UK government hasn't the foggiest how much it's spending on digital transformation
Years of promises, but officials unable to put a figure on investment
Security Bite Podcast: Who is your AI agent really working for?
9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automat...
Tesla plans to start selling Cybercabs by the end of the year
Tesla wants to sell Cybercabs to other transport companies before the year ends.
CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority
Article URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-111943 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50192900 Points: 169 # Comments: 42
AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind
Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a model responds? Much of the back-end data that’s generated—fr...
Vendors asking forward deployed engineers to make good on trillion-dollar AI bet
They might earn more than $200k but who do they work for? Tech buyers need to put some checks in place on FDEs
Authorities disrupt nearly 11,000 cybercrime networks in Africa
Law enforcement agencies have disrupted nearly 11,000 cybercriminal networks and arrested more than 1,400 people in Operation Serengeti III, which targeted business email compromise, ransomware, and online scams. [...]
Fortnite is coming back to Apple's Australian App Store following court ruling
Fortnite is back on the App Store in Australia after a federal court ordered Apple to open its iOS ecosystem up to competition.
Jailbreaking the Switch 2
Article URL: https://pepsipu.com/blog/2026-10-switch2-jailbreak-ns2jb/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50192536 Points: 75 # Comments: 17
Why the immediate future of liquid cooling is hybrid
PARTNER CONTENT: AI is driving liquid cooling adoption, but hybrid architectures will help operators balance density, flexibility, and operational realities
Certification authority eMudhra defends its laughably weak private keys
Says it passed audits and made just a minor mystery error
OpenAI CLI
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/openai-cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50191507 Points: 145 # Comments: 79
IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem
90 percent of the performance at ten percent of the price, in just two or three racks, is hard to beat
Apple must open iPhone to alternative app stores in Australia after Epic Games ruling
An Australian federal judge has ordered Apple to make sweeping changes to its App Store rules following a years-long antitrust battle with Epic Games. Apple has confirmed that it plans to appeal. Here are the details. more…
I can't believe PowerShell is good
Article URL: https://www.spacebar.news/powershell-is-actually-good/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50190959 Points: 41 # Comments: 26
Philippine government suspends top tech official for alleged misconduct
Founder of offshore software development firm investigated for possibly giving his former outfit government contracts
The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]
Article URL: https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50190455 Points: 101 # Comments: 61
Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched
Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They’re now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.
WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
Article URL: https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50190363 Points: 39 # Comments: 12
LLM agents play Pokemon showdown
Article URL: https://olivergrabner.com/research/pokemon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50190334 Points: 25 # Comments: 14