AI data center outrage is showing up everywhere from ads to elections
With less than three months until the midterm elections, opposition to AI data centers is becoming a bipartisan rallying cry in a growing number of states.
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Here’s what data Comcast says its motion-detecting routers collect
Comcast announced a new platform this week called Xfinity Shield that includes the option to let customers turn their routers into motion sensors. Many people reacted with fear and anger. "I am not enabling this. I am also seriously considering replacing my leased gateway with my own equipment, because a device I do not control […]
Stop the token bleed: building token-efficient multi-agent systems
Every engineering team deploying AI agents eventually discovers an uncomfortable truth: the model isn’t the biggest expense. The hidden cost The post Stop the token bleed: building token-efficient multi-agent systems appeared first on The New Stack .
SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste
The yeetcycling math resembles asteroid mining in reverse.
Chrome Beta for iOS Update
Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Beta 153 (153.0.8010.4) for iOS; it'll become available on App Store in the next few days. You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome
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Isolated-vm Flaw Lets Sandboxed JavaScript Escape to Host for Potential RCE
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in isolated-vm, a popular open-source sandbox with more than 2,900 stars and 190 forks on GitHub, that could allow attackers to escape the confines of the isolated environment. The vulnerability ("GHSA-864f-rcv7-6rh4"), which has yet to be assigned a CVE identifier, impacts all versions of the library before and including 7.0.0.
Funeral for 50 Palestinians recovered from Gaza rubble
A funeral has been held in Gaza for 50 Palestinians whose bodies were recently recovered from the rubble.
Critical NetScaler Flaw Can Bypass Authentication on Certain Gateway and AAA Servers
Citrix has released updates to address two security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway deployments, including a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability. According to the cloud computing and virtualization technology company, the issues affect customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including certain FIPS and NDcPP builds, as well as SecurAccess
Ex-defence chief’s call for wartime election raises pressure on Zelenskyy
Fedorov, a popular figure, is challenging Zelenskyy but holding a vote under Russia's bombs is near impossible.
DJI Osmo fans are breaking the shackles of its closed-source camera app
Even if you love DJI's drones and cameras, you might not love the company's bloated closed-source apps that phone home to its cloud servers. But they're the only way to easily review, manage, and wirelessly download your pocket camera's footage on the go. Osmosis, a free open-source app built by DJI watcher Konrad Iturbe (with […]
Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/supply-chain-attack-on... https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/issues/3161 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374269 Points: 339 # Comments: 326
Why a Trump envoy’s Kashmir visit has led to US-Pakistan spat
Pakistan says the comments contradict Washington’s position, but experts see them as a diplomatic misstep.
US debt hits $40 trillion: Who does Washington owe and why does it matter?
Heavy borrowing, increased spending and tax cuts by Democratic and Republican administrations have long raised concern.
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Threat Actor Hacks 14,000 IP Cameras in Ukraine and Russia
Operation CameraSwarm targeted Dahua cameras across multiple countries, focusing on Russian and CIS telecom netblocks. The post Threat Actor Hacks 14,000 IP Cameras in Ukraine and Russia appeared first on SecurityWeek .
War on Iran: Trump announces a new campaign to isolate Iran economically
US President Donald Trump has announced a new campaign to isolate Iran and punish its trading partners.
West Ham urges fans to stop chanting ‘anti-Palestine message’
Club relegated from the Premier League last season appeals to fans to stop 'anti-Palestine message'.
Israel warns Turkey against 'dangerous adventures in Syria'
Turkey says it will continue supporting Syria's sovereignty after Israel bombed a Syrian air base and accused Turkish President Erdogan of dragging his country into "dangerous adventures" there.
“Save frontier models for frontier problems”: Why Korea’s Solar Pro 4 is a workhorse agent reliability play
South Korean AI model company Upstage AI officially announced the launch of its Solar Pro 4 closed commercial LLM last The post “Save frontier models for frontier problems”: Why Korea’s Solar Pro 4 is a workhorse agent reliability play appeared first on The New Stack .
PyCharm for AI-assisted Django Workflows
The 2026 Django Developers Survey (results coming soon!) found that AI is part of the weekly or daily workflow for 90% of respondents. AI can write code quickly, but Django developers still need to understand the application, evaluate what the agent produces, and be accountable for what ships. That makes your IDE more important, not […]
Bitcoin surges 12% in two days as Trump, crypto execs lead last ditch effort for Clarity Act
Bitcoin is trading at its highest levels since early June as crypto execs joined with President Donald Trump push to get the Clarity Act over the finish line.
NASA gives up on trying to rescue the Swift telescope
Plans to rescue NASA's Swift Observatory satellite from falling into Earth's atmosphere are seemingly dead in the water. The agency and Katalyst Space announced yesterday that the Link spacecraft will no longer capture or boost the Swift telescope to a higher altitude due to an ongoing "attitude control issue," but will instead conduct rendezvous and […]
Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.