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Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.

Users can now create fully licensed tracks, voiceover, and sound effects on Adobe’s Firefly AI assistant. Here are the details.

A spoonful of encryption helps the malware go down

a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. "Having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley" is an advantage, the firm believes.

Article URL: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2026-August/003741.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373932 Points: 76 # Comments: 27

Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States.

Stolen details range from contact information to household finances and withholding rates

Roblox claimed to have made changes to its hugely popular children’s app to protect them from predators, but a regulatory authority says these protections are inadequate. It found four major failings, including adults being able to send connection requests to children without parental approval …

Citrix has warned customers to immediately secure their systems against two vulnerabilities affecting NetScaler Gateway secure remote access solutions and NetScaler ADC networking appliances. [...]

The company said that the dictation feature works across all apps, just like other tools such as Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue.

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. Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis Sometime in the late 2000s, six-year-old Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car in Tha...

I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15). The idea is basically GitHub Copilot or Tabnine, except instead of prompting it with code, you prompt it by playing a few notes on a MIDI piano. The model then continues what y...

Australia's safety regulator found Roblox still allows adults to contact children after years of pledging to stop it.

Seasonic has introduced the world's first 80 Plus Ruby certified 115V ATX PSU, the Prime RX-1600. The new unit features an efficiency rating of up to 95% at 20% to 50% load.

LG has an unveiled a new OLED manufacturing breakthrough that will allow brighter, sharper and longer-lasting panels of nearly any size.

Newegg's AM5 combo bundles 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Gigabyte X870E board for only $1,009.99. $249 savings puts the RAM at only $241

Affected users say support cannot restore their previous approval or override the new decision

We review the current state of high-performance supercomputing, interviewing experts, including the deputy head of high-performance computing at GWDG, to find out exactly where the current race stands.

During the height of Trump’s trade war with China, where tariff increases were announced on an almost weekly basis, companies like Logitech responded by significantly increasing the prices of their products in the US. Earlier this year, the US Supreme Court ruled that these tariffs were illegal a...

My two cats live a refreshingly low-tech lifestyle. They've never experienced a robot litter box, an automated feeder, or a GPS tracker. Noodle and Loaf live blissfully unaware of the technological trappings that surround the rest of my life. Except, that is, for the glowing neon sign that turns...