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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Explore the globe in field recordings

I love field recordings. I love making them. I love them when they're incorporated into my ambient music. They're great background noise for working or sleeping. But they're also great for active listening, focusing in on the fine nuances of burbling brooks or urban chaos. Earth Garden gives you a globe to explore with real […]

World · BBC Middle East

TV presenter among 12 sentenced to death in Egypt drugs case

Sarah Khalifa is best known for her TV programme Mission Impossible which dealt with crime issues.

Society · NPR Top Stories

Jazz legend John Coltrane's Philadelphia house to become a cultural heritage site

On the centennial of father's birth, Ravi Coltrane talks about turning the home where the jazz legend spent a crucial period in the 1950s into a cultural heritage and community space.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

iPhone Handoff will seamlessly share one number between two phones

When iOS 27 lands later this month, it will have a feature called iPhone Handoff that lets you switch between two phones using the same number. It was briefly mentioned during the WWDC keynote back in June, but there were no details at the time. Now there's a demo clip showing how to set up […]

Society · The Guardian Society

Mental health groups have ‘failed to acknowledge’ risk of violence, says Mind chief

Sector has avoided issue because of stigma fears, expert warns ahead of closure of Nottingham attacks inquiry Mental health organisations have “failed to acknowledge” the risk of violence from a minority of people with severe mental illnesses, the chief executive of Mind has said ahead of the closure of the inquiry into the Nottingham attacks. Dr Sarah Hughes, who has led mental health charity Mind for four years and has worked in the sector for almost four decades, said charities had shied away from addressing the risk of violence due to the fact it had increased the stigma and harassment around people with mental health conditions. Continue reading...

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/isar-aerospace-second-launch-norway-andoya-spaceport-spectrum-rocket Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580369 Points: 423 # Comments: 233

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores

Attackers are exploiting a new unpatched vulnerability in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that lets them run malicious code on an online store's server without logging in, Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec said in an advisory published on September 5. Sansec, which discovered the flaw and named it StyleSmuggler, said attacks started on September 4. "Sansec is

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580164 Points: 201 # Comments: 168

Society · The Guardian Society

‘Grief becomes a routine’: Farhana lost five babies. A ‘culture of silence’ exacerbated her pain

A first-of-its-kind study shows the prevalence of miscarriage in Australia, but experts fear multicultural groups remain underrepresented Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast On a quiet street in western Sydney, Farhana Laffernis races her curious English staffy and boisterous three-year-old daughter in the front door. Inside, her three-year-old wears a pink tutu and excitedly babbles as she cuddles her toy doll. The family life Laffernis has built did not come easy. Continue reading...

AI · TechCrunch AI

Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning

The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."

AI · The Decoder

Artificial Analysis overhauls its Intelligence Index after GPT-6 Astra scoring drew skepticism

Artificial Analysis has released version 4.2 of its Intelligence Index, likely in response to criticism that its benchmarks failed to capture GPT-6 Astra's actual progress. Astra now scores four points above its predecessor but still trails Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1. The article Artificial Analysis overhauls its Intelligence Index after GPT-6 Astra scoring drew skepticism appeared first on The Decoder .

AI · TechCrunch AI

OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure

OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.

World · The Guardian World

Egyptian TV presenter among 12 sentenced to death for drug crime

Sarah Khalifa, 39, charged with forming organised criminal gang to manufacture and traffic drugs An Egyptian court sentenced a well-known television presenter and 11 others to death for manufacturing and trafficking narcotics in a sprawling drug case, official media reported on Saturday. The presenter, Sarah Khalifa, 39, is best known for her programme Mission Impossible, which dealt with issues concerning security and crime. Continue reading...

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

The Real Luxuries In Life

Article URL: https://feld.com/archives/2026/09/the-real-luxuries-in-life/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578866 Points: 447 # Comments: 212

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentials

JetBrains is urging Cadence users to revoke and rotate all credentials following a security incident last month in which unidentified threat actors exploited a recently disclosed critical vulnerability in TeamCity to breach its own environment. "Cadence users should immediately revoke or rotate all credentials and secrets that may have been used to run their Cadence executions," JetBrains said.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop

Article URL: https://reason.com/2026/09/02/wisconsin-cops-used-flock-over-100-times-to-track-a-navy-veteran-after-he-lawfully-recorded-a-traffic-stop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578310 Points: 329 # Comments: 171

Business · CNBC Technology

We got more defensive last week as Wall Street raised the bar for AI stocks

We initiated positions in defensive stocks to balance our AI exposure amid higher oil prices and Treasury yields.

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Code

Broadcom has released security updates for two security flaws impacting VMware Workstation and Fusion, including one critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-59346 (CVSS score: 9.3), is an integer-overflow vulnerability that a local attacker with elevated privileges can exploit to run arbitrary code. "A

Notable Blogs · Simon Willison

Using Blender with coding agents on macOS

TIL: Using Blender with coding agents on macOS I've been having fun with Blender in ChatGPT Codex on my Mac recently. Getting it to work with coding agents is really easy: install the full Mac application from blender.org and run a prompt like this: Use the already install /Applications/Blender to render a scene of a pelican riding a bicycle In this case I followed that up with these two prompts: OK add a background and a lot of flair Then: OK make it a whole lot better And got this image, generated using Blender's Python API : Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , blender , pelican-riding-a-bicycle , coding-agents , gpt-6-astra

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation

The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.

Society · NPR Top Stories

U.S. strikes Iranian oil tankers in retaliation for missile attacks on Navy ships

One of the Iranian tankers struck was near a key area in Iran's oil-export system, according to U.S. Central Command.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Building trust in agentic RAG starts with evidence

Basic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) follows a straightforward pattern. A user asks a question, the system finds relevant content in a The post Building trust in agentic RAG starts with evidence appeared first on The New Stack .

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Claude Fable 5.1 vs. Fable 5: On real work, I couldn’t tell them apart.

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 this week, calling it “our most advanced model for coding and knowledge work.” There was The post Claude Fable 5.1 vs. Fable 5: On real work, I couldn’t tell them apart. appeared first on The New Stack .

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-3m-secret-kris-hansen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576986 Points: 245 # Comments: 72