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Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

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Hacker News·Sep 25, 2026

The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR’s comment section?

When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immediately) figure out the mystery.

Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

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Hacker News·Sep 25, 2026

Roku’s first OLED TVs are up to $400 off, starting at $699

Roku’s new OLED TVs are already marked down. | Image: The Verge Roku recently launched its first-ever OLED TVs. The $999 starting price was already impressive for the 55-inch Pro Series model that has a 120Hz refresh rate OLED panel (with four HDMI 2.1 ports and support for Dolby Vision and HDR 10 Plus). The price is even lower right now at Amazon when you enter the code ROKUOLED300 at checkout. It knocks a clean $300 off, as the code indicates, making this the most affordable modern 55-inch OLED you can get right now. If you re more of a 65-inch TV kind of person, you re in luck, as there s a code that knocks $400 off that model to make it just $799 at checkout. Enter the code ROKUOLED400 to bring the $1,299 65-inch Pro Series down to $799. We haven t had a chance to test either model, but they seem respectable if you want great picture quality without breaking the bank. Roku Pro Series OLED (2026) Where to Buy: $999.99 $699.99 at Amazon (55-inch, with code ROKUOLED300) $1199.99 $799.

Phones don’t have lights

Mark Zuckerberg has a new defense of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses: they're actually doing more to signal they're taking a photo than phones do. He's brought this up in at least two recent interviews, noting that the glasses have a light that comes on to signal when a photo is being taken, while phones do not. In one of the interviews, Joanna Stern notes that, while phones do not always emit a light, someone does have to hold a phone up in the air, which is itself pretty noticeable. On today's Vergecast, we're talking about Meta Connect, the Muse AI assistant, all the new smart glasses hardware, and Zuckerberg's response to the privacy uproar ar … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Aeropod automates soil aeration without robotics. See it at TechCrunch Disrupt.

Muju Earth Technologies has developed a deceptively simply pod that can save farmers money while improving crop yields.

Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web

The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users' data when not configured or secured properly.

These camera apps give you more control over the iPhone 18 Pro’s aperture

One of the questionable limitations of the iPhone 18 Pro's new main camera with a variable aperture is that you're limited to just four settings in the native iOS' camera app in manual mode: f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8, and f/4. Those same limitations are also in place when the app is adjusting the iris itself in Auto aperture mode, but it turns out that's not a strict limitation of the iPhone's camera hardware. Apple's SDK allows third party camera apps to implement more granular control of the aperture. BlackMagic Design's well-featured and still completely free BlackMagic Camera app for iOS was one of the first third-party options to introduce … Read the full story at The Verge.

Kiteworks urges customers to shut down their servers amid ‘imminent’ threat of cyberattack

The tech giant, which allows companies to send large datasets over the internet, said it received a "credible threat" from law enforcement about an imminent attack.

Sony and UMG are suing Suno again

Suno’s AI vocalists could learn a thing or two from this glitchy image. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it's trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music ripped from YouTube and other sources. Sony and UMG are notable holdouts who did not sign a licensing agreement with Suno. In its complaint shared with The Verge, Sony and UMG accuse Suno of "model laundering," saying: "Training a 'new' model on the outputs of an infringing model does not eliminate the infringement; it launders it, passing the value of Plaintiffs' expression from the copied reco … Read the full story at The Verge.