Hacker News

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions Grok Build is open source G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf] Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018) LLM Networking with MikroTik Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU Job queues are deceptively tricky Show HN: One More Letter Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok Book prizes don't work how you think

Bleeping Computer

Dutch police bust investment fraud ring stealing over €100 million Zoom warns of critical account takeover vulnerability Google Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, malware botnet operator AsyncAPI npm packages infected with credential-stealing malware We built a vulnerability vending machine: AI tokens in, zero-days out CISA warns admins to patch actively exploited SharePoint flaws Microsoft: Some Dell PCs shut down after recent Windows updates US charges alleged operators of Russian bulletproof hosting service SonicWall warns of SMA1000 flaws exploited in zero-day attacks, patch now Spanish Police take down €140 million cyber fraud ring, arrest four Nearly 300 GitHub repos pose as legit software to push malware Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5099539 extended security update Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes massive 570 flaws, 3 zero-days Windows 11 KB5101650 & KB5099414 cumulative updates released Progress confirms ShareFile zero-day flaw behind Storage Zone shutdown

Ars Technica

Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets States sue to block Paramount/WBD merger that was approved by Trump admin Colorado will decide whether a "right to natural gas" is added to state constitution Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta Judge doesn't like Elon Musk settlement with SEC, but says court can't block it OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself Judge rejects Kalshi attempt to override New York state gambling laws Aussie gov't tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers

Slashdot

Book Publishers Sue Google For Copyright Infringement Over Gemini AI Training FCC Plans To Repeal 39% TV Ownership Cap Google and Epic Cancel Settlement; Third-Party App Stores Coming To Google Play House Votes For Permanent Daylight Saving Time Iran Abused Mobile Networks' Vulnerabilities To Locate US Military In Middle East Lawsuit Claims Meta's Layoff Decisions Were Made By AI, Not Humans Google DeepMind Calls For US To Spearhead AI Standards Body StubHub, CEO Hit With 'Deceptive Practices' Class Action Over Mass Scalping US Government Warns That Russia State Hackers Are Coming After Your Router States Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Bros Merger, Defying DOJ Apple Reportedly Agreed to Intel Chips To Avoid White House Tariffs Cloudflare Precursor Watches Your Mouse and Keyboard To Decide If You Are Human Facial Recognition in UK Shops Will Soon Instantly Alert Police About Offenders Orbital Datacenter Plans Need an Environmental Review, FCC Told EFF Celebrates 36th Anniversary, Says 'We Need You in the Fight'

Events

The Verge

Microsoft’s biggest ever patch Tuesday lets you hold off updating for longer Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare 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

Cipher Brief

Afghanistan Lost the Cognitive War Before It Lost the State Washington’s Spy Ring and Paine’s Democracy Inside the $87.6 Billion Iran War Supplemental America’s Military Plans Depend on Infrastructure It Doesn’t Secure Trump’s Dangerous Bet on Pakistan’s Army Chief America’s Export Controls Are Becoming a Strategic Liability The Front Line of the AI Race Runs Through Your Company's Chat Logs Iran: On Negotiating with Criminal/Terrorist Organizations, States, and Other Entities The Continued Myth of Russia’s Imminent Collapse: Lessons from Prigozhin’s Mutiny Three Years On An Outlook for What’s Next in Iran War Beyond Evo: Bolivia and the Erosion of State Authority in Latin America After the Intelligence Cycle: A New Schema for AI-Native Intelligence Analysis The Succession Question Haunting the Kremlin Putin’s Running Out of Scare Tactics and Options If You Can Run a Spy, You Can Run AI

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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