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
Buckminster Fuller: everything I know
Article URL: https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/everything-i-know/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167147 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller
Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/mini-retirements/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166749 Points: 14 # Comments: 9
Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is set today (2026-08-04)
Article URL: https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166491 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone
Article URL: https://learning-rust.github.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166411 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02412 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166442 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
FBI, EPA Warn of Cyberattacks on Water, Wastewater Facilities
The FBI and EPA are warning water and wastewater operators after cyberattacks targeted internet-connected programmable logic controllers, underscoring growing risks to critical infrastructure. The post FBI, EPA Warn of Cyberattacks on Water, Wastewater Facilities...
Here’s how to watch the Nintendo Direct for Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave
The livestream starts today at 10AM ET/7AM PT.
DJI’s Mic Mini 2S is the first in its Mini lineup that can record your audio internally
DJI's Mic Mini 2S gives creators a backup with 32-bit float internal recording.
EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers
Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.
TP-Link Omada ZTP Vulnerabilities Chain Into Full Network Takeover
Forescout researchers have found 15 new vulnerabilities in the TP-Link Omada networking ecosystem. The post TP-Link Omada ZTP Vulnerabilities Chain Into Full Network Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI says Apple ‘is getting this wrong’ after trade secret lawsuit
Apple sued OpenAI and two of its former employees for trade secret theft. OpenAI has just published its response.
CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages
CAF Bank has told customers its online banking service is back after being shuttered for more than ten days following what it described as "attempted fraud." In an email update seen by The Reg, the bank warned that access could remain intermittent, and it might "need...
Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B
At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.
U.S. used ‘virtually all’ of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/us-has-used-virtually-all-of-its-long-range-precision-missiles-report.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166860 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says playing this game as a child helped develop his legendary investing skills
Jamie Dimon has run JPMorgan Chase as CEO for 20 years, and under his leadership, it’s become the largest bank in the world by market capitalization. But Dimon’s business savvy started long before he ran JPMorgan, and even before he attended Harvard Business School....
New cPanel Critical Flaw Could Let Hosting Customers Run SQL as Database Root
cPanel has patched a flaw that let an authenticated hosting customer execute SQL in the database's root context, crossing the privilege boundary between a cPanel account and the server's administrative database identity. It shipped in a targeted security release that...
The best anti-AI smartphones in 2026: Expert tested and recommended
Sick to death of unwanted AI features getting stuffed into your smartphone? We tested the best models from Apple, Samsung, and more that forego AI in favor of features you actually need.
Testing Hundreds of Used LFP Cells Requires Some Automation
Although Li-ion cells have become a lot cheaper over the years, if you wish to buy hundreds of high-quality ones for that performance go-kart project, you may feel financially pressured into going for the option of stripping down years-old commercial battery packs...
Gemini Agent-to-Agent Attack Method Exposed Secrets, Enabled Pull Request Tampering
A crafted prompt to a low-privilege Google ADK agent could be used to pass a malicious hand-off comment to a privileged agent. The post Gemini Agent-to-Agent Attack Method Exposed Secrets, Enabled Pull Request Tampering appeared first on SecurityWeek.
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
Article URL: https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166386 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
The agentic AI naming trap: Why you must move from red oceans to blue
Ask any founder with a chatbot open: generating names for a product has never been easier. A long list appears in minutes. But this is the great naming illusion of the AI era: the belief that because generating names is now free, or nearly so, the naming challenge...
These are the 3 things that are actually burning you out (and only one is your boss)
Almost every conversation I have with leaders these days revolves around the topic of burnout in their teams. And I’m not talking about having a bad day or a hard week, but the real thing. You know, the kind that creeps in quietly, accumulates over years, and...
The influencer bubble is finally popping
Up until about 40,000 years ago, there were two closely related but distinct human species on this planet. The Neanderthals, who lived mostly in Europe and Western Asia, and Homo sapiens, who originated in Africa. The two separate species overlapped for more than...
Stanford neuroscientists: Teen mental health problems can be predicted by speech patterns. Here’s what to watch for
Computer language models, which analyze what children say during stressful events, are better at predicting their future mental health than a panel of experts in the field. That’s the finding from a new study published in Nature Mental Health. Researchers ran recorded...
Natural food dyes are winning the snack wars
American shoppers are increasingly buying food made from natural colors. Since last year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has moved to phase out synthetic dyes from food. Now, research shows that consumer demand is trending in the same direction as shoppers opt...
The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014)
Article URL: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/04/16/The-US-is-not-a-democracy-but-an-oligarchy-study-concludes/2761397680051/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166254 Points: 14 # Comments: 4