▸ 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.
▸ Terence Tao and co-authors argue AI labs are optimizing math for benchmark-solving, not the slow work of understanding that actually advances the fiel...
▸ Amazon sued Perplexity in the Ninth Circuit, arguing its Comet agent violates the CFAA when it shops on a logged-in user's behalf.
▸ DeepSeek's consumer chat at chat.deepseek.com now accepts images natively — no separate model, no API gymnastics.
▸ Scott Aaronson's post 'An American Privacy Emergency' hit 271 on HN after news that noise infusion — the differential privacy technique the Census Bur...
▸ Norway's Datatilsynet fined electronics retailer Elkjop €1.8M for bundling marketing consent into loyalty signup — the classic 'forced consent' dark p...
▸ HBR's June 2026 piece formalizes what every engineering manager already knows: AI-generated resumes now meet AI-driven ATS filters, and nobody on eith...
▸ Volkswagen's official app now refuses to run on GrapheneOS, locking owners out of remote car features on a more secure OS than stock Android.
▸ Ledger's Donjon team defeated the RP2350's secure debug lock by timing a laser fault against light the chip itself emitted while executing.
▸ Xcode 27.1 beta ships a simulator for the still-unannounced iPhone Duo, giving devs a hinge-aware target before hardware exists.
▸ Google Antigravity's terms let Google suspend your entire Google account — Gmail, Drive, Photos, YouTube — for TOS violations inside a coding IDE.