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xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

Credit: Hacktron Vercel has released security patches for two critical-severity vulnerabilities in the Next.js web framework, both of which allow unauthenticated remote code execution, one exploi...

A fake login page. A fake security scan. A fake productivity app. Apparently, pretending to be useful is still one of the easier ways into a machine. The rest of the week gets stranger: botnets borrow...

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Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the company said in a filing on Thursday.

Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.

GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.

Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy tradeoff built into the deal.

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts its massive online marketplace inside one of the most popular video platforms.

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

I knew I’d officially become a ‘longevity influencer’ this month when a company called Generation Lab reached out to offer me the chance to write about—and even receive—their new rejuvenation treatmen...

I think I know why Rockstar Games debuted its "extended look" of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix instead of immediately dropping it for free on YouTube. Unlike most video game trailers, the almost 27-m...

Michele Spagnuolo was arrested for alleged insider trading on Polymarket, but the Switzerland-based engineer says he was simply gambling—activity that is beyond the reach of US commodities law.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in Amazon Kiro, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, agentic integrated development environment (IDE), that could facilitate dat...

Polarizing opinions while tech heavyweights put up $10M

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

The cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 8 work best when they're pushed to their limits. Here are the settings I changed to get the best results.

Linux Kernel 7.3 is one of most performance focused releases ever.

I combed through the Labor Day sales to find the power tools and other essentials that cover nearly every household repair.

Microduck from Pollen Robotics runs on open source software, is just 25cm tall, and is ready to play out of the box

After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements—and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show.

The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-hardware-standard-research-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468834 Points: 104 # Comments: 35

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5-transcribe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468818 Points: 108 # Comments: 27

I posted once before but wanted to share again because a lot has changed. There's now a fairly strong bot to play against (contributed by a community member) and also correspondence games. The combina...

The ATF is the latest federal government agency in recent years to notify Congress of a "major incident" involving its cybersecurity.

Article URL: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/24290 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468642 Points: 109 # Comments: 82

Article URL: https://shop.m5stack.com/blogs/news/m5stack-launches-papermono-a-compact-e-ink-development-terminal-for-connected-projects Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468593 Poin...

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of...

New details about the July attack on Hugging Face reveal that hundreds of AI agents driven by OpenAI's internal IM1 model coordinated the compromise through an unauthorized message board. [...]

Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta's vice president of augmented reality, wr...

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6zwgg9y8go Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468315 Points: 106 # Comments: 58

I was among the last to resist, but then I was given a subtle hint that if I won't "improve my productivity and be on par with my colleagues" my work will be at risk. So I started to use Claude Code a...

Security teams have spent years trying to detect threats faster. AI is changing the harder part: how much time defenders have left to act. Advanced AI models can now help attackers discover vulnerabil...

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged two Western Australian men with a combined total of 14 offences over their alleged role in TeamPCP, the cybercrime group behind the March 2026 compromis...

"Everyone wants to take that aircraft up now..."

US Justice Department investigating the breach

Netflix has walked back plans to put AAA games on its streaming platform. Instead, it's pivoting to marketing highly anticipated titles like Grand Theft Auto VI.

Article URL: https://www.goto10retro.com/p/dads-custom-atari-peripherals Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468126 Points: 101 # Comments: 14

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468083 Points: 105 # Comments: 26

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/build-with-gemini-omni-1-1-flash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467922 Points: 104 # Comments: 44

Google teamed up with the Pokemon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.

AI is officially mainstream in security operations. According to Prophet Security's State of AI in Security Operations 2026 report (produced from ViB’s survey of 250+ cybersecurity pros), 40% of secur...

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Fashion startup Atoire announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round.

Fashion startup Atorie announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round.

Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs' feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.

Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”

Article URL: https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-adhd-test Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467700 Points: 110 # Comments: 34