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FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it

Article URL: https://808bits.com/articles/fips-140-3-not-a-security-guarantee/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176634 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

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Technology Aug 4, 2026

Don’t screw this up, Marvel

In less than a week, Spider-Man: Brand New Day raked in $1 billion worldwide and had the biggest box office opening week...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

Article URL: https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/ Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving in...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust

I wrote libcorrect in C in 2016 and wanted to revisit it in Rust. Instead of doing just a direct conversion, I went dow...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX’s first earnings call

Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's ...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/center-div/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176055 Points: 8...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Lucid’s turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis

Lucid's new CEO Silvio Napoli listed four must-win priorities, including the successful launch of its midsize EV, finish...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

How to get the best hotel deals for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

We’ve partnered with hotels around Moscone West during Disrupt, taking place October 13 to 15, to secure the be...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)

Article URL: https://techascent.com/blog/just-ducking-around.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret

The Trump administration shared the details of its plan with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs on Tuesday. For now, t...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account

You can link more devices with one phone number on Signal now, including an Android phone or iPhone. Signal already supp...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as digital scams surge: INTERPOL

Article URL: https://www.africanews.com/2026/08/04/ai-fuels-more-than-half-of-cybercrime-in-africa-as-digital-scams-sur...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]

Article URL: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/663bd486c5e4c81588db7a1d/6a724858f7db25c81487016d_Security%20Incident%2...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction markets"

Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/wallets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175461 Points: 1...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Trump killed the Digital Equity Act, but US was forced to bring part of it back

$1.25 billion program restored, but judge ruled race provision unconstitutional. ...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-involving-openai-models/ Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished

Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

SpaceX has ramped up its purchases of Tesla Megapacks for its xAI data centers.

Technology Aug 4, 2026

AMD’s datacenter business is booming while gaming takes a backseat

Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings repo...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2084739205071343837 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491749...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

SpaceX has more neocloud revenue

SpaceX's AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion from the year before, mostly because of deals that the co...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth

SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand

Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections. ...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

Developers may not realize they are sharing their users' location data with advertisers, per new research.

Technology Aug 4, 2026

EA is now a private company

Electronic Arts has officially become a private company. Last September, EA announced that an investor group led by Saud...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795071/000179507126000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml Comments UR...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Waymo CEO explains why Tesla's camera-only self-driving falls short

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/08/04/waymo-co-ceo-camera-only-self-driving-tesla/ Comments URL: https://news.yco...