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Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Cohere Parse 5

Turn complex docs, tables & images into AI-ready data Discussion | Link

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

Article URL: https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480466 Points: 305 # Comments: 108

World · Deutsche Welle

Germany news: Baltic summit plans hybrid-threat task force

Ministers from countries bordering the Baltic Sea have agreed on a rapid response force to counter hybrid threats. Meanwhile, the far-right AfD has failed to topple a state premier. DW has more updates from Germany.

Business · CNBC Technology

Big Tech's massive AI spending is putting one of its longtime strengths to the test

There's new risk emerging from Big Tech's massive artificial intelligence buildout.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Nvidia is paying $12.9 billion to keep open models on its chips

I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments, The post Nvidia is paying $12.9 billion to keep open models on its chips appeared first on The New Stack .

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

In Other News: Log4j RCE Scare, Minimus Shutdown, Iranian Hacker Sanctions

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Manchester Airports Group cyberattack, Carhartt breach data was partly fake, U.S. Bank responds to ransomware gang’s claims. The post In Other News: Log4j RCE Scare, Minimus Shutdown, Iranian Hacker Sanctions appeared first on SecurityWeek .

World · Deutsche Welle

Germany: Man gets life in jail for US tourist's rape, murder

The crime was unsolved for over three decades before new DNA proof made it possible to arrest and convict the now 81-year-old. His victim, Amy Lopez, was 24 at the time of her murder.

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

19 Chrome and Edge Extensions Found With Wallet-Stealing and Crypto-Draining Code

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 18 Google Chrome and one Microsoft Edge extensions that were published over the last six months and harbored wallet secret stealing and cryptocurrency draining capabilities. The extensions, per Socket security researcher Karlo Zanki, share similarities in code and tradecraft, with evidence indicating that the campaign may have been active

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse

You know the person blocking your view of the concert because their phone is swaying in the air, recording the entire thing? Get ready for the unfolded version of it. This week on The Vergecast, we dive right into the big week of Apple news. First, it's the refreshed Mac Mini and Mac Studio, as […]

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Zai_org/status/2093354097122455713 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479878 Points: 265 # Comments: 96

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

https://twitter.com/Zai_org/status/2093354097122455713 https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479878 Points: 620 # Comments: 218

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

Article URL: https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/28/keyboard-driven-guis.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479837 Points: 577 # Comments: 290

Business · CNBC Technology

Affirm surges on strong outlook; CEO says high gas prices are hitting U.S. shoppers

The national average price for gas is at $4.09 per gallon and was last below $3 on March 2.

Business · BBC Business

Fed has 'work to do' if price rises don't ease for Americans, Warsh says

Kevin Warsh remarks suggest interest rates could be increased if policymakers think inflation is running too high.

World · Al Jazeera

6 months of war on Iran

The US-Israeli war on Iran has reached the six-month mark, with no sign of slowing down.

Society · The Guardian Society

Choking is sold to teens as a safe sexual practice. The research says it never is

More and more young people are engaging in sexual strangulation. But experts say there’s no safe pressure – and we have to start talking to teenagers about it When touching someone’s throat, it can only take the pressure of a handshake to cause serious injury, unconsciousness or death. These injuries, which include brain damage and stroke, are often internal and invisible, showing up days or even months after the initial incident occurred. Experts say many who participate in sexual choking are not aware of the risks. Choking or sexual strangulation is common among young people, says Prof Heather Douglas of the Melbourne Law School. In a 2024 survey of 4,702 Australians aged between 18 and 35, she and her research team found that 57% reported ever having experienced sexual strangulation; 51% reported ever having strangled a partner and 43.9% reported participating in both. Continue reading...

World · Al Jazeera

Nepali families pray for miracles with relatives missing after flood

At a Kathmandu hospital, families peer at lists of those who are critical, dead — or have been released.

Developers & Open Source · cloudflare/workers-sdk Releases

wrangler@4.127.1

Patch Changes #15383 eb01850 Thanks @dependabot ! - Update dependencies of "miniflare", "wrangler" The following dependency versions have been updated: Dependency From To @cloudflare/workers-types ^5.20260826.1 ^5.20260827.1 workerd 1.20260826.1 1.20260827.1 #15393 e1df91a Thanks @dependabot ! - Update dependencies of "miniflare", "wrangler" The following dependency versions have been updated: Dependency From To @cloudflare/workers-types ^5.20260827.1 ^5.20260828.1 workerd 1.20260827.1 1.20260828.1 Updated dependencies [ eb01850 , e1df91a , b23de74 , 015550a , 015550a , 015550a , 3650d29 , b23de74 ]: miniflare@5.20260828.0-alpha

World · Deutsche Welle

Uganda: World's 'youngest monarch' dies aged 34

Oyo Nyimba, once recognized as the world's youngest reigning monarch, has died in his mid-30s. As one of Uganda's traditional monarchs, he took the throne of the Tooro kingdom in 1995, aged just 3.

Society · NPR Top Stories

New Jersey is a fossil hotspot, with answers about the day the dinosaurs died

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. His dig site is now a fossil park and museum.

World · Al Jazeera

Can Trump really rename Lake Ontario, ‘Lake America’?

Amid tariff war with Canada, Trump has signed an executive order renaming the shared lake.

Society · The Guardian Society

Andy Burnham to abstain on assisted dying bill to avoid influencing debate

Exclusive: PM also warns his ministers against trying to influence vote when bill returns to Commons next month Andy Burnham has told Labour MPs that he will not cast a vote when the assisted dying bill returns to the Commons next month to avoid influencing the debate. While the move was welcomed by supporters of the measure, No 10 officials said the prime minister had no wish to affect the process in either direction, and was just doing what he thought was best to allow MPs to reach their own collective view. Continue reading...

World · The Guardian World

Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen in Vienna smash-and-grab raid

Police hunt two suspects after historic 200-carat piece is snatched from Austrian museum during opening hours Austrian police are hunting two men alleged to have stolen a 200-carat platinum necklace encrusted with 673 diamonds that was on loan to a museum in Vienna and once belonged to Egyptian royalty. Authorities in the capital released pictures of the suspects captured by security cameras during the heist at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), amid a rash of spectacular smash-and-grab thefts from European cultural institutions. Continue reading...