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Kojima is partnering up with km5 to release a limited-edition version of the CP1 wireless CD player designed to resemble a BB Pod from Death Stranding 2. The nuclear orange aesthetic resembles classic retro tech of bygone eras, but the player itself is rather feature-rich, too.

LLMs are theft by 'absolute scum' who make life harder for writers by putting them in copyright peril

This Newegg RAM bundles ships with the 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, an MSI MPG X870E keyboard, and 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM for $1,308.99, making the effective RAM cost just $230.

Artificial intelligence is helping businesses become more productive, but there’s a new challenge. It is also making cyberattacks faster and harder to detect. According to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, organisations across Asia Pacific are facing a growing “visibility gap”, where attackers are able to infiltrate systems and remain undetected for extended periods of time. Kaspersky’s Managing […]

If you’ve been rocking SoyaCincau gear over the years, you know the drill. From event pop-ups to scattered order links, our merchandise has always been around, but it just never really had a proper place to call its own. Well, the makeshift era is officially over. We’re hyped to announce the launch of our brand-new […]

PC Games Hardware has retested the GTX 1080 Ti, along with its GP102 brethren, in a range of new games across multiple resolutions. The results reveal the obvious: the 1080 Ti is still a capable GPU at 1080p, mostly thanks to its 11GB VRAM buffer, but it's highly inefficient by today's standards.

June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.

CMF, Nothing’s budget-friendly sub-brand, has officially announced the launch date for its next audio product. Moving away from traditional in-ear designs, the upcoming CMF Clip Pro will be the brand’s first foray into open-wearable stereo (OWS) earbuds. The official unveiling is scheduled to take place tomorrow, Tuesday, 4 August 2026 at 21:00 MYT. — CMF […]

Article URL: https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manually-retyping-llm-generated-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153374 Points: 530 # Comments: 436

Proton e.MAS 5 is now officially available in Nepal, which is the EV’s 2nd international market after Singapore. The electric hatchback is also the 2nd Proton e.MAS model in Nepal after the e.MAS 7, which was launched there in March 2025. Over in Nepal, Proton e.MAS vehicles are being distributed by Proton’s authorised distributor, Jagdamba […]

Use it to debug and review, says Big Red, but don't submit its output

The Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has confirmed that police, government and customer contact information was compromised and published on the dark web. The data included names, organisations and work email addresses belonging to police officers, police staff, criminal justice professionals, government partners and customers. The incident, identified on July 26, also exposed some names

Your neighbourhood TCM shop is actually a S$150M empire Most Singaporeans have walked past a Hockhua Tonic store without thinking twice. Its iconic red signage, the scent of dried herbs, and rows of grab-and-go herbal teas blend so seamlessly into Singapore’s heartland malls that the brand has become part of the landscape. Which makes it […]

Article URL: https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152842 Points: 382 # Comments: 152

An opinion piece at The Register highlights how Claude Code is being used by digital archaeologists at the UK's National Museum of Computing to reverse-engineer obsolete systems. Concrete examples include Phil Pemberton using Claude Code to get Inmos Transputer/occam software working on an Acorn Archimedes accelerator, and a separate effort to disassemble and annotate Acorn's 6502-based Network Filing System, which required understanding of Econet LAN hardware and software from around 1980.

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Data sourced from Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower. As we know, the median salary for fresh graduates in Singapore is currently S$4,500, while the figure for the entire workforce is S$5,775. However, there are some jobs that pay their young workers much better—if […]

Thermo Fisher Scientific has patched a flaw in select Applied Biosystems human identification software that could allow data files to be altered before analysis software loads them. The vendor's July 31 security bulletin says nearly undetectable changes to .fsa and .hid outputs could occur if laboratory controls are circumvented. Thermo Fisher tracks the issue as CVE-2026-17583 and rates it

CrowdStrike tracks 89% surge in machine-assisted activity as patch windows shrink to 48 hours

GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.

Article URL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-project-goals/blob/main/src/2026/move-trait.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152023 Points: 239 # Comments: 101

N-able said attackers exploited an authentication bypass in N-central to gain remote administrative access and reach the customer systems managed through those servers. Its first fix was incomplete. CVE-2026-18577 affects N-central builds prior to 2026.3.1.7. N-able shipped build 2026.3.1.7 on August 2 as the first unaffected version. N-central is the remote monitoring and management platform

Three high-severity security flaws have been disclosed in Hugging Face's Diffusers library that could allow crafted model repositories to stealthily execute arbitrary code on machines that load it, opening the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain to security risk. "These vulnerabilities are bypassing trust_remote_code, the safeguard designed to stop unreviewed code from running in the

Daddy, I typed a Unix command! Was it a bad one?

Article URL: https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151933 Points: 1793 # Comments: 716

Article URL: https://mertbulan.com/more-german-than-many-germans/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151734 Points: 607 # Comments: 468