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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/night-sky-darkness-city-regulation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898050 Points: 10 # Comments: 3

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260928-a-virtual-power-plant-hidden-in-vermont-homes-is-keeping-the-lights-on-during-storms Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897993 Points: 30 # Comments: 16

Without a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code."

Two former members of the United States Air Force were sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison for their roles in a multi-year series of business email compromise (BEC) scams and phishing campaigns. [...]

“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.

One of iOS 27's coolest security features didn't make headlines, but it could stop you from falling for a scam.

Two questions remain: who is abusing the CVEs? And why did Citrix take so long to disclose?

OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software companies.

Microsoft has started rolling out Windows 11 26H2 to everyone, and while it's this year's big annual feature update, you probably won't notice a massive difference after installing it. [...]

"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Palisade Research...

Apple has teamed up with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to launch a new guide to “help families create healthy digital habits.” The new guide follows Apple’s launch of a range of new child safety features in iOS 27. more…

Lawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional.

Jevstiller targets 98% agreement by learning familiar requests on your hardware while sending uncertain and audited queries upstream

Dutch police said the hacker, arrested for being part of the ShinyHunters cybercriminal gang, had plans to organize the murder of two people on his laptop.

Article URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896975 Points: 64 # Comments: 50

Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps and ongoing tasks.

Razer’s DeathStalker V2 Pro is discounted in both black and white. | Image: The Verge Woot has the Razer DeathStalker V2 Pro TKL on sale for $130, a significant discount from its usual $219.99 price point. This keyboard is built for competitive gaming, with a low latency 2.4GHz wireless connect...

Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.

I watched the excellent Veritasium video [1] on the Enigma machine, and watched the full animation by Jared Owen [2], but was still a bit confused on how the inner mechanics of an Enigma machine work. I used Astra to build out the inner components through a combination of reference images, writin...

Today alongside a big update to Final Cut Camera, Apple announced that it’s rolling out updated versions of Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Pixelmator Pro, and Freeform. Here’s what’s new. more…