Innovation, AI & Digital Frontier
404 Media and The Intercept talk about how private companies empower government surveillance, and how AI is used in warfare.
Agentic exploits for the win (again)
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on indep...
Article URL:https://danluu.com/brain-off/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757178Points: 106# Comments: 63
This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start the episode off by discussing the latest CircuitPython developments before covering some impressive reverse engineering efforts, the ben...
As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney...
TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group says it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner circle.
This week, we discuss just doing it, machines that eat the internet, and an eavesdropping watch.
WaterPlum recruiters used bogus coding tests to backdoor jobseekers and raid more than 7,000 crypto wallets
Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.
Article URL:https://donjon.ledger.com/blog/rp2350-secure-debug-laser-fault-injection/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757050Points: 29# Comments: 7
We aren’t sure we subscribe to [Upside Down Labs] description that their Neuro PlayGround Lite (NPG Lite) actually constitutes brain control in the science fiction sense. However, the package can…read...
A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, the Wall Street Jou...
AI, fake uniforms, and mock offices help crooks sell the con
For the wealthy families who manage their own money through a family office, the math right now is simple, according to Djoann Fal, a family office advisor and investor at the private wealth platform ...
Article URL:https://brand.systemd.io/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756762Points: 18# Comments: 13
It's one of the most fascinating years in a while when it comes to iPhone camera upgrades. The big story of the iPhone 18 Pro is the variable aperture main lens, which lets you open the aperture up wi...
Article URL:https://crumbles.blog/posts/2026-09-17-immutable-mutable.htmlComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756548Points: 4# Comments: 2
The feds are said to be investigating the compromise of the tankers' networks, which in one case interfered with one of the tanker's navigation and propulsion systems.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Fr...