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The Hacker NewsFeb 10, 2026Application Security / Artificial Intelligence January 5, 2026, Seattle, USA — ZAST.AI announced the completion of a $6 million Pre-A funding round. This investment came from the well-known investment firm Hillhouse Capital, bringing ZAST.AI’s total funding close to $10 million. This marks a recognition from leading capital markets of a new solution: ending the era of high false positive rates in security tools and making every alert genuinely actionable. In 2025, ZAST.AI discovered hundreds of zero-day vulnerabilities across dozens of popular open-source projects. These findings were submitted through authoritative vulnerability platforms like VulDB, successfully resulting in…
NextSense thinks you’re done with sleep apps that only grade your night after the fact. It launched Smartbuds, EEG sleep earbuds built around a different promise, the buds don’t just measure sleep, it claims they can improve it while you’re still asleep. The pitch hinges on brain sensing. NextSense says Smartbuds use six EEG sensors to pick up brain activity, detect sleep stages and transitions in milliseconds, then trigger targeted audio stimulation aimed at supporting deeper sleep. That’s a sharper claim than most consumer wearables, which typically infer sleep from motion or heart rate. NextSense also frames the system as…
Olympic figure skating looks effortless. Athletes sail across the ice, then soar into the air, spinning like a top, before landing on a single blade just 4-5 millimeters wide. To help figure skaters land quadruple axels, Salchows, Lutzes, and maybe even the elusive quintuple without looking the least bit stressed, Jerry Lu MFin ’24 developed an optical tracking system called OOFSkate that uses artificial intelligence to analyze video of a figure skater’s jump and make recommendations on how to improve. Lu, a former researcher at the MIT Sports Lab, has been aiding elite skaters on Team USA with their technical performance…
At the start of this year, it seemed like everybody was reminiscing about the year 2016. In January alone, Spotify saw a 790 percent increase in 2016-themed playlists. People were declaring that the 2026 vibe would match the feel-good vibes of 2016.The only problem is that the experience of living through 2016 was far different from what Gen Z in particular remembers.Daysia Tolentino is the journalist behind the newsletter Yap Year, where she’s been chronicling online affinity for the 2010s for almost a year now. Gen Z tends to blend all of the years together causing them to hype up…
Around 1.6 billion people around the world have iPhones, and while Apple is usually diligent regarding security, there are two major problems that have surfaced. These problems leave iPhone users completely vulnerable to cyber criminal attacks and if users don’t address, they can steal all of your personal data and even your financial information. The flaws exist in the WebKit, the area that powers Safari browser that iPhones use as well as all browsers that run on IOS. These flaws were identified by threat actors where they created an attack that was sophisticated and targeted individuals on a specific list.…
Today, Meta went to trial in the state of New Mexico for allegedly failing to protect minors from sexual exploitation on its apps, including Facebook and Instagram. The state claims that Meta violated New Mexico’s Unfair Practices Act by implementing design features and algorithms that created dangerous conditions for users. Now, more than two years after the case was filed, opening arguments have begun in Santa Fe.It’s a big week for Meta in court: A landmark social media trial kicks off in California today as well, the nation’s first legal test of social media addiction. That case is part of…
Introduction Hybrid cloud has evolved from a tactical workaround to a strategic foundation. Enterprises increasingly blend private infrastructure with public cloud services to balance control, compliance and agility, and they are doing so at a moment when artificial intelligence and machine‑learning workloads are exploding. Gartner predicts that by 2027 some 90 % of organisations will adopt hybrid cloud models, reflecting a shift away from single‑provider dependency toward flexible architectures that can place every workload where it makes the most sense. Hybrid approaches are now board‑level priorities because they enable generative AI at scale, sovereign data control, legacy coexistence, predictable economics…
Another day, another wave of gaming layoffs. Today it’s Riot Games with the announcement that it’s cutting jobs on its pair-based fighting game 2XKO. For context, a representative from Riot confirmed to Game Developer that about 80 people are being cut, or roughly half of 2XKO’s global development team.”As we expanded from PC to console, we saw consistent trends in how players were engaging with 2XKO,” according to the blog post from executive producer Tom Cannon. “The game has resonated with a passionate core audience, but overall momentum hasn’t reached the level needed to support a team of this size…
Cloud-inspired data center infrastructure startup Oxide Computer Co. has reportedly raised $200 million in a fresh round of funding. The round was first reported by Axios, which named the U.S. Innovative Technology Fund as the lead investor. It comes less than a year after the startup raised $100 million in a Series B funding round. Founded in 2019, Oxide is the developer of cloud-like data center equipment that’s targeted at enterprises that require the agility and convenience of public cloud computing services as well as the control, cost-effectiveness and security provided by having their own, physical on-premises infrastructure. Its flagship product…
A big "thank you" to everyone who helped me troubleshoot the problem with my "Print Screen" button on the new PC. Try as we all might, none of us could figure out why it refused to bind to SnagIt and instead insisted on dumping the entire collection of screens to a file on the desktop. But an especailly big thanks to the follower who later emailed me with an idea that didn't work, and followed up with an idea that finally did!So, yeah, thanks Logitech for making this a real pain in the arse 🤦♂️