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The Best Dyson Vacuums (2026) to Buyβ€”and Some to Avoidhttps://www.wired.com/gallery/best-dyson-vacuums

Feeling the pull of a new clean machine? I'll help you make sense of Dyson’s whirlwind vacuum lineup.

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Arsenal to face Barca and Lyon in Women's Champions Leaguehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c05rnv2rq85o

Arsenal will face holders Barcelona and record winners Lyon in the Women's Champions League, while Chelsea will travel to Lyon and Man City will take on Bayern Munich.

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Trump asks SCOTUS to OK changes to mail-in ballots. And, diesel prices hit record highhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/g-s1-141972/up-first-newsletter-usps-mail-in-voting-irs-schools-christian-castro

Trump has asked the Supreme Court to lift the block on his plan for the USPS to restrict mail voting ahead of the midterm elections. And, diesel prices have reached a record high.

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Russell Howard 'devastated' after his baby son died hours after birthhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg491g7rnqqo

The comedian says his son Felix died earlier this year shortly after his wife Cerys had given birth.

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Chris Mason: 'This is not what Farage wanted today to look like'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c86xjeqn4qyo

Chris Mason speaks from the Reform UK conference as two of its senior officials step down following a Channel 4 investigation.

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Security Vulnerability in a Voting Systemhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/security-vulnerability-in-a-voting-system.html

It’s a vulnerability that allows someone to recover the order of ballots cast, newly exploited with AI tools. Nearly four years since the original vulnerability was disclosed, I was still able to use it to analyze voter behavior in Georgia (one of the 21 states that uses affected scanners) in the recent May 2026 primary. Notably, I never touched a voting machine, exploited a network, examined source code, or accessed anything non-public. After pointing a coding agent to the original vulnerability paper, I supplied it with two data sources highlighted in the paper: the early-voting list for…

The Best Automatic Litter Box of 2026: Petkit and Litter-Robothttps://www.wired.com/gallery/best-automatic-cat-litter-boxes

With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.

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Show HN: I got BPM detection from 42% to 85% on GiantSteps with TempoCNNhttps://www.audioforges.com/guides/bpm-detection-tempocnn

Article URL: https://www.audioforges.com/guides/bpm-detection-tempocnn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562958 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Former Olympic champion Jonny Brownlee retireshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cwyzqejdvgko

Jonny Brownlee, a former Olympic triathlon champion and six-time world champion, says "it's over for professional sport".

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The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.

How a Secret Orangutan Breeding Program Is Creating a Baby Boomhttps://www.wired.com/story/secret-orangutan-breeding-program-creating-baby-boom

The success of a program linking zoos across the US has created social media stars and generated a wave of interest in how to protect the endangered great apes in the wild.

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Why AI food looks like thathttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989376/ai-generated-food-why-does-it-look-like-that

There is a torrent of unappetizing slop coming from restaurants, cafes, and brands that are increasingly turning to AI to generate images promoting their food. The resulting horror show includes donut shrimp, Reubens from the deep, wormlike noodles, and noodle-like pastries and stringy chicken. There's also construction material masquerading as ice cream, ice cream masquerading […]

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UK will 'resolutely uphold' Falklands self-determination, Miliband sayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn45jg3zlz4o

The foreign secretary's comments come as Argentinian president Javier Milei says the "winds of change" favoured his country's claim on the British Overseas Territory.

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Show HN: Sponsee – The Sponsorship CRM for Streamershttps://sponsee.app

Article URL: https://sponsee.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562920 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Gasly loses Monaco podium after McLaren win appealhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/articles/c4gq26zglpzo

McLaren win their appeal against the result of the Monaco Grand Prix after a controversy over multiple incorrect pit-lane speeding penalties.

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Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a β€˜distraction-free Windows experience’ for developershttps://www.theverge.com/news/990051/microsoft-project-zenith-windows-developers

Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith. While the software maker originally announced a similar developer-optimized Windows effort at Build earlier this year, Project Zenith is designed for new developer-focused devices with 64GB or more of unified memory. "Project Zenith devices come with a preconfigured Windows setup for development and a […]

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Sam Altman apologizes for β€˜messy’ GPT-6 Astra rollout that’s locked out paying usershttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990060/altman-apologizes-messy-astra-rollout

Just hours after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, CEO Sam Altman was already apologizing for what he describes as a "messy rollout" after paying users expecting access to the new frontier model were left waiting. The company hailed the model as a "generational leap in capability" on Thursday and described it as the start of "the […]

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Show HN: A browser IDE that builds and deploys your project to a live URLhttps://cloudeide.com

Article URL: https://cloudeide.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562792 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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AI Coding Agents Are Installing Unknown/Untrusted Code on Corporate Networkshttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/ai-coding-agents-are-installing-unknown-untrusted-code-on-corporate-networks.html

We cannot forget that AI coding agents are not yet trustworthy : Researchers at a stealth startup in Israel scanned 6,214 live domains belonging to defense contractors, Fortune 500, and Big Tech companies. Of the 8,265 llms.txt and llms-full.txt files they found (many sites hosted both an llms.txt and an llms-full.txt file), 120 of them, each on a different site, pointed to one or more code packages or domain names that weren’t registered. To test what happens when an AI agent processes such files, the researchers registered a handful of the unclaimed names and hosted packages that caused a…

OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakouthttps://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-previously-undisclosed-ai-breakout-this-2026-09-04

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-previously-undisclosed-ai-breakout-this-2026-09-04/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562744 Points: 7 # Comments: 1

The 6 Best Monitors That Actually Work Well With Macshttps://www.wired.com/gallery/best-monitors-for-mac

Macs are fantastic computers, but you’ll need one of these great displays to complete your work-from-home setup.

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Measles Outbreaks Are Forcing Immunocompromised Kids to Make Impossible Choiceshttps://www.wired.com/story/measles-outbreaks-immunocompromised-kids-schools

With the risk of infection rising, parents and young adults are facing agonizing choices about being out in public as school starts back up.

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ICE Wants to Know Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Yearshttps://www.wired.com/story/ice-wants-to-know-who-bought-a-certain-green-beanie-from-rei-in-the-last-2-years

Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

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Show HN: viaSocket – AI-built workflows, and your apps as an MCP serverhttps://viasocket.com

Article URL: https://viasocket.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562701 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Woman sentenced after cousin killed in XL bully attackhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn45jvgk97xo

Kelcie Reed admitted being in control of a dangerous dog which killed 19-year-old Morgan Dorsett.

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Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challengehttps://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html

Article URL: https://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562657 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

Europe targeted by spiralling campaign of sabotage and Russia is the chief suspecthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y4g6meekro

Germany has blamed Russia for an attack on Leipzig airport but there has been a series of suspicious incidents elsewhere.

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It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta | Joan Donovanhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/mark-zuckerberg-resign-meta

The CEO is the throughline in a history of billion-dollar blunders that have caused real harm, culminating in last week’s settlement Last week, Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, agreed to a settlement of up to $18bn after dozens of US states accused it of harming children with addictive products. The settlement’s regulatory implications for social media will affect every user, far beyond teens. But if Meta is truly interested in prioritizing the safety of users, the board should request the resignation of Mark Zuckerberg and restructure to put safety above profit. Contin…

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AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loophttps://www.wired.com/story/ai-job-market-infinite-doom-loop

Job seekers are trying to game the application process using AI. It’s not working, and not for the reasons you might think.

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Scientists map key protein interactions linked with profound autismhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/nx-s1-5954823/profound-autism-proteins-genes-map-treatments

Research published in the journal Science illuminates a "missing piece" in the biological understanding of profound autism and offers new targets for drug development.

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Germany's far-right poised for power in state electionhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/nx-s1-5946404/germany-far-right-election

Germany's AfD's TikTok-fueled rise in Saxony-Anhalt is raising fears the country could see its first far-right governor since World War II.

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US diesel prices hit an all-time-highhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7903r0grx0o

Fuel prices have soared since the Iran conflict began at the end of February, mirroring the surge in wholesale oil prices.

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Israel takes its war on Palestine into the AI agehttps://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/9/4/israel-takes-its-war-on-palestine-into-the-ai-age

The Hanover affair exposes a new front in Israel’s long-running effort to shape how Palestinians are understood.

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This NAS company wants to run your local smart homehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/990006/this-nas-company-wants-to-run-your-local-smart-home

Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home - in a big way. This week at the IFA tech show, the company launched its HomeAgent smart home platform that combines security camera storage, on-device AI, and smart home control in one system, managed by a […]

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Thieves target mail order sales as PokΓ©mon card prices soarhttps://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/sep/04/thieves-target-mail-order-sales-as-pokemon-card-prices-soar

As one card recently sold for Β£12m, opportunistic thefts have surged – envelopes are being opened en route, costing small businesses thousands PokΓ©mon’s success over the last 30 years has seen it grow from a much-loved Game Boy classic, to a world-dominating brand with TV shows, spin-off games, toys and even a theme park. The trading card game is a huge part of that, with more than 85bn cards printed over its lifetime, and the appetite for them shows no signs of slowing down. Packs get snapped up after release so quickly it’s now almost impossible to find them in shops , and a booming…

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73 goals from dropping deep - we ask Kane to break down how he did ithttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cx2z7rjn2p2o

Harry Kane was the highest goalscorer in Europe last season, yet he plays like a midfielder. We ask him to break down his game.

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What the Heck? Another Perfect Geometric Shape Has Been Detected on Saturnhttps://www.wired.com/story/another-perfect-geometric-shape-detected-on-saturn

The discovery adds to the planet’s history of strange atmospheric phenomena that scientists don’t full understand.

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What are you doing this weekend?https://lobste.rs/s/ku30xf/what_are_you_doing_this_weekend

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

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Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplacehttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/04/1143452/drone-data-wild-west

Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…

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After renewed US-Iran strikes - how could the conflict end?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjql614glvo

Three experts give their BBC their thoughts on whether an imminent end to the conflict is likely.

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Show HN: Professional Security Testing Platformhttps://bugbounty-arsenal.net

Article URL: https://bugbounty-arsenal.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562246 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMshttps://github.com/gioblu/NPC-Forge/blob/main/docs/development.md

I love research and development, you may have heard of me because of PJON (Padded Jittering Operative Network). It is a network protocol I started developing in 2010, which was recently implemented in silicon by the ETH Zurich university thanks to the research of Pius Sieber. I am excited to share with you TERMy, a terminal assistant built on top of the NPC-Forge framework. Unlike everything else being built today, TERMy does not use embeddings, machine-learning or LLMs. It runs on the CPU (even on a Raspberry Pi Zero) both in the terminal or client-side in a browser tab and responds in milli…

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Why England wing Caluori played on with detached wrist ligamenthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c750d3z07p6o

Wing sensation Noah Caluori says he played through the pain of a torn wrist ligament during his break-out season for Saracens and England

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The best hair dryers for smooth, speedy styling at home – whatever your hair typehttps://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2025/aug/26/best-hairdryers-uk

Want every day to be a good hair day? We tested 22 hair dryers to find the best, from gentle diffusers to high-speed and travel-ready models β€’ The best hot brushes, tried and tested by our expert In my years of reviewing beauty tech, it was upgrading my hair dryer that made the biggest difference to my routine. I used to dread hair-wash days: the chore of shampooing, conditioning and rinsing my hair, plus the time – and aching arms – spent getting it dry again. My clunky, bargain-bucket hair dryer of seven years was weighty, deafeningly loud, and took a painstaking 20 minutes to dry my…

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Silicon Valley Is Having a β€˜Hot Girl Renaissance’https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-is-having-a-hot-girl-renaissance

A San Francisco β€œHot List” is trying to buck stereotypes about dating in tech circles amid wider debates about the value of being perceived as attractive.

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Who owns the beach? A heated battle plays out in the Florida Panhandlehttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/nx-s1-5935575/beach-access-battle-florida-panhandle

After years of fighting over who gets to use the beach, and where, in Walton County, Florida, public-use advocates are calling for a state constitutional amendment to finally settle the matter.

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Dry eyes are common in women. Here's why you shouldn't ignore themhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/nx-s1-5954560/dry-eyes-women-menopause-perimenopause

Research suggests around half of all women in the menopausal transition years experience symptoms, like red, watery or gritty-feeling eyes. Hormonal shifts play a role, as do a lot of other factors.

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Federal civil rights data about students is finally out. It's different under Trumphttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/nx-s1-5955681/civil-rights-data-schools-trump

The Education Department gathers a massive tranche of civil rights data about public school students. It's now available but harder to parse than in the past.

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Show HN: Send secrets a server can't decrypt, even if compelled tohttps://serial.sumitdwivedi.com

Article URL: https://serial.sumitdwivedi.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562195 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: Prices.eu.orghttps://prices.eu.org

When Ox-alpha was free I had it build this EU price index/tracker (the build took 40+ hours). Gemini deep research found the sources. Currently it tracks: - Fuel - Electricity - Currency - Housing - Groceries - Wages - Purchasing power Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562157 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

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Over 440,000 Exploit Attempts Target Super Forms and Elementor Pro RCE Flawshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/09/over-440000-exploit-attempts-target.html

Threat actors are exploiting two critical security flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro, according to findings from Wordfence. The vulnerabilities in question are - CVE-2026-14894 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A missing file type validation vulnerability in Super Forms – Drag & Drop Form Builder that allows unauthenticated attackers to upload files of any type, including

Show HN: Videm – An AI image generator with 3 free daily imageshttps://videm.ai

Article URL: https://videm.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562099 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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The Raspberry Pi Interactive Timeline Β· 2006–2026https://raspberry.tips/en/raspberrypi-infos/raspberry-pi-history-timeline

Article URL: https://raspberry.tips/en/raspberrypi-infos/raspberry-pi-history-timeline Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562062 Points: 10 # Comments: 1

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'Layer upon layer of miracles': How Nepal flood survivors were rescued from tunnelhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dwjv96qyqo

From searching for a buried tunnel entrance to blowing up rocks the size of cars, rescuers had to surmount multiple challenges to reach survivors.

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Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 gridshttps://carbonawarepricing.com

Article URL: https://carbonawarepricing.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561975 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

How 'unique' Bellingham is thriving in Mourinho's systemhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c86xj375x2yo

Jude Bellingham looks fit and ready to build on his World Cup form as he aims to rediscover his best at Real Madrid under Jose Mourinho.

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Show HN: Aurict – An open-source Terminal AIhttps://github.com/aurict/aurict

Article URL: https://github.com/aurict/aurict Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561903 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Work set to begin in Trump's plan for triumphal archhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/nx-s1-5956892/work-set-to-begin-in-trumps-plan-for-triumphal-arch

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with New York Times reporter Emily Badger about the Trump administration's plans to move forward with construction of a triumphal arch.

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IRS targets private schools that help racial minority studentshttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/nx-s1-5955666/irs-targets-private-schools-that-help-racial-minority-students

The Trump administration has said it will end the tax-exempt status for universities with programs that help racial minority students.

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Show HN: Fulcrumaxe – an agent team that merged 1,135 PRs into its own repohttps://fulcrumaxe.dev

Article URL: https://fulcrumaxe.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561764 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Snooze Tabs in Plain Englishhttps://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/anysnooze-snooze-tabs-tab/mebjcmajkcccdjbonefhlbkledilfnjj

Chrome extension: close a tab now, get it back when you asked β€” "tomorrow 3pm", "every monday 9am". Free, no account, everything stays local. We spent this summer fixing every way a tab could fail to come back. Happy to answer questions, especially about MV3 service-worker pitfalls. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561760 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

The price of diesel hits a record highhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/nx-s1-5948016/diesel-price-record-high

The price of diesel has reached an all-time high, a result of the war in Iran and Ukraine's attacks on Russian refineries. That will matter across the supply chain.

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The phrase that ruins every eCommerce project: "Just connect it to our ERP."https://shiftmag.dev/the-phrase-that-ruins-every-ecommerce-project-just-connect-it-to-our-erp-11689

Article URL: https://shiftmag.dev/the-phrase-that-ruins-every-ecommerce-project-just-connect-it-to-our-erp-11689/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561670 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

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Plex Urges Immediate Updates After Patching Multiple Undisclosed Security Flawshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/09/plex-urges-immediate-updates-after.html

Plex is urging users to update their instances to the latest version following the release of an update that patches multiple security flaws. The fixes are available in Plex Media Server 1.43.3 and Plex Desktop 1.115.0. The streaming media service did not elaborate on what those issues are, but said CVE identifiers have been requested for them. "We recommend all server owners and Desktop users

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