Hacker News

Devtools must be open source Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU Massively Parallel Postgres Backups Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros

Bleeping Computer

N-able warns of N-central auth bypass flaw exploited in attacks ExfilSquad hackers leak info of over 100,000 UK police officers, staff Inside the Underground Business of the Android BTMOB RAT malware OpenAI teases Astra, its next major AI model, after it solves 10 long-standing math problems COLDCARD wallet RNG flaw likely linked to $88 million Bitcoin theft Google Chrome may soon block New Tab hijacker extensions by default Rails patches critical Active Storage flaw with RCE potential Amgen says cloud data breach exposed patient health, proprietary info Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware flood Online ad firm Adform’s script compromised to steal cryptocurrency OpenAI says its new GPT 5.6 models are becoming more cost-efficient Hacker uses DeepSeek AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers CISA warns of cyberattacks disrupting U.S. water utilities ESET tracks rise in malicious AI skills and adaptable malware Anthropic's Claude breached 3 orgs, uploaded PyPI malware during tests

Ars Technica

Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters After noise complaints, judge orders Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflix’s desk. 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

Slashdot

Rogue Police Officers Have Turned Flock's Nationwide Camera Network Into a Stalking Tool As New York Finalizes New Social Media Rules, US Senate Considers Nationwide 'SCREEN' Act Hackers Targeted Municipal Water Systems In 7 States This Week, FBI Says New York Sues Kalshi For Running 'Illegal Gambling Operation' 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

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

Iran Is “Counting Coup” On The United States! AI Summaries Are Susceptible to Manipulation — and That's Both a Business and a National Security Problem 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

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Dualism (03 Aug 2026) Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026) Better to beg forgiveness (31 Jul 2026) The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026) Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global (29 Jul 2026) Discernment (28 Jul 2026) How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump) (27 Jul 2026) Apple's robo-repo (25 Jul 2026) AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026) California's privacy obstacle course (23 Jul 2026) Trump's America can't even win a rigged game (22 Jul 2026) Dealing with dickovers (21 Jul 2026) dickovers Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026) Gerontocracy's failure mode (14 Jul 2026) Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers? (13 Jul 2026)