Hacker News

The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America Chicken Scheme 6.0 Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world Rust SIMD on the GPU Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word Sonic Pi v5 Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us SQRL wan't wrong, it was early

Bleeping Computer

Hackers breached a small Polish energy plant via private APN last year BdThemes plugins supply-chain hack creates rogue WordPress admins OpenAI releases ChatGPT 5.6 Cyber, but it's only for approved users New StormEncryptor ransomware used by former Medusa affiliate CISA: SonicWall SMA1000 flaws now exploited by ransomware gangs When Credentials Are No Longer Enough: Device Trust in the AI Era Member of The Com sent to prison for blackmail, sextortion LexisNexis shuts down services after suspicious activity on servers Valve notifies Steam hardware customers of a data breach Critical Progress LoadMaster flaw now actively exploited in attacks Hackers breach TrueConf to trojanize client installers with backdoors Metabase SQLi zero-day exploited in customer data-theft attacks Unlimited Technology Systems breach impacts 3.8 million people Levi Strauss & Co. says hackers stole corporate data in cyberattack Real emails, hijacked payments: Two H1 2026 attack chains

Ars Technica

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 Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets Trump killed the Digital Equity Act but US was forced to bring part of it back Tom DeLay helped create TV ownership cap—he says Trump FCC has no authority to repeal it OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal" 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

Slashdot

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 Trump Administration To Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion To Halt US Wind Projects Framework Notifies 'All Customers' of a Data Breach Via Compromised Metabase BI Service Trump Orders New 15% Tariff On Key Material For Solar Panels, Microchips Court Orders Meta To Establish $567 Million Fund To Abate Harms To Youth 'Tower Dump' Warrants Ruled Unconstitutional OpenAI's Models Shared Hacking Tips On a Secret Messaging Board Before Hugging Face Breach

Events

The Verge

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 OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos

Cipher Brief

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 What Congress Found Inside the Iran War Spending Bill The Audience Is a Machine: Our Future Information Environment Is Iran Controlling the Gulf Conflict?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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) AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026) California's privacy obstacle course (23 Jul 2026)