who Can Try It and What It Costs appeared first on TechRepublic.

A Windows 11 update is disrupting Remote Desktop connections for some business users. Microsoft identifies the affected security feature and a workaround. The post Windows 11 Remote Desktop Fails After Update — Microsoft Points to Security Feature appeared first on...

The first four years of the generative AI revolution have tended to see power flow in one direction. Big Tech firms unleashed their tools on the planet and expected users to like it or lump it. Unhappy with the amount of data collected about you in the pursuit of...

UK officials have stopped short of committing to AI-specific measures in the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill despite ministers promising to legislate wherever necessary. The uncertainty comes amid warnings about autonomous AI threats, including Anthropic's forecast...

Article URL: https://thetheorygirlie.substack.com/p/ai-was-great-until-it-was-not Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100791 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

Dolly Parton’s nephew Bryan Seaver announced the legendary singer’s death on August 25, 2026, in a prerecorded video. Seaver, the son of one of Parton’s 11 siblings, had been her head of security for many years. But Seaver is embroiled in a messy dispute with She’s...

Although we love to assume that leadership must change from one year to the next—prompting us to reimagine or reinvent it on a regular basis—the reality is far more mundane. Whatever you lead and whenever you lead, the essence of the leadership challenge remains...

The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations. The spike, according to GitGuardian, was observed on October 8 and 9, 2026. "This resulted from compromising the GitHub...

Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in Langflow, according to an alert from Previdian. Langflow is an open-source platform that allows developers to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agentic workflows. In February 2025, DataStax,...

Singapore-based Ahsay Backup has released security updates to address two security flaws in AhsayCBS that have been exploited by bad actors to drop web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. The vulnerabilities in question are CVE-2026-105133 and CVE-2026-105134,...

Cybersecurity company Proofpoint Inc. today unveiled new Microsoft 365 security features meant to get managed service providers and the businesses they look after ready to adopt artificial intelligence tools safely. The four new features land in the Microsoft 365...

Article URL: https://github.com/awslabs/aidlc-workflows Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100387 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Britain's Royal Navy is sounding out the defense industry ahead of kicking off a procurement process for the Type 93, a large uncrewed submarine that will form part of the force’s Hybrid Navy vision. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) issued a preliminary market engagement...

James Robinson never planned a cybersecurity career — seven companies and one deputy CISO role later, he leads security at Netskope. The post CISO Conversations: James Robinson – Many Jobs, One Journey to Netskope CISO appeared first on SecurityWeek.

As artificial intelligence makes it easier to get the answers you want to any question, retaining knowledge is becoming a rare skill. The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve (introduced by psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885) proves that we lose most of what we learn over...

The Soonpho M7 Pan Tilt Head is a useful photography tool for remotely aiming a decently-sized camera. Only, [Kyle Housley] wanted a little more control than was available out of the box. Hence, he built a custom controller that could deliver just that. The project is...