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Dutch fitness giant Basic-Fit announced that hackers breached its systems and gained access to information belonging to a million of its customers. [...]

A new investigation shows that hackers are still relying on old tricks to break into iPhones and Android devices. Here are the details. more…

One was patched almost 14 years ago Crooks are exploiting four Microsoft vulnerabilities - one patched 14 years ago and another tied to ransomware activity - according to America's lead cyber-defense agency, which on Monday gave federal agencies two weeks to patch them.…

In the 2024-2025 school year, only 78.5% of kindergartners had measles vaccination.

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/stanford-report-highlights-growing-disconnect-between-ai-insiders-and-everyone-else/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758028 Points: 131 # Comments: 150

This past Saturday at the Coachella music festival, Justin Bieber played the first of two headlining sets in a deal reportedly worth $10 million. It was his most significant solo performance in years. But Bieber spent some of his time on stage the way many of us do on Saturday nights: on YouTube....

Cellular modems are complex black boxes of legacy code, but Google is making them safer with Rust.

Uber employees can now hail a Lucid robotaxi as part of the testing.

Article URL: https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/04/13/the-tech-jobs-bust-is-real-dont-blame-ai-yet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757775 Points: 19 # Comments: 2

What, you think basic usability is improved just for your benefit, human? Cloudflare is rebuilding Wrangler’s command-line tooling by adding commands for products and interfaces that still lack CLI support. And yes, AI agents are a big reason why.…

Launched in 2022, Outlook Lite is a lightweight version of the regular Outlook app, designed for Android phones with limited storage and regions with slower internet connections. The app had already been scheduled for retirement.

NZXT will forgive up to $5,000 in debt for customers of the Flex program.

Microsoft just raised the prices across its line of Surface devices amid the global RAM shortage. Now, the 13-inch Surface Pro 11 and the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 7 cost $500 more than their original starting price, going from $999 to $1,499, as reported earlier by Windows Central. Last year, Mic...

The internet’s most jacked leftist shares the tech and daily rituals that fuel his marathon streams.

I have a proposal that addresses long-term memory problems for LLMs when new data arrives continuously (cheaply!). The program involves no code, but two Markdown files. For retrieval, there is a semantic filesystem that makes it easy for LLMs to search using shell commands. It is currently a scra...

Article URL: https://github.github.com/gh-stack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757495 Points: 277 # Comments: 179

Brief outage follows growing number of quality complaints Once the AI darling of programmers everywhere, Anthropic's Claude has been stumbling mightily, both in terms of cost and perceived quality. The service was down briefly on Monday with "a major outage," service trouble that only amplifies g...

Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goes to since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes.

Apple’s marketing efforts have been on a tear lately. While the MacBook Neo campaign has been getting most of the attention, a new spring campaign in Japan has been promoting the App Store with fun commissioned ads. Watch them below. more…

As ships return to the Strait of Hormuz, mines, sonar, and congestion continue to reshape the Gulf beneath the surface.