Two-Tier Encryption in the UK – Identical Apple Devices, Different Protection
Here’s something odd. Alice and Bill both live in the UK. Both have identical iPhones. Both use iCloud. Both pay Apple for the same services. Alice has Advanced Data Protection switched on, protecting the majority of her iCloud data. Bill doesn’t, and can’t switch it on. Alice enabled it before Apple withdrew the feature for […]
Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack
Keep our news free from ads and paywalls by making a donation to support our work! Notes from Poland is run by a small editorial team and is published by an independent, non-profit foundation that is funded through donations from our readers. We cannot do what we do without your support. A fire last night […]
Nokia Design Archive (2025)
Collection information / Kokoelman tiedot Arkisto tai kokoelma: Nokia Design Archive Arkistonmuodostaja: Nokia Corporation Genre / Aineistotyyppi: Kuva Genre / Aineistotyyppi: Asiakirjat ja tekstit Genre / Aineistotyyppi: Video Genre / Aineistotyyppi: Äänite Date range from / Ajallinen kattavuus, varhaisin: 1990-01-01 Date range to / Ajallinen kattavuus, myöhäisin: 2020-12-31 Physical description / Aineiston laajuus: Language […]
The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU
cpu erratum loongarch loongson 中文版本 TL;DR In February 2026, Wang Miao ran into something strange while packaging normaliz for Debian on a LoongArch server: the math software’s built-in test kept timing out, stuck in an infinite loop that it could not escape. Following the code, the problem pointed to a very ordinary operation: OpenMP’s #pragma […]
Microsoft tried to ban “Microslop”, and six months later it has given up
Microsoft quietly drops its ban on Microslop as it scales back Windows 11 AI bloat In March, Windows Latest was the first to notice that Microsoft’s official Copilot Discord server was blocking messages containing “Microslop.” Anyone who tried to post it got a moderation warning, and people quickly started testing variations like “Microsl0p” to slip […]
Can open-source prompt-injection detectors catch realistic AI agent attacks?
🎯 TL;DR I ran 10 open-source detectors against 629 real AgentDojo injection attacks, each buried inside ordinary tool output — the way an agent firewall actually sees them. None catches most attacks without also blocking normal traffic. 🥇 Best trade-off: 51% caught at 2% false positives 🔴 Meta’s Prompt Guard 2: 1% caught 🚫 Two […]
Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
Jack Cable*,2, Daniel Chiu*, Francisco Pernice*,3, Selena Zhang*,1, James Anthony1, Tetiana Bas4, Gary Shen4, Conrad Stosz1, Jacob Steinhardt1 1 Transluce · 2 Corridor · 3 MIT · 4 AIUC · *Primary contributors, listed alphabetically Transluce | Published: September 23, 2026 We present evidence that AI agents used the web security service urlquery.net to bypass restrictions […]
Show HN: How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire?
How many years at a big salary before you can coast, retire, or retire and never shrink your nest egg. Heads up: this is a vibe-coded FIRE tool. It was built in a conversation with Claude (an AI): someone described what they wanted, and Claude wrote the code, the tests and the design log. No […]
Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years at Apple, Google, and other companies. Now, he’s trying to convince open-source projects to experiment more and drive the desktop beyond the age-old “windows, icons, menus, pointer” (WIMP) model. At Akademy 2026, KDE’s annual developer conference, he shared his complaints […]
OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says
Getty Images One thing that has surprised experts is not just the breach by an autonomous AI program – but the fact that OpenAI only told the Australian government three months later, via an email to general address. The breach happened on 18 June. OpenAI said it became aware of a potential breach during a […]