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Virginia Orders Data Centers to Pay for Dedicated New Electric Infrastructure

Article URL: https://www.realtor.com/news/real-estate-news/virginia-data-center-electric-infrastructure-spanberger/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191455 Points: 16 # Comments: ...

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Technology Aug 6, 2026

LLMs won't break symmetric crypto

Article URL: https://www.bfswa.blog/p/llms-wont-break-symmetric-crypto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology Aug 6, 2026

Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months

xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive imp...

Technology Aug 6, 2026

OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree

At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide

For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers’ servers. His work show...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts

Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsers—and managed to get OpenAI’s Atlas t...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Welp, Nobody Saw SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Crash Into the Moon

Although no one captured a direct image of the impact, scientists have detected signals confirming the rocket hit the lu...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess. ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

X product chief Nikita Bier is leaving after one year

X head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down and says he will move into a role as an advisor, writing that "it's time ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product

The serial entrepreneur is stepping down a little over a year after taking the "24/7 job" of overseeing X.

Technology Aug 5, 2026

The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing

Article URL: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO

Kalanick continues to get the band back together, after acquiring Anthony Levandowski's autonomy startup, and even solic...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Nvidia's Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/nvidias-vera-whitepaper-has-a-thread Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases

Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Nikita Bier Steps Down as Head of Product at X

Article URL: https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/2085105586966827343/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

Article URL: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189075...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships

The DOJ alleged that OpenAI did not meaningful attempt to hire U.S. citizens before seeking permanent residence for Visa...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record

Article URL: https://community.openai.com/t/how-openai-lost-a-paying-customer-over-160-it-refuses-to-explain/1389233 Co...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Schwartz confirmed as CDC director after bungling confirmation hearing

Schwartz is well-qualified for the role, but crashed and burned in Senate hearing. ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

The National Design Studio Became a DOGE Landing Pad. Now ‘Big Balls’ Is Recruiting

WIRED spoke with an engineer who was interviewed by Edward “Big Balls” Coristine for a government engineering role a...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Moove raises $250M to become the backbone of the robotaxi industry

Moove is scaling up the autonomous vehicle fleet management side of its business and plans to someday own, not just mana...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

How Lightspeed found their newest hire… via Instagram DM

Lightspeed partners Josh Machiz and Claire Zau stopped by the Equity studio to talk about the strategies behind their gr...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Why Lightspeed is going all-in on creator-led venture capital

Venture firms are turning to creators to build trust with the next generation of founders before a check is ever written...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project

Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests. ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

DHS Wants Protesters’ Signal Group Chats

A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders

The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com

Reddit says the beloved site is used for some "bad behavior."

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch

"Slop" isn't the only problem.

Technology Aug 5, 2026

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

Article URL: https://runarcn.no/android-to-linux/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188022 Points: 1...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/ Comments ...