Technology

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 8/10 ?

LGBT Q&A: What’s One Thing I Can Do Today to Improve My Safety and Security Online as an LGBTQ+ Person?

This post is adapted from a video recorded by EFF and the Trevor Project. Head over to ourTikTokorInstagramto watch!EFF answers all the queer digital rights questions you submit to us through ourLGBT ...

2026-08-31

The Register 7/10 ?

Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens

Commodity malware steals authenticated sessions, letting thieves freeload on victims' paid usage

2026-08-31

Engadget 7/10 ?

How to add and remove cards from Apple Wallet

It's easy to add all your various cards and passes to Apple Wallet, and they don't have to stick around once you're done using them.

2026-08-31

Slashdot 7/10 ?

A 12TB Steam 'Teraleak' Spills More Than a Decade of Lost PC Gaming History

A massive 12TB archive of old Steam2 content has surfaced online, apparently containing nearly every version of games uploaded to Valve's servers between 2003 and 2013, including unreleased prototypes...

2026-08-31

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M

The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.

2026-08-31

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

Hi HN, I'm Kushagra, one of three founders of Almanac, a Hermes with a brain that knows everything about your company.We started our journey with setting up Hermes for our company, thinking it must be...

2026-08-31

Ars Technica 7/10 ?

Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government

Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.

2026-08-31

Hackaday 7/10 ?

USB-C Adapted for Legacy Sprinkler Systems

In the modern world USB has become a truly universal connector, with its inclusion on almost every major piece of consumer electronics. It has even expanded well beyond things that…read more

2026-08-31

The Verge 6/10 ?

Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distribution

Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution's "development, maintenance, [and] documentation." The new policy on AI acknowledges that "responsible...

2026-08-31

Engadget 7/10 ?

How to disable your digital wallet if you lose your phone

Digital wallets are secure, since even if you lose your phone, they're protected by your lock screen. But you can disable your wallet to be safe.

2026-08-31

Slashdot 7/10 ?

Berlin Is Being Blackmailed By Hackers

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Berlin is being blackmailed by hackers who were able to compromise city systems and steal data earlier this month, its mayor has said. Kai Wegner said...

2026-08-31

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking tools

AI is proving effective at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. Some say this will make it harder for governments to use hacking tools and spyware and could reignite calls to backdoor devices.

2026-08-31

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines

Hi HN, we’re Brandon and Kingston, the founders of Hebbian Robotics. We built HFlow (https://github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow), an SDK that turns multimodal recordings from robots and human operators...

2026-08-31

The Verge 6/10 ?

Sony’s WH-1000XM5 headphones are back down to their lowest price

Sony is one of many companies offering Labor Day discounts on tech products, though its week-long sale on the last-gen WH-1000XM5 is one of the most attractive deals I found upon logging in this morni...

2026-08-31

Engadget 7/10 ?

Honor Robot Phone hands-on: A gimbal phone experiment with promising results

News Mobile Smartphones Honor Robot Phone hands-on: A gimbal phone experiment with promising results It makes sense, but it also shouldn’t work. By Mat Smith Aug. 31, 2026 11:00 am EST Mat Smith for E...

2026-08-31

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout

Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI infrastructure as Big Tech begins to build its own AI chips.

2026-08-31

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Agentic Trust Controls

Article URL:https://trustcontrols.ai/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510612Points: 5# Comments: 0

2026-08-31

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Show HN: 2x-4x cheaper GLM 5.3 for coding and research

Inference for Kimi and GLM. Built for research and coding agents that plan, call tools for hours, and reason over large contexts.Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510600Points: 3# Co...

2026-08-31

Engadget 7/10 ?

ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox to face the EU's strictest platform rules

Big Tech ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox to face the EU's strictest platform rules The three platforms will get four months to comply with tighter regulations under the Digital Services Act. By Jackson Che...

2026-08-31

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP

Article URL:https://iggy.apache.org/blogs/2026/08/24/apache-iggy-top-level-project-tlp-graduation/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510540Points: 17# Comments: 4

2026-08-31