News

Autonomous security agents need complete data. Here's how to check if yours is ready.
An endpoint agent cannot report its own absence. The 2026 Axonius Actionability Report, conducted with the Ponemon Institute and surveying 662 IT and security professionals, put a number on a gap SOC teams have worked around for years. Across the Axonius customer base, 12.7% of d…
venturebeat.com
6 Startup Investors On What It Will Take To Fund More Black Founders
In the final installment of our series on the state of venture investment to Black-founded startups, six investors offer their advice for overlooked founders and explain how the venture industry can broaden access to capital by rethinking sourcing, networks and long-held investin…
news.crunchbase.com
Most companies think they're building a software factory. They're actually just shipping bugs faster.
Industrialized factories changed how the world produced physical goods: more output, lower costs, faster than anything that came before. Now a similar shift is happening with software.  LLMs have lowered the barrier to writing code, increased individual output, and pushed organiz…
venturebeat.com
New agentic memory framework uses 118K tokens per query. LangMem burns through 3.26M.
Long-horizon reasoning exposes a core weakness in AI agents: context windows fill up fast, and retrieval pipelines return noise instead of signal. To solve this, researchers at the National University of Singapore developed MRAgent, a framework that abandons the static "retrieve-…
venturebeat.com
This Senior Member Solves Complex Product Lifecycle Challenges
What do an instinct to fix things and the 1999 global panic over whether computers would survive the date change to 2000, known as the Y2K bug, have in common? Both helped shape IEEE Senior Member Ajay Prasad’s career. Prasad is an industry process director at Dassault Systèmes i…
spectrum.ieee.org
Pacific Palisades Fire Court Case Ends in Mistrial
Jurors could not reach a verdict in the trial against the man accused of starting the deadly LA wildfire last year.
gizmodo.com
International tech
Psychology says people who reach midlife with few close friends aren’t always cold or difficult — many spent years being the person everyone leaned on, leaving little room to learn how to need anyone back
A Silicon Canals Mind piece on why some people reach midlife with few close friends after spending years as the person others leaned on.
siliconcanals.com
A 65-year-old programming language called COBOL still quietly runs over $3 trillion in banking transactions every single day — and because the original engineers are retiring fast, banks are scrambling to pay younger coders fortunes just to keep the ancient code from collapsing
COBOL remains embedded in banking and government systems because replacing old code means replacing decades of business logic, not just a programming language.
siliconcanals.com
Nobody talks about why some adults find weekends harder than weekdays, and it isn’t loneliness or lack of plans, it’s that structure was the thing keeping them from noticing how much of their life runs on momentum
Weekend unease in adulthood is rarely about loneliness or empty plans. It's the moment the weekday's scaffolding lifts and a person finally notices how much of their life has been running on autopilot — and the discomfort, far from being a flaw, is the most honest signal the week…
siliconcanals.com
vivo Launches X Fold6 With Custom AI Chip and OS, Turning Foldable Into an AI Workstation
vivo's X Fold6 features a custom Dimensity 9500 chip and OriginOS 6 Fold with 'Parallel Mode' for 5 simultaneous AI tasks, priced from RMB 7,999.
pandaily.com
[Update] After Quitting Uber, Prabhjeet Singh To Join OpenAI As India MD
Update | June 26, 22:21 IST Hours after it emerged that Prabhjeet Singh had stepped down as Uber India head,…
inc42.com
SpaceX could launch Starlink mobile service, beginning with US consumers
SpaceX is preparing to make a major entry into the US mobile… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com

Trending

Reflective LCD Slabtop Terminal Runs Homebrewed Solar OS
Have you ever spotted something in a catalog or on a website and just known you had to build a project around that one part? That’s how [nilseuropa] felt about …read more
hackaday.com
U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
https://archive.ph/PCQQl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690101 Points: 860 # Comments: 953
washingtonpost.com
A Custom Zigbee Touch Keypad
[Dominic Buchstaller] wanted a neat, tidy entryway keypad that actually looked good. Prime goals were something slim, wireless, and with no visible screws. Dependency on the cloud was also a …read more
hackaday.com
Fixing an Elgato Cam Link’s USB Current Draw Issue
Recently [Bits und Bolts] found himself in a bit of a pickle, when on boot his PC would complain about a connected USB device drawing too much power, before shutting …read more
hackaday.com
Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
System card: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689028 Points: 868 # Comments: 525
openai.com
We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692051 Points: 249 # Comments: 77
eff.org
Jolla Phone (October 2026)
Article URL: https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-october-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687272 Points: 279 # Comments: 155
commerce.jolla.com
Hackaday Podcast Episode 375: Rebuilding Tech on Our Terms and the Hero Nerd
In this episode, Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start off by taking a trip down the Raspberry Pi memory lane and then tackle a fresh pile of listener …read more
hackaday.com
US allows Anthropic to release Mythos to 'trusted partners'
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-releases-anthropic-model-mythos-some-us-companies-semafor-reports-2026-06-26/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692995 Points: 232 # Comments: 220
reuters.com