Hacker News

Discovery Loop Zed DeltaDB Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod The Valley of Webhooks Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure Western Sahara Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog

Bleeping Computer

COLDCARD security audit phishing attack installs remote access tool CISA warns of hackers exploiting Langflow, N-central, Apache Tomcat flaws Google Blogger locks hundreds of blogs in malware false positive How AI-powered phishing killed blocklists for good OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests TP-Link patches Omada ZTP flaws allowing hackers to breach networks Phishing service spoofs RingCentral to steal Microsoft 365 accounts New XCSSET variant targets macOS devs via compromised Xcode projects 77 Open VSX extensions found harvesting developer info Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects hundreds of packages Varonis Agent IBAC keeps AI agents within their intended boundaries Hotel Wi-Fi attacks use custom malware to breach Microsoft 365 accounts New Pass-ta-key attacks let malware hijack Google-synced passkeys New DOUBLECUP ClickFix service hides malware in browser cache images Fake Roblox Xeno script launcher pushes infostealer, RAT malware

Ars Technica

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 High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflix’s desk. How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit Trump FCC faces blowback in attempt to police speech on broadcast TV 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?

Slashdot

Senators Demand Crackdown On Wildfire 'Prediction Markets' Trump Begins Selling $100,000 Monthly Subscription Service to Wall Street Trump Administration Drafting Ban On Chinese Data Center Devices Apple Says More Ex-Employees May Have Taken Confidential Data to OpenAI Apple Launches Legal Challenge Against UK Demand To Access Encrypted User Data Russia-Linked 'Midnight Blizzard' Group Hijacks Hotel Wi-Fi With CaptiveCrunch Rogue Police Officers Have Turned Flock's Nationwide Camera Network Into a Stalking Tool As New York Finalizes New Social Media Rules, US Senate Considers Nationwide 'SCREEN' Act Hackers Targeted Municipal Water Systems In 7 States This Week, FBI Says New York Sues Kalshi For Running 'Illegal Gambling Operation' Netflix Sued For Losing 'Master Copy' of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie Anthropic Says Its AI Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations Flock Cameras Are Being Destroyed Across the US ABC Accuses FCC of 'Attempted Censorship' Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel

Events

The Verge

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 Microsoft’s biggest ever patch Tuesday lets you hold off updating for longer Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger

Cipher Brief

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? We've Seen Autonomous Warfare and We're in Trouble The $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Without a Strategy

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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) 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)