The Cost of Repeating a Search You Already Finished
Online work becomes slower when useful research disappears as soon as the immediate task is complete. A person finds a clear explanation, compares a few options, solves a problem, and moves on. A week later, the same kind of task appears again, but the result of the...
Min Kim, Founder and CEO of SODAX, on the Future of Programmable Finance
HackerNoon sat down with Min Kim, Founder & CEO of SODAX, to talk about the journey from building ICON to launching SODAX, the lessons learned along the way, and why he believes the future of finance lies in programmable, intent-based infrastructure. He shares how...
One Day of AI Video Generation Undid a Forest’s Work
You typed one sentence, and six seconds later you had a video. It felt free, and that's the whole design, not an accident. The number that actually matters isn't easily visible at all. Here's the receipt. Before it shut down in March 2026, OpenAI's Sora cost the...
A Brand Is Never Finished
Crypto companies keep buying rebrands like furniture: delivered, installed, done. In a market that changes every month, that's how a brand starts dying the week it launches.Six months after a launch, the founder comes back. Something's off, and they can't quite name...
The Skill That Separates Weak AI Answers From Great Ones
The magic was never in the wording of your question. It was in everything the AI could see when it answered.What "context" even meansWhen an AI answers you, it isn't reaching into some perfect well of truth. It's working with exactly what's in front of it at that...
Google will let you upload a video selfie to recover your account – but should you?
Google's new account recovery option prompts users to upload a selfie to prove their identity. Here's what to know.
Sony’s FX5 cinema camera finally offers open gate and RAW 5K recording
Sony has just unveiled its latest cinema camera that may foreshadow some long-awaited features in its consumer mirrorless lineup.
Google adds selfie video as a log-in option
You'll now be able to get into your Google account with a selfie video.
Amazon’s AGI department finds humans are optional
Amazon may be spending billions on AI, but that hasn't stopped it from cutting jobs inside the very organization building it. The megacorp confirmed to The Register on Thursday that it has eliminated an undisclosed number of roles across parts of its Artificial...
Assaf Keren Appointed New CISO of Meta
He replaces Guy Rosen, who announced his retirement from the company after 13 years. The post Assaf Keren Appointed New CISO of Meta appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs
RefluXFS, a new Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS filesystem and gain persistent root access. Qualys said default installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its...
Everyone hates massive data centers. This $18 billion CEO has a better way to get you the AI compute you need
For the past few years, the AI infrastructure race has been driven by the assumption that larger artificial intelligence models require larger data centers. That idea has fueled an extraordinary wave of spending. In rural Richland Parish, Louisiana, for example, Meta...
The simple way to get other people to prioritize your work
Someone in another department Slacks you: “Hey, quick favor . . . any chance you could get this to me by Friday?” No context on why it matters, no acknowledgment of what’s already on your plate, just an ask. You’ve probably sent a version of that message yourself, and...
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet
Britain has found £708 million ($946m) to fund the development of advanced technologies for the Royal Air Force’s next-gen fighter, codenamed Tempest. Announced to coincide with the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire, southwest of London, the news was...
New Check Point Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
New Check Point Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild Go to Source The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-16232 has been exploited against customers with certain configurations. The post New Check Point Zero-Day Vulnerability...
The U.S. is building its laser dome—one contract at a time
This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. The threat of low-cost weaponized drones may grow more urgent by the day, but the United States’ nascent laser dome is...
The robot byline is quietly disappearing
The most obvious use of generative AI is writing. It’s right there in the name—large language models (LLMs) are all about reading, organizing, analyzing, and conjuring words—which is exactly why many in the journalism profession have been going through a kind of...
Britain isn’t considering datacenters’ thirst for water in its ‘AI superpower’ ambitions
The UK government's blueprint for turning Britain into an AI superpower largely ignore the water datacenters need, prompting warnings that these facilities could end up competing with homes and businesses for supply. The warning comes as parts of southern, central,...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to crash into the moon this August
The upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket has been drifting in space for over a year after it launched. It's expected to crash into the moon next month.
Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access
Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management (MDSM) products, including a critical flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The security flaw, tracked as...
Voice Control Toolkit Comes to a Pico Near You
Voice-controlled appliances are nothing new. What might be new, however, is [Moonshine AI] running it all locally on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W! The voice interface is roughly divided into three parts: voice activity detection, SpellingCNN speech-to-text and a neural...
Cruller: Bun’s Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16
Article URL: https://ziggit.dev/t/cruller-buns-zig-runtime-continued-on-zig-0-16/16734 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017344 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files
PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we focus on security own-goals so you can avoid them. This week’s topic involves serious problems in the healthcare sector, specifically the very human problem of compromised gatekeepers. Have a story about someone...
July 23 1985, Commodore introduced its Amiga 1000: 10 years ahead of its time
Article URL: https://dfarq.homeip.net/amiga-1000-ten-years-ahead-of-its-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017265 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
Local AI that finds sensitive files on your Mac before attackers do
Article URL: https://www.vaultsort.com/guardian Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017170 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Motherhood makes women more creative. So why do we chase moms out of the workplace?
Most women have heard the stereotypes about “mom brain”: According to conventional wisdom, mothers—especially new mothers—neurologically reorient around their children, leaving their minds foggy and forgetful. Never mind putting them on that big project at work....
ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push
ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push Go to Source ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic
Donald Trump’s Assistant for Science and Technology, Michael Kratsios, has accused China’s Moonshot AI of creating its head-turning Kimi K3 model distilling Anthropic’s Fable. Kimi K3 is 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weights model of such impressive quality that its...
US Warns of Iranian Hackers Targeting Siemens, Schneider, and Rockwell ICS Devices
An updated advisory from federal agencies provides information on the techniques used to hack programmable logic controllers. The post US Warns of Iranian Hackers Targeting Siemens, Schneider, and Rockwell ICS Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek.
When your job conflicts with your values
People are more likely to stay at their job when their values and the organization’s mission are clearly aligned. But not every task you are asked to do may fit with your personal system of values. What should you do when asked to do something that causes you...