Dollar Tree is closing stores, joins list of retailers adjusting their physical location footprint in 2026
Store closures have become a common story in 2026. While food and restaurant chains like Five Guys, Pizza Hut, and Papa John’s tend to grab the most of the headlines, this year has also seen closures from retail shopping brands like H&M and Glossier. And now,...
I tested iOS 26 Siri against iOS 27 Siri AI in my car – and it wasn’t even close
With the iOS 27 public beta on my iPhone, I challenged Siri AI to assist me in the car. Here's how it performed over regular Siri.
New US homeownership measure puts people first
Article URL: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2026/new-homeownership-measure-puts-people-first Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991139 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Battery recycling solves mineral security
Global competition for critical minerals is reshaping economic and technological leadership. Lithium, cobalt, and nickel power everything from electric vehicles to grid-scale storage. Yet as demand surges, access remains fragile, with much of the world’s mining and...
This Texas startup wants to reinvent desalination with a spinning membrane
Growing up in Las Vegas, Hunter Manz took annual trips to nearby Lake Mead with his father. Each year, he watched the reservoir, Southern Nevada’s primary water source, recede further, sparking an early interest in water conservation. As a teenager, Manz began...
UK.gov’s tech department gets the chop after two years
The UK government is scrapping the department charged with leading digital and tech change across the public sector. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) – created by former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak – will see its...
LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware
LG has come under fire over its Monitor App Installer, which is automatically and silently installed when plugging in some of the company's monitors. In this case, the monitor in question is a new LG UltraGear. Upon first connection to a Windows 11 device, the OS can...
SecurityWeek Launches Critical Impact Awards to Recognize Excellence in Industrial Cybersecurity
Independently judged and sponsor-neutral, the new awards program honors the people, organizations, and technologies delivering proven impact in industrial cybersecurity; winners to be announced live at the 2026 ICS Cybersecurity Conference in Nashville The post...
New Bit2Watt Attack Could Let Cloud Tenants Disrupt Power Grids Without an Exploit
A cloud tenant using nothing but ordinary GPU access can push a data center's power draw up and down fast enough to threaten the grid it runs on, with no exploit and no break-in. That is the claim behind Bit2Watt, described by three Zhejiang University researchers in...
GitHub suddenly rejected my SSH key (the fix was a .pub file?)
Article URL: https://thorsell.io/2026/07/21/github-ssh-keys.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990929 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
Samsung establishes a robotics division
Samsung created a robotics division called RX, and its first product could be a humanoid robot.
Open-Source Android AI Agents Could Let Invisible Screen Text Run Code on Host PCs
An Android app that can draw over other windows and write to shared storage can slip instructions to the AI agent driving that phone, in text no human eye will ever see. Two more steps, and the same app is running commands on the PC driving the agent. Researchers...
New HollowGraph Malware Abuses Microsoft 365 Calendar for C&C Communication
Part of a larger toolkit, HollowGraph uses a compromised 365 account’s calendar as a two-way dead-drop. The post New HollowGraph Malware Abuses Microsoft 365 Calendar for C&C Communication appeared first on SecurityWeek.
N-day is Becoming N-Hour. Patching Faster Won’t Save You.
Every patch is a confession. The moment a vendor ships a security fix, the diff between the old code and the new code tells anyone watching exactly what was broken and where. Turn that diff back into a working exploit, and you can hit every system that hasn't updated...
1Password’s New Claude Integration Lets the AI Platform Log In for You
Are you willing to place this much trust in generative AI?
Valve’s Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support
Valve and Collabora are building an Arm64 port of Arch Linux for the Steam Frame VR gaming platform, with hopes that the work will eventually feed into the upstream distro. Arch Linux has spawned a whole family of derivatives, but the official upstream distro targets...
CISO Conversations: Andreas Gaetje – From Economics to CISO at Körber AG
Gaetje’s story shows that you don’t need to be a ‘deep bit-crawler’ to become a Chief Information Security Officer. The post CISO Conversations: Andreas Gaetje – From Economics to CISO at Körber AG appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Estée Lauder Discloses Impact From Oracle EBS Zero-Day Hack
Hackers exfiltrated personal, financial, and health information from the company’s Oracle EBS instance in August 2025. The post Estée Lauder Discloses Impact From Oracle EBS Zero-Day Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Java Ring Restored After Nearly 30 Years
Back in the late 90s when absolutely everybody knew that Java was going to become the one programming language to rule them all, the Java Ring was handed out to folks at Java developer conferences as an example of how it was going to revolutionize smart wearable...
Sony files another lawsuit against AI music generator Udio
Sony, the only major music label that has yet to sign a deal with Udio, has sued the AI music generator again.
Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago
It has been half a century since NASA landed on Mars with the Viking 1 lander. Viking 1, one of a pair of Viking spacecraft, landed on Mars on July 20, 1976. Launched on August 20, 1975, Viking 1 arrived in orbit around Mars on June 19, 1976. The Viking program is,...
The coming burnout from managing AI agents
Technology leaders are very comfortable talking about productivity. We can discuss automation rates, developer velocity, cost curves, and defect rates with great confidence. We are less comfortable talking about mental strain, especially when the thing creating the...
Want to live forever? There’s a house for that
Kas Bordier sells her clients a vision of longer, healthier, and constantly measured lives—one that’s perfectly attuned to today’s optimized pursuit of health. As the founder of Mavi, a new architecture firm and consultancy, Bordier offers homeowners the option to...
Trump’s proposed ban on Kimi and other Chinese AI models could strengthen Beijing’s hand
The Trump administration has had plenty of targets in its sights in recent months. The newest are China’s cutting-edge AI models. Following the release of Kimi K3, the latest model from Moonshot AI, the White House is reportedly considering options that could...
Meta Pays $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data
A security researcher discovered a broken access control vulnerability in Meta’s support infrastructure. The post Meta Pays $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Meta Paid $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data
A security researcher discovered a broken access control vulnerability in Meta’s support infrastructure. The post Meta Paid $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Post-World Cup, can host cities turn their investments into long-term social impact?
The 2026 World Cup has been a real moneymaker for FIFA. Revenues from TV broadcasting rights, ticket sales, and other commercial sources are projected to amount to nearly $11 billion, making it the most financially successful event in the international soccer...
Trump wants to ‘max out’ Air Force One
President Donald Trump said his new Air Force One needs to be upgraded. “It has a lot of capability,” Trump said Sunday, but “in about a month or so, they’re gonna send it to have it be maxed out.” He said it would take “about a month,” but did not share any details...
AI Governance In High-Stakes Finance: Radhika Venugopal
The integration of Generative AI into financial services presents unprecedented opportunities alongside complex regulatory challenges. Institutions are actively seeking pathways to deploy advanced artificial intelligence without compromising the integrity of legacy...
Judge Spotlight: Sjoerd Dijkstra, Co-Founder of Nosana, on Powering AI with Decentralized Compute
This interview is part of the Judge Spotlight series for the Decentralize AI Hackathon, where we sit down with our judges to explore their work, perspectives, and advice for builders. As a judge for the Decentralize AI Hackathon, Sjoerd Dijkstra, Co-Founder of Nosana,...