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French CII's Mitra-15 in SIMH. Work in Progress

A developer is creating a preliminary simulator for the Mitra-15, a French 16-bit minicomputer from the early 1970s, within the SIMH emulation framework to preserve this historically important but now…

2026-08-27 · 14:27 UTC
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Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others

2026-08-27 · 14:27

The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and…

Tech

The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall

2026-08-27 · 14:27

Major tech companies have made massive compute commitments to fuel AI development, with trillions in spending…

Tech

AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

2026-08-27 · 14:27

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could…

Tech

Software engineering is about managing complexity

2026-08-27 · 14:23

Software engineering fundamentally differs from code writing—while AI excels at the latter, the former requires managing…

Science

Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago

2026-08-27 · 14:22

"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.

Crypto

Bitget Takes KCGI Beyond Crypto With 3M USDT Multi-Asset Trading Competition

2026-08-27 · 14:20

Bitget has launched the 2026 King’s Cup Global Invitational (KCGI), a trading competition that now goes beyond crypto.

Sports

Arsenal only likely exit for Alvarez as striker skips training

2026-08-27 · 14:18

Julian Alvarez has not attended Atletico Madrid training since being told privately that the club would not sell him to…

World

Board of Peace's Gaza envoy criticises Israeli strikes and Hamas actions

2026-08-27 · 14:17

Nickolay Mladenov warns that a collapse of last October's ceasefire would be "a point of no return" for the region.

Tech

Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore

2026-08-27 · 14:16

Restoredrill is an open-source tool that automatically tests PostgreSQL backups by restoring them to a temporary…

Crypto

Samson Mow Wants Hardware Wallets Renamed: What BTC Users Should Know

2026-08-27 · 14:16

Samson Mow, an entrepreneur and Bitcoin advocate, wants to rethink the phrase “hardware wallet,” and his argument…

Crypto

YZi Labs Backs TermMax to Advance On-Chain Bond Market Infrastructure

2026-08-27 · 14:13

Singapore, Singapore, 27th August 2026, Chainwire

Crypto

YZi Labs Backs TermMax to Advance On-Chain Bond Market Infrastructure

2026-08-27 · 14:13

Singapore, Singapore, August 27th, 2026, ChainwireTermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol built by Term Structure Labs,…

Sports

Leyton Orient criticise badge on new Wrexham kit

2026-08-27 · 14:12

Leyton Orient criticise Wrexham and their celebrity owners, Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac, for putting a badge on their new…

Tech

507 Mechanical Movements

2026-08-27 · 14:08

A website has made Henry T.

Tech

Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively with Agents

2026-08-27 · 14:05

A developer spent six months writing code exclusively through AI agents rather than by hand, starting in February after…

Tech

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

2026-08-27 · 14:01

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real…

Tech

Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

2026-08-27 · 14:00

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

Science

Octopuses released into Adriatic Sea to tackle invasive crabs

2026-08-27 · 14:00

Atlantic blue crabs have moved into the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas, where they are a problem both for ecosystems…

Science

How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

2026-08-27 · 13:57

AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.

Tech

AC2 Protocol: The missing security layer for AI agents

2026-08-27 · 13:55

AC2 Protocol is a security framework that sits between AI agents and sensitive operations, requiring hardware-bound user…

Tech

Harness Engineering

2026-08-27 · 13:54

Harness engineering is a practice of using deterministic tools, agent-based reviews, and periodic checks to ensure…

Crypto

Ripple Prime expands into US equity derivatives with Delta One business

2026-08-27 · 13:54

Institutional clients can access total return swaps across linked to US-listed equities, indexes and digital assets and…

Sports

How to watch Pidcock, Aldridge & Richards at Mountain Bike Worlds

2026-08-27 · 13:53

The 2026 Mountain Bike World Championships take place in Italy this week and BBC Sport will be showing Sunday's action…