Hacker News

Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second Show HN: Performative-UI – a react component library of design tropes Why are cells small? Full Reverse Engineering of the TI-84 Plus Operating System Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf] Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet? Thunderbird Littering My Home Siri AI Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, anti-AI, and written in Rust Stop the Apple Music app from launching Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M

Bleeping Computer

New Shai-Hulud attack trojanizes 19 science-focused PyPI packages WhatsApp says it disrupted new NSO spyware phishing attacks Gogs patches critical zero-day enabling remote code execution Critical UniFi OS bug lets hackers gain root without authentication Reducing security operations complexity with Wazuh Cloud Check Point links VPN zero-day attacks to Qilin ransomware gang Oxford University discloses data breach after careers platform hack Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack Hands on with Intelligent Terminal, an AI-powered Windows Terminal C0XMO botnet spreads via DD-WRT router flaw, kills rival malware Silent Ransom Group targets law firms with fake IT support calls Critical Everest Forms Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites Suspicious Polyfill login prompts pop up on Toshiba, Muji websites CISA: Hackers now exploit SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to crash servers Chinese APT deploys new malware to keep access to hacked networks

Ars Technica

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 Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic "We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches

Slashdot

WhatsApp Catches Spyware Firm NSO Defying No-Hacking Court Order A San Francisco Burglar Escaped in a Robotaxi - and Police Still Can't Find Him Police Sued After Imprisoning Innocent Man Placed Near Violent Crime By Flock License Plate Reader Black Market Tinkerers on Facebook Marketplace Offer to Hide 'Recording Lights' on Meta Smartglasses The Gamer-Rights Group Fighting to Make the Industry Stop Killing Games (Servers) Reddit Ads Impersonate BBC and The Guardian to Push Fake AI Investment Schemes Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders And Sam Altman Are All Talking About Public Ownership In AI Teen Social Media Bans Risk Strengthening Big Tech's Dominance, Warns Bluesky Exec Criticisms Rise Before Vote on America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Utah Residents Sue Officials Over Kevin O'Leary Data Center Plan GOV.UK Goes Dutch On Payments As It Dumps Stripe Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration On Federal Regulation of Telecom Companies Meta Workers Can Opt Out of Workplace Tracking for Up to 30 Minutes Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System European Parliament Ditches Google For French Search Firm

Events

The Verge

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 Microsoft is threatening legal action for disclosing exploits Gemini for Google Home can now use your cameras to trigger automations Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’ GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is becoming ‘unmanageable’ due to AI bug reports

Cipher Brief

Middle East at the Brink: Norm Roule on Iran, Israel, and the High-Stakes Struggle Taking Shape Alex Younger: An Unusually Likeable Human Being, And A Spy Remembering Alex Younger: The Intelligence Chief Who Shaped a Generation Can the Pentagon’s New Innovation System Deliver? Why the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose Intelligence Partners Radical Empathy: The Counterintuitive Skill That Made Me Better at Everything Else China’s Uneasy Partnerships With Russia and North Korea From Terror Networks to Hybrid Threats: A Partner Approach to a Growing Threat Put the Next Generation to Work: Digital Transformation Has Only Just Begun Invisible Conflict: Defending Against Hybrid Non-Kinetic Warfare Deterrence Is Not Enough in the Age of Synthetic Asymmetry How America’s Adversaries Compete Across Peace and War Your AI Isn’t My AI: The Quiet Splintering Ahead Before Funding a Record Defense Budget, Congress Should Demand Answers on Iran How Anonymous Wikipedia Editors Influence Global Narratives — and AI Systems

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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) Shopping isn't politics (21 May 2026) There's no such thing as "age verification" (19 May 2026) Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire (16 May 2026) No one wants a permanent gerontocracy (15 May 2026) Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" (14 May 2026)