Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in
Weary travelers making their way through airports have enough to contend with these days without some Microsoft borkage popping up over departure information. Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader identifying themselves as Ethel Grapefruit (Mrs), one of the...
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra vs. Galaxy Z Fold 6: One is better in every way that matters
Should you update to the Galaxy Fold 8 Ultra if you have a Z Fold 6? I'm familiar with both phones, here's my take.
Here’s the live concert connection Spotify and YouTube Music are missing
There’s an entire universe of great music outside the confines of Spotify and YouTube Music, and you don’t need a subscription to access it. Over the years, live concert tapers have archived thousands of shows from artists like Grateful Dead, Phish, Billy Strings, and...
Tick, tock: It’s time for Apple to improve the iPhone Clock app
There are more than 1.5 billion iPhone users worldwide, according to DemandSage’s February 2026 data. Every iPhone comes with Apple’s default Clock app preinstalled. This is the app that hundreds of millions of people around the planet rely on each day to make sure...
Hackers Poison Adform Script to Swap Crypto Wallet Addresses Across Customer Sites
Attackers modified a JavaScript file served by advertising technology company Adform, turning it into a browser-side tool that rewrites cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Adform detected the incident on July 27, 2026, removed the malicious code, notified affected...
RamenHaus
Article URL: https://ramen.haus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132460 Points: 17 # Comments: 3
Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers
Article URL: https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/releases/tag/v1.6.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132083 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
AI doesn’t generate working products, that’s still your job
Article URL: https://weeraman.com/the-prototype-isnt-the-product/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132130 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
A deep dive into Nvidia’s Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it
DEEP DIVE For the first time, Nvidia has directly challenged Intel and AMD's CPU dominance. With the launch of Vera, the AI arms dealer aims to flog its standalone CPUs to as many hyperscalers and other cloud providers as it can. Alibaba, ByteDance, Meta, Oracle,...
Why a U.S. sovereign wealth fund for AI is harder than it sounds
Creating a government fund to own AI stock and benefit all Americans would require many hard choices. Should the U.S. government require artificial intelligence companies to transfer half of their stock to a sovereign wealth fund—a government-run fund that invests...
Alienware 15 vs. LOQ Essential 15: I compared both budget gaming laptops – it was close
These affordable gaming laptops were neck and neck in my testing, but one pulled ahead for me.
Zynga’s founder shares 6 mindsets for building billion-dollar products
Below, Mark Pincus shares six key insights from his new book, Life at the Speed of Play: Launch Products People Love!. Mark is the founder of Zynga, the pioneer of social mobile games. He is one of the tech industry’s most prominent entrepreneurs, known for repeatedly...
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132058 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
A Compact Game Controller For Your Phone
[Gil Yankovitch] noted that playing games on a touchscreen phone gave up a certain something in terms of the tactile feedback one gets from real buttons. To that end, he was inspired to build a controller specifically for phones that solved this very problem. The...
A migrant surge tests Spain’s open policies
Article URL: https://economist.com/europe/2026/07/31/a-migrant-surge-tests-spains-open-policies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131860 Points: 18 # Comments: 8
Adobe Campaign Classic CVSS 10.0 Flaw Could Run Code Without User Interaction
Adobe has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw in Campaign Classic (ACC), its enterprise-focused marketing automation platform, that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48449, carries a...
Hijacked Hotel Wi-Fi Pushes Fake Updates to Deliver Surveillance Malware
A fake browser update served over hijacked hotel Wi-Fi has been used to deliver CornFlake, a remote access trojan (RAT) that can capture webcam images, microphone audio, and keystrokes, Microsoft said in its latest report. Researchers track the operation as...
SplitVPN – 865,336 breached accounts
In July 2026, the Russian VPN service SplitVPN (previously known as NotVPN) suffered a data breach. The incident exposed millions of customer records, including 865k unique email addresses. Other impacted data included IP addresses, the user's country, and partial...
Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing
Cloud infrastructure services grew at their fastest for eight years during the second quarter of 2026, thanks to the AI craze and continued demand for flexible and scalable IT infrastructure. According to the latest figures from Synergy Research, enterprise spending...
Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified
Article URL: https://nascompares.com/2026/07/31/the-10-ways-nas-is-getting-enshitified/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131367 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
4 neuroscience-backed tips for using AI to learn more effectively
It’s Monday, and you’re a leader who wants to learn how to give better feedback. Since your company recently brought on an artificial intelligence chatbot to help you improve your skills as a manager, you open a new window and begin typing. The AI gives you a few...
5 tips for staying calm when you’re stressed
When stress rises, most people do not suddenly become someone different. They often become more intensely who they are or were rather than who they are working on becoming. Old habits, protective behaviors, and familiar patterns tend to reappear, sometimes before we...
What Liberal Arts Education Is for (2024)
Article URL: https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131034 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
About 100 firefighters are convicted of arson, every year
Article URL: https://www.firerescue1.com/arson-investigation/articles/expert-firefighter-arson-a-long-standing-issue-xHXLFAdYVcQPiuPU/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130853 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
Casual Repair and Maintenance on an Amiga 1000
Recently [Drygol] had an Amiga 1000 system over for some repairs as well as maintenance and general TLC. This is a Motorola 68000-based home computer from 1985 that also has the distinction of being the first Amiga system to be released by Commodore. At a time when...
Run a free, private, offline AI on your computer to handle repetitive tasks
Every time you copy a sensitive client proposal, an unannounced product roadmap, or a private financial spreadsheet and paste it into a web-based AI chatbot, a quiet voice in the back of your head probably whispers: Should I really be putting this in the cloud? Your...
BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising
Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/BMW_Spider-Man_in-car_advertising Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130756 Points: 44 # Comments: 10
Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
Article URL: https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130604 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars’ Main Dashboard Control Display
Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/BMW_Spider-Man_in-car_advertising Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130756 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
The development pipeline is a production system
Article URL: https://sundry.jerryorr.com/2026/07/31/development-pipeline-is-a-production-system Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130726 Points: 8 # Comments: 0