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Top 10 — News
- Russian hackers breached Polish power grid thanks to bad security, report says Critical infrastructure incidents still often trace back to basic security gaps—segmentation, access control, and monitoring.
- The Download: US immigration agencies’ AI videos, and inside the Vitalism movement 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.
- How far does $5,000 go when you want an electric car? You won't be going on road trips, but a very cheap electric runabout is possible.
- Jeffrey Epstein was permanently banned from Xbox Live Would it surprise you to learn Microsoft booted Jeffrey Epstein from its online gaming platform?
- OpenAI planning IPO for late 2026, fears Anthropic might go public first OpenAI is preparing for an IPO in the fourth quarter of 2026, the Wall Street Journal reports.
- 175K+ publicly-exposed Ollama AI instances discovered A large number of self-hosted Ollama endpoints are reportedly exposed to the public internet, raising the risk of data leakage and abuse.
- The $100B Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice Mega-scale AI infrastructure plans can move markets—but they also face financing, demand, and execution risk.
- Practical Security Guidance for Sandboxing Agentic Workflows and Managing Execution Risk Agentic workflows that browse the web and execute code expand the attack surface; this offers a concrete checklist for sandboxing and execution controls.
- Ode to Very Small Devices As fairies for the Irish or leeks for Welsh, it’s the secret lives of small hidden machines, their junctures, and networks that inspire me:…
- Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases
Article URL: https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/04/stonebraker-on-cap-theorem-and-databases/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com…
AI tools & model updates
- Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork Plugins push AI assistants from chat into real workflows—useful, but they raise the stakes on permissions and data handling.
- Anthropic’s Cowork gets plugins that turn Claude into a specialized assistant for knowledge workers Anthropic's new Cowork plugins turn Claude into a specialist for sales, legal, finance, and other departments by bundling skills, data conn…
- Establishing a Scalable Sparse Ecosystem with the Universal Sparse Tensor Sparse tensors are vectors, matrices, and higher-dimensional generalizations with many zeros.
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Critical infrastructure incidents still often trace back to basic security gaps—segmentation, access control, and monitoring.
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.
The hacker allegedly developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold them to several countries, including an unnamed central…
A detailed look at the economics and supply chain behind non-consensual deepfakes—where ‘bespoke’ requests are becoming a product.
You won't be going on road trips, but a very cheap electric runabout is possible.
"We think that’s a really important mission, and something that we can do."
If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn’t show it.
This isn't the first time in recent memory that OnlyFans has been in talks to sell off its business.
The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new shell — again.
Since the feature's launch in 2018, users haven't been able to remove themselves from someone else's Close Friends list.
The company is trying to take advantage of President Donald Trump's desire to return astronauts to the lunar surface by the end of his term.
To unpack what SpaceX’s IPO chatter means, how private liquidity works before a debut, and what investors are looking for in today’s pre-IP…
Self-driving truck startup Waabi’s billion-dollar fundraise isn’t just about trucks.
Some Valley CEOs have condemned recent border patrol events, but Hoffman urges them to wield their influence more powerfully.
Today is the last day to lock in a plus-one pass at 50% off to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, happening on October 13-15 in San Francisco.
Would it surprise you to learn Microsoft booted Jeffrey Epstein from its online gaming platform?
Peloton said on Friday that it's cutting around 11 percent of its staff, mostly impacting "engineers working on technology and enterprise-r…
The stock prices of some major video game companies, including Take-Two Interactive, Roblox, and Unity, had notable declines on Friday, jus…
Sonos isn’t exactly synonymous with the Super Bowl, although the brand discounts its gear every year around this time like clockwork.
Fitbit users who are holding out on moving their data over to a Google account now have until May 19th, 2026 to make the switch.
Yes, you read that right.
Where's the Trump phone?
In case you missed it, we recently overhauled our guides to the best budget robot vacuums and the best mopping vacs, both of which feature…
What responsibility do you have to speak up about bad things happening in the world?
The Trump administration has flooded Minneapolis and other parts of Minnesota with federal agents as part of its immigration crackdown, Ope…
OpenAI is preparing for an IPO in the fourth quarter of 2026, the Wall Street Journal reports.
OpenAI has developed an internal AI data agent that lets employees run complex data analyses using natural language.
Transparency reports are becoming a baseline trust signal as platforms scale and face more moderation and legal pressure.
A large number of self-hosted Ollama endpoints are reportedly exposed to the public internet, raising the risk of data leakage and abuse.
Mega-scale AI infrastructure plans can move markets—but they also face financing, demand, and execution risk.
Agentic workflows that browse the web and execute code expand the attack surface; this offers a concrete checklist for sandboxing and execution controls.
The Pentagon wants unrestricted access to AI technology.
As fairies for the Irish or leeks for Welsh, it’s the secret lives of small hidden machines, their junctures, and networks that inspire me:…
This article is part of our exclusive career advice series in partnership with the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society .
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.
Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary this month as the internet’s most reliable knowledge source.
A social network just for AI agents?
Low-level compiler and kernel tooling upgrades can translate into real performance gains for AI workloads—and lower the cost of writing fast GPU code.
Perplexity signs a $750 million deal with Microsoft for Azure cloud access, while its main cloud provider Amazon is suing the startup.
SpaceX is negotiating a merger with Elon Musk's AI company xAI ahead of a planned IPO, Reuters reports.
Article URL: https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/04/stonebraker-on-cap-theorem-and-databases/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com…
A hands-on test is a reality check on how far browser agents still are from being reliable for everyday tasks.
Private connectivity (PrivateLink) is a common enterprise requirement for adopting managed ML tooling without exposing traffic to the public internet.
Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/30/us-judge-rules-mangione-will-not-face-death-penalty-for-ceo-murder Comments URL: http…
Hi, I built TalkBits because most language apps focus on vocabulary or exercises, but not actual conversation.
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fNYj0EXxMs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830523 Points: 26 # Comments:…
Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/p-vs-np-and-the-difficulty-of-computation-a-ruliological-approach/ Comments URL: h…
https://github.com/omodaka9375/peerweb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829582 Points: 143 # Comments: 51
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/silver-gold-fall-price-usd-dollar-fed-warsh-chair-trump-metals.html Comments URL: https://news…
Article URL: https://antirender.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829147 Points: 683 # Comments: 164
Article URL: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5/blob/master/tech_report.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682659…
Hi HN — I’m exploring an idea and would love your feedback.
Article URL: https://www.lemonade.com/car/explained/self-driving-car-insurance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825828…
Article URL: https://jamieclarketype.com/case-study/wallace-and-gromit-font/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825415 Po…
WASM sandbox for running LLM-generated code safely.
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Article URL: https://http.cat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824422 Points: 191 # Comments: 32
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Full list — AI tools & model updates (3)
Plugins push AI assistants from chat into real workflows—useful, but they raise the stakes on permissions and data handling.
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Anthropic's new Cowork plugins turn Claude into a specialist for sales, legal, finance, and other departments by bundling skills, data conn…
Sparse tensors are vectors, matrices, and higher-dimensional generalizations with many zeros.