Hacker News

US bans differential privacy in Census data Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch Orthodox C++ Every Frame Perfect Introduction to the experience of rendering Arabic typography&its technical debt Appreciating Exif AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire The state of building user interfaces in Rust Electric motors with no rare earths RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8 CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Bleeping Computer

Chinese hackers hijack auth flow, spy on isolated network for a decade US Gov asks Anthropic to ban 'foreign national' access to Fable, Mythos Maine disables data breach notification portal after fake disclosures phpBB forum fixes auth bypass bug lurking for a decade Ukrainian national pleads guilty to role in Conti ransomware operation Over 400 Arch Linux packages compromised to push rootkit, infostealer Early Warning Signs of Supply-Chain Attacks Live in the Dark Web Microsoft fixes Windows update failures linked to WUSA installer Pharma giant Novo Nordisk discloses breach of clinical trials data CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Ivanti flaw by Sunday Over 73,000 French govt employees affected in Tchap messenger breach Japanese energy firm loses drive with data of 10.9 million clients Maine breach portal abused to publish fake data breach disclosures Oracle mitigates PeopleSoft zero-day exploited in data theft attacks Authorities dismantle 'AudiA6' ransomware crypto-laundering service

Ars Technica

Controversial FISA spying law expires tonight. The spying will continue. $130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman's distrust of crisis lines Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by "93% match" in facial recognition Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google Racist comments targeting politicians tripled since Meta relaxed its rules Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases Paramount accuses Netflix of "scorched-earth campaign" against WBD merger One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses Meta alleges NSO violated spyware injunction with new WhatsApp attacks Man jailed for a month despite Flock showing he was 5 miles from crime scene School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

Slashdot

New UK Referendum Would Flip 'Brexit' Result of a Decade Ago, Poll Finds US Congress Lets 'Warrantless Wiretap' Law FISA Lapse Mystery Orb Videos, Other UFO Records Released By White House Anthropic 'Suspends' All Mythos and Fable Access After US Order Limiting Foreign Access Google Sues Chinese Cybercrime Operation That Used Gemini AI To Send Scam Texts Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Bid To Overturn Crypto Fraud Conviction Poland To Jail Online Streamers of Violent Crime For Up To 5 Years ACLU Sues After Facial Recognition Falsely Identifies Florida Man As a Child Abductor German Court Holds Google Liable For False AI Overview Answers FCC Wants To Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms To Get All Customers' IDs Meta Will Use Your Activity On Other Websites To Personalize Your Feeds Microsoft Hacked To Deliver Malware To Claude and Gemini Users UK PM Gives Tech Firms Ultimatum To Block Explicit Images on Children's Phones Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App WhatsApp Catches Spyware Firm NSO Defying No-Hacking Court Order

Events

The Verge

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 Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name Microsoft is threatening legal action for disclosing exploits Gemini for Google Home can now use your cameras to trigger automations Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’

Cipher Brief

Economic Security in an Age of Strategic Competition The Future of Intelligence Space Assets: SAR, Electro-Optical and AI Fusion The Morning Brief: What the PDB Can Offer the Corporate Leadership Team Russia’s Taliban Embrace Signals a New Power Shift in Afghanistan Governance Failure and Civil Resistance in Azad Jammu and Kashmir How Gulf States Turned Crisis Into Confidence Expect Russia to Escalate Its Attacks on our Democracies Qatar's New Online Influence Machine The Forgotten History Moscow Doesn’t Want Remembered Rubio Lays Out Trump Administration’s Iran Endgame Middle East at the Brink: Norm Roule on Iran, Israel, and the High-Stakes Struggle Taking Shape Alex Younger: An Unusually Likeable Human Being, And A Spy Remembering Alex Younger: The Intelligence Chief Who Shaped a Generation Can the Pentagon’s New Innovation System Deliver? Why the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose Intelligence Partners

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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) Criticizing the everything machine (06 Jun 2026) Refining humanity (05 Jun 2026) Delusion as a service (04 Jun 2026) The tedious power of storytelling (02 Jun 2026) must-we-pretend Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' (01 Jun 2026) Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026) Hold on for dear life (28 May 2026) AI and a world without migrants (27 May 2026) The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble (26 May 2026) No honor among (ad-tech) thieves (25 May 2026) Shopping isn't politics (21 May 2026) There's no such thing as "age verification" (19 May 2026)