Hacker News

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star Learning a few things about running SQLite Frame – the first Linux Assembly X server Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark Mozilla: The state of open source AI Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it) A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp Frank Lloyd Wright's First Home AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time More Bounce to the Ounce Show HN: Explore the Workspaces of Modern Creators EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

Bleeping Computer

HollowByte DDoS flaw bloats OpenSSL server memory with 11-byte payload Ernst & Young discloses data breach after support system hack Inside the Search for "Clean" Residential Proxies for Carding New Windows LegacyHive zero-day gives hackers admin privileges Windows Server 2022 reach end of mainstream support in 90 days US charges two over laundering $43 million from investment fraud CISA urges immediate action on actively exploited Fortinet flaws New ClickLock macOS malware traps users into revealing login password Coca-Cola says Fairlife ransomware attack halts US dairy production Claude Chrome extension flaw lets malicious extensions trigger AI actions New OkoBot framework deploys 20 payloads to steal data, crypto AI Agents Broke the Security Playbook. Here's What Replaces It. 23andMe to pay $18 million in new genetics data breach settlement Scattered Spider members behind TfL hack get five years in prison Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro reach end of support in 90 days

Ars Technica

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users. Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds 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

Slashdot

FBI Arrests Man Accused of Using Steam Games To Drain Victims' Crypto Wallets Apple Sends Legal Letters To Dozens of OpenAI Employees 1Password Lets Claude Use Credentials Without Exposing Passwords 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

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

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 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

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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) CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code (03 Jul 2026) The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" (02 Jul 2026) Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026) Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect" (30 Jun 2026) Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search (29 Jun 2026) Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026) Jailbreaking isn't theft (25 Jun 2026) Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026)