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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Wordle meets Clippy in this new word game

Like many of us, Sam Rosenthal plays games like Wordle every day, chasing after good scores and sharing the results with friends and family. But he's also a game designer, the creative director at Blaseball developer The Game Band, and so this regular habit got him thinking about what else could be done in the […]

World · Al Jazeera

Russia maintains election ban on opposition Yabloko, jails deputy head

Supreme Court ruling supports Kremlin's clampdown on the political party ahead of September's parliamentary vote.

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Snowflake GitHub Actions Flaw Lets Crafted Issues Trigger Command Injection

Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake's public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a crafted GitHub issue to execute commands in a workflow containing internal Jira credentials. The issue was present in .github/workflows/jira_issue.yml, which ran when a

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Petlibro accused of “gaslighting” users over smart pet feeder outage

Petlibro says feeders perform scheduled feedings offline. Users report otherwise.

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It was discovered and reported by a security researcher who goes by the online alias "

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.

World · Al Jazeera

CAIR slams Texas governor’s ‘anti-Muslim stunt’ on airport washing stations

Abbott accuses airports of religious discrimination over wudu stations, calls for federal investigation.

Society · The Guardian Society

People with severe intellectual disabilities live 24 years less on average

Exclusive: Research also finds stark ethnic disparities, and 40% of deaths among group classed as avoidable People living with severe intellectual disabilities are dying 24 years younger on average than the wider population, a study has found, with 40% of such deaths being avoidable. The study also found that within this group, people from minority ethnic backgrounds were dying 14 years younger than their white counterparts. Continue reading...

World · Deutsche Welle

UAE economy: On the verge of collapse or on way to recovery?

On one hand, the UAE economy is suffering due to the Iran war, as residents leave and tourists cancel plans. On the other hand, UAE authorities insist everything is fine and recovery is underway. What's really going on?

Cloud & Infrastructure · CNCF Blog

Welcome Falkey the Falco and Ky the Kyverno Pyrenees

If you have yet to meet Phippy, she’s a friendly PHP app exploring the cloud native world with her pals. Over the last decade, Phippy’s circle has grown to include eighteen friends, with the newest members...

Society · The Guardian Society

Ministers drop plan to relax affordable housing rules after negative response

Government concedes ‘significant opposition’ requires new approach on quotas for medium-sized development sites Ministers have dropped plans to relax affordable housing rules for developers in England after a backlash from housing experts who warned it could drastically cut the number of cheaper homes available in rural areas. The government said on Monday it would not go ahead with proposals to end affordable housing quotas for private builders on sites containing between 10 and 49 houses after a consultation triggered an overwhelmingly negative response. Continue reading...

World · Al Jazeera

Clashes between government and opposition fighters in Somalia’s Baidoa

Heavy clashes broke out in Baidoa, Somalia between federal troops and armed opposition groups.

World · Al Jazeera

Syria launches probe into death of ‘White Helmet’ rescuer in police custody

Family members allege security officers ignored warnings about the man's hemophilia and subjected him to severe abuse.

World · Al Jazeera

Explosion reported at school in Afghan capital Kabul

The cause of the blast and the number of casualties have not been confirmed, with the Taliban government yet to comment.

World · Al Jazeera

Britain deploys military as wildfires spread across Europe

Britain deploys military as wildfires spread across Europe

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-27b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334544 Points: 305 # Comments: 134

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

YouTube is changing how it counts views to give the numbers a boost

YouTube will soon count a view as soon as a video starts to play, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos. The update will go into effect on August 24th, "which means creators will likely see their total view counts increase faster moving forward," the platform says. Instagram and […]

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

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Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

“Open weights are nowhere near a sufficient solution”: Dario Amodei fires back on AI power

The independence developers gain from open weights comes with a hard infrastructure ceiling, according to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. “AI The post “Open weights are nowhere near a sufficient solution”: Dario Amodei fires back on AI power appeared first on The New Stack .

World · Deutsche Welle

Russia: Prison for opposition leader over war criticism

Lev Shlosberg of the Yabloko party has been sentenced to over 11 years in a penal colony for criticizing the war in Ukraine. "A single person is imprisoned, yet fear seeps into the hearts of millions," he said in court.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

The Analogue Pocket gets a Supreme makeover in red or gold

Analogue and Supreme are teaming up to release metallic versions of the Analogue Pocket handheld in red and gold as part of Supreme's fall / winter 2026 collection. Here's how they're described on Supreme's website: Metallic portable handheld multi-video-game-system. Unibody aluminum with 24K Gold-plated and custom red glossy finishes. They also have a Supreme logo […]

AI · TechCrunch AI

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Sonos finally added Live Activities controls for your iPhone lockscreen

Sonos released an update to its mobile app that finally introduces support for iOS' Live Activities, giving iPhone users quick access to playback controls on their lockscreen. The added functionality is a "much requested, anticipated, and needed feature," according to a post Sonos shared to Reddit today that was spotted by 9to5Mac. While some features […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Trump’s dumb border wall

About 22 miles south of the former mining town of Patagonia, Arizona, down a winding, unpaved mountain road that passes cows grazing on open range, stands a cottonwood tree believed to be at least 200 years old. The "grandmother" tree, as some locals call it, is imperiled and already showing signs of stress, almost as […]