Hacker News

Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight AMA: I'm Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) & Author of New Bestseller Incorruptible Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026) macOS Container Machines Claude Fable 5 A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway Who Runs Your Rust Future? Hands-On Intro to Async Rust Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster 'They take you out of life, out of time': a journey into Spain's cave paintings The iPad was on Tailscale: a WebRTC debugging story AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models

Bleeping Computer

China-linked JDY botnet expands targeting of U.S. military networks The 5 Best Practices for Secure Identity Verification Microsoft patches Exchange Server zero-day exploited in attacks Microsoft: Some Windows PCs fail to install latest monthly updates Microsoft patches YellowKey, GreenPlasma, MiniPlasma zero-days Ivanti: Max severity Sentry flaw allows code execution as root Anthropic rolls out Claude Fable 5, but it's available for a limited time Microsoft Defender 'RoguePlanet' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges ServiceNow discloses security incident exposing customer data OpenClaw AI agent found falling for phishing attacks, spills user data SAP fixes critical flaws in NetWeaver and Commerce Cloud Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5094127 extended security update Microsoft June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-day, 200 flaws Windows 11 KB5094126 & KB5093998 cumulative updates released XBOW tests Anthropic's Mythos Preview for offensive security

Ars Technica

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 S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic "We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with

Slashdot

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 A San Francisco Burglar Escaped in a Robotaxi - and Police Still Can't Find Him Police Sued After Imprisoning Innocent Man Placed Near Violent Crime By Flock License Plate Reader Black Market Tinkerers on Facebook Marketplace Offer to Hide 'Recording Lights' on Meta Smartglasses The Gamer-Rights Group Fighting to Make the Industry Stop Killing Games (Servers) Reddit Ads Impersonate BBC and The Guardian to Push Fake AI Investment Schemes Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders And Sam Altman Are All Talking About Public Ownership In AI Teen Social Media Bans Risk Strengthening Big Tech's Dominance, Warns Bluesky Exec Criticisms Rise Before Vote on America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Utah Residents Sue Officials Over Kevin O'Leary Data Center Plan

Events

The Verge

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’ GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft

Cipher Brief

Russian Active Measures, And More Dirty Tricks: 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 Radical Empathy: The Counterintuitive Skill That Made Me Better at Everything Else China’s Uneasy Partnerships With Russia and North Korea From Terror Networks to Hybrid Threats: A Partner Approach to a Growing Threat Put the Next Generation to Work: Digital Transformation Has Only Just Begun Invisible Conflict: Defending Against Hybrid Non-Kinetic Warfare Deterrence Is Not Enough in the Age of Synthetic Asymmetry

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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) Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire (16 May 2026) No one wants a permanent gerontocracy (15 May 2026)