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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other 2028 Democratic presidential hopefuls have called for a more aggressive approach to addressing AI fears.

Article URL: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-government-was-entitled-trumps-border-agents-can-now-search-cellphones-without-a-warrant-probable-cause-or-reasonable-suspicion-2nd-circuit-rules/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758028

A security researcher has released working exploit code for four Linux kernel flaws that each let a local user gain root, the highest level of access on a machine. Kernel maintainers have fixed all four over the past few weeks, so a system running an up-to-date kernel is not affected. But the exploit code is now public, and any machine still running an older kernel should be updated. The flaws

The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.

FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.

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Rare cells with widespread connectivity seem to be able to trigger sleep.

Availability of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro series turned patchy within hours of its debut on India's quick-commerce apps.

SpaceX is getting an extension to an existing contract that will allow three additional crewed Dragon flights to the International Space Station.

Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.

The Federal Register website briefly used an open source Chinese AI search tool.

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757520

An aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation's autonomy technology flew across the United States without a human pilot taking control at any point.

Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of our Pingora-based service's RAM usage with statistics.

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already picked up some industry support, along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.  Watch […]

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already picked up some industry support, along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.  On […]

Article URL: https://danluu.com/brain-off/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757178

A coalition of over 100 AI experts are urging independence and transparency from Anthropic, OpenAI and other foundation model labs to conduct evaluations.

WordPress today released patches to fix a new set of vulnerabilities in its core software, one of which could allow a crafted web link, opened by a logged-in administrator, to install a theme from the official WordPress.org directory without anyone clicking Install. The security firm pwn.ai, whose researchers reported the flaw, calls the attack chain Click2Shell. On its own the flaw only

Article URL: https://donjon.ledger.com/blog/rp2350-secure-debug-laser-fault-injection/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757050

AirAsia's Tony Fernandes pushed back against a report raising concerns over the airline’s financial health, while signaling plans to resume growth.

Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.

At Salesforce's annual mega-conference in San Francisco, attendees said they get enough value from older AI models.

Disney has hired a chief technology officer, a newly minted role for the company, as it looks to further its embrace of tech under CEO Josh D'Amaro.

Oppo has officially launched its all-new Oppo A7 Pro 5G series in Malaysia, introducing both the standard Oppo A7 Pro 5G and the top-tier Oppo A7 Pro Max 5G. Following the pre-order announcement earlier this week, the new mid-range lineup focuses heavily on long-term battery endurance with capacities up to 10,000mAh, 50MP AI ultra-wide selfie […]