Apollo Atomics wants to make nuclear power cheaper by shrinking an overlooked part
Y Combinator alumnus Apollo Atomics is shrinking a key nuclear reactor part, which promises to slash the cost of electricity below natural gas.
NetBSD 11 lands with RISC-V support and lightning-fast VM boots
NetBSD's 19th major release adds 64-bit RISC-V support, improved Linux compatibility, and a MICROVM kernel that can boot in milliseconds. NetBSD 11.0 arrived at the end of July, a little over two years after the project celebrated its 30th birthday with the release of...
Netherlands lists Israel as a threat to its national security for the first time
Article URL: https://www.trtworld.com/article/911b7ff6c075 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374031 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
The NFL’s new ‘celly’ campaign is an homage to TikTok fandom
In the NFL’s new kickoff campaign, the league’s biggest stars are wiggling their hips, shimmying their shoulders, doing the worm, and recreating Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam. The spot, titled “The Season Is Your Stage,” debuted on August 20 to drum up...
Exclusive: This $100 million startup wants to give companies AI employees
At the San Francisco-based startup Anything AI, there’s a robust team that seems like any fast-growing startup’s organizational chart. There’s Emma, who investigates reported bugs across logs, databases, and code, then drafts the reply; Otis, who runs engineering...
Microsoft Tests a Faster, Customizable Right-Click Menu in Windows 11
Users can also choose where Properties appears and retain access to Show more options.
Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated an attack that revives expired Visa contactless credit cards for real in-store purchases by rewriting the expiration date a point-of-sale (POS) terminal reads over near-field communication (NFC),...
Why “Shady AI” is Security’s Next Big Governance Problem
In March 2026, an internal AI agent at Meta triggered a “Sev 1” incident after sensitive company and user data was exposed to employees who weren’t authorized to access it. The incident began when a Meta employee posted a technical question on an internal forum. An...
CDN Tsunami Attack Abuses HTTP/3 Translation for Up to 350x DoS Amplification
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that exploit how major content delivery networks (CDNs) convert client-facing HTTP/3 traffic into HTTP/1.1 requests to the websites they front, amplifying a low-bandwidth request stream by up...
Manic Android Malware Exfiltrates Data From Offline Phones via Nearby Infected Devices
A new Android threat codenamed Manic has been observed actively targeting Ukrainian banks, government and identity services, and messaging applications, as well as Russian and European financial institutions, global fintech and cryptocurrency services, and...
Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload
Article URL: https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374269 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Threat Actor Hacks 14,000 IP Cameras in Ukraine and Russia
Operation CameraSwarm targeted Dahua cameras across multiple countries, focusing on Russian and CIS telecom netblocks. The post Threat Actor Hacks 14,000 IP Cameras in Ukraine and Russia appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Walmart tariff refunds update: Will customers get reimbursed directly?
Walmart has received almost $2.9 billion in federal tariff refunds. The retail chain shared the figure in Thursday’s fiscal 2027 quarter two financial results, crediting the refund with an increase in gross profit rate and operating income. Walmart’s gross profit...
AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack
The data search and AI giant confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said it was investigating the breach.
Zero Networks expands Palo Alto Networks integration to AI agent control
Zero-trust security startup Zero Networks Ltd. today expanded its integration with Palo Alto Networks Inc., adding automated threat containment and a set of controls aimed at artificial intelligence agents. The two companies first integrated their products in February...
For a16z, AI gives foreign founders an advantage
a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. 'Having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley," is an advantage, the firm believes.
Grok chat duped into swallowing injected instructions
xAI's Grok web chat agent is currently vulnerable to a novel form of prompt injection, according to security researchers with Adversa AI. The technique allows an attacker to create a web page poisoned with malicious instructions that induce an AI model summarizing the...
US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI
Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States.
Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device
I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15).The idea is basically GitHub Copilot or Tabnine, except instead of prompting it with code, you prompt it by playing a few notes on a MIDI piano. The...
Browser De-Slop
Article URL: https://www.sacredheartsc.com/blog/browser-de-slop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373616 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP are suddenly soaring to fresh highs: Why are crypto prices up today?
The prices of major cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP, are surging today. The upward movement is being cheered by investors in the digital tokens, which have, until recently, experienced a pretty horrendous 2026. But over the last 24 hours, things...
The business advantage of unfiltered founder vulnerability
An unwritten rule has long governed the business world: never let them see you sweat. Leaders are expected to operate as perfectly polished corporate avatars, keeping their personal lives at a safe, academic distance. I’ve never been good at that. I was diagnosed with...
Meta Patent Describes AI Glasses That Recognize People and Create Automatic Video Highlights
Privacy advocates warn that this system could put stalking victims, children, immigrants, and others at risk.
French tax authority says break-in exposed data of 600K, including some private messages
France's tax authority says attackers may have stolen the contents of messages exchanged with hundreds of taxpayers during the data raid it confirmed last week. In an update published this week, the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) said lists of messages...
Atlassian, Splunk Patch Dozens of Critical, High-Severity Vulnerabilities
The flaws could be exploited to execute arbitrary code, access sensitive information, and elevate privileges. The post Atlassian, Splunk Patch Dozens of Critical, High-Severity Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI skills in cybersecurity job postings doubled as junior hiring stalls
The AI Workforce Consortium today reported that the share of cybersecurity job postings across the Group of Seven economies that ask for artificial intelligence skills doubled over the year, and junior hiring has not moved with them. This was the first in a new series...
Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps
Meta said its Muse Spark model is powering the dictation feature.
MLflow Vulnerability Exploited for Cloud Credential Theft
The critical-severity flaw allows attackers to send HTTP requests to internal endpoints and extract sensitive information. The post MLflow Vulnerability Exploited for Cloud Credential Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Roblox vows to make changes after Australian regulator found yet more child safety lapses
Australia's safety regulator found Roblox still allows adults to contact children after years of pledging to stop it.
Proof of Human (YC S23) Is Hiring a Member of Technical Staff
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proof-of-human/jobs/ZTZHEbb-member-of-technical-staff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373423 Points: 0 # Comments: 0