Google Pixel Watch 5 Leak Points to 3GB RAM and $399 Price
A leaked Google Play Console listing suggests the Pixel Watch 5 will increase RAM to 3GB while retaining a familiar CPU and GPU configuration. Separate reports point to a $399 starting price, raising questions about whether software, battery, and health upgrades will...
OnePlus Nord 6 Gets Six Years of Security Updates, Four Android Upgrades
The OnePlus Nord 6 will receive six years of security updates but only four generations of Android upgrades. Here’s how that split could affect app compatibility, device management, and long-term purchasing decisions. The post OnePlus Nord 6 Gets Six Years of Security...
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Tests Show Prompt-Injection Gains and Agent Risks
OpenAI’s latest GPT-5.6 safety results show low failure rates for direct prompt injection but higher success rates when attacks arrive through tools and external content. The post OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Tests Show Prompt-Injection Gains and Agent Risks appeared first on...
CrowdStrike Warns AI Adoption Is Creating ‘Underdefended’ Attack Surfaces
CrowdStrike warns that AI adoption, rapid vulnerability exploitation, cloud attacks, and malicious npm packages are creating new enterprise security risks. The post CrowdStrike Warns AI Adoption Is Creating ‘Underdefended’ Attack Surfaces appeared first on...
Poison Claude Sells Discounted Claude Access While Its Operator Sees Every Customer Prompt
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered more than half-a-dozen services advertisements for illegal access to artificial intelligence (AI) models on underground cybercrime forums and messaging platforms. One such service, Poison Claude, claims to offer access to...
Paperclip AI Flaws Let Attackers Run Host Commands via Malicious Agent Imports
Two security flaws in Paperclip could let attackers execute commands on a network server or a developer's computer. Paperclip is an open-source control plane for teams of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, and both paths rely on importing a malicious agent and...
The world’s smallest USB drive has more storage than an iPhone 17
At a time when storage space commands a premium price, SanDisk's Extreme Fit drive is worth a look.
Old Reddit could be the next casualty of Reddit’s war on AI scraping
The company is also planning to retire its public API.
Xbox’s devastating July was inevitable
"It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio."
The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn’t fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one
An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv, a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned versions of keyv and its sibling caching packages were live on npm,...
Sunbird’s iMessage app for Android is back after a major privacy snafu
This was one of the interoperability tools people used before Apple adopted RCS.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184757 Points: 26 # Comments: 2
Sometimes You Get the Bear, and Sometimes…
I got scammed. This isn’t a story about how “…once upon a time, I got scammed.” It wasn’t a younger, less experienced, more trusting me.No. The person who got scammed was the “now-me.” The one who was just a few hours younger than the one who’s writing this blog.True...
What Is Unitree Robotics? How to Buy and Short It on MEXC
Unitree Robotics is a Hangzhou robotics maker building quadruped and humanoid robots and the motors and sensors inside them. MEXC is listing UNITREEUSDT, a USDT-margined perpetual futures contract on Unitree’s reference price. Traders can go long or short through it...
Talos Integrates with STS Digital to Bring Institutional Crypto Options and Spot Liquidity
Talos Integrates with STS Digital to Bring Institutional Crypto Options and Spot Liquidity to its Provider Network...
ZIGChain Lands Nomura’s Laser Digital as Investor and Risk Partner in a $100M Onchain Credit Push
Onchain finance has solved the easy half of its problem. Getting capital onto blockchains turned out to be straightforward once the wrappers were built, which is why tokenized real-world assets have grown from $6.6 billion to roughly $33.5 billion in sixteen months,...
The TechBeat: Building for Shipaton 2026? Share Your Journey on HackerNoon and Compete for an Extra $2,500 (8/5/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## The Everything Chain's Still Missing Supply: How to Attract Capital to...
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Good Company
Let's learn about Good Company via these 500 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Good Company - because we don't want you to deal with the...
Maximor Scales Revenue 35x In Just 9 Months As CFOs Run Out of Accountants
Every generation of finance software has made the same quiet compromise, which is that the system would record the work and a human would still do it and for forty years that compromise held because the humans kept showing up. They have stopped showing up. First-time...
Upwork Fees From 2016 To 2026: From Nada to Prada
I don’t like Septembers (plural). When I was a boy, they reminded me that summers were over and it was time to get back to school. Later, they became a bitter reminder that I needed to start thinking about heating bills for our family home and the costs of a new...
Are Brain Waves the Missing Link for Physical AI?
Hey Hackers! Welcome back to another edition of HackerNoon’s 3 Tech Polls Newsletter, a weekly retrospective on timely debates shaping the global tech ecosystem. Results from our Poll of the Week anchor the newsletter, supported by related conversations from around...
ClickHouse and Hud Team Up to Add Runtime Intelligence to AI Software Development
Artificial intelligence is transforming how software is built, but it is also creating new operational challenges for engineering teams. As AI coding assistants generate larger portions of production code, organizations are looking beyond code generation itself and...
The most overrated business advice is ‘follow the rules’
The CEO and cofounder of Bogg sits in the Fast Company hot seat to share her candid take on leadership—and why ‘follow the rules’ is the most overrated advice in business.
Extreme heat from human-caused climate change could make flight delays more common. Here’s why
Airline passengers know to expect possible flight delays when weather forecasts call for thunderstorms, heavy snow or strong wind. The omens are less obvious on a hot summer day with clear skies.Yet extreme heat also disrupts flights and travel plans. On the hottest...
Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm
Concerned about cost, Microsoft is reportedly warning employees against wasteful AI use. In an email seen by 404 Media, Microsoft Executive Vice President Jay Parikh warned that individual divisions would be given targets and could face restrictions. "Tokenmaxxing is...
Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google
Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.
Want a free Photoshop alternative on Linux? How to get Affinity today: 2 ways
One method is easier, but the other gets you faster, more reliable performance.
Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas
Plans for floating datacenters in the US have advanced beyond the handshake stage, with Samsung Heavy Industries and Mousterian Corporation signing an engineering contract. Dallas-based Mousterian, which describes itself quaintly as "a developer of water-adjacent...
Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
Fed’s Kashkari says ‘now is the time to start slowly moving’ rates up
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/feds-kashkari-says-now-is-the-time-to-start-slowly-moving-rates-up.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184251 Points: 9 # Comments: 0