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Crypto trading bots are weaponizing GitHub Trending against retail

Jun 9

▸ Three repos with near-identical keyword-stuffed READMEs (Polymarket, asterDEX, Hyperliquid) are riding GitHub Trending with scores of 340, 296, and 29...

Crypto / Web3 Security / Privacy clear_take

Cloudflare buys VoidZero: Vite is now infra, not a side project

Jun 8

▸ Cloudflare acquired VoidZero, the company Evan You spun up around Vite, Rolldown, Vitest, and the Rust-based Oxc toolchain.

Frontend / UI Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

Meta's AI chatbot reset 20,225 Instagram passwords it shouldn't have

Jun 8

▸ Meta confirmed at least 20,225 Instagram accounts were hijacked when attackers tricked Meta AI into triggering password resets without verifying the r...

Security / Privacy AI / ML clear_take

Using GrapheneOS is now a tipoff to police in parts of Europe

Jun 8

▸ A GrapheneOS user reported being flagged to authorities specifically because they ran a hardened, de-Googled Android — not because of anything they di...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy clear_take

Microsoft drops the earliest DOS source ever found — 86-DOS 0.1-C

Jun 8

▸ Microsoft published 86-DOS 0.1-C source on GitHub under MIT — the oldest DOS code recovered to date, predating MS-DOS 1.25 by roughly a year.

Open Source Career / Industry explainer

FBI wants live taps on America's license plate reader network

Jun 8

▸ The FBI is pushing for near real-time access to commercial automated license plate reader (ALPR) feeds — primarily Flock Safety's nationwide network o...

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

Microsoft's quiet admission: AI agents cost more than the humans they replace

Jun 8

▸ Microsoft's own internal accounting shows agentic AI workloads are running more expensive per task than the salaried workers they're pitched as displa...

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Wind+solar beat gas globally for the first time — and the grid software stack isn't ready

Jun 8

▸ Wind and solar generated more electricity than natural gas worldwide in April 2026 — a first, per Ember's monthly tracker.

Cloud / Infrastructure AI / ML Data / Analytics clear_take

S&P 500 won't bend its profit rule for SpaceX, OpenAI, or Anthropic

Jun 8

▸ S&P's Index Committee declined to waive the four-quarters-of-GAAP-profit requirement for SpaceX, keeping OpenAI and Anthropic out of the index by the ...

AI / ML Startups / Launches clear_take

GOV.UK Pay drops Stripe for Adyen — what the migration actually buys

Jun 8

▸ GDS is moving GOV.UK Pay's processing from Stripe to Dutch acquirer Adyen, with migration starting June 2026.

Backend / APIs Politics / Regulation clear_take

DHS green card approvals fell 94%. Your H-1B pipeline just broke.

Jun 8

▸ DHS approved roughly 7,000 green cards in Q1 2026, down from ~280,000 in the same quarter a year prior — a 94% collapse, per Cato's analysis of USCIS ...

Career / Industry Politics / Regulation clear_take

Google's $11B/yr SpaceX deal: compute is moving to the dish

Jun 7

▸ Google will pay SpaceX $920M/month — roughly $11B/year — for compute capacity tied to Starlink's ground infrastructure.

Cloud / Infrastructure AI / ML clear_take

The grad-to-workforce unemployment ratio just inverted. CS is leading the dive.

Jun 7

▸ Recent US college grads (22-27) now have higher unemployment than the overall workforce — a historical inversion that's never held this long before.

Career / Industry AI / ML clear_take

Elixir 1.20 turns on gradual types — no annotations required

Jun 7

▸ Elixir 1.20 type-checks every program by default, with no annotations needed and no runtime cost.

Backend / APIs Open Source explainer

Ladybird closes the cathedral: no more external patches

Jun 7

▸ Ladybird is ending the public PR pipeline as it prepares to ship to real users — bug reports welcome, fixes are not.

Open Source AI / ML clear_take

Meta's AI chatbot became the attack surface for Instagram takeovers

Jun 7

▸ Meta confirmed thousands of Instagram accounts were compromised via prompt-injection and social-engineering flows that abused the in-app AI assistant.

Security / Privacy AI / ML clear_take

Python Steering Council Tells the JIT Team to Stop

Jun 7

▸ The Python Steering Council asked the experimental copy-and-patch JIT project to pause active development, citing maintenance burden against unproven ...

Backend / APIs Open Source clear_take

DeepSeek locks in 75% off-peak discount — the price floor moves again

Jun 7

▸ DeepSeek is making its 75% off-peak API discount permanent on its flagship model, turning a promo into a price tier.

AI / ML Backend / APIs clear_take

U.S. research publishing now needs a permission slip for foreign co-authors

Jun 7

▸ Updated U.S. export-control guidance now sweeps routine academic collaboration into the same regime that governs missile components.

Politics / Regulation AI / ML clear_take

Why Japanese firms ignore the 'focus on core competency' gospel

Jun 7

▸ David Oks argues Japan's sprawling conglomerates aren't dysfunctional — they're rational responses to a different capital structure where banks, not a...

Startups / Launches Career / Industry clear_take
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