Hacker News

Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place The new HTTP QUERY method explained Steam Machine launches today Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO Plotnine Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says In praise of memcached Will It Mythos? 8086 Segmented Memory was a good idea OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber Improvements to Std:Format in C++26 Who Does What? Team Topologies for the Agentic Platform My Mathematical Regression

Bleeping Computer

WhatsApp phishing attack uses fake business docs to hack PCs JaredFromSubway MEV bot hacked in $15 million crypto theft FFmpeg fixes PixelSmash flaw in widely used video decoder FortiBleed campaign used custom FortiGate sniffer to steal credentials Microsoft says Windows 11 26H2 is coming soon, details upgrade process Microsoft fixes AutoGen Studio flaw that enabled code execution A Glimpse into the “Search Your Target” Market for Stolen Credentials AryStinger botnet infected thousands of D-Link routers worldwide New Prinz Eugen ransomware prioritizes recent files for encryption Microsoft links Mastra AI supply chain attack to North Korean hackers Klue OAuth breach victim list grows as Icarus hackers claim attack Hackers exploit info disclosure bug in Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin Texas govt data breach exposes over 3 million driver’s licenses Every AI Agent Is an Identity. Most Organizations Don't Treat Them That Way Webinar: How attackers bypass MFA and how defenders can respond

Ars Technica

Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake NHTSA investigating alleged Tesla Autopilot crash that killed woman in her home Trump admin’s coal investments assist plants with repeated violations The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry California says AT&T lied to FCC in attempt to shut off old phone network Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines US approval of Paramount/Warner Bros. deal surprised DOJ lawyers, report says Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews 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

Slashdot

AI Law Firm Wins UK Court Case For First Time Several US States Bet That AI Can Solve Their Prison Recidivism Crisis UK Official Promises Statements 'Around VPNs' and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots and Social Media Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock's Cameras to Stalk People US Bill Would Mandate AI Chip Location Tracking to Thwart China and Other Adversaries Facial Recognition on Public Buses? Kansas City Says Yes Gamers Sue PlayStation: It's Not Clear They're Selling Licenses Rather Than Ownership of Games Student Loan Borrowers Will Get Interest Rate Cut If They Sign Up For Auto Pay Norway Imposes Near Ban On AI In Elementary School New Unpatchable Exploit Targets Apple Devices With A12 and A13 Chips Meta Lobbies Congress For Protection From Child-Harm Lawsuits Trump Admin Backs Off Plans To Kill Ocean Monitoring California 'Billionaire Tax' Makes Ballot Despite Opposition From Tech Moguls Bernie Sanders Unveils $7 Trillion Plan To Give Americans Control of AI Industry Tesco Moving 40,000 Server Workloads Off VMware Amid Broadcom's 'Abusive Conduct'

Events

The Verge

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 Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts

Cipher Brief

From Bombing Iran to Negotiating: Trump Explains His Red Line The Deal That Should Not Have Happened Cuba’s New Spy Array Raises Concerns for U.S. Security 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 DNI Day One: Three Strategic Decisions for National Security Evolution AI Is Speeding Up Intelligence, But Not the System Around It Why Human Intelligence Matters More in an AI World The AI Race Won't Be Won by the Best Model—But by the Fastest Military Can the Pentagon Buy Faster Before the Next War Arrives? The Warning Paradox: Why Correct Intelligence Often Fails America's Veterans Are a Defense-Tech Asset — We're Wasting Them Economic Security in an Age of Strategic Competition

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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) 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)