Driving Decentralized AI (dAI) with a Sovereign, Local AI Platform
The Problem For-profit corporations developing frontier models answer to a single fiduciary mandate: maximize shareholder value and generate revenue. Their primary goal is not to deliver secure, safe AI products that protect and benefit users. From the inception of...
Why Static Blocklists Are Dead: The HTX Wallet-Rotation Problem
On May 26, 2026, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office added Huobi Global S.A. (the legal entity behind the HTX exchange) to its Russia sanctions list. Same for 17 other platforms and individuals including EXMO, Bitpapa, ABCEX, and Aifory. British...
How we Serve Encrypted Video at 70+ Gbps Per Server With go and kTLS
We run a B2B platform for storing, processing, protecting, and delivering video over our own CDN, for customers from small startups to large enterprises. Under the hood that's high-load services, hundreds of thousands of requests per second, terabits of traffic, and a...
The Truth About Amazon’s FireStick Crackdown: Why More Streaming Apps Keep Appearing
By any chance, if you scrolled through FireStick communities on Reddit over the last few months, you’ve probably seen the panic among FireStick users.I get where the anxiety is coming from. Since late 2025, Amazon has gotten stricter. They’ve been more aggressive than...
AI Can Draw You a Storyboard in Thirty Seconds. It Still Can’t Tell You What Belongs In It.
A storyboard for AI video generation is not a set of pretty panels. It is the last document where a human decides what a scene means, before a stateless model starts averaging. The first time I let an AI storyboard tool plan a scene for Lost Garden, my dark-fantasy...
The Problem With Using AI to Review AI-Written Code
Reviewing AI-Generated Code With More AI Doesn’t WorkFrom the series: The Industrialization of Software EngineeringThe last essay in this series ended with a question. If review confidence is drifting away from actual risk, does testing pick up the slack, or does...
Why Banning Shadow AI Can Make the Risk Worse
There is a lot of panic about “Shadow AI” right now. For the uninitiated, Shadow AI refers to employees using personal AI accounts or unapproved AI tools to support their work. The risk is that the business may have little visibility into what information is being...
The next frontier in AI governance isn’t stronger guardrails. It’s fire brigades
The OpenAI model that recently hacked into Hugging Face has triggered a familiar response: calls for greater vetting of frontier AI models before release, stronger technical safeguards, and closer regulatory oversight. The artificial intelligence industry is trying...
White House Mobilizes Security Firms for Operations Against Foreign Cybercrime Gangs
Contracts may require a $1 million bond, which will be forfeited if a company fails to comply with operational requirements. The post White House Mobilizes Security Firms for Operations Against Foreign Cybercrime Gangs appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Mistral got a US patent on tool calls in 118 days. Without prior public notice
Article URL: https://agent-wars.com/news/2026-08-11-mistral-code-tool-calls-patent-b1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283341 Points: 17 # Comments: 4
The world’s largest ‘biological datacenter’ could help make animal testing obsolete
There’s a big flaw in the way that drug companies develop and test medicines today: What works in a mouse often doesn’t work in a human. For decades, the industry has relied on animal testing. But in a laboratory south of San Francisco, a startup called Vivodyne is...
Gen Z wants its own consumer culture, and this is what it’s going to look like
During a family vacation in Montana, Emi—a University of Georgia junior—was browsing silk pajama pants and leather shoes on her phone. She wasn’t searching for the hottest new brand to show the world what great taste she has. She was scrolling with a far more...
Meta is giving away 15,000 AI glasses to blind and visually impaired people in Ireland
Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to an Irish charity supporting people with sight loss.
Everything is better with pickles… except Windows
BORK!BORK!BORK! "Everything is better with pickles," trumpets a Wendy's sign. Everything is also better with a helping of bork, if the screen is to be believed. Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader in Vancouver, the display shows something amiss with Windows Phone...
Critical VMware vCenter Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs
Tracked as CVE-2026–59310, the directory traversal bug allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. The post Critical VMware vCenter Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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The best password managers of 2026: Expert tested
If you have trouble remembering the passwords for all of your online accounts, we've handpicked the best password manager apps to help you stay protected.
Nightmare Eclipse Drops Windows Zero-Day Exploit ‘ShieldBreak’
Dropped on Patch Tuesday, the exploit allows any user to spawn a shell with System privileges. The post Nightmare Eclipse Drops Windows Zero-Day Exploit ‘ShieldBreak’ appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Chernobyl NPP and Forty Years of Robots for High Radiation Environments
With the massive steam explosion that shredded the #4 RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 it suddenly made robots that could survive a high ionizing radiation environment into the hottest item on the planet. Over the course of forty years many...
Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says “The Mythos Effect” will see customers scour their networks for unsupported devices and replace them ASAP. Mythos is Anthropic’s bug-finding model and has proven so effective that vendors and open source projects are now finding more...
Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53bn hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads
Chinese tech giant Tencent has turned its back on instant profits, betting that a new business unit that creates its own AI and embeds that in its products will pay off to a greater extent than cashing in on demand for computing resources. During the company’s Q2...
Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find
Researchers from Germany’s Helmholtz Center for Information Security have found processors made by China’s Loongson have leaky caches that attackers could use to seek specific data. Loongson has developed its own LoongArch instruction set architecture (ISA) that...
OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns
OpenAI appears to be serving ads after buyers have halted their campaigns, and charging them for the privilege.OpenAI began testing ad sales in ChatGPT in the US back in February and has been gradually expanding the service in other regions, including the United...
Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results
PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we highlight others’ security failures. Hopefully, there’s a lesson in all this, but it could just be “stop shooting yourself in the foot.” Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network?...
ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux
Article URL: https://openai.com/codex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281916 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects
Article URL: https://celld.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281839 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Attackers Exploit SharePoint Authentication Bypass After Public PoC Release
Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability following the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) code. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS score: 9.1), which refers to a critical security feature bypass that...
Palo Alto Networks to run OpenAI cyber models inside customer networks
Palo Alto Networks Inc. said today its Unit 42 consulting arm will put OpenAI Group PBC’s frontier cyber models to work inside customer environments, expanding a service it launched earlier this year to find the attack paths that artificial intelligence-equipped...
First Akira Safe Mode attack disables endpoint detection and response but fails to encrypt, Huntress says
Huntress Labs Inc. said today that an Akira ransomware affiliate rebooted a victim’s Windows server into Safe Mode to knock its endpoint security offline — and it worked. The same reboot also broke the ransomware. Safe Mode loads only core Windows drivers and...
America really might restore democracy to Venezuela
Article URL: https://economist.com/leaders/2026/08/12/america-really-might-restore-democracy-to-venezuela Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282103 Points: 8 # Comments: 0