Arista patches VeloCloud Orchestrator zero-day exploited in attacks
Arista has patched a maximum-severity command injection vulnerability in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator deployments that is being actively exploited in attacks. [...]
Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API
Article URL: https://telnyx.com/release-notes/kimi-k3-telnyx-inference Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076505 Points: 39 # Comments: 14
Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
Article URL: https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarking-opus-5-on-slop-code-bench.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076391 Points: 17 # Comments: 4
Hard Road – A beautiful procedural post-apocalyptic game
Article URL: https://hardroad.xyz/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076382 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
X Money is launching in the US starting today
X Money, a core part of Elon Musk's mission to turn X into an "everything app," is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform offers a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments similar to Venmo, along with a metal Visa card users can emblazon with their X username. Other per...
Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks
AI seems to have a liberal bias
X Money begins limited US rollout
Only Premium and Premium X subscribers get the privilege of banking with Elon for now.
Our position on open-weights models
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076057 Points: 289 # Comments: 338
Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.
Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers
Starlink has a Texas factory but also makes routers in Vietnam.
Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering
American AI flag bearers get in line, at least on paper
Three customers sue Apple after fake wallet app wipes out their Bitcoin
Apple is once again being sued over a scam cryptocurrency app that allegedly slipped through App Store review and cost users nearly $2 million. Here are the details.
Razer’s analog Huntsman V3 Pro is over 20 percent off
The Razer Huntsman V3 Pro features doubleshot PBT keycaps. Gaming keyboards have evolved over the years to add RGB LEDs, extra knobs, and buttons with screens, but one feature has remained fairly consistent: the mechanical switch. That’s slowly changing, with brands introducing adjustable optic...
Microsoft lays out a buffet of Windows goodies for JavaScript Developers
Just don’t call the WinRT projection for Node.js a lock-in
Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive
Companies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble, Nadella says.
New Dysphoria DDoS botnet spreads to 200k devices worldwide
A botnet called Dysphoria has compromised around 200,000 devices across the world and is using them for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and traffic relay operations. [...]
New Firefighting Technologies Could Help Battle Blazes Like Those in France and Spain
Climate change is upping the odds of major wildfires, creating a need for new tools to combat them.
New Certighost PoC exploit lets attackers hijack Windows domains
A proof-of-concept exploit for "Certighost," a Windows Active Directory Certificate Services vulnerability, has been released that can allow authenticated attackers to potentially compromise a Windows domain. [...]
Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude
Researchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation
Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies
Kennedy has focused on nutrition but has neglected food safety, critics say.