The CPU’s growing role in agentic AI infrastructure
Modern AI infrastructure, particularly in the realm of agentic AI, is often discussed through the lens of accelerators, model sizes, and training clusters. However, making large-scale agentic AI systems functional relies heavily on the CPU within these pipelines. As...
A Look at a Gaggle of Transputer Boards
A long time before Beowulf clusters wired up with commodity Ethernet hardware became a hobbyist thing and a running joke, the transputer took a swing at a very similar architecture. This used stand-alone computers that were networked together with other transputer...
Chrome 149 Update Resolves 18 Severe Vulnerabilities
More than half of the bugs are use-after-free defects, which can potentially lead to remote code execution. The post Chrome 149 Update Resolves 18 Severe Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Amazon Zoox’s latest robotaxi looks (marginally) less like a toy car
Amazon-owned Zoox has introduced its new autonomous vehicle meant for for large-scale production.
Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition
Article URL: https://utaw.tech/news/wikipedia-recognition Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669932 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
UK school’s network left wide open for invasion, student found
PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we school ourselves on others' security failures. This week, we’ll learn about a school where the entire network was like an open-book test … and the IT department got a zero. Have a story about someone leaving a...
Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing software
Infosys chairman Nandan M. Nilekani has predicted AI – even AI that does the kind of coding work his company does for many clients – will be good for services companies. Nilekani made his prediction in a speech delivered at the Indian services giant’s annual general...
Nation-state actors cracked critical Australian infrastructure to ‘cripple it at a time of their choosing’
Australia’s Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has established dedicated teams to counter nation-state attacks on critical infrastructure, the org’s director general Mike Burgess revealed yesterday. “We discovered nation-state hackers had compromised the...
Half-Life 2 in a Browser
Article URL: https://hl2.slqnt.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669534 Points: 28 # Comments: 5
Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited Months Before Patching
Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited Months Before Patching Go to Source CVE-2026-20245, the 7th Cisco SD-WAN vulnerability exploited in 2026, was used for months prior to its disclosure and patching. The post Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day...
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20245 Exploited to Gain Root Access
An unknown threat actor exploited a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed, according to new findings from Google-owned Mandiant. The vulnerability, tracked as...
The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models
Article URL: https://jamesoclaire.com/2026/06/25/the-unbearable-cheapness-of-open-weight-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668255 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/medical-students-are-using-popular-research-tool-pump-out-misleading-studies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668119 Points: 12 # Comments: 3
Why busywork is fooling leaders
In 2025, Cambridge Dictionary added over 6,000 new words. One of them was “mouse jiggler”—a device or piece of software used to make it seem as though a computer mouse is moving so that it seems as though you are working when you are not. It’s a telling addition to...
OpenAI’s free GPT-5.5 model makes ChatGPT better at understanding context
OpenAI has rolled out an upgrade for the free model you interact with the most on ChatGPT.
A More Convenient iButton Reader
iButtons are microchips housed in small, round, metal containers, and are similar to coin cell batteries in appearance. Among other things, they’re used for logging data in industrial contexts, particularly where it’s desirable to track parameters like temperature...
GTA 6 Physical Copies Won’t Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box
Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/grand-theft-auto-6-physical-copies-wont-include-a-disc-will-just-be-a-code-in-a-box Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668662 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?
I had been running a small (3 people) software company for about 4 years. Since closing down, I recently hung out at a friend's company to see what they were working on (15 ppl). To preface: I'm a heavy user of Claude (rarely write code by hand), but what I'm seeing...
Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/oauth-for-all/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668033 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years
Memory-maker Micron has found a way to keep prices for its products sky-high for another five years, by signing 16 “strategic customer agreements” (SCAs) that include a floor price the company says comes with “a very robust gross margin for Micron, well above our peak...
Writers and Drugs
Article URL: https://lithub.com/are-writers-intrinsically-vulnerable-to-alcohol-and-drugs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667853 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Bible as RAG Database
Article URL: https://www.crosscanon.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667807 Points: 6 # Comments: 4
Exploring the internal representations of Pangram 3.3.2
Article URL: https://www.pangram.com/pangram-space Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667761 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
LineShine Is Fastest Supercomputer at Over 2 Exaflops
There is a phenomenon where as you get older, your sense of scale becomes somewhat fixed in the earlier era that shaped you– things like expecting the Dollar Store to carry items for 1$, or to get a burger and fries for less than twenty bucks– or, in this case,...
Ending All Respiratory Infections
Article URL: https://blog.interceptfund.com/p/ending-respiratory-infections Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667588 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions
Article URL: https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/1475 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667336 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
48 hours later with the Google Home Speaker, I can’t stop talking to Gemini (even if it’s imperfect)
Here's how the new Google Home Speaker has fared against the likes of my Apple HomePod Mini and Echo Dot Max so far.
As an avid reader, these are the Kindle Prime Day deals worth buying (accessories, too)
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Blogging Can Just Be Stating the Obvious
Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blogging-stating-the-obvious/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666927 Points: 17 # Comments: 0