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...

How can you change your brain chemistry, releasing hormones that will help you de-stress and even help protect your heart health? Perform small acts of kindness. It sounds odd, and possibly too good to be true, but researchers, psychologists, and many other experts...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity security flaw impacting N-able N-central to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability,...

[Les] likes lasing lasers, and who doesn’t? [Les] likes larger lasers than lots of folks, with his current project being an Nd:YAG (that’s Neodymium:Yttrium Aluminum Garnet) flash pumped laser intended for tattoo removal. Like most of its ilk, the YAG crystal at the...

It's far easier to find security holes than to fix them, and leaving it to AI can introduce 9 times as many new vulnerabilities as developers do.

The UK government is considering forcing employers in Great Britain to consult workers before rolling out "bossware," opening the door to new rules covering everything from AI-powered productivity scoring to keystroke logging and biometric surveillance. The Department...

Tesla has recalled its Cybertruck 11 times to fix issues such as exterior trim panels falling off and an accelerator pedal that can become stuck, but NASA has nonetheless decided the rust-prone vehicle is up to the job of rescuing astronauts if trouble strikes on the...

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164649 Points: 24 # Comments: 5

Article URL: https://om.co/2026/06/07/the-myth-the-mythos-and-the-man/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163380 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

I’m not sure about you, but I think I’ve had enough of trying to optimize everything. A few days ago I saw one post on LinkedIn giving me 8 Simple Ways to Start a Business. I let out a sigh. Then less than a minute later, another post, 6 Simple Steps to Improve My...

The biggest single reward paid out by Microsoft between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, was $200,000. The post Microsoft Bug Bounty Program: $20 Million Paid to 500 Researchers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer that was very influential in its time. That’s what inspired [vanheusden] to start working on an emulator for the machine in 2018, which has since been developed to run on a wide variety of platforms.  The emulator, named “Kek,” is...

Cloudflare has used AI to automate processing of incoming reports to its bug bounty program for $58 a month using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model and chose it partly because using the AI company’s security-specific Mythos model would burn through around $200,000 a...

Article URL: https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162787 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

China has changed its legal definition of semiconductors. The National Intellectual Property Administration yesterday issued an expert opinion on recent changes to the regulations governing intellectual property laws as applied to chips. That document, attributed to...

The grants will help local governments assess and improve cyber defenses amid a multistate campaign targeting water and wastewater infrastructure. The post New York Awards $9 Million to Strengthen Cybersecurity at 153 Water Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Article URL: https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162653 Points: 7 # Comments: 1

Article URL: https://nooneshappy.com/article/native-apps-should-be-avoided-whenever-possible/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163158 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

The AI arms race reached a fever pitch on Monday after Chinese e-commerce and cloud provider Alibaba called into question America’s technological lead with the launch of Qwen 3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter model that goes toe-to-toe with the best models from...

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs as too untrustworthy for enterprises.

Reverse-engineered schematic of the IBM 604’s TR-3 module. (Credit: Ken Shirriff) Taking a break from ogling microscopic features in Intel’s semiconductor processors, [Ken Shirriff] is back to instead poking at decidedly macroscopic pluggable modules from the 1948 IBM...

Article URL: https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/08/03/windows-xp-2002-for-the-itanium-unbridled-rage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162086 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/zx-spectrum-system-tour-text-mode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161801 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

In what they call the first-ever real-world agent-to-agent exploitation method, Pillar Security researchers say they discovered an exploit in the repository behind Google's Agent Development Kit for Python that could allow attackers to compromise supply chains. In...

When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decade.