Lenin Moreno, 73, has also been permanently barred from holding any public office in the future.
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Rescue operations have resumed after a brief pause, but experts caution of danger from a newly formed lake.
I've been a professional web developer (mostly building API interfaces and other back-end stuff) for about 20 years. Nothing amazing, but enough to pay the bills. Lately business is slow and I've looked at ways to expand my skills. Penetration testing appeals to me, but I'm not sure where to start. Is there a good introductory path? I'm sure my question has been asked before, but it's my impression that the security landscape is constantly evolving and changing so I hesitate to rely on answers from even a couple years ago. Is that dumb? Do the basics stay relatively unchanged even as the more…
I designed SlideX, an open-source presentation tool built around MDX, with a local-first workflow and support for AI agents. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486406 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
The proposed constitution would give the president more power and reshape parliament and elections.
Article URL: https://github.com/Wholiver/metis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486374 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
US president says deal secures majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela.
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President Trump says his administration has entered a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that could give the U.S. access to vast amounts of the South American country's untapped oil reserves, at cost.
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Tuareg rebels have freed about 60 Malian soldiers in exchange for one of their own leaders, security sources said.
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Article URL: https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486172 Points: 58 # Comments: 12
The official announcement with the breakdown of votes is here , but option 5 has won. Comments
Millions across England and Wales received a wildfire alert on their phones earlier this month, but it partly backfired.
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We spoke to experts about how the breathing technique used by soldiers and influencers works.
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Two ships were seized within four days last week raising to at least 13 the number attacked since January.
From lattes to pastries, UK foodies are embracing the humble sweetcorn as more than a pizza topping.
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Leiolai runs inference across devices people already own instead of data centers. It saves water with inference and pays users for the computation their devices provide. The app is free to use on iPhone and Android, with no card required. Users can contribute compute, earn money, and level up their chip system to unlock more computation at no additional cost. leiolai-1 has an 11-million-token context window. Developers can use it through an OpenAI-compatible API starting at $0.01 per million input tokens and $0.02 per million output tokens. It supports continuous generation with no output lim…
Article URL: https://s-1.space/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485902 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Turbulent international affairs have brought the vote forward, but the campaign has focused more on Iceland's vital fishing industry.
Every week this pulls headlines from ~15 AI-industry RSS feeds, has Gemini research the actual stories behind them with live search, then generates one image plus a written rationale for the reaction. Source: https://github.com/skavanagh/Render Site: https://renderweekly.art Comments
Top envoy for the US-led Board of Peace says Gaza is at risk of being ‘gone for good’ without reconstruction.
Cooler and showery conditions will continue across the weekend and into Monday, bringing a record-breaking summer to a rather damp close as Matt Taylor explains.
This year's multiple heat waves have increased the numbers of fridges and freezers breaking down.
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US Justice Department clarifies that the US Senate and Federal Reserve were targets but were not successfully hacked.
Who is to blame for the summer drought, and can England future-proof its water supplies?
Families across the globe share how free books from Parton's Imagination Library helped their children.
A woman who rented out homes to two al-Qaeda members speaks publicly for the first time - to the BBC.
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The US president has sought to overturn his criminal conviction for falsifying business records, citing immunity.
Households and businesses have become used to tariffs impacting the cost of living for more than year now, so what will change now?
His removal order was triggered by two convictions from over 15 years ago, when he struggled with untreated PTSD. New York's governor said Park earned a "second chance through rehabilitation."
Iran's IRGC claims decisive control over the Strait of Hormuz as the US maintains its naval blockade.
The agreement would grant the US majority control of over 65 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan oil reserves, Trump said.
Several papers focus on the UK defence spending targets and Chancellor John Healey's plans to shelve his target.
Cambodia's claim of eradicating its scam compounds met with scepticism from Amnesty International and industry experts.
Article URL: https://tochemey.github.io/nodeakt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485541 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://www.vectorian.be/articles/2026-06-07/sumerian-king-list-paleoclimate-alignment-explorer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485532 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
Article URL: https://www.rascal.news/ppwr-lands-another-blow-to-an-already-precarious-tabletop-industry/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485504 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Thousands of migrants remain in the Spanish enclave, triggering anger among Ceuta residents.
The British singer and Irish rock band Fontaines DC both headlined the first night of Reading for 2026.
Article URL: https://azmirror.com/2026/08/28/9th-circuit-sides-with-states-in-kalshi-gambling-fight-potentially-reviving-arizonas-prosecution/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485452 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Some banter from the tiny show I'm at in rural upstate New York tonight (lightly condensed): "Stick around for the other bands, tip your bartender, destroy Flock cameras." Read the full story at The Verge.
Trump announces sweeping US grab for control of Venezuela's vast oil reserves Reuters
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Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.
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A Trump administration official says the controversial commentator overstayed his visit in the US and will be removed.
Article URL: https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485267 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
For the past few months, I've been building support for running the latest SPTM-based versions of iOS and macOS into qemu. The idea is to create a lightweight barebones environment for playing around with / debugging XNU and low-level Darwin internals, kind of like a tiny busybox Linux system except running Darwin, and using an emulated Apple Silicon CPU (custom instructions/ privilege levels and all). With darwin-vm, you can directly boot the system using just an iOS/ macOS kernel and minimal ramdisk; no gigantic 40GB macOS VM disk images or downloading 10GB+ IPSW files like you need to for…
I needed a couple of AOL Instant Messenger buddy icons for a project, and then that turned into a project and before you know it I was trying to scrape every single buddy icon off the internet. I have slightly over 500,000 of them live, browseable, and downloadable with a single click on my new totally non-commercial project site buddyiconarchive.com I think that I am perhaps 20% of the way to my goal of having a "complete" collection of all the buddy icons that ever appeared on the internet, a rough estimate based on the counts advertised by various period aggregators. I am looking to trade…
If your Wi-Fi signal is patchy at the far reaches of your house, this simple solution might be worth a try. Even better? It's completely free.
The Justice Department and Walmart confirmed the settlement without disclosing terms.
Protest draws crowds to Washington, DC amid Trump's threats of interference, voting restrictions in midterm elections.
After two goals and a swaggering display against Crystal Palace, Phil McNulty asks if this is Rayan Cherki's time to shine for Manchester City.
Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google's results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with […]
Are XREAL's smart glasses the way of the future for home entertainment?
Article URL: https://www.wewillfreeus.org/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485035 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
The unexpected interruption came hours before the president wrote a congratulatory post on Truth Social about the company’s most recent earnings report.
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Article URL: https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2026-08-26-ai-counterfeit-cosmetics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484925 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule.
Article URL: https://github.com/husker/a2acast Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484874 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Prediction markets, notably Kalshi, have exploded in popularity this year.
An Israeli drone strike killed three Palestinians in Jenin, the first such attack in the West Bank since February 2025.
The GTA VI extended-look trailer is full of clues, if you know where to look.
Some of the most dramatic footage from the deadly flash flooding is hidden from public view in China.
According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced in March as a codename for Microsoft's "next generation console" - phrasing that seemingly implied a singular device - will actually be a "family" of devices." "We've been hard at work on a great next generation and a great family of devices for Helix, […]
There are few things cooler to add to a gaming space than a retro arcade cabinet. But should you buy one or build one?
Article URL: https://adriselab.com/blog/what-is-an-ai-performance-marketer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484708 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
DRC's is the fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak ever recorded, with 5,794 confirmed cases and 2,786 deaths.
Article URL: https://github.com/yevhens-hue/claude-skills-starter-kit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484600 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Analysts say Canada may lose 100,000 jobs under the current tariffs and could go into recession if the USMCA pact ends.
Cancellations have accelerated.
Berlin's state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city's state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists' demands. The same statement disclosed that forensic work had found further data outflows in the portfolio of the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and Environment
Erling Haaland and Rayan Cherki both score twice as Manchester City cruise to a 4-1 win at Crystal Palace in the Premier League.
Before-and-after satellite images reveal the scale of destruction from Nepal’s catastrophic flash floods.
Indian Hindu leader Mohan Bhagwat is due to speak in New York as human rights groups protest his visit.
Scores of visitors have climbed Yr Wyddfa this summer, with some facing long waits at the top.
A 97-year-old woman, Guna Maya Bohara, survived the flash floods and was rescued using an excavator.
RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83.
Chevron to complete deal in Venezuela to migrate, expand oil projects, sources say Reuters
Residents near Middlesbrough have told the BBC of their concern after a spate of violent incidents in their area.
Ugh : A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. Local authorities have dubbed it the “Squidpocalypse of ’26.” That would be twenty tons of squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
Eight-year-old Nepal flood survivor reunited with mother after rescue
How Crystal Palace and Manchester City's players rated following their Premier League match.
