Hacker News

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up The Economic Benefit of Refactoring Hacker Public Radio Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025) How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

Bleeping Computer

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 OpenAI agent used exposed credentials at 4 services in Hugging Face breach Hackers disrupt over 30 Minnesota water utilities in coordinated OT attack Your AI Agents Are Guessing at Scale: Permissions Decide the Damage Windows 11 KB5101684 update released with 42 changes and fixes

Ars Technica

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 Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states' lawsuit moves toward trial RFK Jr.'s handpicked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses

Slashdot

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 Tons of Peoples' Claude Chats and Creations Are Exposed On Google A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months 2.1 Million People View Leaked 'Odyssey' Bootleg on X 'Inside the Dystopian World of Germany's Free Speech Crackdown'

Events

The Verge

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 All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House

Cipher Brief

Winning the Peace: The Democratic Dilemma of Limited War Decide on North Korea 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 A Master List of Espionage Targets, Suspected Spies, and Potential Recruits

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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) Workplace "flexibility" isn't (11 Jul 2026) "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy (10 Jul 2026) Post-political (09 Jul 2026)