Europe finalizes plans for its ‘sovereign’ Starlink competitor
The EU's sovereign satellite broadband service is now moving towards full-scale deployment.
PSB iQ2 review: Premium sound meets smart-speaker convenience
A great app experience turns this wireless stereo setup into a capable hub for your home audio.
How to raise your rates as a solopreneur
In a corporate job, somebody else initiates your raise. There’s an annual review on the calendar, and you may or may not get an increase based on performance, cost of living or both. Working solo, none of that exists. If you want to be paid more, you’re the one who...
Steam Deck Mod Brings Back Physical Games With Ancient Floppies
There's just something so charming about plugging something in to play it.
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case
Meta's total fine has raked up to $942 million in this case
Attacker phished way into US defense supplier’s Microsoft 365 account
US defense and aerospace supplier IEH Corporation 'fessed up that a criminal managed to break into its Microsoft 365 mailbox in a filing with regulators. In a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, IEH said one of its staffers fell for...
10 essential tools for discovering, learning, and making music
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. I love apps like Metronaut and Tomplay, which let me carry a collection of classical (sheet) music on my phone. They also provide piano...
Android Auto and Apple CarPlay Are Coming to Boats
BoatPlay and Android Boat-o?
The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate
Article URL: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208686 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Vishing Extortion Group UNC6671 Rebrands After Making Millions
Initially calling itself BlackFile, the group has expanded operations to the Redact, Pink, Helix, and Falcon brands. The post Vishing Extortion Group UNC6671 Rebrands After Making Millions appeared first on SecurityWeek.
FlipBuddy is Borg, You Will Be Assimilated
When you think about it, time is all we’ve really got. Where to go from there is ultimately up to you. Maybe you use an app to track every task, or just go with the onboard timer. But that can be a lot of steps to begin with, and then the phone screen goes dark again....
US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208314 Points: 18 # Comments: 1
Microsoft 365 AitM Phishing Hijacks Accounts to Collect Payroll and Finance Emails
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active "widespread email-driven phishing campaign" that employs adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques to take control of Microsoft 365 accounts with an aim to identify key personnel involved in financial...
AI-Assisted HTTP Terminator Finds Novel HTTP Desync Techniques and Apache Zero-Day
PortSwigger says HTTP Terminator, an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted research system built by James Kettle, generated and proved new HTTP desynchronization techniques after exploring 30,000 candidate attack vectors. PortSwigger said a separate human-guided...
Intrusion at US healthcare software provider puts 3.8M people’s data at risk
A US healthcare software provider has admitted that hackers may have made off with sensitive data belonging to 3.8 million people, making it the largest healthcare breach reported to regulators so far this year. The attack dates to last October, when Ohio-based...
Chinese AI model Moonshot Kimi K3 also escaped its testing environment
Kimi K3 also found loopholes in its sandbox environment that allowed it to access the internet.
The $10 trillion reason to rethink your RTO strategy
Low employee engagement is a widespread problem that is having a profound and costly impact on workplaces. According to Gallup, the analytics and advisory company, low engagement resulted in approximately $10 trillion in lost productivity last year. That’s the...
OpenAI wants to be the underdog against Apple. That won’t be easy
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence pioneer, is trying on a new public image: the scrappy underdog David defending itself from Apple’s creaky Goliath. It’s an understandable strategy, but making that image stick won’t be easy. The root of the dispute is OpenAI’s plan...
Who wants to buy NYC’s last MetroCard vending machine?
The last of New York City Transit’s MetroCard machines are being auctioned off to the highest bidders. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority stopped selling and refilling MetroCards at the end 2025 and retired its vending machines after that. On August 5, the...
With AI, we’re all the sorcerer’s apprentice
Hello again and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. On August 4, the U.K.’s AI Security Institute (AISI) issued a report on the disturbing behavior it had detected while testing two of the latest frontier AI models. Faced with solving a cybersecurity challenge,...
How SpaceX rockets could transform the global cargo system
You might think about rockets as powerful vehicles that blast astronaut crews and robotic missions off into space. But what if they could be used to send cargo from one side of the Earth to the other, in a fraction of the time it would take a plane? The company SpaceX...
How Prediction Market Platforms Changed Crypto Trading
Crypto trading once forced almost every market view through a token price. Traders bought spot assets, opened perpetual futures, or moved into stablecoins when they expected a policy decision, court ruling, election result, protocol launch, or economic release to move...
Top Kubernetes-Native Inference Servers Ranked (2026)
Your shipping needs are more than one model on Kubernetes. Embeddings, reranking, something to extract, a guardrail, and a generative model to mix it all together. You might be shopping for a serving layer underneath all of that without hiring a dedicated platform...
Why Trading Intuition Never Gets Better
A firefighter walks into a burning building, feels something wrong about the floor, and pulls his crew out. The floor collapses thirty seconds later. He can't explain how he knew. That story is true, and it's most of the reason people believe in gut instinct. It's...
Bajaj Life eTouch II Term Plan Review: Coverage, Premium, and Claim Settlement
Term insurance in India has followed a fairly predictable path for decades. For years, the standard was a simple structure: pay a premium, get life cover, and if the policy term ends without a claim, that money is gone. It served its purpose, but it also meant...
How to Run ONNX Transformer Models on iOS With Swift
IntroductionArtificial Intelligence has become one of the most influential technologies in modern software development. From chatbots and recommendation systems to sentiment analysis and intelligent search, machine learning models are now expected features in many...
Axis Robotics Secures $12 Million Seed Funding
Axis Robotics, a Physical AI data company founded in 2025, has raised $12 million in seed funding to scale its Compounding Data Engine. The round was led by Hack VC and included Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and several angel investors.The...
How Memecoins Took Over Robinhood Chain
A Blockchain Built for Finance, Adopted Through Memecoins When Robinhood unveiled its blockchain in July 2026, the vision was to build an infrastructure for tokenized real world assets, tokenized stocks, and on chain finance. As crypto has shown time and time again,...
How to Debug 403 Errors When Scraping Websites
A 403 Forbidden error means the server understood your scraping request but refused to authorize access. To debug it, check headers, cookies, sessions, IP reputation, rate limits, JavaScript challenges, robots rules, and request patterns. Most 403 errors can be...
Nodexo Crosses 50 Verified GPUs on Bittensor
Nodexo, a decentralized compute network operating as Bittensor subnet 106, announced Friday that it has crossed 50 verified GPUs online. The network spans seven GPU classes across six countries, including consumer-grade RTX 4090s and high-end NVIDIA H200s, with 99.9...