Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure
Attackers were probing the mail server flaw weeks before it had a CVE to its name
Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/cops-can-bypass-iphone-automatic-inactivity-reboot-graykey/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922278 Points: 141 # Comments: 91
OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free?
A pop-up shop for "dots," a personal assistant agent at OpenAI DevDay 2026. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) | Getty Images At OpenAI's annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals - primarily Meta, whose Muse AI agent platform has seen early ru...
Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform to physically restrain rogue AI agents
Nvidia’s new Open Agent Safety Platform combines OpenShell sandboxing with BlueField-powered Sentry hardware to monitor and rapidly quarantine rogue AI agents
iPadOS 27.2: Two new features coming soon to your iPad
iPadOS 27.2 is coming later this month as a new iPad software update, here are two new features it will bring. more…
Police dismantle KillSec ransomware gang allegedly led by 16-year-old
An international law enforcement operation dubbed "Operation KillSwitch" seized the KillSec ransomware gang's data leak site and servers, led to three arrests, and identified a 16-year-old as the group's alleged administrator. [...]
AI's chipmaking frontier may face patent infringement hurdles as autonomous tools take over
Can AI outsmart the ingenuity of human thinking and design? If so, what does that mean for proprietary IP? We explore the tools, and the potential pitfalls.
Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-k2-streams/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921923 Points: 85 # Comments: 25
MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies
Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law
The Day-One Hole in Zero Trust Architecture
Zero Trust can verify users once they are established, but onboarding creates a gap where organizations must decide who to trust before strong authentication exists. Specops explains why identity verification should begin before credentials, MFA methods, and access are issued. [...]
DeepSeek and Huawei release open-source Ascend AI programming tools to reduce reliance on Nvidia ecosystem
DeepSeek and Huawei have released open-source programming tools for Ascend 950 AI chips, including compute and communication libraries, aimed at making Huawei hardware easier to program and optimize.
Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.
The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.
Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle
Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah. The idea was to build the world’s biggest data center — a 40,000-acre AI campus with nine gigawatts of power, or more than double the average powe...
Kiteworks patches max severity code injection vulnerability
Secure file-sharing software company Kiteworks has released security updates to address 126 vulnerabilities, including a max-severity flaw affecting its Email Protection Gateway (EPG) security solution. [...]
Maingear’s new program offers instant trade-ins for gaming PC buyers
American custom and prebuilt computer seller Maingear has launched a new instant trade-in scheme through SELLIT9.
The best early October Prime Day deals happening now
It’s not even October yet and Amazon is already offering some Prime Big Deal Day discounts on its own hardware, along with plenty of other popular products. It’s all to hype up October Prime Day, which starts October 6th at 3AM ET and lasts through 3AM ET on the 8th if you’re on the East Coast (1...
CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch
Replacing letters with symbols still doesn’t make it good.
What even is a ‘microdrama’?
On Monday, Variety reported that RoseBerry Media is recutting episodes of the Australian soap opera Neighbours "into microdramas." These clips will be available on Epis, a short-form vertical video streaming platform. Though Neighbours ran for 41 seasons from 1985 to 2025, at launch, RoseBerry is...
‘HomePad’ could launch in these four colors, per leaker
Apple’s new smart home hub, commonly called ‘HomePad,’ is reportedly launching October 13. And a new leak reveals the colors it might launch in. more…
Get over 70% off this Cherry Xtrfy MX 3.1 wired mechanical gaming keyboard
Buy the full-size Cherry Xtrfy MX 3.1 mechanical gaming keyboard for only $34 with promo code WOOTCHERRY. That’s over 70% off, an all-time low, and new Woot customers can drop it $29