Genesis joins the giant electric SUV club with new GV90
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TILens turns technical updates into a focused daily brief: official releases, trusted reporting, and practitioner analysis, deduplicated and organized by topic.
Ransomware crook poses as recovery firm to steal payments from fellow extortionists
Because apparently even ransomware gangs can't trust the people they do business with
SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste
The yeetcycling math resembles asteroid mining in reverse.
NetBSD 11 lands with RISC-V support and lightning-fast VM boots
Venerable Unix-like remains reassuringly old-school, if you're willing to put in the work
Apollo Atomics wants to make nuclear power cheaper by shrinking an overlooked part
Y Combinator alumnus Apollo Atomics is shrinking a key nuclear reactor part, which promises to slash the cost of electricity below natural gas.
Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces
People-search tool ClarityCheck left database containing more than 9M image files exposed.
£37M SAP overhaul could extend Capgemini's run with UK tax collector to 28 years
UK tax collector insists latest deal followed fair and competitive procurement
AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack
The data search and AI giant confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said it was investigating the breach.
Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.
Grok chat duped into swallowing injected instructions
A spoonful of encryption helps the malware go down
For a16z, AI gives foreign founders an advantage
a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. 'Having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley," is an advantage, the firm believes.
US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI
Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States.
French tax authority says break-in exposed data of 600K, including some private messages
Stolen details range from contact information to household finances and withholding rates
Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps
Meta said its Muse Spark model is powering the dictation feature.
OpenAI glitch locks out vetted cyber researchers – and some can't get back in
Affected users say support cannot restore their previous approval or override the new decision
Lear Data Structures and Algorithms Visually
Learning Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) often feels like facing an challenging wall of complex jargon, syntax, and heavy mathematics. But don't worry because we just posted a course on the freeC
Microsoft probes reports of games taking exception to Windows 11's August update
Affected titles crash, freeze, or restart PCs while Redmond works out whether it is to blame
Software development and tech services in the cross-hairs as AI marches on
Analysts warn of disruption to long-established tech activity
No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue
LINK will attempt a rendezvous, but its failed reaction wheels rule out grabbing and boosting the observatory
Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users
Binance's Agent OS works with tools including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.
SparkyLinux 8.4 rekindles support for 32-bit PCs
Debian 13 derivative offers minimal x86 images and lets CDE ride again
AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice
Fortunately, the company had a policy of checking source code on GitHub first
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing
Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster
IBM says super-chill boxes that connect through 'cryogenic tunnels' will get quantum computers scaling
Absolute zero inside is much cooler than Intel inside
Microsoft ends one of the last ways to buy VMware without big bundles
Broadcom’s VCF-or-nothing licenses are coming to Azure
NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory
Without a rescue, NASA's Swift Observatory is expected to reenter the atmosphere later this year.
YouTube vs Netflix 🎬, Stripe declares Singularity 🤖, half-day vulnerabilities 👨💻
Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons
Hacker News discussion (14 points, 3 comments)
An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30
Hacker News discussion (7 points, 0 comments)
Bun 1.4
Hacker News discussion (34 points, 6 comments)
Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch
Hacker News discussion (14 points, 6 comments)
Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter
Hacker News discussion (52 points, 6 comments)
Every Model Cheats
Hacker News discussion (6 points, 0 comments)
CI jobs artifacts should not be difficult
Hacker News discussion (7 points, 2 comments)
I Spent Twenty Years Becoming Good at the Wrong Game
Hacker News discussion (33 points, 36 comments)
DiffusionGemma Technical Report
Hacker News discussion (35 points, 6 comments)
Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload
Hacker News discussion (122 points, 61 comments)
Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebases into Safe Rust
Hacker News discussion (27 points, 16 comments)
UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub
Hacker News discussion (40 points, 31 comments)
Do Chatbot LLMs Talk Too Much?
Hacker News discussion (3 points, 0 comments)
Why the Ocean Cleanup Hasn't Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis
Hacker News discussion (16 points, 5 comments)
Zellij 0.45.0: nested sessions, Kitty graphics, a fresh UI
Hacker News discussion (8 points, 0 comments)
Browser De-Slop
Hacker News discussion (43 points, 35 comments)
Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device
I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15). The idea is basically GitHub Copilot or Tabnine, except instead of prompting it with code, you…
AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it
Hacker News discussion (28 points, 34 comments)
Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery
Hacker News discussion (34 points, 16 comments)
Risk Engineering
Hacker News discussion (41 points, 7 comments)
AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
Hacker News discussion (360 points, 118 comments)
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Don't paste the AI, please
Hacker News discussion (882 points, 454 comments)
Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)
Hacker News discussion (286 points, 105 comments)
Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
Hacker News discussion (11 points, 14 comments)
Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris?
Hacker News discussion (25 points, 4 comments)
Turns are Better than Radians (2022)
Hacker News discussion (289 points, 154 comments)