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$1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack
8/24/2026, 11:29:00 AMThe Register
Hackers spent four days inside the org's cloud platforms after apparently talking their way in
AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows
8/24/2026, 10:57:00 AMThe Register
Vendors are moving way beyond Nvidia’s GPUs in the datacenter
Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia
8/24/2026, 10:17:00 AMThe Register
Once shunned by the IT crowd, pen-and-paper password vaults are getting the love they deserve in 2026
Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI
8/24/2026, 9:27:00 AMThe Register
Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine
Humanoid robots smash Usain Bolt’s 100-meter record
8/24/2026, 9:10:40 AMThe Verge - Tech
Tiangong Ultra (left) also broke the 400 meter world record during this year’s World Humanoid Robot Games. | Image: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
The 9.58-second 100-meter dash record set by Usain Bolt in 2009 has been outpaced by Chinese robots participating at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. In a preliminary heat on Saturday, Tiangong Ultra, made by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, ran the distance in 9.39 seconds, followed by the Honor-developed Lightning at 9.47 seconds.
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring
8/24/2026, 8:31:00 AMThe Register
Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight
8/24/2026, 7:11:04 AMThe Register
Chang'e 7 didn’t meet unspecified ‘launch requirements’
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory
8/24/2026, 6:31:00 AMThe Register
It survived testing and the boss signed off, so who was really to blame?
AI-driven upgrade of communications energy storage empowers a new energy ecosystem for multiple industries
8/24/2026, 12:00:00 AMThe Register
SPONSORED FEATURE: Embedding AI at communication sites to empower energy optimization, power grid stability control and low-carbon development
Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave
8/23/2026, 11:50:19 PMThe Register
Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing
Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?
8/23/2026, 8:01:36 PMTechCrunch
A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.
Uber faces fine of nearly $1B over automated driver suspensions
8/23/2026, 7:30:00 PMTechCrunch
The Dutch Data Protection Authority is fining Uber €825 million in the second largest penalty issued under Europe’s GDPR.
GTA VI: all the news on Rockstar’s next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series
8/23/2026, 7:14:37 PMThe Verge - Tech
It’s been over a decade and two console generations since GTA V came out, and its sequel is still a work in progress. GTA VI has faced multiple delays, with developer Rockstar Games bumping back its predicted release date twice, first to May 26th, 2026, then again to November 19th, 2026, a full year after its originally planned release window of fall 2025, and facing accusations of union busting after firing more than 30 employees. Now, preorders have opened for the digital code-only game, offering the $79.99 standard edition and $99.99 Ultimate Edition on both PS5 and Xbox Series X / S.
Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule
8/23/2026, 7:14:08 PMTechCrunch
Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.
TechCrunch Mobility: The custom chip driving Waymo’s robotaxi ambitions
8/23/2026, 4:03:00 PMTechCrunch
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash
8/23/2026, 3:30:00 PMTechCrunch
Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.
Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated
8/23/2026, 3:00:00 PMTechCrunch
Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an intimate coming-of-age horror film
8/23/2026, 3:00:00 PMThe Verge - Tech
Jane Schoenbrun's latest film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is making a splash in theaters right now. So it seems like the perfect time to revisit their first film, We're All Going to the World's Fair. I fell in love with this film when I first saw it at Sundance in 2021.
Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras
8/23/2026, 2:38:25 PMHacker News Frontpage
Article URL: https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-slovakia-finds-russian-backdoor-in-traffic-speed-cameras/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409200
Points: 21
# Comments: 2
Authoritarianism of Code
8/23/2026, 2:36:38 PMHacker News Frontpage
Article URL: https://zedshaw.com/blog/2020-10-07-authoritarianism-of-code/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409184
Points: 5
# Comments: 3
Due to need for 'absolute success,' China delays critical Moon launch to 2027
8/23/2026, 2:30:16 PMArs Technica
"The Chang’e 7 mission does not meet the conditions for launch."
What Is a Harness?
8/23/2026, 2:24:21 PMHacker News Frontpage
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/what-is-a-harness/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409092
Points: 27
# Comments: 15
Death to px, long live ch
8/23/2026, 1:56:27 PMHacker News Frontpage
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/death-to-px-long-live-ch/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408889
Points: 20
# Comments: 10
My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes
8/23/2026, 1:51:10 PMHacker News Frontpage
Article URL: https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-about-cults-scams-and-schemes
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408858
Points: 48
# Comments: 13
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings
8/23/2026, 1:45:00 PMThe Register
S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work