On June 25, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo launched Raise Us, an initiative to confront what she calls America’s missing piece: a people strategy to match its technology strategy. Raimondo explains how she built a $500 million war chest, secured...

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Turla has been using the backdoor against government and military organizations in Ukraine for espionage. The post Russian APT Deploys ‘StockStay’ Backdoor Against Ukrainian Targets appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Below, Josh Tyrangiel shares five key insights from his new book, AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter. Tyrangiel spent the last few years covering artificial intelligence, first at The Washington Post and now at The...

Article URL: https://aditya.patadia.org/p/ai-and-cloud-costs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48683588 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

EPISODE 12 "What's everybody here for?" the Boss asks, peering worriedly at the long line of people extending out of the wedged-open door of Mission Control, continuing on down the corridor. "It's the amnesty," the PFY replies. "The amnesty?" "Oh, I forget!" the PFY...

When I was in HR, I watched managers dodge conversations about accountability like they were land mines. Not because they didn’t care, but because accountability had become synonymous with one thing: firing. Accountability has become corporate profanity. Because when...

The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Turla has been attributed to a previously undocumented .NET backdoor called STOCKSTAY that has been deployed against government and military organizations in Ukraine, and entities that have an interest in Italian...

CISA has added the remote code execution flaw CVE-2026-12569 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The post First-Ever Exploitation of PTC Windchill Vulnerability Discovered in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Age-verification has been a topic of hot debate recently, with many in the community feeling that keeping kids safe online is better handled by the parents. But what does that look like these days? [EposVox] has been working on a child-safe laptop to try and solve the...

A major overhaul of the Model Context Protocol shifts critical security responsibilities from the protocol itself to developers and platform operators. The post New Enterprise-Ready MCP Specification Brings New Security Challenges appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Article URL: https://www.gardensillustrated.com/features/the-history-of-lawns Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682066 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://akrites.org/letter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682737 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

Microsoft has oh-so-quietly extended its offer of extended security updates for consumer users of Windows 10. The Windows giant ended support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, when it stopped shipping fixes and updates – unless users coughed up for an extended patch...

ON CALL Supporting IT and keeping it secure is a serious endeavor. Which is why The Register lightens up Friday mornings with a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that shares your tales of tech support trauma. This week, meet a reader we'll...

“I Love Gay People” I once had a coworker I’m going to call Maggie. And Maggie loved gay people. I know that, because she explicitly told me when she learned I was gay, probably six months into working together.   Up to that point, Maggie and I had collaborated on a...

In October 1962, with Soviet missiles 80 miles from Florida and his generals demanding airstrikes within days, John F. Kennedy did something his advisors found almost unbearable. He waited. While his advisers urged invasion, Kennedy created what one biographer later...

Right now, I have 628 unread emails in my work inbox. That’s in addition to seven unread Signal messages, a few unopened Telegrams, dozens of texts coming in (both personal and professional), and a whole separate Google work suite to contend with for another...

Martin brings experience from Coinbase, Palantir, Amazon, and the U.S. Army to lead Uber's cybersecurity and enterprise security organization. The post Philip Martin Joins Uber as Chief Information Security Officer appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Article URL: https://borretti.me/article/no-one-escapes-the-permanent-underclass Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682016 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

Article URL: https://graphicore.github.io/librebarcode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681949 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Chinese cybersecurity vendor Qihoo 360 claims it’s built an AI bug-finder that’s better than Anthropic’s Mythos model. CEO Zhou Hongyi revealed the model in a speech at the 14th Beijing Cybersecurity Conference, which Qihoo 360 organizes. Chinese media outlets have...