Hacker News

Mechanical Watch (2022) Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer An interview with an Apple emoji designer I Fired Google Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator Iroh 1.0 Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak Show HN: Hackers for Granny (defense against industrialized elder fraud) Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

Bleeping Computer

UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts GhostTree Attack Abused Recursive Windows Junctions to Hide Malware FTC warns of record $3.5 billion losses to imposter scams in 2025 CISA warns of another cPanel plugin flaw exploited in attacks Ransomware gang abuses Microsoft Teams relays to hide malicious traffic Critical Fortinet FortiSandbox flaws now exploited in attacks Windows version of SprySOCKS Linux malware used to attack govt orgs iRhythm discloses data breach, says hackers stole patient info DOJ seizes CFAKE, SOCFAKE deepfake nude sites under TAKE IT DOWN Act SimpleHelp bug lets hackers create rogue remote support accounts OptinMonster WordPress plugin hacked in CDN supply-chain attack Cisco fixes SD-WAN vManage flaw exploited in zero-day attacks Council of Europe investigates ShinyHunters data breach claims FBI: Fraudsters use couriers to steal money in crypto scams Vibe coders are gonna vibe code: How CISOs are tackling code sprawl

Ars Technica

UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews Controversial FISA spying law expires tonight. The spying will continue. $130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman's distrust of crisis lines Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by "93% match" in facial recognition Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google Racist comments targeting politicians tripled since Meta relaxed its rules Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases Paramount accuses Netflix of "scorched-earth campaign" against WBD merger One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses Meta alleges NSO violated spyware injunction with new WhatsApp attacks Man jailed for a month despite Flock showing he was 5 miles from crime scene School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon

Slashdot

The US Government Is Letting a Key Data Center Regulation Expire FBI Issues Urgent Kali365 Security Warning For Teams, Outlook, OneDrive Users Britain Unveils Sweeping Ban On Social Media For Under-16s How America's Energy Department is Building a National Platform for Doing Science with AI Blizzard Sues To Take Down Another Private World of Warcraft Server, Project Ascension Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models OpenAI Investigated By Coalition of America's State Attorneys General New UK Referendum Would Flip 'Brexit' Result of a Decade Ago, Poll Finds US Congress Lets 'Warrantless Wiretap' Law FISA Lapse Mystery Orb Videos, Other UFO Records Released By White House Anthropic 'Suspends' All Mythos and Fable Access After US Order Limiting Foreign Access Google Sues Chinese Cybercrime Operation That Used Gemini AI To Send Scam Texts Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Bid To Overturn Crypto Fraud Conviction Poland To Jail Online Streamers of Violent Crime For Up To 5 Years ACLU Sues After Facial Recognition Falsely Identifies Florida Man As a Child Abductor

Events

The Verge

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 Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name

Cipher Brief

The AI Race Won't Be Won by the Best Model—But by the Fastest Military Can the Pentagon Buy Faster Before the Next War Arrives? The Warning Paradox: Why Correct Intelligence Often Fails America's Veterans Are a Defense-Tech Asset — We're Wasting Them Economic Security in an Age of Strategic Competition The Future of Intelligence Space Assets: SAR, Electro-Optical and AI Fusion The Morning Brief: What the PDB Can Offer the Corporate Leadership Team Russia’s Taliban Embrace Signals a New Power Shift in Afghanistan Governance Failure and Civil Resistance in Azad Jammu and Kashmir How Gulf States Turned Crisis Into Confidence Expect Russia to Escalate Its Attacks on our Democracies Qatar's New Online Influence Machine The Forgotten History Moscow Doesn’t Want Remembered Rubio Lays Out Trump Administration’s Iran Endgame Middle East at the Brink: Norm Roule on Iran, Israel, and the High-Stakes Struggle Taking Shape

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

AI and amateurism (15 Jun 2026) Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO (13 Jun 2026) Google's new remote attestation scheme is every bit as terrible as its old remote attestation scheme (12 Jun 2026) The world has moved on (11 Jun 2026) Naomi Kritzer's "Obstetrix" (09 Jun 2026) Criticizing the everything machine (06 Jun 2026) Refining humanity (05 Jun 2026) Delusion as a service (04 Jun 2026) The tedious power of storytelling (02 Jun 2026) must-we-pretend Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' (01 Jun 2026) Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026) Hold on for dear life (28 May 2026) AI and a world without migrants (27 May 2026) The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble (26 May 2026) No honor among (ad-tech) thieves (25 May 2026)