DOUBLECUP Uses ClickFix and Cached PNGs to Deliver CountLoader and DeviceManager RAT
A new Russian loader-as-a-service (LaaS) codenamed DOUBLECUP has been using ClickFix lures as a way to stage malware-laced PNG images in victims' browser cache and ultimately deliver CountLoader and a previously undocumented remote access trojan called DeviceManager....
FFmpeg 9.0
Article URL: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0/RELEASE_NOTES Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166202 Points: 34 # Comments: 1
Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
Article URL: https://live.euronext.com/en/financial-news/bending-spoons-makes-first-post-ipo-acquisition-13-billion-airtable-deal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166182 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Memory Governance Is Becoming the Control Plane for Agentic AI
The Bottleneck Is Shifting Early LLM applications had limited memory. State was stored in variables, logs or session history and it did not carry cleanly from one task to the next. Agentic AI is changing this. Today agents use tools, pull information when needed to...
Introducing Agent Intent-Based Access Control
Today, we’re announcing Agent Intent-Based Access Control (IBAC), a new capability in Varonis Atlas that lets businesses connect AI agents to their enterprise data with safeguards that stop dangerous or out-of-policy behavior. Agents are making headlines for going...
Rajat Bagga and the Culture of High-Stakes Product Development
Product development within high-stakes industries like fintech and healthcare requires balancing rigid technical constraints with necessary human interfaces. Modern operational ecosystems handle unprecedented volumes of sensitive data, creating environments where...
Your AI Meeting Summary Is Probably Missing Something
You get off yet another Zoom call, and the meeting summary arrives about ninety seconds after the call ends. Five bullets, a couple of action items, and you skim it and think, yeeeaaaahhhhhhh, that’s about right. Then you close it.Now think about the last time you...
K-EXAONE 2.0 Brings 262K Context to Frontier AI
OverviewK-EXAONE-2.0-750B-A37B is a frontier-scale multilingual language model developed by LGAI-EXAONE featuring 750 billion total parameters with 37 billion active parameters during inference. The model uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 256 total experts...
Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6B: Compact Multilingual Voice Cloning
OverviewAudio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b is a 0.6B-parameter multilingual text-to-speech model built by Audio8 that generates speech from text and performs zero-shot voice cloning. The model uses a DualAR architecture with a 24-layer slow AR transformer (896 width, 14...
Inside DNP3: Building an Outstation from the Ground Up
In my previous article, Inside DNP3’s Event-Driven Telemetry Model , we explored how DNP3 (IEEE 1815) organizes information through object groups, event classes, and Internal Indications (IIN). That discussion focused on the protocol's architecture and how an...
The Bechdel Test for Building a Real Developer Community
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work. That – my experiences and observations – are...
OpenAI Codex Ambassador Program: What Does an Ambassador Actually Do?
The word "ambassador" can sound like a marketing title. In a developer community, it should mean something more practical. It means finding out where builders are stuck. It means creating a workshop where people can test a workflow instead of only watching slides. It...
Would You Trust an AI With Your Crypto?
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of everyday life. People use it to write emails, plan trips, answer questions and organise their work. It is also starting to play a bigger role in finance. In crypto, AI tools can already track prices, study market activity,...
AI’s Water Problem Is Smaller Than You Think
AI's water problem is smaller than you've been told. Water's problem is far bigger — and, for the first time, solvable. Sometime in the last two years, a very old argument about water got a very new participant. For most of human history, the fight over who gets the...
Building a Real-Time Visualizer and Notation Recorder for Flute
I've seen those piano visualizer videos on YouTube — the ones where the keys light up in sync with what the pianist is playing. I always liked that kind of visual feedback. So I asked myself a simple question: why doesn't this exist for flute players? It doesn’t. Not...
AI Is Changing How We Ideate, Design, and Build User Interfaces
For decades, the workflow for designing user interfaces was fairly predictable. Designers made mockups, developers turned those mockups into code, and product teams reviewed the results, iterated, and shipped. Every artifact had its own clear job: design files for...
90 Blog Posts To Learn About Gamedev
Let's learn about Gamedev via these 90 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. "Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It’s expected...
What Computer Science Students Actually Need When They’re Stuck
In the world of software engineering, the difference between a solution that just works and one that stands the test of time often comes down to noticing the little details. I've seen countless times how a recursive tree traversal breaks because of a missing base case...
Code is for Machines, Not Humans
Your clean code rules were designed for human brains. AI agents need something different. I started writing code in 2017. Back then, the path to mastery was clear: Uncle Bob's Clean Code was the gold standard, SOLID principles were absolute rules, and Design Patterns...
Hybrid Cloud: Is It the Worst Possible Option?
I’m excited to share that I’m in the process of writing a book for O’Reilly Media! You can check out the Introduction and first chapter of “A Practical Guide to Modern Networking Telemetry” now. That link leads to an early release version, which means it’s been...
This Is How Observability Starts – With Modeling Pipeline Runs
In data platforms, it is easy to confuse business workflow state with job execution state. A company moves through statuses like "analyzing collection," "saving results," or "generating reports." Those labels are useful for the product. They tell users and operators...
Why Does It Cost That Much? Cause it Takes Me F***ing Hours
Today’s blog title is inspired by this song. My daughter started singing it regularly after she opened her bakery. Read on for details on that story, and how it relates to observability. I thought of it, and my daughter’s reasons for singing it, after a few responses...
The best Garmin watches of 2026: Expert tested and reviewed
I tested the best Garmin watches to help you decide which smartwatch is the right option for you as we enter marathon season.
The best Hisense TVs of 2026: Expert tested for streaming, gaming, and more
Hisense has quickly become one of the more trusted names in mid-range TVs, and has recently started to offer truly premium-grade screens for high-end home theaters with new technology like RGB Mini LED panels and AI integration.
Decades-Old BMC Vulnerability Exposes Thousands of Data Centers to Attacks
Over 24,000 internet-accessible server-management interfaces disclose authentication hashes before login. The post Decades-Old BMC Vulnerability Exposes Thousands of Data Centers to Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
You don’t need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript
Article URL: https://pedroth.github.io/?p=post/NoNeedReact Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165665 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
This one quality is what separates people who build something truly extraordinary from those who build something that’s merely good
There’s a question I’ve been turning over for years, both as a founder and as an early-stage investor: What separates the people who build something truly extraordinary from those who build something merely good? I’ve had an unusual amount of pattern recognition to...
Apple is working on a seamless copy-paste experience between iPhones and Windows PCs
Apple is developing seamless copy-paste between iPhones and Windows PCs, but it's unclear if it will be available outside the EU.
NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data
Article URL: https://www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/health-and-social-care/nhs-apologises-and-admits-palantir-engineers-have-access-to-identifiable-patient-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165775 Points: 40 # Comments: 0
To navigate the fraught AI landscape, we need to shift from debate to dialog
AI has quickly become one of the most emotionally loaded topics in business. Depending on the room—or the page—it’s either the engine of productivity, creativity, and growth or the latest threat to jobs, trust, and human judgment. That framing makes for energetic...