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San Francisco-based defense startup Mara raised $7M to develop Spike, a counter-drone system using 250g, 200 km/h tube-launched kinetic interceptors paired with electro-optical/acoustic Spotter sensors. The system has been tested in US Army exercises in Texas and Europe, and by Ukrainian forces near the front line tracking FPV drones.

The US Navy has successfully launched dual JAGM missiles from a Saildrone Surveyor, its first drone sailboat, during carrier strike group tests that also included armed USV and electronic warfare exercises. The article text is truncated and mostly contains site navigation and membership boilerplate rather than substantive technical detail.

An opinion piece argues GDPR is effective precisely because major tech companies and US cyberlibertarians hate it, comparing their opposition to FDR's embrace of his enemies' hatred. It frames the ubiquitous cookie banner not as a GDPR failure but as deliberate malicious compliance—a dark pattern designed to exhaust users into consenting to surveillance by hundreds of partners.

Unitek launched the uHUB S6+, a 6-in-1 USB-C hub that combines a wireless presenter pen and laser pointer with a 4K@60Hz HDMI port, three 5Gbps USB ports, and 100W Power Delivery. The product is aimed at business presenters, though the laser pointer also doubles as a cat toy.

IKEA announced YXSTABY, a nine-piece Xbox-themed furniture collection launching October 1, including a thumbstick stool and D-pad cushion. Buried in the article is Microsoft's note that console storage and memory prices have increased over 2.5x since the Xbox Series S launched at £249 in 2020, with another doubling expected by fall 2027.

Samsung presented their LPDDR5X-PIM architecture at Hot Chips 2026, placing MAC units inside each of 16 DRAM banks on standard LPDDR5X-9600 chips to exploit internal bandwidth of 614 GB/s versus 76.8 GB/s for normal external access. Each PIM block contains a MAC tree with 1024-bit instruction registers and supports INT8, FP8, and 4-bit formats, yielding 2.4 TOPS per chip at 4-bit; eight chips together reach 9.6 INT8 TOPS, roughly matching Intel Meteor Lake's NPU, but requiring 128 GB of LPDDR5X. Crucially, PIM operations are invoked using standard LPDDR5X protocol commands, meaning no exotic memory controller is needed.

OpenAI is terminating its partnership with Cursor following Cursor's acquisition by SpaceX, cutting off direct access to OpenAI models on November 12. Cursor's CEO Michael Truell says OpenAI models account for only ~5% of Cursor user traffic and is in talks with OpenAI, but OpenAI's blog cites prior contract violations by Elon Musk's companies as justification. Separately, Z.ai open-weighted GLM-5.3 (744B total / 40B active params, 1M context, 128K max output) with day-0 vLLM support.

TurboKV is an async embedded key-value store for Rust (v0.6, ~194 GitHub stars) offering atomic batches, ordered range scans, configurable durability presets, compression, and background compaction. Its persisted Bloom-filter format leverages hardware AES instructions, requiring specific build flags for x86 and ARM targets.

Cyberjaya-based Global PsyTech, founded by Dr Haniza Yon, has run proof-of-concept credit-scoring projects with 20+ financial institutions and back-tested models on thousands of borrowers, reporting >50% NPL reduction in some implementations. The company combines psychometric data with banking transactions and smartphone metadata to assess 'thin-file' borrowers—gig workers, young people, women entering the formal economy—who lack conventional credit histories. It plans to raise a new funding round by early 2027.

Honda Malaysia has opened pre-orders for the Honda City 2026 facelift, offering a RM3,000 Early Bird Reward for bookings placed by 30 September 2026. The facelift brings a 10-inch floating infotainment display, updated 360-degree camera with multi-view, Blind Spot Information with Cross Traffic Monitoring, and Honda Sensing suite standard across all variants; powertrain options remain the e:HEV RS hybrid and the 1.5L i-VTEC with CVT.

OpenAI notified SpaceX it will wind down its contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026, citing lack of confidence that SpaceX will comply with terms of service based on prior contract violations by Musk's companies (Twitter and xAI, both now under SpaceX). OpenAI will not provide future models to Cursor and references its upcoming model 'Astra' as requiring stricter accountability. The cancellation uses a change-of-control clause in the custom agreement with Cursor.

StemDeck is a free, open-source, local AI stem separator that splits audio files (MP3, WAV, FLAC, etc.) or YouTube URLs into up to six stems (vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, other). It runs entirely on the user's machine without accounts, uploads, or subscriptions, positioning itself as a local alternative to cloud services like Moises and LALAL.AI.

Article URL: https://azmirror.com/2026/08/28/9th-circuit-sides-with-states-in-kalshi-gambling-fight-potentially-reviving-arizonas-prosecution/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485452

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Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.

Article URL: https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485267

Are XREAL's smart glasses the way of the future for home entertainment?

Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule.

Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat alarming post he reports that security issues in OCaml projects are seeing evidence of attempted exploits within minutes of patches being shared for discussion: This normally takes a few days and a release within a week or two is reasonable. Within about ten minutes (!) this website was fielding probes for percent-encoded traversal sequences, indicating that automated watchers are keeping an eye on public repositories. Modern coding agents have become so effective at finding flaws that the slightest hint at a new bug can be enough information for them to find it, something Anil has been able to demonstrate using his own agents, switching to DeepSeek V4 Pro⁠ when Claude Fable refused the task. Anil points out that this rate of discovery appears incompatible with existing open source embargo practices for new issues. If an issue can become an exploit this fast, we need to figure out new processes for keeping our communities safe. rclone maintainer Nick Craig-Wood confirms in the Hacker News comments that his project is seeing this problem: In the first 10 years of the rclone project we received about 20 security disclosures through GitHub. We had to deal with over 40 in the last month! That has taken a huge amount of my time, even using AI tools to triage and come up with fixes for review. The hit rate for those security disclosures is pretty good - about 75% of them have a nugget of something which needs looking at. [...] GitHub assigns CVEs for the advisories. Before the AI apocalypse they took 2-3 days for an assignment but now it they are running at 3-4 weeks so I have to send the point releases out with CVE-PENDING in the changelog which isn't ideal. Via Hacker News Tags: open-source, security, ai, generative-ai, llms, coding-agents, ocaml, ai-security-research

Cancellations have accelerated.

Berlin's state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city's state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists' demands. The same statement disclosed that forensic work had found further data outflows in the portfolio of the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and Environment

RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83.

More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi

Cosmos Labs has warned that a critical balance-handling flaw in the shared Cosmos EVM module was exploited to drain funds from six blockchains between August 20 and August 25, 2026. The vulnerability, designated GHSA-7g4w-cg88-2cq2, is rated Critical by Cosmos Labs and was published without a CVE identifier, a weakness classification, or a CVSS score. Affected versions are < 0.6.2 and >=

Article URL: https://www.s-config.com/stopping-a-smart-tv-from-being-used-against-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483816