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Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more

The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-plann...

Small Models Have Arrived

Article URL: https://calv.info/small-models-have-arrived Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466917 Points: 131 # Comments: 46

Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more'

As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized

How accurate are sleep trackers? Lawsuit says Oura rings have 'a coin flip's chance of being correct'

The class action lawsuit claims that Oura's sleep-tracking mechanisms sell 'faulty AI-based inference as reliable science.'

Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card

Article URL: https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-story-of-suica Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466894 Points: 107 # Comments: 82

Yayoi Kusama has died

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v4k0re3vwo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466865 Points: 105 # Comments: 11

GTA VI looks just as great as we could hope for

Netflix and Rockstar Games finally debuted their "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI. It showed that the new game looks to keep much of the spirit of GTA - exploration, driving, crimes, shooting, a...

Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives

Article URL: https://acs.digitellinc.com/live/37/session/586399 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466622 Points: 100 # Comments: 76

Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants?

Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants.

Hands-on with Ubuntu’s AI speech-to-text dictation feature

AI-powered voice dictation is coming to Ubuntu in Myna, a speech-to-text feature that lets you talk into any valid text field. It’s still a work in progress, but I grabbed an early build to see ...

Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products

Amazon now hides nearly all product reviews . Filtering and ordering are disabled . Only the top 5-10 are shown . To opt out, a 5 day email request is requiredHere is an example of the UI for members ...

Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly...

GoCaracal Malware Uses Ethereum Smart Contract to Fetch Replacement C2 Address

Threat actors linked by Arctic Wolf to Dark Caracal with medium confidence deployed a previously undocumented Go-based malware framework, GoCaracal, during a June 2026 intrusion at an unnamed communic...

Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days

Article URL: https://blog.chrislewis.au/decompiling-a-nintendo-64-game-in-84-days/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466006 Points: 103 # Comments: 37

This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’

The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction work.

Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck

Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.

Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them

"It just felt like the right thing to do"

Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data

UK’s largest airport operator believes 8.7 million customers affected

Launching Route 53 Files

Article URL: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-08-27-Launching-Route-53-Files.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465732 Points: 102 # Comments: 38

Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in town

Coates said in a LinkedIn post that the company is not trying to recreate Twitter.

Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale

Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movements made by the autonomous vehicles, according to a TechCrunch review of...

Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else

Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the company yesterday published a memo addressing the Play Store's role in enforcin...

Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others

The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.

AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.

HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PC

Rising cloud AI costs are pushing workloads onto pricier PCs – which just happen to be better for PC maker's margins

Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago

"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.

507 Mechanical Movements

Article URL: https://507movements.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465169 Points: 123 # Comments: 18

Azure SQL Managed Instance Removes a Capacity Planning Hurdle for Large Deployments

Azure SQL Managed Instance customers no longer need to track service-specific regional subnet quotas, removing a planning hurdle that could complicate large-scale database deployments. Microsoft has a...

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.

Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.

Trade (and Tariffs)

Article URL: https://xkcd.com/3290/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464896 Points: 101 # Comments: 13

New GPUThor Rowhammer Defeats ECC on NVIDIA RTX A6000 to Gain Host Root Access

Academic researchers have disclosed a Rowhammer attack impacting NVIDIA workstation GPUs with GDDR6 memory that defeats error correction codes (ECC), the mitigation NVIDIA recommends against GPU Rowha...

Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap

AI at Work roadmap is the new name for upcoming Microsoft 365 capabilities

CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem

Article URL: https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-08-23/comaps-integration-with-the-wider-floss-ecosystem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464637 Points: 100 # Comments: 10

Is your really old iPhone still worth anything or just e-waste? How to tell

I found my old iPhone 4 in a drawer and wondered: Does it work? Is it worth anything? What should I do with it? I went looking for answers.

Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode

Article URL: https://rahuljuliato.com/posts/markdown-ts-mode-emacs-31 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464543 Points: 101 # Comments: 36

Aphantasia Beginner's Guide

Article URL: https://aphantasia.com/guide Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464414 Points: 101 # Comments: 242

US Government Designates Host of Noblogs.org a "Global Terrorist"

Article URL: https://crimethinc.com/2026/08/27/us-government-designates-host-of-noblogsorg-a-global-terrorist Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464391 Points: 116 # Comments: 33

MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

Article URL: https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464314 Points: 100 # Comments: 70

Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller

Elderly Aids made 758,000 unwanted calls a year selling gear to stop unwanted calls

Plaud's first AI earbuds have arrived - what they can do

Can these new wearables deliver on the long-anticipated promises of AI earbuds?

Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents

Plaud's new 'agentic' earbuds are priced at $249.

Alienware AW3926QW Review: 39 Inches of Gaming Glory

Alienware’s latest gaming monitor explores a new size and resolution for ultrawide monitors, and I have a feeling PC gamers are going to love it.

How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face

Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.

ChatGPT can log into your web accounts without you now - but should you let it?

OpenAI's agentic ChatGPT Work can sign in to your online accounts without any interaction on your part. Is that a privacy risk?

Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpj6r6CjJf8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49463888 Points: 108 # Comments: 20

CISA Adds Six Exploited Flaws to KEV, Including NetScaler, Linux, and SQL Server Bugs

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added six flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including a high-severity security vulnerability imp...

PaperCut warns of NG, MF flaw exploited in zero-day attacks

PaperCut is warning that hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in all versions of its PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF print management software in zero-day attacks. [...]

Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential

Track record is merely desirable for the person tasked with shaping UK.gov's skills blueprint for 550,000 civil servants

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