Mirage raises $75M to continue building models for its AI video-editing app Captions
Mirage, the maker of video-editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF).
TikTok ads are about to get a tad more disruptive
One new ad format displays another brand's logo alongside TikTok's on the launch page when users open the app.
China laptop vendor eats humble pie, apology says ‘production error’ was behind chip mix-up — full refunds offered to those affected by the fake Ryzen 5 7430U ‘scam’
Budget portable PCs specialist Chuwi has released an official apology to customers who received devices that didn’t match up to expected specifications.
Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines
Development houses: It's time to check your networks for infections.
LiteLLM Python package compromised by supply-chain attack
Article URL: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/24512 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501729 Points: 643 # Comments: 255
The Download: tracing AI-fueled delusions, and OpenAI admits Microsoft risks
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. The hardest question to answer about AI-fueled delusions What actually happens when people spiral into delusion with AI? To find out, Stanford researchers ana...
Get an entire RTX 5090 Alienware gaming PC for just 17% more than the GPU's standalone cost — 9800X3D beast with 32GB DDR5 and 1TB SSD drops below $4,450 at Dell, saving you a massive $1,200
This Alienware Area-51 gaming PC is one of the most powerful pre-built rigs you can buy. It's on sale with a $1,200 discount, fitted with an RTX 5090, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, all for only $4,449.99, with an RTX 5080 variant even cheaper.
Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers
Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink Citing national security fears, America is effectively banning any new consumer-grade network routers made abroad.…
The Morning After: WWDC 2026 is happening June 8th
It’s coming. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place from June 8-12. Going on past timings, CEO Tim Cook will take the stage for the keynote on June 8, most likely at 1 PM ET. WWDC is a software-focused affair, so expect to see the upcoming "27" operating systems, now that ...
Snapchat users sent 'nearly' 2 trillion snaps in 2025
Snapchat users are sending a staggering number of snaps to each other, according to newly released data from Snap. In 2025, Snapchat users created close to 2 trillion snaps, the company said in an update. That works out to about 5.5 billion distinct snaps per day and about 63,000 each second, ac...
Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment 2026 Guide [pdf]
Article URL: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-81r3.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501511 Points: 72 # Comments: 7
Agile Robots becomes the latest robotics company to partner with Google DeepMind
Agile Robots will incorporate Google DeepMind's robotics foundation models into its bots while collecting data for the AI research lab.
AWS Bahrain suffers major disruption due to the ongoing US-Iran conflict — drone activity blamed for service interruption
Amazon Web Services has confirmed that its Bahrain site has been disrupted due to the ongoing conflict. It's been said that drone activity is causing the service interruption, and that the company is requesting its clients to migrate their workloads to other regions.
Dutch Ministry of Finance discloses breach affecting employees
The Dutch Ministry of Finance confirmed on Monday that some of its systems were breached in a cyberattack detected last week. [...]
Gigabyte X870 Aorus Stealth Motherboard Review: The gothy Goldilocks of rear-connect AM5 motherboards
Gigabyte’s X870 Aorus Stealth flies under the radar to give us one of the best reasonably priced BTF boards for the AM5 platform
Mozilla introduces cq, describing it as 'Stack Overflow for agents'
A knowledge database where AI agents read, add and score the items – what could go wrong? Mozilla is building cq - described by staff engineer Peter Wilson as "Stack Overflow for agents" - as an open source project to enable AI agents to discover and share collective knowledge.…
Denon multi-room speakers have three new models starting at $399
Denon has upgraded its multiroom speaker system with three new models starting at $399. The ecosystem competes directly with Sonos by allowing up to 64 devices to be interconnected throughout your home … more…
Nintendo cuts Switch 2 production amid weakening console sales
Nintendo will produce fewer Switch 2 units than it previously projected in response to weakening demand for the console in the US, Bloomberg reports. Four million units of Nintendo's flagship device are expected to be made this quarter instead of the six million it had originally planned, accordi...
Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
Article URL: https://nanobrew.trilok.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501211 Points: 105 # Comments: 62
Russian initial access broker who fed ransomware crews gets 81 months in US prison
Aleksei Volkov sentenced after enabling attacks that cost victims millions A Russian national who sold the keys to corporate networks faces nearly seven years in a US prison after prosecutors tied his handiwork to a string of ransomware attacks costing victims millions of dollars.…