Hacker News

Gloomberb Spaghettifying DRAM Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo DeepSeek Harness developer preview Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images How art invented humanity Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5 Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview Time to Move On: Querying Without Nulls and Bags Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10 Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent Graduate student proves a quantum uncertainty principle for fractals ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform)

Bleeping Computer

Critical VMware vCenter RCE flaw exploited for reverse SSH access Trezor discloses data breach affecting nearly 14,000 customers Who Vets AI’s Code? The Scale Challenge Facing Open Source Ingestion White House taps security firms for offensive hack-back operations WhatsApp rolls out new feature that flags potential scam messages "City-Forum" data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceNow portals Android malware combo takes out loans and relays victims' credit cards Hackers exploit critical Adobe Commerce flaw to hijack customer accounts Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy Plug and Pwn attack uses fake USB devices for Windows SYSTEM access Lazarus hackers exploited Windows zero-day to target defense firms FBI: Hackers target online accounts to steal nude photos The Threat Hiding in Your Hiring Process: How Fake Remote Workers Get In Hackers leverage new Microsoft SharePoint exploit in attacks Signal adds new security feature to thwart man-in-the-middle attacks

Ars Technica

Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books Meta can't stop states' $1.4 trillion lawsuit from going to trial Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, isn't filling empty Democratic seat Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed? Trump is losing his war on wind power X wants to keep suing advertisers, asks 5th Circuit to overrule district judge Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

Slashdot

Trump Administration Enlists Private Companies To Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups US Tries to Override New York Gambling Laws, Orders Kalshi to Keep Operating China-Linked Hackers Used AI To Run First-Ever 'Autonomous' Cyberattack On Taiwan German Advocacy Group Lodges Criminal Complaint Over Meta AI Glasses US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers Freenet Creator Ian Clarke Shares Progress on Its New Decentralized Network A Data Breach At Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Is Rippling Across Banks, Retailers, Steam Gamers, and Beyond How Accurate Are Flock's AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras? Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta's Smart Glasses Flock Accused of Reactivating Its Cameras Without Notifying a Town California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By Police After Mistaken Flock Alert - Twice

Events

The Verge

Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’ ‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt Ring upgraded its peephole doorbell camera to 2K 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

Cipher Brief

The Biggest AI Models Are Not the Biggest Threats How About Equipping Local Law Enforcement with a Better Anti-Drone Arsenal? How Ukraine Is Changing the Way the U.S. Army Fights The Houthis’ External and Internal Crises Converge: Can a Tactical Solution Fix a Strategic Problem? America, North Korea, and the Search for Peace There Will be Unseen Costs to be Paid over the War in Iran. Who is Weighing Them? BLUF: The US Must Lead in Gray Zone Activity Why the Iran War Remains Strategically Adrift The New Fault Line: Israel and Turkey on a Collision Course 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

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Model collapse (12 Aug 2026) Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026) The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026) Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026) Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026) Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026) Post-American compute for a post-American Internet (04 Aug 2026) 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)