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Hacker News prioritizes intellectually curious content, fosters a self-moderating community guided by two human moderators, and promotes discussions that are informative and surprising. The platform encourages humility and focuses on delivering signal over noise, making it a unique social network for intellectual growth.
Anthropic's Claude Skills is a new feature that enables Claude to perform specific tasks more effectively by using folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources. Claude automatically selects and loads only the relevant skills. Skills are composable, portable across Claude platforms, and have support for executable code for complex tasks.
Cloudflare Sandboxes provide secure, sandboxed containers for executing commands, managing files, and running services. They support long-running processes, real-time streaming of output, public URLs for exposed ports, a code interpreter, and filesystem access.
Hyperflask is a full-stack Python framework built on Flask. It has a component system, file-based routing, and pre-built UI components. Hyperflask supports both backend-driven interactive apps and static site generation, providing architecture flexibility.
Budget cuts have caused roughly 4,000 NASA employees to leave in the past six months, leading to a huge brain drain that threatens the agency's future. Former NASA scientists describe the departures as catastrophic, citing a loss of expertise, community, and the destruction of NASA's identity.
The State of AI Report 2025 covers research, industry, politics, safety, and a new survey of AI practitioners. This year's report shows more competition in AI development, AI's emergence as a scientific collaborator, and the acceleration of commercial traction for AI tools. There's also more widespread AI usage among professionals, along with large datacenter buildouts to support AI workloads.
Elixir v1.19 introduces better type checking and inference for anonymous functions and protocols, leading to better bug detection, alongside compiler improvements like lazy module loading and parallel dependency compilation.
Agent4 is a stateful browser agent that uses a client-sourced, self-healing DOM map to remember and instantly execute recurring tasks, reducing latency compared to stateless LLM-powered agents.
Google's unreleased Gemini 3.0 AI model was spotted in the wild through A/B testing in AI Studio, with an impressive SVG generation of an Xbox 360 controller showing improved quality compared to Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Inkeep Agents provides a platform to build and manage AI agents using either a no-code visual builder or a TypeScript SDK.
Josh Kushner's Thrive Capital has grown into a major VC firm, with investments including a $2 billion stake in Stripe and $150 million in OpenAI leading to substantial returns. Despite Thrive's success, Kushner sought guidance from Rick Rubin on maintaining his intuitive decision-making, reflecting concerns about losing this edge as decisions often rely on non-explainable intuition. Thrive's strategic investments, such as in OpenAI during its leadership crisis, demonstrate its ability to capitalize on opportunities, even under challenging circumstances.
General Intuition raised $134M in seed funding to train AI agents using a massive dataset from video game clips on Medal's platform, focusing on spatial-temporal reasoning. The startup aims to apply this technology to gaming, search-and-rescue drones, and autonomous systems. Notably, OpenAI previously showed interest in acquiring Medal for its valuable data, which is key to their unique training approach.
Products often collapse under their own weight. Every competitor keeps adding features until users feel exhausted, then something simple shows up and feels new again. Innovation isn't about adding more but about knowing when to stop and when to return to the version that simply works and makes sense again.
Most SEO still looks like shooting arrows in the dark: picking keywords and hoping they hit a target. Search today is closer to a conversation than a list of results. People ask questions the way they think, and AI tools answer them that way too. Treating search like a guessing game misses how users actually move. Map it instead. Know when someone's just exploring, when they're comparing, and when they're ready to buy.
What happens when the most valuable part of a company can walk out the door? In the AI boom, big tech isn't buying startups, they're hiring their founders. Data can be copied and models can be rebuilt, but conviction can't be replaced. A founder's mindset is the real moat. Those who play the long game build lasting companies.
You can't just be happy for someone anymore. Even small moments of support now demand an audience. A text of genuine congratulations doesn't feel complete until it's echoed online, where friendship doubles as performance. We call it community, but it's really choreography. Each like, quote, and comment is part of an endless loop of reciprocal praise. For founders, it's the same trap in different clothes. The pressure to show momentum, post wins, and stay visible can quietly replace the work itself.
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Pally is an AI-powered relationship manager that unifies your social connections, researches their activity, and helps you prep, track, and engage smarter.
As AI gets smarter, people may stop thinking as hard. We are like animals that lose their instincts when life gets too easy. Each time we let machines handle a task, our minds become a little weaker. Use the tools, but keep doing some work yourself, or one day you might forget how.
AI startups are growing faster than any SaaS wave before them, but speed hides cracks. Today's AI boom is like a sprint run on borrowed stamina: margins are thin, retention untested, and switching costs low. Early growth looks great because customers are new and competition is still forming. The real test comes when renewals hit. Growth endurance, not growth speed, decides who survives once the hype cools.
Andreessen Horowitz has returned at least $25 billion to its backers since 2009, with its $900 million 2012 Fund III hitting a 9.4x net TVPI. The firm invests heavily in emerging tech sectors and defense, with significant stakes in companies like Databricks. Despite its influence, much of its fund performance remains under wraps, though new decks reveal insights into IPO candidates and fund performance.
Legal tech investment reached a record $2.4 billion in 2025, bolstered by AI-driven automation in the legal field.
Distyl AI, founded by ex-Palantir engineers, raised $175 million at a $1.8 billion valuation to scale its AI consulting platform.
Motion raised $60M, led by Scale Venture Partners, to enhance its agentic work suite for SMBs at a valuation of $550M.
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Mergers and acquisitions are complex enough without managing a data breach. Unfortunately, more than 1 in 3 CISOs have reported experiencing a breach tied to M&A activity.
Cybercriminals are conducting a phishing campaign targeting password manager users with fake breach notification emails that trick recipients into downloading malware disguised as "secure desktop versions" of LastPass and Bitwarden. The malicious downloads install Syncro MSP agent software configured to deploy ScreenConnect remote access tools, giving attackers full control over compromised systems while remaining hidden from users. Security professionals should educate users that legitimate password manager companies never request master passwords via email and that security incidents are always announced through official channels and verified company blogs.
Researchers at Trend Micro uncovered a malware campaign that exploits a recently patched remote code execution vulnerability in older Cisco IOS and IOS XE devices to install a Linux rootkit. This flaw leverages the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and permits attackers with root privileges to execute arbitrary code, bypassing security controls such as Cisco's Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) framework and Virtual Teletype (VTY) access control lists. Once active, the rootkit conceals running configurations, manipulates logs, and resets timestamps to evade detection, thereby gaining persistent control over affected devices.
Spanish fashion retailer Mango reported a data breach after one of its third-party service providers experienced unauthorized access. The breached data includes first names, countries, postal codes, email addresses, and phone numbers. Mango stressed that financial information, IDs, usernames, and passwords were not leaked.
Report URI's response to the critical Redis vulnerability demonstrates a layered defense strategy: they immediately implemented ACL restrictions to disable EVAL and EVALSHA commands as a temporary mitigation, then leveraged their recently deployed Redis Sentinel high-availability setup to perform zero-downtime upgrades to the patched version. Their existing security posture, which included network isolation, strict firewall rules, role-based access controls, and comprehensive logging, meant they were already protected from exploitation and could quickly verify that no compromise had occurred through command statistics analysis. Security teams should prioritize defense-in-depth architecture that enables rapid response to critical vulnerabilities, including network segmentation, quickly modifiable access controls, and high-availability configurations that allow for seamless patching without service disruption.
The author recommends a 1:40 security-to-employee ratio and 1:100 IT-to-employee ratio for startups, based on research from successful companies like GitHub and GitLab. He advocates for organizing security teams into four distinct areas: IT (employee enablement), Security Operations (infrastructure and compliance), GRC (governance and customer-facing security), and Product Security (application security and engineering). The document includes a detailed 24-month hiring plan that scales from 5 security staff at 187 employees to 16 security staff at 600 employees, emphasizing that proper staffing ratios are essential for moving from reactive to proactive security postures.
Virtual Hard Disk (VHDX) files are commonly generated by Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments and can be very useful to forensic investigators. Velociraptor is frequently used in investigations but fails to discover or parse the NTUSER.DAT hives in VHDX files without injecting a synthetic ProfileList registry hive or customizing the Windows.Sys.Users artifact to support VHDX discovery logic. To perform this analysis at scale, a single remapping configuration can be used, multiple virtual Velociraptor clients can be launched, or a batch processing approach can be used as a middle ground.
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Slack conversations are discoverable—and exploitable. By treating eDiscovery like risk management, one savvy media company avoided a million-dollar surprise legal bill and strengthened its data security position. Onna makes legal and infosec work together to contain exposure.
MCPTotal launched as the first comprehensive security platform for Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementations, addressing critical vulnerabilities in enterprise AI integrations, including supply chain exposures, prompt injection attacks, rogue MCP servers, and data exfiltration risks that traditional security tools cannot monitor. The platform provides a hub-and-gateway architecture with centralized hosting, authentication, credential vaulting, and AI-native firewall capabilities. It monitors MCP traffic and enforces real-time policies while offering a vetted catalog of secure MCP servers. Security professionals should recognize that MCP adoption creates a new attack surface requiring specialized monitoring and governance, and should evaluate solutions that provide visibility into AI-to-enterprise system connections, implement proper authentication controls, and establish policies for employee MCP usage to prevent shadow IT risks.
SecureVibes is an AI-native security system for vibecoded applications that uses Claude's multi-agent architecture to find security vulnerabilities in your code base autonomously.
Mondoo provides an agentic vulnerability management platform enabling organizations to categorize, prioritize, and remediate risks across on-prem, cloud, SaaS, and endpoints.
The author argues that SOC 2 and other security compliance frameworks have fundamental flaws: vague control requirements disconnected from specific threats, audit methodologies that only assess current state rather than historical effectiveness, and static reports that quickly become outdated in dynamic environments. He proposes ALCOVE (Assurance Levels for Control Operating Viability & Effectiveness), a new framework inspired by software supply chain security models that would provide continuous monitoring, threat-informed requirements, and real-time dashboards showing historical control effectiveness. The proposal includes integrating cyber insurance incentives to drive adoption, where insurers would receive continuous control data from vendors in exchange for premium discounts, creating better-aligned incentives across all stakeholders.
Apple has removed another anti-ICE app on the App Store. The “Eyes Up” app shared location data of arrests that have already happened and holds archives of arrest videos.
Hackers, including those working for North Korea, are distributing malware using Ethereum and BNB blockchains, making it immune to takedowns and almost impossible to trace. By embedding malicious code in blockchain smart contracts, attackers can bypass traditional security measures, easily update payloads, and use job scams to lure developers into running these contracts as part of the interview process.
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Cloud security focuses on keeping attackers out_ - _but outbound attack paths can be a blind spot. The network flow approach can be a useful monitoring alternative. Read the blog by Intrusion [18].
A 19-year-old college student received a four-year prison sentence and $14 million restitution order for breaching PowerSchool's systems using stolen subcontractor credentials.
Chinese threat group Jewelbug conducted a five-month intrusion into a Russian IT service provider from January to May.
Sotheby's experienced a cyberattack in July.
This piece critiques Tilly Norwood, the so-called first fully AI actress, as a marketing illusion rather than a breakthrough. It argues that hype outpaces reality since no AI can yet deliver lifelike performances. Tilly reflects a culture that mistakes spectacle for progress and lets exaggerated stories distort real advances. Unchecked hype breeds fatigue and confusion. Real innovation depends on human creativity guiding AI to enhance rather than replace it.
Social media now drives every stage of the beauty funnel from product discovery to purchase. Over 90% of consumers report being influenced by social platforms in their personal care decisions. Informative content is a top priority for 8 in 10 shoppers who want to better understand product usage and ingredients. AR experiences are also gaining traction, with nearly 80% of buyers showing interest and Snapchatters being over twice as likely to convert when AR is available.
Claude's repositioning involved a deliberate shift away from typical AI narratives, such as speed and automation. Anthropic focused instead on celebrating the act of thinking, framing its product as a companion for people who value depth over efficiency. Campaign elements included public activations like a branded coffee shop and merchandise that signaled user identity. Messaging focused on the user's mindset rather than the product's functionality, with the brand presenting itself as aligned with creators, professionals, and problem-solvers seeking clarity over output.
Many marketers overinvest in software or paid traffic while overlooking the psychological triggers that actually drive purchases. This article outlines 7 dark psychology tactics used in sales funnels, such as yes-laddering, false scarcity, and fake guarantees. While these methods can generate short-term results, they often erode trust and damage brand reputation in the long run. Rather than using a fake countdown timer, it is better to communicate real capacity constraints. Instead of hiding refund terms, make them upfront and fair. Trust and transparency improve conversions more sustainably than pressure or deception, and a value-driven funnel earns longer customer retention and referrals.
Start with a differentiation audit to identify what makes your brand visually and conceptually ownable. Design assets that perform in the attention economy, including social graphics, sales materials, and other content that stops the scroll and keeps people engaged. Build an asset library with reusable visual elements so your team can execute campaigns efficiently. Avoid generic visuals and fragmented execution to ensure your brand is memorable and ready to scale.