Hacker News

Since Chronium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS Tiny Emulators Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k Storm clouds gather over America's financial supremacy Old and new apps, via modern coding agents I Learned to Read Again Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper I love LLMs, I hate hype Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity Why write code in 2026 Automation Without Understanding The One-Step Trap (In AI Research) LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders Against Usefulness Don't you mean extinct?

Bleeping Computer

Claude Fable 5 stays free for paid users until July 19 as Anthropic buys more time RedHook Android malware now uses Wireless ADB for shell access Australia warns of global campaign targeting vulnerable CMS platforms 'Ghostcommit' hides prompt injection in images to fool AI agents, steal secrets New U-Boot flaws could enable stealthy firmware attacks Ryuk ransomware member pleads guilty in the US, faces 15 years in prison Police suspects Dutch hackers were involved in Odido breach Progress urges ShareFile admins to shut down servers over “credible” threat Hackers exploit critical auth bypass in Gitea Docker image Money launderer accused of stealing seized crypto while in prison The Replicant in Your Directory: AI Agents and the Identity Security Gap Zimbra urges customers to patch critical web client XSS flaw Former ransomware negotiator gets 4 years for BlackCat attacks OpenMandriva Linux says contributor tried to sabotage the project Injective SDK on npm infected with cryptocurrency wallet stealer

Ars Technica

Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta Judge doesn't like Elon Musk settlement with SEC, but says court can't block it OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself Judge rejects Kalshi attempt to override New York state gambling laws Aussie gov't tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers Data centers’ energy demand threatens Trump’s “Made in America” plan SCOTUS lets Texas enforce app store law that Big Tech calls "censorship regime" FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees NRC is (sort of) getting rid of "as low as reasonably achievable" standard Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic’s anti-surveillance stance UK regulator warns of "arms race" to keep up with AI use in financial services Chemical accidents rise as Trump administration proposes weakening safety rules

Slashdot

Facial Recognition in UK Shops Will Soon Instantly Alert Police About Offenders Orbital Datacenter Plans Need an Environmental Review, FCC Told EFF Celebrates 36th Anniversary, Says 'We Need You in the Fight' Meta Says US States Seek $1.4 Trillion In Penalties In August's Youth Safety Trial How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked a Journalist for Days, Then Sent Police to Arrest Him Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets Feds Demand Autonomous Vehicle Companies Stop Interfering With First Responders NYC To Become First In US To Ban Deceptive Subscription Practices Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds US Food and Drug Administration Rejects Petition To Set PFAS Limits In Food John Deere Agrees To 10-Year Right-To-Repair Deal In FTC Antitrust Lawsuit Meta's Glasses Will Turn Off the Camera If You Tamper With the Privacy Light Apple Loses EU Fight Over App Store Gatekeeper Label FCC To End Biden-Era Rule That Forces ISPs To List All Their Fees Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID

Events

The Verge

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 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

Cipher Brief

The Front Line of the AI Race Runs Through Your Company's Chat Logs Iran: On Negotiating with Criminal/Terrorist Organizations, States, and Other Entities The Continued Myth of Russia’s Imminent Collapse: Lessons from Prigozhin’s Mutiny Three Years On An Outlook for What’s Next in Iran War Beyond Evo: Bolivia and the Erosion of State Authority in Latin America After the Intelligence Cycle: A New Schema for AI-Native Intelligence Analysis The Succession Question Haunting the Kremlin Putin’s Running Out of Scare Tactics and Options If You Can Run a Spy, You Can Run AI Cyber Fraud, Banks, and What America Can Do About It Endless Warfare – Part II: Countering Endless Warfare and its Networks Gen. Dunford: Military Leaders Must Advise, Not Advocate Colombia’s Election Exposes a Country Still Split What's at Stake as NATO Meets in Ankara A Tale of Two Africas in Maps, And How It Affects the United States

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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