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For Rupert Young ’95, SM ’95, his career in data science and cybersecurity began when his grandfather gifted him thousands of stamps: He built intricate databases to catalogue them, displaying the “pr...
When Don Yansen ’63 arrived at the MIT AgeLab for a study on technology in caregiving for older adults, he didn’t plan to launch another company. But when he heard participants talk about how hard mo...
Vaccines that turn the body’s immune system against tumors have shown promise in clinical trials, and a handful have been FDA approved for certain cancers. In many patients, however, these vaccines do...
Oral and forehead thermometers may not accurately capture a person’s core body temperature, and the few ingestible temperature sensors on the market are so big they are hard to swallow and risk obstru...
When remotely operated vehicles settle on the seafloor or dig through a sand bed, they can kick up clouds of sediment that onboard cameras struggle to see through. Often, the only thing to do is wait ...
Many people find AI-based chatbots helpful in keeping up with news, but a study by Pattie Maes and her colleagues at the MIT Media Lab points to a big problem with this strategy.  Participants wh...
During the original US missions to the moon in the 1960s and ’70s, astronauts relied on radio-frequency systems to communicate, sending grainy, low-quality images and videos to Earth. But on the Arte...
Record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges.
Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440410 Points: 104 # Comments: 45
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.
Garmin's new flagship Fenix 9 epitomizes the premium rugged smartwatch - but how much of an upgrade is it from the Fenix 8?
Fasten your seatbelt and empty that bladder: AI investment is rising, but reported enterprise earnings impact remains stubbornly flat
Article URL: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439499 Points: 105 # Comments: 55
Oasis Security has disclosed a weakness in NVIDIA NemoClaw that could let an attacker-controlled webpage take unauthenticated control of the local Ollama instance serving an AI agent and plant hidden ...
Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that it’s rolling out “First Draft,” a new editing feature that automaticall...
Article URL: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuously-monitors-both-ketone-levels-and-blood-sugar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
Understanding unique photochemistry of such materials will help in conservation, storage, and exhibition.
Meta on Tuesday announced a set of WhatsApp account security features, including support for multiple passkeys to a single account to help users with both iOS and Android devices sign into their accou...
A polished update to Google’s foldable brings real improvements, but the price bump and rampant competition make it a tough sell.
State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits
It's currently only appearing on Pixels running Android 17.
The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029.
Each year, we get a huge influx of applicants to speak at TechCrunch’s events, and this year’s Founder Summit in Boston on November 4 will be no different!
Garmin just took the wraps off its new line of rugged Fenix 9 smartwatches, with the base model featuring an OLED display with up to 3,000 nits of brightness, making it twice as bright as its predeces...
The fatalities come amid declining vaccination rates and calls from President Donald Trump to split up the MMR vaccine.
Marimo has addressed a high-severity security flaw in its notebook software that allowed an attacker to execute an attacker-supplied Model Context Protocol (MCP) command in a specially crafted noteboo...
Attackers now ready to exploit how things work, rather than just break them, says Oracle support expert
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If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at...
Will moving dots cure your car nausea? History says yes.
Do fine art and high tech ever converge? At Sotheby’s they do, thanks to Kelly Shen ’17. Shen works in the growing field of art intelligence for the New York auction house. Shen builds algorithms to p...
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced that a breach last year exposed customer and employee information. [...]
The offer is open to subscribers on any tier, but it is location-based.
Article URL: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA?pli=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437946 Points: 115 # Comments: 14
Current Exchange connector is retiring - and new ones won't work if you don't upgrade
Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.
In the span of a few hours on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be implementing a fee of over $103,000 on H-1B visas, and news broke that the State Department plans o...
"[P]eople are not familiar with this disease and don’t fully understand the potential severity."
Threat actors are abusing npm and its mirrors to host malicious HTML pages that impersonate Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to redirect visitors to attacker-controlled websites. [...]
Germany's autonomous vehicle regulations have made it a hotspot for autonomous vehicle testing and eventual commercial robotaxi deployment.
Thousands of companies have been affected by the Mirage2FA campaign from 2024 to 2026. The commercial phishing-as-a-service toolkit targets Microsoft 365 accounts by abusing legitimate login flows and...
"This will be a project like no other."
Article URL: https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437483 Points: 100 # Comments: 43
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that uses a cluster of 24 npm packages as free phishing infrastructure for redirecting to ClickFix-style fake CAPTCHA pages. "While t...
OpenAI wants you to thank it for keeping a permanent record of all your discussions with its bots
Article URL: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283 Points: 152 # Comments: 84
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that employs FTP banners as dead drop resolvers (DDRs) to deliver two previously unreported remote access trojans (RATs) tracked as E4...
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437210 Points: 100 # Comments: 48
Anthropic is merging Claude chat and Cowork memory, raising privacy questions about what AI remembers and if it's worth the tradeoff.