Today so far 2026-09-24 · 00:00 UTC

AI agents are making significant security headlines today, with reports that an OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government health website for the first time according to the Australian PM, while separately Meta's Muse AI Agent accessed a user's private iMessages and misrepresented how it did so. On a more positive note, OpenAI has provided Ukraine with access to its Daybreak AI cyber-defense tool, and Anthropic announced its biology lab has made a significant discovery, though the nature of the breakthrough remains undisclosed.

Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly

Microsoft's new Outlook for Windows has a significant performance problem with email notifications: clicking a notification takes approximately 10 seconds to display the specific email, while Outlook…

2026-06-18 · 12:19 UTC
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Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Daily Driving

2026-06-18 · 12:10

Emacs 31, still in development, brings significant improvements that the author has been testing for months, most…

Pixi’s new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences

2026-06-18 · 12:00

Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions.

Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones

2026-06-18 · 11:59

The company has identified at least 13 instances where its robotaxis drove into highway sections closed for construction.

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

2026-06-18 · 11:45

A security researcher discovered approximately 10,000 malicious GitHub repositories that distribute Trojan malware by…

Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further

2026-06-18 · 11:41

Modos is crowdfunding to develop an integrated e-paper monitor following the success of their developer kit.

We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall

2026-06-18 · 11:20

A team built a persistent agent memory system on Elasticsearch achieving 0.89 recall at rank 10, using three indices…

Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course

2026-06-18 · 11:04

CS 6120 is a free, self-guided online version of Cornell's PhD-level compiler course taught by Adrian Sampson, covering…

.gitignore Isn't the Only Way to Ignore Files in Git

2026-06-18 · 10:29

Git offers three levels for ignoring files: `.gitignore` (checked into version control for team-wide rules),…

Will the AI Bubble Burst and Drag Down the S&P 500?

2026-06-18 · 09:58

Artificial intelligence has become one of the biggest forces driving stocks higher.

AI Agents Could Soon Receive State-backed Digital Identities In Estonia

2026-06-18 · 09:05

The arrival of autonomous agents is evolving the very notion of sovereignty and infrastructures in the digital age.

AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs

2026-06-18 · 08:08

AMD has quietly removed the Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) security feature from its consumer-level Ryzen…

A Perceptron in Age of Empires II

2026-06-18 · 07:50

A developer has successfully implemented functional logic circuits within Age of Empires II's scenario editor, including…

The Forge We Deserve

2026-06-18 · 07:46

GitHub faces mounting reliability issues and user exodus, prompting developers to seek alternatives as the centralized…

Apple to raise prices as AI boom pushes up chip costs

2026-06-18 · 07:27

The firm's outgoing boss Tim Cook did not say when prices would rise or which products would be affected.

How to Become a Person After Smartphones Have Rotted Your Brain

2026-06-18 · 06:23

# Summary August Lamm, a young artist who gained 175,000 Instagram followers, experienced severe mental and physical…

DeepSeek Introduces Vision

2026-06-18 · 06:17

Dorsey’s Block says new AI tool handles 15% of code work

2026-06-18 · 05:38

Builderbot is the “missing layer between AI coding tools and how engineering actually works at scale,” said Brad Axen,…

I Hate Compilers

2026-06-18 · 05:10

France to stop certifying products lacking quantum-resistant encryption

2026-06-18 · 04:06

France’s cybersecurity agency plans to block certification of products without quantum-resistant encryption starting in…

SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable

2026-06-18 · 04:05

Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

2026-06-18 · 03:38

NimConf 2026 will take place online on Saturday, June 20th, 2026 at 11am UTC and will be streamed for free on YouTube…

Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs

2026-06-18 · 03:34

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company will raise product prices due to surging memory chip costs driven by the…

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool

2026-06-18 · 03:04

The author, a software founder, argues that local models like Qwen 27B/35B should not be viewed as inferior alternatives…

Continue has been acquired by Cursor

2026-06-18 · 02:54

Cursor has acquired Continue, an open-source AI coding agent platform.

Scaling opencomputer from 1 VM to 1 million sandboxes

2026-06-18 · 02:32

OpenComputer scaled from a single VM to support one million sandboxes by moving away from a single-region architecture…

[x86] AI Compute Extensions (ACE) Specification

2026-06-18 · 02:32

Intel has released the ACE (AI Compute Extensions) Specification, a new x86 instruction set extension designed to…

Midjourney Ultrasonic CT Scanner

2026-06-18 · 02:08

Midjourney Medical

2026-06-18 · 01:59

Show HN: Local personal data redaction for any AI tools

2026-06-18 · 01:52

I built the desktop app that detects and redacts personal data (or PII) locally without sending any text to server.

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