Researchers mapped U.S. public parks with toxic waste dumps. What they found was frightening
Though the thought of toxic waste may conjure images of comic book monsters and neon green slime, the threat of hazardous pollution is unfortunately very real—and a new report shows it’s closer than you might think. Researchers at the University of Michigan compared...
Elon Musk Says Money Won’t Matter by 2036. Is He Right?
Rob Enderle argues that AI and robotics could dramatically reduce the need for human labor, but making money obsolete would require far more than technological abundance. The post Elon Musk Says Money Won’t Matter by 2036. Is He Right? appeared first on TechNewsWorld.
Google Play now takes Venmo payments
You can now use your Venmo balance or linked accounts for Google Play purchases.
Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option
The ability to add Venmo to Google Play comes as people are spending more money on apps and games.
Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to fund the hunt for more novel materials to build more efficient chips.
A ‘bananas’ order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion
Article URL: https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/08/10/a-mysterious-buying-spree-is-unsettling-europes-booksellers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242213 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
ChatGPT’s traffic surge is good news for brands. For publishers, it’s complicated
OpenAI made a change to how ChatGPT links to websites in the spring, and barely anybody noticed. Starting on May 7, ChatGPT began sending considerably more traffic to websites. Referrals jumped 157% overnight and have stayed there, according to new data. On the same...
There’s just one person behind this viral ChatGPT knockoff
A new chatbot billboard recently appeared in San Francisco. It looks almost identical to the dozens of AI advertisements that have popped up throughout the city in recent years: simple font, a black-and-white color palette, and copy that sounds like it was written by...
New Jersey, Alabama Join States Targeted in Water Cyberattacks
Hackers linked to Iran targeted industrial control systems (ICS) at water facilities in at least a dozen US states. The post New Jersey, Alabama Join States Targeted in Water Cyberattacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1034703/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242297 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
This is the CEO behind Steve and Connie Ballmer’s philanthropy
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and...
AG1 joins the gummy craze: Why the powder pioneer is suddenly betting on chewable wellness
Who doesn’t love a gummy? Gummies packed with vitamins and minerals have taken over health and wellness aisles, giving consumers a wholesome way to embrace “little treat” culture. These days, you can have your nutrition and your sugar fix, too. Now, the supplement...
The Steam Controller Can Play Music With Its Haptic Motors
It connects MIDI notes to the hardware instead of sending audio playback to a musical instrument.
Meta’s new open-weight model targets local agentic AI
Article URL: https://twitter.com/finkd/status/2086754845218726027 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242038 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Metabase Patches Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day
The security defect allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to gain administrative access to Metabase instances. The post Metabase Patches Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model
Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241679 Points: 34 # Comments: 7
Triggering Lightning with a Rocket
Lightning, despite being a common and readily-detected phenomenon, is nevertheless difficult to study. One reason is the difficulty of predicting when and where lightning will strike; tall structures do attract more lightning strikes, but it’s hard to move them into a...
This font looks perfectly normal to humans but wreaks havoc on AI
A new “AI-proof” font was designed to be hard for AI agents to scrape, but you can’t tell by just looking at it. Unlike other anti-AI fonts that use letters that are difficult for bots to read, ShieldFont swaps out words behind the scenes to poison the data that...
Can skeptics survive the misinformation age?
Here is a truth: You are wrong about something. You have misunderstood a data point, been given bad information, or your memory has softened. Sometimes a bad actor is to blame—a podcaster spouting junk science, an influencer selling you on underresearched supplements,...
How the Women’s Pro Baseball League designed itself from the ground up
Major League Baseball has some of the most recognizable franchises in the world. But a new league is coming for America’s pastime, letting women into the professional field for the first time in 72 years. The Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) kicked off its inaugural...
Social Security: 2026 bill could save benefits from insolvency—and impact COLA increases. How your checks could change
Congress has reintroduced the Social Security 2100 Act, a bill that would increase benefits by 2% for some 71 million Americans—including 54 million retired workers and 9 million of their survivors and dependents.The bill would temporarily change how Social Security’s...
Implant – an extension to VS Code that exposes its APIs to coding agents
Article URL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=strangepleasures.implant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241303 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
My Solar Atlas Earns a 40.77 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an Objective Solar Quote Comparison Tool
Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...
How Social Media Engineers Addiction (And How Tech Can Harness It For Good)
In two years, RiseGuide – the self-improvement platform I founded, which teaches adults essential soft skills through short, interactive lessons – has attracted over 850,000 users, traction fueled by the same mechanics that companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok have...
DELAX GEO-RISK INTELLIGENCE Earns a 64.63 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an AI-Powered Geopolitical Decision-Ready View
Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...
Managing the Transition From Predictable API-Based Software Toward AI Agents
More businesses are transitioning from API-based software to autonomous AI agents in an effort to remain competitive, but doing so requires significant planning to mitigate problems like hallucinations and their consequences. Until recently, most businesses relied on...
Sean Grindal on the Hidden Costs of AI Code
AI is making software faster to build than at any point in the field's history. A working feature that once took a week can now be prompted into existence in an afternoon. Most of the conversation around this new paradigm focuses on the newfound speed, but founder...
AI Investor and CEO Rob May Discusses the Value of the Post-Model World Thesis
AI models continue to improve, but according to Rob May, those improvements yield diminishing returns relative to what the systems they support can provide. Evaluating the usefulness of various AI models to inform which ones to adopt served as the foundation of the...
Netok Earns a 54 Proof of Usefulness Score by Translating Network Problems Into Plain English
Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...
AgentFeed Earns a 77.5 Proof of Usefulness Score With Machine-to-Machine Crypto Data Payments
Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...