The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water systems across the United States.
Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. The disc-to-digital feature, which The Verge exclusively revealed last month, is part of work that Microsoft is doing for game preservation and in preparation for the next generation of Xbox consoles. "Most Xbox One and […]
Meta settles $16.68bn lawsuit over child addiction claims, agreeing to major changes in Facebook and Instagram features.
Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.
My project helps merchants, consumers, and ai agents. We are at the point ai agents will be buying things for consumers. My product verifies the merchant, highlights the store to agents, brings stores and their products into one registery and gives the ai agent speed by calling my registry instead of the agent going searching each merchant one at a time. I have a function "can_buy()" that does a few things. It gives agents an understanding of what they can and can't do. It helps them know if a merchant allows ai agents to buy without a human involved, it lets the agent know my product prove t…
"I have no time schedule," Trump says when asked when he expects Iran to return to the negotiating table.
This website counts titles containing the standalone word "AI", case-sensitive and word-bounded. "OpenAI" doesn't count. "AI-powered" does. There's a toggle for a wider vocabulary: artificial intelligence spelled out, LLM, GPT, and model and vendor names. Some quick stats: - 14.4% of new HN titles this year, against 10.9% in 2025. On the wider vocabulary, 21.9% and 16.1%. - First month above 1% was Oct 2016. Above 5%, Feb 2023. Above 10%, May 2025. - Over the last five years the quietest month was Jan 2022 at 0.8%. The peak was Feb 2026 at 15.9%. - 13.6% on weekdays against 12.4% at weekends.…
Dr Julian Morris Morris said he had "reason to suspect that Professor Arday died an unnatural death".
"We're living in this world of scarcity with the Moon."
The eight-day visit will see the royal pair travel to Antigua before King Charles travels to the Bahamas and Guyana.
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Investigators say the fires started accidentally in fields where farming machinery was being used.
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In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement.
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The special-edition translucent green Xbox finally has an official price. Preorders for the console start August 27th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT. It will launch on November 13th, alongside a matching controller with the same "OG Green" colorway from the original translucent green Xbox. Microsoft is also including a full-game download of Halo: Combat […]
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A police officer has been arrested after the bodies of four missing people were found on Jeju Island in South Korea.
FromSoftware is hoping to make a splash on the Switch 2 later this year when it launches The Duskbloods, a gothic competitive multiplayer game that's unlike anything the studio has made before. But before that, Switch 2 owners have a chance to experience the studio's biggest hit for the first time thanks to a port […]
SoundCloud will let you buy music directly from artists.
SoundCloud has launched a new beta feature that allows artists on the audio streaming platform to sell music directly from their profiles, instead of diverting fans to purchase from third-party services like Bandcamp and Beatport. The feature aims to give listeners a better way to support the musicians behind their favorite songs, because SoundCloud isn't […]
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Oura's getting sued. A recently filed class-action complaint against the smart ring maker alleges that the company has duped customers […]
Biology is coming to psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, even as reliable biomarkers remain rare.
A 10-year-old boy who makes kites says he is afraid to fly them after Israel threatened to treat kites as acts of war.
It is thought to be part of efforts to consolidate the former coup leader's control.
Over 100,000 people displaced last year alone, adding to the 1.3 million people already forced to flee from their homes.
Parton, who died at 80 on Tuesday, had charm, depth, beauty, wit and radiant goodness. She was also a songwriter whose work told the story not just of country music but of the country itself.
Aston Villa, Man City and Newcastle are closing in on Monaco's record for transfer income generated in a single window.
A nursery for critical infants — supposedly the safest place in Islamabad's PIMS hospital — turned into a deathtrap.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing toolkit called NovaCookies that's used as a proxy to redirect Microsoft 365 sign-ins, while capturing authenticated sessions in the process. In a report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication, Island characterized the $320/month service as a subscription-based phishing platform that
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The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowing about the harms the platforms could pose to young users.
The advert, which was released online last week before being pulled, prompted calls for a boycott of Callaway products.
Chelsea consider a move for Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez after making contact with the Argentina international's representatives.
The social media giant also agreed to make sweeping changes to Instagram and Facebook.
Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost it hundreds of billions of dollars. Under the terms of the settlement, Meta agreed to come up with an age assurance standard that is subject to independent […]
Uefa is set to drop its threat of boycotting Fifa competitions, having received assurances there will be no repeat of Gianni Infantino's plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors, BBC Sport has been told.
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.
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What triggered the catastrophic flood on the Nepal-Tibet border? Reuters
Meta headquarters in California.
Teja's death raises question India has not fully answered: why more than a decade after ban is hitting children routine?
The deal has been reached during a California federal court trial over claims brought by 29 states.
Washington escalated its campaign against the ICC last week by sanctioning its president and a senior trial lawyer.
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Bluesky's new 10-minute video support includes faster upload speeds, too.
OP here: this project was born out of the frustration/paranoia that AI providers are throttling their models when their server load is too high. So, I set out to model and study the problem mathematically to understand what was happening, what I found was quite surprising. The idea seems natural: as the data center demand increases momentarily through the day, throttling their models (either using a quantized version, reducing the context window or lowering the tier of the model to a smaller one) seems appealing as the model in principle uses less electricity. The problem is that this can cau…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the results of two red team assessments it conducted simultaneously against two critical infrastructure organizations, using what it described as similar tradecraft while recording sharply different defensive outcomes. Both organizations were fully compromised at the domain level, and in both, the red team also
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.
The site, called Stud or Dud, helps daters dig up dirt on potential paramours. It’s fueled by the same public data as PeopleFinders.com—and comes with many of the same concerns.
The Mission 1 ILS is a camera with great potential and a learning curve.
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I wanted to share fake-bpy-module, a collection of fake Blender Python API stubs designed to enable code auto-completion and type hinting in external IDEs like VSCode. I have been maintaining this open-source project for over 8 years, tracking Blender's active ecosystem from Blender version 2.78 to 5.2+. -- The Pain Point for Development in Blender Python -- Blender does not expose its Python API (bpy) as standard Python files outside of its built-in text editor. This makes add-on development in external IDEs tedious and prone to type errors. -- Solution & How it Works -- Instead of relying o…
Ring has a new way to protect your videos. It's developed an encryption method called TAKE, short for Throw Away the Key Encryption, that the Amazon-owned company says will protect your videos without traditional end-to-end encryption. TAKE limits when and why Amazon's cloud can access those videos, while still providing features like smart alerts for […]
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
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Created a daily & patterns mode for fun puzzles, will expand more in the future, it already has a lot of patterns, have fun if you like this kind of stuff. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448164 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Flash floods have swept through northern Nepal, killing at least eight people and washing away homes.
UEFA set to drop FIFA boycott threat, sources say Reuters
People on hold to HMRC for more than 30 minutes would get a tax credit under plans announced by Robert Jenrick.
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CCTV footage shows people fleeing seconds before a massive mudslide engulfs a crossing on the Nepal-China border.
This video has been edited by the BBC with white flashes, due to the distressing content.
PC; Nathan Grange, Léonard Lemaitre, Niels Tiercelin, IronEqual Race across impossible dystopian cityscapes in this exhilarating game of wall-runs, death-chancing leaps and split-second improvisation At first, Vholume seems like a quick rush through some smartly selected references. Has this breathless yet austere parkour game been designed or ingeniously curated? The urban gymnast moveset comes from Mirror’s Edge. Level names use terms like conapt, first coined by Philip K Dick. And the environments themselves are dystopian and surreal, Half-Life 2’s City 17 colliding with the blasted a…
I am a puzzle and music buff. This was vibecoded over a weekend a year ago. I just checked recently and it has blown up! If you have ever craved a sleek and new music puzzle game, here it is. It breaks down a song into different stems for you to guess a dn a clever signal processing thing to turn the vocals into humming - something I built Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447840 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
EXCLUSIVE German finance minister invites UniCredit's CEO to meeting, government sources say Reuters
The disaster is linked to climate change, with experts noting the region's vulnerability to extreme weather.
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The game developer says the unauthorised footage has caused "heartbreak" for those working on the title.
Thirty-six teams will learn their fate in a draw for the group phase, which will be followed by knockout rounds.
Flash floods devastate Nepal's Himalayas, washing away villages and infrastructure along the Bhotekoshi river.
Raheem Sterling has also been accused of possession of nitrous oxide and will appear in court on September 15.
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The late singer-songwriter's charity causes were as eclectic as her music, but she had a personal connection to each one.
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Kids issue If the desire to limit kids’ use of technology was once a subcurrent, it has become a raging flood. Countries around the world are banning children from…
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The New York Times has a long article ( alt link ) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI. Nanit and its rivals want to own 24/7 health tracking for the sub-four-foot set. And their already astonishing levels of baby data collection are just the beginning. Nanit recently raised $50 million from investors to expand its use of A.I. and use its camera to track speech and language development, motor skills and more, while extending its presence in children’s bedrooms into early adolescence.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister announced a temporary shipping corridor in the Strait of Hormuz.
A roughly 12-metre-long whale has been found dead on a beach in Tijuana, Mexico.
Rockstar Games has released its first official statement following days of sustained leaks of footage from Grand Theft Auto VI, calling the period "heartbreaking for our team." "It would be an understatement to say that having videos of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay leak in this way has been heartbreaking for our team, and this […]
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The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.
Quick Start makes things a lot easier.
