Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI Go to Source Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or...
How Byron Allen plans to turn BuzzFeed into a YouTube rival
When the media mogul Byron Allen took a controlling stake in BuzzFeed in May—becoming its CEO and chairman—it was his latest bold bet in a volatile media landscape. The Allen Media Group founder explains his strategy for BuzzFeed, why YouTube and Netflix aren’t...
Road Trains Roam The Backroads of Australia
Trains and the railways they run on are a great way to move lots of stuff, or lots of people, a long way. Steel wheels on steel rail can shift great loads at good speeds and railways remain a backbone of logistics for this very reason. The only problem is that they...
You can now bug your WhatsApp group chats with an @all ping
Surely nobody you know will overuse this...
Weaponized Email AI Assistants Could Help Attackers Hijack Accounts
Researchers demonstrate how attackers could abuse built-in email chatbots to evade detection, impersonate trusted employees, compromise executive accounts, and facilitate financial fraud. The post Weaponized Email AI Assistants Could Help Attackers Hijack Accounts...
Spotify now has over 300M subscribers
Notably, the company saw its subscriber base swell by 9% in the second quarter despite raising prices in several regions this year.
Microsoft finally realized Windows 11 is too annoying. Can it be fixed?
Microsoft's latest progress report details much-needed Windows 11 improvements in reliability, performance, stability, and usability. But pressure to monetize key features remains.
Zenity Raises $125 Million in Series C Funding
The AI security company will invest in product innovation, global expansion, and customer experience. The post Zenity Raises $125 Million in Series C Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.
India moves to give its instant payments network a business model
The legislation lays the groundwork for a potential overhaul of India's zero-merchant-discount-rate regime, under which businesses have not paid fees to accept UPI payments since 2020.
Keyv-Linked npm Worm Poisons Hundreds of Packages, Plants Claude Code and VS Code Hooks
A credential-stealing npm worm that first appeared in [email protected] spread beyond the Keyv and Cacheable namespaces into hundreds of packages across multiple organizations on August 4, 2026. SafeDep verified 353 poisoned versions across 79 package names in the npm...
Never put your phone in the refrigerator — here’s why
Condensation plus electronics are a bad combo.
ChatGPT dominates Congress’s AI spending
Anthropic may have topped OpenAI as the world’s most valuable AI startup a few months ago, but when it comes to power users, Sam Altman’s company still has the edge. ChatGPT accounted for 88% of all known spending on AI tools by the U.S. House of Representatives...
Levain Bakery just dropped a Crate & Barrel collab for all your cookie needs
Levain Bakery used to use Crate & Barrel products to display its cookies because the home goods brand’s serveware looked clean, simple, and elevated. “We weren’t finding some sheet pans or something at a restaurant supply place,” Levain Bakery’s cofounder, Pam...
Fake Adobe and Zoom Updates Install ScreenConnect for Persistent Remote Access
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active, multi-wave campaign that employs social engineering lures themed around Adobe and Zoom software updates, business document reviews, and system maintenance utilities to stealthily deploy Remote Monitoring...
Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges
AI has turbocharged an already expanding cloud services market as organizations pour billions into online platforms offering the compute needed to train and run models, swelling the coffers of the established giants. Their latest results show revenue surging alongside...
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Ultra Aura Edition review: A capable ultralight laptop that’s way too expensive
There's a lot to like about the Yoga Slim 7i, but the current price is a bit too steep.
Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out
On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.
Spotify just hit 300 million Premium subscribers
Spotify announced that it now has 300 million Premium subscribers, three times more than Apple Music.
Chase Bank is closing another wave of branches this summer: See a list of shuttered locations in several states
Chase Bank is closing another wave of branches this summer: See a list of shuttered locations in several states Go to Source JPMorgan Chase operates the largest network of retail consumer banks in the United States, and even at a time...
The cost of underestimating the ageless generation
We operate in an industry obsessed with the future. Gen Z’s media habits and predictions on how Gen Alpha will reshape retail are our everyday clickbait. Staying one step ahead is a fundamental part of the job. But in our rush to understand and capture the next...
The wellness industry is not selling wellbeing to black women
I recently attended a wellness event built around the promise that feeling better was only a simple product purchase away. There were supplements for stress, products for better sleep, routines for optimizing hormonal balance, and tools designed to help women feel...
When Vibe Hacking Turns AI into the Junior Hacker Every Adversary Always Wanted
The cybersecurity industry has spent decades assuming that offensive capability scales with technical expertise. That assumption is starting to break. Security teams have long estimated risk by ranking attacker sophistication. Nation-state actors sat at one end....
Google Deletes 3 ADK AI Workflows After Malicious GitHub Issue Could Trigger Privileged Agent
Google deleted three AI agent workflows from its Agent Development Kit (ADK) Python repository. Pillar Security showed that a public GitHub issue could manipulate a triage agent into triggering a privileged code-fixing agent. The researchers said the public agent...
Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras
An independent congressional candidate in Tennessee faces four felony vandalism charges after allegedly shooting four automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras between July 14 and 22. According to the Blount County Sheriff's Office (site geo-restricted), Adam Lee...
You trained the AI. Big Tech got paid
On January 24, 1956, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was the largest private company in the world. Its revenues amounted to almost 2% of the U.S. gross domestic product. It employed 746,000 people. It owned Bell Labs, the fabled research division that had...
Sam Altman shared a parenting hack. Thousands of moms and dads instantly disagreed.
Sam Altman has some advice for parents, and it’s going about as well as you’d expect. On August 31, the Open AI CEO took to X (where he’s a frequent poster) to share an idea with his followers: “cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night,” he wrote. “connect...
Is drinking water safe? What to know about the water systems cyberattacks targeting multiple states
Multiple U.S. agencies have confirmed ongoing cyberattacks against water systems that Americans rely on each day. The attacks are now known to have occurred against water facilities in at least seven states. Here’s what you need to know about the attacks and whether...
Xbox goes down. You can’t play games you own on disc
Article URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167448 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/mqqfa38-lead-full-stack-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167444 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Nobel Disease
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166918 Points: 10 # Comments: 2