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Cisco Zero-Day Highlights API Endpoint Authentication Issues
Cisco Zero-Day Highlights API Endpoint Authentication Issues
Rob Wright,Senior News Director,Dark ReadingSeptember 18, 20264 Min ReadSource: saifulasmee chede via Getty ImagesCisco this week disclosed a slew of critical security vulnerabilities impacting its Id ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 18, 2026 (4 days, 7 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
CVE-2026-76460 CVE-2026-20223 CVE-2026-20129 -
Court Tells Imran Ahmed His First Amendment Claim May Be Real, Just Not Reviewable.
Well, this is unfortunate. Late last year, Marco Rubio’s State Department declared that it had banned five people from entering the US because of their speech. Most of them work, in one way or another, on fighting hate speech online, including Imran Ahmed, the head of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). As I’ve […] -
Daily Deal: MOGICS Power Bagel Travel Power Strip
The MOGICS Bagel has 5 international AC sockets, dual USB ports, 3ft integrated length-adjustable power cord, and an ergonomic AC plug. Unlike ordinary power strips, the bagel design makes it easier to charge multiple devices giving ample space for each plug. It has a LED power indicator that emits brilliant blue light when power is […] -
Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root
Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root
A security researcher has released working exploit code for four Linux kernel flaws that each let a local user gain root, the highest level of access on a machine. Kernel maintainers have fixed all fo ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 18, 2026 (4 days, 3 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
CVE-2026-81000 CVE-2026-80844 CVE-2026-74469 CVE-2026-68121 -
Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites
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The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth
submitted by alyaza to technology
34 points | 4 comments
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Research Shows ICE Raids Are Killing Local Economies
Contrary to the “worst of the worst” posturing presented by the Trump administration, it’s long been known that immigrants (both legal or otherwise) commit fewer crimes than natural-born US citizens: Our consistent finding is that legal immigrants have the lowest incarceration rates, followed by illegal immigrants, and that native-born Americans have the highest. Illegal immigrants […] -
Patch2vuln v1.0: Streamlining Vulnerability Advisory from Git Patch
Article URL: https://gcve.eu/2026/09/18/introducing-patch2vuln-v1.0-streamlining-vulnerability-advisory-creation-from-git-patches/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755804
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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What happened on Voat after Reddit banned major communities
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-63627-4
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755362
Points: 5
# Comments: 0
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Marvel's Wolverine motorcycle section and quicktime events are getting the wrong kind of attention because "the game plays itself" and "you don't have to press anything"
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Show HN: Rickub – The Smartest Git in the Universe
Article URL: https://rickub.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755312
Points: 24
# Comments: 20
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Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Flaw Enabling Unauthorized Privilege Escalation
Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Flaw Enabling Unauthorized Privilege Escalation
Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracke ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 18, 2026 (4 days, 6 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
CVE-2026-85878 CVE-2026-87701 CVE-2026-85889 CVE-2026-85885 CVE-2026-85921 CVE-2026-62721 -
Comcast NBC Universal Is Scared To Release The New Elon Musk Documentary
Have I mentioned lately that media consolidation is bad and people who care about an informed electorate and democratic integrity should fight to restore federal media consolidation limits illegally destroyed by the Trump administration and FCC boss Brendan Carr? Anyway, there’s a new Alex Gibney documentary coming out about Elon Musk that takes him to […] -
OpenAI close to solving Millennium Prize problem Hodge Conjecture
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wj05xi/openai_is_getting_close_to_solving_another
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49753020
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history
Article URL: https://tokenstead.ai/guides/zcode-silent-git-history-upload
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752422
Points: 262
# Comments: 14
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Git Internals – Plumbing and Porcelain
Article URL: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Porcelain
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751769
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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Decades of male-focused medical research could bias healthcare AI
submitted by sabreW4K3 to technology
71 points | 8 comments
https://theconversation.com/decades-of-male-focused-medical-research-could-bias-healthcare-ai-291193cross-posted from: lazysoci.al/post/54020222
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
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Everiot – A Reddit/4Chan hybrid. 0 age verification, 0 ads, ~0 users
Article URL: https://everiot.org/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750783
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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ZCode: Silently Uploading Your Git History to the Cloud
Article URL: https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750640
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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Verizon announces end of landline coverage pending FCC approval
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Buc-ee’s Extracts 850k Settlement From Born United For Parody Usage
If you thought we were done with the trademark bullying drama resulting from gas station and convenience store chain Buc-ee’s, you were wrong. While we’re still waiting for this corporation to take up John Oliver’s request to sue him for creating parody merchandize of the Buc-ee’s brand, the company has decided to do what bullies […] -
A DeepSeek engineer just said the thing I've been feeling about AI for months
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1wi2zm9/a_deepseek_engineer_just_said_the_thing_ive_been/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749680
Points: 8
# Comments: 0
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Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash
Hey HN, Henry from Cactus here.
We submitted Needle 2 here a few weeks ago, and the feedback in the discussion thread was incredibly valuable, thanks! Thanks to all that feedback, we’ve been able to move quickly to release Needle 3 and I'd love to hear what you think again.
The key features:
1) Automation (tool calls & structured JSON output): Needle still doesn't chat by design, its quite challenging to pack general capacity into such small models, so we focus on tool calls and structured JSON. If no tool you declared fits the request, you get an empty list back (note for when playing with the demo).
2) Intelligence Laddering: Every layer (2 to 20) is a deployable subnetwork, so one set of weights, 25 to 121 million parameters at 2-bit, shipping as 8-29MB binaries. On a Raspberry Pi 5 it decodes at up to 4k tokens/sec and prefills at up to 10k.
3) Monarch Hadamard MLP: replaces the dense FFN with three learnable Walsh-Hadamard-initialized Kronecker (Monarch) factor pairs interleaved with per-channel diagonal scales, fixed permutations, a SiLU nonlinearity, and a rank-8 input-conditioned gate, so each token gets a fully mixed nonlinear transform of its d_model channels at O(d√d) parameters and compute instead of the O(d²) a dense 4x-expansion MLP would cost.
4) Performance: On Mobile Actions (phone commands, scored on the exact call) the 20-layer model gets 86.0 through the shipped 2-bit binary; LFM2.5 1.2B is at 82.4, Qwen3.5 0.8B at 76.0, Apple's on-device model at 57.6, all at f16. More results on the link, we do not win everywhere ofc.
5) Multilingual: Needle 3 now supports English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Polish, with more languages coming.
6) Finetuning: You can achieve DeepSeek v4 Flash grade performance on a narrow task with just 4L, stress on "narrow task", we found that production users often prefer tuning before production.
7) Triggers: Grounding is a common challenge for tool call, at least for Needle 2, so we added support case-insensitive regular expressions matched against each request to gate false negatives.
8) Confidence: Every response also carries a calibrated confidence score, the minimum of a judgement on the finished call and its decode probability. Act above your threshold, show the call and ask below it, or escalate to a bigger model.
9) Supported Platforms: macOS, Linux on x86-64, ARM64, ARMv7, RISC-V and MIPS32, Windows x64 and ARM, Android, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, the browser as WebAssembly, and a WASI component.
Thanks for reading and as always, thoughts appreciated!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748553
Points: 236
# Comments: 93
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
submitted by Powderhorn to technology
70 points | 14 comments
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ai-slop-empireI’m not excited about how meandering that hed is, but it sets the mood for a very long piece.
In September 2024, an entrepreneur named Justin Brown uploaded a YouTube video in which he argued that writers should be “scared right now” about the rise of AI.
“I think that one of the big dangers is that AI is going to take many people’s jobs,” Brown muses to the camera as he hikes through a national park in Australia. “This includes writers, by the way.”
What Justin didn’t mention in the video is that, along with his brothers Lachlan Brown and Brendan Brown, he runs a company called Brown Brothers Media — which, former insiders assure us, had just months earlier fired a stunning proportion of its own writers as it embraced generative AI.
Over the past few years, BBM has pioneered a remarkably cynical business model. First it buys online publications that have established themselves as offering a distinctive type of journalism, like coverage of space travel, parenting advice, or business news. Then it floods their websites with dizzying torrents of AI-generated content — many thousands of articles per month, by our count — in a bid to soak up as many readers as possible via Google and other platforms.
There are signs that this strategy has been extraordinarily successful, with BBM boasting in 2025 that its network of sites had surpassed 50 million page views per month. It’s difficult to verify a site’s traffic without access to its internal data, but the analytics service Similarweb corroborates the claim that BBM is pulling in vast audiences, estimating that over the past year its network of publications has attracted an average of 64.7 million visitors per month. According to a recent ranking, that would make it one of the 30 most trafficked English-language media enterprises on the web, with a total digital readership substantially higher than that of NPR, narrowly besting CBS News and Forbes, and just slightly behind the Washington Post.
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Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear To Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
This story was originally published by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in significant ways when filing recent disclosures of his assets and liabilities, creating confusion about his net worth and holdings, a review by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. Among […] -
Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup
Article URL: https://snapdrop.me
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746346
Points: 112
# Comments: 52
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Fast Math/Slow Math
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/fast-math-slow-math/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745995
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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Trump Says California Can’t Stand Up To Big Telecom If It Wants Taxpayer Grants
As the federal U.S. government has given up on consumer protection and corporate oversight, states have filled the void with various degrees of success. That’s been particularly apparent in areas like telecom, where the corruption-fueled death of federal privacy and net neutrality protections have been replicated in a handful of states like California, which passed […] -
AWS says it can’t restore service to Bahrain, UAE facilities 6 months after Iran strikes
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Critical Check Point Management Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code as Root
Critical Check Point Management Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code as Root
A critical vulnerability in Check Point's Security Management and Log Servers could allow an attacker without login credentials to run code as root on those servers over the network. The Security Mana ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 17, 2026 (5 days, 1 hour ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
CVE-2026-91843 CVE-2026-85103 CVE-2026-18574 CVE-2026-62144 CVE-2026-16232 -
ICE Arrests Ramp Up, Which Only Continues To Prove Most Migrants Aren’t Criminals
Public furor is hard to maintain. It takes a concerted effort from people who have a lot to lose. Not only do they not have anything to gain (financially or otherwise) from engaging in protests, but they face the real possibility of arrests, job losses, beatings, or actual death. On the other hand, the Trump […] -
Daily Deal: The Ultimate Guitar Lessons Bundle
The Ultimate Guitar Lessons Bundle has 9 courses teaching you everything from reading tablature and basic fingering to more advanced skills. You can start at the very beginning and work your way through lessons on strumming, ear training, and jamming, to learning about Jazz, Blues, and Bluegrass techniques. It’s on sale for $30. Note: The […] -
ThreatsDay: Self-Rewriting Agents, 800+ Flaws Patched, Insider SIM Swaps and 22 More New Stories
ThreatsDay: Self-Rewriting Agents, 800+ Flaws Patched, Insider SIM Swaps and 22 More New Stories
Attackers keep finding new keys. The funny part is that defenders keep inventing where to store them.This week, those keys sit in AI tools, exposed services, old bugs, weak logins, and software sold l ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 17, 2026 (4 days, 23 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
CVE-2026-59310 CVE-2026-20316 CVE-2026-20079 -
We Regret to Inform You Chipotle Is Now Working With Palantir
submitted by themachinestops to technology
50 points | 3 comments
https://newrepublic.com/post/215501/chipotle-palantircross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/75634631
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Becoming a Benchmark
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/becoming-a-benchmark/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743604
Points: 5
# Comments: 0
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Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the-fields-medallists-letter/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743534
Points: 45
# Comments: 7
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Tariffs Work Great, Says Alabama Senator Who Quietly Asked Trump To Exempt Alabama’s Fireworks, Aluminum, And Airplanes
Being a GOP politician in the Trump era is defined by two things: publicly embarrassing yourself to show support for Trump’s most dangerous policy ideas, and lying to your constituents about what those ideas will do to them. It is an inherently pathetic situation. And yet not one of them seems capable of showing even […] -
How hard can it be to cache a Git checkout?
Article URL: https://twitter.com/useblacksmith/status/2100590354915291400
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742645
Points: 4
# Comments: 1
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I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9
Article URL: https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/reddit-ner
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740330
Points: 88
# Comments: 43
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Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others
I kept seeing engineers share what they were building with AI; however, I was always more curious about how they worked. Which agents did they use? What skills and tools had stuck or been thrown out the window? How did they manage longer-running tasks? So I built this with the hope we could have a dedicated space to share and be open about our setups.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740105
Points: 251
# Comments: 140
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Brendan Carr Cries, Calls Jimmy Kimmel Censorship A ‘Hoax’
Last week comedian Jimmy Kimmel said Jimmy Kimmel Live! and ABC wouldn’t be airing an interview with Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico on broadcast because they were worried it would anger Trump’s top censorship czar, FCC boss Brendan Carr. Kimmel and ABC had cause to worry; we’ve outlined in detail how Carr has manufactured […] -
Reinventing issue tracking: Local-first and Git-native
Article URL: https://blog.manganin.dev/blog/reinventing-issue-tracking/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738631
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Unicode 18.0.0 has been released
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unicode/comments/1wifz8m/unicode_1800_has_been_released/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738221
Points: 1
# Comments: 1
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Exclusive: Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years' worth of nuclear fuel
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Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
Article URL: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the-fields-medallists-letter/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738091
Points: 281
# Comments: 412
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SAIR Competition – Lean Kernel Challenge
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/sair-competition-lean-kernel-challenge/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49736693
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Scientists develop new method for deciphering ancient scrolls
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Nvidia goes green to keep grid capacity from zapping its revenues
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Snapchat open to putting time limits on teens, boss tells BBC
submitted by sabreW4K3 to technology
21 points | 3 comments
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr3wjz3edd10o