Hacker News

The coolest use for the Vision Pro AI's top startups are barely publishing their research Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac Superlogical Kimi K3-256k Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident KOReader The Cold Email SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring FDEs A Trampoline Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit) Staging patches with Git add -p A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

Bleeping Computer

Anthropic confirms Claude is down worldwide Cisco warns of FMC static credential flaw exploited in zero-day attacks Health-ISAC warns of rising ShinyHunters data theft attacks on healthcare OpenAI agent used exposed credentials at 4 services in Hugging Face breach Hackers disrupt over 30 Minnesota water utilities in coordinated OT attack Your AI Agents Are Guessing at Scale: Permissions Decide the Damage Windows 11 KB5101684 update released with 42 changes and fixes These near-mint ASUS Chromebook refurbs are only $145 CubePilot drone software dev hit by DNS hijacking to intercept traffic OpenAI models used Artifactory zero-days to escape to the internet CISA shares advice on isolating vital systems during cyberattacks vBulletin fixes critical pre-auth RCE flaw with public exploit Is Your SSO Protected Against Modern Credential Attacks? Over 24,000 exposed server BMCs leak password hash via decades-old flaw Data breach at medical billing firm MCBS affects 1.26 million people

Ars Technica

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? eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands Judge blocks first state law that would have banned prediction markets Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months “Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win 5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template Big Tech accused of stonewalling European social media researchers Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states' lawsuit moves toward trial RFK Jr.'s handpicked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses

Slashdot

Russia Charges Telegram Founder Durov With Facilitating Terrorism More Than 30 Minnesota Water Systems Targeted In Cyberattack Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots AI-Found Bugs Aren't Proving Any Easier to Exploit Despite the Hype eBay Reaches $56 Million Settlement With E-Commerce Newsletter Writers It Terrorized In 2019 Judge Blocks First State Law That Would Have Banned Prediction Markets DEF CON Bans Meta-Style 'Pervert Glasses' GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search Tons of Peoples' Claude Chats and Creations Are Exposed On Google A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months 2.1 Million People View Leaked 'Odyssey' Bootleg on X 'Inside the Dystopian World of Germany's Free Speech Crackdown' Apple's Smart Glasses Delayed, As Engineers Consider Privacy Concerns Google's Anti-search-scraping Lawsuit Dismissed Typo-Squatting Scammers Con South Carolina Town Out of $545K

Events

The Verge

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 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

Cipher Brief

Decide on North Korea 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 Ankara's Charm Offensive Should Not Buy Back the F-35 25 Years After 9/11, the Next Global Shock Could be Worse Winning Battles, Losing Strategy: Why Military Superiority No Longer Guarantees Victory Cold War 2.0 Will Be Won by Private Capital The Pentagon Built a Faster Engine, Nobody Built the Steering The West Must Tell Russians the Truth About the War A Master List of Espionage Targets, Suspected Spies, and Potential Recruits Afghanistan Lost the Cognitive War Before It Lost the State

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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) Gerontocracy's failure mode (14 Jul 2026) Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers? (13 Jul 2026) Workplace "flexibility" isn't (11 Jul 2026) "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy (10 Jul 2026) Post-political (09 Jul 2026) How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech (07 Jul 2026)