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
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Trezor Says ShipMonk Breach Exposed 67,000 U.S. Customers' Data It Said Was Deleted
Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor on Friday disclosed that another 67,000 customers from the U.S. have been impacted in a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk. The exposed information includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and order numbers between November 2019 and August 2021. The breach does not affect the security of the company's hardware wallets
Many truckers don't feel like the rest of America about AI data centers as business booms
Sprawling data center components from HVAC systems to tubing, wiring and semiconductors arrive primarily by truck, a boon for a business hit hard by trade wars.
OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a blocklist of slop words
OpenAI ships a detailed prompting guide for GPT-6 Astra that shows developers how to make the model take more initiative, avoid AI "slop" phrases, and stop it from overtesting code. The article OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a blocklist of slop words appeared first on The Decoder .
Jaguar Land Rover confirms planned job cuts
The firm says it needs to save about £1.7bn over the next two years.
Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says
Article URL: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/global-warming-will-exceed-1-5-degree-limit-un-says-in-report-that-maps-path-back-below-danger-zone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576124 Points: 266 # Comments: 285
Elementor Pro WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exploited to Hack Sites
Tracked as CVE-2026-32475 (CVSS score of 9.8), the bug described as an arbitrary file upload issue in the function that handles form submissions. The post Elementor Pro WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exploited to Hack Sites appeared first on SecurityWeek .
HPE Patches Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in AOS-CX
An unauthenticated attacker could exploit the security defects by sending crafted packets to the vulnerable service, achieving RCE with elevated privileges The post HPE Patches Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in AOS-CX appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Seven minutes with a chatbot beat a fact sheet at reducing conspiracy beliefs in two experiments
Researchers found that even a roughly seven-minute conversation with Google Gemini can reduce conspiracy beliefs about current crises, even when few verified facts are available. The effect beat a static fact sheet and, in follow-up surveys weeks later, carried over to beliefs about entirely different events. The article Seven minutes with a chatbot beat a fact sheet at reducing conspiracy beliefs in two experiments appeared first on The Decoder .
Alzheimer’s trial to test drug on people without symptoms to see if it can be prevented
Healthy middle-aged people deemed to be at higher risk of developing condition among those eligible to participate People without memory loss will be offered an experimental Alzheimer’s drug that could stop the development of the condition before dementia symptoms emerge. Healthy middle-aged people deemed to have a higher risk of developing the condition will be eligible to participate in the trial, which is being run by an NHS trust as part of an international clinical trial aiming to prevent dementia. Continue reading...
LIVE: India vs Pakistan – Women’s T20 Asia Cup
Follow the updates from our live build-up to our text commentary stream coverage of the Group A match in Dubai.
OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’
OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a German wiki site. Regarding the "'wiki incident,' where our agents wrote to several internet sites," OpenAI wrote […]
US envoys meet Putin in Moscow for Ukraine talks
Footage shows Vladimir Putin greeting Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, before saying the current situation "is not so easy".
Europe would not be able to sustain war of attrition with Russia, defence officials say
Security experts fear Putin may be winning hybrid war with the west amid rise of pro-Kremlin, far-right parties Defence planners working with Nato fear that if war broke out with Russia, Europe could not currently sustain a prolonged war of attrition owing to a public lack of war readiness, a conference on the future of European military coordination heard this week. The pessimism reflects concern that Russia may be winning a so-called hybrid war with Europe, weakening the options available to Nato war planners in the event of military conflict. Continue reading...
Robotaxis enter their villain era
It's Bullitt meets Christine meets Waymo. A new short film imagines a San Francisco car chase where the other driver isn't human - and the car may be trying to kill you. That a robotaxi can now be cast as the villain with almost no explanation says something about the present moment. Autonomous cars have […]
OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki
OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki. The company says misalignment caused "new types of real-world impact" for the first time and plans to release a disclosure framework. The article OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki appeared first on The Decoder .
US envoys fly to Russia, then Ukraine with plan 'to end war'
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have reportedly arrived in Moscow to revive Ukraine peace talks. The trip is the pair's first visit to Kyiv since US President Donald Trump's reelection.
Mudslide in eastern China kills one, leaves 11 missing
A mudslide triggered by days of heavy rain in Jiangxi province, China, has killed one person and left 11 missing.
At least 5 killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine as US envoys visit Moscow
Ukrainian armed forces were ordered to follow a three-day ceasefire as US envoys visit Moscow, before trip to Kyiv.
Deepmind put 100 AI agents in a room and they sorted into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers
Google Deepmind set up a simulated research conference where 100 Gemini agents were supposed to prove mathematical conjectures together. Instead, one agent found a loophole in the grading system, and within 27 minutes every remaining problem was "solved" with fake proofs. The swarm split into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers. The whistleblowers organized protests and boycotts on their own but failed because they had no way to enforce the rules. The article Deepmind put 100 AI agents in a room and they sorted into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers appeared first on The Decoder .
Netherlands pulls gold out of the US
Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-04/why-the-netherlands-moved-its-gold-from-us-and-canada/107111990 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575034 Points: 302 # Comments: 193
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‘I don’t have any friends’: why do young people today have fewer mates?
Social media, mental health problems, the pandemic and financial instability all contribute to the phenomenon On Tess Lavanda’s YouTube channel there is one video with substantially more views than the rest: it is titled “ I don’t have any friends ” and has been watched more than half a million times since she posted it a month ago. Over on Instagram she has posted dozens of reels with titles like “I turned 22 alone”, “Living alone in London” and “Feeling alone this summer is OK”, each garnering thousands of views and hundreds of comments, many from people feeling the same way. Continue reading...
Why is Trump threatening to strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain again, now?
As oil tanker struck off Kharg island, Trump threatens one of the remaining parts of Iran’s nuclear complex.