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Donald Trump’s West Wing renovations and DC arch could be on the chopping block, should Democrats win the midterms—they could also be leverage.
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/nyregion/ai-ban-schools-nyc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542443 Points: 125 # Comments: 84
The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.
Adding insult to injury
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
Article URL: https://runjs.app/blog/music-theory-for-programmers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541888 Points: 102 # Comments: 40
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.
Nearly two-thirds of US national security pros surveyed believe AI risks, and government posture toward them, are unacceptable
Carrier scorecards may include call-blocking stats and data on customer complaints.
Article URL: https://signalundefied.bearblog.dev/i-wanna-live-an-npc-life/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541519 Points: 113 # Comments: 85
Article URL: https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541458 Points: 117 # Comments: 42
"Requirements are being adjusted to reflect near-term mission needs."
Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository's own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs on the developer's mac...
An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver's license photos stolen from an ID verification service. The crime site has now shut down.
Article URL: https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541256 Points: 130 # Comments: 59
If approved, the combined company would become one of the largest food delivery platforms in the world.
A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster known as Gambling Goblin has been observed installing malicious Apache modules on compromised web servers run by Brazilian government and educational institutions...
Article URL: https://worksthatwork.com/6/unified-arabic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540827 Points: 103 # Comments: 39
Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature ...
Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtualizor package to some...
Article URL: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62dc98e7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540565 Points: 101 # Comments: ...
The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the corpus that AIs are training on contain data suggesting that I a...
A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models.
Google's Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there's yet another Gemini Flash today.
Arduino's VENTUNO Q is now up for pre-order, priced from $299. The development board comes with Ubuntu preinstalled and is built around Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ8 platform. You're reading Arduino’...
Miscreants use chained zero days to pwn boxen as third-party SOCs say further attacks 'almost certain'
Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a fake television-streaming campaign on Meta and c...
Article URL: https://ploum.net/2026-09-02-i_dont_have_a_smartphone.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539872 Points: 122 # Comments: 108
Predictive text remains available, but users will have to invite it into their workflow
Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/09/02/static-allocation-constant-work.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539556 Points: 101 # Comments: 18
Article URL: https://forums.paint.net/topic/134562-paintnet-52-alpha-build-9739/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539389 Points: 112 # Comments: 91
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, ...
X says U.S. creator payouts will now be handled through its X Money payments service, a change that appears to replace the previous Stripe-powered payout system.
"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," t...
Attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-9586, an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the Sangoma Switchvox VoIP platform that can lead to remote code execution. [...]
The debate about whether AI delivers business value is over. The challenge now is implementing it at scale and securely across every function while meeting board-level pressure to move fast. Organizat...
Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry
Article URL: https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/09/02/delidded-intel-i9-14900ks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539110 Points: 100 # Comments: 5
Fervo's deal with Google could expand to 1 gigawatt of geothermal power, enough to supply a very large AI data center in Utah.
Don't disable automatic updates if the pace is too much – that's what ESR is for
The DOJ proved to the court that Google acted illegally, but it won't get the big win it wanted.
Cloud storage biz severs old integration and urges victims to reset credentials
SonicWall has released security updates to address two security flaws impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances that have been exploited in zero-day attacks. The vulnerabilit...
For Honor is being kneecapped on Linux, and by extension, the Steam Deck.
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex t...
Wonderful's $550M Series C was led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce, Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards and Bessemer participating.
Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for as little as about $11 for two months.