French president criticises comments by 'foreign leaders' trying to exploit disorder for their own political agenda.
Climate activists have protested against the UK’s decision to go ahead with new gas drilling in the North Sea.
Star full-back Ellie Kildunne is dropped to the bench as England shake up selection in response to a first defeat in four years.
Maintainers reckon a quarter of incoming pull requests are slop, rising to 31% on larger projects
The company is suspending the feature after security researchers discovered how easy it was to access sensitive information shared with the AI assistant.
PHP.net announced that it will release a critical update today. We decided to change the infoCon to YELLOW due to the widespread use of PHP, the expected severity of the flaw (CVSS 9.4), and the availability of early PoC exploits ahead of the patch becoming available.
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As a group is accused of an attack on a weapons factory, activists allege growing crackdown on the solidarity movement.
SpaceX has released a demo showing how it intends to catch Starship's upper stage, which could happen as soon as next month.
Macron says Trump spread rumours about protests
Iran's nuclear enrichment has emerged as a major point of contention amid diplomatic push to end the war.
Kashim Chowdhury was contracted for 183 hours a week, more than the number of hours in seven days.
I'm The Verge's senior smartphone reviewer and I've been using the iPhone Duo for the past week. I've unfolded it, flipped it, and folded it more times than I could count as I've been working on the review alongside our editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, and I'm ready to answer your questions about it. The Duo represents […]
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Impossible issue We wanted our last print edition of 2026 to include a slate of stories that check in on impossible ideas. Why? Because it’s fun to dream about…
Overdrive plays your music folders as they are, adds synced lyrics, equal volume, and YouTube videos, playlist, likes, search, etc. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179552 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Less than two weeks before the election, Trump continues to crash through barriers that he wouldn't dare cross in his first term.
Two critical vulnerabilities have been identified with PHP, a programming language which is widely used across the internet.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented China-aligned threat cluster known as Bronze Sandcastle that has been observed targeting organizations in Asia and Africa since mid-2025. "The most distinctive technical marker for Bronze Sandcastle is its consistent use of Sandboxie DLL sideloading," Sophos security researcher Gabor Szappanos said in a post published
After years of comment, Lord's has dug up one of its pitches for the first time in more than 25 years. Why the drastic action and what next?
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The iPhone Duo has all the messiness of a first-gen product. And while I'm not sure I love all of the decisions Apple made around its design, it got one thing right: the matte finish on the inner screen. I've been using it for the past week to watch movies on a plane, peruse my […]
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Spotify announced Wednesday the launch of its next-generation, fully native in-car app, built directly on Google's Android Automotive operating system. The standalone app, which is launching today in select Audi models, runs directly on the vehicle's infotainment hardware - eliminating the need for phone tethering, Bluetooth connections, or aux cables. It's the clearest sign yet […]
Even though it's heavy and expensive, Apple's first foldable handset is a treat for iPhone users unwilling to switch to Android.
Apple made an astonishingly good first foldable. Now iOS and third-party apps need time to catch up.
The iPhone Duo is the riskiest Apple product in years. It's a huge rethink of what an iPhone is and could be, and it contains the seeds of many fascinating ideas that might be great in the future. But that future is yet to come. The iPhone Duo is also one of Apple's messiest first-generation […]
BBC Verify looks at what the Jackdaw decision means for bills, energy security and the environment.
Generative AI has changed what a malicious email looks like. Messages that once gave themselves away through clumsy wording, generic pretexts, and reused templates now arrive fluent, personalized, and unique to each recipient, and the behavioral signals email filters have relied on for years are fading as a result. Proofpoint shared several examples of the shift at its Protect 2026 conference.
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Security patches for the PHP programming language, widely used to build websites and web apps, are expected to roll out today, with the goal of fixing two critical vulnerabilities that could wreak havoc on the internet if left unchecked. In an advisory published on Tuesday, PHP developers said the vulnerabilities have a severity rating of […]
so recently i was working on a hackathron project with a friend and we were both using claude code however as it so happened we had to code one at a time in order to avoid file conflicts and interfering with each others work so i made a simple solution for this simple problem I am currently looking for users to test my app so if anyone has the same problem please check out synteny and join https://discord.gg/BPn28HSjH Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179308 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
The comedian and actor is on trial for charges including rape and sexual assault, which he denies.
The Justice Department's "likely" noncitizen voter list in California is "unreliable," according to officials. And, the United Nations reports a major increase in U.S. climate pollution.
Photonica is a browser editor that processes your photos without server uploading or registration. I'm Vlad, an engineering lead and a hobby mobile photographer. I like film aesthetics but don't like carrying a film camera with me. It all started with film emulation experiments on the server with heavy processing and evolved into a more convenient web app. I want to help everyone (including myself) to quickly get a film look, because I think each photo has its own vibe, so one preset just can't fit them all. The app can apply baked LUTs from spectral film models (spektrafilm by Andrea Volpato…
Formula 1 grands prix will return to their standard distance in 2028 after the maximum length was shortened for next season.
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GPUzilla boasts modular bit barns could speed up deployments from six months to just two weeks
Give your agents freedom to do useful work by locking them down
Four people who were children at the time of the Aberfan disaster recall the moment when a coal waste tip collapsed 60 years ago.
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Jamie Collins, 21, was ambushed and killed in the garden of the home he shared with his killer.
Commission opens DSA probe into fake listings and phishing on the platform, says its fraud defenses 'absolutely substandard'
From a calendar that keeps my family organized to a frame that rescues photos from my camera roll, these favorites make thoughtful gifts.
The web is a bit of a hot mess today following the discovery of two severe vulnerabilities.
There’s a new archive of all the papers from twenty-five years of the Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS). Really nice resource. It’s fun to reread my 2002 essay on the economics of information security.
The school went into lockdown and parents gathered at the gates as they waited for news about their children.
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Between crushing layoffs, ballooning budgets, and bland end products, video game makers need to stop chasing AAA glory.
Many of you might be familiar with Omnivore. It was a cloud-hosted Read it Later app that later shutdown due to the owners going to work for ElevenLabs. If you are familiar with it, you'll know that it was a pretty feature-filled reader that became an essential part of peoples reading / articling habit. Shortly before the shutdown I was tasked with ensuring that Omnivore could live on as a self-hosted application. By the time the Omnivore application shut down there was a fully-self hostable version available. I didn't do much to advertise this at the time. We had a pretty sturdy community on…
The data watchdog reprimanded Ogi Networks Limited and Data Cymru after the 2024 ransomware attack.
Mark Allen says he is working to "turn things around" and reveals he spent time in a mental health clinic before returning to snooker.
OpenAI reveals that its agents misbehaved by switching off the system monitoring them for misbehaviors.
Cost of living protests aren’t just happening in Europe
The Bridget Jones Prize will go to the author of the funniest 1,000-word diary-style piece of writing.
Kvaratskhelia out for months with a torn ACL in his right knee, while Dembele and Marquinhos suffer thigh muscle tears.
Ultra Right Beer, a brand launched in 2023 by MAGA political consultant Seth Weathers, has vanished from the internet with many deliveries unfulfilled.
Train times remain on show as an elderly Windows dialog demands attention
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You cannot fully block the two critical PHP flaws called PHP2Shell before today's fix, and the one setting being passed around as a workaround is not enough on its own, the security firm that suggested it now says. PHP will release the fix at 14:00 UTC on October 21 for two flaws it rates 9.2 out of 10, and has given no workaround of its own. Until you can install it, what lowers your
The slogan has come to represent a whole array of grievances that lie at the heart of the protest movement.
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An AppSec team can point an AI agent running on a general-purpose model at its own web apps with little setup. Sure, the model writes the attacks. But everything that makes those attacks safe to run against production and worth acting on afterward lives in the harness around the model. The harness is where the engineering in AI pentesting sits. The Hugging Face intrusion OpenAI disclosed in July
The Grammy-nominated artist was due to start a run of shows for his latest album Bulldozer!! next month.
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Attackers took control of more than 300 Tor exit relays in early October and used them to redirect SSH connections to servers that stole login passwords, a researcher found. Exit relays are the last hop in a Tor circuit, where traffic leaves the network for its destination. Only a password login to an SSH server made through Tor between October 1 and 5, after accepting the interception
It’s the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data.
The decision has drawn sharp criticism from left-wing politicians and environmentalists.
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UK's deployment of jets to defend Saudi Arabia is the latest chapter in a relationship older than the kingdom itself.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has freed an American, Stephen Hubbard, from a Russian prison following a request from President Trump.
Al Jazeera exposes UK far right's links to criminal underworld.
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Britain’s King Charles III welcomed Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq on the first state visit in 44 years.
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The economic figures released on Wednesday show the constraints for John Healey as he puts the finishing touches to his Budget.
Domain expertise and clear writing will matter more than syntax, and yes, that means documentation
These WIRED-tested devices will help you hear sounds more clearly. Never miss out on a dinner conversation again.
To escape the chaos of her Russian childhood, Lili Infante became an American law enforcement prodigy. She pioneered the DEA’s investigations of the dark web—never suspecting who she’d find hiding there.
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Paris St-Germain winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia will undergo knee surgery after suffering a knee injury during his side's 4-2 win over Barcelona on Tuesday.
It's a goofy weekend side-project trying to show how it feels being on-call and highlight some absurdities. I hope you enjoy. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50178183 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Inflation accelerated to 3.5% from 3.1% in the year to September, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The former Doctor Who and Kidulthood star appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
Abuse, threats against Australian lawmakers are rising in a country where political violence has historically been rare.
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Stephen Hubbard has been taken to Pulkovo Airport, Putin said during talks with US envoy Steve Witkoff.
