How to Run a Deepfake Readiness Drill Before a Cloned Voice Calls Your Team
Cloned voices and synthetic video calls now show up in payment fraud, help desk resets, and access requests. A structured drill shows security teams exactly where verification breaks down, while nothing is at stake. The call comes in at 4:40 on a Friday. It's the CFO,...
Microsoft Disrupts Chinese-Language Phishing Market Behind 1B+ Messages
Backed by a federal court order, Microsoft and Health-ISAC seized domains powering YAM Store, CoGUI, and Iron Man. The post Microsoft Disrupts Chinese-Language Phishing Market Behind 1B+ Messages appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake plays even better than it looks
Link is getting a lot more than just a visual glow up for the new Switch 2 version.
US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B
Some of America's biggest tech companies have a warning for Europe: curb your reliance on US cloud providers, and it could cost you €115 billion. That's the finding of a new study commissioned by CCIA Europe, a lobbying group whose members include Amazon, Google, and...
Smart people don’t think others are stupid
Article URL: https://sive.rs/ss Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50086313 Points: 36 # Comments: 11
Smarter AI will create better B2B marketers
Artificial intelligence has finally given B2B marketers what they’ve always wanted more of: capacity. More content, personalization, audience segments, campaign variations, and ways to push an idea across more channels. As AI becomes increasingly capable, marketers...
National Dessert Day freebies and deals 2026: Where to score your sweet treats today, from 7-Eleven to Kroger
A sweet treat can turn a bad day around and make a good one great. Since today (Wednesday, October 14, 2026) is National Dessert Day, it’s the perfect time to celebrate cakes, ice cream, donuts, cookies, and more. Before looking at the sugar rush of deals that you can...
The Aaronson Oracle
Article URL: https://aaronsonoracle.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50086484 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material
Article URL: https://swedenherald.com/article/tv4-postpones-the-challenge-until-2027-after-technical-failure-erases-edited-footage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085323 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
AI Laser Locking for Quantum Computers: How QuEra Automates It
Article URL: https://www.quera.com/blog-posts/holding-the-light-teaching-an-ai-to-lock-and-tune-our-quantum-computers-lasers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085302 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)
Article URL: https://blog.lorenzano.eu/pulsar-at-esug-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085306 Points: 27 # Comments: 1
Show HN: A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code
Hello HN,I am the founder of a small nonprofit which built Museum of Ages. We opened its first wing last week, a digital Leonardo da Vinci museum. It is a virtual tour with 17 stops, his works and then his last house in Amboise. The entrance is free.At the different...
Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet
Article URL: https://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50084757 Points: 79 # Comments: 56
Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?
Article URL: https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/who-is-planting-backdoors-in-ledger-crypto-wallets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50084838 Points: 35 # Comments: 22
Samsung Health’s sleep coaching now requires just three days of data
Galaxy Watch owners can now get Sleep Coaching faster.
Harmonic Security raises $50M to govern how employees use AI tools
Workplace artificial intelligence security startup Harmonic Security Inc. today announced it has raised $50 million in new funding to grow its platform for governing how employees use AI tools. The company’s platform inspects anything an employee sends to an AI tool...
Offensive security startup CodeWall launches with $4M for AI agents that attack enterprises
London-based offensive security startup CodeWall Ltd. officially launched today with $4 million in new funding to give enterprises such as banks autonomous artificial intelligence agents that attack them the way an outside hacker would. CodeWall begins each engagement...
Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support
After a week’s delay, the new version of Python, v3.15, has been released. With it comes a proper profiler, an experimental just-in-time compiler, and a tightening of dictionary structures. It also offers a time-saving Lazy Import option for programs to not load...
CMF’s first portable speakers are shaped like milk cartons and pair together
Nothing's sister company CMF announced some playful bluetooth speakers that can be paired together and even work with Auracast.
Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector’s IVFFlat and HNSW
Article URL: https://github.com/timescale/pg_vectorsearch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50086165 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Xi’s ‘death watch’ will become a global spectacle
Article URL: https://www.semafor.com/article/10/13/2026/xis-death-watch-will-become-a-global-spectacle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085607 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
The road we were told not to take
Article URL: https://www.aspendailynews.com/opinion/whiting-the-road-we-were-told-not-to-take-0b9fd0a3?taid=6acba476a2e9090001ef1611&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085547...
Researchers Used a Public OpenAI Model to Build a $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Exploit in Six Days
A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said. Its researchers built the attack in six days by directing AI agents running...
Hirudo Android Trojan Uses Patched Banking Apps to Bypass Their Built-In Security Checks
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Hirudo that works by replacing legitimate banking apps with purpose-built patched versions designed to bypass security checks from inside the app itself, marking a new escalation...
An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part.
The bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part. TL;DR During an authorized assessment, an AI pentesting agent found a critical authentication bypass on a major insurer's production website, on...
8BitDo Ultimate 2C review: A fabulous Switch 2 controller at a fraction of the price
Hall effect sticks, haptics and extra bumpers... for how much?
Welcome to the lovely landlocked land of Luxembork, where the fares are free, and the terminals are techno
There ain't no party like a tap-in party, as nobody ever said. And so it is that one of Luxembourg's mostly redundant tap-in / tap-out terminals is amusing itself by putting on a light show for passing passengers. The terminal is an INIT unit, rolled out on the...
Away is selling almost-new suitcases at a discount—and they’re going fast
Away’s aluminum carry-on sells for $625, but right now you can snag one for $436. A medium suitcase in navy usually goes for $345, but you can get it for $293. There’s a catch, though: Some of these bags may have a little scuff here or a dent there. The suitcases are...
Testing Oneself for AI Slop
The feed of a Hackaday writer brings many surprises, some rubbish, and the occasional diamond which of course we bring to you. Sometimes a page catches the eye that’s not a Hackaday piece per se, but makes for interesting reading. Today there was an example which...
Beat the iPhone Duo pre-order rush with Apple’s Get Ready tool
You can already set up your pre-order now, before the pre-orders open on Friday (October 16).