Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch
Article URL: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2026/08/19/hacking-with-claude-on-a-27-smart-watch.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374772 Points: 55 # Comments: 29
Dell XPS 13 (2026) review: the new bar for mainstream Windows laptop excellence
The return of the XPS 13 is a triumph of (somewhat) affordable premium portable computing. It’s no powerhouse in terms of performance, but it gets more than enough right to recommend for Windows users who have been looking over their shoulder at the MacBook Neo.
iPhone 18 won’t launch next month, here’s when it’s coming instead
Apple’s big September event is just weeks away, but there’s one key product that all reporting indicates will be missing: the base iPhone 18. Here’s when to expect its launch.
How MSPs can catch phishing attacks email filters miss
AI is making phishing attacks more personalized, convincing, and difficult for traditional email filters to detect. Kaseya explains how MSPs can monitor identity, email, and endpoint activity to detect and contain attacks that make it past the inbox. [...]
Here’s what data Comcast says its motion-detecting routers collect
Wi-Fi Motion is an opt-in service from Xfinity that turns your Gateway into a motion-sensing device. | Image: Comcast Comcast announced a new platform this week called Xfinity Shield that includes the option to let customers turn their routers into motion sensors. Many people reacted with fear ...
iOS 27 breaks 15 years of muscle memory on iPhone and iPad
Since iOS 5 in 2011, the iPhone and iPad have included Notification Center, a central place to find alerts from various apps in chronological order. Starting with iOS 27, Apple is making a major change to how users open Notification Center on iPhone and iPad. iOS 27 is currently in beta, and the ...
FromSoftware can do anything
There's something just a little bit different about FromSoftware's office in Tokyo. Like with any other successful video game studio, there's extensive security to get in the door, a minimalist lobby with framed posters from the studio's most recent releases, and a large glass display case filled...
SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste
The yeetcycling math resembles asteroid mining in reverse.
Every Model Cheats
Article URL: https://dreadnode.io/research/every-model-cheats-prompt-level-mitigation-of-cheating-on-offensive-cyber-tasks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374635 Points: 44 # Comments: 25
Catastrophic GTA VI leak is a full working build — notorious hacker CyberLeek taunts Rockstar Games by spraying the word 'leek' onto a wall in-game with bullets
Cyberleek has leaked another in-game footage of GTA VI, with some social media users claiming that it an actual build of the title. This is the second leak coming from the hacker, who claimed that they will release more until Rockstar issues 'a public statement and apology with a concrete commitm...
NetBSD 11 lands with RISC-V support and lightning-fast VM boots
Venerable Unix-like remains reassuringly old-school, if you're willing to put in the work
Apollo Atomics wants to make nuclear power cheaper by shrinking an overlooked part
Y Combinator alumnus Apollo Atomics is shrinking a key nuclear reactor part, which promises to slash the cost of electricity below natural gas.
Synopsys validates a PCIe 6.0 PHY inside a face-to-face 3D stack at 64 GT/s — says it got there by pulling apart an existing 2D test chip
Synopsys has published silicon results for what it calls the first 3D PCIe 6.0 test chip, a 5nm PHY built into a face-to-face stacked package.
Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces
People-search tool ClarityCheck left database containing more than 9M image files exposed.
£37M SAP overhaul could extend Capgemini's run with UK tax collector to 28 years
HMRC insists latest deal followed fair and competitive procurement
DiffusionGemma Technical Report
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00146 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374287 Points: 97 # Comments: 16
Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/supply-chain-attack-on... https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/issues/3161 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374269 Points: 260 # Comments: 205
Virginia county with 250 data centers begins to rein in building — Loudoun’s more than 250 data centers made it one of the richest counties in the US, but residents are pushing back
Loudoun County recently changed its zoning policy which treated data centers as office parks. These projects now have to go through an approval process from the people and the local government, a significant change after more than 25 years of easy approvals.
SK hynix will pay staff $50,000 apiece according to a tentative agreement with disgruntled workers — $1.79 billion potential profit pool will be split between cash and stock grants
SK hynix removes 10% operating profit cap for employee profit-sharing program; union agrees to get bonuses in cash and stock.
AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack
The data search and AI giant confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said it was investigating the breach.