Kids’ meals are having a ‘Freaky Friday’ moment
This past March, McDonald’s finally gave KPop Demon Hunters the kids’-meal treatment it was practically begging for. The movie, an animated musical about a K-pop girl group, Huntr/X, and a charming demonic boy band, the Saja Boys, had become the most-watched film in...
Big Tech used AI to take what it wanted. Now consumers are fighting back, too
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 keeps AI safeguards in the maybe pile for Cyber Security BIll
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...
AI was great until it was not
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
What Dolly Parton’s estate fight reveals about family business succession
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...
5 ways people fake leadership and how to spot them
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...
Langflow’s Critical Authenticated RCE Flaw Targeted in 1,423 Honeypot Exploit Attempts
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,...
GhostAction Compromises About 1,900 GitHub Accounts, Targets Over 30,000 Repositories
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...
AhsayCBS Flaws Exploited to Deploy Web Shells Get New Fixes After Incomplete Patches
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,...
Proofpoint gives MSPs a Microsoft 365 risk dashboard, Teams training and an AI assistant
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...
Aidlc: Adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents
Article URL: https://github.com/awslabs/aidlc-workflows Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100387 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Royal Navy goes fishing for suppliers to build its Type 93 robot submarine
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...
CISO Conversations: James Robinson – Many Jobs, One Journey to Netskope CISO
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.
Learning faster with AI is making you worse at remembering
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...
Building An M7 Pan Tilt Head Controller
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...
Metropolitan Police’s unchecked use of shoplifting platform lands force in trouble with data watchdog
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reprimanded London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and issued an enforcement notice after officers used a retail crime platform without the force's approval or required data protection checks. Between March 2023 and...
Palo Alto Networks Patches PAN-OS Zero-Day Exploited for Remote Code Execution
The company says it’s aware of limited exploitation against customers’ firewalls, and it has made IoCs available. The post Palo Alto Networks Patches PAN-OS Zero-Day Exploited for Remote Code Execution appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Palo Alto Networks Patches PAN-OS Authenticated RCE Flaw Amid Active Exploitation
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday issued security updates for a high-severity flaw in PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0322 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of remote code execution in the management interface....
Cisco Warns of Exploited Secure Email Gateway Vulnerability
Unauthenticated, remote attackers could write arbitrary files to the operating system and execute commands with root privileges. The post Cisco Warns of Exploited Secure Email Gateway Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Jev and other decision models can still be tricked with prompt injection
Some of the excitement about decision models follows from TypeSafe AI's claim that its Jev decision model cannot hallucinate and that "the model never makes type errors." Yet decision models, which answer questions with a set of probabilities and a confidence score...
Show HN: Flipflop, iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing
This is a project that spun from my frustrations of using LocalSend and DashBeam to transfer stuff between devices, and with the extra goal of being fast, trying out the Slint framework and, most importantly, establishing a communication channel with trusted external...
Avoiding a promotion? You might be ‘ladderdodging’
There’s a new word for those who are apprehensive or outright uninterested in career advancement. Included in a new book of 100 Future Words, “ladderdodging” is defined as “declining or choosing not to seek out a promotion or high-level role in order to avoid the...
The 3 skills behind executive presence
If you’ve been told you lack “executive presence” when you’re delivering a presentation, you know that something about how you’re coming across needs to change. What’s less clear is what, specifically, to work on. A leader I coached, whom I’ll call Michael, had been...
Show HN: My Terminal Themes Web App
Well, after 15 years of saying "Someday I'll turn this into a web app," I finally did it!I've been maintaining a popular repo of terminal themes at https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes, and it was finally time to build the app with all the features I...
An Apology
Article URL: https://www.elevationlab.com/blogs/news/an-apology Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50099121 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
Pager Converted to Meshtastic Node
Text messaging has been around on cellular networks en masse for around three decades now. It’s so common that it’s difficult to remember a time without it. Its two-way quick messaging is incredibly useful, but for even simpler communications there’s a one-way system...
Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform
Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta.
Future of Cancer Care Today (FCCT)
Article URL: https://sijbrandijfoundation.org/fcct Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098702 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive
Article URL: https://morewrong.lol/?post=overdose-offsets-why-every-bag-of-fentanyl-i-sell-is-net-life-positive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097880 Points: 25 # Comments: 2
The Double Headed Stack Allocator
Article URL: https://blog.demofox.org/2026/10/03/the-double-headed-stack-allocator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098274 Points: 4 # Comments: 0