Show HN: Edge Drop- #1 productivity and unique clipboard 200 stars on GitHub
Article URL: https://github.com/Deepender25/Edge-Drop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106529 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Claude is down for 2nd consecutive day
Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/fsh2zzzl2c4l Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106568 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
EU now fears US interference in European elections
Article URL: https://www.eunews.it/en/2026/07/29/eu-now-fears-us-interference-in-european-elections/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106643 Points: 20 # Comments: 12
Amazon Links Debug and Chalk npm Hijack to North Korea’s Sapphire Sleet
Amazon has tied the September 2025 hijack of the npm packages debug and chalk to North Korea. For ten months, the incident sat in the public record as crypto theft: a maintainer phished through a lookalike npm domain and a wallet-draining script pushed into at least...
Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine
PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we show you how not to use your computer or your network. In this week’s fable of fecklessness, we talk about a teacher who had a lot to learn about security. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole...
Cisco Secure FMC Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild
The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20316 can be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to log into affected devices. The post Cisco Secure FMC Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one
Data protection vendor Veeam has decided the time is right to support half a dozen more hypervisors in case you are thinking of adopting a new one. Hypervisor migrations are currently a distinct possibility for VMware user who relies on vSphere for basic server...
Excuses like ‘AI did it’ don’t exist in the eyes of the law
The OpenAI rogue agent behind the Hugging Face hack accessed four accounts on four services, according to updated company disclosures about the intrusion. One of those four accounts belonged to a Modal customer that had published an unauthenticated endpoint for...
1,741 “informed” consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed
Article URL: https://noyb.eu/en/1741-informed-consents-one-click-gdpr-complaint-against-dictcc-filed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106384 Points: 19 # Comments: 1
Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees
NASA has shared new snaps captured by its Curiosity rover that show a large “field of honeycomb textures” on Mars. Here’s the best of the images Curiosity captured. It shows the honeycomb field, each element of which is four to eight centimeters across. NASA doesn’t...
Cisco FMC Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Static Credentials Could Expose Sensitive Data
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a newly disclosed security flaw impacting Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of zero-day...
Use Your Head While Trimming Trees
[Attoparsec] occasionally rides a bicycle for transportation, but with the major downside of doing this in North America, a place where bicycle infrastructure is generally neglected. From snow removal, maintenance, separation from cars, or even existing in the first...
NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements
Article URL: https://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-partners-universities-industry-pilot-initiative-four Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105642 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Cisco ‘retires’ its Azure Local offering rather than catch up to Microsoft’s changed hardware requirements
Cisco has decided to “retire” its Azure Local offering due to changes Microsoft made to the hardware and partnerships it supports for the on-prem hyperconverged cloud stack. The networking giant quietly announced the change in a July 24 end of life and end of sale...
Qualcomm won’t be a big datacenter player anytime soon
Qualcomm has predicted its entry to the datacenter market will yield $15 billion of annual revenue by FY 2029 – huge growth, but also a modest number compared to its more established rivals. The chip design firm dangled the $15 billion figure on Wednesday along with...
A pharmacy chain in Vermont implemented AI for efficiency
Article URL: https://vtdigger.org/2026/07/29/a-pharmacy-chain-in-vermont-implemented-ai-for-efficiency-its-led-to-delays-incorrect-information-and-privacy-concerns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105190 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Keyboard Lights As An Airgap Attack Vector
What do you do when you need to get data into an airgapped machine? Well, you might find yourself limited to basic input devices to interact with the computer in question. As [Nikolay Valentinovich Repnitskiy] demonstrates, though, you can do some fun stuff amidst...
Show HN: A local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents
I have been pushing up to 90 commits a day on a MacBook Air via 4-5 parallel agents. As you can imagine when all the agents try to build, test and run dev servers on an 8GB machine it is the fast lane to a force quit and restart. I also did not want to pay the CI...
Flume Water Monitor 915 MHz Security Is Pretty Good
Article URL: https://waveformsecurity.com/blog/flume/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105136 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Starter Homes Are Piling Up While Luxury Homes Fly Off the Market
Article URL: https://www.zillow.com/research/starter-homes-price-tiers-36571/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104996 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
The Productivity Mirage
Article URL: https://frantic.im/mirage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104335 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
Microsoft’s cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest
Microsoft on Wednesday reported $90 billion in revenue for the quarter ended June 30, an increase of 18 percent, lifting its stock more than 7 percent in after hours trading. The cash intake was more than Wall Street analysts anticipated, and showed up where it...
Jersey Mike’s stock is priced in highly anticipated IPO: Will retail traders have an appetite for it?
Forget AI and rockets. The latest high-profile IPO is more about mustard and mayo. Shares of sandwich chain Jersey Mike’s Subs Inc. are expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Thursday, July 30, under the ticker symbol “JMKE.” The stock was...
Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever
Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.
Jeff Bezos Says Custom Chips Could Become Amazon’s Next Major Business
Jeff Bezos says Amazon’s Trainium, Graviton, and other custom chips could become a major business as AWS expands its AI infrastructure. The post Jeff Bezos Says Custom Chips Could Become Amazon’s Next Major Business appeared first on TechRepublic.
The Hidden Security Problem Holding Enterprise AI Back
Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating, but new research suggests identity governance is lagging behind. Here's why AI agent identities are becoming a critical security challenge. The post The Hidden Security Problem Holding Enterprise AI Back appeared first on...
Apple Sued After Alleged Fake Crypto Wallet App Cost Users $1.8 Million
Three investors allege a fake Sparrow Wallet app listed in Apple’s App Store caused approximately $1.8 million in Bitcoin losses. The post Apple Sued After Alleged Fake Crypto Wallet App Cost Users $1.8 Million appeared first on TechRepublic.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence Portal Retires in August: 4 Checks Before the Cutoff
Microsoft is retiring its legacy Threat Intelligence portal on August 1. Security teams should verify licenses, permissions, investigation projects, APIs, and automated workflows before the cutoff. The post Microsoft Threat Intelligence Portal Retires in August: 4...
Businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees made 92% of May hires
If you’ve only been applying for gigs at big companies, you may want to rethink where you’re sending job applications. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 93% of hires for privately held companies during May came from US business...
Man and the Computer by John G. Kemeny (1972 book by the co-creator of BASIC)
Article URL: https://archive.org/details/mancomputerbyjoh0000john Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104140 Points: 5 # Comments: 1