US Charges 17 Iranian Hackers, Offers $10 Million Rewards for 5 of Them
The 17 members of the Mabna Institute targeted hundreds of universities and organizations in the US and abroad. The post US Charges 17 Iranian Hackers, Offers $10 Million Rewards for 5 of Them appeared first on SecurityWeek.
StopAndProtect Uses Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites to Spread Malware and Steal Data
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a global cybercrime operation that abuses thousands of hacked WordPress websites as infrastructure to disseminate malware, commandeer infected hosts, store stolen documents, screenshots, and activity logs created to track the...
Amazon Is Shredding Rare Books in the Name of AI Training
The company wouldn't be what it is today without the very readers mourning these volumes.
Get better color accuracy on your TV with these simple steps
Even if it has impressive out-of-the-box color, your new (or old) TV can always benefit from a few simple tweaks to get the best color accuracy possible.
Cl0p Ransomware Group Names Over 40 Victims of PTC Windchill Campaign
The cybercrime gang has listed major companies such as Shell, Philips, Fiserv, Zebra, Mindray, and Largan Precision. The post Cl0p Ransomware Group Names Over 40 Victims of PTC Windchill Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Hisense U8QG is one of the smartest TV buys I can recommend
The Hisense U8QG delivers premium features at a midrange price and wins a ZDNET Lab Award for the most accurate color reproduction.
Prompts aren’t enough: Why two AI giants are evolving their approach
This summer, OpenAI and Anthropic both announced features that let their AI systems learn a task by watching someone do it once, instead of being told how in a prompt. In June, OpenAI launched Record & Replay, a feature that lets ChatGPT and Codex users...
Scotland’s AI Growth Zone gets a wee £300M power-up
Datacenter operator DataVita has secured £300 million ($406 million) to expand its campus in Scotland's Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone, while Dell is moving into the area – albeit only into a regional office. The AI Growth Zone, unveiled earlier this year, centers on...
We lab-tested 7 TVs for color accuracy – and the winners weren’t Sony or Samsung
ZDNET's latest Lab Award crowns two flagship TVs that have the most accurate color reproduction in SDR and HDR formats.
Simple DIY STM32 Oscilloscope Project
In part one of what is intended to be a series on developing an STM32-based oscilloscope, [BTTLab] demonstrates a how to use the built-in ADC of an STM32F207 MCU to develop a straightforward single-channel oscilloscope. This can be followed along both via the YouTube...
Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam
Article URL: https://theremin.bizibah.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359425 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Dreamy handmade effects bring classic Disney magic to its new short film
Disney’s latest short film is an homage to practical magic. Once a Princess, Always a Princess, created by Disney and ad agency Fallon, debuted on August 17 for World Princess Week. It’s a four-minute-long tale about the joy of childhood friendship and play, set both...
CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Microsoft, VMware, Apple Vulnerabilities
The flaws can be exploited for remote code execution, authentication bypass, and device takeover. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Microsoft, VMware, Apple Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
These 3 unexpected practices helped me grow my startup
When I launched RiseGuide, a self-improvement platform letting people become their best by learning from the best, I wanted to offer a beneficial alternative to doomscrolling. We aggregated thousands of hours of expert knowledge into short, interactive, and practical...
I took on big tech. We need to get it right this time
Something is shifting. In July, New York became the first state in the country to impose a moratorium on hyperscale data centers—the power-devouring facilities that fuel artificial intelligence—so that the state could actually study what they do to communities before...
SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims
SAP consultant job ads across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland typically quote salaries 10 to 12 percent above the eventual offer, according to a recruitment firm specializing in the market. Employers seeking SAP consultants include IT services firms, management...
Faster Incident Response: How ANY.RUN Helps SOCs Cut MTTR by Up to 21 Minutes per Case
SOCs face constant pressure to detect and respond to threats faster. Heavy workloads, limited threat visibility, and disconnected tools can delay action, increasing the risk of financial loss and operational disruption. ANY.RUN helps more than 15,000 security teams...
Continuous Aggregate Refresh, Demystified: Invalidation, Lookback, and Late-Arriving Data
Yesterday the shift dashboard reported 41,900 units across an eight-hour window. Today the same query over the same eight hours reports 43,100. Nobody shipped a code change and nobody edited a row after the fact, so why did the number move? A plant-floor historian had...
From $823 to $200: A Practical AWS Cost Optimization Case Study
Cloud cost optimization isn’t simply a matter of “switching to smaller servers.” It starts with understanding the actual workload, then using billing data and monitoring to identify the true sources of cost, and finally verifying through rolling deployments, health...
From Requirement to Release: Building an AI Software Engineering Platform for Event-Driven Systems
Why Code Generation Is Not Enough The first generation of AI software engineering tools demonstrated that Large Language Models can generate production-quality code. The next generation will be measured by a fundamentally different capability: orchestrating the...
Your AI Benchmark Might Be Measuring the Harness, Not the Model
I nearly turned four software bugs into four model personalities This article was edited with AI assistance. The cases and data come from real batch runs in the Kai! AI Arena. Every claim is limited to the game rules, model versions, and experimental setup used at the...
The New Big Tech Playbook: Smaller Teams, Faster Products, More AI
For years, the blueprint for building a technology company seemed almost universal. Hire thousands of software engineers and builders, organize them into specialized departments, and scale by adding more people as the business grows.Artificial intelligence is...
How Android HCE Creates New Attack Surfaces for MIFARE DESFire
Mifare DESFire keycards are some of the most difficult keycards to clone. As such, they are used in access control, transit, closed loop payments, and many other sectors. Acquiring keys for DESFire cards has been borderline impossible thanks to its robust physical and...
AI Watermarks Are Here, But They Don’t Prove Who Wrote the Text
Within 48 hours at the turn of August, both major AI labs switched on watermarking. On July 31, OpenAI embedded SynthID marks into all GPT-Live voice output — one day before Article 50 of the EU AI Act came into force. From August 2, Anthropic began weaving an...
How AI Agents Can Migrate QA Test Cases With One Command
Hi! I’m Oleg, a QA Engineering Manager focused on test strategy, automation, and AI-assisted QA workflows.I lead one of the testing stacks at a large grocery retail company. We've been working through a series of experiments on where AI actually saves time in QA — not...
Flux.2 Klein 9B MatchingPose: A Guide to Identity-Preserving Pose Transfer
OverviewFlux.2-Klein-9B-MatchingPose is a LoRA adapter for FLUX.2 Klein 9B that transfers pose from a mannequin reference image onto a character while preserving the character's identity, face, and style. Created by nhathoangfoto, this model solves a critical problem...
I Built a Chiptune Synth in Pure x86-64 Assembly
No libc. No audio library. No sound card driver. Just the processor and 44,100 numbers a second. I didn't come from computers.My background is languages and translation — human grammar, the kind with conjugations and declensions.I started coding in October 2025, with...
Can NATS Replace Etcd? Building a Leaner K3s Stack
The Cost Trap of Multi-Node HA I see titles on YouTube like PgBouncer in 3 Minutes – The Lightweight Hero Every Dev Needs. The objection I have to this kind of wording is the lack of words like 'ops', 'sysadmin' or 'manged service'. Title's like this are of interest...
Why AI Agents Need Event-Driven Architecture
AI agents become fragile when they are connected in long synchronous chains. An event bus lets them work independently, wait for people and tools, recover after restarts, and place policy between a model's recommendation and a real action. Most AI agent demos fit...
What a Single uint32_t Teaches About C Types and Memory
Disclosure: I'm the author and maintainer of the open-source repo referenced in this piece. It's free, MIT-licensed, and I don't monetize it in any way. This piece was originally published on dev.to; this version has been reworked for HackerNoon's house style, and...