Hacker News

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? Elevators DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI The session you cannot take with you The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol) Winding Down Artichoke Ruby Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions at all Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer Moonshot built on 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals Better to Beg Forgiveness JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master

Bleeping Computer

ESET tracks rise in malicious AI skills and adaptable malware Anthropic's Claude breached 3 orgs, uploaded PyPI malware during tests South Korea fines telco giant KT $39 million for customer data breach JetBrains warns of critical TeamCity remote code execution flaw Amazon links Debug, Chalk NPM supply-chain attacks to North Korean hackers VMware fixes three critical flaws allowing auth bypass, VM escapes Google says AI helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs in two releases ShinyHunters claims Brinks Home breach, threatens to leak stolen data Microsoft Teams vishing attacks lead to Chaos ransomware attacks Analog Devices discloses data breach, says operations unaffected After the Break-In: What Attackers Do Once They're Already Inside Russian hackers exploit Exchange OWA zero-day for long-term mailbox access Anthropic confirms Claude is down worldwide Cisco warns of FMC static credential flaw exploited in zero-day attacks Health-ISAC warns of rising ShinyHunters data theft attacks on healthcare

Ars Technica

How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit Trump FCC faces blowback in attempt to police speech on broadcast TV Musk went to “war,” sought jail time for X ad boycotts—but case ends with a whimper Comcast store punished low sales by smashing pies in workers' faces, lawsuit claims Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong? eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands Judge blocks first state law that would have banned prediction markets Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months “Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win 5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template Big Tech accused of stonewalling European social media researchers

Slashdot

Netflix Sued For Losing 'Master Copy' of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie Anthropic Says Its AI Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations Flock Cameras Are Being Destroyed Across the US ABC Accuses FCC of 'Attempted Censorship' Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel Comcast Store Punished Low Sales By Smashing Pies In Workers' Faces, Lawsuit Claims Who Wins and Who Loses After US Bans Foreign Robots? Russia Charges Telegram Founder Durov With Facilitating Terrorism More Than 30 Minnesota Water Systems Targeted In Cyberattack Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots AI-Found Bugs Aren't Proving Any Easier to Exploit Despite the Hype eBay Reaches $56 Million Settlement With E-Commerce Newsletter Writers It Terrorized In 2019 Judge Blocks First State Law That Would Have Banned Prediction Markets DEF CON Bans Meta-Style 'Pervert Glasses' GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search

Events

The Verge

Anthropic says Claude accidentally hacked real companies too Google is working on Chrome updates that don’t require restarts Ariana Grande is suing the hackers who’ve been leaking her songs and videos for years Google now lets you sign in to your account using a selfie video OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos Microsoft’s biggest ever patch Tuesday lets you hold off updating for longer Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare

Cipher Brief

Investing in the Next Arsenal of Democracy Winning the Peace: The Democratic Dilemma of Limited War America Needs a New North Korea Strategy The Sovereign AI Tokenomics Trap What Congress Found Inside the Iran War Spending Bill The Audience Is a Machine: Our Future Information Environment Is Iran Controlling the Gulf Conflict? We've Seen Autonomous Warfare and We're in Trouble The $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Without a Strategy Ankara's Charm Offensive Should Not Buy Back the F-35 25 Years After 9/11, the Next Global Shock Could be Worse Winning Battles, Losing Strategy: Why Military Superiority No Longer Guarantees Victory Cold War 2.0 Will Be Won by Private Capital The Pentagon Built a Faster Engine, Nobody Built the Steering The West Must Tell Russians the Truth About the War

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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