Hacker News

European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To Open Source Low Tech Sony erases digital content from libraries; reminded we don't own what we buy Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults Antares Achieves Criticality of Mark-0 Reactor .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting Free the Icons The operating cost starts after the demo Memory Safe Context Switching LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active Rocketlab acquires Iridium

Bleeping Computer

Insurance giant Aflac discloses data breach after subsidiary hack Microsoft adds smarter bot protection to Teams meetings Kali Linux 2026.2 released with 9 new tools, NetHunter updates Blackfield ransomware asks Nidec Corporation for $2 million ransom CISA: Windows BlueHammer flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs Nissan discloses employee data breach linked to Oracle zero-day attacks NAIC says public data stolen in ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft breach WhatsApp rolls out usernames to help users hide their phone number Microsoft extends Windows Server 2022 hotpatching until October 2027 U.S. offers $10 million for hackers targeting WhatsApp, Signal users Agentic AI Has an Identity Problem and Attackers Know It Critical SimpleHelp flaw exploited to deploy new stealer malware Hackers now exploit critical Oracle E-Business flaw in attacks Webinar: Why business email compromise attacks keep succeeding US seizes hundreds of FIFA World Cup illegal streaming domains

Ars Technica

Supreme Court ruling guts government’s use of geofence warrants Kalshi sues Illinois over new tax on prediction market sports bets Comcast is splitting its media and broadband properties Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI FCC accused of hiding Chairman Carr's messages with DOGE and Musk SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US FCC may kill $2B program that connects schools and libraries to Internet Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime "assembly line" Disney agreed to $50M settlement over claims it made live-TV streaming expensive FCC plans ID mandate that could block anonymous use of prepaid burner phones Elon Musk denies Tesla’s Autopilot caused crash that killed grandmother White House app auto-downloads to government phones, can't be uninstalled White House drastically shortens deadline for dropping quantum-vulnerable crypto

Slashdot

Ex-Governors, Big Tech Launch Coalition To Help Workers 'Navigate the AI Economy' Microsoft Slammed for Building Copyright-Infringing Supercomputer for OpenAI in New Court Filing US Agency Cancels Contract For Warrantless Tracking of Mobile Devices An Amazon Seller Says They Were Offered a Way to Bribe an Amazon Employee California Sheriff Says Their Drone Disarmed a Suspect, Shares Video on Instagram US Government Allows Anthropic Limited Release of 'Mythos' AI Model, Saying 'Appropriate Safeguards are in Place" Polestar Banned From Selling Cars In US From Model Year 2027 Trump Administration Asks OpenAI To Stagger Release of New Model Linux Foundation Launches Akrites To Coordinate AI-Driven Open Source Security LastPass Says Hackers Stole Customer Support Case Data During Klue Breach Anthropic Says Alibaba Must Be Punished For Largest Claude Cloning Attack Google Starts Lowering Play Store Fees, Making Good On Epic Games Settlement Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak 29-Year-Old Squid Proxy Bug 'Squidbleed' Can Leak Cleartext HTTP Requests AI Law Firm Wins UK Court Case For First Time

Events

The Verge

China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House The FBI built a small town to simulate cyberattacks Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet Valve is phasing out physical Steam gift cards due to scammers Hackers likely hijacked over 20,000 Instagram accounts with Meta’s AI chatbot Benn Jordan longs for the days of tech that didn’t spy on you Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released

Cipher Brief

The War Before the War Has Already Begun Congress Questions Pentagon Spending—and the Future of Trump’s Battleship America's Empty Counterterrorism Chair Don’t Permit Iran to Enrich Uranium The AI Bubble and the Growing National Security Problem DNI Day Two: Building the Intelligence Community for 2045 Why One Former CIA Executive Never Stopped Playing What Iran Wants and How It Can Still Fight From Bombing Iran to Negotiating: Trump Explains His Red Line Cuba’s New Spy Array Raises Concerns for U.S. Security The Deal That Should Not Have Happened Before the IC Trusts AI, It Needs to Prove It Can Assure It Learning Velocity: The Next Strategic Advantage The Forty-Year Cyber Policy Failure Congress Refuses to Address A Historic Summit between China and North Korea

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect" (30 Jun 2026) Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search (29 Jun 2026) Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026) Jailbreaking isn't theft (25 Jun 2026) Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026) Good politics (22 Jun 2026) How the Epstein Class recruits (20 Jun 2026) The Big Con (19 Jun 2026) AI digital sovereignty risk doesn't exist (18 Jun 2026) The (real) dead economy theory (17 Jun 2026) AI and amateurism (15 Jun 2026) Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO (13 Jun 2026) Google's new remote attestation scheme is every bit as terrible as its old remote attestation scheme (12 Jun 2026) The world has moved on (11 Jun 2026) Naomi Kritzer's "Obstetrix" (09 Jun 2026)