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DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/08/def-con-crowd-suspected-in-fake-hotspot-attack-on-delta-flight/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266560 Points:...

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Technology Aug 12, 2026

Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT

After a former lead writer claimed Saber "replaced me with ChatGPT," CEO Matthew Karch now claims, "Neither Saber nor Un...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York

Article URL: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9281-26 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight

FBI Atlanta confirms it's looking into the incident, no arrests made.

Technology Aug 11, 2026

US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-gamer-air-traffic-controllers-faa-recruitment-sean-duffy/ Comments URL:...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Xbox Elite 3 prototype pad leaks with tiny built-in screen

Did a prototype Microsoft gamepad fall off the back of a truck? We can't say, but a Redditor has legit-looking photos of...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Trump wants Big Pharma to split MMR vaccine; Big Pharma thinks it's idiotic

It took just hours for the leading pharma group to reject the recommendations. ...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

Article URL: https://tencent-hunyuan.github.io/Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/pg_clickhouse-whats-new-july-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni reportedly knew Phia was ‘cookie stuffing’ for months

Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is once again under fire for its alleged busine...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last

The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Suzanne: AI tool for designing and manufacturing physical products

Article URL: https://www.suzanne3d.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264755 Points: 7 # Comment...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

An FCC filing points to new Sonos headphones coming soon

It looks like we'll be getting a successor to the Sonos Ace headphones sometime this fall, which was hinted at by CEO To...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Russian drones found near vital European offshore gas site, get blown up

This follows many drone incursions into Romania and a failed attack in Germany. ...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01828 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264583 Points: 4 # C...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

AI Is Solving CTF Challenges in Minutes

Article URL: https://www.simulationslabs.com/blogs/AI_Is_Solving_CTF_Challenges_in_Minutes Comments URL: https://news.y...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers

Device-bound session credentials thwart an increasingly common form of account takeover. ...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

The 19th-Century Family Fortunes Funding Degrowth

Article URL: https://www.effort.news/p4ne Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264352 Points: 7 # Comme...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/openai-launches-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux/ Comments URL: https://new...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Wisconsin Tracks Man Across State Line with Flock Cameras to Arrest Him for Weed

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/wisconsin-cops-tracked-a-man-with-flock-cameras-to-arrest-him-for-weed-2000795424 Comm...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Meta can't stop states' $1.4 trillion lawsuit from going to trial

Judges tell Meta that Section 230 provides a defense, not immunity from lawsuits. ...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Is It Safe to Eat Lettuce Yet?

“That product is off the market, so I think there’s absolutely lower risk for cyclospora in terms of eating lettuce,...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Uber surprised robotics company Serve by selling its entire stake

The divesture comes comes as the two once-tight companies have started to diverge on the business side.

Technology Aug 11, 2026

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

Article URL: https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-ozempic-moment ...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Compression Is Prediction

Article URL: https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=492634...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users

But will Gemini's surge survive slowing model releases?

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/blueskys-active-user-base-is-shrinking-as-its-focus-expands-beyond-the-a...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users

For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people ...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

FBI says cybercriminals are hacking into victims’ online accounts to steal their intimate pictures

In a new alert, the FBI said cybercriminals are targeting adults and minors in an attempt to steal their personal and in...

Technology Aug 11, 2026

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 lightning and Nemo Switchyard

Article URL: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...