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You Shall Not Pass into Ring-0! A User Privacy-Friendly Anti-Cheat Architecture for Personal Computers
Anti-Cheat Software Spies on Players. This Architecture Stops That. When you install a competitive game like Valorant or Fortnite, you also install kernel-level anti-cheat software. Riot Vanguard, Easy Anti-Cheat, BattlEye, and FA...
Callum Williams on Cybersecurity Prices
A Economist's Data Challenge to AI Security Panic Cybersecurity stocks have been volatile in recent weeks, and both sides of the AI safety debate have claimed the swings validate their position. Callum Williams, an economist, publ...
What I measured after Hacker News broke my LLM agent gate
After Hacker News Found the Holes, This Developer Spent Two Months Measuring What an Agent Gate Actually Catches When Cagri Temel posted ReasonGate on Show HN in July, the response was fast and specific. One commenter produced a w...
AI-Assisted Discovery Helps Microsoft Patch More Than 1,000 Vulnerabilities in a Month
Microsoft's September 2026 security update patched more than 950 vulnerabilities, bringing the company's total for the year to roughly 2,750, more than double its previous annual record of about 1,250 set in 2020. The numbers refl...
AI is now leading driver of new cybersecurity spending
Artificial intelligence is now the primary reason organizations are increasing their cybersecurity budgets, according to the 2026 Security Budget Benchmark Report from IANS and Artico Search. Seven out of every 10 chief informatio...
Apple Home’s new security camera features cost as much as $60 a month
Apple is bringing Apple Intelligence to its HomeKit Secure Video platform with iOS 27 and tvOS 27, adding AI-powered video summaries, search, and multi-camera clip stitching to compatible security cameras. The features sound genui...
Ask HN: How is AI actively a threat to humanity if it's only online?
A recurring question in AI safety discussions is whether an AI system that exists entirely in software, with no physical body or direct control over machinery, can pose an existential threat to humanity. The question sounds naive...
Boston Scientific: Update on recent cybersecurity incident
Boston Scientific says its manufacturing, order fulfillment, and shipping operations are fully restored after a cybersecurity incident that began on August 25, 2026. The medical device maker took roughly two weeks to bring systems...
Show HN: I made an automated day-by-day itinerary organizer for my trip to Spain
A travel planning app called Petrel launched this week with a pitch aimed at a common frustration: managing trip confirmations scattered across emails, screenshots, and PDF files. The app reads booking confirmations in any format,...
Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow
Security through obscurity, the long-discredited practice of relying on hidden implementation details to protect systems, has finally run out of places to hide. AI agents are now routinely finding vulnerabilities that defenders th...