Hacker News

Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK The Tower Keeps Rising Bonsai 27B (1-bit LLM): The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you) How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring (Head of Security) A tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB – only one notch above junk level Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? Launch HN: Agnost AI (YC S26) – Extract user feedback from agent conversations Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection Punch yourself in the face with reality

Bleeping Computer

Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes massive 570 flaws, 3 zero-days Windows 11 KB5101650 & KB5099414 cumulative updates released Progress confirms ShareFile zero-day flaw behind Storage Zone shutdown LastPass, Bitwarden users targeted with fake security alerts You Don't Have to Run an Exploit to Know If You're Vulnerable Microsoft Entra ID gets passkeys default authentication starting September New phishing kits target Microsoft 365 accounts, evade MFA SAP warns of critical flaws in NetWeaver and Commerce Cloud Microsoft starts testing cleaner Windows Search without ads US sanctions VPN, malware providers for enabling ransomware attacks Japan's largest taxi operator shuts systems after cyberattack Hackers backdoor Jscrambler npm package with infostealer malware New CrashStealer malware poses as Apple crash reporting tool CISA warns of actively exploited RCE flaws in Joomla extensions Lidl discloses online shop breach after service provider hack

Ars Technica

New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets States sue to block Paramount/WBD merger that was approved by Trump admin Colorado will decide whether a "right to natural gas" is added to state constitution 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

Slashdot

StubHub, CEO Hit With 'Deceptive Practices' Class Action Over Mass Scalping US Government Warns That Russia State Hackers Are Coming After Your Router States Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Bros Merger, Defying DOJ Apple Reportedly Agreed to Intel Chips To Avoid White House Tariffs Cloudflare Precursor Watches Your Mouse and Keyboard To Decide If You Are Human 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

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

Inside the $87.6 Billion Iran War Supplemental America’s Military Plans Depend on Infrastructure It Doesn’t Secure Trump’s Dangerous Bet on Pakistan’s Army Chief America’s Export Controls Are Becoming a Strategic Liability 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

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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) How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech (07 Jul 2026) CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code (03 Jul 2026) The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" (02 Jul 2026) Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026) Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect" (30 Jun 2026) Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search (29 Jun 2026) Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026) Jailbreaking isn't theft (25 Jun 2026) Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026) Good politics (22 Jun 2026)