Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power
MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing
Computer maker Framework notifies ‘all customers’ of a data breach
Framework told "all" of its customers that hackers accessed their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses in a data breach.
Birdfy’s smart bird feeder is on sale for just $60
The Birdfy Feeder Rookie is a good option if you’re new to birdwatching or simply don’t want to spend a lot on a smart feeder, and several configurations are on sale. The standard model is down to $59.99 ($60 off) at Amazon, which is close to its lowest price. It includes seven days of access to ...
Apple seems to have abandoned Cinematic mode, and that’s a mistake
When Apple unveiled the iPhone 13 back in 2021, it made a huge deal over a headline new feature, Cinematic mode. This is the video equivalent of Portrait mode, allowing you to select a focus point and blur the background. Portrait mode has improved dramatically in successive generations, but the ...
Apple expands refurb store with rare M5 MacBook Pro configs, Apple TV 4K, more
Apple has added a host of new products to its official Certified Refurbished Store this week. New M5 MacBook Pro models, the Studio Display XDR, high-end M5 MacBook Air configurations, and more are available.
Today’s the last day to get up to $400 off your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket
Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing.
Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity
Amazon Web Services is telling engineers to slow down on EC2 usage as it struggles to meet CPU capacity demand for external customers.
Levi Strauss & Co. says hackers stole corporate data in cyberattack
Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) says that hackers used social engineering on three of its employees to gain access to and steal corporate data stored on their machines. [...]
Deals: Apple Watch Series 11 $172 off, Nike Watch bands, AirPods Pro 3, MacBook Neo discounts, more
Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is ready to usher in the end of the work week with ongoing and now even lower price on AirPods Pro 3 at 25% off, but we are also tracking the return of all AirPods Max 2 colors at $100 off. Those deals join Apple Watch Series 11 models up to $172 off, some rare discou...
Are USB flash drives becoming obsolete?
USB drives have outlasted a lot of other tech through the years. Is it time for the industry to move on?
An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes
Article URL: https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211921 Points: 130 # Comments: 35
Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms
The Trump administration has now convinced developers to abandon 12 offshore wind leases. The latest will cost taxpayers $1.2 billion.
Möbius-Strip Crosswords
Article URL: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211660 Points: 50 # Comments: 6
N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
Attackers turned admin access into a route downstream, while N-able tells N-central customers to patch – again
Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been
The mayor of New York City has assembled a crew of Silicon Valley and United States Digital Service veterans to overhaul city services with better software.
ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses
Cancer diagnostics breach spills personal and health info as extortion crew says healthcare giant ‘should’ve paid the ransom’
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
Article URL: https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211386 Points: 358 # Comments: 339
watchOS 27 could make Apple Watch’s important new health feature even better
Apple Watch added hypertension notifications last year, an important and potentially life-saving new feature. And per a recent report, it sounds like watchOS 27 might make them even better.
Samsung’s Z Fold 8 Ultra is more of the same, but better than ever
The Z Fold 8 Ultra retains the boxy shape of Samsung’s previous foldables. What makes the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra so Ultra? Samsung's first foldable with the Ultra name isn't a souped-up version of the regular Fold 8, as you might expect. Where the Z Fold 8 is squat and wide, the Fold 8 U...
Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism
Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.