Lyft and Baidu start testing robotaxis in London
As it promised last year, Baidu has started testing its robotaxis in London along with partners Lyft and Freenow.
Best BitMart Alternatives: Where to Move Your Assets Before the August 26 Shutdown
BitMart announced on July 26, 2026 that it is winding down: all trading ends at 01:00 UTC on August 26, 2026, and the platform closes on January 31, 2027. The strongest BitMart alternatives in 2026 for small-cap traders are MEXC, Gate, KuCoin, and Bitget, with MEXC...
What Even Are Microservices?
Article URL: https://var0.xyz/posts/what-even-are-microservices.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081594 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
The greatest mistake in AI transformation: automating what you should eliminate
The greatest mistake in AI transformation: automating what you should eliminate Go to Source Leaders love quick wins. When AI lands in their organization, the instinct is immediate: find repetitive tasks and automate them. Speed up...
About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6
Article URL: https://support.apple.com/en-us/128067 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081555 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
Claude users’ shared conversations were showing up in Google searches
Thousands of conversations between Claude and its users, alongside tools created during those chats, were available for a period of time through Google searches earlier this month—echoing a similar issue that blighted OpenAI’s ChatGPT and was first reported by Fast...
Critical TeamCity Flaw Could Let Attackers Run OS Commands Without Logging In
Critical TeamCity Flaw Could Let Attackers Run OS Commands Without Logging In Go to Source JetBrains is urging customers of on-premise versions of TeamCity to update to the latest version following the discovery of a critical security...
Researcher Says AI Helped Develop Linux Traffic-Control Race Into Root Exploit
Researcher Says AI Helped Develop Linux Traffic-Control Race Into Root Exploit Go to Source STAR Labs has published a Linux kernel exploit that turns an ordinary local user into root on the CentOS Stream 9 build it targeted. The flaw,...
Gen Z uses AI every day. They trust it less every week
Earlier this year, we showed two of our interns, both bright young people in their twenties, an early build of an AI-generated presenter we were developing for training content. I expected them to take to her instantly. These are young people who grew up on social...
The ‘dead internet theory’ is real. And it’s killing the web as we know it
Sometime in June of 2026, without ceremony, human beings became a minority on the internet they built. Cloudflare, which manages traffic for millions of websites, reported that bots now generate 57.5% of web page requests. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince had predicted...
2027 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Electric first drive: A long-range triumph with a few cabin quirks
With plenty of range and stellar ride quality, the new C-Class is a brilliant EV with a dashboard that's a little too in your face.
ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors’ styles
ChatGPT has been refusing to imitate the writing of famous authors, both living and dead.
Get Spotify’s student discount plus Hulu for just $6 a month – here’s how
Get Spotify's student discount plus Hulu for just $6 a month - here's how Go to Source If you're a college student, Spotify has an exclusive bundle that can save you cash on music and streaming. Here's how to get it.
Google Adopts New Threat Actor Naming System
The new two-word naming convention uses a memorable term utilized in public reporting and a cluster-categorization word. The post Google Adopts New Threat Actor Naming System appeared first on SecurityWeek.
You have a big idea. Here’s how to turn it into impact
Peter Drucker was the quintessential management visionary. Often decades ahead of his time, he developed concepts like the knowledge worker and management by objectives long before they were on anybody else’s radar. It was for good reason that the corporate elite hung...
I wore the two best Amazfit smartwatches for a month – Is the flagship worth $230 more?
Is the Amazfit Cheetah 2 Ultra worth the extra cost versus the Amazfit Balance 3? Here's what I found after living with both for a month.
Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber
Openreach has disclosed another tranche of locations where providers will be barred from selling legacy copper-based services to premises that can receive full fiber as it pushes customers toward newer digital connections. The wholesale arm of BT, Britain's former...
Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops
Cisco has developed AI models that can solve networking problems and is close to releasing the tools, plus the Cloud Control agentic ops tool that puts its models to work. Cloud Control is Cisco’s attempt to tame console sprawl, but creating a new interface to its...
7.1 Earthquake in Japan
Article URL: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20260728163528&lang=en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080664 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next
The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next Go to Source At the 2024 Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, some awkward items turned up at the swap meet: radioactive sources. Fortunately there was [Tryst] at hand, who...
Lyft and Baidu enter London’s robotaxi battleground as testing begins
Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicles will be available on Freenow, the mobility network that Lyft acquired in 2025.
Unpatched Fastjson Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks
The critical remote code execution bug can be exploited without authentication, under the library’s stock default configurations. The post Unpatched Fastjson Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Houston City College – 831,642 breached accounts
In June 2026, Houston City College was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. Data allegedly obtained from the college was later published publicly and included 832k unique email addresses along with names, addresses, phone numbers, academic...
Critical Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day
Impacting on-premises deployments, the OS command injection allows attackers to access privileged internal functionality. The post Critical Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft Says New Cybersecurity AI Model Helps MDASH Hit 95.95% at Half the Cost
Microsoft has launched its first cybersecurity-specific model inside MDASH, its multi-model vulnerability identification and remediation harness. The company says MDASH, using MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and GPT-5.4, scored 95.95% on CyberGym. It also claims the configuration...
Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts
Article URL: https://arsastronomica.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079727 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Neutrino-1 8B
Article URL: https://www.fermionresearch.com/models/neutrino-8b/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079490 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
PyTorch: A Reference Language
Article URL: https://docs.pytorch.org/devlogs/compiler/2026-07-25-pytorch-a-reference-language/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079454 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Attackers Exploit Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Command Injection Flaw
A maximum-severity security flaw impacting on-premises versions of Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-16812 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of operating system command injection that...
How ‘wildflowering’ at work could lead to promotions
You might have heard the term “wildflowering” in the dating world. According to a piece in Psychology Today, it “means allowing a relationship to either wilt or bloom completely organically without enforcing any particular timelines, labels, or expectations.” In other...