Antigravity 2.0
Article URL: https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186621 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
‘Flat housing market’ forces Zillow layoffs: Real estate company sheds 7% of jobs in second round of cuts this year
Zillow plans to lay off “just over 500 employees,” or about 7% of its workforce, as part of a company-wide restructuring. The Seattle-based online real estate company had 7,058 employees as of March 31. CEO Jeremy Wacksman made the announcement in a blog post on...
A popular Walmart product is linked to one death. Here’s what to check.
Some of America’s largest retailers including Walmart and Amazon are recalling a popular winter product following hundreds of injuries and the death of an 83-year-old in San José. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall alongside Shenzhen Street...
Don’t forget to turn off this setting after buying a new TV
This built-in setting might still be affecting your new TV's quality.
Meta apps displayed ads that contained AI-generated CSAM
Researchers identified more than 50 ads on Meta properties that violated the company's policies on child sexual abuse material.
From monitoring to meaning: The next era of health
From monitoring to meaning: The next era of health Go to Source People used to tell me that time moves faster as you get older. I didn’t always believe them until I had a family, a career, and endless decisions to make, including...
Physical video games are disappearing
Physical video games are disappearing Go to Source Buying physical media used to be simple. Now it’s getting harder and harder. Digital-only games might seem more convenient, but they give customers far less control over what they...
FLOSS Weekly Episode 878: A Tool With Opinions
This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Pallant about embedded Rust! Learn about the growing Rust driver library, the different ways to build a Rust stack on an embedded device, and how the opinionated tooling can make you a better programmer! blog: thejpster.org.uk...
Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
Article URL: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185983 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure
Article URL: https://securelist.com/cloud-platforms-in-phishing/120832/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185931 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
I’m Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
Article URL: https://dylan.blog/2026/08/03/im-scared-a-stranger-will.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185556 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
Reddit aims to make ‘karma’ less important for first-time posters with shift to AI moderation tools
Reddit is expanding its moderation tools and building stronger abuse prevention systems that it says could eventually reduce communities’ reliance on karma and account-age requirements, making it easier for legitimate newcomers to participate.
Claude Mythos 5 made sock puppet accounts to socially engineer developers: here’s what enterprises should know
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed last night that the leading two frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unsanctioned actions against the live internet during cybersecurity tests the agency was running, including a sustained campaign by...
Lucid Motors just delayed its affordable EV. Now what?
The Cosmos EV is now slated for release in the second half of 2027. CEO Silivo Napoli said he's focused on getting the EV right as well as its nearer-term robotaxi project with Uber and Nuro.
AI is a bubble, just like dot-com
Article URL: https://www.constraintlab.com/blog/ai-is-a-bubble-just-like-dot-com.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185880 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Congress is putting housing money on the line. Here’s where it could matter most.
Signed into law last month by President Trump, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act aims to cut away some of the red tape that’s currently driving the shortage of affordable homes in the U.S. In a new report, Realtor.com took a look at how some of those changes are...
The next ad market may be built for machines
For publishers who make their money through advertising, it’s difficult to see bots as anything other than a threat. They crawl their content, chop it up into machine readable code, and then serve up the information as context in AI summaries, usually without leaving...
IBM’s agentic AI platform is under active attack – patch now
A critical vulnerability in IBM-owned, low-code AI builder Langflow lets unauthenticated attackers execute code remotely on vulnerable default deployments, potentially putting organizations running those instances at immediate risk. The Cybersecurity and...
I swapped my Bose and JBL speakers for this floating Turtlebox – and it’s seriously tough
Turtlebox returns with the Cub, proving that its smaller speakers can be just as durable and powerful as its larger ones.
Corsair just introduced new gaming keyboards with a control dial and a mouse with great battery life
Corsair's latest accessories have some handy features and don't cost too much.
Hit by T-Mobile’s outage? You can get up to $80 in credit – here’s how
T-Mobile customers affected by the outage in July have been requesting credit. Though $10 is standard, the more persistent you are, the more you may be able to get.
I ran a dumpstate analysis on my Android phone – 3 system diagnostics to check for free
The hidden diagnostic file breaks down all the logging your Pixel, Samsung, or even Motorola does daily. Here's what you can learn from it.
The system that prevents me from burning out as a founder
Like many entrepreneurs, I’m wired to constantly operate at full throttle. Growing up, I played quarterback. From fifth grade through my senior year of college, my coaches gave me the same feedback: I threw passes too hard. They wanted more touch on the ball,...
Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod
Hi HN, this is Shailendra and Karan here. We are building a fast and safe way for coding agents to debug issues live in production.When prod breaks, it lets Cursor, Claude, and others drop virtual breakpoints or probes safely in your running code, and extract the...
TikTok and YouTube could fill a gap for musicians as space shrinks on late-night TV
When CBS ended “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” earlier this year, it also shuttered the program’s robust music offerings — a major blow for artists whose television platform was already dwindling.Performing on late-night has historically been a unique avenue for...
Cybertrucks are replacing NASA’s military escape vehicles at SpaceX launches
Cybertrucks will soon make an appearance at NASA space launches. At a recent news conference in advance of a launch to the International Space Station, NASA officials said the space agency will use the iconoclastic Tesla electric pickup trucks as backup emergency...
Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia
The applications are in, and the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions!
Know Your Food: Our Daily Bread
It’s time to return to our no-punches-pulled look at food manufacture, and this time we’re looking at the humble loaf of bread. As before, we’re approaching the subject with a look at breadmaking both in the traditional sense that marketing people would like you to...
PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address
A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.
Discovery Loop
Article URL: https://www.discoveryloop.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960 Points: 4 # Comments: 0