Cambridge Heavy Industries has been quietly building a desktop fusion device
Fusion power startup Cambridge Heavy Industries is building a small, laser-powered fusion device to fuel the coming wave of fusion power plants.
Apple unleashes a swarm of Mac Minions to share GPU resources for large AI tasks
In an effort to give its employees better access to GPU resources for inference tasks, Apple has rounded up its Minions, not the animated yellow creatures, but a distributed system that puts idle GPUs across its Macs to work on AI workloads. Apple researchers describe...
Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn’t exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse
Nothing sells AI products as well as fear. Using new research, Anthropic claims that self-replicating AI worms could be just months away from spreading across vulnerable IoT devices, which would be a problem if it came true. The frontier lab published a research...
Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing
An Anthropic AI model submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved homicide through an online form run by the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD). The tip, filed July 18 through PhillyUnsolvedMurders[.]com by “someone who might have information about the case,” went...
The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians
https://celebratio.org/Appel_KI/article/796/#sender Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077096 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Cheat Sheet: New Price, Specs, Features, and More
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra prices have increased. Explore the latest pricing, specs, cameras, AI features, and whether the flagship is worth buying. The post Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Cheat Sheet: New Price, Specs, Features, and More appeared first on TechRepublic.
Google Sheets Canvas Builds Mini-Apps From Prompts: How It Works
Google Sheets canvas uses Gemini to create interactive mini-apps from prompts. Here's how to build Kanban boards and dashboards, plus subscription and availability requirements. The post Google Sheets Canvas Builds Mini-Apps From Prompts: How It Works appeared first...
Amazon Reportedly in Talks to Buy Decart AI for Around $7B
Amazon reportedly seeks to buy Decart AI for around $7 billion. Explore the competing valuations and potential implications for AWS customers. The post Amazon Reportedly in Talks to Buy Decart AI for Around $7B appeared first on TechRepublic.
Vietnam’s FPT Joins NAVER Cloud to Expand AI Factory Services Across Asia
Vietnam's FPT and South Korea's NAVER Cloud are partnering to expand AI Factory and GPU-as-a-Service offerings across Asia-Pacific. The agreement targets enterprise AI infrastructure, model deployment, and engineering support, although commercial rollout details...
How to Transfer Passwords and Passkeys Between Android Password Managers
Android users can transfer passwords and passkeys between compatible password managers. Here's how Credential Exchange works, how to import into 1Password, and what to check before switching. The post How to Transfer Passwords and Passkeys Between Android Password...
ESP-SDR Can Now Transmit
Well, that was fast! Last week, we reported on two apparently simultaneous hacks using the 2.4 GHz radio inside many ESP32 variants that enabled raw access to the radio samples, turning it into a listen-only software defined radio (SDR) platform. Listen only? That’s...
Licube wants to be the fuel provider to the fusion power industry — see how at TechCrunch Disrupt
Fusion power plants will need a lot of lithium, and Licube is preparing to be a key supplier.
Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard
Guitoro is a free browser guitar using recordings of real instruments. You can strum with your keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen, choose acoustic, classical, electric guitar or bass, and see chord fingering and each stroke. Song practice can be slowed to 20%, and there...
IMF boosts this year’s global economy growth outlook, but warns of risks from AI and debt
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slightly upgraded its outlook for the world economy for this year, while warning of growing risks from rising debt, including the financial frenzy around artificial intelligence.The IMF says it expects the global economy to...
Social Security checks: Commissioner Frank Bisignano made a surprising prediction for monthly benefits as COLA 2027 increase looms
Social Security Administration (SSA) commissioner Frank Bisignano says he anticipates the federal government program will continue to exist for “another 90 years.” “This is a long journey. It’s 90 years old,” Bisignano told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday, saying the...
Anthropic apparently offering $190,000 for an executive assistant, despite agentic AI advances
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic reportedly offered a salary of 145,000 euros (roughly equal to $190,000) for a personal assistant in its London office. The posting called for a “highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-starting administrative business...
Ivanti Zero-Day Chain Gave Attackers Root Access to Fully Patched VPN
CVE-2026-104935 affects Ivanti Connect Secure and it can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution with elevated privileges. The post Ivanti Zero-Day Chain Gave Attackers Root Access to Fully Patched VPN appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Zero to Calc in Six Days: Inside XBOW’s Chrome Full Chain
Article URL: https://xbow.com/labs/research/zero-to-calc-in-six-days-inside-xbow-chrome-full-chain Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076503 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
A plea not to use uv-build
Article URL: https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/10/12/a-plea-not-to-use-uv-build/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076048 Points: 8 # Comments: 3
Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript
Catches unsafe types, duplicate code, and low-value tests. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075809 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
CVS to pay $315 million settlement to resolve DOJ opioid lawsuit
CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries have agreed to pay $315 million to resolve a Justice Department case alleging it unlawfully dispensed medically unnecessary prescriptions of highly addictive opioids, officials said Tuesday. The settlement resolves a lawsuit...
3 leadership lessons from AI-powered companies
Even as AI investment rises, many organizations don’t see the returns they expected. They might see small improvements by deploying AI tools into existing structures. But true success means thinking beyond the technology alone, reinventing tomorrow’s workflows, and...
NYC manhole mystery: Why people are crawling in and out of New York City sewers, according to police
Three people were seen entering a manhole in New York City on Sunday, marking at least the eighth sewer-diving incident in the city and on Long Island since May. In the latest incident, three men were seen entering a manhole in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood...
Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Soon Form Self-Propagating IoT Botnets
Small artificial intelligence (AI) models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, according to a warning from Anthropic. The frontier AI lab said small AI models could form...
Docker Fixes Critical Two-Year-Old Hub Flaw That Let One User Push Images as Another
A flaw in Docker Hub, the registry where container images are published and downloaded, let one user push, pull, or delete images as another user. Docker fixed the flaw on September 30 and says it found no evidence that anyone exploited it. The flaw was in the feature...
Attacker Chains Three Ivanti Connect Secure Zero-Days for Root Access, Only Two Patched So Far
An attacker chained three zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure, a VPN appliance, to run commands as root without logging in, security firm Volexity said on October 13. Ivanti has released fixes for two of the flaws and told customers on affected versions to "act...
SAP Discloses Critical CVSS 10 Flaw in Cloud SDK for Python Allowing OAuth2 Credential Theft
A flaw in SAP's Cloud SDK for Python can send an application's OAuth2 client credentials to a server an attacker controls, SAP said in a security advisory on October 13. The flaw affects multi-tenant applications on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) that use the...
Niobia takes the guesswork out of some of tech’s most expensive mistakes
The San Francisco startup aims to help battery and chip manufacturers identify defects on production lines, reducing downtime and costly mistakes.
Show HN: XY Music Notation
I've been playing around with a new kind of isomorphic music keyboard that uses a base-12 notation, and wanted some sheet music to learn some new music for it.The idea is to represent each note in 12-TET as a number, so N ∈ (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,X,Y).I used codex to...
Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics hires former Ford EV chief Doug Field
Field also worked on Apple's secretive car project and oversaw development of the Tesla Model 3.