Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game
Ukrainian drone pilots teach the US military and NATO hard battlefield lessons.
The best Spotify alternatives to ease your conscience
There are loads of options for getting new music into your ears if you're fed up with Spotify.
I finally found a robot lawnmower I’d trust with my yard
From left, Segway, Roborock, Dreame, Husqvarna, and Mammotion automowers lined up to do battle with my lawn. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Robot lawnmowers are finally good enough to take a lot of work out of maintaining a yard, but they’re still not set-it-and-forget-it machines...
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.
Hackers breach govt webmail while running parallel crypto fraud
The Jewelbug hacker group has been carrying out espionage operations targeting governments and militaries while also engaging in cryptocurrency fraud. [...]
Building a practical path to post-quantum cryptography
Quantum computing has alternated between breakthrough darling and overhyped promise in technology circles. Its powerful new capabilities come with a threat to break current cryptography, but for business leaders navigating the noise, the signal should be clear: post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is ...
Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say
Flock to lock out cops who stalk exes, but agencies can still hide abuse.
Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
Article URL: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultrafast-with-openai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289844 Points: 383 # Comments: 152
Matic Cues feature lets you just talk to your robot vacuum or point at a mess to clean
Matic has added voice and gesture control to its robot vacuum and mop through a software update called Matic Cues. After testing both features, the short and sweet of it is that voice control is really good. Just say, “Hey Matic, vacuum the kitchen,” and Matic gets to work. There is no phone to u...
You can now just point at a mess and this robot vacuum will suck it up
The Matic robot vacuum now offers gesture controlled spot cleaning and a built-in voice assistant. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Matic, my current favorite robot vacuum, just got a big upgrade. The company has launched Matic Cues, which brings voice and gesture control to the r...
How Compaction Works in Pi
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/compaction-in-pi/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289654 Points: 86 # Comments: 30
Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed
"I've lost trust ..."
Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out
Article URL: https://0.mk/blog/link-rot Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289532 Points: 114 # Comments: 80
Choose Boring Technology (2015)
Article URL: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289512 Points: 219 # Comments: 117
Microsoft patches LegacyHive Windows zero-day vulnerability
Microsoft has released security patches to address a Windows zero-day vulnerability known as "LegacyHive," disclosed after the July 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]
Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory
Article URL: https://donkeybas.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289465 Points: 173 # Comments: 72
Microsoft's nemesis drops new zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability — attack grants system-level privileges, but it could already be patched
Nightmare Eclipse drops ShieldBreak, another Windows zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability, but Microsoft has rushed quickly to block it with Defender
AI 'watermark removers' flood the web. Almost none can prove they work.
Multiple 'watermark removers' have surfaced days after Anthropic began watermarking text generated by Claude, including an open source project with over 4,500 GitHub stars and paid AI detection evasion services. None of the tools' claims about defeating the text watermark can be verified, as Anth...
The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop
Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.
Flock tries to make its cameras harder for cops to misuse
Flock tries to make its cameras harder for cops to misuse.