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An AI agent rewrote a Fortune 50 security policy. Here's how to govern AI agents before one does the same.
A CEO’s AI agent rewrote the company’s security policy. Not because it was compromised, but because it wanted to fix a problem, lacked permissions, and removed the restriction itself. Every identity check passed. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz disclosed the incident and a second on…
venturebeat.com
Intel’s comeback story is even wilder than it seems
Intel's stock has risen a stunning 490% over the past year, a bet by Wall Street that may be running well ahead of the company's actual turnaround.
techcrunch.com
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Enterprise AI, Space Tech And Biotech Top The Ranks
Another week, another infusion of big AI rounds.
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Prime Video follows Netflix and Disney by adding a TikTok-like ‘Clips’ feed in its app
The Clips feed aims to enable discovery by offering users a scrollable feed with short snippets of shows and movies.
techcrunch.com
EU Calls VPNs a ‘Loophole’ that ‘Needs Closing’ in Age Verification Laws
There's a growing a growing chorus that doesn't want to stop at basic age verification.
gizmodo.com
Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete, even as revenue hit a record high
Cloudflare announced its first large-scale layoff. CEO Matthew Prince says because of AI efficiency gains, the company doesn't need as many support roles.
techcrunch.com
International tech
From Skyroot To Pronto — Indian Startups Raised $132 Mn This Week
The Indian startup ecosystem got its first spacetech unicorn this week. Despite this, the total deal count remained muted with…
inc42.com
US nears US$400 million settlement with TikTok on child-privacy violations, report says
US President ⁠Donald Trump’s administration is nearing a US$400 million settlement with TikTok to resolve an ongoing lawsuit over alleged child-privacy violations, ABC News has reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. The White House declined to comment, referring quest…
scmp.com
People who keep every birthday card, every handwritten note, and every photograph in a labeled box often aren’t just sentimental, many grew up in households where evidence of being loved had to be stored somewhere it couldn’t be taken back
The labeled box of cards and photographs in the closet rarely tells the story people assume. It's not sentimentality — it's evidence-keeping, built by someone who learned early that affection could be revised, and the only way to be sure it had happened was to keep it somewhere i…
siliconcanals.com
SynapX Launches SYNData: Multimodal Data Collection System for Embodied AI Era
SynapX has released SYNData, a multimodal data collection system for dexterous manipulation. The system covers ego vision, EMG signals, and exoskeleton data gloves, enabling scalable collection of human manipulation data for robot learning.
pandaily.com
People who say nothing in arguments and process everything later aren’t conflict-avoidant, they figured out that anything said in real time gets weaponized and anything said later gets the courtesy of having been considered
The people who go silent in arguments aren't avoiding conflict. They've learned that real-time words get weaponised, and considered words get the courtesy of having been thought through.
siliconcanals.com
Xiaoyu Robotics Raises New Round, Backed by Xiaomi, Didi, BAIC
Xiaoyu Robotics, China's leading industrial embodied AI company, has secured a new multi-hundred-million yuan funding round. Five major industrial capitals — Xiaomi, Didi, BAIC, Fosun, and CCDC — participated, with Lei Wanqiang investing for the fourth consecutive round.
pandaily.com
Anthropic says it hit a $30 billion revenue run rate after 'crazy' 80x growth
Dario Amodei is not the kind of CEO who talks loosely about numbers. The Anthropic co-founder and chief executive, a former VP of research at OpenAI with a PhD in computational neuroscience from Princeton, has built a reputation for measured public statements — particularly aroun…
venturebeat.com
Why Humans Are Obsessed With Numbers Too Big to Understand
Mathematician Richard Elwes discusses humanity's long-time fascination with ginormous numbers—and what this obsession reveals about us.
gizmodo.com
Sector Snapshot: Sales And Marketing Gets An AI Makeover
So far in 2026, companies in sales, marketing and CRM categories have pulled in around $2.7 billion globally in seed- through growth-stage funding, per Crunchbase data.
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AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
Article URL: https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066524 Points: 334 # Comments: 133
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Easy-ish Glitch Camera? There’s a Pi 4 That
Usually, when you want to make glitchy images with lots of colors and things, you have to poke around inside a camera and successfully circuit-bend the thing without bricking it. …read more
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Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
Related: Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362 also: Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067119…
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Win95-Tracker-CYD is a Cheap Yellow Mod Tracker with I2S
The Cheap Yellow Display is a great little module to start a project with, but it wouldn’t necessarily be our first choice for an audio device. That’s because the PWM …read more
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Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
In any MMORPG, the average user will generally only encounter the client side of the system. This makes building a compatible open source version of the proprietary server into a …read more
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Getting a Proprietary-Bus GPU onto PCIe Enables Cheaper Local LLMs, For Now
If you’ve been thinking of getting into self-hosting generative AI, but don’t have a big budget for hardware, you might want to check out [Hardware Haven]’s latest video on an …read more
hackaday.com
Become an AI Engineer | Enrollment Ends Soon
Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in about a week.
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Could Your Next House be Built from Giant Lego By an Inchworm Robot?
Well, it depends when you’re going to be househunting– if it’s anytime soon, Betteridge’s law applies, but if your time horizon is a ways further out, [Miana Smith] at MIT …read more
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EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push
Article URL: https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072190 Points: 213 # Comments: 155
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