▸ Microsoft revoked free nonprofit licenses with weeks of notice, then began deleting data 30 days later — over 170,000 organizations affected.
▸ Samuel Tunick, a US citizen, was hit with felony obstruction charges after wiping his phone during a CBP secondary inspection at the border.
▸ Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to non-destructively scan rare books before AI labs get to them with guillotines and sheet-feeders.
▸ Jameson Lopp is rallying opposition to an FCC proposal that would require identity verification for users of unlicensed and amateur spectrum.
▸ A new line-by-line audit of Ryanair's 2026 booking flow catalogs at least nine distinct dark patterns, from pre-ticked insurance to a 'random' seat pi...
▸ A viral HN post details how a single compromised credential unraveled a person's entire digital footprint — email, cloud, banking, devices.
▸ A new portfolio audit argues a16z's capital is concentrated in defense, surveillance, crypto, and labor-displacing AI — not the neutral 'software eats...
▸ The Z80, designed in 1974 and shipped in 1976, is still in active production and embedded in industrial, musical, and educational hardware in 2026.
▸ Anthropic switched Claude Code's default so it now picks reasoning depth and tool use per turn instead of asking you to choose.
▸ Simon Willison's hands-on with Claude Fable: the model runs tests, fixes adjacent bugs, and refactors nearby code without being told to.
▸ The FT reports Anthropic's flagship models are struggling to win mainstream users while ChatGPT and free alternatives dominate the consumer surface.
▸ Hetzner published a price adjustment for cloud servers effective June 15, 2026 — the first material increase in years for the industry's reference-che...
▸ Solar generated more electricity than coal in the US for the first time on record — a structural inflection, not a monthly fluke.
▸ XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code is the #1 trending GitHub repo today (score 8926), an open-weight code model from the company that sells you phones, scooters, an...
▸ Kagi added a settings toggle that removes paywalled links from search results entirely — no lens, no per-domain block, just one switch.
▸ A 'harness' is everything wrapped around the raw model — the tool loop, context assembly, retry logic, verification steps — and it's where 90% of the ...
▸ A researcher found a remote code execution path in AMD's Ryzen Master utility driver; AMD declined to patch and the bug is now public.
▸ Homebrew 6.0.0 ships tap trust: third-party taps now require explicit user authorization before installing formulae, closing a supply-chain hole that'...
▸ Rio de Janeiro's city-backed Nex-N2 LLM, marketed as a sovereign Brazilian model, appears to be a SLERP merge of existing open-weight models rather th...
▸ An embedded engineer's response to a viral RISC-V critique argues the ivory-tower complaints ignore the engineers who benefit most from an open ISA.