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A backdoor was discovered in the 'Claude Code' VS Code extension distributed through the Cursor Marketplace, prompting an official security notice from Cursor. The incident highlights supply chain ris...
North Korean state-sponsored hackers are suspected of compromising a Binance employee's laptop to steal a record $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency, marking one of the largest crypto heists in history. Th...
Hackers stole an estimated $6.3 billion from Binance in what appears to be the largest cryptocurrency heist in history. Binance has suspended all withdrawals and linked the attack to North Korea's Tra...
A security researcher at Binary Security published findings detailing five distinct cross-tenant compromise chains in Microsoft Azure, demonstrating how attackers could escalate from a single tenant t...
Applebee's mobile app contained a hardcoded database password that was left in the code, allowing anyone with the app to access customers' personal data without authentication. A security researcher d...
Bunny CDN experienced a security incident that was publicly disclosed through their status page. The Hacker News discussion with 197 points and 40 comments indicates significant community interest and...
The article argues that AI tools are not replacing Site Reliability Engineers but rather contributing to skill degradation among practitioners who increasingly rely on AI-generated solutions without m...
Researcher Nicolas Seriot demonstrated that curl versions 8.12 through 8.16 were accidentally Turing-complete by combining unbounded config file slicing and inclusion features to simulate a two-counte...
CVE-2026-98432 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's IPv4 TCP handling that can lead to remote code execution via MPTCP listeners. Go 1.24 enables MPTCP by default on Linux, so users...
Mozilla researchers used frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI to proactively identify and fix vulnerabilities in Firefox, achieving over seven times more security fixes compared to the same pe...
Google's Suncatcher prototype space data center is now online after launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying four TPUs capable of up to 1 kW power generation. The satellite successfully ran Google Dee...
Waymo is partnering with Toyota to deploy self-driving versions of the bZ4X electric vehicle in Japan and the UK. The company will begin testing these robotaxis in Japan next year as part of the broad...
NASA has issued a Request for Information seeking commercial proposals to reboost, service, or conduct a controlled disposal of the Hubble Space Telescope before it plunges into Earth's atmosphere in ...
Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell resigned after an advisory committee found he failed to disclose AI use in an academic paper and a Washington Post op-ed, despite publishers requiring such d...
Scientists have identified Teghaza 001 as a third ancient Martian meteorite, dating back at least 4.1 billion years, providing new insights into Mars' ancient crust. The discovery highlights a signifi...
The DOJ has charged five individuals in the first major federal crackdown on "ghost students"—fraudsters who steal American identities to pose as college students and siphon federal student loans. The...
Quilty Space reports a launch vehicle shortage of ~150 launches between now and 2030 outside China, potentially doubling with US military demand. The crisis is driven by rocket developmental delays, t...
General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims from the District of Columbia and 35 states over illegally selling customer Smart Driver data to third-party brokers, who resold it to in...
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic have agreed to adopt a new IETF-standardized opt-out mechanism that lets publishers control whether their content is used for AI training. The policy token wil...
Google's Project Suncatcher satellite successfully booted its on-board TPUs and ran the Gemma 4 model from orbit, generating a space-themed haiku as its first response. The test marks an early milesto...
The project demonstrates running a working Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator by repurposing approximately 1GB of Qwen LLM weights as neural hardware. It showcases an unconventional approach...
A privacy researcher explored the AT Protocol's PDS infrastructure and discovered that subscribed RSS feed URLs are stored publicly on personal data servers. This exposure revealed private content inc...
NixOS has been successfully optimized to run on as little as 512MB RAM, idling at just 96MB with only 54 kernel modules loaded. A full channel update and rebuild including a kernel switch completes wi...
Nvidia is reportedly considering cosigning a loan to help fund Nscale's new AI data center in West Virginia, signaling the chipmaker's willingness to back its ecosystem partners financially. The move ...
Salesforce is acquiring defense tech startup Rune Technologies for $375M in cash and stock to bolster its Missionforce defense business unit. Rune builds AI software for U.S. military supply predictio...
Big Tech companies are investing billions into AI infrastructure, but rising debt levels, negative cash flows, and increasing investor skepticism are casting doubt on the long-term sustainability of t...
Satlyt conducted a successful test this month advancing its goal of converting satellites into virtual data centers in orbit. The company is progressively moving toward its vision of using spacecraft ...
AI-powered law firm Crosby has entered bidding to acquire Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a prestigious Wall Street firm currently facing decline. The move signals a potential pivotal moment where an AI-nativ...
Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz draws parallels between the Theranos fraud and the current AI boom, warning that companies with no profits are raising capital at trillion-dollar valuations. He cau...
Boom Supersonic is pivoting to manufacture gas turbines for AI data centers while facing delays on its Overture supersonic airliner, with United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby publicly doubting the 2029 del...
A study published in JAMA Network Open found that over 25% of US adults lie to clinicians to obtain unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, often by fabricating or exaggerating cold symptoms—viral infec...
Fujifilm is investing approximately 10 billion yen (~$63M) to fivefold its magnetic tape production capacity, citing surging AI-driven data archiving demand. The expansion at its Kanagawa facility wil...
Nissan is launching the 2027 Rogue Hybrid with its e-Power series hybrid system, where a 1.5L three-cylinder turbo engine acts solely as a generator to charge the battery, while an electric motor excl...
Apple will launch Apple Intelligence in China with iOS 27.3, with a beta debuting November 4th and a full release in December. The initial rollout excludes the new Siri AI but includes earlier feature...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that having RAM in personal PCs is 'terrible' from a global allocation perspective, and it's far more efficient to have compute resources concentrated in data centers. He ...
The Verge podcast discusses Apple's current era of product experimentation, highlighting features like the iPhone with multiple screens, the new touchscreen MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, and Ho...
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is prioritizing the company's autonomous driving ambitions over R2 SUV production ramp during recent earnings calls. Rivian plans to roll out its point-to-point hands-free drivi...
Drew Breunig embedded a working NES 6502 CPU emulator into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B, enabling users to run NES ROMs like Super Mario Bros directly inside the model. Inspired by Divyansh Agrawal's qwe...
DoorDash reported receiving only 'several hundred' orders from third-party AI agents in Q3 2026, a negligible fraction compared to its 3 million daily deliveries. CEO Tony Xu characterized AI agent ad...
The article discusses a federated platform for hosting and collaborating on code, drawing inspiration from how ActivityPub federated social media. It explores the technical and social challenges of bu...
Northflank, a developer PaaS platform, suffered a security breach as indicated on their status page. The incident has drawn significant attention on HackerNews with 356 points and 272 comments.
The author reverse-engineers their Samsung Q800A soundbar to enable Google Cast support by extracting firmware from a broken unit via hot air reflow of the eMMC chip. They discovered the Australian an...
The article explores how GCC lowers switch statements into efficient jump tables at compile time. It demonstrates with code examples that GCC can handle both compact case ranges and offset-by-constant...
Pidgin 3.0 Alpha 4 (version 2.98.0) has been released as a timed development snapshot for testers and developers. The release includes UI tweaks and username formatting improvements, but is explicitly...
Raymond Chen explains that holding a PC's power button for 8+ seconds triggers the Windows kernel to capture an emergency kernel dump, classified internally as a 'long power button hold' (LPBH) failur...
Jack Ganssle's classic 2002 article humorously lists the top ten reasons embedded projects get into trouble, beginning with insufficient resources and covering issues like poor planning, unrealistic s...
Intel's stock has crashed, wiping $12 billion from the U.S. government's stake in the chipmaker. The decline is driven by weakening PC sales, as the booming AI industry is consuming memory and compone...
Anthropic is expected to receive a high 'junk' credit rating from credit agencies following its IPO, according to an FT report. Blackstone's forecast could complicate the company's ability to raise ca...
Zest has launched a new AI concierge agent that helps groups decide where to eat by aggregating everyone's dietary preferences and tastes, presenting restaurant options for a group vote, and handling ...
Runware is pioneering a factory-based approach to mass-produce prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line, promising delivery in as little as 48 hours. The startup's ambitious model draws paral...
Flesh-eating New World screwworms have spread to Arizona, becoming the third US state affected after Texas and New Mexico. Since the flies re-invaded the US in June, 74 animal cases have been confirme...
DoorDash reported only several hundred orders from third-party AI agents in Q3 2026, a tiny fraction of its nearly 1 billion total orders. CEO Tony Xu suggested AI agents may be better suited for comp...
Go 1.28 introduces an HTTP/2 server "parking" mechanism where the serveLoop goroutine can exit when idle instead of blocking, with a new goroutine taking over when work arrives. The author measured th...
Cowboy Space unveiled its Big Iron medium-lift rocket, joining the growing trend of new launch vehicles but lagging behind competitors with little hardware to show. Meanwhile, Virgin Galactic's new De...
Akai has revealed exclusive details about its upcoming MPC Sample Key, a pitched sample playback instrument featuring three context-sensitive encoders and a large main encoder, distinct from the drum-...
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol announced the company is exploring AI-driven personalized digital menus at drive-thrus, recognizing customers as they arrive and customizing menu displays accordingly. This ...
Walmart is discounting Vizio's Mini LED Quantum TV with a unique feature that allows users to bypass the built-in smart OS and avoid data collection during setup. The 65-inch model drops to $358 and t...
Kindle software update 5.20.2 introduces the AI-powered 'Ask This Book' feature directly to Kindle e-readers, allowing users to query content within their books. This marks the rollout of an AI assist...
In March 2026, thirteen major publishers filed a lawsuit against a website dedicated to pirated books, signaling an intensified fight against automated book piracy. The move highlights how both sides—...