India cybercrime agency warns financial firms on AI attacks
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Data center developers seeking to build dozens of sprawling AI campuses across Texas were already dealing with a suspension of approvals under Greg Abbott. Under Gina Hinojosa, they’re facing their…
Data center developers seeking to build dozens of sprawling AI campuses across Texas were already dealing with a suspension of approvals under Greg Abbott. Under Gina Hinojosa, they’re facing their worst-case scenario.
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Animal Spirits: Drowning Financially
On today's show we discuss reasons to be bearish, the joys of indexing in an AI boom, carnage in name-brand stocks, why the stock market is not down more, how the investing rules have changed, the buy the dip generation, Anthropic's insane growth, AI agents vs. the labor market, being middle class in NYC, the biggest risk to retirement assets and more. The post Animal Spirits: Drowning…
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Today is the day to join TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 in Boston's SoWa Power Station. Register now to join this founder-focused conference today.
Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth
Canva is cutting 22% of its staff as it faces its 'hardest year' yet.
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AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50364336 Points: 472 # Comments: 326
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time never gets old
Breath of the Wild changed everything. Two decades after The Legend of Zelda made the transformational shift to 3D, Breath of the Wild reinvigorated the franchise with an open-ended adventure that was built around player freedom and expression. Instead of following a set path, players could go wherever they wanted and tackle challenges in a variety of ways. That philosophy filtered down to…
AI on the Ballot
Data Centers were on the ballot, and they lost in a major way; what does it mean if American opposition to building is permanent?
Last year North Korean cyber-thieves stole $2bn-worth of cryptocurrency. This year’s haul is set to be much bigger. Detecting cyber-vulnerabilities could be a big opportunity for AI labs
Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
If you have a personal Google AI subscription, all your saved chat history in Gemini can be used for training and there is no way to opt out unless you turn off chat history or use temporary chat sessions. These chat transcripts may even be read by human reviewers. Although Google claims to disconnect them from your account when human-reviewed, they explicitly warn not to enter confidential…
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Elon Musk floats space data centers as Democratic sweep puts pressure on AI trade
Texas election result raises fears of data centre restrictions, while Musk and Palihapitiya draw attention to the space economy.
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Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smtdswd1h2w4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363378 Points: 184 # Comments: 93
Stocks UP pre-market after Democrats sweep Congress in repudiation of Trump
I say repudiation of Trump because the Republicans losing all of Texas is basically a big message being sent that folks are unhappy. Practically what does this mean for stocks? UP! I’m now long AI stocks after Octobers big shake out. Fear…
Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers
Article URL: https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/verification-is-not-knowledge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363019 Points: 150 # Comments: 92
Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
Article URL: https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/linux-nvidia-rtx-spark-laptop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50362905 Points: 366 # Comments: 184
India’s EloElo nabs $80M from NBCUniversal to bet on the country’s rising microdrama market
StoryTV has more than 33 million monthly active users according to Sensor Tower figures
Google responds to political backlash over removing search from schools that ban AI
After elected officials voiced outrage over Google turning off search at schools that ban AI, the company said search can be turned back on with AI Overviews.
Canva layoffs: design giant to cut or relocate more than 1,200 jobs in major restructure
Chief executive Melanie Perkins describes job cuts as ‘without doubt the hardest moment in our thirteen-year history’ in email to staff Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Canva is cutting or relocating more than 1,200 jobs, representing 22% of its global workforce, as part of a major restructure that includes laying off staff who helped build the Australian-founded…
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Graduates are managing AI - but are they learning much else?
Graduates are spending more time managing AI, but are they missing out on other work experience?
OpenAI Wants to Rebrand AI Data Centers, Use Them to 'Protect the Grid'
The ChatGPT maker says future facilities could ease pressure on power grids by cutting demand during emergencies.
CrowdStrike's new kill switch can stop rogue AI agents in their tracks, CEO says
"Enabling agents to work safely is a massive market opportunity for CrowdStrike," CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz told CNBC's Jim Cramer.
Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identity
Called FlashProve, the system would let anyone check that an AI response really came from the model it claims to be from.
California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws
State tries to obtain broadband funds despite rejecting Trump admin condition.
Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows
The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet engines.
The Internals of PostgreSQL
Article URL: https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358702 Points: 331 # Comments: 24
Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures seeks $490M for new funds amid AI-driven cybersecurity boom
Cybersecurity-focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.
AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
Nobel winner warns the tech could be near to triggering major incident such as power or banking shutdown One of the “godfathers of AI”, Geoffrey Hinton, has said it could turn out that humans would have been better off never developing the technology as he warned it could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next, such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems. The Nobel…
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Orbital Matter 3D-printed the first rigid beam in the vacuum of space
An in-space construction first could be an enabler for the space data centers of the future.