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OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack

Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked anoth...

The Verge • Aug 25, 2026 • Robert Hart
Technology Aug 25, 2026

Spirit Airlines Wants to Sell Its Data to Google. Former Flight Attendants Are Freaked Out

“It never crossed my mind that they would be so bold as to sell our private data for AI,” says one former Spirit Air...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Android is getting its own weird dots to cure car sickness

Google is rolling out a new Android feature that's been proven to reduce, or even eliminate, motion sickness when using ...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

'Never seen this level of objection': Scotland pushes back against datacentres

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/25/never-seen-this-level-of-objection-scotland-pushes-back-ag...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

Article URL: https://dfarq.homeip.net/happy-20th-birthday-to-windows-95/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Omega Just Released a Mini Moonwatch

Say hello to a revamped collection of perfectly proportioned 38-mm Speedmasters.

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Rupert Lowe set to be paid as much for divisive posts on X as for being MP

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/24/rupert-lowe-restore-britain-earn-same-on-x-as-being-mp-el...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Show HN: Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown

It's a macOS menu bar app that reads the text of your focused window every few seconds through the Accessibility API. N...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Volcanoes that made history

Article URL: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2026/volcanoes-that-made-history Comments URL:...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US

There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already ...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents

Article URL: https://www.laude.org/updates/headlong-a-microharness-for-persistent-agents Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?

Looking for options that might work for a low power touchscreen for a calendar project. Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

India’s Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones

Airbound's ultra-lightweight approach to drone delivery has attracted backing from Greenoaks, DoorDash, and Silicon Vall...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

SiFive's First Server Platform

Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/sifives-first-server-platform Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model

Article URL: https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/press-releases/2026/august/thomson-reuters-leverages-its-world-class-dat...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/prepare.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428121 Points: 8 ...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Was Modern Art a CIA Psy-Op?

Article URL: https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

What languages are agent skills written in?

Article URL: https://plicara.ai/research/agent-skill-languages/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4942...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC

The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversi...

Technology Aug 24, 2026

Lenovo confirms Legion Go issues after gamers report bricked devices

When a company's software update turns your computer into a useless brick, should fixes be free? Framework, the modular ...

Technology Aug 24, 2026

Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/iran-is-using-foreign-criminals-to-attack-its-critics-ov...

Technology Aug 24, 2026

Oura is reportedly eyeing a September IPO that could value it at more than $16B

We all knew it was coming. The expected valuation may surprise, though.

Technology Aug 24, 2026

Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage

Article URL: https://github.com/murerkinn/bookshelf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49427001 Points:...

Technology Aug 24, 2026

Show HN: Flostep – Diagrams people can actually walkthrough

Article URL: https://flostep.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426877 Points: 7 # Comments: 2

Technology Aug 24, 2026

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426564 ...

Technology Aug 24, 2026

Moon

Article URL: https://ciechanow.ski/moon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426466 Points: 9 # Commen...

Technology Aug 24, 2026

AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds

Young employment in AI-impacted fields down 19% compared to more AI-resistant occupations. ...

Technology Aug 24, 2026

Data centers become "killer application" for new power transformer tech

Solid-state transformers could also benefit EV charging and someday households. ...

Technology Aug 24, 2026

Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO

The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price o...

Technology Aug 24, 2026

RFK Jr. may upend how vaccine recommendations are categorized

There are currently 3 categories. Without reason, RFK Jr. is considering changes. ...