How to Extract HEX and RGB Colors From an Image for Web Design
Choosing colors for a website or user interface is often easier when you already have a visual reference. A photograph, illustration, product image, or screenshot can contain colors that work well together, but identifying their exact values by eye is...
MEXC Invite & Earn: Invite Friends to Share a 100,000 USDT Reward Pool, Earn Up to 360 USDT
Invite & Earn is the activity layer of MEXC’s referral system, with a reward pool of up to 100,000 USDT. The rules aren’t complicated. One person can join alone, but the more active your friends are and the more people you invite, the higher the reward tier you...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: How to Generate Non-Sloppy Content With AI (8/12/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 12, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The very first PC was introduced by IBM in 1981, The Singer Sewing Machine is Patented in 1851, Erwin...
‘Near-autonomous’ AI agents attack Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency
Suspected Chinese cyber operatives used publicly available AI tools to compromise Taiwanese government systems before expanding the attack to its nuclear safety agency, supply-chain vendors, and at least seven energy companies in what security researchers called a...
Tailscale says deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year’s outages
Users of peer-to-peer networking outfit Tailscale might have struggled through some surprising outages beginning late last year. After a six-month investigation, the team finally knows why: A bug in SQLite’s write-ahead log that had remained hidden for 16 years. The...
Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
If you thought that the famous Spectre security vulns were a relic of 2018, think again. Certain RISC-V chips are still very much subject to this hair-raising hole, researchers say. Spectre refers to a family of vulnerabilities related to speculative execution, a...
Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare
We've got good news for developers who are enamored with Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects but don’t want to be tied into that company’s backend infrastructure. Last week, Node.js creator Ryan Dahl unveiled his latest project, celld, which he described on X as “a...
Nvidia’s latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is…a router?
Soaring AI infrastructure costs and model pricing, combined with uncertain returns on investment, threaten to stall enterprise adoption. To make enterprise AI spend a bit more manageable, Nvidia this week unveiled a new software platform that blurs the line between...
OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models
A new project aims to build a shared, open source AI training dataset that anyone can contribute to, much like an open source software project. It aims to make training data more transparent than that of many open-weight models that have recently taken the industry by...
Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows
Nightmare Eclipse, the serial zero-day hunter who has an axe to grind with Microsoft, published a new Defender zero-day, ShieldBreak, that apparently bypasses Redmond’s RoguePlanet patch (CVE-2026-50656), allowing attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on fully patched...
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B
Neocloud operator CoreWeave remains bullish about its prospects, claiming that changing patterns of AI use will create sustained demand for its cloud services. The New Jersey firm is among the most prominent rent-a-GPU businesses spawned by demand for AI training...
Trump is being sued for charging for faster access to Truth Social posts
A new lawsuit claims the Truth API violates the First and Fifth Amendments.
The Lakers just landed a $12.5 billion deal with two surprising new owners
The Los Angeles Lakers have new owners again. The team announced it has been sold to Bob Iger and Josh Kushner Wednesday for a record-breaking $12.5 billion. The sale comes less than a year after American businessman Mark Walter purchased the franchise. Walter’s...
Breaking the WAL
Article URL: https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/wal-reset-bug/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277799 Points: 8 # Comments: 5
Northrop’s robot space mechanic is a new way to keep satellites at work longer
The Mission Robotic Vehicle is making the first attempt to attach a new thruster to an aging satellite.
Why did fans think Usher wasn’t actually on stage? The singer finally responds.
The internet has gone full conspiracy theory over whether—or not—Usher is sending a body double out on stage to perform with rapper Chris Brown at The R&B Tour concert the two are co-headlining. The debate first erupted on August 8, when concertgoer Sunnya Sultan...
ICE is planning a $20 million purchase of a weapon almost impossible to spot
The federal immigration enforcement agency infamous for using excessive force is spending big on a new way to subdue detainees. ICE will spend up to $20 million on an order of electrified gloves that can deliver shocks so painful they can subdue a person within...
German nonprofit files criminal complaint over Meta smart glasses privacy
Worrying about Google Glassholes almost feels quaint in comparison.
Building Security Agents That Cannot Escape Their Trust Boundary
Article URL: https://cynative.com/blog/agent-trust-boundaries/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277437 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out
"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."
The Agony of Packaging Linux Apps
One of the great things of Linux as an ecosystem is that there is so much choice. Yet this is also its greatest weakness, as unlike on MacOS and Windows this means that simple questions often do not have a simple answer. The topic of distributing software is one of...
The Trump ‘zapper’ conspiracy theory that’s taking over social media
The Trump ‘zapper’ conspiracy theory that’s taking over social media Go to Source A new position has landed in the White House. Its main responsibilities—at least according to social media-fueled conspiracy theories—are to wake up the...
Leadership now means thinking across industries
When we picture leaders, we still tend to imagine experts anchored firmly in one sector—finance, education, health, or technology—each fluent in its own metrics and jargon. We rarely imagine leaders whose core skill is crossing boundaries: learning from a superyacht...
FlightAware dropped its lawsuit against Kalshi after just one day
FlightAware's case against Kalshi has been voluntarily dismissed "without prejudice against all defendants."
RFK Jr. says he can’t legally vote anywhere in America. Here’s why
Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made a lot of controversial claims, but this might be the most perplexing yet. On Tuesday, the 72-year-old claimed he is currently unable to vote “anywhere in the United States”—despite holding one of the...
Pixel Buds Pro 2 and 2a are getting some upgrades, including deeper Gemini integration
Google didn't have any new headphones this year, but some new features are coming to the Pixel Buds.
South Korea Targets Moon Landing, Quantum Breakthroughs by 2030
South Korea has put quantum, space, energy, biotech, and critical-materials targets on one national roadmap, including a robotic Moon landing in 2030. The post South Korea Targets Moon Landing, Quantum Breakthroughs by 2030 appeared first on TechRepublic.
Lovable Raises $400M at $13.3B Valuation as Enterprise Use Grows
Lovable’s $13.3 billion valuation puts a bigger spotlight on enterprise vibe coding as more employees gain tools to build and deploy software. The post Lovable Raises $400M at $13.3B Valuation as Enterprise Use Grows appeared first on TechRepublic.
Four of five enterprises that secured AI agent identities still can’t contain one that goes rogue
Visa's president of technology, Rajat Taneja, walked the VB Transform 2026 audience through aiming Anthropic's Mythos at Visa's own payment network. The model stitched minor weaknesses into working exploit chains, and Visa open-sourced the harness that governed the...
AI doesn’t transform organizations; leadership does.
Every major technology wave promises a competitive advantage, but most fail to deliver it. It’s not because the technology falls short, but because most organizations end up automating dysfunction rather than eliminating it. AI is no different. It’s transforming...