Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out."
Teenager hacks open Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts
Teenager cracks open Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts — lack of JWT token validation yields a fruitful trove
Space Lasers Are About to Get Their First Real Test Generating Energy
Startup Star Catcher is launching a system that, if successful, would be the first time energy has been beamed between two separate spacecraft.
Best Apple Watch: Series 12, Ultra 4, and SE 3 (2026)
From the latest Ultra to last year’s SE, these are the Apple Watches worth considering.
Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
Article URL: https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875913 Points: 238 # Comments: 115
G.Skill wins PC enthusiast as 'customer for life' by simply honoring its warranty replacement policy
A PC RAM maker has honored its guarantee promises despite the memory kit in question’s price rising eightfold since it was bought. That's today's AI-pocalypse news.
I've Tested Over 100 Home Security Cameras. Here's Which to Buy
Keep an eye on home wherever you are with the best security cameras, including indoor and outdoor, subscription services, AI smarts, and local recording options.
Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page
Fridge magnet shopping list on an M5Stack PaperMono (ESP32-S3, e-ink touchscreen), synced with a phone web app over Wi-Fi. Works offline, ~2,400 lines of C++. This is a great wee device! BLE, Wi-Fi and LoRa on one board makes it flexible for way more than a shopping list, this is just what I buil...
Jev is rapidly rising to challenge the LLM for enterprise AI supremacy
The Jevolution will not be televised, because The Kettle is audio only
Proposed Pennsylvania law targets publishers that kill digital games
The Protect Our Games Act would ensure that even if video game manufacturers take a title offline, those who've previously bought it would not lose access. While it still does not give gamers ownership of the titles they buy, it would at least let them continue playing them even if the developer ...
AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It
Your next coworker might well be an AI agent—and will require a whole new model of workplace interactions.
Solving Math’s Greatest Problems Was an Art Form. Then Came AI
Mathematics has been one of humanity’s most creative endeavors, akin to painting and poetry. Now, mathematicians are trying to save it from the brute force of AI.
Bitget resumes Bitcoin withdrawals after $387.5 million crypto heist
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has resumed Bitcoin withdrawals suspended after suspected North Korean hackers breached its systems last week and stole over $350 million. [...]
Save $300 on this 1440p-ready gaming PC with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, now $1,399.99
This ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC, featuring an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, Intel Core i7-14700F, 16GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD has a $300 discount, now $1,399.99.
HMRC vowed to break up with Capgemini then paid it another £4.2B
Government wants public spending to back British business, but the French supplier could remain at the tax collector until 2036
Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
In the wake of a series of high-profile AI safety incidents, Nvidia is introducing a new software tool that helps keep agents from escaping containment.
The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills
A British startup is shaping video game inputs into training data for AI models that can navigate the physical world.
Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants
A webassembly web based app that help editing raster and vector on browser without any subscription or signups Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875308 Points: 55 # Comments: 18
37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it
Article URL: https://www.habibicode.org/thedrawnworld Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875142 Points: 137 # Comments: 31
Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage
Denial and distraction have served the bit barn barons very badly. Wise up