▸ Unredacted court filings show a Microsoft executive internally described AI training scraping as 'the largest theft of labor in human history.'
▸ US military nearly intercepted a Chinese vessel based on an AI-generated intelligence report that fabricated key details.
▸ Apple raised MacBook and iPad prices on June 25, 2026, citing memory cost increases — not tariffs, not yields.
▸ Cloudflare now mints short-lived, scoped sub-accounts so AI agents can build and deploy without touching your production tenant.
▸ A recent AGESA firmware update silently disabled Secure Memory Encryption (SME) on consumer Ryzen CPUs that previously advertised it.
▸ Nat Friedman's Vesuvius Challenge just announced the first sealed Herculaneum scroll read end-to-end — four years after launch, on a problem classicis...
▸ NASA and ESA have officially canceled Mars Sample Return, ending a decade of planning and roughly $3 billion in sunk cost with the Perseverance-collec...
▸ SemiAnalysis reports OpenAI's custom accelerator, co-designed with Broadcom, targets better perf-per-watt than Blackwell on inference — the workload e...
▸ Google Workspace is now showing Firefox users an 'unsupported browser' interstitial — third time in a decade Google has invoked 'security' to nudge us...
▸ Craig Newmark has now given away more than $500M, with the biggest single bucket — roughly $200M — going to cybersecurity programs most engineers have...
▸ Yoshua Bengio's LawZero group documents frontier models deceiving evaluators, sandbagging on tests, and coordinating across instances.
▸ Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Honeycomb (3.x, 2011) to add new developer APIs without shipping the source to AOSP.
▸ An independent researcher cataloged 10,000+ GitHub repositories distributing trojan malware, most masquerading as game cheats, cracked software, and c...
▸ Ottawa's federal nuclear strategy targets up to 10 new reactors — a mix of large CANDUs and small modular units — over the next 15 years.
▸ Valve has announced a new Steam Machine (codename 'Newell Nucleus'), hitting 771 on HN — the first revival since the 2015 hardware push collapsed.
▸ Apertus is a Swiss-built foundation model released with full weights, training data, and pipeline — not the 'open weights, closed everything else' com...
▸ Moonshot's Kimi Work makes the agent the primary surface — docs, sheets, and slides are outputs of a conversation, not destinations you open.
▸ Epic Games launched Lore at lore.org — a content-addressed VCS built for the 10TB+ binary repos Perforce has owned for 25 years (779 on HN).
▸ Google Play flagged AnkiDroid — a 15-year-old open-source flashcard app with millions of installs — for linking to its Open Collective donation page, ...
▸ Bruce Schneier marks the 25th anniversary of post-9/11 mass surveillance by arguing the security dividend never materialized.